Presstitutes Turn Blind Eye to UN Report on Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

Washington and the Convict Appointed to Overthrow Venezuela Continue the Lies

by Paul Craig Roberts / March 8th, 2019

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 Mauricer 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.

More:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/03/presstitutes-turn-blind-eye-to-un-report-on-venezuela/

[DetlefK]

1. Wow. A report that demolishes the Maduro-regime gets cherry-picked to paint it as the victim.

https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/09/what-the-press-hides-from-you-about-venezuela/

22. Observers have identified errors committed by the Chávez and Maduro Governments, noting that there are too many ideologues and too few technocrats in public administration, resulting in government policies that lack coherence and professional management and discourage domestic investment, already crippled by inefficiency and corruption, which extend to government officials, transnational corporations and entrepreneurs. Critics warn about the undue influence of the military on government and on the running of enterprises like Petróleos de Venezuela. The lack of regular, publicly available data on nutrition, epidemiology and inflation are said to complicate efforts to provide humanitarian support.

[Ghost Dog]

2. ... But it would be a logical fallacy to therefore assert that economic sanctions,

sabotage and propaganda are not also contributing in large part to Venezuela's 'crisis'.

It is one of the most important aspects of our media system – and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.

The key role played by these agencies means that Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.

A study of the Syria war coverage by nine leading European newspapers clearly illustrates these issues: 78% of all articles were based in whole or in part on agency reports, yet 0% on investigative research. Moreover, 82% of all opinion pieces and interviews were in favor of the US and NATO intervention, while propaganda was attributed exclusively to the opposite side...

https://off-guardian.org/2019/03/08/the-propaganda-multiplier/

[Ghost Dog]

3. Of the three Agencies, AP refers to a claimed "cyberattack" on the Guri Dam installations:

The state-owned electricity operator blamed the outage on an act of “sabotage” at the Guri Dam, one of the world’s largest hydroelectric stations and the cornerstone of Venezuela’s electrical grid. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez described it as a cyberattack on the dam’s operating system which signals to machines whether to boost or diminish power based on capacity and demand. “By attacking the automated control system, the machines stop as a protective mechanism,” he said...

https://apnews.com/6ba2f69b77e2457da64593a7b8eced16

Neither AFP nor Reuters do so.