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Paul Craig Roberts<\/a><\/strong>
Infowars.com
May 8, 2013<\/p>\n

The new president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is cast in Chavez\u2019s mold. On May 4, he called US president Obama the \u201cgrand chief of devils.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama, who has betrayed democracy in America, unleashing execution on American citizens without due process of law and war without the consent of Congress, provoked Maduro\u2019s response by suggesting that Maduro\u2019s newly elected government might be fraudulent. Obviously, Obama is piqued that the millions of dollars his administration spent trying to elect an American puppet instead of Maduro failed to do the job.<\/p>\n

If anyone has accurately summed up Washington, it is the Venezuelans.<\/p>\n

Who can forget Chevez standing at the podium of the UN General Assembly in New York City speaking of George W. Bush? Quoting from memory: \u201cRight here, yesterday, at this very podium stood Satan himself, speaking as if he owned the world. You can still smell the sulphur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hegemonic Washington threw countless amounts of money into the last Venezuelan election, doing its best to deliver the governance of that country to a Washington puppet called Henrique Capriles, in my opinion a traitor to Venezuela. Why isn\u2019t this American puppet arrested for treason? Why are not the Washington operatives against an independent country\u2014the US ambassador, the counsels, the USAID\/CIA personnel, the Washington funded NGOs\u2014ordered to leave Venezuela immediately or arrested and tried for spying and high treason? Why allow any presence of Washington in Venezuela when it is clear that Washington\u2019s intention is to make Venezuela a puppet state like the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Japan, and on and on.<\/p>\n

There was a time, such as in the Allende-Pinochet era, when the American left-wing and a no longer extant liberal media would have been all over Washington for its illegal interference in the internal affairs of an independent country. But no more. As CounterPunch\u2019s Jeffrey St. Clair has recently made clear, the American left-wing remains \u201cinsensate to the moral and constitutional transgressions being committed by their champion\u201d\u2014the first black, or half-black, US president\u2014leaving \u201cRand Paul to offer official denunciations against [Washington\u2019s] malignant operations\u201d against independent countries.<\/p>\n

Against the Obama regime\u2019s acts of international and domestic violence, \u201cthe professional Left, from the progressive caucus to the robotic minions of Moveon.org, lodge no objections and launch no protests.\u201d St. Clair has written a powerful article. Read it for yourself:http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2013\/05\/03\/the-game-of-drones\/print<\/a><\/p>\n