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Elliott Abrams, who is steering Trump’s Venezuela policy, has a long track record of war crimes. Yet a number of liberal commentators are rushing to his defense. by Paul Heideman Part 4 - After the fall By the time Abrams was pardoned, the world had changed considerably from the one in which he had been a leading cold warrior. The Soviet Union was no more, and Bill Clinton’s election had ended 12 years of Republican rule. Abrams needed a home in this new wilderness, and found one, ironically, in Ernest Lefever’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, which provided him with a comfortable sinecure. If Lefever’s views on racial fitness ever troubled Abrams, he didn’t comment on it. As the locus of American geopolitics shifted from Central America to the Middle East, Abrams reoriented his concerns accordingly. He was a signatory (along with assorted neocons from Paul Wolfowitz to Francis Fukuyama) to the Project for the New American Century’s infamous 1998 letter to Bill Clint

Ως «αδιόρθωτο» και «απαίσιο» περιγράφουν οι New York Times, η New York Herald και το Associated Press τον ηγέτη της Βενεζουέλας. Ο τελευταίος «απεχθάνεται τις πιο ιερές αξίες των πολιτισμένων εθνών», γράφουν τα δυτικά ΜΜΕ που υποστηρίζουν τον φιλελεύθερο «επαναστάτη», ο οποίος προσπαθεί να εξουδετερώσει τον «τύραννο». Ο τελευταίος είναι ο πλέον μισητός στον δυτικό κόσμο, το κράτος του, αν και πλούσιο σε πόρους, είναι υπερχρεωμένο, η διακυβέρνηση της χώρας διεκδικείται από έναν επαναστάτη που έχει συγκεντρώσει έναν στρατό και βαδίζει προς το Καράκας. Βαγγέλης Γεωργίου Μέρος 5ο - Αμερικανική διαιτησία Ο Λευκός Οίκος ήταν έτοιμος να στείλει στόλο, καθώς οι Ευρωπαίοι είχαν τραβήξει πολύ το σχοινί. Ακόμα και τα ΜΜΕ της περιόδου εκείνης αποκάλυπταν καλύτερα τον κύκλο συμφερόντων από σήμερα. Μεγάλη μερίδα του διεθνούς Τύπου στάθηκε απέναντι στη διπλωματία των κανονιοφόρων και στην επέμβαση, αντίθετα με σήμερα. Ο Λευκός Οίκος μόλις είδε ότι οι Ευρωπαίοι γίνονταν επικίνδυνα πιεστι

The WIKILEAKS Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD) holds the world's largest searchable collection of United States confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications. As of April 8, 2013 it holds 2 million records comprising approximately 1 billion words. The collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on earth. It is the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published. The PlusD collection, built and curated by WikiLeaks, is updated from a variety of sources, including leaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and documents released by the US State Department systematic declassification review. globinfo freexchange A cable from June 2003 reveals that Trump's current national security adviser, John Bolton, was pushing United Arab Emirates (UAE) to sign an agreement, in order to block the International Criminal Court (ICC) from per

by Sharmine Narwani It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make me suddenly recall the cloak-and-dagger story of a close Iranian-American friend nine years ago. My friend, an engineer — who I will not name for obvious reasons and who I will call ‘Kourosh’ for the purpose of this article — revealed to me in 2010 that he was approached by two “ State Department employees ” who offered him $250,000 to “ do something very simple ” during his upcoming trip to Tehran. Kourosh was freaking out because he didn’t know how these guys knew he was going to Iran in the first place, and how they knew he was “ cash-strapped, ” in the second. He wasn’t a particularly political person, though he had participated in some DC protests in the aftermath of the hotly contested 2009 presidential elections. He was just one of thousands of Iranian-American engineers in the Washington-Maryland-Virgi

While online audiences know YouTube comedian Joanna Hausmann from her videos making the case for regime change, her economist father has flown below the radar. His record holds the key to understanding what the U.S. wants in Venezuela. by Anya Parampil Part 1 If you’ve followed Venezuela-related news on social media, you’ve undoubtedly stumbled across a video released by comedian Joanna Hausmann in which she promises to tell you, “What’s Happening in Venezuela: Just the Facts.” Despite a title designed to instill confidence in the uninformed viewer, upon closer examination the “facts” presented in Hausman’s video hardly stand the test of reality. Hausmann, for example, attempted to pass off dubious assertions that Venezuelan opposition leader “ Juan Guaidó is not right wing, ” and that he “ did not just declare himself president ” of the country. She also claimed that President Nicolas Maduro “ made up ” the National Constituent Assembly, neglecting to mention that t

