Hello everybody, welcome to dangerous ideas. Thanks for being here. Just a few days after the United States has invaded, bombed a sovereign country, kidnapped their leader,

and taken him to New York to put into prison.

The United States, the U.S. Empire, yet again, proving there is no international law

that they won't break, that they care about, that they care to respect. We see it again

and again, although it seems to keep ramping up to a new level. I did an extended live stream on this

the day or hours after it happened on Saturday. So feel free to check out that one as well.

But I want to get into it with my guest, a pretty great guest for this topic.

But we're going to get into a lot more than just Venezuela.

But I have known John Kariaku for many years now, former CIA officer.

He is the only American to serve time in prison for the CIA's

illegal under international law torture program because he revealed it to the world. And so

therefore he was the only one to spend time in prison for it. Please welcome John Kariaku.

Hey, buddy. Good to see you. Good to see you. Hey, John. How are you?

I'm well, thanks. And you? I'm better than a lot of people around this world right now. So this, I mean,

it's tough to imagine that the Trump administration can shock people anymore. But I found this, the brazenness of this and

everything shocking this past weekend. Yeah, I just kind of want, I guess just initially your

initial thoughts, but I also was remembering that you and I were both, we both were speakers at

the Venezuelan embassy.

We sure were.

In Washington, D.C., they were just beginning.

They don't like to call it an occupation, a holding of space in the Venezuelan embassy when

the first Trump administration was going to steal the embassy.

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