Note by The Saker: I normally don’t post open letters, but in this case I made an exception since this latter is also an analysis and because of the importance of this issue.
by Peter Koenig for The Saker Blog
To the Editor in CHIEF
NYT – 18 May 2019
Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say
Subtitle:
Butchers have stopped selling meat cuts in favor of offal, fat shavings and cow hooves, the only animal protein many of their customers can afford.
This introduction is accompanied by a picture of a man in rags, pushing a shopping cart through a garbage dump site. You, NYT, say it is in Maracaibo, Venezuela, the man looking for recyclables. The photo could be from anywhere, the same with a picture further down in the text – depicting a young woman nursing a baby in the dark – you say in a typical Venezuelan blackout.
This is a flagrant misrepresentation of what’s going on in Venezuela.
The New York Times is known for selecting photos from places of misery, could be slums from anywhere in the world, and placing them where it is most convenient to propagate a lie story – a story meant to demean a country in the public opinion, a country that the empire wants to subdue by bashing and insulting it – so the public – the braindead western public, notably in the US and Europe, will tolerate or even scream for a “humanitarian invasion” from the friendly US of A.
Why don’t you NYT’s shameful liars tell the full truth?
Who is responsible for the collapse, the lack of food, medicine, blackouts – actually for all of the collapses that you described in your manipulating master piece of deceit and propaganda? – And many more ‘collapses’ that you don’t even mention?
The NYT article compares Venezuela with “Zimbabwe’s collapse under Robert Mugabe, the fall of the Soviet Union, and Cuba’s disastrous unraveling in the 1990s”. The Times is completing its baseless preposterous accusation by saying, “the crumbling of Venezuela’s economy has now outpaced them all. Venezuela’s fall is the single largest economic collapse outside of war in at least 45 years, economists say.”
The economist your article quotes is none less than the former chief economist of the IMF, Harvard professor, Kenneth Rogoff, one of the most neoliberal, bordering on neofascist, economists you could have chosen. But that figures. Impressing with name calling. No matter how biased they are; no matter that they too defend the US hardline – invade Venezuela to safe the people.
Whom do you think you impress with such names? The ignorant, of course, and – yes – there are plenty of them in the great and unique US of A; and your key objective and that of most MSM is to keep them ignorant, so the exceptional nation can continue sowing misery around the globe for the benefit of a few – killing millions and millions of innocent people, for power, the theft of resources and world hegemony.
Aren’t you – the Editor in Chief – ashamed for putting up a totally false scenario? – One of lies and half-truths, all with the objective of further brainwashing the western public – into becoming warmongers, like your criminal government, and like your criminal paper. Yes, the NYT is a criminal paper, for doing what it does: Lying after lying to sway public opinion towards war, towards killing – mass-killing, mass-murder, that’s what your government has been doing for the last 70 years – all under false flags and lies, pretending fighting terrorists, yet, fomenting terrorism, while building up the base for world hegemony – and insane profits for the American war industrial complex – the oligarchs of death.
Did you know – you must! – that the US economy could not survive PEACE; that this sadistic and satanic economy depends on war, permanent war? That the war machine manufacturing complex and its associated industries and services account for more than 50% of the US GDP? And do you realize – you should! – that the US’s economic output is one of destruction – of killing, of annihilation – instead of building and developing human knowledge and wellbeing, the intrinsic thrive of human society – evolving in conscience, integrity and conscientiousness towards living well for all?
How is that for an exceptional nation? – Indeed, an exceptional nation, a nation in disrespect of all international laws and conventions – just breaching the Vienna Convention to which the US is party – by violating the diplomatic code, invading the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington and a few years ago, by seizing Russian diplomatic properties in Washington and New York. Wonderful precedents for other unaligned and disobedient countries to prepare for – but also for other countries – if and when they wake up and take their courage into their mind and fist – to do the same to US Embassies on their soil. What would Washington do? Does Washington even consider such a possibility? I guess not. But it’s the easiest thing to do – retaliate.
It would just take a number of countries acting in solidarity, simultaneously – and Bingo! – the emperor will be standing there with his pants down.
