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Checking the Metaphors!!!

> The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.
– Eduardo Galeano
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/05/roaming-charges-preliminary-notes-on-a-kidnapping/
#EduardoGaleano #JeffreyStClair
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Roaming Charges: Preliminary Notes on a Kidnapping

The cocksure boast that the US will "run" Venezuela appears to be another Trumpian fantasy. It’s impossible to “run a country,” if you don’t have control of it, which the US doesn’t by any measure. The Maduro government remains in place and defiant, even with Maduro renditioned to New York City. Indeed, the attack appears to have only strengthened the resolve of the Venezuelan people, instead of inspiring the chimerical uprising Rubio led Trump to expect, much as Rumsfeld and Cheney deceived Bush into believing about Iraq.

CounterPunch.org
Jan 5 at 11:07pmWeb
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> The US rationale at the UN for its regime change operations has gone from “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and must destroy them” to “Venezuela has weapons of mass climate destruction and we must have them.”
> The first crime (regime change) leads directly to the second (looting Venezuela’s oil)…”The money coming out of the ground is very substantial.”
#VenezuelanOil #USAVenezuela #OilWars ..
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> ..post-bombing hubris, Trump threatened Mexico: “The cartels are running Mexico. She’s not running Mexico. We could.. be nice and say, ‘Oh, yes, she is.’ No no. She’s very frightened of the cartels. They’re running Mexico. And I’ve asked her number times, ‘Would you like us to take out the cartels?’ … something is gonna have to be done with Mexico.” A day later, Trump told The Atlantic that he was considering seizing Greenland by force: “We need to #DoGreenland, absolutely,” claiming absurdly that it is “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”
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> The people of Venezuela have mainly “suffered” under the suffocating grip of US sanctions, but even with these cruel constraints, the Venezuelan economy continues to outperform many in the region.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/05/roaming-charges-preliminary-notes-on-a-kidnapping/
#VenezuelaSanctions #WarByOthermeans #USASanctionsOnVenezuela
Roaming Charges: Preliminary Notes on a Kidnapping

The cocksure boast that the US will "run" Venezuela appears to be another Trumpian fantasy. It’s impossible to “run a country,” if you don’t have control of it, which the US doesn’t by any measure. The Maduro government remains in place and defiant, even with Maduro renditioned to New York City. Indeed, the attack appears to have only strengthened the resolve of the Venezuelan people, instead of inspiring the chimerical uprising Rubio led Trump to expect, much as Rumsfeld and Cheney deceived Bush into believing about Iraq.

CounterPunch.org
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> + “I will fight like a soldier for a free Venezuela, against all forms of imperialism and against those who want to take away our flag, the most sacred thing we have. Long live Chávez. Long live Maduro. Long live the revolution.” So saideth, the hand of God, Diego Maradona…
#DiegoMaradona #HandOfGod #DiegaMardonaOnImperialism
He was interesting on Bush II also, I think... Might have said they didn't need the devil in their country or something...