Max Blumenthal (journalist van The Grayzone) in feite gearresteerd voor berichtgeving over belagen Venezolaanse ambassade in VS

De VS is  een politiestaat, waar zelfs
journalisten worden gearresteerd op valse gronden, zoals nu Max Blumenthal van The Grayzone, terwijl er geen schijn
van bewijs is tegen hem als zou hij geweld hebben gebruikt
tegen een Venezolaans oppositielid…….. Zelf zegt Blumenthal over
deze zaak dat men duidelijk zaken fabriceert in een grote campagne
waarin men journalisten politiek vervolgt, journalisten die tegen de zienswijze van
de Trump administratie zijn, waar vooral de journalisten van de alternatieve media het moeten ontgelden, terwijl Trump m.n. veel commentaar heeft op de reguliere (massa-) media……

In april
en mei dit jaar werd de Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd door gewelddadige rechtse
activisten, voor een groot deel van Venezolaanse komaf en aangeduid
als de ‘Venezolaanse oppositie……’ De politie greep niet in bij het
geweld dat deze figuren gebruikten, sterker nog: i.p.v. de ambassade
veilig te stellen, werden medestanders die het personeel in de
ambassade voedsel en drinken wilden aanreiken mede door de politie
tegengehouden, een lid van Veterans for Peace (VFP), Gerry Condon, werd zelfs
gearresteerd daar hij een komkommer aan een medewerker van de ambassade
wilde geven……  (voor het gebruikte geweld zijn
meerdere video’s als bewijs te vinden)…….

Het
arrestatiebevel voor Blumenthal is 5 maanden oud en werd eerder
ingetrokken, vreemd genoeg is dit bevel nu plotseling weer van
kracht…… Niet vreemd dat het arrestatiebevel eerder werd
ingetrokken, immers de aanklacht is een volledig valse, daar
Blumenthal nooit geweld heeft gebruikt bij dit gebeuren…..

Het is
een schande dat de Trump administratie heeft gesteld dat het
ambassadepersoneel dat belaagd werd, illegaal in de ambassade
aanwezig was, daar de VS de tot voor die tijd vooral onbekende Guaidó, zonder
enige wettige legalisering, tot president van Venezuela heeft
benoemd, alsof de VS de eindverantwoordelijkheid heeft in Venezuela…… De VS begaat hiermee een grote internationale misdaad, immers dit is een ongeoorloofde inmenging in binnenlandse aangelegenheden van een soeverein land….. Bovendien is ambassadepersoneel politiek onschendbaar, ongelofelijk dan ook dat Canada en de EU als een stel imbecielen achter de VS agressie staan en die agressie daadwerkelijk steunen….

Het geteisem dat onder Guaidó doet alsof het de wettige machthebber is in Venezuela, hebben een ex-advocaat van Exxon aangewezen als ambassadeur, deze figuur, Carlos Vecchio was degene die de zogenaamde oppositie voor de Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington ophitste…… Vecchio wordt door de VN en het grootste deel van de landen niet erkend als ambassadeur van Venezuela  (Exxon hoopt na afzetting van Maduro de oliewinning in Venezuela voor een groot deel in handen te krijgen en Guaidó heeft al laten weten dat VS oliemaatschappijen de vrije hand krijgen als hij het daadwerkelijk voor het zeggen krijgt in Venezuela…..)

Bij dit alles moet niet vergeten worden dat de illegale sancties die de VS Venezuela heeft opgelegd al aan meer dan 40.000 mensen het leven heeft gekost….. Alleen daarvoor al zou de VS moeten worden vervolgd door het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC)……

Over vervolging gesproken: de VS
zou evenzo vervolgd moeten worden voor het niet beschermen van
ambassadepersoneel en mensen die dit personeel in en buiten de
ambassade hebben bijgestaan, de VS is hiermee (en laat ik de volgende
woorden nu eens gebruiken:) een rode lijn overgegaan….. Het is een
wonder dat na deze gewelddadige belegering van de ambassade, een
aantal landen hun ambassades in de VS niet hebben gesloten, immers de kans dat
deze smerige gang van zaken vaker gebruikt zal worden door de VS is bepaald niet ondenkbaar, bijvoorbeeld
tegen de ambassades van Noord-Korea, Iran, China, Rusland en nog een
aantal landen waartegen de VS agressief tekeer gaat, of dit nu in
woord is of dat het gaat om dreigen met militair geweld…….

De VS is
een gevaar voor de wereld en dat gevaar groeit met de dag, maar wat
wil je met een psychopathische gek aan het bewind, een idioot die ook
nog eens de vinger in de buurt houdt van de rode knop waarmee
kernraketten gelanceerd kunnen worden (Trump zei net aan het bewind in
2017, dat hij niet begrijpt waarom de VS geen kernwapens gebruikt,
terwijl ze deze wel op voorraad heeft….)…..

Het
volgende artikel waarin Ben Norton dieper op deze zaak ingaat, werd
gepubliceerd op The Greyzone (hij stelt o.a. volkomen terecht dat
 wanneer de Venezolaanse overheid een journalist op dezelfde gronden zou arresteren, de rapen in de VS en de rest van het westen overgaar zouden zijn geweest…. Benieuwd ook of de Nederlandse pers zich hier druk om zal maken, zoals ze dat een paar dagen geleden deed over een Nederlandse collega…. De vraag stellen is haar beantwoorden: nee dus!):

US
POLICE STATE
VENEZUELA

This
charge is 100% false’: Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested
months after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence

Max Blumenthal Arrested

The
Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges
after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC
embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider
campaign of political persecution.

By
Ben Norton

October 28, 2019

Max
Blumenthal, the editor of the news site The Grayzone, was arrested on
the morning of October 25 on a fabricated charge related to the siege
of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC that took place between
April and May.

A
team of DC police officers appeared at Blumenthal’s door at just
after 9 AM, demanding entry and threatening to break his door down. A
number of officers had taken positions on the side of his home as
though they were prepared for a SWAT-style raid.

Blumenthal
was hauled into a police van and ultimately taken to DC central jail,
where he was held for two days in various cells and cages. He was
shackled by his hands and ankles for over five hours in one such cage
along with other inmates. His request for a phone call was denied by
DC police and corrections officers, effectively denying him access to
the outside world.

Blumenthal
was informed that he was accused of simple assault by a Venezuelan
opposition member. He declared the charge completely baseless.

This
charge is a 100 percent false, fabricated, bogus, untrue, and
malicious lie,” Blumenthal declared. “It is clearly part of a
campaign of political persecution designed to silence me and the

The
Grayzone for our factual journalism exposing the deceptions,
corruption and violence of the far-right Venezuelan opposition.”

The
arrest warrant was five months old. According to an individual
familiar with the case, the warrant for Blumenthal’s arrest was
initially rejected. Strangely, this false charge was revived months
later without the defendant’s knowledge.

If
the government had at least told me I had a warrant I could have
voluntarily surrendered and appeared at my own arraignment. I have
nothing to fear because I’m completely innocent of this bogus
charge,” Blumenthal stated. “Instead, the federal government
essentially enlisted the DC police to SWAT me, ensuring that I would
be subjected to an early morning raid and then languish in prison for
days without even the ability to call an attorney.”

Background
to the embassy siege

In
April and May, Washington-backed Venezuelan coup leaders began taking
over properties in the United States that belong to the
internationally recognized government of Venezuela’s democratically
elected 
President
Nicolás Maduro
,
in violation of international law.

A
group of activists responded by keeping a vigil inside the Venezuelan
embassy in Washington, DC, in order to protect it from an illegal
seizure by the US-supported coup leaders. The activists formed what
they called the Embassy Protection Collective. The internationally
recognized Venezuelan government gave them permission to stay in its
embassy, which is its own sovereign territory under international
law.

In
response, hordes of violent right-wing activists who support the
Venezuelan opposition launched a de facto 24/7 siege of the embassy,
preventing people, food, and supplies from entering the building.

The
Grayzone reporter 
Anya
Parampil
 and
Alex Rubinstein, a contributor to The Grayzone,

were embedded
in the embassy
 with
several peace activists.

Parampil
and journalists including Blumenthal documented the right-wing mobs
lashing out with racist and sexist invective as well as violence at
Venezuelan solidarity activists who gathered outside the embassy to
show support for the protectors.

Alex Rubinstein

@RealAlexRubi

Replying to @RealAlexRubi

The Secret Service is endangering the public with its dereliction of duty https://twitter.com/bratatouillle/status/1125922173649133568 

meow mix@bratatouillle

MPD / Secret service standing by as strobe lights are shined across an active road #HandsOffVenezeula #embassyprotectioncollective

Alex Rubinstein

@RealAlexRubi

WATCH: Escualidos attack and choke a supporter of the Embassy Protection Collective trying to deliver food. The Secret Service REFUSED to arrest the assailant

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This
ginned up claim… is simply false’

Court
documents indicate the false charge of simple assault stems from
Blumenthal’s participation in a delivery of food and sanitary
supplies to peace activists and journalists inside the Venezuelan
embassy on May 8, 2019.

The
charge was manufactured by a Venezuelan opposition member who was
among those laying siege to the embassy in a sustained bid to starve
out the activists inside.

I
was not party to any violent actions around the Venezuelan embassy,”
Blumenthal reiterated.

This
ginned up claim of simple assault is simply false.”

According
to court documents, Ben Rubinstein, the brother of journalist Alex
Rubinstein, also participated in the non-violent and legal food
delivery. Rubinstein was arrested over 12 hours later after the food
delivery by Secret Service police officers.

He
spent 20 hours in jail, alongside Gerry Condon, president of Veterans
for Peace, who was 
arrested
after being brutalized
 by
Secret Service officers for attempting to toss a cucumber inside an
embassy window.

The
opposition members made up these lies about Max and I know they’re
lying, and they are obviously using the government and police as
tools to get revenge,” Ben Rubinstein told The Grayzone.

Retaliation
for The Grayzone’s reporting on the violent Venezuelan opposition

Max
Blumenthal reported extensively from outside the Venezuelan embassy
in May. He 
filed
a story
 explaining
how “the pro-coup mob outside turned violent, physically assaulting
embassy protectors, and hurling racist, sexist and homophobic abuse
at others.”

Blumenthal
documented an opposition activist breaking into and subsequently
vandalizing the embassy, in violation of international law. He also
reported on opposition members destroying the embassy’s security
cameras, while the authorities stood idly by.

Max Blumenthal

@MaxBlumenthal

To the left of the fascist is “Mohamed,” the right-wing vigilante who broke into the embassy two days ago and ransacked an entire room: https://twitter.com/realalexrubi/status/1123536909870010368?s=21 @DCPoliceDept has taken no action beyond aiding and abetting this squalid mob https://twitter.com/PeterRBolton/status/1124026418600521729 

Peter Bolton@PeterRBolton

Today outside the Venezuelan Embassy I witnessed a pro-coup demonstrator call a female Code Pink member a “fucking little bitch”. #HandsOffVenezuela #Codepink #VenezuelanEmbassy #embassyprotectioncollective

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The
Venezuelan coup regime’s supposed ambassador to the United States,
Carlos Vecchio, who is not recognized by the United Nations and the
vast majority of the international community, helped to lead this
aggressive mob as it besieged the embassy.

The
Grayzone’s Anya Parampil 
exposed
Vecchio to be a former lawyer for the oil corporation Exxon
.
The Grayzone has documented his close links to the US government, and
has reported at length on 
accusations
of corruption
.
Vecchio was a regular presence outside the DC embassy, appearing with
his gaggle to stage manage the situation.

The
Grayzone has also published numerous 
exposés
on Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó
,
who was selected by the US government to be the so-called “interim
president” in Caracas, detailing his extensive ties to Washington
and his notorious corruption.

Blumenthal
was arrested literally hours after The Grayzone published an 
article
on USAID paying the salaries of Guaidó’s team
 as
they lobbied the US government.

I
am firmly convinced that this case is part of a wider campaign of
political persecution using the legal system to shut down our factual
investigative journalism about the coup against Venezuela and the
wider policy of economic warfare and regime change waged by the Trump
administration,” Blumenthal stated.

If
this had happened to a journalist in Venezuela, every Western human
rights NGO and news wire would be howling about Maduro’s
authoritarianism. It will be revealing to see how these same elements
react to a clear-cut case of political repression in their own
backyard.

