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mr.drs.Bou:

Venezuela plot thickens… UN should be probing Washington and allies for regime-change crimes

The audacity of Washington and its allies is astounding. The wanton destruction these powers have inflicted on other countries in the name of bringing democracy – from Iraq to Afghanistan, from Libya, Ukraine to Syria, among others, is truly spellbinding in the worse sense. Still, here they are doing the same demolition job on Venezuela, trying to turn the country into a failed state at the mercy of American hegemony. As Russia’s foreign policy spokeswoman Maria Zakharova drily noted: “Now, it’s Venezuela’s turn.”

Again, this is the same formula as was applied in Ukraine, Libya, Syria and elsewhere. Not only are the political institutions subverted by external forces, but then when the authorities try to move to defend the nation they have their hands tied behind their backs through slanderous blackmail.

If the UN Security Council actually functioned as it’s supposed to, it should be investigating the regime-change machinations of the US and its allies, with a view to prosecute for criminal aggression.

mr.drs.Bou:

Beste Nexus,
De “internationale rechtsorde” was gebaseerd op de mondiale olie-dollar economie. De VS kon daardoor wetten negeren en enkel toepassen als ze hen uitkomen. Het resultaat is te zien in het Midden Oosten, in Afrika en nu ook weer in Zuid Amerika. Maar de olie-dollar relatie is nu ook in Venezuela doorbroken. Even een YouTube uit de “memory hole”, let op de datum:

Venezuela Drops US Dollar

RT America
Gepubliceerd op 17 okt. 2018
Anya Parampil reports on an announcement this week from Venezuela that the country will stop using the US dollar on its exchange markets, instead adopting the euro. Venezuela says the decision comes as part of an effort to subvert US imperial sabotage of the country. Former UK MP George Galloway joins In Question to discuss how the US uses the dollar as a weapon and why there’s a growing international movement to buck the US buck.

Na Irak en Libië is dit dus slechts een déja vu! Wie de olie-dollar niet wil, krijgt sancties aan de broek en bommen op de kop.

Venezuelan Crisis Can Become A Catastrophe – Doomsday Clock 2 Minutes To Midnight!!! duurt 10 minuten.

PRAECURSATOR
Gepubliceerd op 26 jan. 2019, drie dagen na de “coup”.

Tot slot de economische sancties en de internationale rechtsorde:

US Sanctions Are Killing Venezuelans: UN Expert Says duurt 10 minuten.

The Jimmy Dore Show
Gepubliceerd op 29 jan. 2019

mr.drs.Bou:

EU passes resolution recognizing Guaido as Venezuelan president

mr.drs.Bou:

US plot to assassinate Maduro alleged

RT America
Gepubliceerd op 31 jan. 2019
The Venezuelan government has accused the Trump administration of plotting with Colombia to assassinate embattled President Nicolas Maduro following the frustrated coup attempt by his rival, the US-backed Juan Guaido. RT America’s Dan Cohen reports for the News with Rich Sanchez.

mr.drs.Bou:

Regime Change In Venezuela: Army Defectors, Russian Mercenaries And Disappearing Gold

South Front
Gepubliceerd op 31 jan. 2019

mr.drs.Bou:

CrossTalk: Venezuela Targeted duurt 25 minuten.

RT
Gepubliceerd op 1 feb. 2019
Washington’s forced regime change strategy targeting Venezuela continues unabated. Everything is going to plan. First, sanction the country in ways that punish the poor. Second, back a so-called interim president in Caracas. Third, deny the legitimate government of its export revenues. Is the use of force next? CrossTalking with Pablo Navarrete, Miguel Tinker Salas, and Paul Dobson.

mr.drs.Bou:

Shock and awe strategy being employed in Venezuela regime change duurt 20 minuten.

The Duran
Gepubliceerd op 1 feb. 2019
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 71.

RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou take a quick look at the financial and media war being waged in Venezuela, as John Bolton employs the usual U.S. weapons of regime change to tighten the screws on Maduro and his embattled government.

