Hitler’s Lackeys — Bibi-Donny-Dickheads One and ALL.

Oh, my oh my, can we get this on NPR? Never ever!

Ahh, but again, the U$A leads in stripping away all safety nets for the 80 Percent. Can’t even send a small package to Scotland now.

This is what a hillbilly syphilitic cunt looks and sounds like.

Cunts? They frame the fucking Wild Cunty Western “Civilization”

Real Cuntology 2.0 —

Go ahead, you wise and patriotic members of the Iowa General Assembly: Pass a law that requires the daily singing of the national anthem in schools.

House Study Bill 587 is in committee now. Fast track that thing to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk.

We must start converting our students into patriots before they get into the dangerous habit of critical thinking.

Lawmakers already started putting a little red, white, and blue in Iowa schoolchildren’s daily lessons with the mandatory recitation of the pledge of allegiance.

Let’s not stop just with the pledge and the anthem.

Most of the school day should be dedicated to patriotic mantras and music.

Maybe we should sing “God Bless America” before we eat lunch and “Yankee Doodle Dandy” before recess.

Students, teachers, and staff shouldn’t be allowed to leave for the day without a rousing chorus of “America the Beautiful.”

All high school bands must play “Stars and Stripes Forever” at least once during football halftime performances or timeouts at basketball games.

I suggest we fire all the teachers and staff and put in an artificial intelligence hologram that selects patriotic quotes, music, and art to memorize and recite upon being questioned by any government official.

Everybody knows all teachers are part of a vast deep-state conspiracy to indoctrinate children into subversive arts of reading, writing, science, and math.

Any teacher who refuses to stand and sing the national anthem with gusto should be jailed.

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Let’s let the kiddos hear this every DAY.

Fucking we don’t need education! White psychotic ghouls, and that’s IV drug user/heroin addict Kennedy on the left:

WE CAN’T even leave alone ONE last no-contact tribe because we are the disease, the white civilized cunts!

Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights group

Two national animal rights groups — the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA — seized on the merger review process this spring, launching an aggressive campaign to close the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro.

Fucking White Races Mutated Cunt Tribe:

Great new Cunty Cancer Causing and Species Ending Poison from the folks that brought us Zyklon . . . New herbicide coming from Bayer

Icafolin, a groundbreaking herbicide with a unique mode of action, is set to revolutionize weed management in corn and soybeans within the next five years.

NOthING about the harmful effects: Bayer is also planning to bring a new Group 12 herbicide to market. Diflufenican herbicide, which will be marketed under the brand name Convintro, will be a soybean burndown and preemergence product primarily aimed at waterhemp and Palmer amaranth. It also will be a weed control corn for tool, say Bayer officials.

Diflufenican is not new chemistry, as it has been used for years in Europe to manage broadleaf weeds in crops such as lentils and winter cereals. However, it will be new to the United States. Bayer expects this chemistry to be available to U.S. farmers in 2026, pending regulatory approval.

Jews are death whores:

The team – Senior International Correspondent Fanny Facsar, a DW cameraman and a local colleague – was in Ramallah to document risks faced by media professionals in the occupied West Bank when Israeli soldiers aimed their weapons at them during filming. All three wore protective gear clearly marked “PRESS.” Nevertheless, the soldiers fired tear gas, hitting the group, but no one was injured. The same day, an Israeli operation in Ramallah left dozens of people injured.

DW has published footage of the attack on DW News (from 2:30 min).

Earlier in July, another DW team was attacked with stones and chased by radical Israeli settlers in the village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah. That team escaped without injury, though the cameraman’s vehicle was heavily damaged. Read the full report.

DW Director General Peter Limbourg issued a strong statement on the current situation: “The repeated attacks on our journalists in the West Bank are absolutely unacceptable. There is no justification for threatening press representatives – neither by the military nor by radical settlers. We call on the Israeli government to ensure the safety of all journalists. Press freedom and the protection of media professionals are fundamental pillars of any democracy.”

What kind of schools and shade and AC do the kiddos in Gaza have? Portland schools closed early at 72 degrees Friday as heat wave — and potentially more early dismissals — loom for next week

The Shit Cunt-Tree, U$A is spreading shit all over its Trumpian Beaches. US beaches warn about water quality due to unsafe levels of fecal contamination this Labor Day weekend

And the weekly prize goes to the fucking Neanderthals in Finland and Poland: Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.

