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An Open Letter to the People of the United States from President Nicolas Maduro
By Nicolas Maduro
I address these words to the people of the United States of America to warn of the gravity and danger that intend some sectors in the White House to invade Venezuela with unpredictable consequences for my country and for the entire American region. Read more...

Venezuela: From Oil Proxy to the Bolivarian Movement and Sabotage. Abysmal Poverty under US Proxy Rule (1918-1998)
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner
We discuss the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, its history as an oil proxy nation since the discovery of oil in 1918, through successive dictatorships, coups d’etats, a fake nationalization of the oil industry, the Chavista movement and destabilization through financial warfare, with a special emphasis on Michel Chossudovsky’s personal experience there conducting a study on poverty in 1975 as Advisor to the Venezuelan Minister of Planning. Read more...

US Influence in Venezuela Is Part of a Two Centuries-old Imperial Plan
By Shane Quinn

Root causes of the ongoing crises in Venezuela may be increasingly apparent, as the situation in the country reaches a perilous state. Venezuela contains one fifth (20%) of the planet’s known oil reserves, equal to the combined quantities of Iran and Iraq, while leaving Saudi Arabia trailing in second place. Read more...

A Military Coup in Venezuela? Not Without the Military’s Support
By Prof. Ociel Alí López
The probable outcomes range from a military intervention led by the United States in alliance with Colombia and Brazil to a prolonged stay in power for Maduro to the possibility of a Russian and Chinese intervention or a military coup. In the following text, we will analyze each of these potential outcomes. Read more...

Hackers Take Over Venezuelan Embassy Sites in Several Countries
By Telesur
Venezuelan embassy officials in Argentina condemned Thursday’s cyber attack after hackers commandeered the ministry’s website and published a statement in support of the self-declared “interim president,” Juan Guaido. Read more...

No Coup! No War! Hands Off Venezuela!
By Eduardo Correa Senior and James Patrick Jordan
The whole world has been shocked by the words on the yellow tablet displayed “inadvertently” during a White House briefing by National Security Advisor John Bolton. The jaundiced man scribbled on his jaundiced papers: “Afghanistan -> Welcome the Talks,” followed underneath by, “5,000 troops to Colombia.” Read more...

US-led Military Coup in Venezuela Modelled on Chile, 1973?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While the US for the moment is not contemplating direct military intervention, both Colombia and Brazil are slated to intervene militarily, if required, in Venezuela’s border regions, doing the “dirty work” on behalf of the Pentagon. Read more...

A “Twelve Step Method” to Conduct Regime Change: From Chile (1973) to Venezuela (2019)
By tricontinental
Most of the Global South remains trapped by the structures put in place by colonialism. Colonial boundaries encircled states that had the misfortune of being single commodity producers – either sugar for Cuba or oil for Venezuela. Read more...

War after War: Will the US “Pull Out” of Afghanistan to Strike a New War Elsewhere?
By Masud Wadan
In 2003, two years after the US invaded Afghanistan, the US-led conflict in Iraq distracted international attention from Afghanistan that hurtled the nation further towards crises as a result of the US turning its back to focus its entire heed to Iraq’s war. Read more...

France – Macron Does Not Fulfill His Campaign Promises of “Government of People for the People”
By Peter Koenig and Fars News Agency
Commenting on Macron’s taxing policy, former World Bank Economist says “he transforms public wealth into private wealth and shifts it upwards” by “slashing taxes for the rich, and imposing new taxes on poor and middle-class citizens, reducing pensions, unemployment, health benefits, etc.” Read more...