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With Guaidó rapidly losing momentum and credibility after Tuesday’s failed coup, López and his U.S. backers may turn on their own if they think it will benefit or energize their cause or if it could be used to set the stage for foreign military intervention.   by Whitney Webb Part 3 - It’s Bolton’s baby Though reports have characterized President Trump as uninterested in a long-term military conflict (likely owing to concern it could harm his re-election prospects), Trump has also “ given Bolton wide purview over Venezuela. ” In recent months, Bolton has been pushing a reluctant Pentagon to draft war plans for Venezuela.  According to a recent report in the Washington Post:     As he has pushed for a more aggressive policy, Bolton has angered some within and outside the White House. Even before Tuesday’s events, his staff clashed with Gen. Paul Selva, [Pentagon Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph] Dunford’s vice chairman, during a meeting to address the ongoing Venezuelan crisis, acc

 by Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Part 3 -  Embassy Protection Collective Protects Venezuelan Embassy Meanwhile, the Embassy Protection Collective remains in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. Members of CODEPINK and Popular Resistance have lived in the embassy for more than two weeks to protect it from a coup attempt and possible invasion by U.S.-backed opposition forces. On May 1, members of the collective fended off an attempted takeover of the embassy by forces loyal to Guaidó. If the Trump administration were to enter the embassy to expel these people, who are present with consent of the Venezuelan government, it would violate the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Article 22 of that treaty states, “The premises of the mission shall be inviolable.” U.S. agents are prohibited from entering the embassy without the consent of the Maduro government. The United States is also “ under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the miss

globinfo freexchange The US neoliberal establishment beast has already started a 'Character Assassination' operation against Bernie Sanders, as expected. Since early April, we already warned that the establishment will start an all-out war against Bernie, as it sees with terror that the 'business as usual' order is about to be demolished by millions of Americans. As we wrote : Bernie Sanders campaign announced something extraordinary for the US political standards. It has raised $18.2 million from just under 900,000 individual donations since launching 41 days ago! This is a clear proof of a real grassroots movement, directly connected to the most popular (by far) candidate for the 2020 US presidency. The picture shows a mass movement from the bottom, which is ready to "hijack" the Democratic party through Bernie Sanders. The implications for the corporate Democrats and their wealthy sponsors here are quite obvious. Therefore, we should e

The Supreme Court said in a statement that the politicians Henry Ramos Allup, Luis Florido, Marianela Magallanes, José Simón Calzadilla, Américo De Grazia, and Richard Blanco, as well as Andrés Velázquez were accused by the attorney general for the alleged crimes of " treason, conspiracy, instigation of insurrection, military rebellion, conspiracy to commit a crime, usurpation of functions, and public incitement to disobedience ". Some of the accused politicians appeared alongside opposition leader Juan Guaido during the failed military coup on 30 April outside the Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda Air Base. The Supreme Court approved a similar process last week against the vice president of the National Assembly, Edgar Zambrano. The decision comes after Guaido tried to convince the Venezuelan people and military to take to the streets to oust Maduro from power on 30 April. However, the attempt to overthrow the president failed. Full report: https://sputnikn

The Trump administration on Monday moved to change the definition of "poverty" in the United States in a proposal which combines the president's attempts to portray the U.S. economy as strong with his repeated attacks on the working poor and their access to government services. In a regulatory filing, President Donald Trump's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wrote that it may change how inflation is calculated in order to reduce the number of Americans who are living below the federally-recognized poverty line and are therefore eligible for certain government support services and social programs. As Melissa Boteach, who oversees income security programs at the National Women's Law Center (NWLC), wrote on Twitter, the change " seems technical, but it's actually a big attack on working people. " Seems technical, but it’s actually a big attack on working people. In short, Trump wants to weaken how our poverty definition keeps pace with cos

RT America   Hackers from a 2017 cyber-attack used tools allegedly lifted from the NSA by Chinese intelligence agents, says a new report. Investigative journalist Ben Swann discusses the findings with RT America’s Manila Chan.

Λίγες μέρες πριν από την τελευταία απόπειρα πραξικοπήματος στη Βενεζουέλα, το Στέιτ Ντιπάρτμεντ είχε δημοσιεύσει έγγραφο που αποκαλύπτει την εμπλοκή των ΗΠΑ στις εξελίξεις στη χώρα. Στη συνέχεια το έγγραφο διαγράφηκε, όπως αποκαλύπτει η ιστοσελίδα The Grayzone . Στις 24 Απριλίου, μόλις έξι μέρες πριν από την απόπειρα του αυτοανακηρυχθέντα προέδρου Χουάν Γκουαϊδό να ανατρέψει τη δημοκρατικά εκλεγμένη κυβέρνηση της Βενεζουέλας, το Στέιτ Ντιπάρτμεντ είχε δημοσιεύσει πληροφοριακό δελτίο, στο οποίο περηφανευόταν για τον καίριο ρόλο της Ουάσινγκτον στις απόπειρες πραξικοπήματος. Όταν οι υπεύθυνοι συνειδητοποίησαν ότι το έγγραφο θα μπορούσε να έχει ενοχοποιητικό χαρακτήρα, έσπευσαν να διαγράψουν τη σελίδα με τις σχετικές πληροφορίες. Η ομάδα του The Grayzone κατάφερε να αποκτήσει και να φέρει ξανά στη δημοσιότητα το έγγραφο. Η σελίδα του εγγράφου που διαγράφηκε διαψεύδει κάθε ισχυρισμό του Χουάν Γκουαϊδό για ανεξαρτησία του από την Ουάσινγκτον. Και αυτό γιατί το Σ

globinfo freexchange Plenty of propaganda is manufactured by the US deep state apparatus to push for the imperialist agenda. Yet, some elements of the propaganda machine are still unable to realize that independent truth seekers and real journalists are watching, and therefore, these elements could be easily exposed. Sloppy efforts immediately backfire in social media and the Internet. Most recent sloppy efforts are related to Gaza and Venezuela. As the N ewsweek reported : Senior 2020 Trump campaign adviser Katrina Pierson used a 2015 video showing a Ukrainian rocket launch alongside comments about this weekend's deadly attacks between Israel and Gaza militants and a condemnation of congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Pierson, who was Donald Trump's 2016 campaign spokesperson and is a frequent cable news guest, shared the video—which was first posted online in 2015 and reportedly shows Ukrain

With Juan Guaidó’s parallel government attempting to take power with the backing of the U.S., it is telling that the top political donors of those in the U.S. most fervently pushing regime change in Venezuela have close ties to Monsanto and major financial stakes in Bayer. by Whitney Webb Part 1 As the political crisis in Venezuela has unfolded, much has been said about the Trump administration’s clear interest in the privatization and exploitation of Venezuela’s oil reserves, the largest in the world, by American oil giants like Chevron and ExxonMobil. Yet the influence of another notorious American company, Monsanto — now a subsidiary of Bayer — has gone largely unmentioned. While numerous other Latin American nations have become a “free for all” for the biotech company and its affiliates, Venezuela has been one of the few countries to fight Monsanto and other international agrochemical giants and win. However, since that victory — which was won under Chavista

This study by Swiss Propaganda Research was first published in 2016, it is presented by off-guardian.org in English for the first time. Translated by Terje Maloy. It is one of the most important aspects of our media system – and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. The key role played by these agencies means that Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world. A study of the Syria war coverage by nine leading European newspapers clearly illustrates these issues: 78% of all articles were based in whole or in part on agency reports, yet 0% on investigative research . Moreover, 82% of all opinion pieces and interviews were in favor of the US and NATO intervention ,