Dumb as a bag of rocks, the UkroNaziLandians:

There is a Ukrainian precedent for the faith in using wetlands as defence.

In March 2022, Ukraine’s armed forces destroyed the Kozarovychi Dam, flooding 2,800 hectares of land and successfully slowing down Russian troops advancing towards Kyiv.

But the deliberate flooding also caused widespread damage, including in residential areas. In environmental terms, it may have done more harm than good.

Pollutants including sewage and heavy metals were likely to have been released by the floodwaters, along with invasive species from local fish farms.

“If you rewet rapidly then you just end up with a lake, basically, and not necessarily with all the biodiversity that you might envisage,” says Mark van der Wal, senior ecologist at the Dutch branch of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

• Summary

• U.S. naval buildup exceeds usual deployments in Caribbean
• Venezuelan officials claim U.S. targets their government, not drug cartels
• Experts suggest U.S. aims to pressure Maduro regime, not just combat drugs

Venezuelan government supporters react to the arrival of the Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez following Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s call for a nationwide recruitment drive, amid rising tensions with the United States over the deployment of U.S. warships in the Southern Caribbean and nearby waters, which U.S. officials say aims to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, in Caracas,Venezuela, August 29, 2025.

Elvis Hidrobo Amoroso, head of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) enlists in the national militia following Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s call for a nationwide recruitment drive, amid rising tensions with the United States over the deployment of U.S. warships in the Southern Caribbean and nearby waters, which U.S. officials say aims to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, in Caracas, Venezuela, August 29, 2025.

How’s that working out for Gaza?

As a range of recent studies demonstrate, regular time in green and blue spaces is linked to lower anxiety and depression, better mood, and improved cognition and sleep. With exposure to nature, children show gains in executive function and creativity. Time in natural settings also replenishes directed attention, lowers rumination, and reduces the stress hormone cortisol.

The Oil Eaters and Data Dunces: This summer, researchers at the University of Derby in the UK published a finding that humanity’s connection to nature has declined by more than 60 percent since 1800.

The researchers arrived at this conclusion by looking to several proxy indicators—including a drop in the frequency of nature words (like river, moss, blossom) in books as well as analysis of other trends like urbanization, reductions in everyday exposure to wildlife, and evidence that parents are less frequently passing on habits of connection to nature to their children. The researchers forecast that, absent major change, we’re headed for what we might call an “extinction of experience.”

Blue State Gasoline Hell for the low and middle income workers:

U.S.

2020: $2.18

2021: $3.16

2022: $3.98

2023: $3.84

2024: $3.39

2025: $3.13

Oregon

2020: $2.66

2021: $3.78

2022: $4.88

2023: $4.70

2024: $3.85

2025: $3.98

Oregon currently has the fourth-highest in gas prices in the nation, according to AAA. It follows California, with the highest, then Hawaii and Washington. Experts say higher gas prices in certain states are due to a historic combination of factors, including gas taxes, environmental protections or the geographic difficulty of transporting gas into the regions.

On Friday, Oregon’s Legislature will convene to hash out whether to raise the state’s 40-cent-per-gallon gas tax by 6 cents to support the state’s deteriorating transportation system.

The Pacific Northwest aside, the Trump administration was in full gear this week, heaping praise on itself for what it says will be the lowest Labor Day prices since the holiday in 2020.

“Thanks to President Trump fully unleashing American energy dominance, gas prices this summer are at five-year lows and families are saving significant money at the pump,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.

DUH!

Jews and InBred UnUnited QUEEN-DUMBERS.

The Lehi and other zionist terrorist groups from eastern Europe literally murdered men, women, children and the British. They were rewarded with the state of Israel, leadership and became the IDF.

The British hanged and booby trapped to explode when Brits came to cut them down.

Fucking Brits, man:

May the WEST just die die die:

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While the cunts in their big 200 HP boats are trolling for salmon along the coast. Insanity:

The US military build-up off the coast of Venezuela continues to escalate to frightening proportions. As of the afternoon of August 29, 2025, the US had already deployed “three destroyers, two landing dock ships, an amphibious assault ship, a cruiser and a littoral combat ship… either in the region or on their way.” That same night, “A U.S. guided-missile cruiser, USS Lake Erie, was seen crossing the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Caribbean….”

