PAUL C ROBERTS—Maduro, like Chavez before him, has committed the unpardonable crime of representing the Venezuelan people instead of American corporate and financial interests. Washington simply does not tolerate Latin American governments that represent Latin American people. As US Marine General Smedley Buttler said, he and his Marines made Latin America safe for the United Fruit Company and investments by US banks.
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Syria, Then and Now: Liberated of Western-backed Terrorism
33 minutes readMAX PARRY—The suffering of populations under governments deemed enemies of the United States, usually exaggerated or invented, is the go-to method of persuasion rallying support for such militarism. The liberal opposition to the troop withdrawal is a testament to the power of the Syria propaganda campaign where the lengths the West has gone to invert reality is without precedent.
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DAVID W PEAR—Western governments, particularly in the English-speaking countries, have cowed freedom of the press. According to a ranking of press freedom, “based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists” by Reporters Without Borders, the five eyes countries are ranked as follows for press freedom: New Zealand (8), Canada (18), Australia (19), United Kingdom (40), United States (45). These rankings are a disgrace to countries that claim to be democratic, free and exceptional.
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JOHN PILGER—Liberal forces are often to blame for the conditions that have given rise to the far-right. They have enabled the divisiveness. In the US, the Democratic Party has long betrayed ordinary people, whom Hillary Clinton abused as “deplorables”.
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Lee Camp: Truth Revealed About Cuban Sonic Attacks, U.S. Forever At War, Democracy Collapse
3 minutes readLee Camp with cutting edge stories that need amplification and more debate: the Cuban embassy “mysterious” sound waves that weren’t; the US, which touts itself as the best democracy in the world, classified as #25—behind Estonia and Chile—in the World Democracy Index 2018, and so on.