by Peter Koenig
The Trump Administration has just accused Venezuela’s newly appointed Vice-President, Tareck El Aissami, of being involved in drug trafficking, thereby dishing out the usual criminal spiel – illegal sanctions against a foreign dignitary with travel bans and asset seizures. This is Washington’s abject behavior at its best, as are so many others around the world of similar nature.
Therefore, let me say upfront: We can protest as much as we want. The Anglo-Zionist empire in Washington and its European vassals do not care one bit. To the contrary, the more hapless protests there are, the more they laugh to themselves – ‘Bingo! We did it again. – Case closed. And sanctions stay. New ones are invented at will, wherever and whenever it pleases the empire. Because nothing happens from the opponents – other than hot air.
Sanctions – economic sanctions, as most of them are, can only stand and ‘succeed’, as long as countries, who oppose Washington’s dictate remain bound into the western, dollar-based, fraudulent monetary scheme. The system is entirely privatized by a small Zionist-led elite. FED, Wall Street, Bank for International Settlement (BIS), are all private institutions, largely controlled by the Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan et al clans. They are also supported by the Breton Woods Organizations, IMF and World Bank, conveniently created under the Charter of the UN.
Few progressive economists understand how this debt-based pyramid scam is manipulating the entire western economic system. When in a just world, it should be just the contrary, the economy that shapes, designs and decides the functioning of the monetary system and policy.
Even Russia, with Atlantists still largely commanding the central bank and much of the financial system, isn’t fully detached from the dollar dominion – yet.
‘Renegades’ of the US-globalized Deep State must de-dollarize and migrate towards the eastern SCO-based economy (SCO = Shanghai Cooperation Organization, including Russia, China, most of Central Asia, Pakistan, Iran; – and India for good or for bad, is a contender), where the future is, where huge and honest prospects of future economic development are emerging, especially the Chinese initiated New Silk Road, or OBOR – One Belt-One Road – that foresees an infrastructure, industrial and technological boom, connecting Vladivostok with Lisbon and Shanghai with Hamburg – and everything in between. China’s President Xi Jinping has opened the door for everyone to join – no force, sheer invitation.
This also means breaking loose from the IMF’s and World Bank’s debt tentacles and the rest of the western monetary gangsters. It doesn’t happen overnight, but steps towards regaining sovereignty should be initiated rather sooner than later – to reduce, speak withstand and eliminate sanction imposed damages. For Russia, despite the Atlantists, sanctions were a blessing. They are the best that could have happened to our economy, Mr. Putin said. They pushed us to promote an economy of self-reliance, especially in agriculture and industrial development. In 2015, Russia was the world’s first wheat exporter.
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Back to drugs and fighting drug lords. The Plan Colombia which started in 2000 and has since cost about US$ 20 billion, was officially designed precisely to fight the drug mafia’s coca plantations and drug cartels. Yet, since the Plan begun, the surface of coca plantations has more than doubled in Colombia; and output efficiency today is almost three times what it was in 2000.
Washington’s fake accusations and outrageous slandering of Venezuela’s Vice President, Mr. Tareck El Aissami, are totally absurd. They are aiming in a first instance at further bad-mouthing Venezuela among the uneducated MSM-brainwashed international public. It’s ‘false news’ propaganda, attempting to pull Venezuela into the drug ‘war’ playing out between Colombia, Mexico and Peru – all fomented by Washington.
Up to his recent assignment as Vice-President, Mr. El Aissami was Interior Minister, successfully fighting drug mafias, covertly promoted by the DEA and the CIA. Clamping down on the new Vice-President might be a punishment for his unwavering fight against the US backed drug lords, while he was Interior Minister. In fact, during his ministerial tenure, Tareck Al Aissami, a man of full integrity, has hit hard the cartels of international drug dealers, capturing 102 drug lords, of whom 21 were extradited to the United States. To make things even more ridiculous, apparently Tareck Al Aissimi does not even hold a US visa neither has he any assets in the USA that could be frozen as claimed.
The bigger and larger scale agenda behind this latest defamation scheme maybe a monstrous attempt to bring NATO to South America. Yes, you read right – Pentagon’s European military branch, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. They have absolutely nothing to do in Latin America, but as long as nobody screams murder and acts against it – the impunity of the empire is almost bottomless.
The little publicized fact is that President Manuel Santos of Colombia has recently invited NATO to come to Colombia to help him ‘fight organized crime’ – meaning, most likely a new FARC war, easily revived with a few false flags – as already happened recently (http://10.16.86.131/colombia-inviting-nato-to-fight-organized-crime-a-menace-for-latin-america/ ).
