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Another Day, Another Coup: Tawdry Addictions of the Oligarchy
"This muddled reality peddling is, of
course, nothing new; the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction lie never
found anyone to be responsible for the selling of those falsehoods.
Colin Powell just became temporarily embarrassed. Hillary Clinton
cackled about the death of Libya’s leader by a mob that sodomized him
with a knife. A US emboldened knife, of course. Yeah, that guy was
weird, as all these leaders are, but Libya was looking to create a
pan-African currency and was plotting to remove itself from the
petro-dollar stranglehold. That’s what got him killed, not having photos
of Condoleezza Rice up on his walls and/or any generalized freakery.
The subsequent descent of that nation from one that provided citizens
with housing, free college (with stipends), into an open-air slave
market was, I guess, funny to Clinton. Break things and plunder. America
just looks forward and, like a dog kicking dirt on its last crap, runs
to the next adventure, consequences be damned.
I won’t say that this time doesn’t feel a
bit different and far more severe, however. Instead of the old method of
toppling nations in a more sporadic fashion, this feels like a prelude
to something much more massive. All of the American misbehavior we are
used to is now on steroids, or if you will, on Pervitin. We have the
current regime players putting pictures of Greenland on social media
with US flags on top of it and the heading “Soon” by the nation. We have
Rubio threatening Cuba that they are in hot water. We have Trump
commenting that the leader of Mexico isn’t really in charge of her
country, implying we should do something about it. My God, we can’t even
keep our people on healthcare in this country, yet we can multi-task
and threaten all of these nations and their leaders?"
Sleepless Again: Or What the World of Yesterday Says About Trump’s Attack on Venezuela and the World of Today
"Things don’t happen randomly. The shocking news of Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela broke on the 101stanniversary
of Benito Mussolini’s announcement to the Italian parliament accepting
full responsibility for blackshirt violence and declaring himself
dictator of Italy. That gesture—greeted by applause, complicit silence,
and opportunistic support—ushered in fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and
the Second World War. History isn’t a machine, automatically repeating
itself, but it does rhyme, as Mark Twain is said to have commented. And
sometimes it rhymes in macabre ways.
Stefan Zweig was one of the first to see this. In his 1914 essay “The Sleepless World” published in the collection Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink
and composed before and during the Second World War, he describes a
civilisation that can’t sleep because it no longer trusts itself. This
insomnia isn’t a malady of individuals but a symptom of systemic
collapse. The world can’t sleep when violence ceases to be the exception
to become method, and when lying ceases to be an aberration to become
state policy."
Hamas will have ‘hell to pay’ if it fails to disarm, Trump warns after Netanyahu meeting
"In a bravura display of mutual admiration, Netanyahu announced that the US president would be awarded the Israel prize, the country’s highest civilian honour, which since its inception in the 1950s has never before been given to a non-Israeli person."
Se eu tocasse um instrumento Ia fazer lamento no meu violão Mas eu só canto, trago o meu encanto Disfarço o meu pranto E firmo bem forte na palma da mão
Hold your head up, you silly girl Look what you've done When you find yourself in the thick of it Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you, silly girl
+ The cocksure boast that the US will “run” Venezuela appears to be
another Trumpian fantasy. It’s impossible to “run a country,” if you
don’t have control of it, which the US doesn’t by any measure. The
Maduro government remains in place and defiant, even with Maduro
renditioned to New York City. Indeed, the attack appears to have only
strengthened the resolve of the Venezuelan people, instead of inspiring
the chimerical uprising Rubio led Trump to expect, much as Rumsfeld and
Cheney deceived Bush into believing about Iraq.
+ Despite Trump’s claim that Delcy
Rodríguez was “cooperative,” Venezuela’s vice-president, who was sworn
in as the nation’s leader after Maduro was renditioned to the US,
vigorously denied that she planned to help the U.S. government run the
country. Instead, she asserted her own power as acting president and
defiantly demonstrated the continuity of the Bolivaran Revolutionary
government in the wake of the US attacks.
+ Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello: “Here, the unity of
the revolutionary force is more than guaranteed, and here there is only
one president, whose name is Nicolas Maduro Moros. Let no one fall for
the enemy’s provocations. We are outraged because in the end everything
was revealed — it was revealed that they only want our oil.”
+ Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López forcefully
rejected Trump and Rubio’s claim that Venezuela will be run by the US
and demanded the return of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
“Our sovereignty has been violated and breached. The [Venezuelan
military] will guarantee the governability of the country … [and will]
continue to employ all its available capabilities for military defense,
the maintenance of internal order, and the preservation of peace.”
