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Oakland Protests Trump's Regime Change Attack on Venezuela
Though a US and Venezuelan Right Wing attempted regime change in Venezuela failed in 2002, Trump is now trying again, with his signature measures of cruelty and hypocrisy.
On February 24, Bay Area progressive groups came together at Oakland's Oscar Grant Plaza to protest.
The rally was directed by Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action. The rousing protest, with many large banners and signs heard spokespeople from the many progressive organizations who asked to speak.
Another march and rally is scheduled for March 9, 12pm, at UN Plaza in San Francisco.
The US, as the dominant power in the hemisphere, requires the countries of Latin America to assume their assigned role. This role, as described By Noam Chomsky, is that of "low wage, high repression" suppliers of commodities to the US economy, also referred to as the "Washington Consensus."
Should a Leftist government with different ideas gain power, political, economic, military or some combination thereof, attack will follow.
Working through local elites and disaffected political groups when available, the US will fund and/or arm opponents of the government to create strife, instability, and pave the way for a coup that will install a government more to its liking. Questions of electoral legitimacy will, of course, be irrelevant.
US sanctions and its theft of what oil revenues remain are intensifying the destitution of Venezuela, already devastated by the collapse of world oil prices.
The US is telling the people that are starving that they will get packages of Trump selected "aid" assembled at the border provided they overthrow their elected government. The obscenity and cruelty of this scenario is stunning.
The Oakland protest and others worldwide are calling out this crime.
The rally was directed by Jeff Mackler of Socialist Action. The rousing protest, with many large banners and signs heard spokespeople from the many progressive organizations who asked to speak.
Another march and rally is scheduled for March 9, 12pm, at UN Plaza in San Francisco.
The US, as the dominant power in the hemisphere, requires the countries of Latin America to assume their assigned role. This role, as described By Noam Chomsky, is that of "low wage, high repression" suppliers of commodities to the US economy, also referred to as the "Washington Consensus."
Should a Leftist government with different ideas gain power, political, economic, military or some combination thereof, attack will follow.
Working through local elites and disaffected political groups when available, the US will fund and/or arm opponents of the government to create strife, instability, and pave the way for a coup that will install a government more to its liking. Questions of electoral legitimacy will, of course, be irrelevant.
US sanctions and its theft of what oil revenues remain are intensifying the destitution of Venezuela, already devastated by the collapse of world oil prices.
The US is telling the people that are starving that they will get packages of Trump selected "aid" assembled at the border provided they overthrow their elected government. The obscenity and cruelty of this scenario is stunning.
The Oakland protest and others worldwide are calling out this crime.
For more information:
https://kunstena.smugmug.com/Politics-1/De...
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Max Blumenthal, famous for his exposes of the US military base called Israel, is in Venezuela where he has made a 6 minute video of his tour of a Venezuela super market with lots of food. Contrary to the lies of the American government, Democrats & Republicans alike, including San Francisco's Rep. Nancy Pelosi, promoted also by "independent" Bernie Sanders, the Venezuelan people have food, despite US sanctions, and deliberate destruction of the Venezuelan economy, with the help of Saudi Arabia, which agreed to dump oil on the world market to lower the price of oil from Venezuela. Venezuela just received 933 tons of food and medicine from the rest of the world. As Blumenthal states, the problem is speculation causing inflation. The video may be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=mbXqGiNlWWw
and
Blumenthal's website at:
https://grayzoneproject.com/2019/02/21/venezuela-humanitarian-crisis-max-blumenthal-supermarket-caracas/
and the site of the co-producer at:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/investigating-venezuela-humanitarian-crisis-max-blumenthal-tours-supermarket-caracas/255404/
Here is more on Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party’s condemnation of the legally elected government of Nicholas Maduro.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/21/bernie-sanders-venezuela-maduro-1179636
