De
Braziliaanse president Bolsonaro is flink ‘over de rooie’ vanwege het
‘Lava Jato lek’ gepubliceerd op The Intercept, wat duidelijk aangeeft
dat hij Brazilië in de richting stuurt van een dictatoriale staat……
Vooral Glenn
Greenwald, de belangrijkste journalist van The Intercept, ligt onder het fascistische vuur van Bolsonaro en zijn corrupte
ultrarechtse kliek…..
‘Car
Wash’ ofwel ‘Lava Jato’, een onderzoek naar politieke corruptie begon
in 2014 en was bedoeld om deze corruptie openbaar te maken en
strafrechtelijk aan te pakken, ongeacht politieke kleur.
In juni
2019 begon The Intercept met publicaties van gesprekken die tijdens het
onderzoek werden gevoerd tussen de hoofdrolspelers, de zogenaamde
onafhankelijke rechter Sérgio Moro, die overleg voert met openbare
aanklagers (als onze officieren van justitie) om Lula da Silva
gevangen te zetten en zo de kans te verkleinen dat zijn partij PT
(arbeiders partij) de verkiezingen zou kunnen winnen…. Zoals we
weten is dat gelukt en heeft zijne fascistische kwaadaardigheid
Bolsonaro de verkiezingen gewonnen…….
Als
beloning werd rechter Moro benoemd tot minister van justitie…….
Niet vreemd dus dat Bolsonaro woedend is over het lekken van de
gevoerde gesprekken, bovendien zet e.e.a. grote vraagtekens bij de
wettigheid van Bolsonaro’s presidentschap…… (immers hij is
middels smerige malversaties aan het bewind gekomen)
Begin
Juli kwam Moro met een decreet tegen ‘gevaarlijke buitenlanders’,
niet moeilijk te bedenken wie Moro daar mee bedoelt, juist:
Glenn Greenwald!! Bolsonaro heeft Greenwald de laatste week bedreigd
en verder gesteld dat hij kan worden veroordeeld tot
gevangenisstraf…. Om nog wat meer haar tegen Greenwald te zaaien,
heeft Bolsonaro gezegd dat Greenwald door een huwelijk deportatie
heeft voorkomen, Greenwald woont al meer dan 10 jaar in Brazilië en is
nu Braziliaans staatsburger…..
Een
journalist die Bolsonaro’s perschef vroeg welke misdaad Greenwald
dan heeft begaan kreeg geen antwoord, de psychopaat keek na een aantal niet ter zake doende woorden alleen op
een intimiderende manier naar de bewuste journalist, Guilherme Mazieiro……
Intussen
krijgt het gezin van Greenwald de ene doodsbedreiging na de
andere…..
The
Intercept heeft geweigerd de bron van de gesprekken weer te geven en
stelt dat de berichtgeving van groot publieke belang is en daar is zoals je zal begrijpen geen speld tussen te krijgen!! The Intercept stelt dan ook dat het
niet onwettig heeft gehandeld.
Op 30
juli sprak Greenwald een grote groep journalisten, activisten en
musici toe, die steun betuigden aan The Intercept en stelde dat hij
het niet toe zal staan dat het land van zijn kinderen verandert in een
dictatuur….. Groot applaus, echter ik vrees dat Greenwald hier
weinig of niets tegen kan doen, vergeet niet dat Brazilië in het
verleden meermaals fascistisch is bestuurd……. Zelfs Tucker Carlson
van Fox News heeft afwezig zijn steun betuigd aan The Intercept,
terwijl hij bepaald geen vriend is van Greenwald.
De
tactiek van Bolsonaro’s kliek is duidelijk: demoniseer en
criminaliseer de boodschapper om zo de berichtgeving weg te houden
van het crimineel handelen door Bolsonaro, justitie en de
rechterlijke macht….*
Journalists
threatened with jail in Brazil as president reacts to damning leaks
Links fascist en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo naast fascist Bolsonaro
Brazilian
president Jair
Bolsonaro‘s
furious response to the Intercept‘s damning ‘Lava
Jato‘ leaks has
signalled the country’s further descent into authoritarianism. And
journalists face the threat of jail time as a result.
The
leaks
Brazil’s
massive corruption probe – Operation
Car Wash (Lava
Jato)
– began in 2014. The Car Wash teaminsisted “that
their only consideration was to expose and punish political
corruption irrespective of party or political faction” in Brazil.
But in June 2019, the Intercept began publishing leaked
conversations of officials involved in the probe. The
messages revealed that
the supposedly neutral judge, Sérgio Moro, worked together with
various Brazilian prosecutors to jail presidential front-runner Luis
Inácio Lula da Silva, and prevent his
Workers’ Party (PT) from securing election victory.
After
winning the election in October 2018, Bolsonaro employed Moro
– the man who jailed Lula – as his justice
minister.
The latest leaks are thus deeply embarrassing for the Brazilian
government. In fact, they call into serious question the legitimacy
of Bolsonaro’s presidency.
Furious
response
After
a brief leave
of absence in
early July, Moro returned to work to issue a new decree
against “dangerous foreigners”. Ominously named ‘decree number
666’, it is understood as
a thinly veiled threat against Intercept co-founder
and editor Glenn
Greenwald –
a US citizen who has lived in Brazil for over a decade.
Bolsonaro,
not shy of revealing his fascistic
tendencies,
has also threatened Greenwald over the past week. On 27 July, he said
Greenwald could “do
jail time” and suggested “that he had married a Brazilian citizen
to avoid deportation”.
In
a press conference on 30 July, meanwhile, one journalist challenged
Bolsonaro’s press secretary General Otávio Rêgo Barros to explain
what crime Greenwald was guilty of. His refusal to give any
meaningful answer was chilling:
BrianMier@BrianMteleSUR
Far Right President Jair Bolsonaro recently accused Glenn Greenwald, from the Intercept, of committing a felony. Yesterday his Press Secretary, General Otávio Rêgo Barros, was unable to explain what the crime was, so he tried to stare down journalist Guilherme Mazieiro instead.
The
Brazilian federal police, meanwhile, have arrested four
people accused of involvement in the leaks.
“Classic
public interest journalism”
While
refusing to reveal its source/s, the Intercept has
responded to the Brazilian government’s threats, defending their
reporting as “classic public interest journalism”. Its
journalists added:
“The
public interest in reporting this material has been obvious from the
start. These documents revealed serious, systematic, and sustained
improprieties and possible illegality”
For
this reason, the Intercept claims
its reporting is legal under
the Brazilian constitution.
On
30 July, Greenwald spoke to a packed crowd of journalists, activists,
and musicians gathered in solidarity with the Intercept.
To rapturous applause, Greenwald said:
“I
am not going to let the country of my children turn into a
dictatorship”.
Those
who couldn’t attend the events in Brazil – including author Naomi
Klein and even Fox
News‘s
Tucker Carlson – also sent messages
of support.
The
Brazilian government’s strategy in response to the leaks is clear:
demonise and criminalise the messenger to shift the focus from the
message.
Greenwald
and the Intercept deserve
international solidarity.
* Dezelfde tactiek die Hillary Clinton volgde, toen uitkwam dat zij en haar campagneteam het kandidaatschap voor president van de VS in 2016 tijdens de Democratische voorverkiezingen heeft gestolen van Bernie Sanders, het begin van de smerige leugen die Russiagate wordt genoemd……..
The Canary bracht afgelopen vrijdag een artikel van Bryan Wall waarin deze het tweede debat van de democratische presidentskandidaten beschrijft. Met name de aanval van kandidaat Bernie Sanders op de oorlogsmachine van de VS trok zijn aandacht, hoewel het bekend is dat Sanders om het zacht te zeggen, geen voorstander is van het uiterst agressieve VS buitenlandbeleid, beter gezegd ‘terreurbeleid…….’
Het steekt Sanders vooral dat een enorme groep VS burgers in armoede moet leven, waarvan ruim 50 miljoen zelfs afhankelijk is van voedselbonnen……. Uiteraard is ook de toegang van arme groepen tot de gezondheidszorg een speerpunt voor Sanders, waar de grote onderlaag nog steeds geen of slechte toegang tot gezondheidszorg heeft……
De VS geeft nu meer dan 700 miljard dollar uit aan oorlogsvoering, althans volgens het SIPRI, echter er wordt nog veel meer uitgegeven aan oorlogsvoering, daar er bijvoorbeeld geen budgetten voor geheime oorlogsvoering (o.l.v. de CIA) bekend worden gemaakt, noch de kosten voor het opzetten van opstanden (om tot een coup te leiden van VS niet welgevallige landen), noch de kosten voor geheime cyberaanvallen (ofwel cyberterreur), noch die voor economische oorlogsvoering die bijvoorbeeld in Venezuela al tot 40.000 doden heeft geleid……*
Sanders houdt het oorlogsbudget overigens op 1,5 triljard dollar, wat in onze weergave van die getalsaanduiding dik meer dan 1 biljoen dollar is…… Terwijl de VS tegelijkertijd amper iets doet tegen de klimaatverandering, is oorlogsvoering ook nog eens een enorme aanjager is van de klimaatverandering……..
Vergeet verder niet dat de VS jaarlijks miljoenen kwijtraakt door de enorme bosbranden, waarbij vorig jaar zelfs een stadje bijna geheel werd weggevaagd…… Om over de vele miljarden schade door orkanen maar te zwijgen, beiden weergerelateerde rampen die één op één te danken zijn aan de klimaatverandering, ofwel: hoe dom en/of gevaarlijk moet je zijn om dan nog klimaatscepticus te spelen, zoals Trump en andere fascisten/neoliberalen (2 kanten van dezelfde medaille), zoals Bolsonaro in Brazilië dat doen……
Het volgende artikel is geschreven door Bryan Wall en werd gepubliceerd op The Canary:
Bernie
Sanders takes aim at the US war machine in second Democratic debate
Bernie
Sanders took
aim at
both the US war machine and climate catastrophe during the second
Democratic Party debate on 28 June. Sanders insisted that, instead of
spending obscene amounts of money on weapons, tackling climate
catastrophe should be a key priority.
He
also attacked the
levels of poverty and inequality that exist in the US. And he argued
that people must stand up and be counted if they want things to
change.
War
and climate
Sanders slammed both
US militarism and Washington’s lack of action on climate breakdown.
He insisted that “instead of spending a trillion and a half dollars
on weapons of destruction”, the real enemy is climate
catastrophe. Calling
it the
“common enemy”, he went on to declare that the goal should be to:
“transform
the world’s energy system away from fossil fuel to energy
efficiency and sustainable energy”.
The
world’s future, he said,
“rests on us doing that”:
(de video bij dit bericht kan ik niet overnemen, zie daarvoor het origineel, de tekst is overigens opgenomen in dit artikel)
Sanders
also laid out
his history of anti-war activism. Unlike his fellow presidential
hopeful Joe Biden, Sanders voted against the 2003 invasion
of Iraq.