Your paper didn’t mention this little diplomatic episode that happened a few days ago in the context of lawlessness, of breaching the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations which entered into effect in April 1964, one of the few sacrosanct UN Conventions on diplomacy of which the US is a signatory.
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Back to the Venezuelan “misery” you, Mr. Editor in Chief, and the NYT are so eager to report on. Why don’t you say that the United States of America – the self-proclaimed exceptional nation, with war criminals leading it – is responsible for far most of the suffering of Venezuela, through its totally illegal (who cares in Washington about legality) sanctions, blockage of food and medical imports, theft and confiscation of some US$ 130 billion in Venezuelan assets and reserve funds in US banks and around the world, economic blackmail and strangulation that has, according to economists Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington D.C. and Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University, caused the death of some 40,000 Venezuelans.
This racist, misogynist and neofascist government, centered in and around the Swamp of Washington, is responsible for most of the suffering in the world today, by planting wars and conflicts – eternal war on terror; the same terrorists, trained, funded and armed by the very Washington, the CIA, the Pentagon, NATO and the spineless European puppets – for power, domination and theft of resources.
Does the NYT ever report on this? – Why can’t you, the NYT and YOU, the Editor in Chief, for once be honest and stand up for true journalism? – Because you would lose your job? Right, that’s it, isn’t it? – So, why don’t you pull out your card of ethics that you subscribed to in the school of journalism – from deep-deep down in your soul – look at it, internalize it – and think how much more you will be gaining in esteem around the world, if you bring the truth to the people, rather than keep lying – and brainwashing the world into war, misery and death? – Try it. You may be surprised.
Don’t you think, Dear Editor in Chief, sooner or later this lie-propaganda, this abject non-journalism will haunt you eventually all the way into the grave?
People will wake up, the empire will fall, it’s just a matter of time. What will you do then?
Switch sides? – You truly think, you really honestly think, people will believe you? – And I mean you and your paper, the once-upon-a-time highly reputed New York Times? That the people are so dumb to forever buy your lies, your untruths? – It’s now or never that you should switch sides. You may feel the brunt for a while from those who pretend running the world, but deep down in your soul you still have a spark of ethic left. Pull it out. Bring it to light. It will reward your life forever.
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Largely thanks to you, the NYT and your think-alike AngloZionist mass-media colleagues and partners in crime – which encourage people to call for wars, for invasions, conflicts and regime change, all based on your deceit, misinformation and false flags – as a disgraceful result of these lies millions and millions of people have been killed around the globe. Estimates put the figure at between 20 and 25 million since the end of WWII – all by the US, NATO, and their proxies and vassalic European minions.
By repeatedly spreading lies and deception, you are creating a false truth, indoctrinating people into consensus for wars and more wars, for invading and killing more innocent people, for the benefit of a few kleptomaniac oligarchs, stealing natural resources and, especially, of the corrupt war machine. Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, had it right, when he said: Give me control of the media and I convert the people into a herd of pigs. Most of the western populace is already a herd of pigs.
Venezuelans are no herd of pigs. They, and Cubans, Nicaraguans, Bolivians, Iranians, Syrians, Russians, Chinese – and many other sanctioned, blackmailed and suffocated people, have been resisting and will continue to resist, no matter what it takes to bring the empire to its knees. Let’s face it, the latest amok race around the globe dishing out sanctions and more sanctions – from Venezuela, to Iran, to China, to North Korea, to Syria, to Iraq – by the ultra-dangerous, sadistic warrior-jokers, Bolton, Pompeo, Abrams, Pence – and not to forget, the Goldie-Lock of incompetence in the White House – with a fleet of the largest warplane carriers encircling the seas of Iran and the Gulf of Hormuz – these people and the scenarios they create, are a true reflection of hopelessness befalling a fading empire.
You, the New York Times, could help bringing this abject war on terror, the merciless killing of millions to an end, accelerate the downfall of the empire, by spreading the truth – the truth that you, Editor in Chief, as well as many of your colleague journalists know – by stepping out of your MSM-box, making a 180-degree U-turn, siding with the people, the 99.99% who crave PEACE. – You would earn and receive an enormous THANK-YOU.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT; Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; TeleSUR; The Saker Blog, the New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
Peter Koenig is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
Koenig wrote:
Mike from Jersey
The New York Times (also known as the New York Slimes) is a neocon propaganda machine, just like Time magazine, CNN and others. It’s job is to publish half truths, presenting selective and biased information to the public, or else ignoring the truth. The others do the same.