+ Trump responded to Rodríguez’s defiant stance with his usual
boorish bombast when being confronted by a woman by threatening her with
a fate worse than Maduro’s: “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she’s
going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”
Marina Lacerda, a Brazilian immigrant identified
as “Minor-Victim 1” in the federal indictment, was a central witness who
spoke publicly for the first time in September. She detailed her abuse
by Epstein from the age of 14 and said she saw Donald Trump with Epstein
more than once, though Trump has denied knowing of any of Epstein’s
criminal actions.
Her testimony ultimately resulted in Epstein’s indictment. Epstein later killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019.
Jean-Luc Brunel, who founded a modeling agency with Epstein’s support, was arrested
in 2022 by French authorities on suspicion of trafficking and raping
underage girls. Brunel was accused of supplying more than 1,000 girls
and young women for Epstein to have sex with.
In April 2019, Brunel visited
an agency in Brazil that his company had worked with in the past to
find new models to bring over to the US, according to a source who saw
him in Brasilia. Convicted Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was also reportedly traced to the Brazilian riviera shortly after Epstein’s death.
"The biggest surprise Pluribus has in store is the way it subverts the viewer’s priors re: the rhythms of serialized streaming TV. “We are all attuned to the ebb and flow of a mystery box type show, or movie,” Gilligan observed to Alan Sepinwall, writing for The Ringer. “We’ve all seen our share of M. Night Shyamalan movies or Twilight Zone episodes where there’s a great twist. We are attuned to that, we expect it. Sometimes, the best twist is no twist.”
Pluribus stubbornly resists the twist. In dystopian thriller Soylent Green, the shocking epiphany that civilization runs on nutrients from human bodies precipitates the end of the film. In Pluribus,
it precipitates … the end of Episode 5. And when Carol shares her new
knowledge with Koumba in Episode 6, she learns that the Others already
told him, and that he essentially accepts their “other other white meat”
meal replacement. Nobody’s being murdered, and although the nonviolent
cannibalism is disquieting, it follows from what we already know about
the Others. The discovery doesn’t dictate Carol’s actions, either; in
fact, she grows closer to the Others after finding out about “HDP.”"
President
Trump’s declaration on Saturday that the United States planned to “run”
Venezuela for an unspecified period, issuing orders to its government
and exploiting its vast oil reserves, plunged the United States into a
risky new era in which it will seek economic and political dominance
over a nation of roughly 30 million people.
Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago private club just hours after Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, and his wife were seized from their bedroom by U.S. forces,
Mr. Trump told reporters that Delcy Rodríguez, who served as Mr.
Maduro’s vice president, would hold power in Venezuela as long as she
“does what we want.”
Ms. Rodríguez,
however, showed little public interest in doing the Americans’ bidding.
In a national address, she accused Washington of invading her country
under false pretenses and asserted that Mr. Maduro was still Venezuela’s
head of state. “What is being done to Venezuela is a barbarity,” she
said.
Mr. Trump and his top national
security advisers carefully avoided describing their plans for Venezuela
as an occupation, akin to what the United States did after defeating
Japan, or toppling Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Instead, they vaguely
sketched out an arrangement that sounded like a mix of economic coercion
and a guardianship over the country: The United States will provide a
vision for how Venezuela should be run and will expect the interim
government to carry that out in a transition period, under the threat of
further military intervention.
By
Sunday morning, with Mr. Trump’s repeated declaration that the
administration would “run” Venezuela ricocheting around foreign
capitals, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security
adviser, complained that people were “fixating” on the president’s declaration.
“It’s
not ‘running’” he said, clearly distancing himself from Mr. Trump’s
words. “It’s running policy, the policy with regards to this.”
He
maintained that rather than administer the country’s operations, it
would be enough to keep a quarantine on oil shipments until the
post-Maduro government acted the way Washington demanded. “That’s a
tremendous amount of leverage that will continue to be in place until we
see changes, not just to further the national interest of the United
States, which is No. 1, but also that lead to a better future for the
people of Venezuela,” he said in an interview with “Face the Nation” on
CBS News.
On Saturday, even after Ms. Rodríguez contradicted Mr. Trump, Mr. Rubio said he was withholding judgment.
“We’re
going to make decisions based on their actions and their deeds in the
days and weeks to come,” he said in an interview with The New York
Times. “We think they’re going to have some unique and historic
opportunities to do a great service for the country, and we hope that
they’ll accept that opportunity.”
Mr.
