Venezuela’s Supreme Court v. US Attempted Coup by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Venezuela’s Constitution affirms the principles of what democratic governance is all about – based on fundamental freedoms, equity, justice under law, and the nation’s sovereign independence. Under the Constitution’s Article 2, the judicial system is mandated to uphold the […]

Farcical Ceasefire in Yemen Collapsing by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Since agreed on last December, ceasefire existed in name only. Fighting never stopped. It just ebbed around the key port city of Hodeidah before escalating, where things stand now. Yemen is Washington’s war, the Trump regime bearing most responsibility for what’s […]

China Preparing for Economic, Financial, Trade and Hot War by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) China seeks cooperative relations with other nations. The US is a global menace, seeking dominance over other countries – sovereign independent governments on its target list for regime change, by war or other means. It hasn’t won […]

The NYT Endorses Endless US Warmaking, Scorns Peace by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) NATO is a US-controlled killing machine, an imperial tool. The alliance operates by Washington rules, serving its interests, waging endless wars of aggression against sovereign independent nations threatening no one. World peace and stability are unattainable as long […]

Venezuelan Military Support for Maduro by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Short of the Trump regime invoking the military option, a possibility given how often the US goes this route, preserving and protecting Bolivarian social democracy in Venezuela depends on Maduro retaining military and majority popular support in the streets. The alternative […]

Trump Regime Illegally Sanctions Venezuela’s Oil Giant by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Monday, the Trump regime upped the stakes in Venezuela, imposing sanctions on state-owned oil giant PDVSA, seizing $7 billion of its assets. More on this below. Unilaterally imposed US sanctions against Venezuela and other countries are flagrantly illegal. […]

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 […]