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From coup leaders to con artists: US-backed Guaidó Venezuelan coup representatives in Colombia embezzled $125,000 meant for "humanitarian aid," suckering deserting soldiers and blowing the aid money on luxury goods

By @dancohen3000, for @GrayzoneProject
thegrayzone.com/2019/06/17/fro…
Imagine the corruption if the US had actually succeeded in installing this puppet.

The right-wing Venezuelan opposition talks a lot about "corruption" in the current Chavista government, but the truth is the opposition is exponentially more corrupt.
thegrayzone.com/2019/06/17/fro…
Mainstream UK media, from Guardian to BBC, remains silent as Venezuela's US-backed right-wing opposition is going through a major corruption scandal

They spent huge sums of "aid" money on hotels and partying. But coincidentally the media is not interested thecanary.co/global/world-a…
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Let's be clear: The Trump admin sent a drone into what Iran says was its sovereign airspace. The US knew Iran would shoot it down in self-defense—but the US gov also knew the corporate media would obediently portray this as Iranian "escalation," helping justify Trump's aggression
The Trump admin's strategy toward Iran is blatantly aggressive and illegal provocation — but the corporate media is dutifully going along with this, helping to whitewash US aggression, portray Iran as the aggressor, and sell a new war.

The corporate media is a handmaiden to war.
Case study in propaganda: NBC's Today show obediently regurgitates the US military's narrative, with no skepticism.

Iran says the US drone was in its airspace; US military says otherwise. Whose claims make the headline? US of course.

This is state media.
today.com/video/iran-sho…
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The Trump admin is recycling the same playbook Bush used for Iraq, trying to falsely link Iran to al-Qaeda to justify a war of aggression.

The reality is Iran has led the fight *against* AQ — while the US and its allies supported AQ in Syria, Yemen, etc.
nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/…
Back in 2017 I reported at The @GrayzoneProject how the Trump administration was working with the neoconservative pro-war think tank FDD to try to falsely link Iran to al-Qaeda (even though, again, Shia-majority Iran has been leading the fight against AQ!)
thegrayzone.com/2017/11/10/tru…
At The @GrayzoneProject in 2017, I also wrote about how Trump was blaming Iran for attacks carried out by al-Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden (who had in fact been a longtime CIA ally, fighting in alliance with the US in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union)
thegrayzone.com/2017/11/14/tru…
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.@AOC is correct that the US government is running (privatized, for-profit) concentration camps for refugees and immigrants.

What is not being emphasized though is this barbaric policy is *bipartisan*. It was going on under Obama, and expanded under Trump
latimes.com/nation/la-na-i…
In this article from 2016 (under Obama), a Japanese-American who as a child during WWII was held in a US gov. concentration camp drew direct comparisons to the (for-profit) internment camps for immigrants today.

The US has a long, horrific history of this
latimes.com/nation/la-na-i…
Hitler and the Nazi party were big admirers of the US government's institutional racism and apartheid. They borrowed tactics from the US, in fact: The concentration camps were partially inspired by the colonial reservation system against Native Americans
newsmaven.io/indiancountryt…
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