This move has been under preparation since 2012 / 2013, right from the beginning of Peace Negotiations between the Santos Government and FARC. It started with a so-called ‘best practice technical assistance agreement’ between NATO and Colombia – extendable to real troops and armory movements into Colombia – meaning automatically NATO spreading all throughout Latin America. The Natoization of LATAM! – What a prospect!
Venezuela with Hugo Chavez was the only country protesting already during Colombia’s initial negotiations with Brussels / NATO. Today, except for Venezuela, I don’t know of any other Latin American country that shouted out in protest. Not that it mattered, as nothing matters to the exceptional nation. But it would help spread awareness about what Washington has in store as its latest oppressing atrocity for Latin America.
Might this be one of the chief purposes of this intimidating defamation launched against Venezuela and her Vice President, whose ethical integrity is proven beyond doubt?
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th Media, TeleSUR, TruePublica, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, 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.
Russia hasn’t abandoned Venezuela, though, so the country is not left alone to battle the Empire’s latest attack! Venezuela’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Delcy Rodriguez, met with Lavrov in Moscow on Feb. 6th.
Details in this release (from joint news conference held after the meeting):
http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/2628191
McCain should be charged:
Senator McCain Falls for Absurd Russian Prankster Pretending to be Ukrainian Prime Minister
The two countries that can not abandon Venezuela are Cuba and China. Russia of course always helps but it’s not in a position to do so like the days of the USSR.
As for this stint; I think the author of the piece is way off mark. The individual in question is a young, popular individual (with presidential potential) who could take the mantle of the party after Maduro or lead as opposition in case of total collapse. He’s getting hit hard in a pre-emptive strike of sorts to set a precedent. After all, the Venezuelan people would not dare elect a drug lord – as the smear attempts to portray him. Not only is the U.S declaring war on him already, they’re also tarnishing his political image at home and giving ammunition/helping the opposition which is fully under U.S control. Many benefits as you can see.
Tillerson is a death sentence for Venezuela. The oil lobby wants Venezuela back – at all costs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/16/rex-tillerson-got-burned-in-venezuela-then-he-got-revenge/
Read that little hit piece sponsored by none other….
Funny thing is the premise that it got “back” “revenge” at Venezuela. What Tillerson “did” doesn’t make up even a tiny fraction of what Exxon lost when they got kicked out. And the oil lobby wants it back – all of it back and then some. Should pay attention at oil lobby puppets like Marco Rubio in the senate.
The economic destabilization campaign in Venezuela along with the bottoming of oil prices (as we know – well schemed) hit Venezuela extremely hard. For a country that has been largely undeveloped for ages with no industry other than oil it’s no surprise. Washington prefers its like that – easier to control – no significant threat in its backyard.
If NATO reaches Latin America it will fail. Sure it will create chaos, death and destruction for a while but it will eventually be kicked out as soon as the U.S economy bottoms out – like many things. Not worried about this one bit. South America will continue to suffer for a long while. It’s too underdeveloped compared to say Asia and too divided by borders. I mean Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela should be one state but instead are 3. Recipe for disaster with a neighbor as strong as the one in the north. Brazil will recover, if the left is smart enough to navigate the sea of snakes that plagues it currently and counter balance in the future (say in 5-10 years).
Even the Cubans have abandonded Venezuela, no petrodollars, no Cuban help. Why do you think the Cubans negociated the normalizing of relations with the US? Because the tap of Venezuelan petrodollars dried up. Just as the Colombian politicians, the Venezuelan officials are deeply tied to drug trafficing, it is undeniable.
Rubbish. Venezuela is currently the most important strategic partner of Cuba. Venezuela gets diplomatic support, intelligence/state security support, cooperation/guidance in practically any field and it’s one of the main reasons the Venezuelan state has not fallen to little pieces since Hugo got in power – 17 years and counting. It’s called the Bolivarian Revolution for a reason. Drug trafficking has always plagued South American nations – that type of corruption will never go away UNDER any administration as long as it’s such a profitable industry. The tap of Venezuelan oil has not dried up – definitely not the oil going to Cuba daily. The idea that Cuba will trade Cuban-Venezuelan relations for better relations with the North who will backstab them at any chance or opportunity…you clearly don’t understand the Cuban-U.S relationship of over 60 years. Cuba and the U.S are in it until one or the other totally collapses – that will not change for the foreseeable future – definitely not with the Trump administration.