Ben
Norton

Ben
Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker. He is the assistant
editor of The Grayzone, and the producer of the 
Moderate
Rebels
 podcast,
which he co-hosts with editor Max Blumenthal. His website
is 
BenNorton.com and
he tweets at @
BenjaminNorton.

=====================================

Zie ook:

Venezolaanse ambassade Washington gewelddadig ontruimd

Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland

Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….

VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen

Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela

VS gaat door met uithongeren Venezolaanse volk >> de westerse wereld negeert deze afschuwelijke oorlogsmisdaad

Venezuela: partij van Guaidó corrupt, zelfs al voor deze enige regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt

Reuters houdt rapport tegen over 40.000 Venezolaanse doden door VS sancties

Guaidó wil 4 miljoen Venezolaanse paspoorten om o.a. een grote achterban voor hem te vormen

Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence

Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda

Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………‘ (waarin een Nederlander die 15 jaar lang in Venezuela ondernemer was, met ‘een iets ander verhaal’ dan Koopmans)

Edwin Koopman (VPRO Bureau Buitenland) over Venezolaanse verkiezingen met anti-Maduro propaganda bij de ‘onafhankelijke NOS…..


Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk

Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuela military, warnings to judges

Venezuela: VS zal desnoods militair geweld gebruiken om een vreedzame overgang van regime te bewerkstelligen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt

Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers

Venezuela: humanitaire hulp stunt van de VS ingegeven om de kruistocht tegen Maduro een versnelling te geven

Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten

Trump en Bolton bedreigen openlijk de familie van Venezolaanse militairen

Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela

Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt

BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)

Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok

Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia

Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie

Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt

Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank

Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..

VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………

Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote

10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela

Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

Honduras 10 jaar na de VS coup: het verzet is springlevend en de repressie groot

10 jaar
na de door Hillary Clinton en de CIA opgezette bloedige coup (28 juni 2009) is
het intussen al meer dan 60 dagen onrustig in het land, dit als
reactie op het plan om ook op gezondheidszorg en onderwijs te
bezuinigen….. Middels massaal verzet, ook van de beroepskrachten,
is deze bezuiniging van de baan, maar het verzet blijft doorgaan daar de ellende groot is onder het gewone volk, ook
al is er gevaar voor arrestatie waarbij mensen in op VS leest
gebouwde extra beveiligde gevangenissen worden opgesloten……

De internationale neoliberale uitzuigorganisatie IMF heeft een akkoord bereikt met de
regering van Honduras over privatisering van staatsbedrijven, het
programma dat hiervoor wordt gevolgd is door sommigen als ‘neoliberalisme op steroïden’ weggezet….

De vrouw
van een criticaster van dat programma vertelt dat haar man in de
gevangenis zit, NB betaald middels de Hondurese veiligheidsbelasting,
een belastingsturing die werd gesteund door de regisseur van de coup in 2009, hare
kwaadaardigheid Hillary Clinton, destijds minister van BuZa onder
Obama, waarbij de politie en leger, plus de geheime diensten
kapitalen extra kregen, terwijl de rest van de departementen in feite
moesten bezuinigen, of rond zien te komen van een veel te laag
budget….. De gevangenis waarin de bewuste man vastzit en die op VS leest
is gebouwd, werd betaald uit die veiligheidsbelasting…….

Het
neoliberalisme heeft ervoor gezorgd dat een groot aantal mensen in
diepe armoede is beland, niet voor niets dat velen het land
uitvluchten, als ze dat al niet uit angst voor overheid en
doodseskaders hebben gedaan………

Lees het
volgende ontluisterende verhaal en lees de interviews (via link) en
begrijp waarom zoveel Hondurese mensen het land zijn ontvlucht,
mensen worden vermoord door doodseskaders die niet zelden uit overheidsfunctionarissen bestaan en zoals al vaak vertoond in
Latijns-Amerika: ‘mensen verdwijnen……’ Overigens ook drugsbendes zorgen voor grote ellende en vermoorden mensen als waren het insecten….. Bij de protesten die
hebben geleid tot het stopzetten van de bezuinigingen op onderwijs en
gezondheidszorg zijn een groot aantal studenten neergeschoten, als gevolg daarvan is een aantal van hen overleden……

In het hierna volgende artikel spreekt de schrijver over de neoliberale agenda van ‘president’ Hernandez (JOH), die illegaal een tweede termijn dient met steun van de VS, echter gezien het verhaal kan je niet anders concluderen dan dat we hier met een fascistisch beleid te maken hebben……

Dat de
mensenrechten met grote platvoeten worden getreden, leek me aanvankelijk overbodig te melden. Alexander Rubinstein van MintPress News(MPN) is de schrijver van het volgende artikel, ook is hij de
fotograaf die de beelden maakte van een veel gebruikt ‘protestinstrument’ in Honduras: graffiti op
muren en deuren:

A
NEOLIBERAL AGENDA

The
US Got Scared” Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras

Members
of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup –
and the Neoliberalism it brought with it – have impacted their
country.

by Alexander
Rubinstein

Honduras Coup

EGUCIGALPA,
HONDURAS — 
MintPress News went to Honduras and
spoke with a number of leaders of the Honduran resistance amid a
66-day uprising over a neoliberal austerity deal reached between the
government as the country marked the 10-year anniversary of the
U.S.-backed coup d’etat.

Last
Thursday, the Honduran government passed a privatization law, the
run-up to which had triggered uprisings challenging the mandate of
President Juan Orlando Hernandez and protesting the implementation of
a privatization deal reached with the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) — a deal kept secret until this week. The battle against it
was fought tooth and nail, with average Hondurans following the lead
of healthcare and education activists.

MintPress has
obtained a copy of the law. The document details the government’s
plan to sever 6 billion lempiras ($242 million USD), and includes
instituting a maximum wage on public sector contract “technical and
professional” workers amounting to $2,426 a month, but promises not
to cut healthcare and education. An agreement with the IMF over the
state-run electrical company remains in question.

What
is known is that the deal consists of more of the same neoliberal
remedies that have already devastated Honduran civil society. One
person interviewed by MintPress called the approach
“neoliberalism on steroids.” And she would know: her husband is a
political prisoner sitting in a U.S.-designed maximum security
facility. The prison was paid for under the Honduran Security Tax, a
program backed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that
bankrolls the military and police while the rest of the government is
gutted.

Honduras Coup

Photo | Alexander Rubinstein

Adrienne
Pine, a Professor of Anthropology at American University in
Washington and expert on Honduras, told 
MintPress:

The
fact that education and healthcare were left out is a pretty big win
for the movement because that is what they were planning to cut, and
the healthcare and education workers who have led this struggle
against this have prevented those cuts even though there has been
this very radical reduction in public spending.”

On
May 6, the IMF 
announced it
had reached a “staff level agreement” that was believed to be
targeted towards healthcare, education and more. That same day,
protests started breaking out. 

But
as news emerged on Tuesday of the deal becoming law, the IMF also
announced its approval of a plan to restructure the public electric
company and said it would give the Honduran government $311 million
in loans over the next two years. Around the same time, a fresh
corruption scandal was unfolding at the electric company. Professor
Pine explained to MintPress:

ENEE
[the Honduran public electric company] has already been subject to
privatization measures over the past few years that have
significantly weakened it. Problems in the ENEE have to do, at their
root, with the privatization itself, but right now it looks like the
IMF and the U.S. are justifying the privatization by using examples
of corruption at the agency rather than addressing the underlying
structural issues.” 

Honduras Coup


Photo
| Alexander Rubinstein

The
resistance in Honduras fought off further privatization of health
care and education in a struggle that left piles of students shot and
scores of people killed, as well as resulting in the political
imprisonment of a young man who is accused of fueling a 
fire
at the U.S. Embassy in the capital
.
Romel Valdemar Herrera Portillo, 23, sits in a military-run prison,
designed by the United States, called La Tova alongside political
prisoners Edwin Espinal and Raúl Álvarez. 

In
this article, MintPress will feature exclusive
interviews not just with leaders of the Honduran resistance but also
with people who have been directly affected by the coup and all that
it has brought.’

Ten
years of resistance

The
history of the past decade in Honduras is among the most telling
examples of U.S.-backed regime change in the Western Hemisphere. A
powder keg for the migrant crisis that popped up under Barack Obama
and worsened under Donald Trump, the military operation that deposed
leftist reformer Manuel Zelaya from the presidency informs Honduran
life at every level today.

MintPress
News
 traveled to Honduras around the 10-year anniversary of
the coup d’etat, speaking to a range of leaders of the resistance
against the National Party, which has dominated politics in the
country since the coup. The National Party is led by President Juan
Orlando Hernandez (JOH), a widely reviled neoliberal leader believed
to be involved in drug trafficking, electoral fraud and death
squads. 

The
post-coup neoliberal policies ramped up under JOH’s reign have
rendered Honduras a playground for the business elite and drug
cartels and brought the poverty rate to levels unrivaled in the
region. Disappearances and lethal violence from police, private
mercenaries and drug cartels have also skyrocketed.

Honduras Coup


Photo
| Alexander Rubinstein


Revelations
that JOH has been under investigation by the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) since 2013, according to U.S. federal court
documents released this year, came as little surprise to many in the
resistance; JOH’s brother is himself in prison in the U.S. on drug
trafficking charges. But it did pour salt on fresh wounds, as the
United States backed JOH’s re-election in 2017, even though the
Honduran constitution explicitly forbids second terms. 

While
in Honduras, 
MintPress examined
the effects of the coup from multiple angles, including: cuts to
education; repression against students and teachers; cuts to the
healthcare sector; the political development of Hondurans; electoral
fraud; death squads linked to big business; the conditions of
political prisoners and the plight of human rights workers; and the
effects of neoliberalism on the healthcare sector.
 
MintPress also
looked at the 
role
of creative culture
 in
the resistance.

As MintPress previously reported,
staff journalist Alex Rubinstein was detained immediately upon
landing in the capital, Tegucigalpa. It was “a testament to the
government’s unease” around the anniversary of the coup and in
the face of more than 50 days of 
active
uprising
.

Alex Rubinstein
@RealAlexRubi

I was just let out of detainment at the airport in the capital of Honduras. They didn’t explain why the detained me, just asked a bunch of questions.

Stay tuned to @MintPressNews as we approach the 10yr anniversary of the US-backed coup in this country. Much more to come

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MintPress spent
nearly a week in the capital, Tegucigalpa, a city that is both
militarized and yet ruled by crime at night, a dynamic that makes the
often cozy relationship between the state and organized crime
palpable throughout much of the city. The prevalence of anti-JOH and
anti-National Party graffiti appears as a glimmering of an uprising
in a city otherwise divided into quarters of poverty and opulence:
from poor, Libre strongholds like El Carrizal to
areas where Burger King and Little Caesar’s are second and third
only to Juan Orlando. United States colonialism is, basically,
omnipresent. American fast-food restaurants, mostly a luxury for the
country’s tiny middle class, operate tax-free in the country, while
those who can’t afford a Big Mac get squeezed on their electricity,
for example.

The
streets of Tegucigalpa tell the story of the resistance, to a degree.
One tag in the city refers to the use of graffiti as a means of
communicating a message: “When justice is silenced, the walls
speak.” 

Honduras Coup
Photos
| Alexander Rubinstein


What
follows are excerpts of MintPress News interviews
from a range of leaders of the resistance against JOH. 

Lees het vervolg 

======================================

Zie ook:

BBC volkomen krom over de vluchtelingen uit Honduras die wel degelijk door Trump met geweld worden bedreigd

Door VS gesteunde bewind in Honduras heeft de staat van beleg afgekondigd……..

VS heeft Hondurese speciale eenheden getraind die protesten tegen een waterkrachtcentrale gewelddadig hebben neergeslagen……

Hillary Clinton mede verantwoordelijk voor moord op Berta Cáceres………..

Hondurese activiste ontvoerd en vermoord (alweer…), met instemming van de VS………

Berta Cáceres voorvechter gelijke rechten en milieuactivist vermoord in Honduras

Bolton geeft toe dat de VS een fascistisch beleid voert……

Venezuela: partij van Guaidó corrupt, zelfs al voor deze enige regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt

In
het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Alexander Rubinstein beschrijft
hij hoe de partij van Guaidó, een nog voor dit jaar onbeduidende oppositiepartij, nu al
wordt geplaagd door verregaande corruptie…. Dit terwijl deze partij
door de VS en de rest van het westen werd gebombardeerd tot de
grootste oppositiepartij en daarmee werd Guaidó gebombardeerd tot
oppositieleider……

Zoals gezegd: voordat
de VS en haar hielenlikkende westerse partners Guaidó tot interim president uitriepen (alsof de VS, Canada, de EU en anderen daartoe gemachtigd zijn…..), was deze figuur bij het grootste deel van het
Venezolaanse volk niet bekend….