In response, Venezuela has activated its popular militia and sent 15,000 troops to the border with Colombia. An international outcry could help tip the balance away from blockades, war, and intervention and towards peace.

In a bold show of solidarity, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has sent 25,000 troops to his nation’s side of the border, posting on Twitter that,

“Neither Colombia nor the Venezuelan opposition in Venezuela, nor any self-respecting Latin American, should solicit or rejoice in a foreign invasion of our soil.

We Latin Americans and Caribbeans solve the problems of Latin Americans and Caribbeans.

With Europe or North America or China or Africa, we discuss our common problems face to face and as human beings, not as servants.”

Given the historic role that Colombia has played as the US’ top ally in Latin America, with a military that has been subservient to the Pentagon for decades, Petro’s actions are brave if risky. Already a right-wing city councilor in Bogotá has written a formal letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking for an international investigation of Petro’s links with Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. The White House and Republican congresspersons have been hinting at actions to interfere in Colombia’s judicial processes to destabilize the Petro administration in a manner similar to its efforts in Brazil against President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva.

The threat to Venezuela is a threat to all of Latin America in very concrete ways, unfolding in real time, minute by minute. By the time this alert begins to arrive in inboxes, the situation may have worsened in unforeseen ways. That is how urgent it is that we ACT NOW.

On August 8, 2025, US President and would-be Emperor Donald Trump declared that, on the basis of the discredited and fake Drug War, the US reserved the option to engage in military action in any country, anywhere.

The lies and hypocrisy behind the fake Drug War are far too extensive to chronicle here. But even a few highlights expose the lie. In the 1980s, for instance, the US government helped make possible the saturation of Black neighborhoods in Los Angeles with crack cocaine in order to raise funds for counterrevolutionaries in Nicaragua. The War on Drugs has been the primary source of funding for Prison Imperialism projects to spread the US mass incarceration model around the world. This includes financing for programs in Saudi Arabian prisons, even though the nation, by the US government’s own admission, has no appreciable role in narcotrafficking. The Alliance for Global Justice has traveled in the Naya region of Colombia where we passed by huge coca plantations that were interspersed with military checkpoints, and where we heard reports of the presence of US advisors.

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FInally, I will be having on the two dudes at BettBeat Media. Appearing on my Finding Fringe on the local community radio show. Psychology instructors in China —

Prof. Karim Bettache, MSSc Programme in Global Political Economy

Affiliated with Dept. of Psychology & Dept. of Global Studies

Faculty of Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Associate Editor, The Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Editorial Fellow, Psychological Review

Editorial Board Member, Personality and Social Psychology Review

The British Journal of Social Psychology

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Peter Beattie, Associate Professor; Programme Director, MSSc in Global Political Economy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Here’s their YouTube Channel:

They have had on amazing guests, that is, most of them are amazing: And they work on the psychology of politics, or political psychology, and such. Capitalism’s psychology? Gazafication of the world, and then, Venezuela?

Scholars have long examined the ways in which slavery underwrites capitalism. I thought this story, though, allowed attention to slavery’s role in shaping not so much the social or financial dimensions of capitalism but its psychic and imaginative ones.

Capitalism is, among other things, a massive process of ego formation, the creation of modern selves, the illusion of individual autonomy, the cultivation of distinction and preference, the idea that individuals had their own moral conscience, based on individual reason and virtue. The wealth created by slavery generalized these ideals, allowing more and more people, mostly men, to imagine themselves as autonomous and integral beings, with inherent rights and self-interests not subject to the jurisdiction of others. Slavery was central to this process not just for the wealth the system created but because slaves were physical and emotional examples of what free men were not.

But there is more. That process of individuation creates a schism between inner and outer, in which self-interest, self-cultivation, and personal moral authority drive a wedge between seeming and being. Hence you have the emergence of metaphysicians like Melville, Emerson, and of course Marx, along with others, trying to figure out the relationship between depth and surface.

What I try to do in the book is demonstrate the centrality of slavery to this process, the way “free trade in blacks” takes slavery’s foundational deception, its original deceit as captured in the con the West Africans were able to play on Amasa Delano, and acts as a force multiplier. Capitalism disperses that deception into every aspect of modern life.

