Eight Venezuela Lies the US Government and the Mainstream Media Want You to Believe

By Makia Freeman

Venezuela lies abound. Both the USG (United States Government) and its lapdog MSM (Mainstream Media) have been going into overdrive, exaggerating or just plain lying about the state of affairs in Venezuela. Truth is always a casualty of war, and it’s also a casualty of pre-war, as the NWO prepares the ground for military intervention by demonization and propaganda. Here are 8 lies about Venezuela which are being used to justify yet another coup in a long, long history of US coups in foreign lands.

Venezuela Lies #1: The Venezuelan People Have No Food and the Shelves Are Bare

In these videos (here and here) on the ground in Caracas, Max Blumenthal exposed one of the lies about Venezuela that is constantly repeated, i.e. that the people have no food and the supermarket shelves are bare.

Venezuela Lies #2: The US Only Wants to Send Aid

If by “aid” you mean “weapons and barbed wire for radical opposition forces,” then yes, the US only wants to send aid. However, if by “aid” you mean actual medicine, then no. This VenezuelaAnalysis report quotes a NYT reporter and USAID itself. They either don’t have medicine as part of the inventory or state outright that there was no medicine:

“According to New York Times reporter Anatoly Kurmanaev, the trucks that the opposition tried to force across the border contained “no medicine” at all, with reports that a “small” amount of medicine was being stockpiled in Cucuta not confirmed by USAID. Initial inventories from USAID made no mention of medicine, listing only basic food and personal hygiene products amongst the “aid”.”

The Venezuelan Government is accepting aid from Russia and other countries it can trust, just not the US, since US “aid” may just “accidentally” happen to contain weapons for anti-Maduro agitators (or, as the Spanish say, compradores). Hmm, wonder how those arms got in the food truck?

As I covered in the article NGOs: Choice Tool of Subversion for the New World Order, NGOs have become a weaponized tool of soft power through which the NWO expands its empire – meddling, destabilizing, toppling and installing, all the while using the NGO as a humanitarian pretext. USAID is just another in a long-line of NGOs loyal to the US Government and NWO, willing to put a nice PR happy face on their agenda of subversion.

Venezuela Lies #3: Juan Guaido Has Legitimacy in Declaring Himself President

As I covered in my previous article Is This the Most Blatant US Coup Ever?, Juan Guaido is a US-CIA stooge through and through. He’s an agent-provocateur “opposition leader” who has been carefully groomed to play his role in the coup. His claim to be interim president of Venezuela under Article 233 of the Venezuelan Constitution is, legally, utter nonsense, since Maduro has not abandoned the presidency and Maduro held free, open and fair elections as adjudged by outside independent parties.

Venezuela Lies #4: Many Countries Support Guaido

The US claims many nations and groups support its efforts to topple Maduro and install Guaido. In reality, these countries are basically vassal states or other nations controlled by the US that don’t want to upset the apple cart. Notice the strategy of the US: try to co-opt the United Nations HRC (Human Right Council) into following US coup efforts, and try to strong-arm groups like the OAS (Organization of American States) and the Lima Group into betraying their brother nation Venezuela.

The US tried this same trick with the Syrian War by creating and controlling a group called “Friends of Syria.” Here is what Venezuela’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador Jorge Valero said:

“the self-proclaimed “Lima Group” is a cartel made up of satellite governments of the imperial government to break Latin American and Caribbean unity, and, due to the failure of using the Ministry of the Colonies, which is the OAS to isolate Venezuela in this organization. The empire and its minions couldn’t approve Article 20 of Inter-American Democratic Charter of the Permanent Council of the OAS and resort to the United Nations Security Council, where they also failed. The creation of puppet governments by the US is not new.”

Venezuela Lies #5: The US Cares about the Venezuelan People (Just Like It Cares about the Iraqi, Libyan, Syrian and Iranian People)

The NWO uses the US to bring all nations into its fold, but it like to do so with the veneer of democracy so as to gain more public support and engender less resistance. Subversion, NGO soft power and covert operations are more palatable than overt control and boot-in-the-face oppression. In this vein, the USG likes to pretend it truly cares and has deep compassion for the people of nations like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Venezuela and any other place it plans to subvert, invade or bomb … even though it has never professed such care in the past and will probably never again profess it in the future once its new puppet leader is installed.

Venezuela False Flag Underway? Washington’s “Humanitarian” Regime Change Effort

Just look at the kind of lies, hypocrisy and nonsense Pence and a “deeply concerned” Pompeo tweeted about Iran when the USG set it sights on igniting a coup there in 2018:

Venezuela Lies #6: Venezuela is Only in the Condition It is Because of Chavez, Maduro and Socialism (They’re the Bad Guys)

Nothing is black and white. It is possible to look at the unfolding Venezuelan crisis and acknowledge that Maduro has mismanaged things while at the same time seeing the gross foreign interference he and his government have been subjected to. As I covered in other articles such as Venezuelan Economic Crisis: The Real Cause is Not Socialism, US-NWO foreign meddling is by far the biggest factor here. For instance, did you know that Bank of England has effectively stolen USD$1.2 billion from Venezuela by toeing the NWO line and blocking Venezuela from accessing it? Did you know that the US has effectively stolen USD$11 billion from Venezuela by freezing its US accounts? How is a small nation supposed to function as normal when such massive amounts are stolen from it?