Na
alle leugens over Maduro die zijn volk zou uithongeren door zijn
‘desastreuze economisch beleid’, waarbij men hem zelfs beschuldigde
van corruptie (zonder enig bewijs), blijkt nu dat de partij van
Guaidó, Voluntad Popular (‘de wil van het volk’)
 zich nu al schuldig maakt aan grootschalige corruptie, terwijl het geen regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt…..*

Lees
het volgende artikel, eerder op MintPress News en door mij
overgenomen van Anti-Media, waarin Rubinstein o.a. schrijft over het
popconcert (behoorlijk mislukt overigens) door Richard Branson georganiseerd en dat net over de Venezolaanse grens in Colombia. De
opbrengsten werden gebruikt voor o.a. hotels, prostituees, verdovende
middelen, dure kleding en auto’s….. Opvallend trouwens hoe weinig
reguliere westerse mediaorganen dit nieuws brachten, e.e.a. vooral in een paar regels
ver weg in de krant……

Tja,
als je al maanden leugens verkondigt en Guaidó afschildert als een
held, is het natuurlijk niet leuk om te zien dat de partij van deze
fascistische psychopaat nu al is verwikkeld in corruptie…. Men zegt
nu als verdediging dat het maar een paar figuren uit de partij van
Guaidó zijn, echter reken maar dat dit weer het spreekwoordelijke
topje van de ijsberg is, gezien de manipulaties en het enorme aantal leugens…….

Het volgende artikel werd geschreven door Alexander Rubinstein, werd eerder gepubliceerd op MintPress News en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

Massive
Embezzlement Scandal Threatens Juan Guaido’s Political Future

(oplichter Guaidó misbruikt zijn kind voor politieke doeleinden……)

June
18, 2019 at 2:54 pm

Written
by 
Alexander
Rubinstein

(MPN) — The
political party of Juan Guaido — Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) —
was never all that popular to begin with. The 
sixth
largest
 political
party in Venezuela, Popular Will is heavily 
financed by
the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Now,
a recently exposed embezzlement scandal in Colombia risks to further
alienate the party from the Venezuelan people.

What
was supposed to be Guaido’s watershed moment has instead turned out
to be a public-relations failure far worse than his quickly quelled
attempted military coup, which 
MintPress
News
 reported caused
even the 
New
York Times
 to
describe Guaido as “deflated.”

Juan Guaido Embezzlement Feature photo

What
happened in Colombia appears to be so damning that not only is the
Colombian intelligence service leaking documents exposing wrongdoing
by Popular Will representatives appointed by Guaido, but the
Organization of American States (OAS) — which is typically just as
pro-opposition as the Colombian government — has called for an
investigation.

In
tweet issued
June 14 at 10:47 p.m. Venezuela time, Guaido called on his ambassador
to Colombia — whom he had shut out of the aid event — to formally
request an investigation by Colombian authorities, whose
already-existing investigation is the reason the story came out in
the first place. That was more than 
four
hours
 after
Secretary General of the OAS Luis Almagro called for an investigation
that would clarify the “serious charges,” identify those
responsible and effectuate accountability.

But
Guaido had already been well aware of the charges, having dismissed
his appointees who appear to be ringleaders of the embezzlement
scheme. According to the report, he was contacted by the journalist
who exposed the scandal 30 days before the story was published.

What
happened in Cúcuta isn’t staying in Cúcuta

There’s
barely a peep about the scandal in the Western press. A Google News
search for “Juan Guaido scandal” and “Popular Will scandal”
turned up nothing of relevance at the time of this article’s
writing. But on Latin America social media, everyone is buzzing about
it. American journalist Dan Cohen appears to be the first to
highlight the scandal to an English-speaking audience.

It
started with a request from Juan Guaido to billionaire investor
and 
regime-change
enthusiast
 Richard
Branson.

Dan Cohen


@dancohen3000

Associates of Venezuelan coup frontman Juan Guaidó embezzled funds raised in Cúcuta, Colombia for humanitarian aid and lavishly spent it on hotels, nightclubs and expensive clothes. This is a monumental scandal! Great work by @OrlvndoA. https://twitter.com/PanAmPost_es/status/1139651223387344896 

PanAm Post Español

@PanAmPost_es

Enviados de @jguaido se apropian de fondos para ayuda humanitaria en #Colombiahttps://buff.ly/2ZqFjAh  Por @OrlvndoA #14Jun


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The
stated purpose of the concert was to help raise funds for
humanitarian aid and spotlight the economic crisis. At least that’s
how it was billed to Americans. To Venezuela’s upper class, it
was 
touted as
the “trendiest concert of the decade.”

It
was to be a congregation of the elite with the ostensible purpose of
raising funds for the poor.

One
director of Popular Will 
told Vice
News
 in
2014 that “the bulk of the opposition protesters are from the
middle and upper classes and are led by Venezuela’s elite.” The
class character of the opposition has not changed since.

Meanwhile,
USAID was to coordinate the delivery of aid alongside Guaido; and
Elliot Abrams, who in Guatemala used “humanitarian aid” as cover
for the delivery of weapons into the country, is running the White
House’s policies toward Venezuela. And so the aid was widely
criticized, even by the International Red Cross, as politicized. By
others, it was called a Trojan Horse.

The
concert was held in Colombia across a bridge linking the country to
Venezuela. International media had claimed Venezuelan President
Nicholas Maduro had the bridge shut down to prevent the delivery of
aid, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded that the “Maduro
regime must LET THE AID REACH THE STARVING PEOPLE.” But the bridge,
in fact, has 
never
been opened
 for
use.

Nonetheless,
Richard Branson sought to raise $100 million and promised that Guiado
“will be coming to the other side of the bridge with maybe a
million of his supporters.” In the end, it was a little more than
200,000 who came.

Meanwhile,
Guaido told the President of Colombia, Ivan Duque, that more than
1,450 soldiers had defected from the military to join them. But that
figure was also inflated. A new report by PanAmPress, a
Miami-based libertarian newspaper, reveals that it was just 700. “You
can count on your fingers the number of decent soldiers who are
there,” one local told the outlet.

Despite
the low turnout, organizers lived it up in Colombia. Representatives
from Popular Will, which rejects the socialist leadership of
Venezuela, found themselves living like socialites across the border.

There
were earlier signs of excess and debauchery. One Popular Will
representative was hospitalized and his assistant found dead after
overdosing while taking drugs with prostitutes, although Senator
Marco Rubio (R-FL) claims they were poisoned.

celine and julie go bowling 🌈@MissPavIichenko

FyreFest walked so Richard Branson’s aid concert could run. https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1139907563103891457 

Alex Rubinstein

@RealAlexRubi

Replying to @RealAlexRubi

Turns out I extremely called this one. The @richardbranson aide concert in Colombia was rife with debauchery & excess:

– $150,000+ per night on hotels & nightclubs

– Prostitutes

– Luxurious dinners, fancy drinks

– High end clothe shopping spreeshttps://es.panampost.com/orlando-avendano/2019/06/14/enviados-de-guaido-se-apropian-de-fondos-para-ayuda-humanitaria-en-colombia/amp/?__twitter_impression=true 


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The
inflated soldier count meant more funds for the organizers, who were
charged with putting them up in hotel rooms. Guaido’s “army was
small but at this point it had left a very bad impression in Cucuta.
Prostitutes, alcohol, and violence. They demanded and demanded,”
the report said.

They
also left a bad taste in the mouth of the authorities. The Colombian
government was supposed to pay for some of the hotels, the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees was to cover the costs of others, while
Guaido’s people were only going to pony up the cash for two of the
seven hotels.

But
Popular Will never paid, leaving one hotel with a debt of $20,000.
When the situation became completely untenable, the hotel kicked 65
soldiers and their families to the curb. One soldier anonymously told
the outlet that the party was not taking care of their financial
needs as promised.

Guaido’s
ambassador to Colombia took money out of his own pocket to try to
resolve the dispute, but the check bounced.

The
responsibility of taking care of the needs of the defectors went to
Popular Will militants Rossana Barrera and Kevin Rojas, as decreed by
Juan Guaido in a signed statement. They were also charged with
overseeing the humanitarian aid.

Barrera
is the sister-in-law of Popular Will member of Congress Sergio
Vargara, Guaido’s right-hand man. She and Rojas were managing all
the funds.

But
the pair started to live well outside their means, a Colombian
intelligence source told the outlet. “They gave me all the
evidence,” writes PanAmPress reporter Orlando
Avendano. “Receipts that show excesses, some strangely from
different check books, signed the same day but with identical writing
styles.”

Rojas
and Berrera were spending nearly a thousand dollars at a time in the
hotels and nightclubs. Similar amounts were spent at times on
luxurious dinners and fancy drinks. They went on clothes shopping
sprees at high-end retail outlets in the capital. They reportedly
overcharged the fund on vehicle rentals and the hotels, making off
with the extra cash. Berrera even told Popular Will that she was
paying for all seven hotels, not just the two. And they provided
Guaido with the fake figure of more than 1,450 military defectors
that needed accommodation.

In
order to keep the funds flowing, Rojas and Berrera pitched a benefit
dinner for the soldiers to Guiado’s embassy in Colombia. But when
the embassy refused to participate, Berrera created a fake email
address posing as a representative of the embassy, sending
invitations to Israeli and U.S. diplomats. They canceled the event
after Guaido’s embassy grew wise to the scheme and alerted those
invited.

The
whole government of Colombia knew about it: the intelligence
community, the presidency, and the foreign ministry,”
writes PanAmPress,
calling it an “open secret” by the time Guaido dismissed the
pair. But that was after Guaido had been defending them staunchly,
trying to avoid a firing by transferring responsibilities to the
embassy.

Berrera
was called to the embassy for a financial audit, represented by Luis
Florido, a founding member of Popular Will. She turned in just a
fraction of the records uncovered by Colombian intelligence,
accounting for only $100,000 in expenditures. “The [real] amount is
large,” the outlet reports, citing an intelligence agent who says
far more was blown.

Meanwhile,
“at least 60 percent of the food donated” by foreign governments
“was damaged.”

The
food is rotten, they tell me,” the PanAmPress reporter
said, adding that he was shown photographs. “They don’t know how
to deal with it without causing a scandal. I suppose they will burn
it.”

It
isn’t yet known exactly how much was embezzled by Popular Will, but
it is likely the truth will come out in due time, and more
investigations are likely underway. On Monday, Venezuelan defectors
said they will hold a press conference in Cucuta, showcasing more
corruption by Popular Will. For now, however, the fallout remains to
be seen.

Guaidone?

One
thing is certain: the scandal threatens to end Juan Guaido’s 15
minutes of fame. The de facto opposition leader had little name
recognition inside Venezuela and never won a political position with
more than 100,000 votes behind him. But the overnight sensation never
had a lengthy life expectancy anyway.

Though
he received so few votes (Venezuela’s population is nearly 32
million), Guaido became the president of the National Assembly
because the body is controlled by a coalition of opposition groups,
despite President Nicolas Maduro’s PSUV Party being the largest in
the country. That was in January, and the length of the term lasts
only one year. In 2015, the opposition coalition decided that after
each term, the seat would be rotated to a representative of a
different opposition party. While there is no law barring Guaido from
being appointed president of the National Assembly again, tradition
runs counter to it and another party may want to seize on a chance to
get into the limelight.

Supporters
of the coup — and Guaido’s self-declaration as interim president
— claim that Maduro is derelict of his duties, which justifies a
transition of presidential power according to the constitution. But
the article that allows for such a transition in certain cases
stipulates that ”a new election by universal suffrage and direct
ballot shall be held within 30 consecutive days.”

To
date, Guaido has run 145 days past his deadline to have elections
held, and the opposition has 
made
it clear
 they
are not willing to accept new elections if Maduro runs.