Will Maduro survive the US onslaught to emerge in tact, or will Venezuela slide quickly into chaos and civil war or slowly drift into a frozen quagmire of a nation state?

mr.drs.Bou:

Why must Venezuela be destroyed?

By Dmitry Orlov

The precedent established by the US government’s recognition of Juan Guaidó allows Nicolas Maduro to declare Donald Trump’s presidency as illegitimate for virtually all of the same reasons. Trump failed to win the popular vote but only gained the presidency because of a corrupt, gerrymandered electoral system. Also, certain opposition candidates were unfairly treated within the electoral process. Trump is also a disgrace and a failure: 43 million people are on food stamps; close to 100 million are among the long-term unemployed (circularly referred to as “not in labor force”); homelessness is rampant and there are entire tent cities springing up in various US cities; numerous US companies are on the verge of bankruptcy; and Trump can’t even seem to be able to keep the federal government open! He is a disaster for his country! Maduro therefore recognizes Bernie Sanders as the legitimate president of the United States.

Why the unseemly haste to blow up Venezuela? The explanation is a simple one: it has to do with oil. “It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.” said John Bolton on Fox News. You see, Venezuelan oil cannot be produced profitably without high oil prices—so high that many oil consumers would go bankrupt—but it can certainly be produced in much higher quantities at a huge financial loss.

A rather large oil shortage is coming, and it will rather specifically affect the US, which burns 20% of the world’s oil (with just 5% of the world’s population). Once fracking crashes, the US will go from having to import 2.5 million barrels per day to importing at least 10—and that oil won’t exist. Previously, the US was able to solve this problem by blowing up countries and stealing their oil: the destruction of Iraq and Libya made American oil companies whole for a while and kept the financial house of cards from collapsing. But the effort to blow up Syria has failed, and the attempt to blow up Venezuela is likely to fail too because, keep in mind, Venezuela has between 7 and 9 million Chavistas imbued with the Bolivarian revolutionary spirit, a large and well-armed military and is generally a very tough neighborhood.

mr.drs.Bou:

The History Boys 16: Venezuela, Maduro and Latin America duurt 31 minuten.

George Galloway
Gepubliceerd op 27 jan. 2019
To get a broader understanding of what’s going on with the coup in Venezuela, George Galloway and Adam Garrie discuss the historical background to the country and its Bolivarian Revolution.

mr.drs.Bou:

Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony

By Michael Hudson

The Deep State is reacting with shock at how this right-wing real estate grifter has been able to drive other countries to defend themselves by dismantling the U.S.-centered world order. To rub it in, he is using Bush and Reagan-era Neocon arsonists, John Bolton and now Elliott Abrams, to fan the flames in Venezuela. It is almost like a black political comedy. The world of international diplomacy is being turned inside-out. A world where there is no longer even a pretense that we might adhere to international norms, let alone laws or treaties.

The Neocons who Trump has appointed are accomplishing what seemed unthinkable not long ago: Driving China and Russia together – the great nightmare of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. They also are driving Germany and other European countries into the Eurasian orbit, the “Heartland” nightmare of Halford Mackinder a century ago.

The root cause is clear: After the crescendo of pretenses and deceptions over Iraq, Libya and Syria, along with our absolution of the lawless regime of Saudi Arabia, foreign political leaders are coming to recognize what world-wide public opinion polls reported even before the Iraq/Iran-Contra boys turned their attention to the world’s largest oil reserves in Venezuela: The United States is now the greatest threat to peace on the planet.

Calling the U.S. coup being sponsored in Venezuela a defense of democracy reveals the Doublethink underlying U.S. foreign policy. It defines “democracy” to mean supporting U.S. foreign policy, pursuing neoliberal privatization of public infrastructure, dismantling government regulation and following the direction of U.S.-dominated global institutions, from the IMF and World Bank to NATO. For decades, the resulting foreign wars, domestic austerity programs and military interventions have brought more violence, not democracy.