Money, Oil, War and the Global Power Structure

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. —Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism–ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The current attack by US and globalist forces against the Venezuelan government is the latest in a long series of regime change actions aimed at keeping or restoring control over essential resources, in this case oil, and preventing any significant departure from corporatization and elite rule. It should be clear by now that according to Mussolini’s definition, the present world order is not democratic, but fascist. Centralized control of money, banking, and finance have allowed the power elite to develop financial weapons that can be deployed to bring independent governments to heel, with military force being deployed if necessary.

In his recent article, Sanctions of Mass Destruction: America’s war on Venezuela,  journalist Garikai Chengu points out that, “American economic sanctions have been the worst crime against humanity since World War Two. America’s economic sanctions have killed more innocent people than all of the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons ever used in the history of mankind,” and highlights the obvious saying, “The fact that for America the issue in Venezuela is oil, not democracy, will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history. Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves on the planet.”

Chengu goes on to say that “From the first moment Hugo Chavez took office, the United States has been trying to overthrow Venezuela’s socialist movement by using sanctions, coup attempts, and funding the opposition parties. …United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur, Alfred de Zayas, recommended, just a few days ago, that the International Criminal Court investigate economic sanctions against Venezuela as a possible crime against humanity perpetrated by America.”

 “Prior to American sanctions, socialism in Venezuela had reduced inequality and poverty whilst pensions expanded. During the same time period in America, it has been the absolute reverse. President Chavez funneled Venezuela’s oil revenues into social spending such as free+6 healthcare, education, subsidized food networks, and housing construction.”

Caitlin Johnstone reports that Psychopathic US Senator Openly Calls For Maduro To Suffer Gaddafi’s Fate.

Johnstone reports that, while the Maduro government has refused this “Trojan Horse” of supposed aid from the United States, he has not been refusing aid from other sources. “In reality, Maduro has been accepting aid from everywhere except from the government that is openly staging a coup in his country in gross violation of its national sovereignty. Just last week Caracas accepted 933 tons of food and medical supplies from China, Cuba, India and Turkey, and Russia has shipped in 300 tons of aid on its own.”

Florida Senator Marco Rubio posted this image in his recent tweet. The implication is clear that Rubio wants Maduro to be tortured, sodomized and murdered just as Gaddafi was in Lybia for defying the demands of the empire.

CNN’s Ana Cabrera reports that Florida Senator Marco Rubio has said that “no matter how long this takes,” the US and the international community are standing with the people of Venezuela, “until freedom is restored in Venezuela.”

Sure, freedom for U.S. corporations to plunder Venezuela’s oil resources, and once again dominate the Venezuelan people. We’ve seen this “ploy” so many times before, in so many different places; can anyone possibly take it seriously? Mr. Rubio, you call yourself (on your Twitter page) “a follower of Christ,” but your behavior is not at all Christ-like. Did Christ ever call for the violent overthrow of governments, or the torture and murder of another human being, or the promulgation of lies intended to justify such actions?  Even the United Nations has acknowledged that this so-called “aid” that you are trying to impose is a political ploy. “Humanitarian action needs to be independent of political, military or other objectives,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York.

And it is not only the Trump administration that is beating the drums for this takeover of Venezuela. According to Johnstone, even so-called democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris are calling for regime change there.

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