I Support Western Values More Than the West Does

Einstein on Peace: "...I have become a kind of enfant terrible in my new homeland, due to my inability to keep silent and to swallow everything that happens there." "Unfortunately, the most farsighted among the people in this country have been so intimidated by the pseudo-patriotic pressures to which they have been exposed that their scope for effective action has been greatly reduced."

Editor's note:  The US government has a long history of international crimes (warfare) against numerous nations, crimes which go unpunished. Its criminal behavior includes illegal economic sanctions, a form of warfare. But the United Nations cannot prosecute those US leaders who are responsible. They are above (international) Law, as are the leaders of Russia, China, the UK, and France -- the UN Security Council's Permanent-5 veto nations.

-- R. Kotila, Ph.D.  DWF NEWS

Last year, the UN rapporteur visited Venezuela and brought attention to the “disastrous” health situation caused by US sanctions. Purchases of basic medicine, blood reagents, vaccines, antibiotics, anesthetics, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS treatments have been blocked, and only 20 percent of the equipment in hospitals is functioning due to the inability to obtain spare parts.

Undoubtedly, both Gabriel, who couldn’t receive his liver transplant, and my uncle, who was never even properly diagnosed, are direct victims of US murderous sanctions. Same as the 40,000-100,000 Venezuelans that died between 2017-2020 due to sanctions undermining human rights, according to separate studies by the Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and UN Special Rapporteur Alfred de Zayas.

Recently, the Nicolás Maduro government and the US-backed hardline opposition resumed talks in Mexico and reached an agreement to release some US $3 billion in Venezuelan funds seized by Washington and its European allies. The resources will reportedly be administered by UN agencies for urgent social needs, such as obtaining vaccines for children, medication for 60,000 cancer patients as well as HIV/AIDS treatments, and recovering the country’s radiotherapy system.

It is worth recalling that Guaidó and his acolytes have repeatedly endorsed US sanctions and have gleefully cheered for every single murderous measure levied against Venezuela. Of course, sanctions don’t affect them the same as working-class citizens. On the contrary, they have lined up their pockets with seized assets and bank accounts as well as direct US financing for this incredible scam they call “restoring democracy.”  READ MORE

The list of government achievements in the 15 years that the Sandinistas have been in power is impressive: 24 new public hospitals completed, maternal mortality cut by two-thirds, electricity coverage up from 50 percent to 99 percent of households, with three-quarters generated from renewables, and public investment creating the best roads in Central America.

In the 1980s, after the Sandinista revolution, when the US imposed a blockade on Nicaragua and even mined its ports, Oxfam said this was because the small Central American country offered “the threat of a good example.”

Demonizing Nicaragua’s government, sanctioning dozens of key officials, blocking loans from the World Bank and elsewhere, providing much less medical and other aid than that which goes to neighboring countries and, finally, threatening to cut Nicaragua’s access to its biggest market, the United States — are all weapons in a hybrid war.  READ MORE

A guy I follow on Twitter named David Gondek put it very nicely: "There is nothing wrong with western civilization that living up to its own professed principles wouldn't fix."

To be clear, the US empire is getting everything it wants out of the war in Ukraine. It claims out of one side of its mouth that this was an unprovoked invasion that it never wanted, while admitting this war is giving it everything it ever wanted out the other side. The US did not just luckily stumble into a happy coincidence that just happens to advance all of its longstanding geostrategic agendas against a longtime geopolitical target. It deliberately created this situation, and only a baby-brained idiot would believe otherwise.

Putin isn't waging this war because he thought it would be a nice idea to grab a bit more land, he's waging it because he assessed that he'd need to fight off NATO aggressions in Ukraine at some point and it would be easier to do it now than later.  READ MORE

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