Déjà vu: US Incites Civil Unrest in Venezuela for Its Oil
Déjà vu: US Incites Civil Unrest in Venezuela for Its Oil
"No nation has the right to simply grab land from another nation. No
nation has that right. And we will never recognize Russia's illegal
occupation of Crimea, and neither will the world." —US Vice President
Joe Biden
Yes, Joe Biden really did say that—in the aftermath of Iraq. As we
all know, the US government launched an illegal, pre-emptive attack on
Iraq. That tiny country and its people have been literally annihilated,
tortured, imprisoned, and left for dead in a depleted uranium cancer
zone where mothers are giving birth to monstrously deformed babies from
uranium exposure. Iraqis have been facing a multitude of
life-threatening medical atrocities, not to mention the severe poverty
that escalated after a decade of US war and occupation. A puppet
election was established with a puppet government. There are still
thousands of innocent civilians languishing in Iraq's prisons with no
sign of due process or trials. If Iraq isn't the most hideous "land-grab
for oil" criminal war violation of our constitutional laws and
international treaties in recent history, I don't know what is.
Protests in Caracas, Venezuela, February 15, 2014. (Photo: MARQUINAM / Flickr)
