The US State Department and the Venezuelan right-wing have gone into overdrive in a concerted effort to discredit Venezuela’s July 28 election. Nicolas Maduro was officially declared the winner with 51.2% of the vote, but the US-backed opposition continues to claim fraud, and are declaring Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner. Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, who observed the election in Caracas, describes the mass mobilizations in support of Maduro that corporate media won’t cover and her observations of the voting process.
Democracy Now! Eleven peace activists and one journalist on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, the "Madleen," were detained by Israeli soldiers as their ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians approached Gaza. The ship was intercepted by Israeli forces in the middle of the night in international waters. Its supplies were seized and communications jammed. The unarmed activists will likely be transported to Israeli detention or "immediately deported," says Ann Wright, a U.S. military veteran who has participated in four Freedom Flotilla journeys and now serves on the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She calls on citizens of countries around the world to push for the activists' release and an end to Israel's war on Gaza.
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