The United States government has never accepted the Bolivarian Revolutionary process in Venezuela since the day that the late Hugo #Chavez was first elected president in 1998. Along with a rabid, right-wing opposition, the US over the course of four US Presidential administrations, has done all that it could to destabilize the Bolivarian process. Subsequent to the death of Chavez and the ascendancy of President #Maduro, the US government increased its efforts at national strangulation resulting in the absurd and obscene decision on January 23rd to anoint a new president of Venezuela, despite the existence of one who had been elected in 2018.
Though the late President Chavez proclaimed the need for what he called “21st Century #Socialism,” the reality was that Venezuela never became a socialist state. This is not a criticism. Chavez himself was clear about that. He recognized and stated that his coalition had won what has come to be known as “governing power” within the context of a capitalist state but that his coalition had not won state power. The distinction is incredibly important. Chavez, and later Maduro, introduced important reforms that improved the living standard of the Venezuelan people. What they were unable to do was to embark on a project that fully transcended the limits of the Venezuelan capitalist state, despite significant progressive victories and reforms.
Good stuff over here:
Dozens have been killed in U.S. airstrikes on boats off the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts.
The Trump administration claims it’s targeting drug traffickers — but there’s no evidence. And now they’re threatening airstrikes inside Venezuela.
U.S. warships now encircle Venezuela, joined by 10,000 troops and the Navy’s largest aircraft carrier.
This is a war in slow motion, justified by recycled lies, CIA covert ops, and billionaire-backed propaganda.
Rania Khalek speaks with Zoe Alexandra, editor-in-chief of Peoples Dispatch and editor of the new book “Why Venezuela? How the US tries to undermine democracy and sovereignty in Latin America.” Alexandra unpacks the truth behind Washington’s latest regime-change operation and what it means for Latin America and the Global South.
Wouldn't It BE Wonderful that Real Reporting Was Done Globally by We the People -- disabled, poor, war-torn survivors, working class, in and out of prison
Economi Hit Men? ZIM, man, Zionist Imperial Mafia, man, even in Venezuela!
But a fortress is not made of stone — it is made of logistics. The architects of the American Pole are re-engineering the hemisphere as if preparing for a long siege. They want a captive labor platform stretching from the maquilas of northern Mexico to the free-trade zones of Central America; an energy corridor running through Venezuela, Guyana, and the Gulf of Mexico; a mineral and agro-extractive belt spanning the Lithium Triangle, the Amazon, and the Pampas; and a naval ring around the Caribbean and Panama Canal capable of supplying, refueling, and projecting force in a future crisis.
This is not development — it is a war economy in embryo. The EV batteries, rare earths, copper, soy, beef, oil, and microchips Washington demands from the region are not destined for some green utopia. They are destined for the engines of competition, coercion, and confrontation. They are the raw materials of a future where the U.S. imagines itself facing China in a drawn-out conflict over dominance in technology, shipping lanes, energy grids, and planetary-scale infrastructure.
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This perversion, man oh man, seven years ago wet dreams of having Adolph Bibi bomb her (sic) country .
Machado, along with others, sent an open letter to then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Argentine President Mauricio Macri, urging them to use their "strength and influence to advance the dismantling of the criminal Venezuelan regime".
So the empire did what empires always do when they’re too weak to rule everywhere: it retreated to what it considers home ground and started fortifying. The strategy now unfolding is not an improvisation and not just a collection of coups, sanctions, and joint military exercises. It is the conscious construction of a fortress hemisphere — a U.S.-dominated bloc of states welded together as a single commercial, logistical, financial, and military platform. This is what we call the American Pole: a war-preparatory formation designed to give the U.S. the material, geopolitical, and logistical base it believes it needs for a future confrontation with China.
