Usurper in Waiting Guaido Wants Venezuelan Oil Privatized by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) According to Bloomberg News, US-designated puppet Guaido, a traitor to Venezuela and its people, wants state-owned oil giant PDVSA opened to private investment. He supports Washington’s scheme to have Big Oil take over the company, incrementally at first, […]

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US Weapons for Coup Plotters Seized at Venezuelan Airport by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) US coup tactics in Venezuela include economic war et al, political assassinations, orchestrated street violence, establishment media-supported propaganda war, supplying coup plotters with weapons, and military intervention if all else fails. That’s how imperialism works. According to […]

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House Undemocratic Dems Reopen Russiagate Probe by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The politicized Russiagate witch hunt probe that won’t die is one of the greatest hoaxes in modern times – establishment media going along with the deception, failing to expose and denounce it. It was cooked up by Obama’s Russophobic CIA […]

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The Myth of the US Knocking the Hell Out of ISIS by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) ISIS is a US creation. So are al-Qaeda, its al-Nusra offshoot, and other terrorist groups – used by the Pentagon and CIA as proxy troops. Trump claiming “(w)e’re knocking the hell out of ISIS…We have […]

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US Humanitarian Intervention in Venezuela? by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) So-called humanitarian intervention is a convenient pretext for US wars of aggression, the results predicable time and again. They include mass slaughter and destruction, endless chaos, environmental contamination, and human misery, nations transformed into dystopian wastelands, countless millions affected. Venezuelans are […]

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Iran Responds to Trump’s Baseless Accusations by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Pompeo at State and Bolton as national security advisor constitute a declaration of war on Iran by political, economic, and sanctions war, hot war perhaps if these tactics fail. With criminal psychopaths running the Washington asylum, anything is possible, including […]

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Reinventing History, a NYT Specialty by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) The self-styled newspaper of record is Washington’s leading imperial supporter, backing US wars of aggression, color revolutions, and old-fashioned coups, what’s playing out in Venezuela. The Trump regime wants the nation colonized, its social democracy eliminated, its resources looted, its people […]

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Iran Rejects New EU Trade Mechanism by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) Britain, France and Germany (the E 3) announced a new mechanism for facilitating allegedly sanctions-free trade with Iran – a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) called an Instrument for Supporting Trade Exchanges (INSTEX). Discussed in an earlier article, I explained what’s […]

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US/North Korea Summit 2.0 Confirmed by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) In his Tuesday State of the Union Address, Trump said “Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam. Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong-un is a good one.” Danang […]

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America’s Perilous State of the Union by Stephen Lendman On Tuesday evening, Trump delivered his State of the Union Address, delayed because of 35 days of government shutdown, DLT and undemocratic Dems sharing blame. A possible shutdown resumption looms on February 15 if things aren’t resolved – or a state of emergency declared by Trump […]

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