There’s many ways this happens. Deceit, through contraband, is absolutely key to the expansion of slavery in South America. When historians talk about the Atlantic market revolution, they are talking about capitalism. And when they are talking about capitalism, they are talking about slavery. And when they are talking about slavery, they are talking about corruption and crime. Not in a moral sense, in that the slave system was a crime against humanity. That it was. But it was also a crime in a technical sense: probably as many enslaved Africans came into South America as contraband, to avoid taxes and other lingering restrictions, as legally.

Sometimes slaves were the contraband. At other times, they were cover for the real contraband, luxury items being smuggled in from France or Great Britain, which helped cultivate the personal taste of South America’s expanding gentry class. And since one of the things capitalism is at its essence is an ongoing process to define the arbitrary line that separates “self-interest” from “corruption,” slavery was essential in creating the normative categories associated with modern society.

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From David Vine’s The United States at War:

A list of wars (italic) and of military combat that for some reason isn’t called a war (non-italic) that does not attempt to include every war and combat against Native Americans:

1774-1883 Shawnee, Delaware
1776 Cherokee
1777-1781 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)
1780-1794 Chickamauga
1790-1795 Miami Confederacy
1792-1793 Muskogee (Creek)
1798-1801 France
1801-1805 Tripoli
1806 Mexico
1806-1810 Spanish, French privateers
1810 Spanish West Florida
1810-1813 Shawnee Confederacy
1812 Spanish Florida
1812-1815 Canada (Great Britain)
1812-1815 Dakota Sioux
1812-1815 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)
1813 Spanish West Florida
1813-1814 Marquesas Islands
1813-1814 Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy
1814 Spanish Florida
1814-1825 Pirates
1815 Algiers
1815 Tripoli
1816 Spanish Florida
1817 Spanish Florida
1817-1819 Seminole
1818 Oregon (Russia, Spain)
1820-1861 African Slave Trade Patrol
1822-1825 Cuba (Spain
1824 Puerto Rico (Spain)
1827 Greece
1831-1832 Falkland Islands
1832 Sauk
1832 Sumatra
1833 Argentina
1835-1836 Peru
1835-1842 Seminole
1836 Mexico
1836-1837 Muskogee (Creek)
1838-1839 Sumatra
1840 Fiji Islands
1841 Samoa
1841 Tabiteuea
1842 Mexico
1843 China
1844 Mexico
1846-1848 Mexico
1847-1850 Cayuse
1849 Turkey
1850-1886 Apache
1851 Johanna Island
1851 Turkey
1852-1853 Argentina
1853-1854 Japan
1853-1854 Nicaragua
1853-1854 Ryukyu, Ogasawara islands
1854-1856 China
1855 Fiji Islands
1855 Uruguay
1855-1856 Rogue River Indigenous Peoples
1855-1856 Yakima, Walla Walla, Cayuse
1855-1858 Seminole
1856 Panama (Colombia)
1856-1857 Cheyenne
1857 Nicaragua
1858 Coeur d’Alene Alliance
1858 Fiji Islands
1858 Uruguay
1858-1859 Turkey
1859 China
1859 Mexico
1859 Paraguay
1860 Angola
1860 Colombia
1862 Sioux
1863-1864 Japan
1864 Cheyenne
1865 Panama (Colombia)
1866 China
1866 Mexico
1866-1868 Lakota Siouw, Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho
1867 Formosa (Taiwan)
1867 Nicaragua
1867-1875 Comanche
1868 Colombia
1868 Japan
1868 Uruguay
1870 Hawaii
1871 Korea
1872-1873 Modoc
1873 Colombia (Panama)
1873-1896 Mexico
1874 Hawaii
1874-1875 Comanche, Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa
1876-1877 Sioux
1877 Nez Perce
1878 Bannock (Banna’kwut)
1878-1879 Cheyenne
1879-1880 Utes
1882 Egypt
1885 Panama (Colombia)
1888 Haiti
1888 Korea
1888-1889 Samoa
1889 Hawaii
1890 Argentina
1890 Lakota Sioux
1891 Bering Straight
1891 Chile
1891 Haiti
1893 Hawaii
1894 Brazil
1894 Nicaragua
1894-1895 China
1894-1896 Korea
1895 Panama (Colombia)
1896 Nicaragua
1898 Cuba (Spain)
1898 Nicaragua
1898 Philippines (Spain)
1898 Puerto Rico (Spain)
1898-1899 China
1899 Nicaragua
1899 Samoa
1899-1913 Philippines
1900 China
1901-1902 Colombia
1903 Dominican Republic
1903 Honduras
1903 Syria
1903-1904 Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1903-1914 Panama
1904 Dominican Republic
1904 Tangier
1904-1905 Korea
1906-1909 Cuba
1907 Honduras
1909-1910 Nicaragua
1911-1912 Honduras
1911-1914 China
1912 Cuba
1912 Turkey
1912-1933 Nicaragua
1914 Dominican Republic
1914 Haiti
1914-1919 Mexico
1915-1934 Haiti
1916-1924 Dominican Republic
1917-1918 World War I (Europe)
1917-1922 Cuba
1918-1920 Russia
1918-1921 Panama
1919 Dalmatia
1919 Turkey
1919-1920 Honduras
1925 Panama
1932 El Salvador
1941-1945 World War II (Europe, North Africa, Asia/Pacific)
1946 Trieste
1947-1949 Greece
1948-1949 Berlin, Germany
1950 Formosa (Taiwan)
1950-1953 Korea
1953-1954 Formosa (Taiwan)
1955-1975 Vietnam
1956 Egypt
1958 Lebanon
1962 Cuba
1962 Thailand
1962-1975 Laos
1964 Congo (Zaire)
1965 Dominican Republic
1965-1973 Cambodia
1967 Congo (Zaire)
1976 Korea
1978 Congo (Zaire)
1980 Iran
1981 El Salvador
1981 Libya
1981-1989 Nicaragua
1982-1983 Egypt
1982-1983 Lebanon
1983 Chad
1983 Grenada
1986 Bolivia
1986 Libya
1987-1988 Iran
1988 Panama
1989 Bolivia
1989 Colombia
1989 Libya
1989 Peru
1989 Philippines
1989-1990 Panama
1990 Saudi Arabia
1991 Congo (Zaire)
1991-1992 Kuwait
1991-1993 Iraq
1992-1994 Somalia
1993-1994 Macedonia
1993-1996 Haiti
1993-2005 Bosnia
1995 Serbia
1996 Liberia
1996 Rwanda
1997-2003 Iraq
1998 Afghanistan
1998 Sudan
1999-2000 Kosovo
1999-2000 Montenegro
1999-2000 Serbia
2000 Yemen
2000-2002 East Timor
2000-2016 Colombia
2001 – Afghanistan
2001- Pakistan
2001- Somalia
2002-2015 Philippines
2002- Yemen
2003-2011 Iraq
2004 Haiti
c2004- Kenya
2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2011-2017 Uganda
2011- Libya
c2012- Central African Republic
c2012- Mali
c2013-2016 South Sudan
c2013- Burkina Faso
c2013- Chad
c2013- Mauritania
c2013- Niger
c2013- Nigeria
2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2014- Iraq
2014- Syria
2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo
c2015- Cameroon
2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2017- Saudi Arabia
c2017 Tunisia
2019- Philippines

