Reply #62: Our own protesters would be able to put up a better fight if the US didn't go ballistic against them

[Judi Lynn]

Who hasn't seen the beaten, bashed, badly damaged protesters of _Bush policy the few times pictures actually got out and got published in our own corporate media from one coast to the other?

Our own tax dollars, however, go to support anti-leftist government "movements" in Venezuela, as we have known for years:

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"Foreign intervention is not only executed through military force. The funding of “civil society” groups and media outlets to promote political agendas and influence the “hearts and minds” of the people is one of the more widely used mechanisms by the US government to achieve its strategic objectives. In Venezuela, the US has been supporting anti-Chavez groups for over 8 years, including those that executed the coup d’etat against President Chavez in April 2002. Since then, the funding has increased substantially. A May 2010 report evaluating foreign assistance to political groups in Venezuela, commissioned by the National Endowment for Democracy, revealed that more than $40 million USD annually is channeled to anti-Chavez groups, the majority from US agencies....

A large part of NED funds in Venezuela have been invested in “forming student movements” and “building democratic leadership amongst youth”, from a US perspective and with US values....In the last three years, an opposition student/youth movement has been created with funding from various US and European agencies. More than 32% of USAID funding, for example, has gone to “training youth and students in the use of innovative media technologies to spread political messages and campaigns”, such as on Twitter and Facebook.

NED has also funded several media organizations in Venezuela, to aid in training journalists and designing political messages against the Venezuelan government. ..What these organizations really do is promote anti-Chavez messages on television and in international press, as well as distort and manipulate facts and events in the country in order to negatively portray the Chavez administration... Yet such funding is clearly illegal and a violation of journalist ethics. Foreign government funding of “independent” journalists or media outlets is an act of mass deception, propaganda and a violation of sovereignty. ("America's Covert 'Civil Society Operations: US interference in Venezuela keeps growing", Eva Golinger, Global Research)

It's hard to believe that a two-year senator from Chicago with a background in "community organizing" presides over this elaborate and opaque system of imperial rule. He doesn't, of course. The real leaders remain hidden behind the cloak of democratic government and all of Washington's phony institutions. Obama is merely a public relations hologram, a friendly face that conceals the machinations of a global Mafia. Other people--whoever they may be--control the levers of power moving the pieces as needed to assure the best outcome for themselves and their constituents. Now, it appears this shadow government has its eyes on Latin America once again. That's bad news for Chavez and anyone else who hoped that political instability and US black ops were a thing of the past.

More:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26107.h...

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Venezuelan anti-Chavez actions hit a brick wall when the Venezuelan people, despite the total media news blackout, remember the Caracas mayor, Alfredo Pena had his police dismantle the independent TV station, Catia TV so it couldn't broadcast any information, despite the anti-Chavez 24/7 media message in newspapers, radio, tv stations STILL found out that Hugo Chavez had been kidnapped at gunpoint, and had NOT walked away from his job like Sarah Palin, after all, and forced the coup government to return their elected President immediately as they stormed Miraflores.

THAT was when the switch to hiding behind the students started. Most of us have known about this for years, and I know you know, of course, AlphaCentauri, as one who does his research so he knows something about the subject for himself, instead of picking it up from Fox, or corporate media, or even worse.

As a reminder, here are two photos of U.S. American anti-Bush murder machine demonstrators: