NYT Advises Trump to Kill More Venezuelans
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens made an overt case for US military intervention to topple Venezuela’s government.
Lucas Koerner
Media Cover for US Clients’ Covid Catastrophes in Peru, Ecuador and Chile
Alongside Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Chile currently lead South America in total Covid deaths per capita. Unlike Brazil, however, the other pro-US regimes have largely been given a pass.
Media Project Trump Crimes Onto Empire’s Enemies
The reaction from corporate media to Trump’s threat to crush an anti-racist rebellion was to chastise his move as “un-American,” obscuring the domestic sources of inspiration for his vicious crackdown.
Western Media Rehabilitate Brazil’s Criminal Ex-Justice Minister for Presidential Run
In rehabilitating Sergio Moro as a “whistleblower,” corporate journalists hide their own role in shamelessly promoting the Washington-backed lawfare operation that ousted Brazil’s first female president, and installed a neo-fascist.
WOLA: Media’s ‘Left’ Source for Pro-Coup Propaganda in Venezuela
When it comes to Venezuela, one DC-based think tank has become the Western media’s go-to source for confirming the US elite’s regime change groupthink: the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).
Guardian Blames Trump’s Murderous US Exceptionalism on Hugo Chávez
What better time to vilify the popular former leader of a country under deadly US siege than a deadly pandemic? Such was clearly the reasoning of Guardian journalist Rory Carroll when he penned an op-ed headlined, “Blunder, Distraction, Denial: Trump Follows Chávez’s Successful Template” (4/19/20). Seemingly immune to irony, Carroll compares Venezuela’s late socialist […]
Corporate Media Cover for US Mob Threats Against Venezuela
The Trump administration unveiled on March 31 a “democratic transition” plan to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from office. Washington’s stenographers in the corporate press were quick to present the initiative as “sanctions relief.”
Corporate Media Condone Destruction of Venezuela’s Voting Machines
The vast majority of Venezuela’s voting machines were incinerated on March 7 in a fire that engulfed the main warehouse of the National Electoral Council. Corporate outlets followed the familiar script of blaming the victim, repeating the US State Department talking point that the Venezuelan electoral system is “rigged” and floating outlandish conspiracy theories.
Left Media and Venezuela: An Exchange
An exchange between Gabriel Hetland and Lucas Koerner over Koerner’s “How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela.”
Whitewashing a Far-Right Coup in Bolivia
Backed by Washington, the coup that the Western media deny is a coup (FAIR.org, 11/11/19) appears successful, at least for the time being. However, as in the short-lived 2002 coup in Venezuela, the media blackout and savage repression have not stopped multitudes of Bolivians from taking to the streets to restore democracy. Only time will tell if the pueblo will triumph.
How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela
Despite nominally opposing Washington’s Venezuela policy and its corporate media gendarmerie, global North progressive media have, like during the recent coup in Bolivia, tended to repeat imperial ideological tropes, casting the Maduro government as authoritarian, corrupt and/or guilty of much worse human rights violations than the US and its allies.
For Western Press, the Only Coup in Venezuela Is Against Guaidó
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.
How the Global North’s Left Media Helped Pave the Way for Bolivia’s Right-Wing Coup
Progressive and alternative media in the Global North have long portrayed Bolivia’s deposed Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) government as repressive, pro-capitalist, and anti-environment—all in the name of “left” critique.
Western Media Whitewash Bolivia’s Far-Right Coup
Bolivia has a new US-backed puppet leader, and the Western media can hardly conceal their adulation.
Media Conceal Chile’s State Criminality, Delegitimize Bolivian Democracy
Media bias in favor of Chile’s hardline neoliberal administration contrasts with efforts by US corporate media to revoke left-wing Bolivia’s democratic credentials.
Whitewashing Neoliberal Repression in Chile and Ecuador
Western journalists stand aghast at the violence of the excluded and exploited in Chile and Ecuador, while rationalizing that spearheaded by Washington-backed opposition elites in Venezuela.
Media Continue to Push Misinformation About Venezuela and Drug Trafficking
Allegations of Chavista drug trafficking count among the corporate media’s favorite Venezuela soundbites. A new Wall Street Journal article rehashes the same claims, but extends them to taint late President Hugo Chávez, who is purported to have “wielded cocaine trafficking as a weapon.”
NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
The exclusion of Chavista voices is endemic to NPR’s coverage of Venezuela, in gross violation of the outlet’s own ethics handbook.
Western Media Losing Enthusiasm for Failing Coup in Venezuela
There is no clearer indication of the Western media’s growing disillusionment than the gradual demotion of Juan Guaído from “interim president” to “National Assembly president” or “opposition leader.”
NYT Parrots US Propaganda on Hezbollah in Venezuela
The New York Times’ claims of a relationship between Caracas and Hezbollah are entirely unoriginal, having been repeated by corporate journalists and national security pundits without evidence for years.