The supreme international crime according to 2017 U.S. media reporting is interferring nonviolently in a democratic election — at least if Russia does it. William Blum, in his book Rogue State, lists over 30 times that the United States has done that. Another study, however, says 81 elections in 47 countries. France 2017 makes that total at least 82. Honduras 2017 makes it 83. Russia 2018 makes it 84. The 2020-revealed 1964 coup in British Guiana makes it 85. Somalia 2022 would be 86. There are clearly dozens more.

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Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success):

• China 1949 to early 1960s
• Albania 1949-53
• East Germany 1950s
• Iran 1953 *
• Guatemala 1954 *
• Costa Rica mid-1950s
• Syria 1956-7
• Egypt 1957
• Indonesia 1957-8
• British Guiana 1953-64 *
• Iraq 1963 *
• North Vietnam 1945-73
• Cambodia 1955-70 *
• Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
• Ecuador 1960-63 *
• Congo 1960 *
• France 1965
• Brazil 1962-64 *
• Dominican Republic 1963 *
• Cuba 1959 to present
• Bolivia 1964 *
• Indonesia 1965 *
• Ghana 1966 *
• Chile 1964-73 *
• Greece 1967 *
• Costa Rica 1970-71
• Bolivia 1971 *
• Australia 1973-75 *
• Angola 1975, 1980s
• Zaire 1975
• Portugal 1974-76 *
• Jamaica 1976-80 *
• Seychelles 1979-81
• Chad 1981-82 *
• Grenada 1983 *
• South Yemen 1982-84
• Suriname 1982-84
• Fiji 1987 *
• Libya 1980s
• Nicaragua 1981-90 *
• Panama 1989 *
• Bulgaria 1990 *
• Albania 1991 *
• Iraq 1991
• Afghanistan 1980s *
• Somalia 1993
• Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
• Ecuador 2000 *
• Afghanistan 2001 *
• Venezuela 2002 *
• Iraq 2003 *
• Haiti 2004 *
• Somalia 2007 to present
• Honduras 2009
• Libya 2011 *
• Syria 2012
• Ukraine 2014 *