Years ago I wrote a letter to the Editor of the NYT. No response. Years ago I also wrote a letter to Time magazine. They published an edited version of my letter, changing the contents, this being done without my permission. At the end of the letter they posted my name, as if I really did write what they published.
The best solution to fake news MSM is to ignore it. Don’t watch the news and don’t buy newspapers. Just concentrate on the Internet. I have my favorite websites, and over the years they have proven to be accurate. I advise readers to do the same.
People talk about the Times like it is a legend in Journalism.
At one time, it was decent, sometimes exposing government wrongdoing though often missing or not reporting big stories. It was okay, but it was never was up to its legendary status.
Now, however, it is nothing more than a whore.
It could be worse than that.although you make a good point,i think some of these people are actually CIA agents.
Pure evil can not be changed. The Evil Empire and it’s Evil media will not change. Not ever. It may be destroyed, but it will not change willingly.
That is the simple Truth of our predicament. Evil rules in human affairs, and will be the death of us all.
Perhaps Mr. Koenig should make his appeal directly to Mr. Arthur Ochs Sutzberger Jr, who is the chairman of the New York Times Company that owns the newspaper. Call his office and ask for an interview, Remind him of one of his quotes which is, “If you don’t occasionally make a mistake, you aren’t trying hard enough.”.
Writing an open letter to the editorial board achieves little ground; a face to face dialogue may reveal hidden knowledge about why the newspaper has lost its journalistic credibility for reporting the news instead of contriving political propaganda.
The attempt must be made to get through the supremacist blinders worn by those that control the US media but I think we all recognize that its as futile as voting.
All my hope is in the resistance of nation states like Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and others. The more the US and its Anglosphere and EU vassals push the stronger the resistance grows. The US Empire will collapse. No empire lasts forever and the US is showing all the signs of its decrepitude.
The NYT – and some who read it – likes to portray itself as being above the fray with unlimited access to classified and inside information not available to the average person.
A gate-keeper of the “facts” and distilled wisdom, so to speak.
Thats a myth of course.
Its byline that accompanies its daily briefing notifications is:
” Here is everything you need to know”
The reality is, the NYT or “Jew York Time” is a jewish owned paper – has been for well over 100 years – that advocates on behalf of Israel incessantly and promotes Israel everyday. There is no daylight between the NYT and the Zionist Apartheid entity and its policies.
Remember how this same NYT promoted and marketed the Iraq War?
Israel despwrately wanted that war and the NYT dutifully obeyed and sold that war to the American people on behalf of Israel.
Dont get sidetracted by the recent cartoon “controversy”, which saw the paper being accused of “anti-semitism”, because it ran a cartoon that accurately depicted Netanyahu as a guide dog wearing a Star of David collar, while leading a blind Donald Trump sporting a yarmulke.
The NYT is Israel’s mouthpiece, and it is one of the most promenient vehicle used by Israel to plant false “intelligence” to influence US policymakers
With the situation in Venezuela, we must understand that Israel is one of the ” 50 countries” – 50 rogue countries in my opinion – backing Guido as president, and in return, Guido has explictly stated that if/when he succeeds, moving the Venezuelian embassy to Jerusalem will be one of his priorities.
Please dont expect the NYT to be objective, it isnt being for the padt 100 years.
The agendas of its owners trumps objectivity everytime.
Selah
please, dig out with detail the main elements of the so-called “opposition” in Venezuela: the majority are of Judaic descent, Capriles type. the same type, a handful dozen of them, which owes, literally, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala.
Interesting, and would be even more interesting to make it more granular and name names.
I have read, can’t recall where, that virtually all the leading families of Costa Rica going back to colonial era, were conversos.
A search for “Conversos in Costa Rica” got me to this page at the top of the list:
http://www.jewishwikipedia.info/costarica.html
Here is a quote from that page:
” It is generally agreed that business is good for Jews, that they can make money doing almost anything, and that Costa Rica is a very comfortable place so it is quite attractive.”
Katherine
Thank you ,Mr. Koenig, for your international position.