He also revealed that he pushed to
end US support of Saudi
Arabia’s
war on Yemen:
(ook bij dit Twitterbericht een korte video die ik niet over kan nemen, hierin een uitgebreider commentaar op de oorlog in Jemen,zie daarvoor weer het origineel)
I helped lead the opposition to the Iraq War. Joe Biden voted for it. When we talk about foreign policy there is a very clear difference in this election. #DemDebate2
“I
will do everything I can to prevent a war with Iran which would be
far worse than the disastrous war with Iraq”.
Change
Sanders
went on to state that
many people watching the debate probably believe that nothing changes
in the US and wonder:
“How
come, for the last 45 years, wages have been stagnant for the middle
class? How come we have the highest rate of childhood poverty? How
come 45 million people still have student debt? How come three people
own more wealth than the bottom half of America?”
“nothing
will change unless we have the guts to take on Wall Street, the
insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the
military-industrial complex, and the fossil-fuel industry”.
And
if this doesn’t happen, he argued,
the “rich will get richer” while everyone else struggles:
As
journalist and climate activist Naomi
Klein pointed
out, tackling climate breakdown “is not a solo climate policy”.
It means taking on the wider issues which affect society:
1. Lots of these candidates claim they support a #GreenNewDeal but their performance in #DemDebates tells a very different story. GND is not a solo climate policy – it’s a plan to transform the economy and its underlying values to wage war on climate breakdown + poverty/injustice
1. Lots of these candidates claim they support a #GreenNewDeal but their performance in #DemDebates tells a very different story. GND is not a solo climate policy – it’s a plan to transform the economy and its underlying values to wage war on climate breakdown + poverty/injustice
The military’s final destructive act is of planetary scale.
medium.com
Bernie
Sanders showed during the debate that he understands this holistic
approach. From his criticism of US militarism to his understanding of
inequality in the US, he is head and shoulders above the likes of
Biden.
If
change is going to happen, Sanders becoming president would be a
strong step in the right direction.
Trump vindt dat ‘zijn vriend’ Boris Johnson de juiste vervanger voor Theresa May. Voorts rekent hij ook Nigel Farage tot zijn vriendenkring…..
Als Hitler en zijn oorlogsmisdadigers nog aan het bewind waren geweest, had Trump hen ook tot zijn vriendenkring gerekend, immers elke fascist kan rekenen op de vriendschap van Trump en z’n misdadige kliek, neem Bolsonaro de fascist in Brazilië, Netanyahu in Israël, MBS in de reli-fascistische dictatuur Saoedi-Arabië, Orbán in Hongarije en Duterte in de Filipijnen, dat zijn er nog maar een paar, wellicht is de enige uitzondering de reli-fascistische psychopaat Erdogan, daar hij aankondigde een Russisch raketsysteem aan te zullen schaffen.
Opvallend ook dat de hiervoor genoemde figuren, inclusief de Britse premier en oorlogsmisdadiger May, allen psychopaten zijn, dat geldt ook voor Trump’s grote vriend Guaidó, de door de VS geparachuteerde ‘interim-president’ van Venezuela. Dat Trump zelf een psychopaat is hoef ik je waarschijnlijk niet uit te leggen, een meer internationaal bekend voorbeeld is m.i. momenteel niet te vinden……
Ja,
maffe kop boven dit bericht, echter daar komt het wel op neer. Avaaz is een
organisatie die al vele keren successen heeft geclaimd voor acties
die anderen middels petities voor elkaar kregen. Ach ja, een
beproefde methode: je roeptoetert 20 keer dat je succes hebt met een
bepaalde petitie en het grootste deel van het publiek gelooft je, zeg
maar zoals de westerse inhumane neoliberale politiek tegenwoordig haar destructieve werk verricht…..
Ongelofelijk
te lezen hoe Avaaz de reguliere media als betrouwbaar afschildert in
haar oproep tegen fake news en desinformatie…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dus
de reguliere media hadden volkomen gelijk om propagandaleugens
voorafgaand en tijdens de illegale oorlogen van de VS te steunen en
te herhalen…..?? Dossierkasten vol bewijs dat het om leugens gaat,
maar Avaaz raadt aan vooral de reguliere media te volgen, dezelfde
media die de Russiagate leugens hielpen te verspreiden en veelal nog
volhouden dat e.e.a. de waarheid is, ‘zeg maar’ zoals Avaaz dat ook
in de boodschap hieronder herhaalt……
Ook de Brexit zou het werk van fake news zijn, terwijl duidelijk is dat er geen campagne werd gevoerd tegen de Brexit, zodat men aangewezen was op o.a. leugens van figuren als Farage, echter ook deze fascist gebruikte niet alleen leugens, bovendien zijn er genoeg andere krachten die de EU terecht als een gevaar voor de EU bevolking zien en met geloofwaardige argumenten tegen de EU kwamen (en die argumenten zijn er meer dan voldoende!)
Onlangs
plaatste ik een bericht n.a.v. een artikel waarin Avaaz de bel wordt
aangebonden, je kan eerst dat bericht lezen*, of lees het nadat je de onzin van Avaaz hieronder hebt gelezen….
Mensen
geeft het door Avaaz is een volkomen onbetrouwbaar medium dat graag
ophitst tot oorlog en ondanks de kritiek op Trump ,vooral de VS
doctrine uitdraagt, de doctrine dat de VS belangen heeft die
wereldwijd liggen en zich het recht voorbehoud om massamoorden aan te
richten als daarmee de belangen van de VS (lees de winning van
grondstoffen) worden gediend….. Avaaz de grote promotors van het Al
Qaida onderdeel White Helmets…..
Avaaz dat de VS terreur en die van de zogenaamde gematigde oppositie (lees terreurgroepen) steunt, terreur tegen het
soevereine land Syrië en nu weer de economische oorlog van de VS tegen Venezuela steunt (waar de VS al meermaals wapens heeft geleverd aan de zogenaamde oppositie) en oproept
tot militair ingrijpen…… Wat betreft Syrië** steunt Avaaz daarbij de terreurgroepen in dat land, terreurgroepen die Nederland
steunde, maar waar men vorig jaar toegaf dat het niet om de (niet
bestaande) ‘gematigde oppositie’ ging, maar om groepen die vreselijke
terreur uitoefenden tegen de bevolking……
Let op:
de volgende boodschap van Avaaz staat bol van leugens en andere
desinformatie, neem de leugens over RT, dat wordt aangevallen zonder
dat Avaaz voorbeelden kan geven welke informatie dan fake dan
wel ‘desinformerend’ zou zijn geweest:
Briefing: The
urgent threat of disinformationand
how we can protect
ourselves
Dear
friends,
In
days, the far-right could hijack the EU elections, stuffing the
European Parliament with racists, bigots, and climate deniers.
It
feels like these parties have come from nowhere. Now in some EU
countries, they are leading the polls! So what’s their secret
weapon?
Disinformation.
Right
now, Europe is drowning in disinformation, like that gangs of
migrants are attacking the police, or that the Notre Dame cathedral
will be rebuilt with a minaret! For months, our team has been
investigating this tsunami of fake news in Europe and we’ve uncovered
a shocking truth — content
from disinformation networks has been viewed hundreds of millions of
times!
Study
after study shows no one is immune to these toxic lies, but the more
we know what to watch out for, the better we can protect ourselves.
Before the election, Avaaz
has prepared a briefing to help Europeans get smart on
disinformation.Read
it now then share it widely.
1.It
feeds off our fear and it travels fast.Humans
are hardwired to remember negative information over positive, it’s
how we learn. Peddlers of disinformation know this and play on
deep emotions,
which make us far more likely to share it on social media — and so
it spreads up to six
times fasterthan
factual news! 2.It
thrives on social media and reaches billions.The
more time we spend on social media, the more
money those companiesmake.
They know that extreme and shocking content hooks our attention, so
they programme their sites to promote
it.
And it reaches billions.The biggest newspapers sell a few million
copies, while news on Facebook reaches over a BILLION per day. 3.It
is being weaponized against us.Authoritarian
leaders from Brazil to China are weaponizing disinformation as the
newest move in the playbook for age-old divide and rule politics. But
it’s Russia that leads the pack — their huge ‘troll
farms’ employ
legions of people to set up millionsof
fake accounts to spread disinformation. And RT, Russia’s
propaganda outlet,
is one of YouTube’s most-viewed news channels with an estimated
2 billion views! 4.It’s
killing people and poisoning democracy.Disinformation
is driving vigilante violence in Indiaand Brazil,
and fueled brutal ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
It’s also poisoning our politics. Fake news helped give
us Brexit, Bolsonaro,
and Trump.
And it’s destroying
trustin
mainstream media, our democratic institutions, and political leaders,
creating the perfect breeding ground for anti-establishment strongmen
to rise to power. Because of disinformation, social media is now
a threat
to democracy. 5.No
one is immune.People
across the political spectrum are being micro-targeted as part of a
strategy to polarise
and erodeour
societies. In the US, Russia’s troll army created a
fake pagefor
American black activists that drew more followers than the official
Black Lives Matter movement pages! We think we’d never fall for
this stuff, but studies show that even
the most educated among
us tend to believe fake news, and people
over 65are
even more likely to spread it.
Disinformation
spreads distrust, fear, and lies. But the more we know about it, the
more we can stop it — share this briefing with friends and family to
educate them on the disinformation threat. And read on to see how to
protect yourself!
1.If
you see something, say something!Don’t
believe everything you read on the internet. Seen a random Facebook
post with shocking info about a political candidate? Don’t trust it!
Check the facts with reliable sources, and if you think you may have
found a piece of disinformation, let us know here. 2.Keep
supporting real journalism. Most
traditional media is covered by regulations and ethics that make it
far more trustworthy than a random dude on the internet. They’re
not perfect, but they check their facts and can be held responsible!
Subscribing to a high quality newspaper with real
journalismis
one of the most powerful acts a citizen can take today. 3.Join
the campaign to clean up social media.Avaaz
has a simple and effective plan to push the tech giants to cure the
disinformation epidemic on social media — by showing
independently-verified factual corrections to fake news. Join
the campaign. 4.Don’t
give up on democracy!The
goal of the troll armies is to create such a climate of distrust that
ordinary citizens walk away from democracy. When that happens,
fanatic extremists can dominate it. We must keep showing up and
voting, encouraging our friends and family to do the same, and
holding our elected officials to account. 5.Choose
hope in humanity.Disinformation
preys on our deepest fears, appealing to our natural negativity bias
and bringing out our more angry and cynical sides. But if we can
learn to engage with the arguments of people who don’t think like
us, with empathy, big ears, and wisdom, we can connect across our
differences. We have more in common than our fears make us believe.
If we trust that, amazing things can happen.
Our
civilisation is the most successful in human history, on so many
fronts, from human rights to democracy. We’re on track to end poverty
within a generation, and we’re close to putting every child in
school. It’s clear that democracy, and great journalists,
accountable political leaders, and fellow citizens got us here. But
the forces pushing disinformation are powerful and threaten to
destroy all of that. Let’s not let them win by giving up hope!
With
hope and trust,
Ricken,
with Iain, Nell, Risalat, Sarah, and the whole Avaaz team
P.S.