Venezuela Lies #7: Yes, the US Has Toppled Governments Worldwide, But “This Time It’s Different”

Once you study enough history, you begin to see the lies of tyrants and empires. The lie remains the same. The US wants Venezuela’s gold and mineral reserves. It’s only 5 days from the US, whereas the Middle East is around 20 days from the US and in a very volatile part of the world. There is also the strategic acquisition of the mineral coltan. They also want to teach the successive government to Hugo Chavez a lesson after he thumbed his nose at the US-NWO Empire. This isn’t any different from other subversions and invasions. It fits the pattern exactly.

Venezuela Lies #8: It’s a “Grassroots Uprising” against a “Brutal Dictator”

This entire coup has been planned, orchestrated and executed from Washington. Period. There is no “grassroots uprising.” Ever wondered why Assad and Maduro are “brutal dictators” but bin Salman, El Sisi and other US-CIA stooges are not? It’s all about branding the enemy, marketing foreign interference and controlling perception. Today’s friend is tomorrow’s enemy and vice versa. Al-Qaeda is bad and now Al-Qaeda is good. Were we fighting Eastasia or was it Eurasia?

Who is the brutal dictator? Who is imposing economic warfare and deprivation, starvation and misery by sanction? Who is fomenting regime change on innocent nations? Who is funding and supporting terrorists to topple any government they don’t like?

Final Thoughts: The US vs. Russia/China Proxy War Continues

Both Russia and China have invested a lot in Venezuela, including actual investments in their oil, military assistance and financial loans. They are not about to let the US get away with this – even if Venezuela is in the USA’s backyard, geographically speaking. The Monroe Doctrine, which started out in the 1800s as a policy by which the US would protect fellow American nations from European invasion, has now been turned on its head. Raving warmonger John Bolton recently mentioned the term as yet another excuse for the US to dominate whomever it wants on the 2 American continents. However, despite all the Venezuela lies emanating from Washington DC and the MSM, Venezuela is going to be a tough nut to crack, and many American and Westerners are already aware of the propaganda being used to foment war.

*Makia Freeman is the editor of alternative media / independent news site The Freedom Articles and senior researcher at ToolsForFreedom.com, writing on many aspects of truth and freedom, from exposing aspects of the worldwide conspiracy to suggesting solutions for how humanity can create a new system of peace and abundance. 

Europe Not to Support Any Military Action against Iran: UK Pundit

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A political analyst based in London highlighted the European Union’s unwillingness to back US President Donald Trump's position on Iran and said the EU does not support any military action against Tehran or any move to “asphyxiate the Iranian economy”.

“…I am told in the private meetings with the American representatives that Europe does not support any sort of military action against Iran or any action designed to try to asphyxiate the Iranian economy,” Marcus Papadopoulos said in an interview with the Tasnim News Agency.

Papadopoulos is a political expert and the publisher and editor of Politics First, a non-partisan publication for the UK Parliament.  He earned his MA in Modern History and his Ph.D. in Russian history from Royal Holloway, University of London.  His comments and interviews have appeared in various news outlets, including RT, Al Jazeera, Rossiya 24, TASS and RIA Novosti.

The following is the full text of the interview:

Tasnim: Tensions have grown in recent months between the US and its closest allies in the EU over various issues, including Iran, which was underlined at a recent US-backed conference on the Middle East in Poland that was largely sidestepped by many European governments. What do you think about US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy that has strained the transatlantic relations?

