PBC News & Comment: Yellow Journalism Fuels Trump’s Regime Change in Venezuela

Corporate media falls in line, just like pre-Iraq invasion, amplifying lies and suppressing dissent to grease illegal actions….--NY Times publishes op-ed by Juan Guaido, riddled with lies
--WashPost focuses on Maduro’s crackdown on news media as NY Times covers crackdown on opposition, without context or balance
--activists Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers correct the lies in this post
--in new, in-depth interview, international election observe Dan Kovalik Says Maduro’s election was legit, and explains why Venezuela is a target
--echoing Kovalik’ Grayzone’s Ben Norton publishes US guide to “unconventional warfare” that fits the picture of Venezuela as target of economic weapons
--my favorite Republican congressman, anti-war activist Walter Jones, is in hospice
--federal judge uses “Catch-22” logic to deny release of Assange indictment
--Mueller fights back, as cagy Russians indicted last year use US legal system to challenge and expose Mueller’s con game
--ICE admits that hunger striking immigrants are being force-fed, just like Gitmo
--Victoria Law exposes how corporate prison operators force immigrants to join “Voluntary Work Program” or face punishment
--listener Fred in Detroit shares report of ICE sting with fake university to catch 8 possible visa violators
--listener Linda Lewis shares report on secret nuclear waste shipment from South Carolina to Nevada; Nevada’s leaders are really pissed
--listener Paul Ellcessor has comments on recent podcasts
--VA changes rules for accessing private care, from “40 miles” to “30-minute drive”
--federal judge in San Francisco rips into P G & E for safety violations
--2019 may be the year that white collar drug lords face a reckoning
--watch out, Puerto Rico! The Clintons—all 3 of them—are coming to help