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.
BreakThrough News Saudi Arabia has $142 billion in American weapons. Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. So why can't Riyadh win? Last month, Ansar Allah seized Mokha and Perim Island, and with them the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, cutting off Saudi Arabia's alternative oil route around the closed Strait of Hormuz. Mohammed bin Salman begged Trump for US airstrikes, then backed "Dawn of Yemen," a 100-warplane offensive aimed at Sanaa, as crude oil again tops $100 a barrel. Veteran war correspondent and analyst Elijah Magnier joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra on the Red Sea front, as nearly 1,000 Yemenis have been killed and 184,000 displaced since fighting resumed. But Magnier argues Ansar Allah – often referred to in US media as the Houthis – hasn't lost much ground. He explains why Saudi warplanes are largely powerless in Yemen's mountainous terrain, and why he sees the movement advancing on Taiz and Marib. And Magnier breaks down how Hormuz and Bab ...
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