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Your $1.7 billion of gold is now ours, UK tells starving Venezuelans

Eva Bartlett — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:35:22 +0000

n its prolonged freezing of Venezuelan assets, the UK continues to withhold 31 tons of its gold stored at the Bank of England, with a new Supreme Court ruling supporting the seizure. The recent decision, CNN reported, “ruled that recognition of heads of state and government was solely the responsibility of the British government, which had recognized [opposition leader Juan] Guaidó as […]

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Maduro says US is hatching plans for war against Venezuela

Tass News Agency — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:36:11 +0000

CARACAS, March 7. /TASS/. The United States is hatching a plan for war against Venezuela, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said at a meeting with governors and mayors in Caracas on Friday. “They (the US authorities – TASS) have decided to make a plan to bring war and terrorism to Venezuela, to destabilize it, to fill it with violence, to trigger […]

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Iran Squeezed Between Imperial Psychos and European Cowards

Pepe Escobar — Wed, 15 May 2019 19:31:25 +0000

The overwhelming majority of Global South nations are watching the U.S. neocon offensive to ultimately strangle “the Iranian people”, aware more than ever that Iran may be bullied to extinction because it does not posses a nuclear deterrent. The IRGC has reached the same conclusion.

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Venezuelan Guarimbas: 11 Things the Media Didn’t Tell You

Tamara Pearson Ryan Mallett-Outtrim — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:11:30 +0000

teleSur journalists Tamara Pearson and Ryan Mallett-Outtrim debunk the myriad of lies and fabrications disseminated by the mainstream corporate media about the violent opposition protests in 2014, known as the “guarimbas.” At one year since the violence opposition barricades in Venezuela that aimed to bring down the democratically elected government, teleSUR reviews 11 things the media kept secret. One year ago, […]

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US officials offered my friend cash to take down Tehran’s power grid

Sharmine Sharmine Narwani — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:55:51 +0000

It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make me suddenly recall the cloak-and-dagger story of a close Iranian-American friend nine years ago. My friend, an engineer — who I will not name for obvious reasons and who I will call ‘Kourosh’ for the purpose of this article — revealed to me in 2010 that he was approached […]

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Facts Don’t Interfere With Propaganda Blitz Against Venezuela’s Elected President

Joe Emersberger — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:34:43 +0000

he constitutional argument that Trump and his accomplices have used to “recognize” Guaidó rests on the preposterous claim that Maduro has “abandoned” the presidency by soundly beating Falcón in the election.

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The Venezuela Phase of US Global Demise

Finian Cunningham — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 21:58:00 +0000

The latest blow-up in international relations involving Venezuela and Washington’s designs for regime change is but the latest in a whole gamut of international developments, tensions and confrontations which ultimately stem from America’s desperate attempt to maintain its global hegemony.

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Why Jeremy Hunt’s Support for Venezuela’s Self-declared President Must be Rejected

Nina Cross — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:18:30 +0000

The British government’s agenda towards Venezuela is blatantly interventionist, with the Foreign Office now flagrantly breaking international law in support of US geopolitics in Latin America, and it is backed by politicians from across the spectrum. Regardless of party allegiance, politicians serving the British establishment are intoxicated by the prospect of reining in a people who have said ‘no’ to […]

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Preferred Conclusions – The BBC, Syria And Venezuela

David Edwards — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:20:52 +0000

The goal of a mass media propaganda campaign is to create the impression that 'everybody knows' that Saddam is a 'threat', Gaddafi is 'about to commit mass murder', Assad 'has to go', Corbyn is 'destroying the Labour party', and so on. The picture of the world presented must be clear-cut. The public must be made to feel certain that the 'good guys' are basically benevolent, and the 'bad guys' are absolutely appalling and must be removed.

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Venezuelan FM Responds to Nikki Haley’s Accusations: US is ‘Greatest Violator’ of Human Rights

Telesur TV — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:04:41 +0000

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister defended Venezuela’s right to speak at the U.N. Human Rights Council against remarks made by the U.S. ambassador. The Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, defended Venezuela’s right to participate in the United Nations Human Rights Council against the attacks of the United States U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, and said that the United States is […]

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