This,
of course, makes little dent in Guaido’s legitimacy in the eyes of
the U.S. and other countries that have recognized his presidency.
U.S. allies in Latin America have shown over the past few years that
they have little regard for the sanctity of their constitutions. In
2017, a U.S.-backed candidate in Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez,
ran for re-election in explicit violation of that country’s
constitution and only wound up winning through fraud. Last week,
Ecuador made the decision to allow the U.S. military to operate from
an airfield in the Galapagos Islands despite a constitutional
provision stating that the “establishment of foreign military bases
or foreign facilities for military purposes shall not be allowed.”

By Alexander
Rubinstein
 / Creative
Commons
 / MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo

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*
De VS heeft de partij van Guaidó waarschijnlijk uitgekozen daar de
rest van de oppositie zich al schuldig had gemaakt aan corruptie en
er over de onbeduidende partij van Guaidó, die zoals gezegd amper
bekend was, veel minder misdadig gedrag vertoonde en zelfs al zou
deze partij zich daar schuldig aan hebben gemaakt, men kende Guaidó
en zijn partij niet en berichten over corruptie zouden daarom al snel verdwijnen naar ‘pagina 80’ van de landelijke media……

Zie ook:

Max Blumenthal (journalist van The Grayzone) in feite gearresteerd voor berichtgeving over belagen Venezolaanse ambassade in VS

Venezolaanse ambassade Washington gewelddadig ontruimd

Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland

Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….

VS gaat door met uithongeren Venezolaanse volk >> de westerse wereld negeert deze afschuwelijke oorlogsmisdaad

Reuters houdt rapport tegen over 40.000 Venezolaanse doden door VS sancties

Guaidó wil 4 miljoen Venezolaanse paspoorten om o.a. een grote achterban voor hem te vormen

Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence

Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda

Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………‘ (waarin een Nederlander die 15 jaar lang in Venezuela ondernemer was, met ‘een iets ander verhaal’ dan Koopmans)

Edwin Koopman (VPRO Bureau Buitenland) over Venezolaanse verkiezingen met anti-Maduro propaganda bij de ‘onafhankelijke NOS…..

Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk

Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuela military, warnings to judges

Venezuela: VS zal desnoods militair geweld gebruiken om een vreedzame overgang van regime te bewerkstelligen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt

Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers

Venezuela: humanitaire hulp stunt van de VS ingegeven om de kruistocht tegen Maduro een versnelling te geven

Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten

Trump en Bolton bedreigen openlijk de familie van Venezolaanse militairen

Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela

Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt

BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)

Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok

Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia

Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie

Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt

Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank

Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..

VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………

Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote

10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela

Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

Meer bewijs voor VS betrokkenheid bij transport en bevrijding van IS leden

Alexander
Rubinstein publiceerde een artikel over de verbintenis van de
Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) en IS, waar hij in de kop de vraag
stelt of de door de VS gesteunde VAE leiders van IS naar Jemen heeft
getransporteerd. De vraag stellen is haar beantwoorden: ja dus.
Opvallend dat Rubinstein daar zo verbaasd over is, immers de
opgestapte president Al-Hadi (onder druk van S-A is hij nu
juntaleider) werd gedwongen af te treden daar hij IS en Al Qaida
onderdak had gegeven in Jemen……

Deze
twee soennitische terreurgroepen begingen daarna moorden en ander
barbaarsheden tegen de voornamelijk sjiitische bevolking van Jemen,
de mensen waren zelfs in moskeeën niet veilig voor de terreur van
deze groepen……. Daarop bonden de Houthi rebellen, gesteund door
een deel van het Jemenitisch leger, de strijd aan met IS, Al Qaida en
de al-Hadi getrouwe militaire macht…… Samen met de Koerden in Syrië waren de Houthi rebellen in Jemen de eersten die succesvol IS
bestreden.

Dat
succes stak het soennitische Saoedi-Arabië en zij zetten de gevluchte
al-Hadi onder druk het presidentschap weer op te nemen zodat hij S-A te
hulp kon roepen om de haar getrouwe terroristen van IS en Al Qaida bij te staan in de strijd tegen de Houthi-rebellen……

De VS
heeft overigens aan de wieg van IS gestaan, samen met Egypte, Turkije en
Saoedi-Arabië (en naar het schijnt zou Israël ook een rol hebben
gespeeld), niet voor niets dat deze landen het vervoer regelden voor
IS leden uit Libië, die werden getransporteerd naar Irak waar ze over
de grens met Syrië werden gebracht, inclusief wapens, munitie en
pickup trucks…….

Voordat
Rusland begon met de steun voor het reguliere Syrische leger in de strijd tegen de zogenaamde
gematigde rebellen, is de VS meermaals betrapt op het bombarderen van
woestijngebied, zonder dat daar een strijder te bekennen was, echter
volgens de VS waren dat bombardementen tegen IS……. Vandaar ook
dat het jaar voordat Rusland ingreep er praktisch geen successen
werden geboekt door de VS coalitie tegen IS, een coalitie die zogenaamd IS bestreed……
Rusland was duidelijk het kantelpunt voor IS, dat de ene na de
andere klap te verduren kreeg…. Na de successen van het reguliere
Syrische leger en de Russen tegen groepen als IS kon ook de VS-NAVO
coalitie niet anders doen dan af en toe terreurgroepen
raken…….

Onlangs
gaf de VS nota bene toe dat IS ook vocht in het Syrische Aleppo, terwijl men dat
destijds glashard ontkende, er zouden alleen ‘gematigde
terreurgroepen’ (die niet bestaan en niet bestonden) aanwezig zijn
geweest in Aleppo……..

Voorts blijkt keer op keer dat wapens uit de VS in handen zijn van terreurgroepen o.a. in Jemen, hier een link naar een YouTube pagina met meerdere video’s over terreurgroepen met VS wapens. (het Pentagon zijn de laatste jaren miljarden verdwenen, daarmee is de vraag deels beantwoord waar dat geld heenging…… (naar terreurgroepen!)

Lees het
volgende artikel van Rubinstein en zie het smerige spel van de
grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS:

An
Unholy Alliance: Did the US-Backed UAE Fly ISIS Leaders into Yemen’s
Killing Fields?

by Alexander
Rubinstein

Saudi Al-Qaida Islamic State Yemen

The
de facto alliance between the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, AQAP,
and now allegedly ISIS in Yemen has led to one of the worst
humanitarian disasters in modern history,

ADEN,
YEMEN —
 Ali Abdullah al-Bujairi — a Yemeni politician
who served as a senior member on the failed UN-brokered transitional
government and as Yemen’s ambassador to Iraq under former president
Ali Abdullah Saleh — is accusing the United Arab Emirates of
facilitating a transfer of ISIS officials into Yemen.

The
UAE has recently transferred an ISIL commander namely Abu Bakr
al-Zokhri (with Sudanese nationality) — nom de guerre, Khaibar
al-Sumali — from Iraq to Aden in Yemen to recruit and strengthen
the ISIL in Yemen,” al-Bujairi 
told Qatari
media.

Since
the toppling of ISIS’ so-called caliphate — with Raqqa, Syria as
its capital — the terrorist organization has gained a foothold in a
number of other countries. In Afghanistan, Russia and Iran have
accused the U.S. of helping to facilitate the group’s spread.

Despite
its loss of territory in Iraq and Syria, “ISIL is still active in
ten countries in 2017,” according to the 2018 Global Terrorism
Index 
report from
the Institute for Economics & Peace, which further states:

The
collapse of ISIL in Iraq and Syria has moved the group’s activities
elsewhere, in particular to the Maghreb and Sahel regions, most
notably in Libya, Niger, and Mali, and Southeast Asia, most notably
the Philippines.”

In
2017, the terror group’s reach was felt in many corners of the
world. The report states: “ISIL committed attacks in 286 cities
around the world in four different regions:  Asia-Pacific,
Europe, MENA [Middle East and North Africa], and the Russia and
Eurasia region.” However, those hit hardest by the group’s terror
have mostly been in the Middle East and North Africa. The report
concludes:

Of
all ISIL attacks, 98 percent of incidents and 98 percent of deaths
occurred within the MENA region. Ninety percent of all terror attacks
and 81 percent of terror-related deaths from ISIL occurred in Iraq
alone.”

These
figures, however, do not include the Islamic State’s chapter in
Afghanistan, referred to as the Khorasan Group (ISIS-K), nor does it
include ISIS affiliates in Egypt.

The
campaign by the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, AQAP, and now
allegedly ISIS in Yemen has led to one of the worst humanitarian
disasters in modern history, with large portions of the population at
risk for starvation, millions displaced, and scores of civilians and
children killed, 
MintPress
News
 has
reported
.

While
the Saudi-led coalition’s dealings with the Yemen affiliate of ISIS
remain largely unexplored, the main partners have their own ties to
al-Qaeda in the country. This unholy alliance meant to depose the
Houthis, has seen the coalition, of which the supposedly democratic
government of the U.S. became a member without prior authorization
from Congress, work hand-in-glove with al-Qaeda.

Running
with cynical circles

Little
is known about the presence of ISIS in Yemen, with the numbers of
fighters believed to be in the low- to mid-hundreds, 
according to
the UN Security Council. The U.S. conducted a grand total of 36
airstrikes against terrorist groups in the country in 2018, but the
overwhelming majority targeted the much larger Al-Qaeda affiliate,
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and the U.S. has 
not
struck
 ISIS
in Yemen since January 2018.

While
ISIS has attacked Houthi and Shia Muslim targets in Yemen, it has no
territory. AQAP, on the other hand, controls large swaths of the
southeast. According to the Global Terrorism Index, “Adan-Abyan
Province of the Islamic State is primarily active in the southern
coastal province of Adan, while AQAP in active in the provinces of
Abyan and Lahij, and Ansar Allahin Taizz and Marib.” Other ISIS
affiliates once existed in Yemen but have since dwindled out.

While
the extent and nature of U.S. relations with ISIS in Yemen is
unclear, its relationship with its regional rival AQAP, which is best
described as that of “frenemies,” is more widely known.

(Op deze plek stond in het origineel een video die is echter verwijderd)

In
December, the U.S. Congress voted to end support for Saudi Arabia’s
war on Yemen, but the U.S. remains authorized to fight on Yemeni soil
because of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF).
This document also provided the U.S. cover for its war in Syria. The
bill allows for the use of force against groups associated with
attacks on 9/11, and ISIS was tenuously linked to al-Qaeda.

However,
the U.S. was a member of the Saudi-led coalition for years. This
partnership became unpalatable to mainstream media pundits and
audiences over the summer when a U.S.-made bomb was used by Saudi
Arabia on a bus in an airstrike that left 40 children dead.

While
AQAP is the ostensible enemy of the United States, they appear to be
a friend of a friend in the very least. In February, it
was 
revealed that
Saudi Arabia and the UAE gave U.S.-made weapons to al-Qaeda fighters
in the country. 
CNN reports:

Saudi
Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, its main partner in the war,
have used the U.S.-manufactured weapons as a form of currency to buy
the loyalties of militias or tribes, bolster chosen armed actors, and
influence the complex political landscape.

One
of those militias linked to AQAP, the Abu Abbas brigade, now
possesses U.S.-made Oshkosh armored vehicles, paraded in a 2015 show
of force through the city.

Abu
Abbas, the founder, was declared a terrorist by the U.S. in 2017, but
the group still enjoys support from the Saudi coalition and was
absorbed into the coalition-supported 35th Brigade of the Yemeni
army.

In
October 2015, military forces loyal to the government boasted on
Saudi- and UAE-backed media that the Saudis had airdropped
American-made TOW anti-tank missiles on the same frontline where AQAP
had been known to operate at the time.”

Speculation
that the Saudi-led coalition was working with terrorists was finally
legitimized in the mainstream media over the summer, when
the Associated Press revealed that “the coalition
cut secret deals with al-Qaeda fighters, paying some to leave key
cities and towns and letting others retreat with weapons, equipment
and wads of looted cash, [while] hundreds more were recruited to join
the coalition itself.”

Shockingly,
the 
AP revealed that

Key
participants in the pacts said the U.S. was aware of the arrangements
and held off on any drone strikes…

Coalition-backed
militias actively recruit al-Qaida militants, or those who were
recently members, because they’re considered exceptional fighters…

In
one case, a tribal mediator who brokered a deal between the Emiratis
and al-Qaeda even gave the extremists a farewell dinner.”

