Even though this article is already two weeks old, many will
have missed the story. And I must say that in the past two weeks the propaganda
campaign has escalated. The coverage has been unrelenting and yet profoundly
dishonest both in its assumptions and in the way the narrative is being framed.
Maduro is nobody's hero. Not even the Left likes him but
that's not the point. The US has been waging a war against Venezuela for twenty
years. Chavez is gone and his legacy has been destroyed. This too has been
misreported and in some cases those on the Left are also guilty of
misrepresentation. Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution wasn't exactly what it
claimed to be and in terms of socialism it's something of a caricature and a
facade.
This struggle is about geopolitics and it's about oil. The
Monroe Doctrine is necessarily part of the narrative. This is about rollback...
undoing the Pink Tide that erupted in the late 1990's and during the Bush era.
China and Russia are to be cut out. Cuba is next. The United States wants
control of the oil and make no mistake, those nations supporting Washington's
proxy Juan Guaido will be rewarded with access and contracts. Those who don't,
nations like Italy for example, will be punished.
NPR, the BBC, Reuters and of course the American mainstream
alphabet of networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and CNN) are all on board and
labouring to push world opinion (and the financial markets) into supporting the
movement and getting behind the Guaido government. I doubt Washington wants a
military intervention but they've certainly prepared for it. And to be honest
the hardest part so far is to keep up the energy. As the project continues to
drag on and lag, the fear is that the public will lose interest. Wall Street is
salivating at the thought of getting control of Venezuelan oil and one wonders
if the impetus for this is coming from Langley or Wall Street? Sometimes
treating them as mutually exclusive entities and interests is misleading in
itself.
In emulation of Chile in 1973, they've made the economy
scream and yet Maduro hangs on. He still has the military with him and yet the
West continues to do all it can to push the envelope. In some cases, such as
this one they've pushed too far and even mainstream outlets like the New York
Times can't whitewash some of the absurdities that are taking place.
A Gulf of Tonkin this was not, but the story hasn't ended yet
and it's clear that some (at least) hoped this event, these burned trucks,
might have been the incubator babies that turned the tide. The coup
orchestrators and agents have suffered a minor setback but don't think they're
just going to give up. Once again USAID is exposed as an arm of American empire
and covert action, but our media can always be counted on to ignore this and
whitewash it just as they have Juan Guaido and his improbable rise.
In fact it's clear the US has crossed the line this time and
they're going all out. And after the failure in Syria, and given that this is
in the Western Hemisphere I don't think Washington is going to give up.
There's an aspect to this story (and the Syrian episode) that
our media won't touch and that's the question of American weakness and desperation.
The US is still the most powerful nation in the world and its empire remains
global and unprecedented. But it's slipping and everyone is watching.
Greenwald is one of the few that seems to understand that
just because CNN is fake news... doesn't mean that Trump is right. The whole
fake news charade that has generated a censorship campaign is also part of this
larger story.
We live in a very confusing moment. Every day I pass pickup
trucks bearing stickers that express distrust of the mainstream media. They're
right to do so but for the Trump followers they're turning from one lie-campaign
fully into the embrace of another. The fog has grown so thick that many are
just simply lost and can't find their way out of it.
And given that most people no longer possess basic understandings
of geography, history or even a hint of economics and seem to lack the capacity
to learn apart from soundbytes and social media memes.... we as a society are
in big trouble. The tools are there to help people find the way out of the fog
but the foundations those tools need to operate... just aren't there.
In this case, the burning of the trucks was either a result
of an out of control crowd or worse a false flag provocation meant to generate
global outrage. Given the media campaign and given its similarity to past
events I'm inclined to believe the latter.
The people with the stickers on their trucks are right but
they can't see that their side plays the same game.
I guess the conclusion is what becomes problematic. The
categorical rejection of all these parties, players and media outlets is to
many... unthinkable and an abdication of the political struggle. And yet those
devoted to and loyal to Truth are left with no other option.
Once again, I'm not suggesting that the mainstream media is
of no value. But it must be understood for what it is and what it is not.
Information, especially in our present setting is part of the
political struggle, the war in slow motion, the raging war that is still just
shy of actual shooting. The lies are tactical moves and yet there are larger
strategic lies deeply embedded in the system. If we don't understand this, then
we're always going to be led astray.
And once again, the leaders in the Evangelical movement have
done little to correct this and in many cases are partisans of the political
struggle. Many are plainly bought and sold, agents of extra-ecclesiastical
powers.
How sad that we have to turn to a sodomite journalist to get
some perspective. What judgment on the Christian Church who for the most part
supports these political and military campaigns... especially if led by their
favourite politician and party affiliate.
These same partisans who dismiss the New York Times as
liberal once again flout their ignorance was to what the Times, Post and the
mainstream media really are and actually represent.
As Greenwald reports, the Times broke the story not because
they are liberals or intrepid journalists but because the story collapsed and
was exposed as a complete fraud.
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