[Peace-discuss] Obama's filthy subversion, from Ukraine to Venezuela

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://truth-out.org/news/item/29218-venezuela-s-struggle-against-a-common-enemy

An Oxfam report once famously described the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua as "the threat of a good example"... 

The US has been the undeclared enemy of social progress in Latin America for two centuries. It doesn't matter who has been in the White House: Barack Obama or Teddy Roosevelt; the US will not tolerate countries with governments and cultures that put the needs of their own people first and refuse to promote or succumb to US demands and pressures. A reformist social democracy with a capitalist base - such as Venezuela - is not excused by the rulers of the world.

What is inexcusable is Venezuela's political independence; only complete deference is acceptable...

...in Caracas last year ... vicious right-wing mobs were lauded as "peaceful protestors who were being repressed." This was undoubtedly the start of a Washington-backed "color revolution," openly backed by the likes of the National Endowment for Democracy - a user-friendly CIA clone.

It was uncannily like the coup that Washington successfully staged in Ukraine last year.  As in Kiev, in Venezuela, the "peaceful protestors" set fire to government buildings and deployed snipers and were lauded by western politicians and the western media...

...Reporters Without Borders has just issued its worldwide ranking of nations based on their claims to a free press. The US is ranked 49th, behind Malta, Niger, Burkino Faso and El Salvador.

...It's important to understand that Washington is ruled by true extremists, once known inside the Beltway as "the crazies." This has been true since before 9/11. A few are outright fascists. Asserting US dominance is their undisguised game, and, as the events in Ukraine demonstrate, they are prepared to risk a nuclear war with Russia. These people should be the common enemy of all sane human beings.

In Venezuela, they want a coup so that they can roll back some of the world's most important social reforms - such as in Bolivia and Ecuador. They've already crushed the hopes of ordinary people in Honduras. The current conspiracy between the US and Saudi Arabia to lower the price of oil is meant to achieve something more tragic and spectacular in Venezuela and Russia... [John Pilger]

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