Archives for فبراير 2019

Watch | Inside Venezuela’s State-Subsidized Communal Markets

Max Blumenthal toured open air markets in Caracas that were full of food and supplies subsidized by the Venezuelan government.

بواسطة Max Blumenthal
venezuela max blumenthal

Grayzone — The Grayzone toured open air markets in Caracas full of food and supplies subsidized by the Venezuelan government, which debunk the “humanitarian crisis” lie spread by corporate media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlX3yfXNX_g Video shot and edited by Ben Norton This video was produced as part of a MintPress News

How America Rescued Its Weapons Runners After Their Arrest in Haiti

“The fact that the U.S. took these people and did not charge them, it shows there was a conspiracy. They didn’t want them to go before Haitian justice.” — Pierre Esperance, National Human Rights Defense Network

Haiti | Americans | Weapons

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Earlier this week, MintPress News reported that a  number of suspected American mercenaries were arrested transporting a cache of assault rifles and other weapons in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince amid an uprising against government corruption. As MintPress noted at the time, many Haitians believed that the men were

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Slams Richard Branson for Fronting US Trojan-Horse “Aid” to Venezuela

“It has nothing to do with the needs of the Venezuelan people. It has nothing to do with democracy. It has nothing to do with freedom. And it has nothing to do with aid.” — Roger Waters on the Richard Branson “aid” concert

Colombia | Venezuela | concerts

CÚCUTA, COLOMBIA -- Knighted billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson is hosting a concert on Friday in the Venezuelan border town of Cúcuta, Colombia to raise money for the Washington-backed regime-change push in the Bolivarian Republic. The area has become a flashpoint in the U.S.-backed coup attempt against Venezuela’s elected president,

Watch | Abby Martin & UN Rapporteur Expose Venezuela Coup

On the eve of another US war for oil, Abby Martin debunks the most repeated myths about Venezuela and uncovers how US sanctions are crimes against humanity with UN investigator and human rights Rapporteur Alfred De Zayas.

بواسطة Abby Martin
Juan Guaido

 Top Photo | A screenshot from an Empire Files video shows a partial portrait of Venezuela's self-proclaimed president, Juan Guaido Abby Martin is an artist, activist, and citizen journalist. She graduated from SDSU with a B.A. in political science where she was involved in community organizing for multiple causes. Source | Empire Files

He Can’t Breathe: Palestine’s Eric Garner

In Hebron, Palestine on May 17th, 2017, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded a young man as he walked through a market. He was about to join the roughly 40% of the male Palestinian population who, since 1967, have been detained or arrested.

Palestine | Eric Garner

Hebron is an ancient city in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories with a population of about 220,000 Palestinians and less than 1,000 Jewish settlers. About 1,000 Israeli soldiers are charged with “keeping the peace,” a job at which they have consistently failed – or so one would suppose, given that for 22 years the city has been

John Pilger: The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies

Should the CIA stooge Guaido and his white supremacists grab power, it will be the 68th overthrow of a sovereign government by the United States, most of them democracies, argues John Pilger.

بواسطة John Pilger
Venezuela | pro-government demonstration

Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela.  At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humour in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was played; a woman, Katarina, stood and sang with a husky contralto. "What did her words say?" I asked. "That we