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China's foreign ministry condemned the US embargo of Venezuela as an act of "gross interference," and officials just met with Maduro to discuss strengthening trade.

This is while the US tries to starve Venezuelans, using hunger as a regime-change weapon.
The US gov. just sanctioned individuals and companies connected to Venezuela's CLAP food program, in which the gov. provides subsidized, basically free food to 6 MILLION families.

The Trump admin. is literally trying to starve Venezuelans to foment unrest
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14602
Venezuela's US-backed right-wing opposition took credit—coup puppet Guaidó publicly boasted that they worked with the Trump admin to put sanctions on the subsidized CLAP food program.

These traitors are starving their compatriots in hopes of regime change
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US Strategic Command, in charge of nuclear war, has a new center named after General Curtis LeMay, a sociopath nicknamed "the Demon" who said, “There are no innocent civilians... So it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing so-called innocent bystanders”
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US General Curtis Lemay earned the nickname "the Demon" for leading the firebombing of Japanese civilians.

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time,” he said. “I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”
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Lemay aggressively pushed the Cold War. In addition to firebombing Japan (which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians), he planned the nuking of Japan.

The US gov. later admitted this was unnecessary, but it was the opening shot of the war on the USSR
foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the…
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Israel has for years banned human rights orgs and prominent Jewish critics. Its new ban on Tlaib and Omar is not "un-Israeli"; it is extremely Israeli. This is the norm, not the exception. And the US has supported it all along. It didn't change with Trump. washingtonpost.com/opinions/barri…
Israel has repeatedly banned Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which are billionaire-funded, neoliberal, biased pro-US milquetoast groups that barely even criticize it.

This report is from 2014, when Obama was president.

This is far from new.
haaretz.com/.premium-israe…
Back in 2010, Israel also banned renowned scholar and Jewish critic Noam Chomsky (who ridiculously does not even support BDS).

Israel has been a racist far-right apartheid regime for a long time — this is not some new result of the Trump era.
haaretz.com/1.5121279
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Strategy developed by US gov soft-power orgs and supposed "non-violence" operative Gene Sharp to push regime change and "color revolutions":

US-backed protesters *want* police to crack down. They provoke police, then corporate media propaganda exploits it
US-backed Hong Kong rioters are saying the quiet part loud, using tactics developed by the CIA for regime change:

"use the most aggressive nonviolent actions possible to push the police and the government to their limits"

This isn't "nonviolence"; it's unconventional warfare
The same tactics used by US-backed insurgents in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria, Libya, etc:

Use so-called "aggressive nonviolence" (ie, unconventional warfare) to intentionally provoke the state to crack down.

Then demand foreign (US) "humanitarian intervention" for regime change
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