GAITHER STEWART—Fragments is in essence a political novel: the two major occurrences are the very real and brutal G8-WTO conference in Genoa in 2001, relived through the eyes of the journalist, Gael Gaffney, and the partially invented Regime Change Revolution, or, as he, the protagonist, calls it, the Tricolor Revolution—after the colors of the Italian flag—launched in the fateful year of 2001 in Italy and orchestrated by the CIA. Throughout the story, the reader sees CIA operatives conducting their nefarious activities of, in their own words, “running the country of Italy”.
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Atlas works with 450 foundations, NGOs, think tanks and advocacy groups, with an operating budget of 5 million U.S. dollars (2016), given by their “charitable and nonprofit” foundations. It has supported among others the MBL and organizations that participated in the offensive in Argentina, such as Creer y Crecer and Pensar foundations, a think tank of Atlas, who joined the party (Republican Proposal, PRO) created by Mauricio Macri; the opposition forces in Venezuela and Sebastian Piñera, right-wing candidate in the Chilean presidential elections.
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MOA—Venezuela is a rich country. It has the biggest known oil reserves on the planet, though much of those are difficult to retrieve. That is of course the reason why the U.S. wants to install a rightwing proxy government in Venezuela. It is the reason why it wages war against its people.
China is currently the only country with the necessary capacity and geopolitical standing to support Venezuela. It would the best for the country, and for the world, if China would come to its help. -
JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER—John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. This is a slightly revised version of an article published on July 24, 2018, on the website of Science for the People and on MR Online. It was written for the Summer 2018 special issue on geoengineering of the new Science for the People, announcing the magazine’s relaunch.
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JACQUES PAUWELS—“Although precise figures do not exist,” writes Kolko, “within France itself the Resistance groups that were Gaullist in ideology were always in a small minority [and] in many key parts of France they hardly existed at all.” In spite of this, de Gaulle enjoyed considerable influence on the Resistance, mainly because of his contacts in Great Britain, which controlled the supply of weapons to the patriots in France. Churchill hoped to manipulate de Gaulle for his own purposes: not only to eliminate communist influence in France itself but also to integrate France into a post-war block of Western European countries that, under Great Britain’s leadership, might be able to pit itself against the United States and the USSR, the two countries whose emergence as superpowers Churchill foresaw and feared. As for American leaders, including President Roosevelt, they had little feeling and even less understanding for the French imbroglio.
