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Shocker: “Humanitarian Aid” Stunt Used To Escalate Against Venezuela

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So, you might want to sit down for this, but believe it or not it appears that the US government is using the fallout from its “humanitarian aid” performanceto justify further sanctions against the Venezuelan government.

I know, I know. I’m just as shocked as you are.

“This action, taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13692, targets six security officials who control many of the groups that prevented humanitarian aid from entering Venezuela, thereby exacerbating the humanitarian crisis that has left millions of Venezuelans starving and without access to medical care under the Maduro regime,” reads a statement from the US Treasury, if you can imagine such a thing.

“Those who continue to support a dictator that violates human rights and steals from the starving should not be allowed to walk around with impunity,” tweeted US National Security Advisor John Bolton of this latest escalation, to everyone’s breathless astonishment. “The United States will continue to take appropriate action against Maduro and those aligned with him.”

“The United States urges all nations to step up economic pressure on Maduro and his corrupt associates, as well as restrict visas for his inner circle,” US special envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams told a room full of stunned, slack-jawed reporters, adding, get this, “Now is the time to act in support of democracy and in response to the needs of the Venezuelan people.”

Let’s all take a moment to collect ourselves after receiving this shocking, shocking, astonishing news. If you are hyperventilating, I recommend breathing into a paper bag and envisioning yourself strolling on a tropical beach arm in arm with a Berlin-era David Bowie.

As it turns out (and who could have predicted this?), all that posturing by the United States government about “humanitarian aid” seems to have been a cynical ploy to further escalate against the Venezuelan government, which has been a longtime CIA target for regime change ever since President Hugo Chávez took office in 1999. It may be time to face the cold, stark possibility that, as hard as it is to fathom, the government of the United States of America is interested in Venezuela not for humanitarian reasons at all, but because it has the single largest proven oil reserves of any nation on the entire planet.

After all, if the US were so keen on getting its $20 million of humanitarian aid to the people of Venezuela, it could simply have given that shipment to one of the many nations that Venezuela is currently accepting aid from like Russia, China, India, Turkey or Cuba to deliver instead of instigating a hostile stand-off on Colombian and Brazilian border towns. Or, rather than demanding that a literally besieged government passively allow large, unexamined shipping containers to be delivered by the government orchestrating that siege into the hands of the Venezuelan faction that is collaborating with it, they could simply have given that shipment to the UN or the Red Cross for delivery. But rather than taking those extremely easy and diplomatically simple measures to deliver its relatively small amount of humanitarian aid to the Venezuelan people, the most difficult and provocative path was deliberately taken instead, with some extremely suspicious activity leading to the delivery being set fire to by anti-Maduro protesters.

Could it be (and just bear with me here while I spitball) that the Trump administration officials who engineered this media-friendly humanitarian aid performance like Elliott Abrams, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo knew all along that the Venezuelan government would necessarily turn away the delivery under the spotlight of international news media? Could they have known that Abrams’ already established history of using humanitarian aid as a pretext to ship weapons to oppositional militia groups would make it impossible for Maduro to permit such a delivery? Is it possible that they knew that the official US State Department narrative about this rejection would be uncritically regurgitated verbatim as absolute fact by the news media outlets of the US-centralized empire, as such events consistently are?

I know it sounds crazy, but might it just possible that all this Venezuela business is actually about resource control and regional dominance in a strategically crucial location which might otherwise favor US geopolitical opponents like Russia, China and Cuba? What if the US government and its tight empire-like international alliance uses its massive power advantage to bide its time slowly squeezing noncompliant nations into submission using economic sieges and covert disruption operations by intelligence agencies, while manipulating the public narrative to ensure the complicity of the international community, until those noncompliant governments collapse under the pressure and either join the empire-like alliance or plunge into chaos which can be easily capitalized upon? Could it be that this is all just a ploy to shore up control of world affairs by a dominant group of extremely powerful corporate and financial manipulators who exert immense control over political and financial systems, markets, non-government organizations, opaque government agencies, and media around the world?

Nahhh. Perish the thought.

Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,



69 Comments on "Shocker: “Humanitarian Aid” Stunt Used To Escalate Against Venezuela"

  1. Anonymouse on Sat, 2nd Mar 2019 6:28 pm 

    No doubt about, the united stats of Israel is THE rogue regime on the planet, or all of history even. On this issue, ‘my’ own government is just as complicit as these clods. If anything, the neo-liberal regime in Ottawa is trying to out-amerikans, the amerikans, when it comes to trying to topple the government and destabilize that poor country. Apparently, Canada has no laws or restrictions governing its conduct or behavior on the international stage, either, which, has been appalling to say the least.

