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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 4 - “Neoliberalism is the path to hell” Back in Venezuela, the Bolivarian Revolution ushered in by Chávez provided an antidote to the IESA method that had produced so much social damage to Venezuela’s majority. “ The Bolivarian Revolution was an indirect response to neoliberalism, born of mass resistance in the streets, ” claims Ciccariello-Maher, observing that while “ in power, it remained largely faithful to that mission. ” Ciccariello-Maher added that “ it would be difficult to exaggerate the impact Chavismo has had on Venezuelan society, ” because for the first time in its history “ oil was put at the service of the people. …Most important, however, the poor – so long excluded – became ‘protagonists’ in th

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by Jonathan Cook Part 5 - No screening for documentary Second, Williamson compounded his crime by publicly helping just such a readymade witch: a black Jewish woman named Jackie Walker. He had booked a room in the British parliament building – the seat of our supposed democracy – so that audiences could see a new documentary on an earlier Labour witch hunt. More than two years ago the party suspended Walker over anti-semitism claims. The screening was to inform Labour party members of the facts of her case in the run-up to a hearing in which, given the current atmosphere, it is likely she will be expelled. The screening was sponsored by Jewish Voice for Labour, which has also warned repeatedly that anti-semitism is being used malevolently to silence criticism of Israel and weaken Corbyn. Walker was seen as a pivotal figure by those opposed to Corbyn. She was a co-founder of Momentum, the grassroots organisation established to support Corbyn after his election to t

'16 years ago, the US illegally invaded Iraq, leaving a trail of destruction and lives lost,' said Congresswoman Ilhan Omar U.S. lawmakers criticized the government Wednesday for its decision to invade Iraq 16 years ago, questioning the conflict’s legitimacy. Politicians called the invasion disastrous, saying it led to the country’s destruction and affected America’s global standing. " Sixteen years ago, the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq, leaving a trail of destruction and lives lost, " Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said on Twitter. Omar outlined the consequences of the invasion, saying 4,500 U.S. troops lost their lives, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians were killed and the decision had done " incalculable damage ” to America’s reputation in the world. Senator Bernie Sanders also slammed the invasion, saying he had opposed it when the idea was proposed in Congress. " Sixteen years ago, the United States invaded I

globinfo freexchange Costas Lapavitsas spoke with Paul Jay of The Real News and explained why a second Brexit referendum will fuel the far right nightmare: The working class people, the poor and others who voted for Brexit in 2016, take their vote very seriously. Another referendum - before the first one will have been implemented - will look, and it will be, a direct negation of democracy. It will be a direct subverting of democracy. They will have been told ‘your vote counts for nothing’. In that context, the only political current that can benefit is the extreme right. And they're there. They're already active. They speak the language of the working people. There are actually now out and out fascists who are organizing actively. They call for a defense of democracy. They call for a rejection of politicians and politics in the sense that these politicians and official politics, democratic politics, are maneuvers used by the rich, and

The Grayzone The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil spoke about Venezuela at a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva on March 19. They joined former special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas on a panel titled "Humanitarian crisis in Venezuela: Propaganda vs. Reality."

by Finian Cunningham US imperialists are so desperate in their regime-change predations over Venezuela, they seem to have a problem controlling their drooling mouths. The latest orgy of American gloating was triggered by the massive power outages to have hit Venezuela. No sooner had the South American country been blacked out from its power grid collapsing, senior US officials were crowing with perverse relish. Republican Senator Marco Rubio – who has become a point man for the Trump administration in its regime-change campaign in Venezuela – was a little too celebratory. Within minutes of the nationwide power outage last Thursday, Rubio was having verbal orgasms about the “ long-term economic damage ”… “ in the blink of an eye ”. But it was his disclosure concerning the precise damage in the power grid that has led the Venezuelan government to accuse the US of carrying out a sabotage. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez noted how Rubio, in his

Οι καταγγελίες που εξαπολύει τις τελευταίες εβδομάδες ο πρόεδρος της Βενεζουέλας, Νικολάς Μαδούρο, εναντίον των ΗΠΑ θυμίζουν θεωρίες συνωμοσίας της πιο νοσηρής φαντασίας. Το πρόβλημα είναι ότι η μία μετά την άλλη επιβεβαιώνονται από αμερικανικά μέσα ενημέρωσης. του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Κάθε φορά που οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες θέλουν να αρχίσουν έναν νέο πόλεμο», έλεγε πρόσφατα ο δημοσιογράφος Γκλεν Γκρίνγουολντ, « επινοούν ένα πραγματικά εμπρηστικό και συναισθηματικά φορτισμένο ψέμα. Στόχος είναι να κάνουν τον κόσμο να μισεί τόσο πολύ την κυβέρνηση που θέλουν να ανατρέψουν, ώστε να αφήνουν στην άκρη τη λογική και να στηρίζουν τις πολεμικές επιχειρήσεις ». Τα σχετικά παραδείγματα στη σύγχρονη Ιστορία των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών είναι αναρίθμητα και συχνά εξαιρετικά χοντροκομμένα. Ο πόλεμος του Βιετνάμ κλιμακώθηκε ύστερα από την υποτιθέμενη επίθεση που πραγματοποίησε το Βόρειο Βιετνάμ εναντίον αμερικανικών πλοίων στον κόλπο του Τόνκιν -μια επίθεση που κατά τα φαι

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 3 - Revolt against the austerity agenda During the late 1980s, as Lt. Col. Chávez watched the wholesale ravaging of his country’s economy by foreign capital, he formed a cadre of populist officers called the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200. In 1992, Chávez led the officers in an attempted military coup against the government of Pérez, hoping to ride the wave of popular resentment for the neoliberal policies enforced by Hausmann and his fellow IESA boys. Though he initially failed, Chávez captured the mood of the Venezuelan public, including sectors of the middle class, and emerged as a national folk hero. Even mainstream U.S. media conceded that Chávez had a point. At the time, the Washington Post identifie

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 3 - Exploiting crisis to “get back into a position of power” As Dan Cohen and I reported here at the Grayzone , Guaido’s rise to prominence – and the coup plot that he has been appointed to oversee – is the product of a decade-long project overseen by the Belgrade-based CANVAS outfit. CANVAS is a spinoff of Otpor, a Serbian protest group founded by Srdja Popovic in 1998 at the University of Belgrade. Otpor, which means “resistance” in Serbian, was the student group that worked alongside US soft power organizations to mobilize the protests that eventually toppled the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. CANVAS has been funded largely through the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA cut-out that function