The only 2 parties that staunchly oppose US intervention in Venezuela are Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party, the same 2 parties that never accept corporate contributions, unlike the Democrat-Republicans, the same 2 parties that are always the only 2 anti-imperialist parties. From Korea to Vietnam to the Middle East to Honduras to Venezuela, the Democrat-Republican Parties are the proud warmongering imperialist parties since the greatest profits are in oil and munitions, the only reason the military exists, and maximization of profits is the primary goal of capitalism, staunchly supported by the twin capitalist parties of war and fascism, the Democrat-Republicans. We are now witnessing agent provocateur actions typical of the CIA, the fascist agency of the US capitalist class that has been doing false flag actions, torture and murder to promote US imperialism to maximize the profits of the capitalist class since 1947, when under Democrat Pres. Truman it was created with $200 million from the Rockefellers and Mellons by 350 German Nazis under Nazi Army Major General Reinhard Gehlen. Change your party registration now to either Peace & Freedom Party or the Green Party. You can register online at https://registertovote.ca.gov/
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.cagreens.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=mbXqGiNlWWw
and
Blumenthal's website at:
https://grayzoneproject.com/2019/02/21/venezuela-humanitarian-crisis-max-blumenthal-supermarket-caracas/
and the site of the co-producer at:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/investigating-venezuela-humanitarian-crisis-max-blumenthal-tours-supermarket-caracas/255404/
Here is more on Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party’s condemnation of the legally elected government of Nicholas Maduro.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/21/bernie-sanders-venezuela-maduro-1179636
The only 2 parties that staunchly oppose US intervention in Venezuela are Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party, the same 2 parties that never accept corporate contributions, unlike the Democrat-Republicans, the same 2 parties that are always the only 2 anti-imperialist parties. From Korea to Vietnam to the Middle East to Honduras to Venezuela, the Democrat-Republican Parties are the proud warmongering imperialist parties since the greatest profits are in oil and munitions, the only reason the military exists, and maximization of profits is the primary goal of capitalism, staunchly supported by the twin capitalist parties of war and fascism, the Democrat-Republicans. We are now witnessing agent provocateur actions typical of the CIA, the fascist agency of the US capitalist class that has been doing false flag actions, torture and murder to promote US imperialism to maximize the profits of the capitalist class since 1947, when under Democrat Pres. Truman it was created with $200 million from the Rockefellers and Mellons by 350 German Nazis under Nazi Army Major General Reinhard Gehlen. Change your party registration now to either Peace & Freedom Party or the Green Party. You can register online at https://registertovote.ca.gov/
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.cagreens.org/
For more information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXqGiNlWWw
Now we have the quotable quotes from Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressperson Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), claiming to support "democracy" in Venezuela instead of what AOC calls "authoritarianism." Sanders actually wants the Trojan Horse of "humanitarian aid" from imperialist USA accepted by Venezuela's government. For the details of this gibberish, see
"Roger Waters, Socialists Say No to Bernie and AOC's Positions on Venezuela" by Alexander Rubinstein, 2/25/19 at
https://www.mintpressnews.com/roger-waters-bernie-sanders-aoc-venezuela/255530/
While the Democrats' favorite sheepdog, Senator Bernie Sanders, age 77, has a long history of promoting the war machine while claiming to want New Deal reforms at home that he has the nerve to call socialism, AOC at age 29, is just now defining her politics, and we now know they are the same old capitalist drivel we always get from the Democratic Party. Neither is or can claim to be a socialist, which by definition means a supporter of the abolition of the capitalist profit motive that is the cause of all our grief, sharing the wealth that we, the workingclass produce, and promoting a completely planned economy of, by and for the workingclass, the 80% of Americans who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year.
As the article states, socialists spent this past weekend across the country protesting the possible US coup or US military invasion of Venezuela, all to steal Venezuela's oil.
Venezuela had extremely fair and free elections to elect Nicholas Maduro president, something that does not exist in this country and has not existed in memory. The US is now and has always been an authoritarian, anti-democratic, racist, anti-labor nightmare, all due to the capitalist profit motive.
