Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives.

Venezuela remains a source of inspiration for social reform in a continent ravaged by an historically rapacious US. An Oxfam report once famously described the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua as 'the threat of a GOOD example'.

That has been true in Venezuela since Hugo Chavez won his first election. The 'threat' of Venezuela is greater, of course, because it is not tiny and weak; it is rich and influential and regarded as such by China. The remarkable change in fortunes for millions of people in Latin America is at the heart of US hostility. The US has been the undeclared enemy of social progress in Latin America for two centuries.

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Is that U Jim, but not as we know it?

Misquote the Greatest - Ali, "If Right-wing ITK even dreamed he could be Pilger, he'd better wake up and apologize!"

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" War by Media & the Triumph of Propaganda "

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"The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an 'invisible government' (now) it IS the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of...our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies."

Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud.

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