In this framework, the Americas are not a friendly neighborhood or a “community of democracies.” They are a captive rear area. North and South America together are being refashioned into a controlled laboratory where capital can reorganize production, secure resources, and drill military deployments without facing the full turbulence of Eurasian competition. The hemisphere becomes the empire’s fallback territory, its last secure domain, its imperial bunker. At the top of the bunker sit the U.S. ruling class and its junior partners in Canada. Below that, a ring of sub-imperial regimes and comprador elites. At the bottom, the same peoples who have always paid the price: workers, campesinos, Indigenous nations, Black communities, and the poor who turn the machinery of life and war but never control it.
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War is a Racket by SMedley Butler seems so quaint now with the Jewish Tech Fascists, led by Eillison Inc.'s Oracle, ruling.
The old fantasy of an open, globalized “free market” world order is quietly being scrapped in favor of a harder, more openly imperial doctrine. Instead of pretending that every country can choose its own partners, U.S. planners now speak of “sphere of influence,” “nearshoring,” “trusted supply chains,” “friend-shoring.” These are just polite ways of saying: this hemisphere belongs to us, and anyone who brings China into this house is an enemy. The talk of democracy and values is there for the press release, but the balance sheet in the back room is all about who controls ports, lithium, agro-exports, and data centers.
Venezuela joins the list of failed dictatorships where the citizens have been forced to eat their pets in order to survive. We now have all the criminals who were removed from the prisons in Venezuela and other countries and are paying the price of the New World Order. The first to hit the beaches should be the trannies that Buyden recruited.
In this substack article Corina Machado, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is referred to as a CIA puppet. Given her decade plus political opposition to Maduro and her broad international connections, "puppet" seems overly broad. Venezuela is a throughly corrupt autocratic kleptocratic narco-state that has nationalized its industry and ruined them through, primarily, incompetence and government sanctioned looting. It does not seem surprising that she has run her campaigns on privatizing industry and offered access to foreign investment.
Oh, no, you have an Economic Hitman explaining what is and isn't Venezuela. Yep that Psychosis of Whiteness will persist even on your post.
Try, http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/
The United States government has never accepted the Bolivarian Revolutionary process in Venezuela since the day that the late Hugo #Chavez was first elected president in 1998. Along with a rabid, right-wing opposition, the US over the course of four US Presidential administrations, has done all that it could to destabilize the Bolivarian process. Subsequent to the death of Chavez and the ascendancy of President #Maduro, the US government increased its efforts at national strangulation resulting in the absurd and obscene decision on January 23rd to anoint a new president of Venezuela, despite the existence of one who had been elected in 2018.
Though the late President Chavez proclaimed the need for what he called “21st Century #Socialism,” the reality was that Venezuela never became a socialist state. This is not a criticism. Chavez himself was clear about that. He recognized and stated that his coalition had won what has come to be known as “governing power” within the context of a capitalist state but that his coalition had not won state power. The distinction is incredibly important. Chavez, and later Maduro, introduced important reforms that improved the living standard of the Venezuelan people. What they were unable to do was to embark on a project that fully transcended the limits of the Venezuelan capitalist state, despite significant progressive victories and reforms.
Good stuff over here:
Dozens have been killed in U.S. airstrikes on boats off the Venezuelan and Colombian coasts.
The Trump administration claims it’s targeting drug traffickers — but there’s no evidence. And now they’re threatening airstrikes inside Venezuela.
U.S. warships now encircle Venezuela, joined by 10,000 troops and the Navy’s largest aircraft carrier.
This is a war in slow motion, justified by recycled lies, CIA covert ops, and billionaire-backed propaganda.
Rania Khalek speaks with Zoe Alexandra, editor-in-chief of Peoples Dispatch and editor of the new book “Why Venezuela? How the US tries to undermine democracy and sovereignty in Latin America.” Alexandra unpacks the truth behind Washington’s latest regime-change operation and what it means for Latin America and the Global South.
https://youtu.be/4cJ6lj4RFsY?si=gubsM4iztM6E_B5j
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Thanks for writing, Dissident .....
