“Go to Hell, F*cking Yankees!” – Hugo Chavez Speech

Today in 2002, right-wing forces backed by the US attempted to overthrow former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, ultimately falling against popular resistance. Watch this powerful speech of the Bolivarian revolutionary Hugo Chavez, rallying thousands against imperialism.

On April 11, 2002, the Venezuelan elite, the Church, and some military members organized a coup against then-President Hugo Chavez. However, the Venezuelan people swarmed the streets to protect the Bolivarian revolution and overpowered the US-backed right-wing coup.

The coup plotter aimed to form a de facto government headed by Pedro Carmona, a business mogul and former president of the chambers of commerce, which would dissolve all other state powers and local authorities.

The people brought Hugo Chavez back to power in just 47 hours. The counterrevolutionary offensive backfired, as mass mobilization politicized additional segments of the population, who also organized themselves into Bolivarian collectives.

The US has reaped a fortune with its war industry.

US arms sales overseas reached a record high in the 2023 fiscal year.

#FactsMatter

From Ukraine to the Middle East, the escalation of war is undoubtedly good news for US arms dealers who always seek to reap huge profits from turmoil.

The US 🇺🇸 and the West believe they have the right to destroy and occupy countries as well as steal their resources⛽

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/syria-secretive-oil-contract-delta-force-ambassador/index.html

Remember this little girl? Kim Phuc Phan Thi was burnt by the US napalm bombing of Vietnamese civilians in 1972

More than 50 years later the US is still bombing civilians, in Gaza.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/Kim-Phuc-Phan-Thi-Napalm-Girl-180980227/

US empire in a nutshell

Rules-based international order
No rules for us

War criminals are victims
Victims are war criminals

Genocide is self-defense
Self-defense is genocide

Propaganda is journalism
Journalism is propaganda

Lies are the truth
The truth is a lie

Truth-tellers are criminals
Evildoers are truth-tellers

What we do is classified
We know everything you do

Veterans are heroes
Victims are forgotten

Savior of far away lands
With humanitarian bombs

Corporations are people
People are corporate resources

No NATO expansion eastwards
NATO on Russias borders

One China policy
Arming Taiwan

Poor China makes stuff for us, good
Rich China makes stuff for us, bad

Chinese firewall is bad
All US tech is backdoored

Protector of natural resources
On lands of foreign nations

Protector of foreign assets
If you do what we say

Protector of the environment
US military pollution doesn’t count

Protector of health
Gain of function

Bad food is good for business
Good health is bad for business

Defender of the poor
Enabler of Wall Street plutocrats

War is peace
Endless wars for endless peace

Our Nazis are good
Their Nazis are bad

Our election interference is good
Their election interference is bad

Democracy is priceless
Politicians are not

Empire is righteous
We lie, we cheat, we steal

Empire promotes peace
20m dead in 37 victim nations

Empire loves you
17m killed with gain of function

The war on drugs
CIA #1 drug trafficker

The war on terror
CIA #1 terror organization

Torture is bad
CIA #1 torturer

Due process
Guantanamo Bay

United States of America
Open borders

Don’t trust crypto
It’s for criminals

We watch over you
Through your phones and PC’s

Spying on Americans is illegal
5 Eyes allies do it for us

Bio-weapons are illegal
Outsourced to China and Ukraine

Surplus is failure
Bankruptcy is success

Empire is rich
34 trillion national debt
97 trillion total debt
212 trillion unfunded liabilities
188 trillion total assets
Being broke is the new rich

Dictatorship is democracy
Mail-in voting

What’s wrong is right
What’s right is wrong

South Africa files legal documents to begin proceedings against the U.S. government in the ICJ.

Putin did ‘everything possible’ to make peace, veteran Ukrainian diplomat says

New evidence emerges that the Biden administration blocked a Russia-Ukraine peace deal in April 2022, and shunned more Kremlin overtures in the period since.

Algeria prevents a US aircraft carrying weapons to Israel from flying over their airspace.

https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/15462

De-dollarisation: shifting power between the US and BRICS

There has been increasing talk of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) developing a new currency that will rival the US dollar as the global reserve standard. This month, the leaders of BRICS will meet in South Africa for further discussions on the matter. Growing pressure for a new global currency comes after continued weaponisation of the US dollar in the form of sanctions and trade wars. Many countries are seeking greater independence from the US financial system. But what makes the US dollar today’s world reserve currency?

Following the end of the Second World War, the Allies gathered at Bretton Woods and anointed the US dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. It was pegged against gold at an exchangeable rate of $35 an ounce. However, in 1971 the dollar was decoupled due to insufficient US gold reserves rendering the dollar fiat money. A few years later, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to broker the petrodollar system. The United States agreed to provide military support and, in return, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would denominate oil globally in US dollars. This created synthetic demand – countries buying oil would need US dollars – which in turn enabled US dollar primacy.

However, the dollar dominance may be coming to an end. In 2021, Saudi Arabia and Russia signed a military cooperation agreement. The United States was no longer the sole protector of the Saudi Kingdom. Moreover, at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Saudi Arabia’s Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan announced that the country was open to trading in other currencies in addition to the US dollar – something they haven’t done in nearly 50 years. The signals of de-dollarisation were emerging.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/de-dollarisation-shifting-power-between-us-brics