The threat of direct American aggression on Venezuela has been looming for months, with the United States sending joint strike forces and escalating attacks on supposed “drug boats”. It’s pretty amusing to see a nation that has lied about every single casus belli since at least the 1898 Spanish-American War claim that it’s “actually telling the truth this time”. For some inexplicable reason, the plutocrats, kleptocrats, warmongers and war criminals in Washington DC think we’ve all forgotten about the Tonkin Bay “incident”, demonization and countless lies about Serbs in former Yugoslavia, the 9/11 which led to tens of millions of casualties across the Middle East and around the world, etc. The stream of these endless outright lies contains even more distortions of truth that were used as a pretext to kill millions and destroy the lives of orders of magnitude more.

And yet, “just once, just this time”, the US “must be telling the truth” about the mythical “drug trafficking” by Venezuela and its President Nicolas Maduro, the “evil narco boss”. Of course, we should all just forget and completely ignore the extremely close ties between the enormous US intelligence apparatus and the massive drug industry in Latin America (and elsewhere around the world). In addition, even the infamous CNN admits that the Trump administration’s accusations against Venezuela are not backed up by any verifiable data. On the contrary, it suggests that Caracas is at the very bottom of the list of countries trafficking narcotics into the US, with Colombia, Peru and Bolivia being far ahead. In fact, the DEA itself claims that 90% of cocaine that reaches America is from Colombia. And........

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