The trove of U.S. “Lessons Learned” documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, in excruciating detail, the anatomy of a failed policy, scandalously hidden from the public for 18 years. The “Lessons Learned” papers, however, are based on the premise that the U.S. and its allies will keep intervening militarily in other countries, and that they must therefore learn the lessons of Afghanistan to avoid making the same mistakes in future military occupations. This premise misses the obvious lesson that Washington insiders refuse to learn: the underlying fault is not in how the U.S. tries and fails to reconstruct societies destroyed by its “regime changes,” but in the…
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The Truth About Tiananmen
This past week marked the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing. Naturally, Trump’s warmongering Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, jumped at the opportunity to wag his finger at the Chinese government. In “On the 30th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square,” a press statement posted to the State Department’s website this past Monday, Pompeo writes that “we honor the heroic protest movement of the Chinese people that ended on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese Communist Party leadership sent tanks into Tiananmen Square to violently repress peaceful demonstrations calling for democracy, human rights, and an end to rampant corruption,” because as everyone knows the US government respects its citizen’s…
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How the US Regime Uses Sanctions to Soften a Country Up for Invasion
The Trump regime is clearly hoping for an excuse to invade Iran, and if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, then Trump and his friend Netanyahu will have their wish, their excuse to invade that country. Iran is being abandoned now, not only by America’s allies such as in Europe, but even in countries that had formerly been friendly toward Iran, such as China. Trump and Netanyahu are having their way. Iran is apparently trapped by the two fascist regimes in US and Israel.
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Report: US Sanctions Have Cost 40,000 Venezuelan Lives
The Washington DC-based Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) published a report Thursday on the effects of US sanctions against Venezuela. The 27-page paper was authored by economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs, who determined that sanctions have “inflicted very serious harm to human life” in Venezuela. “The sanctions are depriving Venezuelans of lifesaving medicines, medical equipment, food, and other essential imports,” Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR, said in a press release. For his part, Sachs added, “American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela’s economy and thereby lead to regime change.” Weisbrot and Sachs pointed out in the report that sanctions “would fit the definition of collective punishment of the…
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4th Generation Warfare (4GW) used by USG to Attack Venezuela
4th Generation Warfare (fourth-generation warfare or 4GW) is a term used to define the kind of war often waged in the 21st century by the USG (United States Government), the military wing of the NWO (New World Order). It blurs the lines between war and politics, and soldiers and civilians. It includes new forms of attacks such as cyber attacks, EM attacks, infrastructure attacks and propaganda, which can effectively “win” a war for the aggressor without it ever needing to deploy its own troops in the attacked country. A cyber attack took down Venezuela’s power grid last week, and today (Thursday March 14th 2019) another so-called “terrorist attack” ruptured storage…
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Venezuela: U.S. Regime Change Documents Unearthed
Max Blumenthal is a well- known American author, journalist, and blogger. He has broken some interesting stories in the last few years and is well respected for not going with the MSM narrative. Here is another story that he breaks – but just before we get to that, here are some reports as a reminder from the MSM that describes from their perspective the situation in Venezuela. CNN reports that “Crowds collect water from dirty streams, nurses pump ventilators by hand in darkened hospitals and charities struggle to feed children as Venezuela continues to suffer the dire effects of its most profound blackout in decades.” The BBC reports that –…
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8 Venezuela Lies the US Gov. & MSM Want You to Believe
Venezuela lies abound. Both the USG (United States Government) and its lapdog MSM (Mainstream Media) have been going into overdrive, exaggerating or just plain lying about the state of affairs in Venezuela. Truth is always a casualty of war, and it’s also a casualty of pre-war, as the NWO prepares the ground for military intervention by demonization and propaganda. Here are 8 lies about Venezuela which are being used to justify yet another coup in a long, long history of US coups in foreign lands. Venezuela Lies #1: The Venezuelan People Have No Food and the Shelves Are Bare In these videos (here and here) on the ground in Caracas,…
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Venezuela – U.S. Aid Gambit Fails – War Plans Lack Support
A day after the U.S. coup attempt in Venezuela the U.S. game plan was already quite obvious: The opposition in Venezuela will probably use access to that ‘frozen’ money to buy weapons and to create an army of mercenaries to fight a ‘civil’ war against the government and its followers. Like in Syria U.S. special forces or some CIA ‘contractors’ will be eager to help. The supply line for such a war would most likely run through Colombia. If, like 2011 in Syria, a war on the ground is planned it will likely begin in the cities near that border. The U.S. is using the pretext of ‘delivering humanitarian aid’…
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Is This the Most Blatant US Coup Ever?
The Venezuela coup currently being orchestrated by the US is so utterly blatant, even by American standards, that large numbers of people are seeing right through it. This is not a black-and-white issue. Yes, extreme socialism can lead to instability and disaster; yes, Maduro is not the greatest leader; and yes, the people of Venezuela are suffering under massive hyperinflation. However, by far and away the largest factor affecting Venezuela now is not Maduro or socialism by rather US foreign intervention. Juan Guaido, latest Washington Puppet and Fraudulent Non-President You can read about the background of Juan Guaido here. Suffice it to say, he’s a US trained agent-provocateur or “opposition…
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Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Venezuela Coup Circle Jerk
Before they launch missiles, they launch narratives. Before they drop bombs, they drop talking points. Before they implement crushing starvation sanctions, they demonize and condemn. Before they invade, they propagandize. Before the killing starts, manipulation paves the way. For this reason, the front line of any antiwar movement is a fight against the establishment narratives about disobedient nations that are aggressively promulgated by the political/media class. And right now one of the very most adept Americans at doing that is an activist named Medea Benjamin. Benjamin once again displayed her knack for getting her message seen in high-profile spaces in a way that grabs attention and punches through cleanly and…
