Trump’s attack on Venezuela came after he appeared to threaten another war with Iran over protests inside the country
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The long-term consequences of US actions in Venezuela demolish laws which hold together the United States and the international order. This is not Pax Americana. It is Pox Americana from War-a-Iago.
The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony from an unreliable witness. Despite DOJ edits, it could expose more Americans to the CIA’s own history of drug trafficking.
The arbiters of acceptable online speech are not nearly as ‘independent’ as the EU would have people believe.
Нysteria is the enemy. The United States’ daring January 3 raid in Caracas to capture Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro was, to put it gently, a surprise to many (not least to Maduro). In the absence of much information, speculation and team sports rushed into the void.
Donald Trump’s Mar-al-Lago press conference announcing that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela was pure Yankee theater of the absurd, writes Joe Lauria.
Knocking over the government was always going to be the easy part.