The
U.S. had been fighting on two fronts in Yemen: one against Al-Qaeda,
in closer partnership with the UAE; and another alongside the
Saudi-led coalition, which includes the UAE, against the Houthi
government. The latter was, of course, the priority. In contrast to
the 36 bombing missions the U.S. conducted against AQAP and the ISIS
affiliate in Yemen in 2018, the U.S. refueled coalition fighter
jets 
more
than
 9,000
times between March 2015 and July 2017.

This
dynamic has fostered an alliance of convenience between the U.S. and
AQAP, materialized by the flow of U.S.-made weapons from the U.S. to
gulf monarchies, which, in violation of U.S. rules, use them as
bargaining chips with jihadists.

In
fact, the U.S. was “aware of an al-Qaeda presence among the
anti-Houthi ranks,” AP said, citing a “senior
American official.” Even the Saudi-backed former president of
Yemen, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, “tapped” Adnan Rouzek to be a “top
military commander.” Rouzek was a senior al-Qaeda official who
escaped from prison in 2008 with other members and continues to be
photographed with known al-Qaeda operatives. His militia under Hadi
“became notorious for kidnappings and street killings, with one
online video showing its masked members shooting a kneeling,
blindfolded man.”

In
November 2017, Hadi picked Rouzek to coordinate the military campaign
and serve as a top commander of a new fighting force, and gave him
$12 million for a new offensive.

Another
“coalition-backed warlord is on the U.S. list of designated
terrorists due to his ties to al-Qaeda.” That warlord is Sheikh
Aboul Abbas.

One
security official told AP that “Aboul Abbas’
forces attacked security headquarters in 2017 and freed a number of
al-Qaeda suspects.” He said he reported the attack to the
coalition, but the perpetrators were rewarded with “40 more pickup
trucks.” “The more we warn, the more they are rewarded,” he
told AP. “Al-Qaeda leaders have armored vehicles given
to them by the coalition while security commanders don’t have such
vehicles.”

Elements
of the U.S. military are clearly aware that much of what the U.S. is
doing in Yemen is aiding AQAP and there is much angst about that,”
terrorism expert Michael Horton told AP at
the time. Horton called parts of the U.S.-UAE campaign against AQAP a
“farce.”

While
Saudi Arabia has been roundly denounced for its attacks on civilians
and infrastructure in Yemen, particularly since the unrelated slaying
of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, less attention has been paid to
allegations of UAE war crimes in the country. NGOs and reporters have
accused the country of running a network of secret prisons in the
south that use torture as a feature of detention.

Degrading
an enemy whose presence is “exaggerated”

While
the UAE is now being accused of helping to spread ISIS into new
theaters of conflict, the U.S. was accused of doing the same in
Afghanistan last year.

The
Afghanistan-based affiliate “was responsible for 14 percent of
terrorism deaths, or 658 people, in 2017, a 26 percent increase from
the prior year,” according to the Global Terrorism Index report. In
neighboring Pakistan, ISIS affiliates were “responsible for 233
deaths.”

Meanwhile,
the “two deadliest attacks in South Asia” in 2017 “were
committed by the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, killing 93 and 91 persons respectively.”  

Afghanistan | ISIS affiliate

Share
of responsibility for terrorism-related deaths by Afghanistan’s
ISIS affiliate in 2017. Source | 
Institute
for Economics & Peace

On
repeated occasions last year, Moscow and Tehran accused Washington of
using unmarked helicopters to transfer Daesh fighters into the Haska
Meyna region in Afghanistan where ISIS is active.

In
March of 2018, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told a
congregation of diplomats, academics and journalists in Pakistan:

We
see intelligence, as well as eyewitness accounts, that Daesh
fighters, terrorists, were airlifted from battle zones, rescued from
battle zones, including recently from the prison of Haska [Meyna].”

This
time, it wasn’t unmarked helicopters. They were American
helicopters, taking Daesh out of Haska prison. Where did they take
them? Now, we don’t know where they took them, but we see the
outcome. We see more and more violence in Pakistan, more and more
violence in Afghanistan, taking a sectarian flavor.”

After
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made a big deal out of ISIS’s
presence in an April press conference in Pakistan, U.S. officials
went into defense mode, with General John Nicholson, NATO’s
Afghanistan commander, and the mission’s public-affairs director
swearing that the Russian claims were exaggerated and arguing that
there 
was “little
evidence” that ISIS was expanding in the country.

Yet,
according to an earlier 
report from
the U.S. government-funded Voice of America, U.S. troops “routinely
accompany the Afghan forces into battle against [ISIS].”

Flash
forward to August, when NATO confirmed that it had killed ISIS’
leader in Afghanistan, Abu Sayeed Orakzai, as well as 10 other
fighters. As NBC Newsnoted at the time the U.S. estimated
that there were about 2,000 ISIS fighters in the country, while local
Afghan leaders claim that Orakzai was the “fourth” ISIS leader to
be killed in less than a year.

Top
Photo | A Yemeni militant holds an ISIS banner as he stands
behind bars during a court hearing in Sanaa, Yemen. Hani Mohammed |
AP

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Rubinstein
 is
a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports
on police, prisons 
and protests
in the United States and the United States’ policing of the world.
He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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Zie ook de volgende berichten aangaande de strijd in Jemen (voor meer berichten over de oorlog in Irak en Afghanistan, klik op de betreffende labels, direct onder dit  bericht. Let wel, na een aantal berichten wordt het laatst getoonde telkens herhaald, dan even opnieuw op het gekozen label klikken onder het laatst gelezen bericht):

Saoedische ambassadeur bij VN geeft Iran schuld van genocide in Jemen

Maxima overlegt met de Saoedische massamoordenaar MSB

Blok (VVD minister BuZa) deelt volkomen onterecht VS zorgen over Iran

Genocidepleger Saoedi-Arabië klaagt Houthi’s en Iran aan bij VN Veiligheidsraad vanwege terreur

Frankrijk dreigt journalisten met gevangenisstraf voor openbaarmaking documenten Jemen

Activistische Franse burgers blokkeren met succes het laden van wapens voor Saoedi-Arabië

Strijd in Oost-Jemen waar lokale stammen de Saoedische import van militair materieel blokkeren

Al Qaida Jemen krijgt VS wapens van Saoedi-Arabië

Verenigde Arabische Emiraten bewapenen ISIS en Al Qaida

ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia

VS steun voor terreurgroepen IS (ISIS) en Al Qaida tot november 2018

Ondervragers van de VS zijn aanwezig bij martelingen in Jemenitische gevangenissen

VS heeft Saoedische terreurcoalitie getraind hoe Jemen te bombarderen

Robin Ramaekers (VTM ‘oorlogscorrespondent’) vertelt Radio1 luisteraars van de NOS over Jemen……

VS blokkeert VN resolutie tot een staakt het vuren in Jemen, waar VS vriend Saoedi-Arabië een genocide uitvoert

Facebook censureert foto’s van verhongerende Jemenitische kinderen als ‘sexual content’

VS heeft vliegend oorlogstuig van Saoedische terreurcoalitie gratis van brandstof voorzien…..

Marina de Regt (VU en Midden-Oosten Instituut) slaat de Jemenitische plank volledig mis

VS dreigt Iran met militair geweld op beschuldiging van terreur die de VS zelf op grote schaal uitoefent

Slachting in Jemen gaat door met volledige steun van de VS………

Pentagon: nieuwe geheime operatie voor steun aan Saoedische coalitie die genocide uitvoert in Jemen……

VN bespreekt humanitaire hulp aan Jemen met bewind in Teheran; voorts: hoe de Saoediërs en de VS Jemen vernietigen

Yemen Be Damned, Pompeo Doubles Down on US Support for Saudi Arabia

Blok (VVD ‘minister’ van BuZA) wenst in VN geen oproep tot wapenboycot te doen i.z. Jemen, in de VS blokkeerde huis van afgevaardigden een debat over de genocide in Jemen

Trump administratie staat op het punt de Houthi’s in Jemen op de terreurlijst te zetten…….

Jemen: genocide en oorlog hebben tot nu toe al rond de 200.000 mensenlevens geëist…..

Amal Hussain, het meisje van 7 dat voor het westen symbool stond voor humanitaire crisis (lees: genocide) in Jemen, is overleden…….

Jemen: VS politici roepen uiterst hypocriet om een onmiddellijk eind aan de ‘oorlog……’

Saoedische terreurcoalitie stuurt 10.000 militairen extra naar de Jemenitische havenstad Hodeida >> de genocide in een hogere versnelling

Jemen: ware dodental door geweld Saoedische terreurcoalitie veel hoger dan eerder geschat

Jemen genocide: democratische oppositie steunt met bijna 100% Trumps terreuragenda, terwijl ze hem aanvallen op niet bewezen Russiagate……

Jemen: VS wapenindustrie medeplichtig aan misdaden tegen de menselijkheid

Saoedi-Arabië bombardeert busstation in Jemen…….

Saoedische terreurcoalitie geeft eindelijk toe dat de aanval op een schoolbus niet gerechtvaardigd was……

Saoedische terreurcoalitie raakt alweer een bus met kinderen, dit keer tijdens een bombardement van een vluchtelingenkamp……..

Genocide Jemen: ‘eindelijk ontdekt’ door reguliere media VS, nu nog Nederland en de EU

Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord……

Aanval op schoolbus Jemen, door Saoedi-Arabië opzettelijk als doel gekozen, geen reden voor VS veroordeling……

Bom waarmee schoolbus in Jemen werd getroffen is van VS makelij

Democratisch congreslid eist antwoorden over de rol van de VS bij de massamoorden in Jemen, zoals de aanval op een schoolbus

Saoedi-Arabië woedend over VN rapport waarin de waarheid wordt verteld over S-A en de oorlog in Jemen

Trump wijst elke bezuiniging af op de hulp van de VS voor de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in Jemen

8 miljoen Jemenieten, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen, dreigen te sterven van de honger……..

Door VS geregisseerd bombardement op ziekenhuis Hodeida >> 50 doden……

Jemen, de gemartelde, vermoorde of ‘verdwenen’ Jemenieten, onder verantwoording van de Saoedische coalitie……

Jemen: de vergeten genocide en haar kinderslachtoffers………

Saoedi-Arabië geeft toe in Jemen gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden te hebben begaan…. ‘ (en daarmee is ten overvloede nog eens duidelijk gemaakt dat ook de VS meewerkt aan oorlogsmisdaden en die genocide in Jemen…..)

Agressie vanwege een vermeende gifgasaanval op Douma, terwijl de tienduizenden kinderen die in Jemen worden vermoord middels een genocide blijkbaar niet meetellen……

Saoedische coalitie valt in Jemen de laatste haven voor humanitaire goederen aan…… Weer ziekenhuis met hulp van VS gebombardeerd………‘            

Congres VS geeft akkoord voor verdere steun aan de Saoedische genocide in Jemen……

VS versterkt militaire terreur t.b.v. genocide >> deelname aan aanval op Jemenitische havenstad Hodeida…….

VS en Groot-Brittannië weigeren een onmiddellijk staakt het vuren op haven t.b.v. door genocide geterroriseerd Jemen…..‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

VS vecht in Jemen, Pentagon loog weer eens >> Congres eindelijk ‘wakker’

Saoedi-Arabië vermoordde minstens 20 bruiloftsgangers in Jemen

Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde ‘raketten’ op Saoedische ‘doelen……….’

VS doet planning van de Saoedische genocide in Jemen…..

VS rol in Jemen gaat verder dan eerder gemeld, ofwel nog meer VS hulp bij Saoedische genocide op sjiieten…..

Jemen: meer VS steun voor genocide op sjiieten met grote levering ‘slimme munitie’ aan Saoedi-Arabië……

Jemen: BBC propaganda voor genocide door Saoedische coalitie……..

Mike Pompeo (ex-CIA, VS min. van BuZa en ‘christen’) liegt openlijk over genocide in Jemen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

Saoedi-Arabië heeft op verzoek van de VS intensief haar islam ideologie (en die van ISIS) verspreid…..‘ (soennitisch, terwijl het merendeel van de Jemenitische bevolking en haar beschermers, de Houthi’s sjiitisch zijn)

VS huurlingen bezig met wapentransport gearresteerd in Haïti

MintPressNews (MPN) bracht gisteren een artikel van Alexander Rubinstein
waarin deze het nieuws bracht (althans nieuws voor mij) dat er 8
huurlingen, waarvan 5 uit vooral de VS werken voor de president en de
regering van Haïti, hoewel verdere berichtgeving over verschillende
aantallen spreekt. Voorts zou er een Serviër zijn opgepakt, dat laatste is
van belang daar journalisten Max Blumenthal en Dan Cohen onlangs
ontdekten dat de door de VS ingezette Venezolaanse couppleger Guaidó
werd opgeleid in Servië…….

