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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." – Noam Chomsky By Manmeet Sahni Part 1 Humanitarian crisis, starvation, migration, repressive government, economic crisis, sanctions, resistance, Communist Party, Chavez, hyperinflation, crackdown on corruption, election fraud: just some of the keywords used by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Reuters and the Miami Herald to describe Venezuela as it heads to the polls on May 20 to select its next president. While some of these words might give a glimpse into the current situation in Venezuela, Western media's hyper-sensationalism of the nation's domestic affairs falls far short of addressing the realities on the ground. On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver – a British comedian – attempted to shed light on the ongoing crisis by weaving some random anecd

Αποστολή Βενεζουέλα Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου «Δεν θυμάμαι ποτέ στη ζωή μου τόσο ήρεμη προεκλογική περίοδο», μου είπε ο Ανχελ, καθώς περνούσαμε ανάμεσα στα τεράστια φρεσκοβαμμένα γκράφιτι με την εικόνα του Νικολάς Μαδούρο στα προάστια του Καράκας. Η ζωή του Ανχελ, όπως και εκατοντάδων χιλιάδων νέων στη Βενεζουέλα, έχει ίσως τις περισσότερες εκλογικές αναμετρήσεις από οποιονδήποτε άλλο κάτοικο του πλανήτη. Από τα 23 του χρόνια έχει περάσει τα 19 με κυβερνήσεις του Τσάβες και του Μαδούρο και σ’ αυτά θυμάται τους γονείς του να καλούνται 25 φορές στις κάλπες για να αναδείξουν τον πρόεδρο, βουλευτές ή τοπικούς άρχοντες. Οπως μας εξηγούσε ο πρώην διευθυντής της Monde Diplomatique, Ιγνάσιο Ραμονέ, στα γυρίσματα του ντοκιμαντέρ Make the economy scream, η διαρκής προσφυγή στις κάλπες ήταν ένα από τα χαρακτηριστικά σε αυτό που ο Τσάβες αποκαλούσε «Σοσιαλισμό του 21ου αιώνα». Το παράδοξο των ημερών είναι πως όλοι οι αντίπαλοι της λεγόμενης μπολιβαριανής επανάστασης

On Monday, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and other members of the Trump administration celebrated the opening of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, while at the same time and just a few miles away, Israeli snipers shot at hundreds of unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza. More than 60 people were killed in a single day, including children. Predictably, the U.S. media went into pro-Israeli propaganda mode, blaming all of the violence and killing on Hamas, which for all its many sins, didn’t actually kill anyone this week. On this week’s episode of Deconstructed [on The Intercept], two Palestinians join Mehdi Hasan to discuss U.S. coverage of Palestine and how to get prominent Democratic politicians to take the Palestinian struggle for freedom seriously. Rula Jebreal was raised in East Jerusalem and is an academic and foreign policy analyst. Linda Sarsour, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from the occupied West Bank, is the co-chair of the Women’s March and

If any country, including the U.S., had armed terrorists embedded in neighborhoods, and holding civilians hostage for years, and targeting unarmed civilians constantly, it too would be using its own military and security forces to fight the terrorists in order to liberate the captive civilians. by Steven Sahiounie Part 3 - Sectarian, constitutional, and dedicated to resistance President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is approaching the end of 18 years in office. His father President Hafez al-Assad died in summer 2000, and the transition was made to his son taking over as the leader of Syria through a constitutional procedure. At the time of the death of Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian Constitution stated there was one legal and recognized political party: the Ba’ath Party, which has a secular and socialist party platform and is committed to the political ideology of the resistance to the occupation of Palestine. However, during the Syrian crisis in 2012, a new

If a chemical weapons “attack” comes to pass in the place it has been predicted, it would be the first such provocation blamed on Assad to take place in territory occupied by a foreign power, likely triggering an intensified military response from the U.S. by Whitney Webb Part 3 - A step up in false-flag provocation? If a chemical weapons attack is again being planned, as reports suggest, this provocation would likely be more significant than previous such attacks and would likely result in a more drastic response from Western powers. This is because Jafra oil field, where the staged attack is allegedly being planned/staged, lies within the portion of the Deir Ez Zor governorate that is under the control of the United States and its armed proxy group, the SDF. Past chemical weapons attacks that have been blamed on the Syrian government, have all occurred in areas held by Syrian rebel groups, such as Idlib province and Eastern Ghouta. If such an attack comes to