CIA Dirty Hands All Over the US Coup Plot Against Venezuela
by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman)
Operating like a global Mafia, CIA dirty hands are behind all post-WW II coup plots by the US. The late William Blum documented its actions against sovereign states.
US policies are “worse than (most people) imagine,” he explained, including virtually every conceivable form of lawlessness.
Its actions include instigating wars, waging drone wars, orchestrating color revolutions and coups, interfering in foreign elections, assassinating heads of state like JFK and other targeted officials (like RFK, MLK, and countless others abroad).
The agency helps prop up friendly despots. It’s involved in snatching individuals for “extraordinary rendition” to torture prison black sites it runs globally.
Complicit with organized crime, it engages in illicit drugs trafficking worldwide, gaining billions of dollars of revenues from its actions.
Since the early 1950s, its operatives conducted physically harmful and psychologically crippling mind control experiments — human subjects used as unwitting guinea pigs.
Despite authorization to conduct intrusive spying for counterintelligence purposes abroad, it secretly operates domestically against US citizens.
The Agency’s AR 2-2 regulatory document governing its intelligence activities remained secret until mid-2015.
When revealed, it showed Langley engages in domestic spying and human experimentation without informed consent. Academia, major media, individual reporters, US think tanks and other organizations, as well as the clergy are complicit in its activities.
Under the Patriot Act’s Section 215, it secretly collects financial, medical, and other personal information about US citizens, a flagrant Fourth Amendment violation.
The late Chalmers Johnson, a former CIA consultant, earlier said the agency’s existence is incompatible with democratic principles and the rule of law.
Blum called democracy “America’s deadliest export,” the way it should be abhorrent in the US and other Western countries.
Post-WW II, Washington’s monstrous “war machine has been on auto pilot,” Blum explained, the CIA an integral part of the US imperial agenda.
From the agency’s first coup against democratic Iran in 1953 to its dirty hands all over the Trump regime’s plot against Venezuela, advancing the US imperium depends heavily on unlawful CIA actions, along with Pentagon-waged aggression.
In Moscow with Sergey Lavrov, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said CIA dirty hands are behind Trump regime actions to topple Maduro and eliminate Bolivarian social democracy.
They want to “take control of our country’s (oil and other) natural resources, which belong to the people as a result of a socialist revolution,” he said, adding: “This is what we are trying to prevent. We don’t want the Venezuelan people to suffer.”
“We are witnessing (a) historic struggle” between Bolivarianism and the Trump regime’s aim to destroy it. Ongoing for 20 years, Trump regime hardliners escalated things to possible war based on Big Lies and deception.
Sergey Lavrov believes bellicose US rhetoric won’t result in war on Venezuela, saying:
“Judging by my contacts with my American and other colleagues (sic), including those from Europe and Latin America, I don’t see anyone who would call for a reckless military solution,” adding:
“I hope everyone understands that as far as practical politics is concerned, there can be no military solution because it would mean catastrophe.”
“We strongly oppose military actions in breach of international law, anywhere. Only the UN Security Council can authorize the use of force.”
Besides, (force) can (only legally) be used in response to an aggression against a sovereign state. No options concerning Venezuela imply any such thing.”
Lavrov knows well but didn’t explain that all US wars post-WW II were and remain naked aggression against nations threatening no one.
The rule of law imposes no restraints on its actions, operating by its own rules extrajudicially, how it’s been throughout the post-WW II era, especially post-9/11.
The gloves came off. Anything goes replaced them. Venezuela and Iran are in the eye of their storm — Trump regime hardliners going all-out to topple their governments.
So far, it’s short of military intervention. I don’t share Lavrov’s optimism. The US will do whatever it takes to achieve its objectives.
Its post-WW II wars were waged with so-called “coalition of the willing” partners.
There’s no world community appetite or support for war against Venezuela or Iran, restraining the Trump regime going this far.
I believe proxy war is most likely against either or both countries, using ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other paramilitary forces as imperial foot soldiers.
Hostile US actions against Venezuela and Iran have gone on throughout the history of these republics.
As long as they remain free from US control, imperial toughness to destroy their sovereign independence will continue.
Post-9/11, Dick Cheney said wars won’t end in our lifetimes. For Pentagon commanders, it’s America’s “long war,” what I call forever war, ongoing in multiple theaters.
Republicans and undemocratic Dems support military Keynsianism, countless trillions of dollars spent at the expense of world peace and vital homeland needs gone begging — the human toll of no consequence anywhere.
All sovereign independent governments the US doesn’t control are on its target list for regime change, including Russia and China.
It’s why catastrophic nuclear war may be inevitable — the fate of planet earth and humanity hanging in the balance.
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