When do we call a spade a spade and start practicing counter-hegemonic actions? Are we even sure the world would be better under a multi-polar state… and not regress to a single hegemon again? Is psychopathy and delusion a Zionist predilection that can be beaten… or simply a human flaw?
Watch out for Curaçao – via the Netherlands, the largest of the three Lesser Antilles islands just 40 miles from Venezuela’s coast line, is a NATO guard and spy post. The airport is a USAF Forward Operating Location hosting AWACS. Helmin Magno Wiels, the leader of a leftist party which won the elections 2012 and advocated for independence and removal of foreign troups, was murdered, and the island is a stepstone for drug smuggling and related DEA activities.
Ah, the perfidious MH-17 cover-up Dutch!
Hi Peter, great wording in the article – Washington as usual – really to the point.
I think that the ‘hot air’ is important to educate the masses – that’s the first step to revolution…
Thanks for informing us about the integrity of the vice – president – and the fact that he has no holdings in the US – things like that are important to know !!~
For the first time, Venezuelans are at the front of the line in the number of asylum seekers in the United States. Given the sorry state of their homeland, it’s not hard to believe. The numbers tell the story of their ailing country.
Gee. What a surprise.
and soon americans will complain about venezuelan refugees just how europeans complained about north african refugees.
Oh what tangled webs are getting weaved….
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-17/dhs-insider-warns-its-spy-versus-spy
The Anglo-Zionist empire Now I get it; the big Z
Who else to blame for Venezuela being #1 on the Misery Index.
I truly am sorry for Venezuela. I used work there ( 7 years) until Chavez took over. All of my friends left there over the years – most to Canada, Spain or the Mideast. Most of the middle class. It was always a dirty place (crime and filth). Most of the citizens were enamored over getting even with the ruling class or the promise of nirvana. LOL. I witnessed so much crime (drug and money laundering / kidnapping / murders) – After Chavez, it just got worse. I sympathize them but I can’t feel sorry their stupidity. I know it not unique to Venezuela – but the graft and drug dealing is so rampart there
The rate of asylum seeker and murders leads believe that no one be left there after a few more years in Venezuela .
I sure Mr. Koenig sees it different from me. But I only what I saw and my friends have seen. .
Are you sure you are not talking about Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans…?
they are bad too but you can get toilet paper, good gumbo or a steak here. The graft and drugs is everywhere. But it more obvious in Latin America and there many more partakers. If you want see for yourself go work there but leave a will behind (and don’t get a taxi).
Bottom line, whatever is happening there is none of US business. Fix your own yard before talking about someone else’s. Sick of it.
The israeloamerican attack on Venezuela continues as before. No change from the obama to the pence regimes.
Well done analysis.
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Hey mods, f*** you!! and your censorship!! This site is going to go to sh** if you continue to censor coments that go agaisnt your opinions. Have fun in your socialist circle***, I aint comming back. Chao
Venezuela under Chavez nationalised oil industry and use oil profits to increase welfare spending. Millions of people benefit from the education and health missions. The country also formed an alliance with Cuba, bought arms from Russia, and created ALBA, an alternative regional organisation.
20 years after, Venezuela is by no means a socialist country even though that’s what Chavez and Maduro proclaimed. And it’s doubtful if they will ever achieve that goal, as there is no USSR to help and support them ( as with Cuba in the cold war). They have huge internal problems, and significant external pressure.
Venezuelan economy largely remains into a few private hands, despite some here and there nationalisations. Most media are still private owned too. Capitalist forms of production are predominant.
The chavista policies are similar to some social democratic policies of post ww2 Europe. Increased welfare benefits, nationalisation of strategic corporations, national health service and affordable food and education.
But Venezuela is not like the centrally planned eastern bloc economies where state controlled almost all of the economy.
The media and western governments portray and criticize Venezuela as an extremist country, almost ” communist”.
And in today’s neoliberal global economy, Venezuela seems to be “extreme”. After USSR dissolution, there was a massive shift to the right. Any country that opposes the neoliberal status quo is demonized as multinational corporations want to exploit new markets.
#FakeNews: Real Reasons Behind Venezuela’s CNN Ban
https://sputniknews.com/latam/201702181050822211-cnn-venezuela-ban/
“According to Rodriguez, in the report, Ferreira claimed that “in particular, passports are issued to Islamic terrorists” and connected his allegation to the origin of Vice President Tareck El Aissami (his father was a migrant from Syria). Ferreira also accused El Aissami of being involved in drug trafficking.