The above list does not include numerous coups by U.S.-trained fighters, such as (other than Honduras) those discussed here: “from Isaac Zida of Burkina Faso, Haiti’s Philippe Biamby, and Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, and the IMET-educated leaders of the 2009 coup in Honduras, not to mention Mali’s Amadou Sanogo.” These are just in very recent years, by no means a complete list, though the Haiti coup referenced here was earlier than the one included in the list above.

We might want to the list of U.S.-backed coups: Venezuela 2018. We should certainly add Bolivia 2019. Also Venezuela 2019. And Venezuela 2020. And it seems we need to add New Zealand 1987. Also Guinea 2021, Mali 2021, Mauritania 2008, Mali 2012, Egypt 2013, Burkina Faso 2015, Mali 2020, Peru 2022, Pakistan 2022,

We might want to add to the list of coups by U.S.-trained troops: these from a 2022 report in The Intercept: “Since 2008, U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries, including Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia.” Also in 2022, Democracy Now reported on these coups by U.S. trainees just in Africa: Chad 2021, Mali 2021, Mali 2020, Guinea 2021, Sudan 2021, Burkina Faso 2022. Another report discusses these as coups by U.S.-trained soldiers who overthrew governments they’d been trained to support: between 2008 and 2022: Burkina Faso, three times; Mali, three times; and Mauritania, one time. With Niger in July 2023, the coups since 2008 in West Africa by U.S.-trained troops reached 11.

The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez: An Interview with Eva Golinger

Investigative journalist Eva Golinger argues that the late Venezuelan leader may have been assassinated by close aides who fled the country following his death.

Mike WhitneyMay 3, 2016

“Hugo Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he refused to bow down….I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated.”

— Eva Golinger

MW– Do you think that Hugo Chavez was murdered and, if so, who do you think might have been involved?

Eva Golinger– I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and documented assassination attempts against him throughout his presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d’etat, during which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48 hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts against Chavez and his government, such as in 2004 when dozens of Colombian paramilitary forces were captured on a farm outside of Caracas that was owned by an anti-Chavez activist, Robert Alonso, just days before they were going to attack the presidential palace and kill Chavez.

There was another, lesser-known plot against Chavez discovered in New York City during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2006. According to information provided by his security services, during standard security reconnaissance of an event where Chavez would address the US public at a local, renowned university, high levels of radiation were detected in the chair where he would have sat. The radiation was discovered by a Geiger detector, which is a handheld radiation detection device the presidential security used to ensure the President wasn’t in danger of exposure to harmful rays. In this case, the chair was removed and subsequent tests showed it was emanating unusual amounts of radiation that could have resulted in significant harm to Chavez had it gone undiscovered. According to accounts by the presidential security at the event, an individual from the US who had been involved in the logistical support for the event and had provided the chair was shown to be acting with US intelligent agents.

There were numerous other attempts on his life that were thwarted by the Venezuelan intelligence agencies and particularly the counterintelligence unit of the Presidential Guard that was charged with discovering and impeding such threats. One other well known attempt was in July 2010 when Francisco Chavez Abarca (no relation), a criminal working with Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976 and killing all 73 passengers on board, was detained entering Venezuela and later confessed he had been sent to assassinate Chavez. Just five months earlier, in February 2010, when President Chavez was at an event near the Colombian border, his security forces discovered a sniper set up just over a quarter of a mile away from his location, who was subsequently neutralized.

While these accounts may sound like fiction, they are amply documented and very real. Hugo Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he refused to bow down. As head of state of the nation without the largest oil reserves on the planet, and as someone who openly and directly challenged US and Western domination, Chavez was considered an enemy of Washington and its allies.

