Not for the first time, a U.S. “regime change” policy is generating false claims to support the campaign to remove a government out of favor in Washington. The “burning aid convoy” story in Venezuela is an echo of the “babies torn from incubators” story in Kuwait of a generation ago. It’s the same familiar narrative:...
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Chelsea Manning Goes Mum, May Face Contempt Charges
Chelsea Manning, the former soldier who leaked the the vast trove of material known as the Wikleaks cables, says she refused to talk this week to a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia. Manning confirmed that the questioning concerned her actions in 2010.. The grand jury investigation is believed to be related to the investigation of...
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CIA in Venezuela: 7 Rules for Regime Change
As President Trump pulls U.S. troops out of Syria and Afghanistan, his secretary of state Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton are taking their frustrated interventionist impulses south to Venezuela. Why Venezuela, a country of 32 million people on the north coast of South America? The country poses no threat to the United...
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Elliott Abrams’ Bloody Lies
Elliott Abrams, President Trump’s special envoy to Venezuela, first became well known in 1982 after he was named assistant secretary of state for human rights in the Reagan administration. Abrams served as a junior point man for the Reagan administration’s wars in Central America. He was an aggressive, articulate defender of pro-U.S. forces that committed...
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Why Ken Silverstein Says a Coup Is Unlikely in Venezuela
Ace investigative reporter Ken Silverstein reports from Venezuela. Trump’s strategy in Venezuela is simple and remarkably similar to what the U.S. tried to do in Iraq in the late-1990s and early-2000s before finally throwing in the towel and invading. Starve the country with brutal economic sanctions and either blame the government for the ensuing misery...