The link I leave here is not about Venezuela , but still a very interesting and has to be read by The Saker readers.
— Al Jazeera Pulls Video Citing Holocaust as Fake. — https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/05/19/russia-today-al-jazeera-pulls-video-citing-holocaust-as-fake/
This is a very interesting video. It destroys the holocaust mythology!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCKEe5xWR4Q
For your pleasure
Rogoff is a neo-liberal ultra, ie a Zionazi. The Zionazis really HATE Venezuela because Chavez championed the hideously and unendingly oppressed Palestinians. Rogoff would care as much, in my opinion, for the plight of Venezuelans as he does for the Gazans, Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians, Libyans and other victims of Zionazi hate, the true Oldest Hatred of them all.
Butchers have stopped selling meat cuts in favor of offal, fat shavings and cow hooves, the only animal protein many of their customers can afford.
All those hooves… what happened to the rest of the animal? Thrown away, probably; the customers couldn’t afford it.
listen up! hooves of cows..or cow heels… scraped of hair and washed, simmered slowly in a crock pot, well seasoned, adding ultimately some starches like potatoes, taro and dumplings… is a protein rich, absolutely delicious full meal in a soup..soup but a meal filled with the solid starches.
such a soup is as good or better than any western fare. it is a popular meal in Venezuela/Latin America, and the Caribbean islands for good reason: it is cost effective and nutritious and helps to use up the entire slaughtered animal for human food. no waste of useful food that north Americans used to simply dump while some people starved
Ben Sampson, how true. Pigs trotters, Tripe and Onions, and also Black Pudding (blood pudding) are celebrated among la Haute Cuisine Paysane of the world — the great Foods of the Peoples. Homer immortalised a Black Pudding seething in its pot; and praises are sung to its Scottish cousin in “Ode to a Haggis” by Rabbie Burns: “O Chieftain of the Pudding race”. But what would the New York Times know about that? Fake news, fake food — that’s the NYT’s world.
‘Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race’-forgive the pedantry.
Mulga, thanks for the correct version. Not pedantry but respect for the poet`s verbal workmanship. I realized my mistake too late — O for an edit tab on our published posts!
I well remember how delicious a haggis I ate in Edinburgh was. Haggis, ‘neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes). The pinnacle of Scots cuisine. No wonder the Romans never took possession of the place.
Anyone ever hear of head cheese?
All the gelatin is in the hooves and some also in the bones.
Gelatin is one of the healthiest substances for humans.
Most people who buy those little Knox gelatin packets don’t realize where the gelatin comes from.
much better to get it from the source.
Not to mention the advantages of eating “organ meats” at least once a week.
That was the rule when we were kids. How many people even know how to cook kidneys, liver, brain, “sweetbreads,” tripe, etc. etc. And of course fish once a week, whether Catholic or not.
Not to mention the traditional meal on Tuesdays in Bavaria: Blutwurst und Leberwurst mit Sauerkraut, the kraut simmered all day on the top of our workshop stove with plenty of garlic and onion, und Salzkartoffeln. Yum!!! Why Tuesday? Because that was the traditional day for slaughtering and butchering pigs, so the blood and organs were immed. made into sausage.
Basic nutrition.
A lot of which has flown out the window in the Big McNugget, the picky-picky US of A..
Katherine
My dad worked with a Polish fella. When he heard that my dad and I were going fishing, he asked what we did with the fish heads and ofal. Since we paddys only eat patatoes, (and fish apparently) we told him we threw the ofal away. Well, that wouldn`t do, he wanted the guts and heads. Turns out, when he was young, he spent several years in a German concentration camp. Their main source of food was `fish head`soup and he had devleoped a taste for it. Recently while shopping in a Philipino market I watched an old lady haggling over the price of the fish heads. I`ll take me spuds, thanks.
