ExxonMobil had transferred its Venezuelan holdings to a subsidiary based in the Netherlands. And so ExxonMobil sought
In October 2014, ICSID ordered Venezuela to compensate ExxonMobil for $1.6 billion. Because ExxonMobil had requested nearly $15 billion, Venezuela claimed a victory." wash post
That 1.6 billion order has now been annulled, and Tillerson and his boss (or is it the other way around?) are pissed. It's time to claim a fake humanitarian crisis, as in Libya, and take down those goddamned socialists who dared to take back the natural resources of Venezuela from the Exxon and other predators. It's time to put our SOBs back into power.
The CIA is conducting economic sabotage, vile propaganda with the cooperation of the media, and assassinations, which is its normal operating model, in order to give back to Exxon what it once stole and then lost. Trump is the servant not only of corporate fascism but of the Deep State which offers a menu of covert wars, sabotage, and political murders, as well as violent street protests, as in Ukraine, to allow further looting of the riches of this beleaguered nation.
And so it rolls......those who would commit war crimes will first promote propaganda to justify their crimes and give them a fake legitimacy based on humanitarian compassion for the starving victims of regimes the US, the West, The Deep State (increasingly similar entities) wish to replace with vassals obedient to Washington.
Meanwhile, in South Sudan, due to war and famine, millions ARE starving. The US, through USAID (also used as a front for the CIA in proxy wars) gave in 2016, 830,310,000 in food aid for the 5.8 million needing assistance, or about 25 cents per starving person a day. This money is also used for shelter and other needs, so the amount for food is even less...... while rich US corporations such as oil and drugs got 220 billion in subsidies each year.
The UN reports that fossil fuel companies get over 5 trillion a year in subsidies, counting externalized costs. A Guardian investigation found that the world's largest oil companies are getting huge subsidies promoted by politicians who get large contributions from them. For instance, a proposed Shell refinery in Pennsylvania is getting a 1.6 billion (ie twice what 5.8 million starving Sudanese are getting) in a state subsidy in a deal struck in 2012, when the company made a profit of 26.8 Billion. Exxon is getting 119 million from Louisiana, which started in 2011, when the firm made 40 Billion in profits.
To add insult to injury, the fossil fuel corporations are being subsidized by the trillions, in exchange for millions in contributions to politicians, to exacerbate global warming (which Exxon scientist in the 70's found was caused by fossil fuel production), which is hurting poor nations like South Sudan the most.
"the president of the World Bank called for the subsidies to be scrapped immediately as poorer nations were feeling "the boot of climate change on their neck" click here
USAID
"Although it is technically an independent agency, USAID operates subject to the foreign policy guidance of the President, Secretary of State, and the National Security Council ....1970s USAID has maintained "a close working relationship with the CIA, and Agency officers often operated abroad under USAID cover." Wikipedia
US/Western war on Libya, based on a fake humanitarian crisis, created a real one: the once richest and most developed nation in Africa, with 99% literacy, is now a ravaged war zone of militia, ISIS, and corrupt government forces.
tradingeconomics reports that in 2010,per capita income in Libya was $12,000 ((and with free education, healthcare, and other benefits); today it is under $6000, creating suffering and hardship unknown prior to the "humanitarian intervention" by the West.
Today, foreign oil companies, Russian, Chinese, Dutch, and the US, are taking huge profits out of Libya while the people collapse into poverty after being the wealthiest and most egalitarian nation in Africa and with the highest ranking in Human Development (human rights, women's rights, education, healthcare, etc). What was Libya's sin: it was independent and debt free and working on its own currency reform...and so there was no way for the West to enslave it. In order to enslave Libya, and loot its resources. In order to loot Libya, a once prosperous nation, it had to be destroyed.
Likewise, North Korea and Venezuela are free of US hegemony, and so they have become targets of "regime change" based on "humanitarian grounds," based on the Big Lie that the people are starving. Thus Starvation propaganda is the new form of War Propaganda, justifying the CIA to intervene disguised as USAID and if all else fails, direct annihilation.
Unlike North Korea, which is protected by its small arsenal of nukes, Venezuela has no military might and so if the protests, assassination, smears, economic sabotage, and violent protests do not work, the US will, as John Perkins stated it in Confessions of an Economic Hitman, "send in the jackals" and the jackboots. With Tillerson, burned by Chavez, has his way, Exxon will march back into Venezuela with troop preceding.
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