Politicized US Charges Against Huawei and Its CFO by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Huawei is a privately owned Chinese tech giant, the world’s largest telecom equipment manufacturer, the second largest smartphone maker. It’s leading the race to roll out next generation cutting-edge 5G technology of mobile Internet use, ahead of US […]

Venezuelan Spring? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Consistent rubbish appearing on the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page is enough to give extremist right-wing propaganda a bad name. It doesn’t get any worse than from propagandist on Latin American issues Mary O’Grady. She never met a hemispheric tinpot despot she didn’t wholeheartedly […]

The US and Venezuela Are World’s Apart by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Since the 1999 birth of Venezuela’s Bolivarian social democracy, a model for other nations, the threat of a good example for Washington, Republicans and undemocratic Dems sought to destroy it. One of my earliest articles was on Venezuela, discussing […]

The US Drive for Hegemony Over Venezuela by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Republicans and undemocratic Dems are united for flagrantly unlawful regime change in Venezuela – ignoring the UN Charter, other international law, and the US Constitution. There’s no ambiguity about the rule of law. UN Charter Article 2 states “(a)ll […]

A Coup by Any Other Name by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) In an earlier article, I asked when is a coup not one? A rose is a rose is a rose, not something else. Things are what they are by whatever name. A coup by any other name doesn’t change things. […]

Cuba Meddling in Venezuela? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) At the Security Council on Saturday, Pompeo turned truth on its head, accusing Cuba of meddling in Venezuelan affairs, claiming Havana is using the country as a satellite of the island state. Cuba’s envoy to the UN Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo slammed Pompeo’s […]

Security Council Face-Off on Venezuela by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The Trump regime launched an old-fashioned coup d’etat attempt to gain another imperial trophy – what it’s done scores of times before since the 19th century. Key for the US is controlling what it’s coveted since Hugo Chavez’s election 20 years […]

Hollow Undemocratic Dems’ Concern About Syria by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, the US has been actively or indirectly at war in Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Ukraine. Obama bragged about bombing seven countries in eight years. Both extremist right wings of America’s war party overwhelmingly support endless wars against nations threatening […]

Russian Foreign Ministry on Syria and Venezuela by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (MZ below) explained the deteriorating situation in Syria’s Idlib province, the last remaining stronghold of US-supported terrorists – a festering issue I’ve discussed for months.  MZ was late addressing it, earlier saying Turkey’s […]

The NYT Lying Machine at it Again by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Truth-telling on vital issues, notably geopolitical ones, especially anything about Russia and other US enemies, is verboten at the self-styled newspaper of record NYT – a broadsheet giving yellow journalism a bad name. It’s the closest thing in America […]