“CNN is running an intense campaign of lies and groundless allegations, including accusing the vice president of being involved in the Cartel of the Suns (Cartel de los Soles), a group of drug dealers allegedly ruled by Venezuelan government officials,” Rodriguez told Sputnik Mundo.”
A Venezuelan friend of mine who really liked Chavez, tells me that life in Venezuela is terrifying right now because of crime, and has been like this for the last several years. Blame it on whomever you wish, but that is the current situation.
The Violence in “Venecita” has been a destabilization plan generated by the AngloZionist empire. It has been implemented by the alphabet agencies of the USSA, and locally, by their main asset in the region: a freemason and member of the Committee of 301, who was also a former Governor of Colonia. This genocidal murderer set up private armies of mercenaries, with the full assistance of the Mossaid (Main agent: Jair Kleiner), to protect the drug fields, to steal land and resources for the ziointerests, and to sacrifice the Latin-American victims to their satanic entities.
Members of the criminal cartels that were set up in “Venecita” have confessed to the police that the money to finance the operations, the logistics, and the drugs, and also the orders to kill people, to terrorize the society, to steal and sell drugs come from the zioassets in the region, mainly from this exgovernor.
Governor Chavez enforced the oil contracts to respect international standards: 26% for the host territory, and 74% for the oil companies (who explore and take all risks). But the ziopetrols want the preChavez status: 99% for the ziocompanies!
P.S.: We call the territories: “Colonia” and “Venecita” for self-protection, and because we are against the artificial division of our real country: Latinoamérica
This is a huge mistake!
People is SA is controlled by the press. Using an army will wake up a lot of people.
And Colombians are not supporting this initiative.
Brazil is being destroyed and desorganized by CIA assets . The goal is make the country elegible to foreign loans again.
Odebrecht is the other main target of CIA.
Odebrecht needs someone with intelligence expertise! It can control the country, with Lula, ….Just need a little inteligente.
There is a division in Brazilian society that can be exploited. Engineering vs lawyers
Lula is leading presidential pools by a large Marge.
He can’t be defeated is a fair election. So the plan will be arrest him or …U know.
The guy supposed to succeed Lula was killed in a plane crash . The only new name is a CIA asset Marina Silva.
The army….Is quiet. Looks like it belongs to USA but no one really knows.
Probably divided , just like 1964 when it did not allow anyone to control the government.
there’s a good article by James Petras that discusses how the new hard right governments in SA are all imploding because of corruption – Brazil’s government is being taken to court – and so on –
I just read it a couple of days ago, but can’t find it right now. this link also covers it briefly –
http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=2127
The BRICS urgently need to come up with a virtual reserve currency among their countries and invite everybody to join in. This currency should also serve as a currency for trade between member states, the national currency for any transaction within member states. The worth of national currencies mustn’t be determined by drawing rights or any such political bullshit, but by an algorithm. It should be a simple one. For example: If the worth of the reserve currency – let’s call it globo – is 100, then the size of any national GDP in relation to the overall GDP of all members determines the percentage value of the national currency. This way there is a clearly and simply determined relation between currencies. The larger your economic prowess, the worth more is your money. This also offers a good automated way of balancing currencies and GDP, because the more expensive, the more expensive are good to export.
One of thes reason why the “Western” system of debt fraud is not only its criminal design, it’s because it was made and is run by humans. Humans are unbelievably stupid and greedy, but computers aren’t. And besides, money itself is an algorithm.
I’m afraid that Tarek is indeed corrupt and it would make sense to me if he was dealing drugs…and for the cia. The country is experiencing hyper inflation and the new VP is now extremely wealthy. There is speculation that he was promoted because the very angry and impoverished population would stop trying to oust Maduro because Tarek is seen as being worse. The litmus test, for anyone who thinks that the Venezuelan government for the people or in anyway honourabe…go there! But as Doug said make sure your will is up to date. My partner is Venezuelan and Tarek tried to recruit them, they went thru university together and we’re friends. Terrible situation and the govt is more than partly responsible. Greed and corruption.
Venezuela murders soared to 60 per day in 2016
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s murder rate rose to an average 60 per day last year, up from about 45 per day in 2015.
Official data put the murder rate at 70.1 per 100,000 inhabitants last year, one of the highest in the world and up from 58 in 2015.