What about this?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Colas+en+el+Estado+Zulia+por+falta+de+Gasolina
Today, Venezuela a country with huge oil reserves without gasoline . . . The regime is collapsing, rampant negligence and corruption everywhere. Welcome to the socialism of the XXI century,
I’m going to guess you don’t mean the “Socialist” countries of Denmark,Sweden,Norway,etc,right. Since they seem to be doing quite well for themselves. I figure you are using the US talking point of saying Socialist,when you really mean Communist. But that is a problem for you too. Since the main (of only a few) Communist country in the world is China. And I think we all know that that country,the biggest PPP GDP economy in the world. That economic world powerhouse,is also doing quite well for themselves.The Socialist/Communist countries you must be referring too,are also the ones under massive economic attack by the US hegomen. And have been for decades.Did it ever occur to you that there “just might” be a connection between those facts.Being on the US hit-list,and having massive economic problems. Or,do you image they aren’t connected. If so,you might be interested in a bridge I could sell you cheap.
But lets discuss Venezuela.The country you are most attacking here.You are in error calling them Socialist. True,the governing party is a Socialist one.And true there are some government sponsored programs that are “Socialist”.But that is true even in most of the West. Almost all Western states (minus the US) have a “socialized” universal health care system,as does Venezuela..And even in the US there is a socialized health care system for the elderly,another for members of Congress,another for the military.And even a badly run one that is supposed to help the very poorest people in the US. Education in the West (and the US partly) is also government operated,as is it in Venezuela.The British and the French,in fact most “non-Socialist” Western countries,including the US,have a part of their media owned by their governments (BBC the most well known).And yet they aren’t accused of being “Socialist” because of that.Likewise in Venezuela only a small portion of the media is owned by the government,and yet they are called “Socialist”,a bit strange I’d say. The economy in Venezuela is mostly privately owned. True as in most Western states there are a few government owned companies the oil company being the most important.Just as is true in Mexico,Brazil,and many other countries worldwide. And yet you call Venezuela a Socialist country. Even though Venezuela’s oil company was taken over by the government,not under Chavez.But instead by his “non-Socialist” predecessors. Other than spreading hasbara for the US,your post here makes no factual sense at all. If Venezuela was a “Socialist” country ,in the way meant by you.They would have nationalized the wealthy capitalist class holdings in Venezuela. And destroyed the traitorous pro-US opposition,years age (as they should have). So in closing,Venezuela is not a Socialist country. No matter how much the US wants too make it seem so.
You are quite misinformed about the situation on the ground. The expression “Socialism of the XXI Century” is not mine, but one of the famous phrases of the Chavista Revolution. I know the romantic leftist worldwide are crying because another of their silly dreams is dying, but is a cold hard fact that many of you cannot accept. The whole project is crumbling down, people are fleeing the country in mass looking for food, medicines and medical care.
The main public hospital in the border city of Cucuta in Colombia are doing the best they can with their limited resources to treat the enormous amount of Venezuelans looking for medical assistance, many pregnant women with high levels of malnutricion, people with serious injuries not treated, and the list goes and goes.
The following is a recent report about the situation . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeZni-agIes
I’d be more interested if you had tried to dispute the “facts” that I listed for you. They can call themselves whatever they want to. But if your country doesn’t have a Socialist economy.And you don’t follow a Socialist set up in your society,then you aren’t a Socialist state. Venezuela is a hybrid state,part Socialist and part non-Socialist. You deliberately misunderstand me. I don’t deny that Venezuela has some bad problems right now. It’s the “cause” of those problems that we differ on. When you have the worlds hyper superpower trying to destroy you.Allied with their worldwide minions. And a native traitorous elite that you didn’t purge as you needed to many years ago. Then yes ,you are going to have a lot of problems. Add to that the last few years catastrophic collapse in prices of your main (by far) source of revenue.And you have the type of problems Venezuela has today. A few years ago when Venezuela had the same policies it has today. But without the US actively trying to destroy them.And with high oil prices.Venezuela didn’t have those problems. Someone would have to be a pro-US stooge not to see the correlation between those events as the root cause of today’s situation..
I never open a discussion on socialism, you did it, I used the Chavista revolution expression about socialism as a sarcasm, I hope you can understand the meaning of the word.
The comment that started our discussion was seen by me as an attack on Socialism.If I mistook you there I’m sorry. I myself am not sure I’d call myself a Socialist,since I believe in a mixed economy. But my point is that we don’t truly have a basis to judge Socialism from. In every case I’ve seen,they have been attacked constantly by the capitalist powers.Trying to “strangle the baby in it’s bath”. Only a Socialism not under attack ,and given time,would be a judge on whether the system has merit or not.
