Archives for فبراير 2019

Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela

It turns out sociopathy is addictive. Our American empire knows no bounds to its nation-building (after nation-destroying).

بواسطة Lee Camp
Donald Trump | Venezuela

There are three things I know for sure in this fanciful, sometimes inglorious experience we call life: You will never have a safety pin when you need one, and you will have thousands when you don’t need one. Wild animals are breathtakingly majestic until they’re crawling up your pant leg. A U.S. presidential administration will never

Hope of Hodeida Ceasefire Wanes as Saudis Talks Peace but Bolster Military Presence

For Yemenis desperate for a solution, it may be hard to believe the Saudi Coalition’s promises of a withdrawal from Hodeida after previous promises were made and subsequently broken.

Yemen | Hodeida

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- Representatives from Yemen's Houthis and the Saudi-led Coalition have agreed on Phase 1 of a mutual redeployment of forces under a UN-sponsored deal that would see both sides leave Yemen’s port city of Hodeida after months of failed attempts to implement previous agreements in the Red Sea city. The UN spokesman's office said in

Venezuela’s Foreign Minister on ‘Failed’ US-Backed Coup and the New Non-Aligned Movement

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza sits down with Anya Parampil to discuss efforts to reaffirm international support for the concept of state sovereignty amid the Trump Administration’s effort to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. 

بواسطة Anya Parampil
Jorge Arreaza | Venezuela

 CARACAS (This article was produced as part of a MintPress News and The Grayzone collaboration) -- Just hours after returning from meetings at the United Nations in New York, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza sat down for a one on one interview with the GrayZone Project's Anya Parampil. The two discussed Arreaza’s effort to reaffirm

The Oligarchs Behind the “Humanitarian” Regime Change Network Push for UK Labour to Split

In light of recent news of UK Labour MPs leaving the party over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, this October 2018 investigation by Whitney Webb and Vanessa Beeley is more relevant than ever. Beeley and Webb uncover how influential oligarchs and the non-profits they fund pushed many of the very same MPs who have now left Labour to cut ties with the party.

بواسطة Vanessa Beeley

LONDON -- Jo Cox, the late Labour MP whose tragic death in 2016 shocked Britain and the world, has recently become a rallying cry for forces within the U.K. Labour Party who seek to weaken Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and to return the party to the pro-intervention Tony Blair era. As this article (the final installment of our three-part series) will

How Much of the Venezuela Crisis is Really Maduro’s Fault?

There are several factors for Venezuela’s economic crisis, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to U.S. leaders or following corporate media, writes Steve Ellner.

بواسطة Steve Ellner
Nicolas Maduro | Venezuela

The recognition by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Joe Biden of Juan Guaidó as Venezuelan president is the latest demonstration of the consensus in Washington over the nefariousness of the Nicolás Maduro government. Not since Fidel Castro’s early years in power has a Latin American head of state been so consistently

Haitian Authorities Arrest Americans Transporting Cache of Weapons amid Uprising

“President Jovenel Moise has brought home mercenaries to assassinate not only a desperate people who are clamoring for his resignation by demonstrating peacefully but especially his political opponents.” — Haitian online publication Vedeth

Haiti | Protests

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Even as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to inspire a military coup against the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, evidence is mounting that the U.S. government is enabling American mercenaries to violently quell a popular uprising in Haiti. MintPress News previously examined the parallels between the