John Bolton

RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou take a quick look at the financial and media war being waged in Venezuela, as John Bolton employs the usual U.S. weapons of regime change to tighten the screws on Maduro and his embattled government.
Will Maduro survive the US onslaught to emerge in tact, or will Venezuela slide quickly into chaos and civil war or slowly drift into a frozen quagmire of a nation state?

The responses from members of Congress painted a shocking picture of ignorance, hypocrisy, and bipartisan consent for the Trump administration’s…
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The US has formally requested the extradition of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the United States. Canada received the extradition request on Tuesday, a day before the deadline expired for the US to submit such a request.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the US indictment of not only Meng, but also Huawei, accusing the technology giant of bypassing US sanctions on Iran, and stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile.

An internal government document reveals tactics of “economic warfare” and “financial weapons” the US is using against Venezuela in the…
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RT | January 30, 2019 A senior judge has resigned from the UN International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, after the United States threatened judges investigating alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan. The judge, Christoph Flügge, has worked with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) […]

THE HAGUE — A senior judge at the United Nations’ International Court in The Hague has resigned in protest of “shocking” interference from the Trump administration into a preliminary war-crimes investigation into U.S. troops.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss US national security advisor John Bolton holding a notepad with the words visibly scribbled for all the world to see, “5,000 troops to Colombia”, while he was attending a press conference to announce more sanctions to be imposed on Venezuela.
When the White House was asked to explain what was written on the notepad…the response, “as the president has said, all options are on the table”.

In an interview on Fox Business, Trump’s hyper-militaristic National Security Adviser John Bolton admitted the US-led coup in Venezuela is…
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Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a…
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