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Through his purchase of influence over the daily flow of information to American media consumers, a dizzying array of connections to the national security state, and a media empire that shields him from critical scrutiny, Pierre Omidyar has become one of the world’s most politically sophisticated data monarchs. by Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal Part 1 A select group of national news “stakeholders” gathered at an undisclosed location for what was described as a “semi-secret” workshop somewhere in Canada on January 26. The meeting had been convened to determine how and to whom a “news industry bailout” of $645 million in Canadian government subsidies to private and supposedly independent media outlets would be disbursed. It was a striking event that signaled both the crisis of legitimacy faced by mainstream media and the desperate measures that are being proposed to answer it. Jesse Brown, a Canadian journalist who participated in the meeting, complained that

Alan MacLeod looks at the role of the media in the regime change operation in Venezuela by Alan MacLeod Part 4 - The administration shows its true hand Instead, since Maduro's swearing-in, many seem to have been openly championing regime change in the country. One of the few positive things about the Trump administration is that it does not try to conceal its true intentions behind misleading, flowery words. John Bolton, Trump’s National Security Advisor, has openly described Venezuela as a business opportunity. " It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela, " he said. With clear parallels to the build-up to the Iraq War, he also labeled Venezuela as belonging to a "troika of tyranny" and recently suggested sending Maduro to Guantanamo Bay. The U.K. government has blocked the transfer of Venezuel

If Guaidó comes to power and privatizes PDVSA, U.S. oil companies — with Chevron and Halliburton leading the pack — stand to make record profits in the world’s most oil-rich nation, as they did in Iraq following the privatization of its national oil industry after U.S. intervention. by Whitney Webb Part 7 - Washington’s gift to Big Oil: privatize PDVSA, no matter the human cost As with Iraq, Libya and other U.S. oil-motivated interventions of the past, the destruction of Venezuela’s nationalized oil industry and its privatization to American oil companies — especially Chevron and Halliburton — is the guiding factor behind the U.S.’ current regime-change policy targeting Caracas. While past administrations attempted to obfuscate their “wars for oil” as “restoring democracy,” Trump administration officials and other “coup architects” have recently “gone off script” and overtly stated the guiding principle behind its Venezuela policy. However, the

U.S. representatives claimed their colleague, Rep. Ilhan Omar, was anti-Semitic when she brought up AIPAC’s influence over members of Congress. by Alex Kotch Part 3 - Lobbying and Traveling with Congress As the Center for Responsive Politics points out, other pro-Israel groups put more money directly into elections than AIPAC, but federal lobbying is where the group spends the bulk of its money in politics. AIPAC leads all pro-Israel groups in lobbying spending by a long shot. Each year since 2014, AIPAC has spent north of $3 million to lobby the federal government. AIPAC has logged several victories under Trump, including the relocation of the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, the U.S.’s withdrawal from the Obama-era Iran Deal, and cuts in U.S. aid to Palestinians. While the organization’s lobbyists try to woo Congress, AIPAC also funds annual trips to Israel for senators and representatives. McCarthy tweeted on Monday that leading congressional trips to Israel is o

Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization. by Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal Part 9 - A pawn in their game The collapse of Popular Will under the weight of the violent campaign of destabilization it ran alienated large sectors of the public and wound much of its leadership up in exile or in custody. Guaidó had remained a relatively minor figure, having spent most of his nine-year career in the National Assembly as an alternate deputy. Hailing from one of Venezuela’s least populous states, Guaidó came in second place during the 2015 parliamentary elections, winning just 26% of votes cast in order to secure his place in the National Assembly. Indeed, his bottom may have been better known than his face. Guaidó is known as the president of the opposition-dominated National

failed evolution Και το θέατρο του παραλόγου συνεχίζεται στην αποικία χρέους που λέγεται Ελλάδα. Ο αχυράνθρωπος της Ευρωπαϊκής Κεντρικής Τράπεζας, που επιβλήθηκε ουσιαστικά στην κυβέρνηση ΣΥΡΙΖΑΝΕΛ από τον άξονα Βρυξελλών-Βερολίνου και τοποθετήθηκε με το 'έτσι θέλω' στη θέση του διοικητή της τράπεζας της Ελλάδος, μίλησε για ... θεσμική εκτροπή! Συγκεκριμένα , ο Γιάννης Στουρνάρας κατήγγειλε ‘θεσμική εκτροπή’ “ με αφορμή της δημοσιοποίηση τηλεφωνικής επικοινωνίας που είχε με τον αναπληρωτή υπουργό Υγείας Παύλο Πολάκη, και καλεί τον Πρωθυπουργό και την Κυβέρνηση να διαφυλάξουν την ανεξαρτησία της Τραπέζης της Ελλάδος. ” Υπενθυμίζεται, για όσους το έχουν ξεχάσει, ότι ο Στουρνάρας είχε κεντρικό ρόλο στο οικονομικό πραξικόπημα του 2015 κατά της χώρας, με το οποίο η Ευρωπαϊκή Χρηματοπιστωτική Δικτατορία και ο Ντράγκι απείλησαν τις τράπεζες με ξαφνικό θάνατο. Η τρομοκρατία και η προπαγάνδα που ασκήθηκε πριν από το δημοψήφισμα προκειμένου οι πολίτες

globinfo freexchange In another sabotage operation from the inside of the Labour party against Jeremy Corbyn, seven Labour MPs suddenly decided to leave, using the typical smears and excuses. They expressed disagreements over Brexit and (guess what else) ... anti-Semitism within the party. It appears that the pro-globalist neoliberal regime in the UK senses extreme threat from the fact that Jeremy Corbyn still enjoys high popularity - especially among the young Britons - despite the war of propaganda against him. The regime appears to be desperate under the uncontrolled Brexit situation and the fact that its main political option, Theresa May and her conservatives, rapidly lose power and popularity. And all these at the time they appear to be in a 'nervous breakdown' condition, due to the additional chaos inside the party. As mentioned previously, with Tories in power, even after a definite Brexit, we should not expect much of change for

Just hours after returning from meetings at the United Nations in New York, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza sat down for a one on one interview with the GrayZone Project ’s Anya Parampil. The two discussed Arreaza’s effort to reaffirm international support for the concept of state sovereignty amid the Trump Administration’s effort to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. While in New York, Arreaza announced the formation of what he described as “ an important group ” of UN members states which are “ concerned over the need to maintain respect for the principles ” guaranteed by the international body’s founding charter, such as territorial integrity, self-determination, and sovereignty. Arreaza explained that the idea to create this coalition was conceived in New York. “ When I arrived on Monday, I went to the reception for the 40th anniversary of the [Iranian] Islamic Revolution, and then s

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The Grayzone In a longer interview with The Grayzone , Salvador Allende's grandson Pablo Sepúlveda Allende thanked Pink Floyd's Roger Waters for supporting Venezuela, and invited him to visit in order to oppose the US-led coup attempt and war.