MSM War on Venezuela

[Purveyor]

by Stephen Lendman

MSM scoundrels support monied interests. They deplore popular ones.

They substitute managed news misinformation for truth and full disclosure.

They waged war on Venezuela since Hugo Chavez's December 1998 landslide presidential victory. They're at it again. More on this below.

After Chavez took office, New York Times Latin American correspondent Larry Roher lied. He called him a "populist demagogue, an authoritarian caudillo (strongman).

In April 2002, Times editors ignored Washington's orchestrated coup. It was short-lived. It lasted two days.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. Venezuela is due a seat at the UN Security Council next year, denied two years ago...the distortions

of the American corporate media and interests are as immense as the Venezuela's immense oil wealth, whose profits are reserved for the citizen folks that own it, forever denied to American oligarchs.

How dare they create a model of a nation that favors the poor and the middle class over the oligarchs.
Can not even have the possibility of that happening, what would folks in the homeland think of a successful socialized Latin American country prospering at all levels and slashing poverty at the expense of the wealthy giving back a little?

You would think Venezuela would be supported on DU but so many just buy into the propaganda without looking at the price tag or place of manufacture.

[jwirr]

2. Standard Oil (Ex.) is at it again. What is really sad is that we are about finished destroying the

ME in the name of the corporations and once again we are searching for a place to plunder. And on this I agree both parties are the same. Until we end the power of the corporations in politics we are not going to straighten out the mess anywhere in the world.

[hack89]

3. VZ is quickly becoming a failed state

Their model was admirable but their execution was horrible. They have run their economy into the ground and cannot meet the public's basic needs for food and safety.

[Fred Sanders]

4. With respect, that is nonsense. Oil sales are near $100 billion per year, foreign reserves are over

$50 billion....that is some basket.

Tempting to some to get their hands on it...do you know about the poverty rate reductions...the establishment of democracy after decades of dictatorships...it is really as simple as questioning aelf serving corporate media releases about "basket cases" that assume Americans are clueless about the history, which is not a wrong assumption.

Remember when Spain was a basket case and now it's government long term debt interest rate is lower than America?

You need to know the history, you need to know the economics, not the stuff spoon fed by the conflicted American media lusting for all the oil profit being wasted on social programs.

[hack89]

5. There are shortages of basic goods. Oil revenue production is steadily falling

Their murder rate is astronomical, there are routine power outages, factories are shutting down because there are not enough dollars to buy parts, airlines are not flying to VZ because there are not enough dollars to repatriate income.

Things were getting better. They went to shit three years ago and are not getting better.

[Scuba]

6. Nationalize your oil and American media will smear you. Who knew?

[Judi Lynn]

7. Other countries must put US political/business interests before their own people, or pay the price.

Couldn't get much dirtier.

If they don't go along with it, our corporate media declares a dishonest, treacherous, unflagging propaganda war on them.

Eventually even the stupid ones among us may finally going to "get it" regarding big media, but I wouldn't count on it. They are too greedy for quick answers and too shallow to think anything over long enough to look for the real answers.