By Katrina Kozarek and Rachael Boothroyd Rojas | Venezuelanalysis | August 7, 2017 The 41st Armored Brigade of Fort Paramacay in Carabobo State was attacked by civilians and ex-military officials in the early hours of Sunday morning as part of an unsuccessful attempt to provoke a military rebellion, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has confirmed. According […]
By Tortilla con Sal | teleSUR | August 4, 2017 Global Witness is a well-established environmental and human rights non-governmental organization based in Britain. As with many other similar organizations, its reports often figure in news media as authoritative sources on international issues. Ever since the 1980s and, increasingly so, after the turn of the […]
Months of fixation by the mainstream media on the invented Russian election interference says much about the West’s intellectual culture. It has reached a point whereby a brief meeting between a Russian adoption lawyer and the American president’s son makes bumper headline news. What’s particularly striking, is that no proof of Russian interference in the 2016 American election has been unearthed. Nor will it ever be, one can safely assume by now.
By Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer | August 3, 2017 London-based voting machine maker Smartmatic claims the recent polls carried out in Venezuela this week were rigged. In their 5 minute video statement, however, they failed to provide any evidence. An AP article titled, “Election report: Venezuela vote ‘probably rigged’,” claims: The number of Venezuelans […]
By Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer | July 31, 2017 Venezuela’s ongoing crisis is not driven by political ideology – it is not a battle of socialism versus capitalism or dictatorship versus democracy – it is the result of two centers of political power possessing opposing interests and colliding geopolitically. The nation of Venezuela is […]
Press TV – July 31, 2017 Over eight million Venezuelans have participated in the Sunday vote to elect a powerful new congress, which will be allowed to rewrite the constitution, with President Nicolas Maduro hailing the results as a victory for the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council said Monday that the turnout was […]
teleSUR | July 29, 2017 Brazilian senators will have to review the controversial procedure that led to the former president Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment last year, after an online citizens’ petition gathered more than 46,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. The survey is being carried out on the Senate’s online platform E-Cidadania, and required a minimum […]
teleSUR | July 26, 2017 The chief negotiator of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia’s peace talks, Pablo Beltran, said on Tuesday that the objective of the third round of negotiations is to reach a “temporary and renewable” bilateral ceasefire, a process which he said takes time because it requires “very precise procedures.” During […]
Luis Moreno Ocampo (L) discusses human rights with NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof (R) at the CFR Symposium on International Law and Justice sponsored by the Pitt-Jolie Foundation* teleSUR | July 25, 2017 Luis Almagro, the secretary-general of the Organization of American States, has appointed former International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo as OAS special […]
By Ricardo Vaz | Investig’Action | July 25, 2017 With the Constituent Assembly elections due to take place on July 30th, the Guardian published a piece titled “Venezuela elections: all you need to know”. But instead of breaking through the fog of falsehood and misinformation that is typical of the mainstream media’s coverage of Venezuela, the […]
