Repeat After Me, Protests in Venezuela Good, Protests in France Bad!

Repeat After Me, Protests in Venezuela Good, Protests in France Bad!

Large street protests in both France and Venezuela. Two Presidents with low approval ratings. But only one whose legitimacy has been denied by Western ‘democracies’ and by the French president himself. Just when you thought globalist hypocrisy couldn’t get any worse, it just did. France and Venezuela have both experienced widespread anti-government protests in recent…

The US Aggression Against Venezuela as a Diagnostic Tool

The US Aggression Against Venezuela as a Diagnostic Tool

The Neocons never cease to amaze me and their latest stunt with Venezuela falls into this bizarre category of events which are both absolutely unthinkable and simultaneously absolutely predictable. This apparent logical contradiction is the direct result of a worldview and mindset which is, I believe, unique to the Neocons: a mix of imperial hubris…

Trump Will Need Saudi Help to Complete the Coup in Venezuela

Trump Will Need Saudi Help to Complete the Coup in Venezuela

The success of Trump’s sanctions against Venezuela hinges on the Saudi willingness to cooperate with his administration. However, such cooperation is far from certain. A crucial element in the neoconservative crusade against Venezuela is the sanction program, designed to block the legitimate government from selling Venezuelan oil on the global market. For once, the mainstream media has no doubts about the…

The Venezuelan Coup and Gilets Jaunes: Great-Power Politics In a Multipolar World Order

The Venezuelan Coup and Gilets Jaunes: Great-Power Politics In a Multipolar World Order

The protests seen in France and the interference in the domestic politics of Venezuela highlight Western double standards, which stand in contrast to the respect for international law maintained by China, India and Russia. In France on November 17, 2018, hundreds of thousands of citizens, angered by the diminishing quality of their lives, the social…

Bolsonaro Scandal Puts Brazil on Edge as Farmers Eye Amazon Forests

Bolsonaro Scandal Puts Brazil on Edge as Farmers Eye Amazon Forests

A specter haunts the Brazilian elites. His name is Lula – the former president and for the past nine months one of the world’s most notorious political prisoners, given his enormous popularity and the controversy over his conviction and jailing. Brazil, until recently a leader of the Global South, BRICS member and eighth largest economy…

Trump’s Trying to Take Down the “Troika of Tyranny”

Trump’s Trying to Take Down the “Troika of Tyranny”

Bolton’s description of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua as a “Troika of Tyranny” a few months ago was a declaration of Hybrid War against the last three geopolitically relevant multipolar countries in the hemisphere, and now Trump’s tasked himself with taking down these states by the end of 2019 in order to facilitate the construction of…