I agree with you on your observations about socialism and the constant attack on it by capitalist powers sir. Unfortunately the Venezuelan tragedy, which I as a Colombian have followed very closely, and the misinterpretation and misused of many of the socialist principles by the leaders of the so call Chavista o Bolivarian revolution has cast a very negative shadow over the concept in the whole Latinamerican region. I think those principles base on respect and consideration for the people in less favorable conditions require a higher moral ground and intelligence on part of the people on charge of put the whole thing to work, but this is the tropic and corruption, mediocrity and negligence are the norm among the rulers almost in every country. I think a different approach on this issue is necessary something beyond the capitalist or socialist models, but that requires a different humanity that right now is no present in this planet.
Have a good night sir.
Industrial strength humbug and bulldust here.
Mulga…. I was wondering where this troll was coming from, he had a swipe at me the other day on another story. From Colombia. Uncle Sam’s favourite pet in Latin America with an atrocious human rights record and looking too become an associate member of NATO if I’m correct, with the right sort of ideologically compliant Govt, as in another vassal state of the Empire.
Colombia, death-squad central over recent years, hence a hero regime for fascist thugs everywhere, and a US pet, naturally. I suppose Scummo will make a State visit one day, perhaps on his way to meet his Pentecostal fellow believer, the sub-fascist Bolsonaro of Brazil.
All the press and media in Colonia (or as the despicable Freemason Bolivar called it: “Colombia”) are ziomedia! Every moment, 24/7 they are literally brainwashing people. Unfortunately, my family lives in Colonia, so I have to stand the endless propaganda that my family consumes daily as “information”. The ziomedia tactics are crude and clichéd, but sadly, they work very well:
* The AZE (AngloZionist Empire) doesn’t give a rat @ss who is running “Venezuela”. As they once admitted: ‘It doesn’t matter if the person is a SOB, what matters is that he/she is our SOB!’
* The ziomedia relentlessly concentrate their attacks against “Maduro” (They call him: “Maburro” or Ma_donkey). If they said “Venezuela”, the brainwashed Colonians could realize that they are manipulated into attacking other fellow Latinoamericanos. Same tactic in Syria, when they attack Assad: the AZE kills half a million people because they were looking for Assad, yeah, right…
* People in Colonia believe what the ziomedia say. Very few read alternative media, so most people have no idea of what is really going on. They never see the forest, they are worn out fixated on the selected clown of the day
* Colonians are trained by the ziomedia to reject any idea of socialist policies. The ziomedia use every opportunity to remind people that “Venezuela” as a “socialist dictatorship” is doomed to fail…
* So the Colonian ziomedia call Guanó: “The President in charge of Venezuela”. And they call Maduro: The Dictator. And they interview Corina Machado, who is a crypto and a CIA agent, as a “freedom fighter” and a “respected politician”. And they promote a marrano (Capriles), who tried to become governor of “Venezuela”
* Only the perps themselves know what the FARC really is. Are they ziomercenaries posing as leftists? Or just well equipped common bandits? Some factions gave up their weapons… and the result? The ziorulers started to exterminate them. Up to this day they have killed 300 former “guerrilleros”. The former Colonian governor even received the War Nobel Prize for the “peace talks”! He is a Freemason and a lackey for the City of London
* Colonia is controlled by a zioagent, who is a freemason and a member of the Committee of 300. He was a partner of Pablo Escobar! (Pablo called him: Varito) He is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Colonians because he assisted the Mossad to set up mercenary armies to steal lands and resources for the ziorulers. See the pattern here? In Syria and Irak they are called ISIS or Daesh, in Colonia they are called “Paramilitares”, but the real bosses and aims are the same!
