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Apr 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Apr 11, 2002 a miltary coup in #Venezuela ousted its democractically elected president Hugo Chavez. It suceeded for 2 days which is why so many people & orgs inside & outside Vzla were discredited by it. It was the 1rst of 6 major US-backed attempts in the past 20 years

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My friend @justinpodur and I wrote a book (released last year) that analized all 6 major US-backed coup attempts in #Venezuela over the past 20 years.

monthlyreview.org/product/extrao…
Chapter 5 covers the April 2002 coup attempt. The subsections of the Chapter follow to give you an idea of what is covered:

"Separation of Oligarchy and State - not without a fight"

"The True Story of the Coup that Was Only Conceded After the Fact"

"The Western Media"

cont'd
"The U.S. Government"

"HRW's 'As Soon as Possible' Scam"

"Amnesty International's Credibility Takes a Beating"

"Et Tu, Carter Center?"
Sorry - "analysed"

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Apr 14
20 years ago, a US-backed miliary coup ousted Hugo Chavez. It was one of 6 major US-backed efforts to overthrow the eleted government over the last 20 years. @justinpodur and I covered the 2002 coup in Chapter 5 of our book.

monthlyreview.org/product/extrao…

Excerpts follow Chpt 5 follow
First excerpt - "Separation of Oligarchy and State - Not Without a Fight" Image
2nd excerpt: The True Story of the Coup that Was Only Conceded After the Fact Image
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Apr 12
What’s called human history (the history of empires, governments, organized religions, big companies, or groups powerful enough to challenge all of those) approximates a very long crime story. Seen that way, our only task is to rank the criminals.

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Seen that way, the only way to avoid the “criminal” label is to be a victim - to never actually defeat the criminal (esp a government) - to at best to win reforms through non-violent means like the 1960s civil rights movement in the US
I don’t think that is too bad a way to view “history” (as a long crime story) but there are problems with it to always keep in mind. It can lead to demonizing any government that refuses to commit suicide & lead to vastly worse situation for its people.
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Mar 28
The sanctions on #Venezuela , a democracy that hasn't invaded anyone, are much harsher than those that have been imposed #Russia.

& of course sanctions on both countries are illegal acts of war unless there is a Chpt 7 UN Security Council resolution authorizing them.

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A detailed #Russia vs. @Venezuela sanctions comparison will soon be availbale, but let's compare & contrast sanctins on Vzla with sanctions that were imposed in Apartheid South Africa from 1985-1990
A friend pass along this 1992 paper to me which I will draw from. It cites a South Africa (SA) bank estimate saying sanctions cost apartheid SA $20 bn from 1985-1990. Vzla lost between $12 - 20 bn PER YEAR from 2017-2021 (just in lost oil revenues) due to sanctions
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Mar 13
There is certainly no justification for this abomination of a @guardian article on the #ukrianerussiawar

No wonder the "west" is going apeshit with censorship.
"Journalism" like his literally puts the entire world at risk

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Yes there was a western backed coup in #Ukrain in 2014.

The power exerted by Nazis in #Ukriane is not reflected in dismal electoral performance. Only 3 months ago Ukriane stood alone at the UN with the US voting down a resolution glorifying Nazis

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Mar 6
"...1918, the British forces that land in Northern Russia distributed antisemitic flyers by air on a massive scale….the Whites are defeated by the Bolsheviks and emigrate to the West, bringing with them the denunciation of the October Revolution as a JudeoBolshevik conspiracy.."
"Winston Churchill is no stranger, who takes part in denouncing the role of Judaism not only in Russia, but in the whole cycle of subversion that, starting in the eighteenth century, had shaken the West"

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"On the other side of the Atlantic, It’s Henry Ford who encourages the promotion of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Ford declares: 'The Russian Revolution has a racial origin, not a political one',..."
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Feb 20
It's hard not to fall into complacency about the depravity of all western institutions. They faunt it so relentlesly
And again
As @caitoz said “ One of the main things I do here is try to help articulate the scope of the horrors of the empire. Because we're in it, and it's so aggressively normalized by the mass media, it becomes easy to overlook, like water for a fish”
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