What does disinformation actually look like? Check out these 3
terrifying real-world examples!
When
disinformation is used to fuel a genocide
Hateful
lies about the Rohingya minority in Myanmar went viral online. Fake
claims of things like cannibalism (like above) were used by the
military and anti-muslim groups to justify ethnic cleansing.
Thousands of Rohingya families were slaughtered, women brutally
raped, and homes torched to the ground, leading UN officials to
declare a genocide.
When
fake news is used to attack entire groups, like migrants
Almost
10 million people saw this video of migrants destroying a police
car. The problem? It’s also entirely fake — it’s actually from a
movie, and was debunked years ago! That didn’t stop far-right groups
in Italy and across Europe from sharing it again, even just a few
weeks ago — and Facebook did nothing while it went viral, inflaming
suspicion, hostility, and even hatred of immigrant people.
When
disinformation is used to polarise and stoke fear and anger
In
France, people shared a letter by French actor Gérard Lanvin over
251,000 times, criticising President Macron and his government! The
only problem? It was completely fake, with the actor himself
claiming he had been a victim of identity theft. It’s a clear
example of how disinformation is used to sow distrust of the
government — and why it’s such a major threat to democracy.
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En dan te bedenken dat AVAAZ zich aan dezelfde zaken schuldig maakt…….. (zie de link hieronder)
PS: in het schrijven van Avaaz, de volgende bewering: Our civilisation is the most successful in human history…..’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja uiterst succesvol, een klimaatverandering die nog nooit zo snel is verlopen als die door toedoen van de mens, met als enige uitzondering de inslag van een enorme meteoriet 65 miljoen jaar geleden, die een eind maakte aan de heerschappij van de dinosauriërs….. De huidige klimaatverandering is niet meer terug te draaien, zal veel hoger uitvallen dan de beoogde 1,5 graad Celsius tegen het eind van deze eeuw en zal aan vele miljoenen mensen het leven kosten, een klimaatverandering die zelfs een eind kan maken aan mens en dier….. Daarover gesproken: onlangs werd bekend gemaakt dat één miljoen soorten dieren en planten zullen verdwijnen door toedoen van de mens, zoals de mens ook verantwoordelijk is voor het uitsterven van twee derde van de insecten….. En mensen zo kan ik nog wel even doorgaan……
In
een zoals gebruikelijk voor Glenn Greenwald uitgebreid en uitstekend schrijven, vertelt hij in het hieronder opgenomen artikel over
de nauwe banden, die de fascistische president van Brazilië en zijn
zonen hebben met de paramilitaire extreemrechtse
terreurgroepen, of beter gezegd fascistische doodseskaders in dat land…..
Zoals uit het voorgaande al blijkt bestaan deze doodseskaders uit (ex-) politie- en legerpersoneel, ze zijn o.a. verantwoordelijk voor de moord op de populaire Braziliaanse rechter Patricia Acioli…… (het lijkt wel het Italië uit de 80er en 90er jaren van de vorige eeuw…) Acioli werd vermoord door 2 ex-agenten van de militaire politie, die NB nauwe banden onderhielden met Bolsonaro en zijn misdadige familie……. (zie de berichten onder het hieronder opgenomen artikel)
Ook wethouder van Rio de Janeiro Marielle Franco werd door zo’n doodseskader vermoord….. Deze 2 moorden werden gepleegd omdat Acioli en Franco zich NB bemoeiden met de vervolging van misdaad en corruptie!
Bij het onderzoek naar de moord op Franco vond de politie een groot arsenaal aan wapens en munitie van VS makelij…….
De
zogenaamde strijd van Bolsonaro tegen de misdaad en corruptie in
Brazilië is dan ook een strijd gericht tegen links en de kleine misdadigers onder de Braziliaanse bevolking….. Intussen heeft Bolsonaro een regering met uiterst corrupte figuren gevormd, terwijl hij het presidentschap won door te beloven de corruptie en de misdaad aan te pakken, hebben de grote misdadigers vrij spel, waar de meeste Brazilianen in armoede moeten leven en die grote misdadigers veelal juist verantwoordelijk zijn voor de regie op de kleine misdaad……. (ofwel de misdaad wordt amper aangepakt, zelfs minder dan onder voorgaande regeringen en dan moet je bedenken dat Bolsonaro nog maar relatief kort president is….)
Bolsonaro wordt door de reguliere westerse media en veel westerse politici geprezen voor zijn ‘aanpak van corruptie en misdaad’, zonder dat ze daar voorbeelden van kunnen geven…… Opvallend is de houding van de westerse media wel gezien het feit dat op dodenlijsten van deze paramilitaire groepen naast mensenrechtenactivisten, ook journalisten staan genoemd……
Lees
het volgende artikel, eerder verschenen op The Intercept en geeft het
door, in de reguliere westerse media is er geen aandacht
voor het fascistische gehalte van de huidige Braziliaanse regering,
die nu al meer corrupt is, dan de vorige 2 regeringen in alle jaren bij
elkaar lieten zien (en dan moet nog opgemerkt worden dat die 2
regeringen voor het overgrote deel valselijk werden beschuldigd van
corruptie…)….. Als de linkse ex-president Lula da Silva niet op valse gronden was veroordeeld, had hij op zeker de verkiezingen gewonnen van Bolsonaro….. (er was dus alle belang bij, ook voor de VS, dat Lula vast bleef zitten en dat Bolsonaro daarmee de verkiezingen zou winnen en zo gebeurde….)
Video:
As Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Prepares to Meet Donald Trump, His
Family’s Close Ties to Notorious Paramilitary Gangs Draw Scrutiny
and Outrage
Brazil´s
president Jair Bolsonaro
is in Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the
White House on Tuesday. While the trip officially is focused on
the joint efforts of the U.S. and Brazil to change the government of
Venezuela, it is being billed by the Bolsonaro government as a
“restart” of his presidency and image after multiple,
serious scandals crippled
the first
three months of his presidency.
But
when it comes to recreating his image, the timing of this trip
could hardly be worse. Key news events of the last
several weeks — including the arrests
of two former Rio de Janeiro police officers for
the March 2018 assassination of Rio City Council Councilor Marielle
Franco — have highlighted the most damaging and, to many, most
terrifying revelations about Bolsonaro and his three politician sons:
their extensive, direct, multilayered, and deeply personal ties to
the paramilitary gangs and militias responsible for Brazil’s most
horrific violence. is in Washington to meet U.S. President
Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. While the trip
officially is focused on the joint efforts of the U.S. and Brazil to
change the government of Venezuela, it is being billed by the
Bolsonaro government as a “restart” of his presidency and image
after multiple,
serious scandals crippled
the first
three months of his presidency.
Watch
our video report on the growing, multilevel, personal, and highly
disturbing links between Bolsonaro and his family on the one hand,
and the country’s most violent, lawless, and murderous paramilitary
gangs on the other:
Just
consider how, even before the arrests of Franco’s killers last
week, so many deep ties had already emerged between Bolsonaro and his
sons, who won office principally on an anti-crime and
anti-corruption platform, and the paramilitary gangs composed of
current and former military police officers and military members.
Bolsonaro himself is a former army captain who served during Brazil’s
military dictatorship and left in the 1980s amid allegations of
misconduct; yet, even now as the president, he still has his
friends and aides address him as “Captain.”
In
January, the Rio de Janeiro police executed a
full-scale raid against
the city’s most dangerous militia, the one that houses within
it the terrifying murder-for-hire team known as “the Crime Office.”
That assassin team is composed of highly trained police officers who
use their specialized knowledge of investigations and assassin skills
to carry out murders with very little possibility of detection,
and they have long been the leading suspects in Franco’s
assassination, given how professional and frighteningly efficient
that murder was carried out.
The
January raid resulted in the arrest of five of the top six commanders
of the militia. The only one who escaped, and is still a fugitive,
was the chief of that militia: ex-police captain Adriano Magalhães
da Nóbrega (pictured under, from a prior arrest). Wanted for other
murders, and subject to an Interpol arrest warrant, he has presided
as the leader of Rio’s most terrifying militia, the one that police
concluded carried out Franco’s assassination with such chilling
precision.
That
raid led to a shocking revelation: Unbeknownst to the public, the
mother and wife of Nóbrega — one of Brazil’s most notorious
gangsters — were both receiving salaries from the state. That’s
because both
of them were formally employed by Flávio Bolsonaro, Jair
Bolsonaro’s oldest son, for the entire last decade as he served as
a state representative in the Rio de Janeiro state legislature. When
Jair Bolsonaro was elected president last November, Flávio moved up
to the Federal Senate as a result of winning his election in Rio with
a massive vote total.
Shortly
after this highly incriminating connection was revealed, a dam
collapsed in the interior of Brazil and tragically
killed more than 200 people, understandably
replacing news coverage of virtually all other events. That resulted
in far less attention being paid to Flávio’s close connections to
Nóbrega’s family than was deserved. So just reflect on that: Jair
Bolsonaro’s son had on his official government payroll the mother
and wife of one of the country’s most notorious and psychopathic
paramilitary leaders, the fugitive chief of the militia
responsible for the assassination of Marielle Franco, among countless
other murders.
In
February, Flávio’s direct and intimate ties to militias became
even more glaring. Checks were
found issued
in the name of his campaign account signed by the sister of two
twin-brother militia members, Alan and Alex Rodrigues de
Oliveira, arrested in a large-scale police raid last August. Just
months prior to the arrest of these two militia brothers,
Flávio posted
to his Instagram a
photo of himself and his father, then a presidential candidate, at a
birthday party for the two militia twins, congratulating them and
heaping praise on the family.
IN
RETROSPECT, that
Flávio had such close personal connections to Rio’s
militias that he put the mother and wife of its most notorious chief
on his payroll should not have been surprising. As a state
legislator, he twice
bestowed on the top militia leaders,
then police officers, formal awards and honors, praising them for
their civil service to their communities.
Far
worse, in 2011, Brazilian Judge Patricia Acioli, who, along with
Brazil’s left-wing PSOL party, was overseeing a sweeping criminal
investigation into militias and heroically sent numerous high-ranking
police officers to prison, was brutally
murdered outside
her home, horrifying not just Brazil but the world. While all
Brazilian politicians expressed horror and disgust at this brazen
attack on the rule of law — showing that militias could just murder
whoever they wanted, even judges sending their leaders to prison —
Flávio posted a tweet that basically blamed her for her own murder,
criticizing her for provoking the militias:
Jair
Bolsonaro himself has a history of multiple ties to Brazil’s
militias and several of its key leaders. He has twice, on the floor
of the Congress, explicitly
praised their
death squads as good for the country’s security and crime problems.
On one occasion, after various members of Congress from the northern
region of Brazil warned of the growth of death squads and
extrajudicial murders carried out by growing police-composed
militias, Bolsonaro stood
to explicitly praise them as crime-fighting patriots and
declared them “welcome” in Rio de Janeiro. Since
then, those militias have taken over huge swaths of Brazil’s most
critical cities, including Rio. A January investigation from The
Intercept Brasil found that militias have virtually
taken over the entire city.