De
politie pakte deze huurlingen op terwijl zij wapens,
munitie, communicatieapparatuur, drones en voertuigen 
transporteerden…….

MPN trok
onlangs een vergelijking tussen het Gele Hesjes protest in Frankrijk
en de protesten in Haïti, daar de protesten in Frankrijk begonnen na
de melding dat de energieprijzen omhoog zouden gaan…. Beide
protesten gingen ook in tegen het bevoordelen van de welgestelden en
het afknijpen van het grootste deel van de bevolking, voorts trad de politie in beide
gevallen uiterst gewelddadig op tegen de
demonstranten……

Je zou
denken, gezien de situatie in Venezuela dat de VS wel aan de kant van
de Haïtiaanse
 demonstranten zal staan, daar de VS maar niet kan
ophouden over de armoede in Venezuela* en zich daarbij achter de demonstranten heeft geschaard, maar nee beste bezoeker, de
VS kan het prima vinden met de regering en president
Jovenel
Moïse
in Haïti
 en de opgepakte huurlingen zouden werkzaam zijn geweest voor een
veiligheidsonderdeel van de speciale paleis politie…… Ofwel zij
moeten meehelpen om de grote protesten neer te slaan, protesten die
al meer dan 10 dagen lang aanhouden in Haïti, m
aar volgens de Haïti Information Project (HIP) worden deze huurlingen vooral ingezet om politieke tegenstanders uit
de weg te ruimen….

Hier een video van een jaar geleden, waaruit ten overvloede blijkt dat de Haïtiaanse bevolking niets van de VS en Trump moet hebben:

           

Haiti:
Police block anti-Trump protesters from reaching US embassy

  

Lees het
volgende artikel van Rubinstein (door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media) en zie met welke verschillende maten
de VS terreurmachine kan meten, waarmee ten overvloede nog eens wordt
aangetoond dat het de VS te doen is om olie en coltan als het om
Venezuela gaat >> als daar een bloedige rechtse dictator had gezeten, was er wat betreft de VS niets aan de hand geweest, zelfs als deze
dagelijks meerdere slachtoffers zou maken onder de demonstranten…..
Tja, socialisme en grondstoffen: de ‘trigger’ voor VS terreur……

Americans
Arrested in Haiti Transporting Weapons Cache Amid Uprising

Haiti | Protests

February
18, 2019 at 10:24 pm

Written
by 
Alexander
Rubinstein

(MPN) — Even
as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to inspire a military coup
against the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, evidence
is mounting that the U.S. government is enabling American mercenaries
to violently quell a popular uprising in Haiti.

MintPress
News
 previously examined the
parallels between the uprising in Haiti and the Yellow Vest movement
in France: both explicitly take aim at the economic oligarchy and
government austerity policies; both have been the subject of violent
crackdowns by the police; and the governments of both countries have
gotten a free pass from Washington and its sympathetic media.

Five
Americans and three others were arrested in Haiti on Sunday after
they were discovered transporting a cache of weapons. Haitians have
been engaged in an all-out uprising against the government for the
past 10 days.

Earlier
this month, 
MintPress
News
 reported on
an arms shipment from the United States uncovered by Venezuelan
authorities. Later, it was 
revealed that
the plane that transported the weapons was linked to the Central
Intelligence Agency.

Now,
in Haiti, which has been in an all-out uprising for the past 10 days
against corruption and fuel prices, another cache of arms has been
discovered with its own links to the U.S. Haitian police reportedly
arrested five Americans, one Serb, one Russian, and one Haitian who
were heavily armed on Sunday, though conflicting reports indicate
that six or seven Americans and one Serb were arrested, however.

Pictures
of what are believed to be some of their passports viewed online
by 
MintPress
News 
include
multiple American ones and one from the Republic of Serbia. As
journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal 
recently
uncovered
,
Juan Guaidó, the leader of the U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela, was
trained in Serbia.

Frantz Duval

@Frantzduval

8 hommes lourdement armés- 7 étrangers et un Haïtiens- ont été arrêtés ce dimanche 17 février par la PNH. Leurs armes automatiques, leurs moyens de communication et leurs véhicules ont été saisis. Pour le moment ils sont au Commissariat de Port-au-Prince à appris Le Nouvelliste


667

3:55 AM – Feb 18, 2019

In
total, authorities discovered six assault rifles, six pistols,
ammunition, bullet-proof vests, drones, telecommunications equipment
and two vehicles, according to the U.S.-funded Voice of America.
Video reportedly showing the men to whom the weapons belonged in
custody has surfaced online.

(Excuus, deze video kan ik niet overnemen, hier de link naar het origineel, een video van 1.20 min., waarop je overigens niet veel meer te zien krijgt, dan de still al weergeeft)

Embedded video

HaitiInfoProject 📡@HaitiInfoProj

Video of 7 US citizens and a Haitian being held at main police station in downtown PAP, . They were detained after a cache of automatic weapons, communications equipment and several license plates were found in their vehicles. Why they were stopped is unknown.


359

6:08 AM – Feb 18, 2019

For
nearly two weeks, Haitians have been taking to the streets, vowing to
continue protesting until President Joven Moise vacates his office.
Like the Yellow Vests in France, the intense protests seem aimed at
neoliberal austerity policies. Similarly, the Venezuelan opposition
now headed by Juan Guaidó 
promises to
usher in neoliberal shock remedies.

View image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on Twitter

HaitiInfoProject 📡@HaitiInfoProj

Replying to @HaitiInfoProj

Here are pics of weapons and gear found in their possession:


159

3:56 AM – Feb 18, 2019

According
to the Haiti Information Project, a number of Haitians believe the
arrested men are “part of a team of mercenaries hired by Joven
Moise and working with [The General Security Unit of the National
Palace special police unit] to extinguish protests.” According to
the online publication 
Vedeth —
which appears, like the majority of Haitians, to be pro-opposition —

President
Jovenel Moise has brought home mercenaries to assassinate not only a
desperate people who are clamoring for his resignation by
demonstrating peacefully but especially his political opponents.”

Haitians
have complained about heavily armed foreign mercenaries patrolling in
the capital, Port-au-Prince.

HaitiInfoProject 📡@HaitiInfoProj

Is the govt of hiring mercenaries to kill its own people? Lots of foreigners with big guns around the capital. Folks are talking about trying grab one to figure this out


175

4:12 PM – Nov 20, 2018

The
country, like its neighbor to the south, Venezuela, is in the throes
of a hard-hitting economic crisis. But while the U.S. meddling
machine has found a cause for concern in Venezuela, it is perfectly
happy with Haiti’s leadership as it puts down unrest in the country
with shocking violence.

President
Trump’s Venezuela regime-change deputy, John Bolton, issued a
condemnatory statement, but it was, unsurprisingly, aimed at the
opposition.

John Bolton

@AmbJohnBolton

I met with Haitian Foreign Minister @BocchitEdmond yesterday to express the United States’ enduring support for and friendship with Haiti. We urge all of Haiti’s political actors to respect and protect their democracy, engage in dialogue, and put an end to the political violence.


1,257

3:08 PM – Feb 16, 2019

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A
Tale of Two Uprisings: Washington’s astroturfed nation-building
from Venezuela to Haiti

In
an article entitled “Haiti’s Unfolding Revolution Is Directly
Linked to Venezuela’s,” journalist and author Kim Ives, who
focuses on Haiti, highlights even more parallels between the nations.
Ives examines the history of U.S. involvement with the two countries,
revealing political dynamics that inform Washington’s hostility
towards Venezuela’s leadership and its open embrace of Haiti’s.

Ives
returns to the 1990 election of anti-imperialist Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, whose victory followed a period in which Haitians were
subjected to “fierce repressesion, massacres, a bogus election, and
three coups d’état.”

The
U.S. fomented a coup attempt one year after Aristide’s victory, and
another in 2004. This Ives compares to the 2002 coup attempt against
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who was elected in 1998.

In
a bid to foster stronger alliances against U.S. aggression, Chavez
leveraged Venezuela’s unrivaled oil reserves, starting the
PetroCaribe Alliance in 2005. The program saw Venezuela offering
extremely generous deals on petroleum products to friendly
governments.

Aristide’s
successor and ally, René Préval, attempted to take Venezuela up on
the deal on his first day in office — to Washington’s
consternation. Two years later, Washington made sure to punish him,”
Ives wrote. He continued:

Following
the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake, the Pentagon, State Department, and
then-head of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Bill Clinton, with
some flunkies from the Haitian elite, virtually took over the Haitian
government.”

It
was basically downhill for Haiti from there. The U.S. puppet leaders
tanked the government’s PetroCaribe account “which had basically
kept Haiti afloat since its creation in 2008.” In the years since,
huge sums have completely disappeared or been embezzled.

basura@HalfAtlanta

the connection between uprisings in Haiti and unrest in Venezuela is being severely under-discussed. both are results of US imperialist meddling, and the corruption which Haitians are protesting revolves around embezzlement of Venezuela’s PetroCaribe oil subsidies.


2,145

3:17 PM – Feb 16, 2019

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The
post-Préval government that began with the presidency of singer
Michel Martelly, who campaigned after the disastrous earthquake in
2010 on a promise to restore the military after it was abolished by
Aristide, continues its line of succession through President Moise,
whom Martelly endorsed.

Within
his first year in office after what was 
described as
an “electoral coup,” Moise ended the Haitian government’s
PetroCaribe deal. Accordingly, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
told him raise gas prices, which he then tried to do. That led to a
popular uprising last year, which forced him to reverse the decision.


MintPress
News
 recently uncovered that
leaked U.S. military documents list the IMF and World Bank
organization as “Financial Instruments and Diplomatic Instruments
of U.S. National Power.”

After
Haiti voted in early January, at a conference of the Organization of
American States, to declare Venezuelan President Maduro
“illegitimate,” it was the “straw that broke the camel’s
back.”

The
deep solidarities between the people of Venezuela and Haiti, Ives
argued, inspired Haitians to rise up and refuse to allow Washington
to pit their neighbors against them.

By Alexander
Rubinstein
 / Creative
Commons
 / MintPress
News
 / Report
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*  Waar de VS zich nooit mee bemoeide toen de arme Venezolanen werden
uitgeknepen in het ‘pré-Chavez tijdperk….’

** Zie: ‘Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank

Zie wat betreft Venezuela o.a.: ‘Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht) en: ‘Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten

AIPAC, een pro-Israël lobbygroep, koopt leden van het VS congres om met 4 miljoen dollar per jaar

Ilhan
Omar en Rashida Tlaib* zijn de eerste vrouwelijke moslim leden van het VS congres en deze 2 timmeren nogal aan de weg. Zo heeft Omar een berg
stront over zich heen gekregen voor het openbaren van het feit dat
AIPAC, een pro-Israëlische lobbygroep, ieder jaar weer congresleden omkoopt met 4 miljoen dollar voor politici die ‘de
goede zaak’ dienen, ofwel die zonder enige kritiek pal staan voor de
fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël en alle enorme oorlogsmisdaden (om niet te zeggen misdaden tegen de menselijkheid) die dit gestolen land begaat tegen de Palestijnen…..