  2. makati1 on Sat, 2nd Mar 2019 6:48 pm 

    Anon, North America is dying. Mexico had a slight edge, but they are also slaves to the US oligarchy. I often wondered what would happen if China and/or Russia took an interest in Mexico and moved “peace keeping troops” into that country to counter the US.

    Maybe we will see that happen in Venezuela. A new Cuban Missile Crisis? I remember the original in 1962, not long after I graduated from high school. Very close call!

  3. NathanPhillipsAKAfmr-paultard on Sat, 2nd Mar 2019 7:04 pm 

    anontarded you ran out your shock value a long time ago so it’s ok to hang up the probverbial pen and go room with aswange/makato. he needs more bf’s.

    that way supertard is free to run his farm of goats

  4. Free Speech Message Board on Sat, 2nd Mar 2019 8:24 pm 

    The US is like the Twilight Zone now.

    Americans say news stories about debt, wars, and tyranny are fake news, but how the fuck do you say debt, wars, and the police state are not real when you see it with your own eyes?

    When you get groped by the TSA, do you say it didn’t happen?

    Trade wars, wars, debt, minimum wages, free speech bans, warrantless searches, torture, security cameras, license plate readers, checkpoints, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, curfews, gun bans, NSA wiretapping, the end to the right to silence, private prisons, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes laws, DNA databases, CISPA, SOPA, IMBRA, private prison quotas, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, 3 strikes laws, kill switches, National Security Letters, DNA databases, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, FOSTA, Operation Chokepoint, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, police militarization, and Jade Helm don’t exist?

    WTF?

  5. tahoe1780 on Sat, 2nd Mar 2019 10:01 pm 

    “There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See”
    “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” – CIA Director William Colby
    “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – CIA Director William Casey
    “Mission Accomplished” – G. W. Bush

  6. FuelShortageComing on Sat, 2nd Mar 2019 10:42 pm 

    The problem is not the Venezuelan are dying, it is that they are not dying fast enough and in bigger number.

    One way to kill them will be to poison humanitarian food aid with botulism.

    Whites are 7% of the population. We did our part. Let the Latino, Nigger and Sand Nigger die now. It is time for Whites to start the extermination process of these shit skin.

    Treat the shit skin the same way they treat Whites: as expendable asset. Shit skin seems happy to leach on Whites people and play the victim. Whites should play another game: the extermination game.

    When I mean Whites I mean all Whites: Anglo, Russian, Spanish, French and so on. Whites need to identity by the shin color first and nationality last.

    Go Whites people, you can do it

  7. joe on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 8:10 am 

    It’s much easier to get one half of the muslim people poor people to kill the other half. The problem with Venezuela is three things. 1. Its mainly Christian and therefore not AS quick to murderous civil war. 2. Its currently got a capitalist government with a functioning civil beuraucracy and what seems to be a loyal army. 3. The poor people gained property under the current regime, the US backed regime represents those who denie property rights to the masses (ironically a communist point of view).

  8. Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 9:27 am 

    “Anon, North America is dying.“

    It looks like Elliott needs to hurry up with his conquest plans:

    https://youtu.be/Bu1r5njd8O8

    Doug Casey: “We are on the dusp of a civil war”

    Casey escape clause: “perhaps Americans are too fat, too apathetic to fight a civil war”

    Then he makes an anti-semetic statement: “it has all been down-hill for America since 1913”, refering to the kosher capture of America’s purse, aka the Fed.

  9. Sissyfuss on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 10:57 am 

    Abrams and Bolton are sociopaths masquerading as human beings, Cloghards favorite type.

  10. Duncan Idaho on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 11:15 am 

    Hint:
    Maduro is still the elected leader—–
    MSM has all the proletariat confused in the “Western World”.

  11. shortonoil on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 11:54 am 

    According to the Colombian Immigration Authorities, Columbia now houses over half a million Venezuelan refugees escaping Maduro’s regime, and there 4,000 a day still coming. If these people are escaping the evil Yankee imperialists, leaving their homes, occupations, and lives in Venezuela appears to be a rather poor decision. When there is absolutely no one remaining in Venezuela, but Maduro and his drug running cartel, the Chinese and Russians will be much better off. That is now called hoping for the best?

  12. Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 12:03 pm 

    “Abrams and Bolton are sociopaths masquerading as human beings, Cloghards favorite type.”

    The aspect with Siss I admire the most is his ability to miss a point in a spectaculair, nay titanic way.

    People like Abrams and Bolton fill me with disgust.

    But these are considerations way beyond Siss’ grasp.

  13. Sissyfuss on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:00 pm 

    Duncan,that would be the Corporate MSM, no?

  14. Sissyfuss on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:03 pm 

    A lying Nazi, how refreshingly typical.

  15. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:24 pm 

    Hint:
    Maduro is still the elected leader—–

    Hint, there is no legitimate government on either side now. The place has been destroyed. Time to clean it up and that will take the participation of the US.