Papadopoulos: Well, it’s certainly the case that Donald Trump is polarizing both America and Europe and he is polarizing both continents in terms of his domestic policy and his foreign policy. Now, regarding the latter, his foreign policy, when it comes to his antagonistic stance on Iran, Europe does not wish to follow him in what could eventually end up being a military crusade led by America against Iran. So, the most recent example of Europe's unwillingness to back Trump's position on Iran was the conference in Poland which we can say was quite simply an anti-Iran conference. This conference was a miserable abject failure because the only countries who sent senior representatives were the (Persian) Gulf dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia. The European representatives there were low level and the European representatives did make it clear during the meeting and also I am told in the private meetings with the American representatives that Europe does not support any sort of military action against Iran or any action designed to try to asphyxiate the Iranian economy. Indeed, the host nation of this conference, Poland, said that the Polish government supports the Iran nuclear deal. So that leaves Trump in somewhat of an awkward position because yes, he has the backing of the (Persian) Gulf dictatorships against Iran, yes, he has the backing of Israel against Iran but he doesn't have the backing of Europe. So, what can he do next? Well, there are a number of steps available to him and probably the most powerful option at his disposal is to threaten those companies in Europe, for example, Germany and France to threaten them in order to deter them from trading and investing in Iran and he could be successful on that count. How? Because American representatives who say privately and in no uncertain terms to those European companies which are doing a lot of business with Iran that they have a choice: they either keep on trading with Iran or they trade with America. If they keep on trading with Iran then they could very well jeopardize their access to the American market. Now, of course, that is bully-boy tactics that is not in accordance with international law (and) not in accordance with the United Nations Charter. However, if push comes to shove my fear and my suspicion is that a lot of those companies operating in as I say Germany, for example, could decide that the American market is just far too important to them than the Iranian market. That's not to be disrespectful to the Iranian market. The Iranian economy is quite a robust one and it offers a lot in terms of trade to other countries in the world. However, you can't compare the Iranian market to the American market. The American economy is a superpower. The American market has 300 million people. So Europe does not support Trump's stance on Iran. Europe is most unlikely to support any military campaign that Trump could launch against Iran but Europe is vulnerable to American pressure to stop trading with Iran.

Tasnim: The Trump administration’s foreign policies are also slammed by top US officials. Recently, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi described the administration’s general approach toward Iran, including Washington’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal, as “completely wrong”. Do you believe other US officials would cooperate with the Trump administration in implementing its policies?

Papadopoulos: Well, I find it refreshing to know that there are people on Capitol Hill who are still steadfast in their support to the Iran nuclear deal though these people have no love through Iran but nonetheless they are still supporting the Iran nuclear deal and they are speaking out against Trump's aggressive approach to Iran. That is something to celebrate. That is positive news in my opinion. However, if and this is a big if, if Trump was to try to bring about some sort of subversive act in Iran and if American media would back Trump on the pretext that this covert operation in Iran, this subversive operation, is designed to bring freedom back to the Iranian people, I do suspect that those people on Capitol Hill who are supportive of the Iran nuclear deal, will support Trump's actions against Iran in that scenario. Indeed, I believe one of the things that unite both Democrats and Republicans is their hostility towards Iran. I believe both parties given an opportunity would relish the chance to overthrow the Iranian government, to destroy the Iranian Revolution, and to return Iran to how it was in the days of the Shah namely a client state because that would massively boost America's influence in the Middle East (and) massively strengthen America's hold over the Middle East and of course, that sort of scenario would put quite a smile on the faces of Saudi Arabia and Israel. So yes, it is good news that there are people on Capitol Hill who are still supporting the Iran nuclear deal but do I trust them when it comes to respecting Iran's independence and sovereignty? No, I don't. Do I trust them when it comes to speaking out, voting against any American attempts to intervene to interfere in Iran either directly or indirectly? No, I don't. America when it comes to Iran cannot be trusted. Indeed America can never be trusted when it comes to Iran.

Tasnim: The White House made a massive blunder after claiming European leaders applauded when Vice President Mike Pence dropped Trump’s name in a speech. Pence was speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany when he passed on Trump’s regards to the dignitaries gathered. The 59-year-old paused for several moments, waiting for a response, but the crowd remained silent. Do not you think that it is another sign of the strained transatlantic relations? How do you predict the European countries’ future reactions to the conflicting policies adopted by the Trump administration?

Papadopoulos: Well it's certainly the case that the recent Munich conference did not go well for the Americans. It proved to be a very awkward embarrassing experience for Mike Pence and indeed, there was a lot of tension in the audience in particular from European representatives because Europe does not like being told what to do by Trump.

Europe does not like bully-boy tactics which are being employed against it by Trump. Europe does not want to jeopardize or damage its lucrative trade with Iran and of course, Europe is a lot closer to Iran than what America is and in the event of a war, an American-led war, against Iran which would return the region into a fireball, which would have horrendous consequences for Europe, European leaders do not wish to see European security threatened by that scenario. So, the Munich conference was another reminder to the White House that all is not well in relations between America and Europe but that sense, however, when it comes to Venezuela, Europe largely speaking is supportive of America's stance, America's attempts to instigate a coup in Venezuela against a democratically elected president. So yes, we must applaud Europe when it comes to Iran but Europe will also support America when it comes to other countries in the world which perhaps Europe doesn't have such good close relations with and in that respect, I'm afraid to say that Europe can't be trusted because if Europe was sincerely committed to the United Nations Charter, an international law in general, then it would not be supporting America's stance on Venezuela, it would not be supporting the totally politically and electorally illegitimate Juan Guaido. Europe would be supporting Nicolas Maduro. So, you know it pains me to have to say this but once again Europe is playing a major role in the violation of international law and in stoking conflict in another country.