Given the depth of US involvement in the opposition movement against Maduro, which included creating and propping up the ludicrous self-proclaimed "legitimate President" Juan Guaidà ³(who self destructed in a fake "coup" attempt orchestrated by the US with help from the US media, when Guaidà ³ was caught pretending to be in control of a "liberated" air force base when he was really with a handful of soldiers standing on a bridge outside the base), it seems harder to believe that the US was not behind the rid collapse than that it caused it.
How could the Times, which clearly had excellent sources inside the Cyber Command to have produced its current story of the successful if deadly risky hacking of Russia's power grid, not have also mentioned the hacking of the Venezuelan grid, which many observers have already accused the US of being behind? Surely it was relevant to the story. If the reporters left it out, why didn't an editor say to ask about, and to include a reference to it? If the reporters did their jobs and did ask about and try to include the Venezuela grid story in their piece and it was deleted by the editors, why didn't the reporters complain publicly?
Well, we know the answer to that. The Times is a "responsible" news organization. It might take sides over a disputed issue within the foreign policy establishment, which surely is why the paper learned about, and decided to report on the hacking of the Russian power grid. The article even mentions that some government and military officials have opposed using cyber attacks on Russian infrastructure to counter alleged Russian hacking of US campaign related organizations and social media platforms. But as a "responsible" news organization, the paper would not publish any information about a cyber attack on a country that its editors agree is led by an "autocrat" who opposes US interests. US backing of a coup to oust the Maduro government, after all, has the backing of the whole US foreign policy establishment.
That, of course, is not real journalism. It's propaganda.
It's important to know, which we now do, that our country is at war with Russia in cyberspace. But we need to know too that cyberwars have real flesh-and-blood victims, and that the cyberwar the US almost certainly launched against Venezuela earlier this spring is also underway and producing casualties.
DAVE LINDORFF is a member of ThisCantBeHappening!, the uncompromised, collectively run, seven-time Project Censored Award-winning online alternative news site. Also a 2019 winner of the 2019 "Izzy" Award for Outstanding Independent Journalism, his work, and that of his colleagues JOHN GRANT, JESS GUH, GARY LINDORFF, ALFREDO LOPEZ, LINN WASHINGTON, JR. and the late CHARLES M. YOUNG, can be found at www.thiscantbehappeing.net
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