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Updated: Feb. 26 and Feb. 27, 2019
TeleSUR English on Feb 24, 2019
LIVE | From the South: Journalist Max Blumenthal joins us live to discuss the latest developments in Venezuela, and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks after casting his ballot in the country’s historic constitutional referendum. More on these and other stories now.
What Really Happened on the Colombian-Venezuelan Border on February 23, 2019
TeleSUR English on Feb 25, 2019
FTS News Bits | We bring you the reality behind the lies spread by the US and most of the international media about the attempt to force “humanitarian aid” into Venezuela on February 23.
VIDEO: Guaido supporters started fire
RT America on Feb 25, 2019
When a truck filled with humanitarian aid that was set ablaze on the Colombia-Venezuela border this weekend, it led to accusations that Maduro was willing to burn the aid in order to prevent it from reaching his people. But closer inspection is raising questions as to who actually started the fire. RT America’s Rick Sanchez reports the details of the fire and why anti-Maduro forces are so eager to misrepresent it.
Watch the video here.
The “Permanent War State” Aims to Plunder Venezuela – Wilkerson and Jay
TheRealNews on Feb 26, 2019
Trump promises “democracy and freedom” to Venezuela, delivered by Elliott Abrams who brought you illegal wars, coups, and support for dictatorships; and Mike Pompeo and VP Pence, both with deep ties to the Koch brothers who need Venezuelan heavy crude to feed their Texas refinery – Col. Larry Wilkerson joins TRNN’s Paul Jay.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2019
Front-row seat to regime change in Venezuela
RT America on Feb 26, 2019
Several members of the Lima Group who met with US Vice President Mike Pence rejected his proposal to use military force to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. RT’s Dan Cohen spent time on the ground in Cucuta, Colombia. He sits down with RT America’s Manila Chan to explain what could be next in Venezuela.
Watch the video here.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2019
Trojan horse: ‘Aid trucks’ carry nails & wire for barricades – Venezuelan FM
with Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Caleb Maupin (website)
Caleb Maupin (Facebook Page)
February 27, 2019
RT on Feb 26, 2019
Addressing the UN Security Council, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has said that the trucks supposedly carrying humanitarian supplies to Venezuela were also loaded with nails and wire, showing photos of seized cargo.
Caleb Maupin is a radical journalist and political analyst who resides in New York City. Originally from Ohio, he studied political science at Baldwin-Wallace College. In addition to his journalism, analysis, and commentary, he has engaged in political activism. He was involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement from its planning stages in August of 2011. He has worked against police brutality, mass incarceration, and imperialist war. He works to promote revolutionary ideology, and to support all who fight against the global system of monopoly capitalist imperialism.
See also:
Burning Aid: An Interventionist Deception on Colombia-Venezuela Bridge? by Max Blumenthal
From the archives:
Embassy Protection Collective Activists Occupying the Venezuela Embassy in Washington, DC
Kevin Zeese on Venezuela’s Economy: It’s Not Socialism, It’s Abusive Capitalism and US Imperialism
The Siege of Venezuela and The Travails of Empire by Jim Kavanagh (must-read)
The Venezuelan Myth by Ellen Brown
Chris Hedges: Coup in Venezuela is an Open Violation of International Law
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If you want more info on the #realDeal — the Green Party’s Green New Deal, complete with single-payer health care and big military cuts — here’s a summary:
https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal
And here are some more details:
http://www.gp.org/gnd_full
Thanks, jalp5dai.
See also: https://climateandcapitalism.com/2019/02/27/ecosocialists-debate-gnd/
You’re welcome — and thank *you*!
I agree with you that the Green Party’s Green New Deal is much better.
Dandelion Salad posted many videos/articles about or with Jill Stein during the 2016 campaign. Here is one post with 3 videos: Ralph Nader: Clinton is a Corporatist and Militarist + Jill Stein’s Green New Deal Makes Wars For Oil Obsolete
How about a Green New Deal that includes recycled cooking oil, solar, wind and geothermal power for energy – AND WE END THE INSANE WARS FOR OIL – OIL POLLUTING AND POISONING THE PLANET! I AM SO SICK OF THE EMPIRE OF GREED!
Yes!