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Venezuela Faces Down Rebuke at UN, Possible New Sanctions

"A call from Cuba for respect for state sovereignty drew the support of 88 countries."

Bolivia VP Alvaro Garcia Linera on the ebbing Latin American tide

"In cultural terms, there is a determined effort by the media, by NGOs, by organic right-wing intellectuals, to devalue, to call in question, and discredit the idea and the project of change and revolution. They are targeting what can be considered the golden, virtuous Latin American decade."

Behind the Bolivia Miner Cooperatives’ Protests and the killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister

"So far the US anti-war, anti-interventionist movements have not strongly responded to the escalating US coup attempts against progressive elected Latin American governments."

Is Venezuela on the Verge of a Another Coup?

"The growing divide between the Venezuelan grassroots and global left is not only discouraging but systematically intentional."

WATCH: The CIA and the National Endowment for Democracy

Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: 'A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.'"

(New Book) Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism

Anything in the world of cultural systems, social relationships, and material production can become force multipliers for imperialism: food security, oil, electricity, young leaders, aid, social media, NGOs, women’s rights, schoolgirls, democratization, elections, the G8, the European Union, NATO, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, AFRICOM, development, policing, borders, and epidemics, among others. This takes us to related conceptualizations of “full-spectrum dominance,” “three-dimensional warfare,” and “interoperability,” in what has become an imperial syndrome.

Fundacion Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA [Part IV of an Investigative Report]

The Art of Annihilation January 26, 2015 Part four of an investigative...

Amnesty International Whitewashes Venezuelan Opposition Abuses

"Unfortunately, Amnesty International's whitewash of the right-wing opposition's human rights abuses in Venezuela is symptomatic of a deeper crisis in the world of NGOs, where fierce competition for funding means adjusting the message to suit Western audiences..."

Argentina: la CIA y el Mossad en un intento de “golpe blando”

"Además de golpear a Argentina en el mismo momento en que se acrecienta el golpismo en Venezuela contra el presidente Nicolás Maduro, intentan debilitar a los organismos de unidad e integración que se consolidan en América Latina."

Allende was Wrong: Neoliberalism, Venezuela’s Student Right and the Answer from the Left

"Here we are confronted by the stone-cold realization that there is nothing inherently revolutionary about young people, or students for that matter. Sadly, we are forced to concede that Salvador Allende, who famously said, “to be young and not revolutionary is a biological contradiction,” was wrong."