#Venezuela #RegimeChange: Will #Washington Unseat President #Maduro?

By Global Research News

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Much has been said about the civil unrest in Venezuela which is spearheaded by the US-engineered opposition groups plotted to impose a ‘regime change’ and oust the incumbent president. Who compose these opposition groups and how strong are they to unseat a democratically elected leader? Read our selected articles below.

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Venezuela: Reactionary Coup in the Making, Media Disinformation, The Attitude of the Left
By Claudio Katz, July 30, 2017
The Right lacks the military force used in the past to return to government. But it is trying to recreate such intervention by staging skirmishes at military barracks, setting fire to police stations or marching on military headquarters.

US Plotting to Topple Venezuela’s Government
By Stephen Lendman, July 29, 2017
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin represents US imperial lawlessness. Claiming the Trump administration “will not ignore the Maduro regime’s ongoing efforts to undermine democracy, freedom, and the rule of law” turned truth on its head.

Countdown to War on Venezuela

A #Corrupted #View of #Reality in the #WesternMedia

By Global Research News

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Below is a selection of recent articles which bring to the forefront the process of media disinformation which supports a corrupt and criminal political agenda.

In the words of award winning investigative reporter Robert Parry (see article below):

“The mainstream U.S. media is congratulating itself on its courageous defiance of President Trump and its hard-hitting condemnations of Russia, but the press seems to have forgotten that its proper role within the U.S. democratic structure is not to slant stories one way or another but to provide objective information for the American people.”

What this suggests is that more than ever we need to stand together to continuously question politics, false statements, and the suppression of independent thought.

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The Assassination of Seth Rich, the DNC Emails and the Russia Probe
By Caitlin Johnstone, May 25, 2017
This is unsurprisingly getting zero mainstream attention, but all the Russia hysteria that has engulfed American discourse has actually placed all terrestrial life in grave danger. Dr. Stephen Cohen, easily the foremost American authority on US-Russia relations, said in an interview with RT last week that this may be the most dangerous that tensions between the two nations have ever been in his lifetime. Cohen was born in 1938.

Never Mind the Real Russia, This Is All About Trump
By David Swanson and Ann Garrison, May 25, 2017
I jumped in and said, “Yes, you’re absolutely right. Get rid of these statues. There are some other reasons, too, to get rid of these statues. They’re war statues. The only statues we have here in Charlottesville are war statues. There are no peace statues. There are no anything else statues. There are no civil rights statues, no women’s rights statues, no labor movement statues.

Truth Has Become Un-American

#Surveillance, #HumanitarianInterventionism, and #MediaDisinformation in #AmericanPolitics

By Global Research News

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-surveillance-humanitarian-interventionism-and-media-disinformation-in-american-politics/5504575

 

SELECTED ARTICLES:

Hearings in Secret: Congress, FISA and Warrantless Surveillance

By Binoy Kampmark, January 29 2016

It should seem axiomatic to Congressional credibility that the people’s representatives should have hearings

Syria: Media Disinformation and Corporate Media’s “Independent Bloggers”

Syria: 

Media Disinformation, War Propaganda 

and the Corporate Media’s “Independent Bloggers”

By Phil Greaves

A glaring example of one of the major pitfalls emerging in supposed “new media” has arisen during the conflict in Syria. Most notably in the form of YouTube blogger, and self-proclaimed weapons expert Eliot Higgins, aka “Brown Moses”. The clique of highly ideological analysts, think-tankers and journalists Higgins’ regularly works with and consults – alongside the dubiously funded western NGO’s he receives payment from – provide a stark indication as to the factions within the corporate media circus this supposedly independent blogger is operating in unison with.

Higgins has provided the western corporate media apparatus the opportunity to present its war-propaganda as having a “new media” facade of impartial legitimacy. Yet it is the same capitalistic “old media” apparatus endlessly promoting his work – consisting of scouring Jihadist war-porn and agitprop on YouTube for tidbits that may bolster corporate media narratives – as an invaluable tool in tracking human rights abuses, arms trafficking, and risk-free coverage of fast evolving conflicts. Yet contrary to the innocuous portrayal of an unemployed YouTube addict in Leicester becoming a credible analyst of a conflict in the Middle East; Higgins’ blog has been thrust into the foreground not through the benefit of impartiality or public appraisals, but through corporate “benefactors” with vested interest operating alongside the same “old media” organisations and stenographers.