* Some of us are awake. We will never accept the artificial division of Latinoamérica. The balkanization into 23 banana republics was a ziocup. We do know
* The richest family in “Venezuela” is Cisneros. They are subsidiaries of the Rockenfelders. The Cisneros belong to lower Freemasonic ranks. In Venezuela, the ruling classes are mainly Khazarians, or in some cases, Freemasons. In Colonia, they are almost always Freemasons
* Every single government on Earth needs some degree of socialist policies to minimally function. Pure capitalist or corporatist or absolutist schemes are incapable of maintaining the core social base that is necessary to sustain a state. The phobia against intelligent socialist solutions is simply ziobrainwashing
This typically cowardly Anonymouse will be overjoyed when, if the Right returns to power in Venezuela, the death-squads start slaughtering, torturing and disappearing again, as Rightists have done, with full US support, in Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile, Brasil, Argentina and elsewhere, at various times during the last sixty years. Murder is the Right’s one true religion.
Funny how ‘Anonymous’ Rightwing thugs take such delight in the misery imposed on people by US malevolence. It’s the Evil in them coming out, as it always does.
Wow. Classic, and shameful, case of blaming the victim.
If these facts are true, of pregnant women fleeing etc. because of lack of medical support, then the cause is sanctions sanctions sanctions and impounding of Ven. assets in foreign banks, etc.
Small wonder that resources are short when its cash is being impounded so they cannot buy necessities.
The country is under financial siege, and you recount the putative consequences—not sure whether you-r info is reliable—with no allusion to the causes. The news is the causes, sanctions and under forms of economic warfare, not the effects.
Katherine
You perfectly express the Right’s hatred of others, that causes so much pain and suffering in the world. Venezuela’s plight is mostly caused by economic war waged by internal parasite vermin and the USA the greatest purveyor of violence and suffering in history. Latin America has been a hell-hole of poverty and suffering for 200 years thanks to Washington and compradore traitors and class and race haters like you.
Another ‘Anonymous’ Imperial hate-monger, celebrating the Real Evil Empire’s success in crucifying yet another country. I bet you’re a big fan of death-squads, too, and will be cheering them on, if and when they return to Venezuela.
The nyt is like new york style pizza, underloaded with substance, overloaded with hype.
In a better world the owners and staff would face war crimes trials. As it is, we can still boycott them into bankruptcy.
But at least it’s kosher!
“So the public – the braindead western public, most notably in the US and Europe will tolerate or even scream for a ‘humanitarian invasion”. I would also add Australia to that list, tho the level of apathy here is pretty extreme (except to tick a few boxes in a booth every 3 years). Boycott these liars and propandists for the Anglo Zionist Monstrosity. The mainstream media is there to obfuscate, to censor, to lie, to cheer for the latest Imperialist conquest. The alleged ‘journalists’ are lower than worms. They cheer for mass death of human beings. Look how they cheered ‘shock and awe’ in Iraq. For example, how many have reported the OPCW finding that the Douma ‘chemical attack’ was staged. A false flag. How many report the actual context in Venezuela, like detailing the impact of the crippling sanctions. How many stabbed Julian Assange in the back and literally gloated at his arrest. Don’t watch TV News, Don’t read their newspapers. Just boycott them.
I had a peruse of the Australian today, Gezzah, in a cafe. A brief view, interspersed with raucous laughter that had the other customers looking a little worried. It was a 100% litany of deranged jubilation at the return of the worst, most incompetent, most downright Evil regime in our history. But, ever since I turned off at about 7.30 on Saturday, my predictions of a Scummo win already plainly correct (I was wrong to expect a landslide, but there you go)I have been very relaxed. The choice, as ever, was between pathetic, Blairite, Third Way ‘reformism’, like putting a ban-aid over a femoral artery laceration, and raw, vicious, cretinous, hate and greed-driven Evil. And, as most often, greed, stupidity, ignorance, fear and hatred won. But Scummo is precisely what this nasty, eighteenth-rate, corpse of a society richly deserves. Look forward to a Budget of extraordinary viciousness next year, plus huge tax cuts for the rich. And as for ‘climate change’-surely you jest!!???
Mulga…. Okay, you can peruse The Australian for me and report back. I wouldn’t even wrap compost with it. I think your term ‘deranged jubilation’ pretty much sums it up. Cretinous hate and greed driven evil also pretty much sums it up. Yep, apparently climate change is all a leftie, commie, pinko plot to stop us making $$$$ for ourselves and raping and pillaging the Planet even more. What a truly ***** World. This is the cancer unleashed by Neoliberalism – unfettered greedlust regardless of the consequences. For some reason Icarus just popped into my head. That seems pretty apt as well. And any country that dosn’t bow to the Anglo Zionist Empire like Venezuela is targeted.
