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Jean-Luc Melenchon, former head of the European Parliament, condemned critics of Venezuela's electoral process as U.S. "puppets." As the United States continues to claim Venezuela's presidential elections are illegitimate, the leader of France's radical left has defended the Latin American nation's electoral process, condemning critics as U.S. "puppets." Jean-Luc Melenchon, former head of the European Parliament, denied U.S. claims that the international community is rejecting the elections: "There are a certain number of countries, the puppets of the United States, which have decided that these elections did not suit them." In an interview with La Chaine Info (LCI) and RTL, a French radio network, Melenchon said that Spain's former socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero also approved of Venezuela's electoral system. "It is not true that the opposition has boycotted, bec

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." – Noam Chomsky By Manmeet Sahni Part 2 - Power of Suggestion Words are powerful: they suggest, and help shape public opinion. Used the wrong way, they can prove extremely damaging. For instance, while Chavez was in power, Western media frequently described him as a 'quasi-dictator' and 'strongman.' Jonathan Cook is a senior policy officer with the World Wildlife Fund. He says: "Columnists like the Washington Post's Jackson Diehl and the Miami Herald's Andres Oppenheimer have wielded the sharpest hatchets. Diehl, for instance, labeled pro-Chavez social movements 'anti-democratic' while lauding the anti-Chavez opposition, which used such tactics as distributing false exit poll results during the 2004 referendum. "Washington's hostility toward the recen

If a chemical weapons “attack” comes to pass in the place it has been predicted, it would be the first such provocation blamed on Assad to take place in territory occupied by a foreign power, likely triggering an intensified military response from the U.S. by Whitney Webb Part 4 - Setup for two-front U.S.-Israeli attack? While no new information has since emerged that would corroborate Novosti’s report, it is true that the U.S. — as the occupying force in the area where the provocation is allegedly being planned – does have a motive to conduct such a false flag attack, as the U.S. and Israel stand to benefit the most were the worst to occur. As MintPress has reported over the course of the war in Syria, the U.S. has long had the goal of regime change in Syria and it – along with many of its allies – have helped foment and prolong the Syrian conflict in pursuit of this end. However, timing here is key. Such a provocation, and the retaliation it wo

We are running out of time. And maybe it's too late already ... by system failure Capitalism apologists frequently use a very common argument (to the point that it has become a cliche) to defend the capitalist system. They often support - in the context of a pseudo-rational dominant perception - that financial crises is a kind of a natural phenomenon and that capitalism will always survive, no matter what. Yet, today there are signs showing that we are probably living in a unique moment in history. For the first time, there is a constant and bizarre atmosphere of uncertainty, inside which, only one certainty manages to survive: that another major crisis is about to come. The only question is "when". Indeed, in the past, capitalism was always finding ways to escape dead ends and contradictions, through its ability to transform itself and mutate. Yet, after major financial crises, a big war was necessary to restart that process. However, the last mutation o

The Greek journalist Aris Chatzistefanou, creator of impressively revealing documentaries such as Catastroika , Debtocracy , FASCISM INC and This is not a coup , reports from Caracas-Venezuela about the oncoming elections, while filming his new documentary about Venezuela called ‘Make the Economy Scream '. globinfo freexchange Ignacio Ramonet, former editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique, explained during the filming of Make the economy scream , that the continuous elections was one of the features of what Hugo Chavez called "Socialism of the 21st century". The most paradox thing lately, is that the opponents of the so-called Bolivarian Revolution in Caracas are trying to prove that what happens in Venezuela is the purest type of Socialism and that the result of the elections in May, 20, will be a product of a rigged process. Every phrase coming from their mouths actually echoes Donald Trump's statement that " the proble