Since we still have the fantasy of Sanders being a worthwhile candidate for president among too many people, here is some urgently necessary reading on Sheepdog Sanders, who has absolutely no intention of becoming president:
https://blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary
Sanders referred to the late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela as a "dead Communist dictator." See
https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-senator-bernie-sanders-hugo-chavez-is-just-a-dead-communist-dictator
Sanders supported this anti-Venezuela resolution:
https://www.menendez.senate.gov/news-and-events/press/menendez-colleagues-introduce-resolution-that-condemns-venezuelan-governments-proposed-sham-election-calls-for-delay-until-minimal-electoral-standards-met
Sanders claims Maduro is anti-democratic:
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-venezuela
https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/the-myth-of-bernie-sanders/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/14/bernie-sanders-the-company-man/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/21/bernie-out-of-the-closet-sanders-longstanding-deal-with-the-democrats/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/13/bernie-and-the-jets/
Sanders supports the military's F-35, opposed by the people of Vermont:
https://truthout.org/articles/burlington-vermont-says-no-to-f-35s-in-its-community-setting-off-a-chain-reaction/
Sanders' theft of millions of dollars from the workingclass for his phony sheepdog campaign for president in 2016:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-fundraising_us_59527587e4b02734df2d92c1
If you have had enough of con artists, sheepdogs, and pro-war capitalists who call themselves socialists while promoting one of the twin parties of war and fascism, the Democrats, who sing the same anti-communist, pro-war tune as the Republicans, you can join a real socialist party on the California ballot, Peace & Freedom Party, or the equally anti-war and anti-imperialist but not openly a socialist party, the Green Party.
You can register online at https://registertovote.ca.gov/
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.cagreens.org/
"Roger Waters, Socialists Say No to Bernie and AOC's Positions on Venezuela" by Alexander Rubinstein, 2/25/19 at
https://www.mintpressnews.com/roger-waters-bernie-sanders-aoc-venezuela/255530/
While the Democrats' favorite sheepdog, Senator Bernie Sanders, age 77, has a long history of promoting the war machine while claiming to want New Deal reforms at home that he has the nerve to call socialism, AOC at age 29, is just now defining her politics, and we now know they are the same old capitalist drivel we always get from the Democratic Party. Neither is or can claim to be a socialist, which by definition means a supporter of the abolition of the capitalist profit motive that is the cause of all our grief, sharing the wealth that we, the workingclass produce, and promoting a completely planned economy of, by and for the workingclass, the 80% of Americans who sell our labor for less than $80,000 a year.
As the article states, socialists spent this past weekend across the country protesting the possible US coup or US military invasion of Venezuela, all to steal Venezuela's oil.
Venezuela had extremely fair and free elections to elect Nicholas Maduro president, something that does not exist in this country and has not existed in memory. The US is now and has always been an authoritarian, anti-democratic, racist, anti-labor nightmare, all due to the capitalist profit motive.
Since we still have the fantasy of Sanders being a worthwhile candidate for president among too many people, here is some urgently necessary reading on Sheepdog Sanders, who has absolutely no intention of becoming president:
https://blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary
Sanders referred to the late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela as a "dead Communist dictator." See
https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-senator-bernie-sanders-hugo-chavez-is-just-a-dead-communist-dictator
Sanders supported this anti-Venezuela resolution:
https://www.menendez.senate.gov/news-and-events/press/menendez-colleagues-introduce-resolution-that-condemns-venezuelan-governments-proposed-sham-election-calls-for-delay-until-minimal-electoral-standards-met
Sanders claims Maduro is anti-democratic:
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-venezuela
https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/the-myth-of-bernie-sanders/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/14/bernie-sanders-the-company-man/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/21/bernie-out-of-the-closet-sanders-longstanding-deal-with-the-democrats/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/13/bernie-and-the-jets/
Sanders supports the military's F-35, opposed by the people of Vermont:
https://truthout.org/articles/burlington-vermont-says-no-to-f-35s-in-its-community-setting-off-a-chain-reaction/
Sanders' theft of millions of dollars from the workingclass for his phony sheepdog campaign for president in 2016:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-fundraising_us_59527587e4b02734df2d92c1
If you have had enough of con artists, sheepdogs, and pro-war capitalists who call themselves socialists while promoting one of the twin parties of war and fascism, the Democrats, who sing the same anti-communist, pro-war tune as the Republicans, you can join a real socialist party on the California ballot, Peace & Freedom Party, or the equally anti-war and anti-imperialist but not openly a socialist party, the Green Party.
You can register online at https://registertovote.ca.gov/
For more information, see:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
http://www.cagreens.org/
For more information:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/roger-waters...
I really enjoy the photos on indybay, and yours are some of the best. thank you for going to these important events and documenting resistance in the US.
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