The ABC had that mobile pile of ‘Labor’ Rightwing excrement, Joel Fitzgibbon (even worse than his sire)on this morning ‘arguing’ that Labor must prioritise mining coal and gas, and tackle climate destabilisation as well. In other words, deranged, lying or moronic, bulldust, on a par with ‘compassionate conservative’. I see him following the old familiar path of (numerous expletives deleted) Murrun Fungusson, the former ACTU Boss (can you believe it??)in selling out to the Bosses of the Minerals Council on retirement. As if retraining the miners to work in some other industry that will not murder their children and grand-children is impossible or unmentionable. Of course the real ‘Labor value’ being defended by creatures like this is PROFITS, in the billions, and to Hell with the world.
Will never happen Peter, you must remember first annd foremost, this disgusting entity, the Jew York slimes owes its existence to the apartheid state of Israel and also the numerous alphabet agencies within the empire of chaos, ie CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. This evil empire will continue to run roughshod through the entire planet until Russia, China, Iran, India start blowing a few of their aircraft carriers out of the water. Cannot happen soon enough!!!
The vaunted American Free Press specializes in shedding crocodile tears for the people of nations that America seeks to subjugate… I mean democratize… even as the United States wages economic siege warfare on these nations through the use of sanctions.
Here’s a recent report that documents how American sanctions on Venezuela have killed 40,000 Venezuelans.
Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela
http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/venezuela-sanctions-2019-04.pdf
Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela & Killed Over 40,000 Since 2017
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/1/economist_jeffrey_sachs_us_sanctions_have
Also, former UN special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas has compared American sanctions to medieval sieges and US sanctions against Venezuela in particular as a possible crime against humanity. His report can be found below.
Venezuela crisis: Former UN rapporteur says US sanctions are killing citizens
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-us-sanctions-united-nations-oil-pdvsa-a8748201.html
Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on his mission to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Ecuador
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G18/239/31/pdf/G1823931.pdf?OpenElement
During the Vietnam War, America infamously declared that it had to “destroy a village in order to save it.”
Today, the Land of the Free has refined this doctrine with a corollary:
America will starve a nation … in order to save it!
Remember Mad Maddy Albright in the Clinton regime? “I think the deaths of Iraqi children through our blockade on food and medicine is a price worth paying by their parents.
Hilary Killery Clinton did the same to Yemeni children during the Obomba regime.
I guess some rich old hag must be running Trump’s Venezuela policy.
This letter would have been more effective had it provided direct citations for the claims that the US is responsible for the economic problems Venezuela is suffering – or at least aggravating them. Most people analyzing Venezuela’a economic issues generally blame Chavez’ and Maduro’s policies over time having damaged the middle class businesses and lower class farmers. There was a discussion on George Galloway’s Sputnik show about that recently. Of course we know US sanctions aren’t helping in the least, but more specific citations as to how would have helped the credibility of the author.
Calling the editors “satanic liars” really isn’t going to get that letter published, however true the accusation may be.
‘Most people’ blame Chavez and Maduro, not the years of economic sabotage, internal and external, and the savage US sanctions, do they? At least I now know where the expression ‘hack journalism’ comes from.
Good one, Mulga!
As Socrates said (long before he was voted to death for upsetting the public): “I care not how many hold this opinion, I care only how far you and I can travel the road together to find out the truth of this matter.”
mene mene tekel u pharsim. Today I read that Iran has increased its production of low enriched uranium
by 400 %. Diego Garcia is of range of any Iranian rocket with a meaningful payload. Everything else is comfortably within range. Somewhere on the Saker is my idea of the Persian Gambit, together with the possible Baltic Gambit.
Brilliant Mr. Koenig. What a wonderful expose’ of the Un-United States of America you have portrayed here.
You give us a glimmer of hope from abroad, that there are still some voices exhibiting truth, honesty, vision & most of all integrity, from your side of the world.
A huge THANKYOU to you.
from Ian, Australia.
Tried to read this article on my lunch break when i was at work (Hill AFB Utah) and the network firewall wouldn’t let me access it. Looks like the powers that be, don’t like the saker.