Wouldn't It BE Wonderful that Real Reporting Was Done Globally by We the People -- disabled, poor, war-torn survivors, working class, in and out of prison
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/wouldnt-it-wonderful-that-real-reporting
Economi Hit Men? ZIM, man, Zionist Imperial Mafia, man, even in Venezuela!
But a fortress is not made of stone — it is made of logistics. The architects of the American Pole are re-engineering the hemisphere as if preparing for a long siege. They want a captive labor platform stretching from the maquilas of northern Mexico to the free-trade zones of Central America; an energy corridor running through Venezuela, Guyana, and the Gulf of Mexico; a mineral and agro-extractive belt spanning the Lithium Triangle, the Amazon, and the Pampas; and a naval ring around the Caribbean and Panama Canal capable of supplying, refueling, and projecting force in a future crisis.
This is not development — it is a war economy in embryo. The EV batteries, rare earths, copper, soy, beef, oil, and microchips Washington demands from the region are not destined for some green utopia. They are destined for the engines of competition, coercion, and confrontation. They are the raw materials of a future where the U.S. imagines itself facing China in a drawn-out conflict over dominance in technology, shipping lanes, energy grids, and planetary-scale infrastructure.
+--+
This perversion, man oh man, seven years ago wet dreams of having Adolph Bibi bomb her (sic) country .
Machado, along with others, sent an open letter to then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Argentine President Mauricio Macri, urging them to use their "strength and influence to advance the dismantling of the criminal Venezuelan regime".
So the empire did what empires always do when they’re too weak to rule everywhere: it retreated to what it considers home ground and started fortifying. The strategy now unfolding is not an improvisation and not just a collection of coups, sanctions, and joint military exercises. It is the conscious construction of a fortress hemisphere — a U.S.-dominated bloc of states welded together as a single commercial, logistical, financial, and military platform. This is what we call the American Pole: a war-preparatory formation designed to give the U.S. the material, geopolitical, and logistical base it believes it needs for a future confrontation with China.
In this framework, the Americas are not a friendly neighborhood or a “community of democracies.” They are a captive rear area. North and South America together are being refashioned into a controlled laboratory where capital can reorganize production, secure resources, and drill military deployments without facing the full turbulence of Eurasian competition. The hemisphere becomes the empire’s fallback territory, its last secure domain, its imperial bunker. At the top of the bunker sit the U.S. ruling class and its junior partners in Canada. Below that, a ring of sub-imperial regimes and comprador elites. At the bottom, the same peoples who have always paid the price: workers, campesinos, Indigenous nations, Black communities, and the poor who turn the machinery of life and war but never control it.
+--+
War is a Racket by SMedley Butler seems so quaint now with the Jewish Tech Fascists, led by Eillison Inc.'s Oracle, ruling.
The old fantasy of an open, globalized “free market” world order is quietly being scrapped in favor of a harder, more openly imperial doctrine. Instead of pretending that every country can choose its own partners, U.S. planners now speak of “sphere of influence,” “nearshoring,” “trusted supply chains,” “friend-shoring.” These are just polite ways of saying: this hemisphere belongs to us, and anyone who brings China into this house is an enemy. The talk of democracy and values is there for the press release, but the balance sheet in the back room is all about who controls ports, lithium, agro-exports, and data centers.
“open up” ~ as in, wholesale organ transplant.
Nasty POS.
Venezuela joins the list of failed dictatorships where the citizens have been forced to eat their pets in order to survive. We now have all the criminals who were removed from the prisons in Venezuela and other countries and are paying the price of the New World Order. The first to hit the beaches should be the trannies that Buyden recruited.
In this substack article Corina Machado, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is referred to as a CIA puppet. Given her decade plus political opposition to Maduro and her broad international connections, "puppet" seems overly broad. Venezuela is a throughly corrupt autocratic kleptocratic narco-state that has nationalized its industry and ruined them through, primarily, incompetence and government sanctioned looting. It does not seem surprising that she has run her campaigns on privatizing industry and offered access to foreign investment.