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globinfo freexchange From the first moment we acknowledged the braveness of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to stand against Trump's war criminals and AIPAC lobbyists. Her general stance against the US imperialist agenda is putting her right at the top of the list of the authentic progressives. The Western propaganda machine immediately mobilized and tried to smear her because of her stance. Yet, Ilhan tweeted a link from an article coming from this propaganda machine, claiming that there is new 'evidence' of China's mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang. While we don't deny that Uighur Muslims may face some serious problems, we should bear in mind that Xinjiang and Tibet are two regions of high sensitivity. Both have been used for decades by the Western imperialists to destabilize China. There are strong indications that the US even orchestrated some CIA-type false flag operations to provoke another 'color revolution' in Xinjiang and create furthe

by Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Part 4 - Why is Team Trump intent on sanctions and regime change? Why is Trump’s troika so intent on regime change in Venezuela and sanctions in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua? Last month, Bolton addressed the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association on the 58th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, in which the U.S. aided and abetted a failed attempt to overthrow Cuba’s Fidel Castro. “ Together, we can finish what began on those beaches, ” Bolton said, adding, “ We must reject the forces of communism and socialism in this hemisphere. ” It’s not simply anti-communism that animates the Trump administration’s fixation on sanctions and regime change in these Latin American countries. “ With at least a half-million voters who were born in Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia or Nicaragua — and more with ancestral roots in those countries — it’s a constituency that could prove pivotal in November 2020 in a state that’s essential to Trump’s reelection fortunes, ” Marc

globinfo freexchange Former US Chief of Staff for Secretary of State, Lawrence Wilkerson, spoke with Sharmini Peries of the Real News about Trump's plans for a potential US military action against Venezuela. As he pointed out: Elliott Abrams, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and the administration’s approach to Venezuela, is as if they were Panama or they were Honduras. They are not. They’re very professional. That puts them above Argentina, above Chile, whose militaries are quite competent, too.  Mr. Trump ought to be very, very careful about saying he’s going to send marines or soldiers to Venezuela because the Venezuelan military will be unified immediately. It will take to the hills and it will fight as the Vietnamese did during the Vietnam War, and as the Taliban are in Afghanistan right now: to the last marine, to the last soldier. Putin is a smart man, probably told Trump 'you don’t want to get involved in those jungles. You don’t want to get involved in th

After days of breathless reporting in the US media about public and military support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro collapsing, and about an April 30 coup by presidential poseur Juan Guaidó, we now know the truth:  The whole thing was a fraud, staged at the instigation of Washington in hopes that the Venezuelan people and rank-and-file troops would fall for the trick and think an actual coup was underway. We also know, from an excellent May 2 report by Michael Fox in the Nation magazine, that the US mainstream media and its reporters in country were promoting that dangerous fraud. Take CNN. In its reporting on the “uprising” announced by Guaidó on Tuesday, April 30, it ran a video from social media depicting Guaidó, accompanied by opposition leader Leopoldo López, along with some armed men in uniform, said to be military defectors, standing behind them. The video claimed they were on the La Carlota military airfield in eastern Caracas, which Guaidó said had been “libe

On 8 May, Iran announced the suspension of some commitments it had made under the 2015 international nuclear deal. This comes amid increasing US hostility towards the country. Iran originally signed the deal to get relief from crippling US sanctions. But the US abandoned the deal in 2018. And since then, Washington has imposed harsh new sanctions on the country. In recent days, meanwhile, the Trump administration has threatened Iran with military force. Reporting the latest events from Iran, the BBC attempted to offer context on the history of Western-Iranian relations. But its summary looked very much like a whitewash. The BBC noted that: " Tensions between the US and Iran can be traced back to Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, which overthrew the pro-Western Shah and established a radical anti-US regime in its place. " But 1979 is a very curious cut-off point. Because a Western-backed coup two and a half decades prior was a key source of tensions. In 1953, B

globinfo freexchange Back in WWII, the Iranian government rescued over 1,500 Jews and secretly granted them Iranian citizenship, allowing them to move to Iran, in order to save them from the Nazis. Here is how today's Apartheid state of Israel shows its gratitude: by continuously pushing the US for a war against Iran. From Wikipedia : For many decades, Iran and the German Empire had cultivated ties, partly as a counter to the imperial ambitions of Britain and Russia, and later, the Soviet Union. Trading with Germany appealed to Iran because the Germans did not have a history of imperialism in the region, unlike the British and Russians.  The Iranian government did not support the antisemitism of Nazis. Iranian embassies in European capitals occupied by the Germans, rescued over 1,500 Jews and secretly granted them Iranian citizenship, allowing them to move to Iran.

globinfo freexchange With this new ad, Tulsi Gabbard proves that she has become one of the most authentic progressive voices in the Democratic party. Tulsi now surpassed even Bernie Sanders and AOC as she dares to speak openly about the neocon/neoliberal warmongering cabal and clearly condemns any plans for another war against Iran, Venezuela, or any other nation. Recall also that Tulsi Gabbard was the only one who bravely defended Julian Assange on a US deep state platform. Right now, Tulsi's progressiveness and braveness could be compared only to that of Ilhan Omar. Tulsi's message is more than clear:  The neocons, neolibs and mainstream media are all singing from the same song sheet, saying 'We want war! We need more war!' Trump never gets media support unless he's threatening war, or carrying out a military action. Today, it's Venezuela. Tomorrow, Iran. Who knows who would be next. It's no wonder that North Korea won't give

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 2 - U.S.-Backed Venezuelan opposition seeks to reverse Chavista seed law and GMO ban In 2004, then-president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, surprised many when he announced the cancellation of Monsanto’s plans to plant 500,000 acres of Venezuelan agricultural land in genetically modified (GM) soybeans. The cancellation of Monsanto’s Venezuela contract led to what became an ad hoc ban on all GM seeds in the entire country, a move that was praised by local farmer groups and environmental activists . In contrast to anti-GM movements that have sprung up in other countries, Venezuela’s resistance to GM crops was based more on concerns about the country’s food sovereignty and protecting

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 ,