February 6
GUEST: Margaret Flowers, retired pediatrician, co-director of Popular Resistance and co-host of Clearing the FOG on WBAI (Tuesday mornings at 9:00), talks about the four Embassy Protectors facing federal charges for trying to prevent the Venezuela Embassy from being turned over to leaders of a failed US-led coup.Embassy Protectors Defense Committee
Margaret Flowers writes for Popular Resistance, a source of news and analysis that I use more and more to do Activist Radio. So few US media outlets are free from the influence of our all pervasive but perpetually invisible empire.
The blockade of Venezuela is one example. Few people in the rest of the world see US intervention in Venezuela as an attempt to free its people from tyranny. Yet that is the Pentagon narrative that defines the boarders of acceptable thought in our country. Any journalist who wants to keep getting paid must follow the prescribed script. There are no alternate story lines in the mainstream media.
Yet the egregious war crimes being committed by the US in Venezuela are plain to see. Maduro is a fairly elected president and Guido is the figurehead of a CIA backed coup, like the dozens of other such US backed coups in Latin America. Our blockade is an act of war based on nothing, a clear violation of all international law. Venezuela is not an imminent threat to the US, an assertion so preposterous that even our President hasn't made it yet.
True tyranny is not only controlling the media, but also attacking anyone with a differing point of view. That is why I picked this provocative depiction of Uncle Sam above. We have such a homogenous view of the world in part because truth tellers and whistle blowers face vicious retaliation when they engage in non-violent civil disobedience. US tyranny abroad eventually produces the same tyranny here at home.