In
sum, the Bolsonaro movement has been fixated on Brazil’s crime
epidemic, and anger over growing violence was arguably one of the two
main factors in the rise of that movement (the other being anger over
systemic political corruption). But when Bolsonaro and his family
speak of crime, they almost always try to focus attention on the
primarily black drug traffickers who live in the city’s poor
favelas, and virtually never speak of the far more menacing, serious,
and terrifying source of criminality carried out by the Bolsonaros’
ideological companions and heroes of the country’s sophisticated
and skilled militias:
That
Bolsonaro — despite how central his anti-crime posture is to his
political popularity — is eager to praise, rather than condemn and
combat, militias is not hard to understand. Those militias are ruled
by his friends, neighbors, comrades, and closest associates.
The
militia member who worked as Flávio’s driver for the last decade
and whose large money movements — including one into
the account of Jair Bolsonaro’s wife —
triggered the first scandal of his presidency, ex-police Officer
Fabrício Queiroz, is one of Bolsonaro’s oldest and closest
friends. When police sought to question him about those money
movements to the Bolsonaro family, he unsurprisingly went into
hiding in the precise neighborhood, Rio das Pedras, most notorious
for being commanded most thoroughly by Rio’s most violent militia.
WHEN
TWO OF FRANCO’S KILLERS were finally
apprehended last week, just two days shy of the one-year anniversary
of her assassination, nobody was surprised that they had both
been members of Brazil’s military police. The extreme
professionalism with which that murder was carried out, including the
still-unexplained coincidence that numerous public security cameras
on the path they chose to pursue her had been turned off in the days
before the assassination, left no doubt that militias were
responsible.
But
almost immediately after the police announced the identity of the two
assassins they arrested, ties to Bolsonaro emerged. The shooter
himself, police Sgt. Ronnie Lessa, lives on the same street as
Bolsonaro’s Rio house, in an exclusive gated community: an extreme
coincidence given how massive and sprawling of a city Rio de Janeiro
is. In other words, one of Franco’s assassins — the man who
pumped four bullets into her head — turned out to be Bolsonaro’s
neighbor, both of whom lived in close proximity in a very rich
neighborhood despite working their entire adult lives on the
public payroll.
Shortly
thereafter, a photo emerged of Lessa and Bolsonaro together, posted
to Lessa’s social media account. Police then confirmed that
Bolsonaro’s 20-year-old son and Lessa’s daughter had been dating.
While none of those facts are close to dispositive in terms of
linking Bolsonaro to Franco’s murder, those are a lot of
coincidental connections to have between a three-decade member of
Congress and the current president of the Republic, on the one hand,
and the murderers who pumped four bullets into the skull of one of
Rio de Janeiro’s most prominent and inspiring left-wing politicians
on the other.
As
part of the police search of the assassins’ properties, the police
apprehended the single largest collection of armaments in the history
of Brazil’s democracy: 117 M-16 automatic rifles. Notably, they
were apprehended not in the favelas on which the Bolsonaros
obsessively fixate when talking about crime, but in a luxury
condominium owned by a former police officer who is part of the
militia that assassinated Franco and which has multiple ties to the
Bolsonaro family:
Armaments
seized from the house of one of the accused assassins of Marielle
Franco, including 117 M-16 automatic rifles, from Rio de Janeiro. Photo:
Rio Civil Police
Days
later, the police — despite still not having apprehended the people
who ordered and paid for Franco’s assassination — insinuated
a political motive to her killers. Consistent with
Bolsonaro’s denunciation of the sweeping investigation of
militias led by Franco’s political mentor, Marcelo Freixo of the
left-wing PSOL party (the same party of Jean Wyllys, the gay
congressperson who last
month fled Brazil and
gave up his congressional term under highly specific death threats),
reports emerged that Franco’s
assassins were overt Bolsonaro supporters.
The
police also indicated that they had seized the computers and other
electronic devices of the two killers, and discovered that,
subsequent to Franco’s assassination, the murderous militia pair
had searched
and monitored the movements of
numerous human rights activists, left-wing journalists, and
politicians (one of those specified by the police was my husband,
David Miranda, now a congressperson from the same left-wing party as
Freixo, Franco, and Wyllys).
All
of this mounting evidence — most of which has been unearthed just
in the 10 weeks since Bolsonaro’s January 1 inauguration — paints
a deeply disturbing and dangerous picture. Brazil — the world’s
fifth-largest country, with massive oil reserves and the world’s
most critical environmental region in the Amazon that the current
government wants to sell off to the highest industrial bidders — is
in the hands of a family with multiple, close, and growing
connections to the country’s most murderous, criminal, and
sociopathic death squads and paramilitary forces.
As Bolsonaro
meets Trump at the White House tomorrow, that meeting should be
understood first and foremost within this context. Bolsonaro has
quickly elevated himself to the top echelon of the world’s most
thuggish, violent, and dangerous leaders. And given the stakes raised
by Brazil — geopolitically, culturally, economically,
environmentally, and militarily — this is clearly one of the most
profoundly disturbing developments of the last year. Whatever else is
true, the media focus on Bolsonaro’s presence in the White
House should feature these facts prominently and centrally if the
reporting is to accurately reflect who he is and what he represents.
De coup
die de VS tegen de regering van Maduro in Venezuela al jaren geleden
heeft opgezet, middels een economische oorlogsvoering, bevindt zich
in het laatste stadium……. Althans dat lijkt er zwaar op als je de
gebeurtenissen in Venezuela aan je oog en oor voorbij ziet dan wel
hoort gaan……..
Middels
de economische oorlog van de VS die al vele jaren duurt en waarbij de
VS levensmiddelen winkelketens van VS origine onder druk heeft gezet
hun voorraden in Venezuela niet meer aan te vullen, hetzelfde geldt
voor medicijnen van VS makelij, dan wel de belastingontduikers onder
hen die bijvoorbeeld in Europa een ‘hoofdkantoor’ hebben
(brievenbusfirma’s)……..
Uiteraard
wordt sinds een paar jaar door waarschijnlijk het VS ministerie van buitenlandse en binnenlandse zaken in samenwerking met andere overheidsorganen van de VS, druk op
alle bedrijven uitgeoefend die zaken deden en doen met Venezuela, zo
van: ‘als je hiermee doorgaat kan je op een zwarte lijst belanden,
zodat je elk zakendoen met de VS kan vergeten’ en als dat niet helpt
dreigt de VS gewoon zo’n bedrijf als misdadig af te schilderen,
waarna de leiding zelfs kan worden gearresteerd in een ander land,
zoals onlangs de topvrouw van Huawei is overkomen, waar het wel een
gotspe is dat de Canadese regering aan deze ontvoering heeft
meegeholpen…….. Voorts zullen banken niet graag geld lenen aan dergelijke bedrijven, daar zij anders ook op de zwarte lijst komen….. Zo chanteert de VS terreurentiteit een fiks deel van de wereld, waartegen niemand actie onderneemt, alsof dit een normale gang van zaken is……
De
zoveelste keer dat de VS grote mensenmassa’s op straat heeft weten te
krijgen in Venezuela, waar voorafgaand aan de voorlaatste protesten zelfs
terroristen Venezuela werden binnengesmokkeld, terroristen die tijdens de demonstraties uiterst gewelddadig optraden tegen de politie….. Opvallend
genoeg vonden deze gewelddadige demonstraties plaats in de welgestelde delen van Venezolaanse steden…..
De
nieuwste truc van de CIA: laat een oppositieleider zichzelf uitroepen
tot interim president, inclusief de hele mikmak die erbij hoort, ik
durf te wedden dat dit de VS een enorme bak belastinggeld heeft
gekost, zoals de 4 miljard die Hillary Clinton (onder Obama minister
van BuZa) uittrok voor de opstand en daaropvolgende coup in
Oekraïne……
Niet
vreemd ook dat andere fascistische, of bijna fascistische
Latijns-Amerikaanse staten, in navolging van de VS en Canada, de interim regering van Juan Guaidó
erkenden als officiële regering van Venezuela…….
Overigens heeft Guaidó eerder om ingrijpen van de VS verzocht….*
Gisteren
op Radio1, BNR, WDR en BBC de hele dag ‘sfeerimpressies’ van de
gebeurtenissen in Venezuela, waarbij Maduro werd afgeschilderd als de grote misdadiger, die de
hand heeft in het geweld tegen demonstranten…… Geweld als bij de hiervoor
beschreven demonstraties met ingehuurde psychopaten, waar de reguliere massamedia rapporteerden dat dit geweld van de overheid kwam, terwijl men op de hoogte was van de waarheid….. Geen wonder dat deze media nooit een rectificatie plaatsten, nee men hield stug
vol dat de Venezolaanse politie en leger op elkaar en op demonstranten hadden geschoten, immers naast gedode demonstranten
werden er o.a. politieagenten doodgeschoten en verwond…….
Volgens
een WDR correspondent (kreeg niet mee hoe ze
heet, haar voornaam is Ulla) heeft Maduro het land naar de afgrond
geleid, alsof de hele VS boycot, beter gezegd economische oorlog, niet bestaat, terwijl ze dat toch
echt zou moeten weten……. Ongelofelijk wat men allemaal durft te
spuien, zo sprak deze ‘correspondent’ op straat met ‘een arme
Venezolaan’, die ook achter de coup van Guaidó zou staan…..
Uiteraard
haalt men zulke trucs uit: terwijl Chavez (waarschijnlijk vermoord door of i.o.v. de CIA) en Maduro de enige presidenten zijn die ooit echt
iets voor de armen in Venezuela hebben gedaan……. Dat feit zal niet
snel vergeten worden door de arme bevolking van Venezuela….. De
hoofdmoot van demonstranten zijn dan ook de midden en hogere klasse
in dat Zuid-Amerikaanse land…….
Intussen
staan NAVO-troepen klaar aan de andere kant van de Venezolaanse grens
in Colombia, dat belachelijk genoeg is toegelaten tot deze Noord-Atlantische terreur organisatie (ofwel NATO…)…….. Je kan er donder op
zeggen dat de CIA de boel regisseert, immers deze terroristenbende
heeft al zo vaak met deze bijl gehakt………
Handen
af van Venezuela en bevoorraad dit land met levensmiddelen en
medicijnen!!
Het is te hopen dat Rusland het niet over haar kant
laat gaan en haar poot stijf houdt als de VS terreurcoalitie het
soevereine land Venezuela wil binnenvallen……..
Het
volgende artikel is van Kit Knightly, hij werd eerder gecensureerd door The
Guardian en werkt nu voor OffGuardian, die het
artikel publiceerde:
Open
Thread: US Backs anti-Maduro Coup in Venezuela
Caracas,
Venezuela January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
In
a move that many of us saw coming, the US has backed efforts to force
Nicolas Maduro from the Presidency of Venezuela. Earlier today Donald
Trump officially recognised Juan Guaido, the leader of Venezuela’s
defunct National Assembly as “interim President”.
The citizens of Venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of the illegitimate Maduro regime. Today, I have officially recognized the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of Venezuela.
