Neoliberalism or Death: The U.S. Economic War Against Venezuela
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🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially endorses the attempted coup in Venezuela, joining forces with Donald Trump and his posse of neoconservatives. Venezuela’s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Ron responds to the threats of military action, the reports about covert U.S. activity in the country, and discusses the impact of the sanctions on Venezuela.
Former United Nations rapporteur Alfred de Zayas is accusing the U.S. of attempting to “asphyxiate” Venezuela with economic warfare and says the U.S. should be investigated by the International Criminal Court. Zayas wrote a UN report on Venezuela in late 2018 that was scathing in its assessment of U.S. policy towards Venezuela under both Obama and Trump. He talks about what he found during his investigation.
And we go inside the mind of journalist Sam Husseini who tried to ask convicted criminal Elliott Abrams about his past and the present U.S. lies about Venezuela.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you very much, El Paso. Thank you very much. |
| 0:03.5 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:06.4 | Rio Grande, we're by the well, I don't know, you heard, right? |
| 0:10.1 | Donald Trump is not only smarter than most of what thinking is. |
| 0:12.8 | I think Donald Trump is smarter than he thinks he is. |
| 0:14.7 | You're not allowed to own cows anymore. You don't have a lot of problems. |
| 0:18.0 | I think Donald Trump has got some sort of modeling computer in his mind. |
| 0:22.3 | Whoa! I told you so, that's what I do. |
| 0:25.2 | You'll never have it. You need the magic wand. That's what I said. |
| 0:28.2 | And it sends a signal to his brain and says, go this way, go that way. |
| 0:31.8 | By the way, we, I, we, let's spend a hundred trillion. |
| 0:36.8 | Let's rip down every building in New York City. |
| 0:39.3 | And I want to see somebody try and imitate Michael Jackson. |
| 0:43.5 | He has this modeling computer. It's better than any climate computer than that guess is what a hurricane or something is going to be. |
| 0:49.1 | And it just sends this information to his mind. |
| 0:51.1 | Execute the baby. |
| 0:53.0 | Hey, look, did you ever see anything? Radical murders, murders. |
| 0:57.6 | Killings, murders. |
| 0:59.4 | Donald Trump's a native. What are you talking about? It's like, no, he's not. |
| 1:02.0 | How about the word caravan? Caravan? |
| 1:05.1 | How does it compare to a German shepherd? He's a stable genius. |
| 1:09.0 | What's taking him so long? |
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