People in 150 cities around the world oppose US intervention in Venezuela

Countercurrents.org | February 24, 2019

People in hundreds of cities around the world stood in solidarity to Venezuela on February 23, 2019. The peoples’ gatherings opposed U.S.-led imperialist intervention in Venezuela. Labor unions and people’s organizations, and intellectuals – artists, singers, academics, activists – also raised their voices. The activists opposing the US-led intervention organized some 150 demonstrations around the globe on Saturday to show that ordinary people are against any form of foreign interference. Thousands of people assembled in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, to express support to President Nicolas Maduro and to the Bolivarian revolution.

Venezuela: Communication Minister Shows Truth of Border Violence

teleSUR | February 24, 2019

Jorge Rodriguez speaking on Venezuela-Colombia border bridge violence. | Photo: Twitter / @ViceVenezuela

On Sunday, Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information Jorge Rodriguez revealed the truth of the violence on the Simon Bolivar-Venezuela border bridge. His revelations show the falsification of reports by mainstream media related to Saturday’s violence.

Violent Opposition Forces Throw Molotovs At Venezuelan Forces, Colombian Police Complicit

teleSUR | February 24, 2019

Guarimberos under the Santander bridge trying to cross from Colombia to Venezuela. Feb. 24, 2019 | Photo: teleSUR

Colombian forces at the border with Venezuela are looking the other way as violent Venezuelan opposition protesters, or ‘Guarimberos’, throw homemade Molotov cocktails at Venezuela’s National Guard while in Colombian territory.

Imperialist intervention in Venezuela: UPDATE 16

Countercurrents.org | February 24, 2019

• Border clashes, rocks, fire, tear gas, masked thugs, ‘torched aid’, fake Red Cross symbol
• US “aid”: a Trojan horse and PR stunt
• Venezuela denounces 2nd false flag operation
• We are defending our borders and freedom: Maduro
• Red Cross denounces unsanctioned use of its symbol to smuggle US “aid”
• Who burnt the truck? Venezuelan FM says ‘false flag expert’ Pompeo should look among his ‘agents’
• All options open: Guaido to meet Pence, ‘formally’ requests aid to topple Maduro
• Peoples’ Assembly in Caracas

Confront Imperialism and Don’t Make Concessions: A Conversation with Nestor Kohan (Part 1)

by Cira Pascual Marquina 

Venezuelanalysis.com | February 23, 2019

Néstor Kohan is a longtime militant and a philosophy professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. (Venezuelanalysis)

More than any other living thinker, Argentinian intellectual Nestor Kohan has worked to recover the tradition of Latin American revolutionary Marxism, a trajectory that he argues stretches from Julio Antonio Mella and Jose Carlos Mariategui to Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Manuel Marulanda. Kohan has also developed a reading of Marx that considers commodity fetichism to be the centerpiece of Capital: Critique of Political Economy at the same time as it emphasizes the political and revolutionary character of all of Marx’s texts. Kohan has supported the Bolivarian Process from its beginning. In this interview, we asked him questions about crisis engulfing the whole continent, with Venezuela as its epicenter.

Venezuela has able leaders and is fighting back

Luigino Bracci Roa – Situación en Venezuela | February 21, 2019

Rueda de prensa completa de la vicepresidenta de #Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, este 21 de febrero de 2019 en compañía del canciller Jorge Arreaza, sobre temas como la supuesta “ayuda humanitaria” y otros.

TRANSCRIPT:

0.01 At this time last minute information is coming out and we’ll go to Av Urbaneta, the See of the Executive Vicepresidency of the Republic. Marbelys Fernández will tell us all the details of what’s happening there. Marbe, go ahead, good afternoon.

Psychopathic US Senator Openly Calls For Maduro To Suffer Gaddafi’s Fate

by Caitlin Johnstone

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Influential US Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Marco Rubio has tweeted a blatant death threat and incitement of violence against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. As of this writing the post has 13 thousand shares and counting.

Venezuela MUST Sue US in Int’l. Court for Creating Famine by Sanctioning All Oil Sales & Seizing $

by Jay Janson

Nuremberg Principles of International Law 6: Crimes against humanity: 

Such as (c) Inhuman acts done against any civilian population. United Nations Convention on Genocide Article II genocide means acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national or other group, as such: (c)deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

Reporting Ongoing Crime Against Humanity Being Openly Committed

Venezuelan oil exports plunge on ‘harsher’ US sanctions

On 12 Feb. 2019, as reported by RT News:

Why do Trump’s biggest fans still believe him when he lies? The answer is in the human brain

by Caroline Orr

The Independent | February 15, 2019

President Donald Trump has just declared a national emergency after signing a bipartisan spending bill to fund the government and avoid another shutdown.

The national emergency declaration, which will allow Trump to bypass Congress and free up more money for border wall construction, comes more than a month after Trump first proposed the idea of using an emergency order to fund the wall that he said Mexico would pay for.

Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S.

by Jonathan English

When it comes to the quality of public transit, comparisons between American cities and international counterparts are usually met with a simple response: “It’s different over there.”

These differences, the argument goes, are vast and fundamental: Europe is far more densely built, and its older cities—settled centuries before the automotive age—will always be innately transit-friendlier. In Asian cities, meanwhile, explosive urban growth has been accompanied (and accelerated) by massive government investments in urban rail networks. But the U.S. boomed in the 20th-century’s automobile age, and the private car is still king; most American cities and their suburbs are utterly dependent on them.