This
move was backed by Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador,
Chile and Peru. The EU were also quick to back
regime change,
although leaders of specific EU states are yet to make their
positions know. It is doubtful any of us will be surprised when they
do.
The
noteworthy – and predictable – rebels on American continent were
the leftist governments of Mexico and Bolivia.
This
move has been on the cards for a while, with John Bolton – Trump’s
National Security Advisor – tweeting this just last week:
The National Assembly is the only legitimate, democratically elected government entity in Venezuela, and the U.S. supports its important decisions yesterday. We urge all Venezuelan leaders, including the military, to uphold the rule of law and constitutional order.
This
is very clearly a call for open revolution – note the language:
“including the military”.
Obviously
any coup needs the military backing it to be successful. Though there
are reports of large protests on the streets of Caracas – both for
and against the President – the military have not got involved on
the ground so far. Howver, they did release a statement disavowing
Guaido and
the “dark interests” supporting him.
They
went on to declare that they stand by President Maduro in support of
Venezuela’s national sovereignty.
Lacking,
for now, the support of Venezuela’s own military the only way the
coup can succeed is with military help from a foreign power, the
obvious candidates being the US, NATO and Brazil’s new President
Jair Bolsonaro – a cross between Pinochet and a used car salesman.
He has previously said he would back a military invasion
of Venezuela.
What
the US/NATO/whoever need is
a pretext to invade – enter The
Guardian et
al.
“[Maduro
might] turn sharpshooters on crowds and try to scare everybody back
home”
Guardian
reporter Tom Philips then says this:
“If
that happened, the US and the international community would be forced
to react”.
Which
is their way of saying if anyone gets shot, or even injured, in these
protests then the US (and allies?) will move to intervene militarily.
They would be “forced” to, apparently.
Expect
this angle to replayed, a lot, all throughout the mainstream media in
the coming days. Op-eds will remind us of the “cost of inaction”
in Syria. Some people will write that though Trump is a monster, he
is at least elected and we should stand with him in defense of
democracy. Stuff like that.
The
bottom line will be – we NEED to act in Venezuela because Maduro is
“massacring” his own people to hold onto power.
They’ve
tipped their hand with a reference to “sharpshooters” killing
civilians.
This
is, of course, the exact scenario we saw play out in Ukraine in 2014.
“Sharpshooters”
were “turned loose” on the crowd, killing several dozen people
(police and protestors alike). This violence was used to declare
Victor Yanukovych’s government “illegitimate”, and replace him
with a leader more to the US’s liking. Evidence
has since emerged showing
the shots were likely fired by non-government marksmen in a bid to
escalate the violence.
The
same fate awaits Venezuela and Maduro – except Venezuela doesn’t
have a super-power on its borders, so the US won’t have to keep the
gloves on this time. Venezuela could feel the full force of America’s
“humanitarian” armed forces. There are people on the streets –
all it needs is one tiny spark, one slight act of violence, and the
whole situation will explode.
The
US Deep State has shown before that they are more than able to create
a spark when they need one.
Important
questions:
Will
the Venezuelan military continue to stand by Maduro?
Will
there be violence on the streets?
If
so, how long before there are calls for “humanitarian
intervention”?
What
will the position of the European leaders be?
Will
the US try to get a UN mandate to act in Venezuela? Would they be
successful if they did?
Will
“The Resistance” criticise Trump for interfering in Venezuela’s
democracy?
(de vraag wat de positie is van de EU leiders is wel duidelijk, immers een flink aantal van hen is NAVO lid en hebben Columbia als nieuw NAVO-lid toegelaten, zodat er nu vanuit Columbia ook NAVO troepen tegen Venezuela kunnen worden ingezet. Bovendien kraait een groot aantal van hen gewoon mee in het leugenkoor van de VS en de reguliere westerse massamedia. Daarnaast veroordelen ook zij het Maduro bewind, dat de VS het land naar de afgrond heeft geholpen interesseert hen geen zier……)
(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)
InformationClearing House bracht gisteren een artikel over de plannen
van de VS met Latijns-Amerika, van belang nu het er toch op lijkt dat
de VS aanzienlijke troepenverminderingen zal doorvoeren in het
Midden-Oosten.
Thierry
Mason, de schrijver van het artikel gaat uitvoerig in op de bestaande
status quo in Latijns-Amerika, waar bijvoorbeeld Venezuela al tijden
in de schijnwerpers staat. De VS is al jaren bezig met een
economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela, waarbij o.a. de VS
winkelketens voor levensmiddelen al een aantal jaren geleden onder druk
werden gezet door de Obama administratie hun winkels en magazijnen in Venezuela niet langer te
bevoorraden……
Deze
smerige ‘tactiek’ heeft deels gewerkt, de middenstand en de hogere
klasse gooiden de kont tegen de krib en met uiterst gewelddadige
demonstraties probeerde men Maduro tot aftreden te dwingen en zoals
we weten is dit niet gelukt. Men gaf de regering Maduro de schuld van dat geweld, echter uit beelden bleek dat veel demonstranten gewapend waren en op de politie schoten, naar verluid ging het hier om door de VS aangevoerde terroristen…..
Bolton
heeft Venezuela, Cuba* en Nicaragua aangewezen als as van het kwaad in
Latijns-Amerika en heeft gesteld dat de VS daar wil ingrijpen, ofwel er staan weer nieuwe illegale oorlogen van de VS op stapel….. De NAVO heeft in opdracht van haar
bevelhebber, de VS Columbia toegelaten als lid van deze ‘Noord
Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie…..’ (ha! ha! ha! ha!) Intussen schijnt terreurorganisatie NAVO twee
militaire bases te hebben in dat land, dicht op de grens met o.a. Venezuela…….
Voorts
heeft de VS landen als Brazilië in de zak (dat overigens onder
fascist Bolsonaro nauw samenwerkt met terreurstaat Israël). Guyana (eerder Brits-Guiana genoemd) een ander buurland van Venezuela, wordt zoals de voormalige naam al zegt in feite door
Groot-Brittannië gecontroleerd en bestuurd, GB ook al geen vriend van Venezuela, om
het maar zachtjes uit te drukken…….. En dan beste bezoeker is daar…
Nederland dat een dikke vinger in de Antilliaanse pap heeft, waar de
Nederlandse marine in het gebied van de Antilliaanse eilanden (relatief dicht op Venezuela) nauw samenwerkt met de VS, zogenaamd alleen tegen
drugssmokkelaars, echter je hoeft geen universitaire graad te hebben
om te begrijpen dat deze samenwerking veel verder gaat dan het
tegengaan van drugssmokkel…..
Na 13.00 u. vanmiddag kwam WDR nog eens met een aantal leugens over Maduro, dit n.a.v. de inauguratie van Maduro voor zijn tweede termijn als president. Zo werd gesteld dat het grootste deel van de Venezolaanse bevolking tegen Maduro is, dit is een grove leugen, de meerderheid staat wel degelijk achter Maduro, t.w. de grote onderlaag van die bevolking……. Uiteraard werd weer gesteld dat Maduro een desastreus economisch beleid voert, met geen woord werd over de economische oorlog van de VS tegen dat land gesproken, waardoor bijvoorbeeld zelfs medicijnen moeilijk of niet te krijgen zijn, het blokkeren van dergelijke importen is zonder meer een ernstige oorlogsmisdaad……
Lees het volgende artikel van Meyssan en geeft het ajb door, de wereld zit allesbehalve te wachten op oorlogen in Latijns-Amerika. De VS dient zich eindelijk terug te trekken op eigen grondgebied en het fascisme dat ook in Latijns-Amerika op weg terug is naar de macht, moet de pas afgesneden worden, deze ultrarechtse schoften die al zoveel ellende hebben gebracht over de wereld, moeten worden bestreden, voor ze nog veel meer onheil kunnen aanrichten! Opvallend ook het bericht dat de zoon van de Surinaamse president Bouterse niet werd gearresteerd vanwege drugssmokkel, maar vanwege zijn poging het Libanese Hezbollah te introduceren in Suriname….. Dino Bouterse werd in 2013 ondanks zijn diplomatieke paspoort in Panama (dat onder controle van de VS staat) gearresteerd (!!) en uitgeleverd aan de VS waar hij werd veroordeeld tot 16 jaar cel……
The
Terrible Forthcoming Destruction of the “Caribbean Basin”
President
Trump has announced the withdrawal of US combat troops from the «
Greater Middle East », but the Pentagon is still pursuing the
implementation of the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski plan. This time the aim is
to destroy the States of the “Caribbean Basin “. This is
nothing like the overthrow of pro-Soviet regimes, as in the 1970’s,
but the destruction of all regional State structures, without
consideration for friends or political enemies. Thierry Meyssan
observes the preparations for this new series of wars.
By
Thierry Meyssan
January
10, 2019 “Information
Clearing House” – In a
series of previous articles, we presented the SouthCom plan to
provoke wars between the Latin-American nations in order to destroy
the structures of all the States in the « Caribbean Basin » [1].
Preparations
for wars of this magnitude, intended to follow on from the conflicts
in the « Greater Middle East » according to the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski
strategy, requires a decade [2].
After
the period of economic destabilisation [3]
and that of military preparation, the actual operation should begin
in the years to come by an attack on Venezuela by Brazil (supported
by Israël), Colombia (an ally of the United States) and Guyana (in
other words, the United Kingdom). It will be followed by others,
beginning with Cuba and Nicaragua (the « troïka of tyranny »
according to John Bolton).
However,
the original plan may be modified, particularly because of the return
of the imperial ambitions of the United Kingdom [4]
which may influence the Pentagon.
This
is where we are now :
The
evolution of Venezuela
Venezuelan
President Hugo Chávez had developed relations with the « Greater
Middle East » on an ideological basis. He had in particular grown
closer to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President
Bachar el-Assad. Together, they had imagined the possibility of
founding an intergovernmental organisation, the « Free Allies
Movement », on the model of the « Non-Aligned Movement », which
was paralysed by the alignment with the United States, over time, of
certain of its members [5].
Although
Nicolas Maduro adopted the same language as Hugo Chávez, he chose a
very different foreign policy. It is true that he continued the
rapprochement with Russia and, in his turn welcomed Russian bombers
to Venezuela. He signed a contract to import 600,000 tonnes of wheat
in order to deal with starvation in his country. Above all, he
prepared to receive six billion dollars of investments, including
five in the oil sector. Russian engineers took over the posts which
were intended for Venezuelan workers but which they had abandoned.
Nicolas
Maduro reorganised the alliances of his country on new foundations.
He wove close links with Turkey, which is a member of NATO and whose
army presently occupies Northern Syria. Maduro went to Istanbul on
four occasions and Erdoğan went once to Caracas.
Switzerland
was an ally of Hugo Chávez, and had advised him for the composition
of his Constitution. Fearing that he would be unable to refine his
country’s gold in Switzerland, Nicolas Maduro looked to Turkey,
which transformed the raw material into bullion. In the past, this
gold had remained in Swiss banks as a guarantee for oil contracts.
From now on, the liquid assets were transferred to Turkey, while the
newly treated gold returned to Venezuela. This orientation may be
interpreted as being no longer founded on ideology, but on interest.
