Wake up and smell the coffee generation

Celebrating corporation round and round we thought stirring up another cup of too many wrongs to mention

When greed is hurting you to world war freak and you label truth the conspiracy round we go, so you better take them up.

For a moment of clarity.

Welcome to Redact to Tonight, VIP.

It's a big show.

Today, I'm cramming in three guests for you.

As you probably know, our media and government steadfastly spray anti-Venezuela

propaganda outed us with the force of a well-tuned fire hose. They dare not speak a single,

like a single positive word about the country, the government, even really the people

of Venezuela. Please list all the reports you've seen about how wonderful Venezuela is. Well, I wanted

to bring in someone who knows what is actually going on, who's been down there, who's spoken to

the people, reported on it again, time and again.

So here's my conversation with my friend Abby Martin, host of the Empire Files on Telesaur.

Abby, thanks for coming back.

Thanks for having me, Lee.

So well done on the awesome reporting, as always.

I want to talk about Venezuela.

They just had an election.

Nicholas Maduro won, but the opposition largely boycotted,

and we here in the U.S. have seen this kind of endless array of propaganda about Venezuela.

It even sucked in comedian John Oliver recently,

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