Spinning Venezuela

"World leaders back Guaido in a divided Venezuela." That's a headline on page A5 in today's Globe and Mail.

Which world leaders? All of them? Most of them? Some of them? Or the usual gang of Uncle Sam's flunkies who enthusiastically toady to every whim of the Exceptional Nation?

Seems like it's the last of those options. Then why not give us an honest headline, something along the lines of "US and some allies back Guaido in divided Venezuela?" After all, anyone remotely informed knows that Venezuela has been in the cross-hairs of America's military-industrial machine since the election of Chavez twenty years ago, and throughout those twenty years the US has worked tirelessly to undermine the elected government and divide the Venezuelan people.

Stephanie Nolen's article takes pains to emphasize Canada's role in the unfolding drama, because "punching above our weight" sells well here. The reality of our involvement is that we're at every step doing the bidding of the Trump regime, but that's a truth that won't go down well with the Canadian public, so let's bamboozle our readers with loads 'o horseshit about freedom and democracy and standing up to evil dictators.

Funny how the Nations of Virtue can speak with one voice about authoritarianism in a state on Washington's shit list, but when a house pet of the West like Paul Kagame wins 99% of the vote in a "free and fair" (nudge, wink, ahem..) election, we congratulate him on his success!

Canada's official state media take a similar tack on the Venezuela story. Our "quiet diplomacy" is inching that aching land towards freedom, dontcha know! Of course we are! Chrystia Freeland herself takes great pride in her work advancing Washington's agenda, as is obvious when you read the article. Sometimes the only way to advance democracy is by overthrowing the elected leader and putting in someone more amenable to taking direction from Washington, as we saw a few years ago in Ukraine, and in Honduras before that.

Here's a story I haven't seen at CBC or in the Globe; UN special rapporteur Alfred de Zaya says US sanctions are killing people in Venezuela. Not only that, but the international law expert says those sanctions are illegal and a crime against humanity.

You'd think an impartial news service interested in informing its readership would throw that into the mix somewhere, wouldn't you?

Dan's Republic of Congo, Marc Faber's (career) suicide note, and the Alzheimer highway

I've been trying to make sense of Faber's harikari.

I simply can't.

None of it makes any sense. Unless...

Unless Faber is motoring carefree down that Alzheimer highway with not a worry in the world.

Thank God America was colonized by white people?

Well, he's got one thing right; America certainly was colonized by white people. No doubt about that.

But he seems oblivious to the fact that it's also white people who have totally fucked America up.

Was it brown people who decided to teach those gooks a lesson in Viet Nam?

Was it brown people who decided America should intervene in Grenada and Panama and El Salvador and Nicaragua and Honduras?

Was it brown people who made the decision to invade Iraq? Afghanistan? Syria?

Are brown people pushing America into war with Iran? Russia? China?

I think not.

And who is pushing the never-ending wars in the DRC,  also known in some circles as "Dan's Republic?" Sure, there's Museveni and Kagami, but who do you think the enablers are?

It's the interminable wars against brown people the world over that are destroying America. The more America bombs, the more people hate America.

It's not rocket science.

Or perhaps we can call it Political Rocket Science. Polyrocketsci for short.



The Marc Faber who made a stellar rep for himself by being a savvy analyst of what's going on in the world would know all this. He's been around for a long time. He's basked in oodles of mainstream adulation. He's always known where to draw the line in terms of crossing the line, if you know what I mean.

The fact that he's lost it tells me one thing; he's lost it.

He's careening down the Alzheimer Highway with the pedal to the metal and no place to go...

UN demands that world starts taking its demands seriously

Aye, but it's much too late for that.

If you follow this sort of thing, you'll know that the UN is right next to apoplectic over the M23 invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But if you watched the newsreel highlights of the actual takeover of Goma, you'll notice that the UN troops stood down as the M23 troops strolled into town.

Today that same UN is demanding that the supporters of M23 stop with their bad behavior.

Fat chance.

By all accounts there is a straight line from M23 to Rwanda's strongman Paul Kagame, and from there straight to Africom.

So don't worry about M23 heeding those UN exhortations anytime soon.

They're doing Uncle Sam's dirty work after all.