  16. Duncan Idaho on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:26 pm 

    “Hint, there is no legitimate government on either side now.”
    Ah, we have a MSM news follower.

  17. Duncan Idaho on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:28 pm 

    “Duncan,that would be the Corporate MSM, no?”

    sí

  18. Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:32 pm 

    http://thesaker.is/maduro-1-abrams-0-but-this-match-is-far-from-over/

    “Maduro 1: Abrams 0: but this match is far from over…”

  19. Duncan Idaho on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:33 pm 

    “The coup attempt failed and the Random Guyaido and his U.S. minder are traveling around various south American capitals to find support. But all members of the Lima Group rejected a military attack on Venezuela. The U.S. is isolated on the issue and therefore likely to use its old trick of paying local mercenaries to destroy the country.”

  20. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:36 pm 

    “Hint, there is no legitimate government on either side now.” Ah, we have a MSM news follower.”

    Ah I think MSM is on your side rabid liberal, I am realistic and you are stuck in your binary agenda. Maduro, is no longer legitimate. This does not mean the other side is either. Maduro needs to go for a fresh start. Suck it up and get over it.

  21. Duncan Idaho on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:36 pm 

    But:
    Juan Guaidó’s fellow Popular Will party member Freddy Superlano is hospitalized and his assistant Carlos José Salinas is dead after they took drugs with prostitutes following the #VenezuelaAidLive concert in Cúcuta, Colombia.

    Going to need a few more—

  22. Duncan Idaho on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:38 pm 

    Poor MSM Davy.
    Probably never been in South America.

  23. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:43 pm 

    I have been to Peru how about you liberal MSM pussy? Everyone knows your rabid lying liberals control the US media. OOPs but now when they are not working on your side of the argument you are all pissed off. LOL

  24. Cloggie on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 1:58 pm 

    Pat Buchanan suggest that the American era is over:

    https://russia-insider.com/en/american-moment-history-over-good/ri26423

    “Today, a watching world is asking: If you Americans are at war with yourselves over race, religion, morality, culture and politics, if you cannot unite yourselves, how can you unite the world? And around what?

    Maybe the American Century is really over.”

    B-b-but, how to bring this to empire dave!?

  25. The Truth Shall Set You Free on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 2:36 pm 

    That’s funny. In an earlier post Davy claimed he had visited Argentina. Now it’s Peru.

    See what happens when you lie so often it’s impossible to keep track of your lies.

    Now, stop it you He-Man Woman Haters Club founder.

  26. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 2:47 pm 

    JuanPee, that was you doing your identity theft shit. So go fuck your self. I have been to Peru and that is it. I challenge to disprove that. I have said this in the past so it is board documented. Go ahead and reference you identity theft. Let’s analyze it.

  27. Juanpee sock puppet on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 2:48 pm 

    The Truth Shall Set You Free on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 2:36 pm

  28. Mitch on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 3:33 pm 

    Do you have a learning disability Davy, along with all of your other disabilities?

  29. I AM THE MOB on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 3:57 pm 

    Clogg

    Pat Buchanan is the biggest NeoCon ghoul there is..He is just trying to scare monger to sell books..Right winger are mainly the inheritance class..

  30. I AM THE MOB on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 4:01 pm 

    Davy

    You have swalloded the fake news like mothers milk..Maybe you should open your mind more than only reading from ZeroIQ..

    You dumbshit..Maduro was elected by 80 percent of the voters..

    The US MSM just wants their oil because the military and oil industry are there largest advertisers..You wonder how that CNN or Fox news article is free for you to read..Its because the oil and MIC are buying ads..You dumbass..

    People as stupid as you are the reason we are in this mess..Its all on you asshole.

  31. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 4:05 pm 

    Did I mention that my parents are billionaires MOB, and that I plan to vote for Tulsi?

  32. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 4:09 pm 

    My family Is in the oil industry MOB.

  33. JuanPee sockpuppet on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 4:40 pm 

    This is JuanPee

    Mitch on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 3:33 pm

  34. JuanPee identity theft on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 4:41 pm 

    Not Davy

    Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 4:05 pm
    Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 4:09 pm

    My family Is in the oil industry MOB.

  35. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 4:48 pm 

    “You dumbshit..Maduro was elected by 80 percent of the voters..”
    The elections were a sham and the whole government was a shame at the time of the elections and is a shame now. Juan Guaido is a US stooge. The whole place has imploded and now it is time to fix it. Venezuela can be fixed and it will require US participation.

    “The US MSM just wants their oil because the military and oil industry are there largest advertisers..”
    What’s new dumbass besides it is way more complicated than your simpleton explanation. You are a the bords biggest simpleton.