The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition “to take advantage of the situation…towards their needs” by Max Blumenthal Part 1 A September 2010 memo by a US-funded soft power organization that helped train Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaido and his allies identifies the potential collapse of the country’s electrical sector as “ a watershed event ” that “ would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition group could ever hope to generate. ” The memo has special relevance today as Guaido moves to exploit nationwide blackouts caused by a major failure at the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant at Guri dam – a crisis that Venezuela’s government blames on US sabotage. It was authored by Srdja Popovic of the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), a Belgrade-based “democracy promotion” organization funded b

The Pentagon was deeply involved in the production of the hit Hollywood film Captain Marvel, and is using the movie to spread recruitment propaganda. by Ben Norton Part 1 The superhero blockbuster Captain Marvel is a perfect case study for how the United States military uses Hollywood to spread propaganda. The US military is at the center of the plot of Captain Marvel. The film’s protagonist, Carol Danvers, is a former US Air Force pilot who becomes a superhero after absorbing the powers of an advanced technology created by another US military scientist. (That scientist happens to be a member of the advanced alien race known as the Kree, who for unexplained reasons decided to do groundbreaking military research for, of all the myriad places in the universe, the US of A). As soon as the film opens, it bombards viewers with two hours of non-stop US military propaganda. And it is not even subtle; at the plot’s climax, Captain Marvel changes the colors of her suit to

Μέρος 1ο To Σεπτέμβριο του 2010, υπόμνημα προερχόμενο από έναν οργανισμό που χρηματοδοτείται από τις ΗΠΑ και ο οποίος συμμετείχε στην εκπαίδευση του επίδοξου πραξικοπηματία της Βενεζουέλας Χουάν Γκουαϊδό και των συνεργατών του χαρακτηρίζει την πιθανή κατάρρευση του ηλεκτρικού δικτύου της χώρας ως ένα «σημείο-ορόσημο» που θα «μπορούσε να προκαλέσει δημόσια αναταραχή σε τέτοια έκταση που θα ξεπερνούσε τις προσδοκίες μιας αντιπολιτευτικής ομάδας». Το υπόμνημα αποκτά ιδιαίτερη σημασία σήμερα με τον Γκουαϊδό να κάνει κινήσεις ώστε να εκμεταλλευτεί τα μπλακ άουτ στη χώρα που οφείλονται σε πρόβλημα του Υδροηλεκτρικού Σταθμού Σιμόν Μπολίβαρ στο φράγμα Γκούρι – μια κρίση την οποία η κυβέρνηση της Βενεζουέλας αποδίδει σε σαμποτάζ των ΗΠΑ. Το υπόμνημα προέρχεται από τον Σρτζα Πόποβιτς, επικεφαλής του Κέντρου Εφαρμοσμένων Μη Βίαιων Δράσεων και Στρατηγικών (CANVAS), μιας οργάνωσης με έδρα το Βελιγράδι που όπως αναφέρει έχει στόχο έχει την «προώθηση της δημοκρατίας». Ο οργανισμός, που

globinfo freexchange In another rare 'real journalism' short crisis, the New York Times decided to reveal the truth about the trucks with 'humanitarian aid' on the Colombia-Venezuela border, that were set on fire. As T he Intercept reported : On February 24, CNN told the world what we all now know is an absolute lie: that “ a CNN team saw incendiary devices from police on the Venezuelan side of the border ignite the trucks, ” though it generously added that “ the network’s journalists are unsure if the trucks were burned on purpose. ” Other media outlets endorsed the lie while at least avoiding what CNN did by personally vouching for it. “ Humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela was set on fire, seemingly by troops loyal to Mr Maduro, ” The Telegraph claimed. The BBC uncritically printed: “ There have also been reports of several aid trucks being burned – something Mr Guaidó said

by Jonathan Cook Part 2 - Revenge of the Blairites Williamson, it should be noted, is widely seen as a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, a democratic socialist who was propelled unexpectedly into the Labour leadership nearly four years ago by its members. His elevation infuriated most of the party’s MPs, who hanker for the return of the New Labour era under Tony Blair, when the party firmly occupied the political centre. Corbyn’s success has also outraged vocal supporters of Israel both in the Labour party – some 80 MPs are stalwart members of Labour Friends of Israel – and in the UK media. Corbyn is the first British party leader in sight of power to prefer the Palestinians’ right to justice over Israel’s continuing oppression of the Palestinians. For these reasons, the Blairite MPs have been trying to oust Corbyn any way they can. First through a failed re-run of the leadership contest and then by assisting the corporate media – which is equally opposed to Corbyn – in smea