Everything depends on who benefits.
Simultaneously,
Venezuela became the target of a destabilisation campaign which began
with the guarimbas demonstrations, continued with
the attempted coup d’etat on 12 February 2015 (« Operation Jericho
»), then by a series of attacks on the national currency, and
organised emigration. In this context, Turkey offered Venezuela the
possibility of avoiding US sanctions. The exchanges between the two
countries multiplied fifteen-fold in 2018.
Whatever
the evolution of the Venezuelan régime, nothing can justify what is
being prepared against its population.
Coordination
of logistical means
From
31 July to 12 August 2017, SouthCom organise a vast exercise with
more than 3,000 men from 25 allied states, including France and the
United Kingdom. The goal was to prepare a swift landing for troops in
Venezuela [6].
Colombia
Colombia
is a state, but not a nation. Its population lives geographically
separate according to social class, with enormous differences in the
quality of life. Almost no Colombian has ever spent time in a
neighbourhood attributed to another social class than their own. This
strict separation has made possible the multiplication of
paramilitary forces and consequently armed interior conflicts which
have caused more than 220,000 victims in thirty years.
In
power since August 2018, President Iván Duque has challenged the
fragile peace concluded with the FARC by his predecessor, Juan Manuel
Santos – but not with the ELN. He has not dismissed the option of a
military intervention against Venezuela. According to Nicolas Maduro,
the United States are currently training 734 mercenaries in a
training camp situated in Tona with a view to carrying out a false
flag operation intended to spark a war with Venezuela. Taking into
account the sociological particularity of Colombia, it is impossible
to determine with certainty whether or not the training camp is
controlled by Bogota.
Guyana
In
the 19th century, the colonial powers agreed to a frontier between
British Guyana (presently Guyana) and Dutch Guyana (presently
Surinam). but no text has ever defined the frontier between the
British zone and the Spanish zone (presently Venezuela).
Consequently, Guyana administrates 160,000 km2 of forest which is
still a source of dispute with its larger neighbour. By virtue of the
Geneva agreement of 17 February 1966, the two states deferred to the
Secretary General of the UNO (at that time the Burmese U Thant).
Nothing has changed since then – Guyana has proposed to bring the
case before the UNO** Permanent Court of Arbitration, while Venezuela
prefers direct negotiations.
This
territorial dispute does not seem particularly urgent, because the
contested area is an uninhabited forest which was believed to be
without value – however, it is a huge area which represents two
thirds of Guyana. The Geneva agreement has been violated 15 times by
Guyana, which specifically authorised the exploitation of a gold
mine. Above all, the stakes were raised in 2015 with the discovery by
ExxonMobil of oil deposits in the Atlantic Ocean, particularly in the
territorial waters of the contested zone.
The
population of Guyana is composed of 40 % Indians, 30 % Africans, 20 %
mixed race and 10 % American Indians. The Indians are a strong
presence in the civil services and the Africans in the army.
On
21 December, a vote of no confidence was lodged against the
government of President David Granger, a pro-British, anti-Venezuelan
General, in power since 2015. To everyone’s surprise, a deputy,
Charrandas Persaud, voted against his own party, and in an atmosphere
of indescribable chaos, provoked the fall of the government which had
only a one-vote majority. Since then, the country is in a state of
great instability – we do not know whether President Granger, who is
presently undergoing chemotherapy, will be able to handle current
affairs, while Charrandas Persaud left Parliament with an escort, via
a back door, and has fled to Canada.
On
22 December 2018, in the absence of a government, the Ramform
Tethys (under the flag of the Bahamas) and the Delta
Monarch (Trinidad and Tobago) undertook submarine
explorations in the contested zone on behalf of Exxon-Mobil.
Considering that this intrusion violated the Geneva agreement, the
Venezuelan army chased the two ships away. The Guyanese Minister for
Foreign Affairs, working with current affairs, declared it a hostile
act.
The
United Kingdom Minister for Defense, Gavin Williamson, declared to
the Sunday
Telegraph on
30 December 2018 that the Crown was putting an end to decolonisation,
which had been Whitehall’s doctrine since the Suez affair in 1956.
London is preparing to open a new military base in the Caribbean (for
the moment the UK has bases only in Gibraltar, Cyprus, Diego Garcia
and on the Falkland islands). The new base could be situated on
Montserrat (West Indies), or more probably in Guyana, and should be
operational in 2022 [7].
Guyana
is a neighbour of Surinam (Dutch Guyana). Its President, Desi
Bouterse, is wanted in Europe for drug trafficking – an affair
which pre-dated his election. But his son, Dino, was arrested in
Panama in 2013, despite the fact that he entered that country under a
diplomatic passport. He was extradited to the United States where he
was sentenced to 16 years of prison for drug trafficking – in reality
because he was setting up the Lebanese Hezbollah in Surinam.
The
baptism of Jair Bolsonaro in the waters of the Jordan (Israël) (opvallend hoe goed het christelijk geloof het meestal kan vinden met fascisten….)
Brazil
In
May 2016, Henrique Meirelles, the Minister of Finance for the
transitional government of Libano-Brazilian Michel Temer, nominated
Israelo-Brazilian Ilan Goldfajn as director of the Central Bank.
Mereilles had also presided the Committee for the preparation of the
Olympic Games, calling on Tsahal to coordinate the Brazilian army and
police, thus guaranteeing the security of the Games. Simultaneously
controlling the Central Bank, the army and the police of Brazil,
Israël had no difficulty in supporting the popular movement of
dissatisfaction in the face of the incompetence of the Workers’
Party.
Believing
– without any solid proof – that Presidente Dilma Rousseff had fudged
the public accounts in the context of the Petrobras scandal, the
parliamentarians impeached her in August 2016.
During
the Presidential election of 2018, candidate Jair Bolsonaro went to
Israël to be baptised in the waters of the Jordan, and consequently
obtained a massive percentage of the evangelical vote. He was elected
with General Hamilton Mourão as his Vice-President. During the
period of transition, Mourão declared that Brazil should prepare to
send men to Venezuela as a « peace force » once President Maduro
had been overthrown – comments which constitute a barely-disguised
threat which President Bolsonaro attempted to downplay.
In
an interview on 3 January 2019, on the TV channel SBT, President
Bolsonaro spoke of negotiations with the Pentagon concerning the
possibility of creating a US military base in Brazil. This
declaration raised powerful opposition within the armed forces, for
whom their country is capable of defending itself without assistance.
Benjamin
Netanyahu during the investiture of President Bolsonaro. Israël has
taken position in Brazil.
During
his investiture on 2 January 2019, the new President welcomed Israëli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This was the first time that an
Israëli personality of this importance had been to Brazil. On this
occasion, President Bolsonaro announced the coming transfer of the
Brazilian embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem.
US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who also went to the investiture,
where he met Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs Néstor Popolizio,
announced with President Bolsonaro his intention to fight with him
against the « authoritarian régimes » of Venezuela and Cuba.
Returning to the United States, he stopped over in Bogota to meet
with Colombian President Iván Duque. The two men agreed to work for
the diplomatic isolation of Venezuela. On 4 January 2019, the 14
States of the Lima Group (including Brazil, Colombia and Guyana) met
to agree that Nicolas Maduro’s new mandate, which begins on 10
January, is « illegitimate » [8].
This communiqué has not been signed by Mexico. Apart from this, six
of the member-States lodged a complaint with the International
Criminal Tribunal*** against President Nicolas Maduro for crimes against
humanity. It
is perfectly clear today that the process towards war is under way.
Enormous forces are in play, and there is little that can be done to
stop them now. It is in this context that Russia is studying the
possibility of setting up a permanent aero-naval base in Venezuela.
The island of La Orchila – where President Hugo Chávez was held
prisoner during the coup d’etat of April 2002 – would enable the
storing of strategic bombers. This would constitute a much greater
threat to the United States than the Soviet missiles stationed in
Cuba in 1962.
Thierry
Meyssan, Political consultant, President-founder of the Réseau
Voltaire (Voltaire Network).
Latest work in French – Sous nos Yeux.
Du 11-Septembre à Donald Trump (Right Before our Eyes. From 9/11 to
Donald Trump). Translation
– Pete
Kimberley
[2] The
Pentagon’s New Map,
Thomas P. M. Barnett, Putnam Publishing Group, 2004. “The
US military project for the world”,
by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire
Network,
22 August 2017.
* Afgelopen week werd bekend gemaakt dat het VS ambassade personeel dat middels ‘een sonisch wapen’ onwel werd, waar men in de westerse pers al flink tamtam over maakte en met de beschuldigende vinger naar de Cubaanse regering wees, in werkelijkheid werd ‘aangevallen’ door het geluid van (echte) baltsende krekels…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
** UNO (United Nations Organisation) >> nu kortweg UN of het Nederlandse VN.
*** Naar grote waarschijnlijkheid doelt de schrijver op het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) in Den Haag.
BlackAgenda Report plaatste gisteren een boekbespreking van Danny
Haiphong over een nieuw boek van Dan Kovalik, schrijver, arbeids- en
mensenrechtenadvocaat, maar vooral een anti-imperialist. In zijn
derde boek ‘The
Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the
Outcome of Elections Around the World’,
gaat Kovalik in op het beïnvloeden door de VS van verkiezingen
elders, een zaak die de VS belastingbetaler al vele miljarden heeft
gekost*. Terwijl de VS nu juist Rusland beschuldigt van dergelijk gedrag (daarover zo meer)……
(foto bij het originele artikel op Black Agenda Report)
Mochten
de resultaten van dergelijke smerige beïnvloeding door de VS niet naar wens
zijn, kan je er bijna zeker van zijn, dat de VS een
staatsgreep in een dergelijk land zal organiseren, het liefst via een opstand,
zodat men haar smerige machinaties kan legitimeren……. Veelal gebeurt dit door eerst een ‘stille’ economische oorlog tegen zo’n land te beginnen (door sterke druk uit te oefenen op grote bedrijven die bijvoorbeeld winkelketens in zo’n land hebben en hen te dwingen de winkels niet langer te bevoorraden, zie wat dit betreft Venezuela….), ‘stil’ daar de VS dit uiteraard niet aan de grote klok hangt, gevolg is dan wel dat de bevolking de straat op zal gaan uit ontevredenheid over de persoonlijke (financiële) omstandigheden…..
Wat betreft directe staatsgrepen: neem
Honduras in 2009, destijds hebben Hillary Clinton en de CIA daar een staatsgreep
georganiseerd tegen de democratisch gekozen linkse regering…… Een
staatsgreep die intussen aan duizenden het leven heeft gekost,
daarnaast zijn er veel Hondurezen verdwenen, ofwel ook vermoord door
de Junta die de VS daar parachuteerde….. Voorts zijn een enorm
aantal mensen op de vlucht geslagen, o.a. richting VS (zoals het
grootste deel van de Karavaan die al op weg was naar de VS, vóór de
midterm verkiezingen in dat middels een genocide gestolen
land…….)
