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Adam H. Johnson
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Reminds me of how the NYT editorial board the day after the ‘02 Venezuela coup justified their endorsement of it by saying Chavez killed protestors, then two weeks later—after Chavez had been reinstated—the NYT quietly reported the snipers who fired first were from the opposition
Like all war fervors the reporting on Venezuela has been hysterical and in sync w/ pro-US NatSec orthodoxy. Reporters largely see themselves as advocates for the opposition while everything the govt does is rounded up to the most ungenerous and cartoonishly evil reading of events
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4/13/02 NYT Editorial, Chavez supporters killed 14 unarmed protestors.
nytimes.com/2002/04/13/opi…
4/29/02 follow up NYT report. Oops! We were wrong something something fog of war.
nytimes.com/2002/04/29/wor…
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This is an object lesson in NYT editorial mealy-mouthed liberal imperialist sophistry. It advocates every single axiom of regime change insisting Maduro “must go” but handwrings about a potential civil war. Like, what do they think is being threatened? nytimes.com/2019/02/05/opi…
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any “left foreign policy” on Venezuela that doesnt lead w/
1) CIA withdrawing from LatAm forever (theyll never be woke, sorry guys)
2) an end to sanctions that are helping starve people
isnt “left” in any meaningful sense its just rebranded liberal imperialism for the Sanders age
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People keep telling me there no “Left foreign policy” which really means “we need draft up policy papers for a Warren admin that’s a slightly less evil version of what Obama did but maintains all the core pillars of US empire & capital” which is whatever is but it’s not...”left”.
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