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  • Maduro - NYT

    NYT advises Trump to kill more Venezuelans

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 12, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Donald Trump is back in the White House, and faux opposition is once again the order of the day for the Western media and the Democratic Party.

  • Venezuela: Twenty first century’s imperialism laboratory

    Whitewashing imperialism: The Western ‘Left’ and Venezuela

    Originally published: Ebb on October 3, 2024 (more by Ebb)

    Every time Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is faced with renewed threats to its survival, a stratum of U.S.-based intellectuals is always ready with ‘left’ critiques that deliberately obscure the permanent imperialist siege against the country.

  • Hugo Chavez

    Who’s afraid of Hugo Chávez? Race, empire, and Chavismo’s revolutionary subjectivity

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 17, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Lucas Koerner examines the U.S. Empire’s fixation with Chavismo.

  • The Amuay refinery in Punto Fijo, western Venezuela. Amuay and Cardon form the Paraguana Refinery Complex, which is the third largest in the world. (Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)

    Venezuelan oil output continues decline as refinery resumes operations

    Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner

    Venezuelan crude exports on track for 70 year low as Washington continues to target tankers and shipping companies.

  • U.S. Paramilitaries

    Venezuela: Two U.S. citizens captured in botched coup attempt

    Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz

    Two former green berets were arrested in a second failed assault on Venezuelan shores on Monday.

  • FAIR: 2019 news clips

    EXCHANGE: Left Media and Venezuela

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 12, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The sociologist never levels the “authoritarian” charge against his own government, despite the United States’ murderous lawlessness at home and abroad—mass deportations, illegal wars, serial police killings, etc.—all in the absence of any credible external threat.

  • How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela

    How Western left media helped legitimate U.S. regime change in Venezuela

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 22, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    It’s been a year since Juan Guaidó began his U.S.-anointed mandate as “interim president” of Venezuela.

  • For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is Against Guaidó

    For Western Press, the only Coup in Venezuela is against Guaidó

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 10, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The international corporate media have entered crisis mode following the replacement of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as head of the country’s National Assembly.

  • Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on NPR.org (8/25/17).

    NPR shreds ethics handbook to normalize regime change in Venezuela

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 5, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the U.S. terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua.

  • Successive blackouts on Friday and Saturday evening affected most of the country once more. (Reuters)

    Venezuela’s Maduro announces electricity rationing plan as protests break out

    Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz

    Scattered demonstrations took place in parts of Caracas and several provinces as the government tries to address water and electricity shortages.

  • CNE announces the victory (Credit AVN)

    Chavistas take 17 of 23 states in Venezuelan Regional Elections as opposition cries fraud

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on October 16, 2017 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    The United Socialist Party of Venezuela won 54 percent of the total vote, marking a significant recovery since the ruling party’s landslide defeat in 2015 parliamentary elections when it garnered only 43.7 percent of the vote.

  • RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - JULY 16: An expatriate Venezuelan casts her ballot during an unofficial referendum, or plebiscite, held by Venezuela's opposition against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government on July 16, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Voting was conducted across 2,000 polling centers in Venezuela and in more than 80 countries around the world amidst a severe crisis in Venezuela. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

    Venezuela sees “historic” turnout in National Constituent Assembly elections

    Lucas Koerner

    Speaking from the Plaza Bolivar in Caracas shortly after the CNE announcement, President Nicolas Maduro hailed the large vote total as indicative of the new body’s legitimacy.

  • Interview with Steve Ellner: Is the Bolivarian Revolution a Populist Failure?

    Lucas Koerner and Steve Ellner

    In part II of our interview with Steve Ellner, the Universidad de Oriente professor discusses a range of contentious issues in Venezuela, including the efficacy of state social programs such as the CLAPs, rentierism, and the Maduro government’s controversial Mining Arc, as well as the role of international solidarity.  Part I of the conversation can […]

  • Interview with Steve Ellner: Democratization of PSUV Is Key to Chavismo’s Future

    Lucas Koerner and Steve Ellner

    Distinguished Venezuelan history and politics professor Steve Ellner visited Caracas from September 26 to October 7 to teach an intensive seminar at the Venezuelan Planning School, titled “The Role of the Venezuelan State in the Transition to Socialism.”  Venezuelanalysis‘s Lucas Koerner sat down with the long-time Universidad de Oriente professor to discuss a range of […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

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    Robert W. McChesney Bob McChesney on Saving Journalism

    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

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