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Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)
Sun May 5, 2019, 09:59 PM May 2019

"Psychopath Capitalism": US Economic Terrorism and Genocide Against the People of Venezuela

“Psychopath Capitalism”: US Economic Terrorism and Genocide Against the People of Venezuela
By Carla Stea
Global Research, May 03, 2019

April 25: Foreign Minister Arreaza Describes Excruciating Suffering of the Venezuelan People Resulting From US Sanctions;

April 26: US Violates its Obligation as UN Host Country and Sanctions the Foreign Minister for Speaking Truth to Power

“We are not only on the wrong side, we are the wrong side.” Pentagon Papers Expert Daniel Elllsberg

“American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela’s economy and thereby lead to regime change. It’s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.” Professor Jeffrey Sachs



US Maneuvers at the United Nations

The entire official schedule of meetings of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament – April 8 through April 29 – was forced to cancel because the United States, in violation of its obligations as host country, refused a visa to important Russian delegates.

On April 25, Venezuela’s brilliant, charismatic Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza (left) detailed, in a United Nations press briefing, the horrific suffering the Venezuelan people are enduring as a result of the dictatorship of US sanctions against his country, and US terrorization of each and every global institution and nation which the US is demanding sever all economic and diplomatic ties with Venezuela.

In a stealthy, deadly march to global dictatorship, and consistent with its attempt to subjugate the United Nations to the interests of US oligarchic power, the United States is abusing its membership in the United Nations, attempting to force regime change on Venezuela, using criminal methods in violation of the Hague Convention, the Geneva Convention, the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of the Organization of American States, the Venezuelan Constitution, and in violation of U.S. law itself.

The U.S. maneuvers to destroy the Maduro government’s UN accreditation, and replace it with their puppet Guaido are horrifying and Machiavellian, and, quite realistically, since the US has absolutely no scruples, nor any respect for international law, there is an ominous possibility that they may succeed. Numerous diplomats of many countries, with whom I have spoken, are terrified by the sanctions the US just placed on the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, recognizing the threat to their own sovereignty, and sophisticated Iranian specialists delineated the dangerous possibilities the US has to use this method to force out the Venezuelan delegation to the UN, and de facto denude the Maduro government’s access to the UN. If the US succeeds in this criminal scheme, the credibility of the UN will be entirely and irreparably destroyed, as the many diplomats with whom I have spoken have confirmed. Many delegates are now saying that the UN would be better based in another more reliable and respectful country. Venezuela is Chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement, an organization of 120 member states. For the US to sanction her Foreign Minister is an unconscionable and intolerable abuse of the host country status.

More:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-economic-terrorism-genocide-people-venezuela/5676366?fbclid=IwAR0uuQ46OkQtDAQwSdTiFyHcXqLrsMAuILya6gsB4GLvBWzFmxyXIq4nHxs

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Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)
2. You'd think some of them would spend a moment thinking over what they hear, wouldn't you?
Mon May 6, 2019, 12:40 AM
May 2019

They don't really go through any maturation between childhood and adulthood, and as we see around us daily, they actually die as ignorant as they were as children, with no consciousness in the middle.

"The American Dream" is downright scary, isn't it? They never awaken.

alwaysinasnit

(5,066 posts)
6. You're welcome. I enjoy reading your posts. BTW, my screen-name is from a comment my daughter
Mon May 6, 2019, 04:45 PM
May 2019

made about my always being in a snit about something. Nowadays that is totally true, especially with what is going on in our world.

Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)
8. Absolutely. There IS a reason there which afflicts everyone of conscience!
Mon May 6, 2019, 04:49 PM
May 2019

I can't imagine how all this looks to a very young person. It's deeply disturbing.

EX500rider

(10,848 posts)
5. I wouldn't trust "Global Research" if they told me the sun was shining.
Mon May 6, 2019, 04:16 PM
May 2019

”Headline: North Korea, a Land of Human Achievement, Love and Joy"
—Everything you need to know about Globalresearch

Globalresearch is an "anti-Western" website that can't distinguish between serious analysis and discreditable junk — and so publishes both. It's basically the moonbat equivalent to Infowars or WND.

While some of GlobalResearch's articles discuss legitimate humanitarian concerns, its view of science, economics, and geopolitics is conspiracist — if something goes wrong, the Jews West didit! The site has long been a crank magnet: If you disagree with "Western" sources on 9/11, or HAARP, or vaccines, or H1N1, or climate change, or anything published by the "mainstream" media, then GlobalResearch is guaranteed to have a page you will love.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Globalresearch

Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts)
7. You turn to "Rationalwiki" to define Global Research. Okay!
Mon May 6, 2019, 04:46 PM
May 2019

Rational Wiki " is an encyclopedia started by Andy Schlafly as an alternative to Wikipedia, which Schlafly perceived as suffering from liberal and atheist bias."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RationalWiki

I thought "Conservapedia" would be as strange as you can get.

People have read Global Research for years and years. I evaluate what I read from any source, compare it against material I've already encountered, or continue to research.

Thanks, anyway.

EX500rider

(10,848 posts)
9. People have read RT and watched Fox for years but they still suck as new sources.
Mon May 6, 2019, 05:13 PM
May 2019
"Rational Wiki " is an encyclopedia started by Andy Schlafly"

Well that is incorrect.

Andy Schlafly created Conservapedia .

Rational Wikki was created to counter Conservapedia by Peter Lipson, a doctor of internal medicine, who in 2007 attempted to edit Conservapedia's article on breast cancer to include evidence against Conservapedia's claim that abortion was linked to the disease.

RationalWiki's stated missions are:
Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement
Documenting the full range of crank ideas
Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism
Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the mass media


A significant fraction of activity on RationalWiki was critiquing and "monitor[ing] Conservapedia". RationalWiki contributors, many of whom are former Conservapedia contributors, are often highly critical of Conservapedia. Lester Haines of The Register stated: "Its entry entitled 'Conservapedia elusions' promptly mocks the claims that 'Homosexuality is a mental disorder', 'Atheists are sociopaths', and 'During the 6 days of creation G-d placed the Earth inside a black hole to slow down time so the light from distant stars had time to reach us'


Andrea Ballatore, a lecturer at University of California, Santa Barbara described RationalWiki as a debunking website, finding it to be the most visible debunking website of conspiracy theories in terms of Google and Bing search results"

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
11. That's so cute! Blame the foreigner and ignore the destruction coming from within.
Tue May 7, 2019, 04:23 AM
May 2019

An economy built on spending instead of investing and saving? Who cares!

A government rife with corruption, embezzlement and incompetence? Who cares!

The only economic policies Maduro has are printing money and to nationalize private property? Who cares!

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