Kovalik
noemt ook Rusland als een land waar de VS de verkiezing van de
corrupte alcoholverslaafde Jeltsin in 1996 veiligstelde met een
slordige miljard dollar….. Je zou zelfs kunnen stellen dat de VS
mede verantwoordelijk is voor de ‘oligarchen’ die Rusland destijds hebben
leeggestolen…..
Hoe
durven politici in de VS en de rest van het westen, alsmede de
reguliere massamedia in het westen, nog met de vieze vingers naar
Rusland te wijzen als grote manipulator van de VS
presidentsverkiezingen, terwijl er geen enkel bewijs werd en wordt
geleverd voor deze leugen en de VS zelf overal waar het haar
uitkomt opstanden (zoals gezegd gevoed met een stille economische oorlog), staatsgrepen en illegale oorlogen organiseert,
waar overigens honderden meters aan dossiers met bewijzen voor zijn
te vinden, neem alleen al WikiLeaks en dan m.n. de Vault 7 en 8 documenten op deze (echte) klokkenluiderswebsite……..
Hier de
boekbespreking door Haiphong, door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:
How
the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the
World
(BAR) — The
U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments
that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests.
“There
is plenty of evidence that the United States is the most depraved and
dangerous “meddler” in the affairs of other nations that history
has ever known.”
Dan
Kovalik is a labor and human rights lawyer, but most of all he is an
anti-imperialist and an author of three books. Kovalik’s first two
books tackled the specific US war drives against Russia and Iran. His
third installment, The
Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the
Outcome of Elections Around the World,
addresses the broad scope of US election meddling abroad. The book
provides much needed political and ideological life support to an
anti-war movement in the U.S that has been rendered nearly invisible
to the naked eye.
The
Plot to Control the World is
as detailed in its critique of U.S. imperialism as it is concise. In
just over 160 pages, Kovalik manages to analyze the various ways that
the U.S. political and military apparatus interferes in the affairs
of nations abroad to achieve global hegemony. He wastes no time in
exposing the devastating lie that is American exceptionalism,
beginning appropriately with the U.S. imperialist occupations of
Haiti and the Philippines at the end of the 19th century and
beginning of the 20th. The U.S. would murder millions of Filipinos
and send both nations into a spiral of violence, instability, and
poverty that continues to this day. As Kovalik explains regarding
Haiti, “While the specific, claimed justifications for [U.S.]
intervention changed over time- e.g., opposing the end of slavery,
enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, fighting Communism, fighting drugs,
restoring law and order — the fact is that the interventions never
stopped and the results for the Haitian people have been invariably
disastrous.”
“Kovalik
wastes no time in exposing the devastating lie that is American
exceptionalism.”
US
expansionism has relied upon the ideology of American exceptionalism
to silence criticism and weaken anti-war forces in the United States.
American exceptionalism claims that the U.S. is a force for good in
the world and completely justified in its wars of conquest draped in
the cover of spreading “democracy and freedom” around the world.
Kovalik challenges American exceptionalism by showing readers just
how much damage that US expansionism and militarism has caused for
nations and peoples in every region of the planet.Russia, Honduras,
Guatemala, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Vietnam and many
other nations have seen their societies devastated by U.S. “election
meddling.” In Honduras, for example, a U.S.-backed coup of
left-wing President Manuel Zelaya in 2009 made the nation one of the
most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, indigenous
person, or trade-union/environmental activist. Thousands of
Hondurans have been displaced, disappeared, or assassinated since the
coup.
Another
important aspect of The
Plot to Control the World is
its exposure of U.S hypocrisy surrounding the subject of “election
meddling.” Since the end of the 2016 Presidential elections, the
U.S. military, political, and media branches of the imperialist state
have accused Russia of virtually implanting Donald Trump into the
Oval office. The U.S. public has been fed a steady dose of
anti-Russia talking points in an apparent effort on the part of the
elites to beat the drums of war with the nuclear-armed state. No
evidence has been presented to prove the conspiracy, as a
recent National
Public Radio (NPR) analysis states
plainly. However, there is plenty of evidence that the United States
is the most depraved and dangerous “meddler” in the affairs of
other nations that history has ever known.
“The
author shows readers just how much damage that US expansionism and
militarism has caused for nations and peoples in every region of the
planet.”
Just
ask the much-vaunted Russians. Kovalik devotes an entire chapter to
the 1996 Presidential election in Russia that re-elected the wildly
unpopular Boris Yeltsin. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 began
an era of “shock therapy” in the newly erected Russian
Federation, a euphemism for the wholesale theft and transfer of
socialized wealth into the hands of oligarchs and multinational
corporations. Millions would perish in Russia from an early death due
to the sudden loss of healthcare, housing, jobs, and other basic
services. In 1996, President Bill Clinton ensured that Yeltsin
maintained his near total grip on state power in Russia by providing
the Russian President with a team of U.S. political consultants and
over a billion dollars’ worth of IMF monies directly to the
campaign. U.S. political and monetary support allowed Yeltsin to rig
the election in his favor despite his dwindling popularity. Kovalik
shows that if anyone should worry about election meddling, it should
be the people of Russia and not the US elites that control
Washington.
The
Plot to Control the World takes
readers into the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the CIA’s coup
of revolutionary Patrice Lumumba continues to haunt the resource rich
nation in the form of endless US-backed genocide. It travels to
Guatemala, where the CIA overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz led to a
U.S.-backed slaughter of a quarter million Guatemalans under the
auspices of several military dictatorships. Kovalik shows us that the
election of the fascistic Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil was no aberration,
as the U.S. was primarily responsible for the rise in fascism in
Brazil through its direct role in placing the nation under the
control of a military dictatorship in 1964. The military dictatorship
predated the CIA’s ouster of Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973,
which handed the once socialist state to Augusto Pinochet’s
murderous and repressive leadership.
“The
mission is always the same: to destabilize independent nations that
refuses to bow down to the dictates of U.S. imperialism.”
The
entire skeleton of the U.S. military state is on full display in The
Plot to Control the World.
The U.S. military state utilizes an array of tools to overthrow
democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to
corporate interests. These tools include the U.S. intelligence
agencies, so-called Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) such as the
National Endowment for Democracy, and the various branches of the
military itself, to name a few. Regardless of the tools employed, the
mission is always the same: to destabilize independent nations that
refuses to bow down to the dictates of U.S. imperialism. Thus, while
Nicaragua, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Vietnam may possess
unique histories, their economic and political development has been
shaped by the destructive interference of the United States.
Dan
Kovalik is not likely to be reviewed in the New
York Timesor
other corporate outlets. That’s because Kovalik unapologetically
speaks out against U.S. empire and all that upholds it. In doing so,
Kovalik’s The
Plot to Control the World walks
in the footsteps of anti-imperialists such as Michael Parenti and
William Blum. Blum, a former State Department employee, spent his
post-State Department life providing humanity with knowledge about
how US imperialism operates on the global stage. The New
York Times wasted
no time in slandering
Blum in their obituary .
This showed the great lengths that the ruling elites will go to
discredit, defame, and condemn critics of the military industrial
complex and how important it is for those who oppose war let go of
any expectation that the corporate media will cover Kovalik’s work
or anyone else who speaks out against war.
“White
supremacy is the biggest lie of all and is completely embedded in the
ideology of American exceptionalism.”
With
that said, one of the reasons that the left in the U.S. is so weak is
because it has been numerically and politically isolated by the lies
of the Empire. White supremacy is the biggest lie of all and is
completely embedded in the ideology of American exceptionalism.
Despite the ruthlessness of the austerity and incarceration regimes,
many Americans continue to be convinced that the U.S. is the most
exceptional nation in the world and do not balk when its military
wages wars abroad at the expense of U.S. tax dollars and civilian
lives. U.S. imperialism has made sure that Americans feel that they
are special colonizers who see the victims of the U.S. military state
as savages worthy of slaughter. The
Plot to Control the World is
based on a different premise: internationalism. The book links the
struggle against US imperialism to the needs of the oppressed and
working class living in the heart of empire, making it an essential
read for those who are sick and tired of the prevailing narrative of
American exceptionalism and want to be armed with knowledge that is
essential toward changing it.
*
Zo heeft Hillary Clinton als minister van buitenlandse zaken onder
‘vredesduif’ Obama 4 miljard dollar uitgegeven voor het organiseren
van een opstand in Oekraïne, de bloedige opstand die moest leiden tot
de coup tegen het democratisch gekozen Janoekovytsj regime, een beproefde VS methode die ook in dit geval lukte (in Syrië liep het spaak)….. Daarmee is de VS dan ook
verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog die de door haar geïnstalleerde
neonazi-junta, o.l.v. de zwaar corrupte schoft Porosjenko, voert tegen de
bevolking van Oost-Oekraïne…… Een bevolking die volkomen terecht hun democratisch
gekozen president terug wilden en zich derhalve hebben afgescheiden van
Oekraïne….. Wie met een gezond verstand wil er onder een fascistisch regime leven?? Een
dergelijke coup in het westen van Europa had tot grote consternatie
geleid, maar niet in Oekraïne, hoewel alle EU staten weten dat er een
dictatoriaal fascistisch regime regeert in Kiev, doet men graag ‘zaken’ met deze junta, puur en alleen daar deze junta anti-Russisch is…….. (van de miljarden die Oekraïne als hulp kreeg van de EU en de VS is niets meer over, voor het grootste deel verdwenen op de buitenlandse bankrekeningen van de Porosjenko junta, voorts werd een deel uitgegeven aan oorlogsvoering tegen de bevolking van Oost-Oekraïne….)
Zie waartoe de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, in staat is:
Durante a posse presidencial, Bolsonaro prometeu “restabelecer a ordem no país” e afirmou que vai combater a “ideologização das crianças” e a “desvirtuação dos Direitos Humanos”. Leia + no #BrasildeFatohttp://bit.ly/2GS5hbE
During the presidential inauguration, Bolsonaro promised to “restore order in the country” and stated that it will combat the “ideologization of children” and the “distortion of human rights”. Read + no #BrasildeFatohttp://bit.ly/2GS5hbE Charge: @LatuffCartoons
De Colombiaanse verzetsbeweging FARC
heeft een paar jaar geleden een vredesverdrag gesloten met de
Colombiaanse regering en sinds die tijd is het geweld flink toegenomen tegen de
arme bevolking en tegen de ngo’s die zich inzetten voor deze
vooral oorspronkelijke bevolking, hetzij op het gebied van
mensenrechten bescherming dan wel milieubescherming…… (deze 2 zaken zijn verbonden, zoals je begrijpt)
Eric
Draitser is de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel dat
gisteren werd gepubliceerd op CounterPunch. Hij meldt o.a. de moord
afgelopen week op Edwin Dagua Ipia, de gouverneur van de
oorspronkelijke bevolking in de provincie (‘departement’) Cauca ten zuiden van
de belangrijke stad Cali dat in de aangrenzende provincie Valle del Cauca ligt……..
De kaart van de Colombiaanse provincie Cauca met hoofdstad Popayán
Het
afgelopen jaar werden in Colombia zelfs meer dan 100 moorden gepleegd op
mensenrechtenadvocaten en op leden van de gemarginaliseerde en
onderdrukte bevolkingsgroepen, zo meldt het Washington Office on
Latin America (WOLA)…….