Rubio is usually careful to avoid showing any daylight between his
positions and the president’s. But he had little choice on Sunday
because Mr. Trump, asked directly on Saturday who, exactly, would be
running the country, named Mr. Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and
the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine. He said the
“people that are standing right behind me, we’re going to be running
it,” he said, pointing to all three men.
Mr.
Trump also suggested on Saturday that while there were no American
troops on the ground now, there would be a “second wave” of military
action if the United States ran into resistance, either on the ground or
from Venezuelan government officials.
“We’re
not afraid of boots on the ground,” Mr. Trump said, a comment Mr. Rubio
echoed on Sunday, while insisting there is no plan for a physical
occupation of the country.
Mr. Trump
paired that with a declaration that a key American goal was to regain
access to oil rights that he has repeatedly said had been “stolen” from
the United States. With those statements, the president opened a new
chapter in American nation building.
It
is one in which he hopes to influence every major political decision in
Venezuela by the presence of an armada just offshore, and perhaps to
intimidate others in the region. He repeated a warning to the president
of Colombia, another country targeted by the administration for its role
in drug trafficking, to “watch his ass.”
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President
Trump listened as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke about the
operation at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday. Mr. Trump and his top national
security advisers have carefully avoided describing their plans for
Venezuela as an occupation.Credit...Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times
Mr. Trump’s actions on Saturday cast America back to a past era of gunboat diplomacy, when the United States used its military to grab territory and resources for its own benefit.
A
year ago this week, he openly mused, also at Mar-a-Lago, about making
Canada, Greenland and Panama parts of the United States. Now, after
hanging in the White House a portrait of William McKinley, the
tariff-loving president who presided over the military seizure of the
Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico, Mr. Trump said it was well within the
rights of the United States to wrest from Venezuela resources that he
believes had been wrongly taken from the hands of American corporations.
The
U.S. operation, in seeking to assert control over a vast Latin American
nation, has little precedent in recent decades, recalling the imperial
U.S. military efforts of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Mexico,
Nicaragua and other countries.
Mr.
Trump and his aides claimed they had a legal basis for the immediate
action he ordered on Friday, the extraterritorial rendition of Mr.
Maduro. An indictment that dates to 2020 charged the Venezuelan leader
with a series of acts related to drug trafficking. A refreshed
indictment was published Saturday, one that included Mr. Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores.
But
that indictment only deals with Mr. Maduro’s alleged crimes. It did not
provide a legal basis for taking control of the country, as the U.S.
president declared he was doing.
Mr.
Trump was unapologetic about taking that step, and in his justification,
he showed he had given much thought to the oil industry.
“Venezuela
unilaterally seized and sold American oil, American assets and American
platforms, costing us billions and billions of dollars,” he said of
resources that were being pumped out of Venezuelan bedrock. “They did
this a while ago, but we never had a president that did anything about
it. They took all of our property.” He added: “The socialist regime
stole it from us during those previous administrations, and they stole
it through force.”
Now, he made clear, he was taking it back, and Americans would be compensated before Venezuelans became, he predicted, “rich.”
But
that left many open questions. Will the United States need an occupying
military force to protect the oil sector while the Americans and others
rebuild it? Will the United States run the courts, and determine who
pumps the oil?
Will
it install a pliant government for some number of years, and what
happens if a legitimate, democratic election is won by Venezuelans with a
different vision for their country?
All of these questions, of course, could enmesh the United States into exactly the kind of “forever wars” which Mr. Trump’s MAGA base has warned against.
When
pressed on that point, Mr. Trump dismissed it. He noted that he had
been successful in killing the leader of the Iranian Quds force, Gen.
Qassim Suleimani, in January 2020. He cited the success for his attack
on Iran’s major nuclear sites, burying its uranium stockpile.
But
those were largely one-and-done attacks. They did not involve running a
foreign nation, or dealing with the resistance that almost always
accompanies an effort like that.
For
much of the 20th century, the United States intervened militarily in
smaller countries in the Caribbean and Central America. But Venezuela is
twice the size of Iraq, with challenges that may prove just as complex.
“Any
democratic transition will require the buy-in of pro-regime and
anti-regime elements,” John Polga-Hecimovich, a Venezuela scholar at the
U.S. Naval Academy, said in an interview.
One
crucial test, he said, is how the Venezuelan armed forces react. “If it
splinters, with some backing a transition and others not, things could
get violent,” he said. “On the other hand, a unified force would help
legitimize whatever government comes next."
Simon Romero contributed reporting from São Paulo, Brazil.
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