Presstitutes Turn Blind Eye to UN Report on
Venezuela
Washington
and the Convict Appointed to Overthrow Venezuela
Continue the Lies
By
Paul Craig Roberts
March
10, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- Don’t you think
something is fishy when the presstitutes
orchestrate a fake news “humanitarian crisis” in
Venezuela, but totally ignore the real
humanitarian crises in Yemen and Gaza?
Don’t
you think something is really very rotten when
the expert, Alfred Maurice de Zayas,
sent by the UN to Venezuela to evaluate
the situation finds no interest by any Western
media or any Western government in his report?
Don’t
you think it is a bit much for Washington to
steal $21 billion of Venezuela’s money, impose
sanctions in an effort to destabilize the
country and to drive the Venezuelan government
to its knees, blame Venezuelan socialism
(essentially nationalization of the oil company)
for bringing “starvation to the people,” and
offer a measly $21 million in “humanitarian
aid.”
As the United States is completely devoid of any
print or TV media, it falls upon internet media
such as this website to perform the missing
function of honest journalism.
As for
the alleged starvation and humanitarian crisis
in Venezuela, Zayas has this to say:
The
December 2017 and March 2018 reports of the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
list food crises in 37 countries. “The
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is not among
them.”
“In
2017, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
requested medical aid from the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the plea
was rejected, because Venezuela ‘is still a
high-income country … and as such is not
eligible’.”
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The
“crisis” in Venezuela “cannot be compared with
the humanitarian crises in Gaza, Yemen, Libya,
the Syrian Arab Republic, Iraq, Haiti, Mali, the
Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia,
or Myanmar, among others.”
In
order to discredit selected governments,
failures in the field of human rights are
maximized so as to make violent overthrow more
palatable. Human rights are being “weaponized”
against rivals.
In
paragraph 37 of his report, de Zayas says:
“Modern-day economic sanctions and
blockades are comparable with medieval sieges of
towns with the intention of forcing them to
surrender. Twenty-first century sanctions
attempt to bring not just a town, but sovereign
countries to their knees. A difference, perhaps,
is that twenty-first century sanctions are
accompanied by the manipulation of public
opinion through ‘fake news’, aggressive public
relations and a pseudo-human rights rhetoric so
as to give the impression that a human rights
‘end’ justifies the criminal means. There is not
only a horizontal juridical world order governed
by the Charter of the United Nations and
principles of sovereign equality, but also a
vertical world order reflecting the hierarchy of
a geopolitical system that links dominant States
with the rest of the world according to military
and economic power. It is the latter,
geopolitical system that generates geopolitical
crimes, hitherto in total impunity.”
He
expresses concern about the level of
polarization and disinformation that surrounds
every narrative about Venezuela.
“A disquieting media campaign seeks to
force observers into a preconceived view that
there is a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. An independent
expert must be wary of hyperbole, bearing in
mind that ‘humanitarian crisis’ is a term of art
(terminus technicus) that can be misused as a
pretext for military intervention.”
In
order to discredit selected governments,
failures in the field of human rights are
maximized so as to make violent overthrow more
palatable. Human rights are being ‘weaponized’
against rivals.
A
political solution is blocked because “certain
countries [the US] do not want to see a peaceful
solution to the Venezuelan conflict and prefer
to prolong the suffering of the people of that
country, with the expectation that the situation
will reach the threshold of a humanitarian
crisis and provoke a military intervention to
impose a regime change.”
Washington’s attack on Venezuela is in violation
of established international law. “The
principles of non-intervention and
non-interference in the internal affairs of
sovereign States belong to customary
international law and have been reaffirmed in
General Assembly resolutions, notably 2625 (XXV)
and 3314 (XXIX), and in the 1993 Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action. Article 32
of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of
States, adopted by the General Assembly in 1974,
stipulates that no State may use or encourage
the use of economic, political or any other type
of measures to coerce another State in order to
obtain from it the subordination of the exercise
of its sovereign rights.”
Chapter 4, article 19, of the Charter of
the OAS stipulates that “No State or group of
States has the right to intervene, directly or
indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the
internal or external affairs of any other State.
The foregoing principle prohibits not only armed
force but also any other form of interference or
attempted threat against the personality of the
State or against its political, economic, and
cultural elements.”
Zayas reports that an atmosphere of intimidation
accompanied the mission, attempting to pressure
him into a predetermined matrix. He received
letters from American-financed NGOs asking him
not to proceed on his own, dictating to him the
report he should write. Prior to his arrival in
Venezuela, a propaganda campaign was launched
against him on Facebook and Twitter questioning
his integrity and accusing
him of bias.
https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/09/what-the-press-hides-from-you-about-venezuela/
As Washington’s sanctions and currency
manipulations constitute geopolitical crimes,
Zayas asks what reparations are due to the
victims of sanctions.
He recommends that the International
Criminal Court investigate Washington’s coercive
measures that can cause death from malnutrition
and lack of medicines and medical equipment.
“Despite being the first UN official to visit
and report from Venezuela in 21 years, Mr de
Zayas said his research into the causes of the
country’s economic crisis has so far largely
been ignored by the UN and the media, and caused
little debate within the Human Rights Council.
“He believes his report has been ignored because
it goes against the popular narrative that
Venezuela needs regime change.”
https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/09/what-the-press-hides-from-you-about-venezuela/
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the
world and an abundance of other natural
resources including gold, bauxite and coltan.
But under the Maduro government they’re not
accessible to US and transnational
corporations.
http://misionverdad.com/mv-in-english/exclusive-report-summary-of-the-report-by-alfred-de-zayas-independent-expert-of-the-un
https://mronline.org/2019/02/04/report-of-the-independent-expert-on-the-promotion-of-a-democratic-and-equitable-international-order/
https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/09/what-the-press-hides-from-you-about-venezuela/
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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