Het
aantal moorden is toegenomen sinds Ivan Duque (Márquez) werd gekozen tot president, een fascist en vriend van de voormalige rechtse corrupte president
en opperploert Álvaro Uribe…….
Er is nu
zelfs sprake van misdaden tegen de menselijkheid, aldus WOLA…… Duque laat deze doodseskaders gewoon hun gang gaan, niet zelden worden deze eskaders dan ook bevolkt door militairen en politiepersoneel……
Het is
al een schande van formaat dat de NAVO een land als Colombia toelaat tot het bondgenootschap, dezelfde NAVO waarvan Nederland één van
de leden is, de NAVO een terreurorganisatie die nu al minstens 2 militaire bases heeft in Colombia…..
De aansluiting van Colombia bij de NAVO werd onder Uribe voor elkaar
gebokst, ten overvloede het teken dat de NAVO schijt heeft aan
mensenrechtenschendingen, terwijl deze terreurorganisatie daar wel
mee schermt als het bijvoorbeeld om Rusland of Iran gaat……
De NAVO heeft overigens nooit moeite gehad met dictaturen, zie de voormalige dictaturen Spanje, Griekenland en Turkije (de laatste is intussen weer een dictatuur), alle 3 dictaturen die lid waren van de NAVO, terwijl de NAVO top, als de VS (haar feitelijke baas), de vuilbek niet kon en kan houden over het ‘bevorderen van democratie in de wereld….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
De hoogste tijd
voor de FARC de wapens weer op te nemen, zeker gezien het feit dat de
rechtse doodseskaders gewoon doorgaan met hun moorden, verkrachtingen en martelingen van socialisten,
mensenrechtenactivisten, milieuactivisten en advocaten die zich
inzetten voor het arme deel van de Colombiaanse volk, waaronder zich zoals gezegd ook de oorspronkelijke bevolking bevindt…….. Doodseskaders die de
deze bevolkingsgroepen ronduit terroriseren…..
Draitser
richt zich in zijn artikel ook op de fascistische president Bolsonaro
en wat zijn wanbeleid betekent voor het arme deel van de Braziliaanse
bevolking…….. Zo is het hek nu helemaal van de dam wat betreft de
oorspronkelijke volkeren in het Amazone gebied, hun gronden worden met
veel geweld overgenomen, zonder dat de verantwoordelijke psychopaten
bang hoeven te zijn voor het ingrijpen van de overheid…..
Bolsonaro
liet al weten dat wat hem betreft het Amazonewoud mag worden
gebulldozerd……. Je begrijpt dat e.e.a. gepaard zal gaan met een groot
aantal moorden, zoals dat nu eigenlijk al praktijk is….. Het werkelijke aantal doden zal wel nooit bekend
worden, daar de gebieden waar het over gaat zo uitgestrekt zijn en
er amper telefoonverkeer mogelijk is anders dan met
satelliettelefoons….
Beste bezoeker, lees het volgende artikel van Eric Daitser en geeft het ajb door:
In
Colombia, the last week has been a particularly bloody one for
indigenous leaders. In the state of Cauca, just south of the major
city of Calí, the indigenous governor Edwin Dagua Ipia
was assassinated after
having received numerous death threats from paramilitaries in the
area. He is one of at least ten indigenous people murdered in the
country just in the last week.
In
fact, according to the Washington Office on Latin America
(WOLA), more
than 100 assassinations of
human rights advocates and members of marginalized and oppressed
communities have taken place just in 2018. There is a sense among
observers that the killings have escalated since the election of Ivan
Duque, the young right wing president and close ally of former
president and international criminal Alvaro Uribe.
In
a damning report published
by the Consultancy on Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES), the
human rights NGO noted that 35% of the social leaders and activists
murdered belonged to ethnic minorities (19% Afro-Colombian, 15%
indigenous), a staggering figure which demonstrates just how targeted
those groups are, considering the proportion of violence with which
they’re targeted versus their total share of the national
population. Moreover, CODHES indicated that:
“Approximately
50 percent of the victims were authorities or representatives of
ethnic territories and organizations. Another 36 percent were
community or union leaders, 8 percent land rights claimants and 6
percent are members of the family of women social leaders. The worst
affected regions in order of total numbers were Cauca, Valle del
Cauca, Antioquia, Chocó, and Córdoba.”
The
continued killings have drawn the attention of the United Nations,
though little has been done to stem the tide, particularly as the
government of Ivan Duque has slithered into power. Luis Guillermo
Pérez Casas, a lawyer with the Colectivo
de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo (CCAJAR),
explained in a report jointly submitted with the European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights, that the killings, and total
impunity due to government inaction, rise to the level of crimes
against humanity.
“The
murders of our colleagues must stop…We hope the Office of the
Prosecutor of the ICC will warn the Colombian government that if the
impunity persists, they will be forced to open an investigation into
those responsible, at the highest level… The peace process is
failing because there’s a lack of implementation of the agreement.
The process that was agreed upon has not been delivered.”
International
human rights organizations have also raised the alarm about the
violence and assassinations in Colombia. In early 2018, after the
killing of 10 human rights activists, Amnesty
International issued a report which
called on the Colombian government to protect at-risk activists,
especially those in remote parts of the country, who face
extraordinary risks from paramilitaries and contract killers.
Similarly, Human
Rights Watch called on the Colombian governmentto
do more to protect activists after a very bloody 2016. Sadly, the
situation has only gotten worse.
Brazil’s
War on Activists
The
election of the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, the man who as candidate
promised to open up the Amazon to mining and other environmentally
harmful, extractive industries, has sent a very dangerous signal to
indigenous and peasant groups in Brazil that the impunity that has
long existed will only expand further while their rights are
curtailed.
Bolsonaro
represents a unique threat to activists from all spheres, especially
indigenous and peasant communities who stand in the way of the right
wing goal of stripping land rights from those groups in the interests
of corporate investors and international financiers. And unlike the
somewhat more muted (though no less destructive) rhetoric from the
traditional neoliberal right, Bolsonaro and his far right, fascist
politics will likely escalate the war on oppressed groups from
simmering to white hot.
Speaking
of the potential impact of Bolsonaro on the already ghastly violence
against activists, Brazil-based independent journalist Michael Fox
explained to me that:
“It’s
still very early to tell the effect his election has had. Violence
spiked in the lead-up to the second round vote, but there has been a
lull since the election while people regroup The recent killing of
[two] Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) leaders was very likely a
sign of things to come.”
Fox’s
analysis, which is no doubt accurate, reflects the general sense of
anxiety about the future, especially in the wake of the most recent
assassinations which he referenced.
On
the night of December 8, 2018 two leaders of the Landless Workers’
Movement (MST) were assassinated in
the state of Paraiba in the Northeast of the country. Their deaths,
in an area regarded as a traditional stronghold of the left, have
left many asking just what the future holds for activists in Brazil.
The
assassinations are certainly not the first high-profile killings of
social movement activists in Brazil in recent years, though they have
received some added attention given that they come on the heels of
the Bolsonaro victory – a worrying signal for some that the
horrendous violence is only going to escalate.
To
put it in perspective, the Brazilian religious advocacy group
Comissão Pastoral da Terra – CPT (Pastoral Land Commission)
released a thorough report which found that:
The
brutal reality of Brazil’s rural areas has become increasingly
harsher since 2013, back when 34 murders were recorded. In four
years, these figures have increased by 105%, reaching 70
executions in 2017 – a 15% increase over 2016.
It
should be noted that, of course, this shocking rise in volence cannot
be attributed to Bolsonaro himself, but rather to deeper structural
and economic factors, in particular corproate privatization. As CPT
coordinator Ruben Siqueira explained to
Brasil de Fato:
We
see this as a new land rush, in which land is a means of production,
a store of value, like wood, water, ore, agribusiness, expansion of
land-based businesses. This has to do with the financial crisis that
started in 2008 with the speculative bubble. Since then, the
hegemonic capitalist sector, which is financial capital, is looking
for backing, something that can support this international
speculative game
Indeed,
it seems the escalation of violence against indigenous and peasant
activists is directly connected to the growing need for consolidation
of land and natural resources resulting from the econmoic downturn of
the last ten years. However, it is perhaps even more precise to
pinpoint the drop in commodity prices, most conspicuously the
collapse of oil prices in 2014-2015, as one of the primary drivers of
this renewed push for capital accumulation.
And
though this process was jumpstarted during the tenure of Dilma
Rousseff and the Workers’ Party (PT), it has picked up momentum
under the right wing Temer government. And it’s about to go into
overdrivwe with Bolsonaro taking power. For it is Bolsonaro himself
who has promised
to open up as much protected land as possible to
big business.
Indeed,
within days of Bolsonaro’s victory, reports began to circulate that
indigenous lands were being invaded and/or seized, with all the
attendant violence one would expect. As Beto Marubo, a native leader
from the Javari Valley Indigenous Land in Brazil’s far
west, explainedto
National Geographic, “Many brothers tell us there are invasions,
people entering the territories with no regard for the rules and no
fear of the authorities.” This final point is critical because
while impunity has long been the norm in Brazil, the utter disregard
for any semblance of governmental or law enforcement oversight will
likely increase underr Bolsoanro who has all but given his blessing
to displacement and violence against these groups.
Ultimately,
the struggle is about land rights, especially for the indigenous
peoples who have fought for official demarcation of lands for
decades.
Dinamã
Tuxá, Coordinator of Brazil’s Association of Indigenous Peoples
(APIB) summed
it up neatly:
This
scenario is totally heartbreaking. Bolsonaro has made clear and
consistent declarations about ending the titling of indigenous lands,
which are completely opposed to our rights. His racist, homophobic,
misogynist, fascist discourse shows how Brazilian politics will be in
the coming years… His discourse gives those who live around
indigenous lands the right to practice violence without any sort of
accountability. Those who invade indigenous lands and kill our people
will be esteemed. He represents an institutionalization of genocide
in Brazil.
Of
course it must be remembered that Afro-Brazilian communities will be
targeted as well. Marielle Franco’s assassination in March 2018 was
in many ways a watershed moment for the social movements in the
country. However, rather than driving positive political change on
the national level, Brazil has instead elected a fascist leader who
praises the extrajudicial methods historically employed by the
dictatorship and its enablers in the country. It remains to be
seen how the left can regroup, respond, and reestablish its political
power.
One
thing is certain in both Brazil and Colombia: the far right is in
power, and that means the war on social movements and activists is
only just getting started.
And
while it may seem bleak as we read about seemingly daily atrocities
visited upon the indigenous and poor of these (and other Latin
American) countries, we cannot simply despair. Instead, we must
organize and mobilize. For those of us in the Global North, that
means doing what we can to be in solidarity with these activists,
helping to build power internationally.
Duque,
Bolsonaro, and the far right of Latin America may have ascended to
power, but they are not omnipotent.
Now
is the time for organizing; the time for struggle; the time for
resistance.