    “You wonder how that CNN or Fox news article is free for you to read..Its because the oil and MIC are buying ads..You dumbass..”
    I don’t follow either of those extremist msm sites. I guess you do?

    “People as stupid as you are the reason we are in this mess..Its all on you asshole.”
    Translation: MOB is pissed because he has been moderated. LOL

  36. I AM THE MOB on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:04 pm 

    The fact is that the majority of us, even in a best case collapse scenario, will just drop dead. Let’s say you escape the gun violence, and the nuclear hotspots, and the barren areas, and find a nice suitable place to fish/hunt/farm (which is already incredibly unlikely). You are still almost guaranteed to die..

  37. I AM THE MOB on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:06 pm 

    Davy

    the elections were valid according to third party observers..I can prove it..You can’t prove your claim it was a shame..

    You are liar just like clogg..

  38. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:12 pm 

    “the elections were valid according to third party observers..I can prove it..You can’t prove your claim it was a shame..”
    Sure they were MOB and you believe that shit?? The country has been gutted and in no way represents a legitimate atmosphere for elections.

    “You are liar just like clogg..”
    Translation: I am so pissed at Davy and can’t stand it. LOL.

  39. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:14 pm 

    “The fact is that the majority of us, even in a best case collapse scenario, will just drop dead”

    Behold MOB’s anarchist rapture. LOL.

  40. makati1 on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:26 pm 

    “The country has been gutted and in no way represents a legitimate atmosphere for elections.”

    Sounds like the US. Pure hypocrisy, Davy.

  41. I AM THE MOB on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:32 pm 

    Davy

    More than 80 percent of Venezuelans have never heard of Guaidó, and that the body he leads, the National Assembly, has an over 70 percent disapproval rating

    https://www.thenation.com/article/venezuela-coup-guaido-maduro/

    President Maduro is unpopular, with approval ratings consistently below 30 per cent. Yet 31 per cent of the entire electorate voted for him in 2018, a higher percentage than Trump or Obama received in 2016 and 2012, respectively.

    https://fair.org/home/the-venezuelan-people-are-whoever-agrees-with-donald-trump/

  42. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:33 pm 

    Come on stupid, big difference but you are so blinded by your agenda you would make such a statement.

  43. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:39 pm 

    “More than 80 percent of Venezuelans have never heard of Guaidó, and that the body he leads, the National Assembly, has an over 70 percent disapproval rating”

    Give me content MOB. Empty links don’t cut it. You can’t just say shit and expect me to believe your empty references.

  44. Duncan Idaho on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:49 pm 

    MiG 21 vs F16 What happened?

    “It looks like India and Pakistan each lost an aircraft, the Pakistanis an F-16 and the Indians a MIG-21. Pakistan received the F-16s on condition they were to be used only against the Taliban and not against other countries. So it is understandable why Pakistan is denying their use against India. India has produced photos of the missile used to down the MIG-21 which is of the type used only by the Pakistani F-16s. For the US it is a bit humiliating that a fighter designed in the late 1950s could take down an F-16. But the MIG-21 has been substantially upgraded and boasts a fearsome missile – the Russian short-range R73, plus a mid-range R-77. Only when Germany reunified did NATO get a chance to get their hands on these missiles and what they found astonished them.”

  45. makati1 on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 5:55 pm 

    ““The fact is that the majority of us, even in a best case collapse scenario, will just drop dead””

    Sounds possible in the US. Drug use, obesity, diabetes, starvation when the food stamps and welfare end, elevated stress and suicides, etc. A majority (over 50%) of Americans are on some form of government dole. When it ends…

  46. I AM THE MOB on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 6:29 pm 

    Davy

    I gave you a main stream reference underneath that claim..Your brain is empty reference..You just call any information and proves you are a liar an empty reference..What does that even mean? Your brain is an empty reference..

    God you are dumber than dirt..Typical ZeroIQ reader.

    LOL

  47. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 6:30 pm 

    “For the US it is a bit humiliating that a fighter designed in the late 1950s could take down an F-16.”

    AH, BS, the F16 is old technology too. Idaho, where is the link? Do you know how to post a comment with a link?

  48. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 6:32 pm 

    “I gave you a main stream reference underneath that claim..Your brain is empty reference..”

    Fuck nut, are you too stupid to actually go into the article and show the content? No wonder all you have done with your life is be an ATT door greeter.

  49. I AM THE MOB on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 6:58 pm 

    Davy

    I quoted the article..You mental midget..

    Jesus Christ..

    Next time don’t make up lies..And I won’t make you look like such an idiot..Get an education you backwards ass hill billy..

  50. Davy on Sun, 3rd Mar 2019 7:15 pm 

    Shut up MOB. It’s not my fault. I’m learning disabled and a pathological liar.

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