So, who could have been involved in Chavez’s assassination, if he was assassinated? Certainly it’s no far stretch to imagine the US government involved in a political assassination of an enemy it clearly – and openly – wanted out of the picture. In 2006, the US government formed a special Mission Manager for Venezuela and Cuba under the Directorate of National Intelligence. This elite intelligence unit was charged with expanding covert operations against Chavez and led clandestine missions out of an intelligence fusion center (CIA-DEA-DIA) in Colombia. Some of the pieces that have been coming together include the discovery of several close aides to Chavez who had private, unobstructed access to him over prolonged periods, who fled the country after his death and are collaborating with the US government. If he were assassinated by some kind of exposure to high levels of radiation, or otherwise inoculated or infected by a cancer-causing virus, it would have been done by someone with close access to him, whom he trusted.

MW– Who is Leamsy Salazar and how is he connected to the US Intelligence Agencies?

Eva Golinger– Leamsy Salazar was one of Chavez’s closest aides for nearly seven years. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Venezuelan Navy and became known to Chavez after he waved the Venezuelan flag from the roof of the presidential guard’s barracks at the presidential palace during the 2002 coup, as the rescue of Chavez was underway. He became a symbol of the loyal armed forces that helped defeat the coup and Chavez rewarded him by bringing him on as one of his assistants. Salazar was both a bodyguard and an aide to Chavez, who would bring him coffee and meals, stand by his side, travel with him around the world and protect him during public events. I knew him and interacted with him many times. He was one of the familiar faces protecting Chavez for many years. He was a key member of Chavez’s elite inner security circle, with private access to Chavez and privileged and highly confidential knowledge of Chavez’s comings and goings, daily routine, schedule and dealings.

After Chavez passed away in March 2013, because of his extended service and loyalty, Leamsy was transferred to the security detail of Diosdado Cabello, who was then president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and considered one of the most powerful political and military figures in the country. Cabello was one of Chavez’s closest allies. It should be noted that Leamsy remained with Chavez throughout most of his illness up to his death and had privileged access to him that few had, even from his security team.

Shockingly, in December 2014, news reports revealed that Leamsy had secretly been flown to the US from Spain, where he was allegedly on vacation with his family. The plane that flew him was said to be from the DEA. He was placed in witness protection and news reports have stated he is providing information to the US government about Venezuelan officials involved in a high level ring of drug trafficking. Opposition-owned media in Venezuela claim he gave details accusing Diosdado Cabello of being a drug-kingpin, but none of that information has been independently verified, nor have any court records or allegations been released, if they exist.

Another explanation for his going into the witness protection program in the US could include his involvement in the assassination of Chavez, possibly done as part of a CIA black op, or maybe even done under the auspices of CIA but carried out by corrupt elements within the Venezuelan government. Before the Panama Papers were released, I had accidentally discovered and was investigating a dangerous corrupt, high level individual within the government, who Chavez had previously dismissed, but who returned after his death and was placed in an even more influential, powerful position. This individual also appears to be collaborating with the US government. People like that, who let greed obscure their conscience, and who are involved in lucrative criminal activity, could have also played a role in his death.

For example, the Panama Papers exposed another former Chavez aide, Army Captain Adrian Velasquez, who was in charge of security for Chavez’s son Hugo. Captain Velasquez’s wife, a former Navy Officer, Claudia Patricia Diaz Guillen, was Chavez’s nurse for several years and had private, unsupervised access to him. Furthermore, Claudia administered medicines, shots and other health and food-related materials to Chavez over a period of years. Just one month before his deadly illness was discovered in 2011, Chavez named Claudia as Treasurer of Venezuela, placing her in charge of the country’s money. It’s still unclear as to why she was named to this important position, considering she had previously been his nurse and had no similar experience. She was dismissed from the position right after Chavez passed away. Both Captain Velasquez and Claudia appeared in the Panama Papers as owning a shell company with millions of dollars. They also own property in an elite area in the Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, where properties cost in the millions, and they have resided there since at least June 2015. The documents show that right after Chavez passed away and Nicolas Maduro was elected president in April 2013, Captain Velasquez opened an off-shore company on April 18, 2013 through the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonesca, called Bleckner Associates Limited. A Swiss financial investment firm, V3 Capital Partners LLC, affirmed they manage the funds of Captain Velasquez, which number in the millions. It’s impossible for an Army Captain to have earned that amount of money through legitimate means. Neither him nor his wife, Claudia, have returned to Venezuela since 2015.

