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Obama’s War in our Hemisphere and Venezuela’s National Liberation Struggle
James Petras
Introduction
Why did Obama declare a ‘national emergency’, claim that Venezuela represents a threat to US national security and foreign policy, assume executive prerogatives and decree sanctions against top Venezuelan officials in charge of national security, at this time?
Venezuela’s Support of Latin America Integration is Obama’s Great Fear
To answer this question it is essential to begin by addressing Obama’s specious and unsubstantiated charges of a Venezuelan ‘threat to national security and foreign policy’.
First, the White House presents no evidence . . . because there is nothing to present! There are no Venezuelan missiles, fighter planes, warships, Special Forces, secret agents or military bases poised to attack US domestic facilities or its overseas installations.
America v. Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
America's rage for global dominance represents humanity's greatest threat. Never before has survival been more jeopardized.
US Imperial policies may kill us all. They may end life on earth. Endless wars of aggression are waged against one country after another.
Confronting Russia recklessly risks nuclear war. Media scoundrel complicity makes it more likely.
So do Ukrainian flashpoint conditions. Ceasefire agreed to in Minsk last month is shaky at best.
Multiple junta violations continue daily. Poroshenko said 11 EU nations intend sending Ukraine weapons and munitions.
Washington supplied them throughout months of conflict. Rearming shows Kiev wants war, not peace.
European parliamentarians adopting a resolution demanding an international investigation into Boris Nemtsov's death shows contempt for Russian sovereignty.
Does Obama Plan Cuba-Style Blockade on Venezuela?
by Stephen Lendman
Expect virtually anything from lunatics infesting Washington. Neocons dominate US policy.
Permanent wars rage against one country after another. US streets are battlegrounds. Virtually every day killer cops murder black youths with impunity.
Independent governments are targeted for regime change. Bush and Obama spent post-9/11 years unsuccessfully trying to end Venezuelan Bolivarian democracy.
Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez accused Washington of planning a "Cuban-style blockade."
Israeli Election-Diaspora Jews Vs. Israelis
By Gilad Atzmon
The Jewish Chronicle reported today that Netanyahu enjoys huge support amongst UK Jews.
Israeli polls predict that Netanyahu’s Likud party will be wiped out in the upcoming Israeli election, with only about 20 mandates out of 120; but British Jews are all for Netanyahu and his hawkish party.
An exclusive poll for the JC this weekend revealed that two thirds of British Jews who have a view on the Israeli election would vote for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Asked who they would support if they could vote in next week’s ballot, 67 per cent of those with an opinion said they would choose Mr. Netanyahu’s centre-right Likud. Just 22 per cent would vote for the Zionist Union, led by Labour leader Isaac Herzog.
Irresponsible Putin Rumors
by Stephen Lendman
Putin's public absence in recent days has rumor-mongers going wild. He's ill, say some.
Sensationalist reports suggest a coup not yet revealed. Chances for one are virtually nil.
His 88% approval rating makes him near-invulnerable. Who'd be fool enough to try unseating an icon?
Anyone trying would face a tsunami of popular wrath - maybe a public lynching.
Rumors at times have a way of surfacing when there's nothing better to report. In Putin's case, media scoundrels seek every opportunity to bash, discredit, criticize or tarnish him with a broad brush.
Violence Against Women: Why We Keep Getting it Wrong
Robert J. Burrowes
With the passing of another International Women's Day, during which much attention around the world has again been focused on tackling violence against women, I would like to explain why none of the initiatives currently being proposed will achieve anything unless we acknowledge, and act on, the cause of this violence. So let me briefly explain the fundamental cause of violence in our world, including the cause of violence against women, and invite you to do something very personal and effective about it.
Perpetrators of violence learn their craft in childhood. If you inflict violence on a child, it learns to inflict violence on others. The terrorist suffered violence as a child. The individual who perpetrates violence in the home, in the schoolyard or on the street suffered violence as a child. The man who inflicts violence on women suffered violence as a child.
A Description of Life-Ending Nuclear War
by Stephen Lendman
Think nuclear war is nothing to worry about. Think again!
Nuclear incineration is no way to go. On February 26, the f the Atomic Scientists (BAS) headlined "What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?"
Saying "Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles are believed to carry a total of approximately 1,000 strategic nuclear warheads that can hit the US less than 30 minutes after being launched."
"Of this total, about 700 warheads are rated at 800 kilotons; that is, each has the explosive power of 800,000 tons of TNT."
It's hard imagining anything this destructive. It would incinerate New York or any other major city with unimaginable force.
The initial fireball would likely detonate more than one-mile high - for maximum blast wave damage.
"Within a few tenths of millionths of a second after detonation, the center of the warhead would reach a temperature of roughly 200 million degrees Fahrenheit (about 100 million degrees Celsius), or about four to five times the temperature at the center of the sun," explains BAS.
Superheated air would expand outward "at millions of miles per hour…creating a shockwave of vast size and power."
In one second, the fireball would be one-mile in diameter. Its initial millions of degrees temperature would be about 16,000 degrees Fahrenheit - about 4,000 degrees hotter than the sun's surface.
Stop The Fast Track To A Future Of Global Corporate Rule
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Several major international agreements are under negotiation which would greatly empower multinational corporations and the World Economic Forum is promoting a new model of global governance that creates a hybrid government-corporate structure. Humankind is proceeding on a path to global corporate rule where transnational corporations would not just influence public policy, they would write the policies and vote on them. The power of nation-states and people to determine their futures would be weakened in a system of corporate rule.
The Obama administration has been negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) over the past five years is currently pushing Congress to pass trade promotion authority (known as fast track) which would allow him to sign these agreements before they go to Congress. Then Congress would have a limited time to read thousands of pages of technical legal language, debate the contents and be banned from making amendments.
Gallup: Dissatisfaction with U.S. Gov’t. Soars
Eric Zuesse
The latest Gallup poll shows that even as Americans are more satisfied with the American economy, they are more dissatisfied with the government; and that this government-dissatisfaction is so high that for the first time while Gallup has been following this matter, the ratio of dissatisfaction with government is swamping the ratio of dissatisfaction with both of the other two matters that Americans are dissatisfied with: the economy, and unemployment. In this Gallup report, dated March 12th, dissatisfaction with government has slightly risen, while dissatisfaction regarding all other matters has either gone down, or else remained constant.
Venezuelan Anti-Imperialist Enabling Law
by Stephen Lendman
On March 11, Venezuela's National Assembly granted President Nicholas Maduro enabling law powers in response to his request for "anti-imperialist (legislation) to prepare for all scenarios."
It followed Obama outrageously declaring Venezuela a threat to US national security. A previous article discussed his "aggression" against Venezuelan sovereign independence. It represents the threat of a good example. Obama fears its spread. He issued a lawless diktat - usurping powers reserved solely for Security Council members. They alone may impose sanctions - not individual countries for any reason. Obama sanctioned seven Venezuelan officials extrajudicially.
He lied declaring a "national emergency" when none exists. He claimed a nonexistent "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela."
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