Het
gaat overigens niet alleen om het pal staan voor Israël, maar ook
elke kritiek die op deze terreurstaat wordt geuit afdoen als
antisemitisme, behoort tot de taak van deze omgekochte congresleden en dat heeft Omar gemerkt zoals je
al kon lezen. Het feit dat Omar kritiek durft te hebben op AIPAC is
al reden genoeg om haar als antisemiet weg te zetten……

De
schrijver van dit artikel is Alexander Rubinstein en werd eerder
gepubliceerd op MintPress News, door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media.
Verbaas je zoals ik over de hysterische manier waarop men in de VS
elke komma kritiek op Israël afdoet als antisemitisch, datzelfde geldt overigens voor alle westerse landen, neem de kritiek op Jeremy Corbyn, Labour en oppositieleider in GB….** 

Laten
we hopen dat Omar en Tlaib zich uiteindelijk niet de mond laten
snoeren, de invloed van Israël op de politiek in de VS is ongeëvenaard en zelfs al zou het Russiagate sprookje waar zijn (wat
het niet is), zou die beïnvloeding niet in de schaduw kunnen staan
van de enorme invloed die Israël heeft op de politiek in de VS……
Zo sprak de zwaar corrupte oorlogsmisdadiger Netanyahu in 2015 het VS congres toe, waar hij de richting wilde bepalen van de politiek die de leden zouden moeten volgen inzake
Iran, dit daar hij het niet eens was met Obama…) Daarmee schoffeerde deze Palestijnenslachter niet alleen
Obama, maar schopte hij zelfs tegen het kleine beetje democratie dat nog over is in de VS…..

Ilhan
Omar is Right: AIPAC Influences Congress With $4 Million Every Year

February
11, 2019 at 10:04 pm

Written
by 
Alexander
Rubinstein

(MPN— What
unites Republicans and Democrats, a former Jewish terrorist, the
Republican leader in the House of Representatives, Nikki Haley,
Chelsea Clinton and Liz Cheney? A Muslim lady with a mouth and some
opinions, apparently. Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been the
subject of bipartisan bullying that has reached a fever pitch since
the lawmaker explicitly called out the number one Israeli lobby group
in the U.S. — the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Earlier
this year, Omar made heads explode in the halls of power after she
denounced the U.S.-backed coup attempt in Venezuela. Now, even
the leader of her own party in her own chamber of Congress – House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi – is joining a chorus of detractors accusing
Omar of anti-Semitism for correctly characterizing the business of
lobbying.

While
this is not the first time that Omar has come under fire for
criticizing Israel, the current saga began on Sunday when journalist
Glenn Greenwald tweeted an article by the Israeli daily
newspaper Haaretz that trumpeted calls from House
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to “take action” against
Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). McCarthy did not specify which
statements he opposed, but called the situation “equal” or worse
than that of Rep. Steve King (R-IA) who was removed from his
committee assignments by his party after he questioned when “white
supremacy” had become “offensive.”

Tlaib
and Omar are the first two Muslim women in Congress, while Tlaib is
the first Palestinian-American. Both have supported the Boycott
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a nonviolent campaign to
economically pressure Israel into compliance with international and
humanitarian law.

Glenn Greenwald


@ggreenwald

Replying to @ggreenwald

Equating @IlhanMN & @RashidaTlaib‘s criticism of Israel to Steve King’s long defense of white supremacy is obscene (McCarthy said it’s worse). In the US, we’re allowed to criticize our own government: certainly foreign governments. The GOP House Leader’s priorities are warped.

Glenn Greenwald


@ggreenwald

Sorry, but you’re not going to turn the two first Muslim women to serve in the US Congress into overnight Jew-haters because of their criticisms of Israel. What’s actually anti-Semitic is conflating the Government of Israel with Jews, so those of you doing that should stop.


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1:48 AM – Feb 11, 2019

MintPress
News
 has
previously covered 
dubious
accusations
 of
anti-Semitism against Tlaib after she took a stand against a
free-speech-crushing bill favored by — you guessed it — the
Israel lobby. Meanwhile, other lawmakers are 
attempting
to block
 Tlaib’s
planned delegation to the illegally occupied West Bank.

In
response to the attack from the Republican House leader, ACLU Human
Rights Director Jamil Dakwar 
quipped that
Congressman McCarthy may “want to revive McCarthyism.”

McCarthy
himself received $33,000 from NorPAC, “an AIPAC affiliate, in the
last election cycle,” 
reportedthe
online publication 
Jewish
Worker
.
Meanwhile, McCarthy himself has been accused of spreading
anti-Semitic tropes, warning that three Jewish, liberal mega-donors,
including George Soros, were trying to “buy” the midterm
elections, which were to take place the following day. 
That
tweet
 has
since been deleted.

Kevin McCarthy


@GOPLeader

One of my greatest honors is leading new members on a bipartisan trip to Israel to showcase the shared values and unbreakable bond between our countries.

Kevin McCarthy


@GOPLeader

Anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the halls of Congress. It is dangerous for Democrat leadership to stay silent on this reckless language.


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Kevin McCarthy


@GOPLeader

Replying to @GOPLeader

Anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the halls of Congress. It is dangerous for Democrat leadership to stay silent on this reckless language.

District Sentinel@TheDCSentinel

Weird you would tie trips to Israel with antisemitism. Equating Zionism to Judaism is antisemitic. Almost like you are a disingenuous weasel


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About
the Benjamins

Upon
seeing the report, Omar did not pull any punches. In an apparent pun
on a slang term for $100 bills and the prime minister of Israel’s
first name, she tweeted that “it’s all about the Benjamins baby,”
which is a quote from a 1990’s Puff Daddy song.

Then,
an opinion editor at the Jewish magazine The Forward,
Batya Ungar-Sargon, reposted the tweet, telling her followers that
she’d “love to know who Ilhan Omar thinks is paying American
politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can guess.”

Mnar A. Muhawesh ⌛@MnarMuh

In 2018 spent ~ $4 Million lobbying our elected officials to support Israel, including quashing Americans first amend right to support BDS.@IlhanMN pointing out how Congress is bought to represent a foreign government over Americans isn’t antisemitic it’s stating facts.


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Omar
clapped back with just six characters, tweeting “AIPAC!” — the
acronym for the largest and most powerful pro-Israel lobby group in
the United States. In fact, AIPAC spends more than 
$3.5
million every year
 to
influence Congress to be more favorable towards Israel.

Eli Valley


@elivalley

This is a disgusting. By the same token one can say “The Forward has won the approval of the KKK.”


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7:07 PM – Feb 11, 2019

Ungar-Sargon
then attempted to speak on behalf of all American Jews, responding to
Omar that she should “learn how to talk about Jews in a
non-anti-Semitic way.” Anti-Zionist American Jews promptly 
shut
her down
 in
replies.

Sam@halaljew

I know she’s still a Democrat and you should never put too much faith in anyone who’s a member of the Democratic Party, but I like Ilhan Omar. She’s had the balls to stand against the Washington consensus on Israel and on regime change in Venezuela. I’m glad she’s in the House.


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But
some powerful people with Twitter accounts took exception the the
congresswoman’s identification of a pro-Israel lobby group as an
entity that “is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel.”
One is left to wonder what causes AIPAC doles out the contents of its
propaganda war-chest for if not to influence lawmakers on Israel. The
takeaway from this line of analysis is that money has no influence in
politics, which is patently absurd.

Yet
AIPAC’s own 
mission
statement
 claims
“AIPAC urges all members of Congress to support Israel through
foreign aid, government partnerships, joint anti-terrorism efforts.”

Eli Clifton

@EliClifton

Kudos to @IlhanMN for calling out the role of the GOP’s donors in influencing US foreign policy.

The GOP’s biggest donors, the Adelsons, are hawkishly pro-Israel and advocate using nukes on Iran!

The GOP’s biggest fundraiser, Norm Coleman, is a paid lobbyist for Saudi Arabia!


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Here,
those that charge Omar with anti-Semitism reveal their own. By
leveling charges of bigotry against critics of the Israel lobby,
Israel’s defenders equate Jewishness with allegiance to Israel, or
Zionism. In keeping with this estimation, Jews that do not condone
the apartheid project underway in Palestine are branded
“self-hating.”

Rania Khalek

@RaniaKhalek

Here is Chelsea Clinton accusing Ilhan Omar of anti-semitism for critiquing AIPAC. You hear that? Being anti-AIPAC is now anti-semitism.

Chelsea Clinton

@ChelseaClinton

Replying to @bungarsargon @ReaganBattalion

Co-signed as an American. We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism.


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Despite
Rep. Omar’s statement about AIPAC being self-evident, the remark
riled the likes of former Trump Administration Ambassador to the UN
and pro- Israel 
Nikki
Haley
,
who once said, “When I come to AIPAC, I am with friends.”
Haley’s 
pro-Israel
track record
 at
the international body prompted an Israeli cartoonist to 
satirize her
departure with an image of a United Nations handyman telling Haley,
who is packing her bags, that she forgot her “second flag” — an
Israeli one. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin even called Haley a
“true ambassador” for Israel.

Nikki Haley

@NikkiHaley

To see this at the UN was a fight every day. This CANNOT be tolerated in our own Congress by anyone of either party. In a time of increased anti semitism, we all must be held to account. No excuses. ❤️
🇺🇸

Ilhan Omar

@IlhanMN

AIPAC! https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1094756291803791360 


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A
major Washington pile-on

Lawmakers
who pounced on Omar include: 
Sen.
Kevin Cramer
 (R-ND), Rep.
Doug Collins
 (R-GA), Sen.
Ted Cruz
 (R-TX), Rep.
Max Rose
 (D-NY), Rep.
Brad Schneider
 (D-IL), Rep.
Sean Maloney
 (D-NY), Rep.
Donna Shalala
 (D-FL), Rep.
Anthony Brindisi
 (D-NY), Rep.
Tom Suozzi
 (D-NY), Sen.
Krysten Sinema
 (D-AZ), Rep.
Lois Frankel
 (D-FL), Rep.
Eric Swalwell
 (D-CA), Sen.
Tom Cotton
 (R-AR), Rep.
Alcee Hastings
 (D-FL), Sen.
Martha McSally
 (R-AZ), Rep.
Liz Cheney
 (R-WY),
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), who are
trying to shore up support for 
a
letter
 to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hailing Israel as a “proud and
stable democracy with robust protections for minorities” and
calling for “swift action” to address the “recent rhetoric.”

Pelosi
responded hours later with a 
joint
statement
 with
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Majority Whip James Clyburn
(D-SC), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), and
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) “condemning anti-Semitic comments made
over Twitter by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.”

Also
included in the D.C. dogpiling were the 
Republican
Jewish Coalition
, the
American Jewish Committee
 (which
painted AIPAC as a “Jewish” organization), and Dov Hikind, whom
journalist Dan Cohen 
pointed
out
 is
a former member of the Jewish Defense League 
terrorist
organization
.
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea also “co-signed”
Ungar-Sargon’s smears of Omar’s rhetoric as “anti-Semitic.”

Judah Fishmonger@praisegodbarbon

In all seriousness though I am a young Jew who has never more represented on this issue than seeing @IlhanMN be brave enough to call out AIPAC and the Israel Lobby in its efforts to cement anti-Palestinian racism as a litmus test for Congress. She speaks for me, they don’t.


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Chelsea
Clinton assured several on Twitter that she would “reach out to
Omar.” When Omar agreed, saying “we must call out smears from the
GOP and their allies,” Clinton agreed. That was until Ashley
Goldberg stepped in, tweeting that Clinton “outright said there is
a problem with antisemitism [sic] on both sides and Ilhan Omar
clearly said she only cares about what she can do to depict it as
only a problem with the GOP.”

Max Blumenthal

@MaxBlumenthal

Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have earned over $3.5 million in paid speeches to pro-Israeli apartheid groups. At a $1000 a plate dinner, Bill Clinton said he would “grab a rifle and get in the trench and fight and die” for Israel. https://www.alternet.org/2016/02/clintons-earned-over-35-million-paid-addresses-pro-israel-organizations/amp/ 

Chelsea Clinton

@ChelseaClinton

Replying to @bungarsargon @ReaganBattalion

Co-signed as an American. We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism.


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But
the conversation took a turn, culminating in Clinton’s 
vowing to
“google people” before engaging with them from then on out, after
journalist Hannah Gais 
pointed
out
 that
Goldberg was photographed at a white supremacist conference in 2016
hosted by Richard Spencer. Goldberg, an anti-communist Jewish media
personality, also 
used
to date
 Neo-Nazi
leader Matthew Heimbach, the founder of the now-defunct
Traditionalist Workers Party.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

Yes but Omar did not talk about Jews, she talked about money and it’s influence on American policy on Israel. What does it say about her accusers that any mention of money and power=Jews?

Michelle Goldberg

@michelleinbklyn

FYI, it’s possible to believe both that AIPAC has a pernicious effect on American politics and that Ilhan Omar’s tweet invoked clear anti-Semitic stereotypes about how Jews buy influence.

