Thanks to Ian Jenkins, the FB pal who alerted me to a useful profile of the man spearheading the US oil grab – again I use the term as shorthand for a longer list of predatory motives driving the build … Read More »
I may have to start a regular feature with this as the generic title. Caitlin Johnston is too damn quotable not to! Here she is today: Everyone knows on some level the US government has a consistent and indisputable track … Read More »
Even some who oppose America’s blatant oil grab – I use the term as shorthand for a longer list of predatory motives for this latest ‘humanitarian intervention’ – are writing drivel on Maduro’s “failure”. The image below links to a … Read More »
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21st Century Wire This week saw both the US government and the EU set a deadline of February 23 for Venezuela’s legitimate and democratically elected president, Nicolas Maduro, to step down from power and hand the country over to the … Read More »
Let’s cut to the chase. Most people, Western intelligentsia very much included, fail to grasp the nature of imperialism (see economics of imperialism and two minute guide to imperialism). This is understandable. We’ve been raised from infancy on the benignity … Read More »
An admirer of Pepe Escobar’s well informed writings, I was keen to read his Information Clearing House (ICH) piece yesterday. He begins. Cold War 2.0 has hit South America with a bang – pitting the US and expected minions against … Read More »
Tomorrow at crack of d I head for New Orleans so this is my last post for a while on Venezuela. Or anything else cept alligator shots from the bayou, live jazz from Frenchmen Street and dead footage from St … Read More »
In a footnote to my post of January 27 I wrote: Fence-sitting and having it both ways cascade through liberal media. As Guardian and Observer are vital to Chomsky’s “sophisticated system of propaganda”, so too are house leftists like Owen … Read More »