- Re: Informative Crosstalk on events in Venzuela Archived Message
- Informative Crosstalk on events in Venzuela - dovetailjoint February 3, 2019, 4:07 pm
- Re: Informative Crosstalk on events in Venzuela - margo February 3, 2019, 5:06 pm
- And the subsequent discussion with the General´s son is fascinating - Sherwoodian February 3, 2019, 5:20 pm
- Miko's father Matti also became a peace activist and was nicknamed Abu Salaam, or "Father of Peace." - sashimi February 3, 2019, 6:52 pm
- And the subsequent discussion with the General´s son is fascinating - Sherwoodian February 3, 2019, 5:20 pm
- Re: Informative Crosstalk on events in Venzuela - margo February 3, 2019, 5:06 pm
Posted by margo
on February 3, 2019, 5:06 pm, in reply to "Informative Crosstalk on events in Venzuela"
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Amazing how incurious and insouciant journalists are about the fact that the Teflon-coated Elliot Abrams is (yet again) the safe pair of hands put forward to handle events: extracts from the Elliot Abrams entries at Wikispooks.com:  Previous MessageOn 25 January 2019, neoconservative Elliott Abrams was appointed US Special Envoy for Venezuela. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: “Elliott will be a true asset to our mission to help the Venezuelan people fully restore democracy and prosperity to their country.” Elliott Abrams responded: “It’s very nice to be back. This crisis in Venezuela is deep and difficult and dangerous. And I can’t wait to get to work on it.”[1] ---- - - --- Elliott Abrams works at the Council on Foreign Relations.[1] He is best known for his hard-line zionist advocacy ------ - Abrams, considered to be a "neo-con", was a signatory of the 26 January 1998, Project for the New American Century PNAC document [which foresaw the catalysing 11/9/2001 event which could sweep away all international law and resistance][4] ---- -- - --- Abrams was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. In 1991, Abrams was indicted by the Iran-Contra special prosecutor for giving false testimony before Congress in 1987 about his role in illicitly raising money for the Nicaraguan Contras. He pleaded guilty to two lesser offenses of withholding information to Congress in order to avoid a trial and a possible jail term.[5] He was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush along with a number of other Iran-Contra defendants on Christmas night 1992.[6] ---- - ---- 2002 Venezuelan coup The Observer alleged that Abrams had advance knowledge of, and "gave a nod to", the Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 against Hugo Chávez.[9] Other sources have alleged that Abrams and Otto Reich played an active role in planning the coup.[10] --- - - -- Blocking Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations According to Jim Lobe in an article he wrote for Asia Times, Abrams has been working systematically to undermine any prospect for serious negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.[12] "The Bush administration has done nothing to press Israel to deliver on its commitments, beyond Washington's empty rhetoric about a two-state 'political horizon'," Henry Siegman, the long-time director of the U.S./Middle East Project at the influential Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in the International Herald Tribune in February 2007. "Every time there emerged the slightest hint that the United States may finally engage seriously in a political process, Elliott Abrams would meet secretly with Olmert's envoys in Europe or elsewhere to reassure them that there exists no such danger," he complained.[13] |
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