Captain Velasquez was especially close with Leamsy Salazar.

MW– Can you explain the suspicious circumstances under which Salazar was flown out of Spain to the safety of the United States on a plane belonging to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)? Doesn’t that strike you as a bit strange? At the very least, this suggests that Salazar was acting as an agent for a country that is openly hostile towards Venezuela? That makes him either a collaborator or a traitor. Do you agree?

Eva Golinger– Of course it was highly suspicious that Salazar was flown out of Spain, where he was allegedly on vacation with his family, and taken to the United States on a DEA plane. There is no question that he was collaborating with the US government and betrayed his country. What remains to be seen is what his exact role was. Did he administer the murderous poison to Chavez, or was it one of his partners, such as Captain Velasquez or the nurse/treasurer Claudia?

While this all may sound very conspiracy theory-ish, these are facts that can be verified independently. It is also true, according to declassified secret US documents, that the US Army was developing an injectable radiation weapon to use for political assassinations of select enemies as far back as 1948. The Church Commission hearings into the Kennedy Assassination also uncovered the existence of an assassination weapon developed by CIA to induce heart attacks and soft-tissue cancers. Chavez died of an aggressive soft-tissue cancer. By the time it was detected it was too late. There is other information out there documenting the development of a “cancer virus” that was going to be weaponized and allegedly used to kill Fidel Castro in the 1960s. I know most of that seems like science fiction, but do your research and see what really exists. I don’t believe everything I read either. As a lawyer and investigative journalist, I need hard evidence, and multiple, verifiable sources. Even if we just go on the official US Army document from 1948, it’s a fact that the US government was in the process of a developing a radiation weapon for political assassinations. More than 60 years later we can only imagine what technological capacities exist.

MW– Can you explain why the DEA was involved in this operation and not the CIA as many would expect?

Eva Golinger– I think CIA was involved. They work together on high-profile political cases, and they were operating out of the Intelligence Fusion Center in Colombia together. Why it was DEA and not CIA that brought Leamsy Salazar to the US has not yet been revealed, but I don’t think that means the CIA wasn’t involved in the whole operation.

MW– On a personal note, Hugo Chavez was a giant among men and a real hero. Would you please tell us what his loss has meant to you personally and how his death has impacted the people of Venezuela?

Eva Golinger– The loss of Hugo Chavez has been crushing. He was my friend and I spent nearly ten years as his advisor. The void he has left is impossible to replace. Despite his human flaws, he had a huge heart and genuinely dedicated himself to build a better country for his people, and a better world for humanity. He cared deeply about all people, but especially the poor, neglected and marginalized.

There is a picture taken of Chavez by a bystander, when he had been at an event in the center of Caracas and was walking through a large plaza that had been cleared by security. All of a sudden, he saw a young man, disheveled and seemingly on drugs, barely able to keep himself upright, wearing ragged clothes. To the horror of his security guards, Chavez went over to him and lovingly put his arm around him and offered him a cup of coffee. He didn’t judge the poor guy or reprimand him, or show disgust. He treated him like a fellow human being who deserved to be seen with dignity. He stayed there with him for a while, just telling stories and chatting like old friends. When he had to go, he told one of his guards to offer the man whatever help he needed.

There were no cameras there, no TV, no public. It wasn’t a publicity stunt. It was genuine, sincere care and concern for a fellow human in need. Despite being president and a powerful head of state, Chavez always saw himself as an equal to all people.

His unexpected death has had a tragic toll on Venezuela. Sadly, those he left in charge have been unable to manage the country through this difficult times. A combination of corruption and external sabotage by opposition forces (with foreign support) has crippled the economy. Mismanagement has been widespread and destructive. US agencies and their allies in Venezuela have seized the opportunity to further destabilize and destroy all remaining remnants of chavismo. Now they are trying to tarnish and erase Chavez’s legacy, but I believe this is an impossible task. Even if the current government doesn’t survive the vicious attacks against it, Chavez’s memory in the millions of people he impacted and improved the lives of, will weather the storm. “Chavismo” has become an ideology founded on principles of social justice and human dignity. But do people miss him terribly? Yes.

Source: Counterpunch