AIPAC’s
non-influence in Congress”

Not
everyone bought it hook-line-and-sinker, however. Khaled Elgindy, a
senior fellow at the neoconservative Brookings
Institution, 
tweeted that
he was “in the market for a bridge,” and asked 
The
Forward 
editor
Ungar-Sargon to “please enlighten us on AIPAC’s non-influence in
Congress.”

A
spokesperson for Omar 
told Politico in
response to the firestorm caused by the representative’s

tweets
that the remarks “speak for themselves.”

Rafillionaire


@RafiLetzter

Replying to @RafiLetzter

She has consistently handled it with grace, even in the face of overt racism from GOP congressmen (which has somehow never been a scandal). What she gets in return is “serious reporters” parroting the smears.

Rafillionaire


@RafiLetzter

Things that are vastly more antisemitic than Ilhan Omar’s tweets:

– The belief that AIPAC represents American Jews

– The belief that Israel represents American Jews

– The median American Christian Zionist’s views on Jews

– The president

– All 7 of the Harry Potter Novels


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But
a cursory examination of the legacy AIPAC has left since it opened
shop the DC speak even greater volumes. The lobby group is not
itself run by Israel, allowing it to avoid registration under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act, a law that forces foreign lobby
groups to be more transparent. That’s because I.L. Kenen, the
founder of AIPAC, created a “legal loophole by which AIPAC is
defined not as a lobby for a foreign state but for Americans who
support that state. It’s a critical distinction that makes AIPAC’s
dominance over U.S. Middle East policy possible,” according to
former AIPAC employee M.J. Rosenberg.

AIPAC
continues its practice of using loopholes to further its agenda
today. A recent 
documentaryproduced
by 
Al
Jazeera
 but
censored by Qatar, which funds the outlet, showed how one fundraiser
for a congressional candidate, organized by an unofficial “AIPAC
group,” circumvented laws on maximum individual political
contributions by pooling donors’ grants together and doling out the
official donations evenly among participants.

And
the organization’s sway over Congress is difficult to dispute.
Promotional literature for the annual AIPAC policy conference in
Washington has touted the idea that it would be “attended by more
members of Congress than almost any other event.” Steve Rosen, a
former AIPAC executive, would tell people that he “could take out a
napkin at any Senate hangout and get signatures of support for one
issue or another from scores of senators,” according to Connie
Bruck in 
The
New Yorker
.

As
AIPAC’s former policy director, Rosen and “Iran specialist” at
AIPAC Keith Weissman met with Larry Franklin, a top Pentagon analyst
working on Iran, prior to Franklin leaking a draft presidential
directive “that proposed a tougher policy on Iran, which included
consideration of covert action towards regime change,” according
to 
Democracy
Now
.
That document made its way into AIPAC’s hands, which passed it on
to Israeli officials.

Former
AIPAC President David Steiner was even forced to resign after audio
was leaked of him bragging about how he was negotiating with Bill
Clinton’s presidential campaign to appoint people to key posts in
his administration. Steiner ultimately recanted and apologized to
both AIPAC and Bill Clinton.

By Alexander
Rubinstein
 / Creative
Commons
 / MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo

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Nogmaals: dan te bedenken dat men Rusland op valse gronden beschuldigt van inmenging in de VS politiek….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

*  Ilhan Omar, heeft sinds 2017 een zetel in het lagerhuis van Minnesota voor de Minnesota Demcratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Rashida Tlaib is van de Democratische Partij voor wie zij de vertegenwoordiger is van het 13de (congressionele) district van Michigan. (toevoeging ter verduidelijking gemaakt op 10 maart 2019) 

** Zie o.a.:

Esther Voet (hoofdredacteur Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad) over ‘antisemitisme’‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

JeremyCorbyn is definitely a ‘dangerous hero’. Nice one Mail.

Ignorethe
mainstream media, Jeremy Corbyn just played a winning move
.

The Mail on Sunday en Sky News schieten levensgrote antisemitische bok bij het belasteren van Corbyn‘ (voor meer valse anti-Corbyn propaganda, klik op het label met zijn naam, direct onder dit bericht)

Meer berichten met Omar:

Fox News veroordeelt eigen presentator voor belachelijke uitlatingen aangaande Ilhan Omar

Ilhan Omar: Obama zette kinderen in een kooi en kwam weg met moord

Madeline Albright ‘gegrild’ over illegale interventies en sancties van de VS

Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela

Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media

Jake
Johnson schreef op Common Dreams een artikel over de grote zuivering
van de alternatieve (echt) onafhankelijke media op Facebook en
Twitter. Het gaat hier niet alleen om het onderuithalen van de vrijheid op meningsuiting, zelfs het vormen van een mening wordt geweld aangedaan…….

Met
de reinste kul argumenten stellen deze organisaties dat ze accounts
met ‘spam’ en ‘onecht gedrag’, hebben verwijderd, ofwel Facebook
heeft ‘het gedrag van het nepaccounts hebben’ gecensureerd, accounts die
gebruikt zouden worden om de advertentie-inkomsten op te
vijzelen……

Uiteraard
gaat het Facebook, Twitter en anderen daar helemaal niet om, nee de berichtgeving in de
alternatieve media moet worden geblokkeerd, berichtgeving die ingaat tegen de
veelal van ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws) bolstaande berichtgeving door de
reguliere massamedia……. Ofwel Facebook en Twitter hebben laten
zien dat ze allesbehalve onafhankelijke organisaties zijn en geven daarbij
juist de haat- en angstzaaiende massamedia*, die zoals gezegd ook nog
eens liegen en bedriegen, alle ruimte op hun platforms….. 

Facebook heeft zelfs samengewerkt met de Saoedische reli-fascistische dictatuur en werkt voorts o.a. samen met de Atlantic Council, een lobbyorgaan van terreurorganisatie NAVO (zie de links onderaan in dit bericht)…..

Nogmaals: censuur is een onderdeel van beleid in fascistische dictaturen!! Je kan dan ook niet anders concluderen dan de gang naar censuur is een grote stap richting dictatuur, waar overheden tegenwoordig ook nog eens bijna elke stap en elk gesproken en geschreven woord van een individu kunnen volgen……. De nazi’s hadden zich met deze bijna totale controle, de vieze bloederige poten nog eens extra afgelikt…..

Lees
het volgende artikel van Jake Johnson, waarin hij o.a. Anti-Media
noemt als één van de getroffen (echt) onafhankelijke mediaorganen,
een organisatie die alles uit en te na controleert voor
publicatie:

Published
on Friday, October 12, 2018 by
Common
Dreams

Facebook
Accused of ‘Full-Frontal Suppression of Dissent’ After Independent
Media Swept Up in Mass Purge

The
massive shutdown affected many progressive sites devoted to covering
war, police brutality, and other issues neglected by the corporate
media

by
Jake
Johnson, staff writer

"Those who demanded Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants censor political content—something they didn't actually want to do—are finding that content that they themselves support and like end up being repressed," noted The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald in response to Facebook's announcement. "That's what has happened to every censorship advocate in history." (Photo: Legal Loop)

“Those
who demanded Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants censor
political content—something they didn’t actually want to do—are
finding that content that they themselves support and like end up
being repressed,” noted The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald in
response to Facebook’s announcement. “That’s what has happened
to every censorship advocate in history.” (Photo: Legal Loop)

After
Facebook 
announced on
Thursday that it shut down and removed hundreds of pages and accounts
that it vaguely accused of spreading “spam” and engaging in
“inauthentic behavior,” some of the individuals and
organizations caught up in the social media behemoth’s dragnet
disputed accusations that they were violating the platform’s rules
and raised alarm that Facebook is using its enormous power to silence
independent political perspectives that run counter to the corporate
media’s dominant narratives.

While
it is reasonable to assume that some of the more than 800 total pages
and accounts shut down by Facebook were engaged in overtly fraudulent
behavior—such as the use of fake accounts and bots to generate ad
revenue—numerous independent media 
outlets
that cover a wide array of issues
 say
they were swept up in the massive purge despite never using such
tactics.

“Facebook
has removed the pages of several police
accountability/watchdog/critic groups, including Cop Block, the Free
Thought Project, and Police the Police,” 
Washington
Post 
journalist
Radley Balko 
noted in
a tweet following Facebook’s announcement. “They’ve also
apparently severely restricted activity for the Photography Is Not a
Crime page.”

Activist,
comedian, and political commentator Lee Camp argued that Facebook’s
purge is clear evidence that the “purging of anti-establishment
thought is upon us” and described the account shutdowns as
“full-frontal suppression of dissent.”

Lee Camp [Redacted]

@LeeCamp

Everyone, this is MASSIVELY important. American censorship is reaching a new level. Sites like Anti-Media, Free Thought Project and others, have been ripped down by Facebook today. The purging of anti-establishment thought is upon us. https://twitter.com/AntiMedia/status/1050476321191669760 

Lee Camp [Redacted]

@LeeCamp

NOT ONLY were great journalistic sites like @AntiMedia and @TFTPROJECT banned from Facebook in yesterday’s PURGE of dissident voices, but simultaneously their Twitter accounts & the accounts of their editors were SUSPENDED, like @CareyWedler. Full-frontal suppression of dissent!

Speaking
to
 journalist
Alex Rubinstein after they found out Facebook shut down their
pages—some of which had hundreds of thousands of followers—the
founders of Police the Police, the Free Thought Project, and other
now-shuttered pages denied Facebook’s hazy charge of “fraudulent”
activity and accused the company of attempting to suppress dissenting
voices that refuse to toe the corporate line.

“Our
approach generally is to cover stories and angles that corporate
media underreport or misreport and to amplify activist and anti-war
voices and stories. All of our content is professionally fact-checked
and edited,” said Nicholas Bernabe, founder of 
The
Anti-Media
,
a self-described “anti-establishment” website whose
Facebook page was shut down along with hundreds of others on
Thursday. “I can only speculate that these suspensions were a
coordinated effort to stifle our message ahead of the coming
elections.”

While
some of the pages Facebook removed on Thursday 
were
affiliated with right-wing sites
 that
were spreading patently false stories, censorship opponents have long
warned of the “
slippery
slope

of empowering corporate giants to suppress certain kinds of content,
given that the suppression almost always expands far beyond the
original target.

“Those
who demanded Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants censor
political content—something they didn’t actually want to do—are
finding that content that they themselves support and like end up
being repressed,” 
noted The
Intercept
‘s
Glenn Greenwald in response to Facebook’s announcement. “That’s
what has happened to every censorship advocate in history.”

Though
Facebook has yet to release a full list of the pages and accounts it
removed, 
several
individuals affected
 by
the purge have taken to other social media platforms to denounce the
social media giant for squashing pages that took years to develop.

Rachel Blevins@RachBlevins

Facebook took down my page with nearly 70,000 followers, labeling it as “spam,” when I have spent 4 years working to build that page up and using it to post the articles I wrote and videos of my reporting. This is so incredibly wrong and is affecting hundreds of similar pages.

This
work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License

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* Media die met dat angst en haatzaaien niet zelden in feite indirect oproepen tot geweld…..

Zie ook:

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen

Facebook censureert de waarheid over Columbus en de verovering van de Amerika’s…….

Facebook censuur gestuurd door het westers militair-industrieel complex en de NAVO in het bijzonder……….

Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)

First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………

The US military’s vision for state censorship

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..

Facebook verlaat ‘tranding news’ voor ‘brekend nieuws’ van 80 reguliere mediaorganen, ofwel nog meer ‘fake news…..’

Facebook komt met nieuwsshows van betrouwbare media als CNN en Fox News…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, ‘het land van het vrije woord….’

Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……

Facebook helpt Saoedi-Arabië: doodstraf door onthoofding van vrouw die het waagde kritiek te uiten…..

Aanval op alternatieve media ‘succesvol’: meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd………

ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

Facebook stelt perstituee van New York Times aan als censuur-agent…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Het echte Facebook schandaal: manipulatie van de gebruikers en gratis diensten voor eertijds presidentskandidaat Obama…….

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook doneerde aan de politici die hem in de VS aan de tand voelden >> in het EU parlement maakte hij gebruik van megalomane EU politici…..

Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Media Too Busy Defending John McCain to Report the News That Actually Affects You‘ Onder andere aandacht voor PRISM.

Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……

VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”

Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

AVG: Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (geleid door Aleid Wolfsen PvdA) niet berekend op EU wetgeving…….

Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door…….