Nancy Graterol #FreeMaduro&Flores

Artist, Journalist, Filmmaker & music fan NUJ London Freelance Branch member.

[Nancy Graterol #FreeMaduro&Flores @Moncaro]

This says it all really.....

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🏆 Jeffrey Sachs Should Be A Nobel Prize Winner

The Greatest Truth Teller of Our Time!

Jeffrey Sachs "KILLED" MAINSTREAM NARRATIVE

'CIA operation Timber Sycamore created Syrian crisis'

‘US Trained Jihadists & Then…’: Sensational Syria Revelation At Antalya Forum

So this war in Syria did not come from Assad's repression.

It did not come from Assad's dictatorship.

This war came from a presidential order by Obama to overthrow Assad, starting in the spring of 2011.

[Con el Mazo Dando @ConElMazoDando]

#UnidosPorVenezuela | ¿Qué dice realmente el informe de la CIA? La diferencia entre un documento de inteligencia y un titular

En las últimas horas, numerosos medios y actores políticos han difundido una afirmación contundente: “La CIA confirmó que hubo fraude electoral en Venezuela”. El problema es que, cuando se revisa el documento desclasificado, esa conclusión no aparece expresada como tal.

Más allá de las posiciones políticas, en estos casos el periodismo tiene una obligación básica: contar lo que dice un documento, no lo que algunos quisieran que dijera.

El primer engaño: el titular

Basta recorrer varios portales para encontrar frases como:

* “La CIA descubrió el fraude electoral”.
* “Estados Unidos confirmó que el chavismo manipuló las elecciones”.
* “El informe prueba que Chávez y Maduro se robaron los comicios”.

Son titulares de alto impacto, pero ninguno reproduce literalmente la conclusión del documento.

Lo que sí contiene el informe

El documento es un resumen de informes de inteligencia elaborados entre 2004 y 2020. Recoge reportes de fuentes, evaluaciones analíticas y análisis sobre supuestas capacidades técnicas.

Un informe de inteligencia no equivale automáticamente a una auditoría informática, una experticia técnica ni a una demostración verificable de que un hecho ocurrió. Esa diferencia es fundamental y suele desaparecer cuando el documento llega a los titulares.

El detalle que muchos omitieron

Uno de los aspectos más importantes es que el propio documento reconoce que la evaluación de referencia de la CIA no concluyó que se hubiera ejecutado un fraude electrónico en la elección presidencial de 2012.

Ese punto aparece en el texto, pero prácticamente desapareció de muchas reseñas y publicaciones que intentaron presentarlo como una “confirmación” definitiva.

De la sospecha a la certeza… en un solo titular

Buena parte de la narrativa pública se construyó transformando expresiones propias del lenguaje de inteligencia en afirmaciones categóricas.

No es lo mismo decir: “un informe analiza una información recibida”, que afirmar: “la CIA comprobó que ocurrió”. Ese salto cambia completamente el significado del documento.

Dos décadas de acusaciones que terminan en declaraciones

Durante más de 20 años se ha repetido el mismo libreto: cuando el sector político de la derecha extremista pierde una elección denuncia fraude, anuncia que posee pruebas y promete presentarlas ante el país y las instituciones.

Sin embargo, una y otra vez esas promesas terminan reducidas a ruedas de prensa, discursos, entrevistas y publicaciones en redes sociales. Las supuestas pruebas concluyentes nunca aparecen.

Lo que queda es la pataleta política, la acusación repetida y la intención de sembrar dudas sobre el sistema electoral. Pero repetir una denuncia durante años no la convierte en verdad. Tampoco anunciar evidencias equivale a mostrarlas.

Si realmente existieran elementos técnicos capaces de demostrar una manipulación electoral, deberían presentarse de forma pública, verificable y sometida a revisión. No basta con decir “las tenemos”, “las vamos a entregar” o “el mundo ya sabe lo que ocurrió”.

Después de dos décadas, el patrón sigue siendo el mismo: muchas acusaciones, grandes titulares y ninguna demostración contundente que sostenga la narrativa de un fraude electoral sistemático en Venezuela.

El riesgo de leer solo el titular

Hoy las noticias circulan a gran velocidad. Muchas personas comparten un titular sin abrir el enlace y otras comentan documentos que nunca han leído.

Así nacen muchas campañas de desinformación: no necesariamente inventando documentos, sino exagerando sus conclusiones, eliminando sus matices o presentando interpretaciones como si fueran hechos comprobados.

Una pregunta que vale la pena hacerse

Si el documento realmente demostrara de forma definitiva una acusación tan grave, ¿por qué habría necesidad de colocar titulares más contundentes que el propio texto?

Quizás porque, en ocasiones, el objetivo no es informar, sino influir en la percepción pública.
La mejor defensa frente a cualquier campaña comunicacional sigue siendo la misma: leer las fuentes, contrastar la información y desconfiar de los titulares que dicen mucho más de lo que el documento realmente afirma.

@dcabellor

[William Castillo Bollé @planwac]

¡PURA PAJA!

El fulano informe de la CIA sobre el sistema electoral venezolano que la administración Trump se ha sacado como as bajo la manga para justificar su propio asalto al sistema electoral estadounidense es gamelote 100% certificado.

1. En cinco escuetas paginitas tiene más tachones que informaciones.

2. No presenta una sola prueba o evidencia de NADA de lo que sostiene o acusa veladamente.

3. La CIA cita a la CIA y a sus fuentes anónimas de hace 10, 15, 20 años (se supone gente seria como el Pollo, el cisne negro y Súmate, entre otras)

4. Todo se trata de "preocupaciones", de que si Chávez quería evitar la reelección de un Presidente de Estados Unidos (¿Bush... Obama?). De que si Venezuela desarrolló capacidades tecnológicas para hacer manipulaciones y por ahí te vas con la telenovela.

5. Léanse por favor la parte donde la CIA describe entre tachones negros algunas posibles formas de "fraude venezolano". La CIA se cuida de insistir en que todo se trata de una posibilidad pero los medios ahora lo dan como un hecho . No tiene desperdicio.😎

6. Ni la IA se salvó y la metieron en ese peo (para justificar la mención pública a China, of course my horse)

7. Y lo mejor, un momento de honestidad: el informe afirma que la CIA nunca pudo probar que en Venezuela se cometiera fraude electoral. No lo dicen una, si no varias veces.

Amigos opositores que me leéis: Créanlo, se puede hacer oposición sin tragarse estas imbecilidades. Try again.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

If you really do want to understand the Iran war, this is it.

It is still on the Substack charts 3 months later and the most comprehensive materialist analysis you will find about the conflict.

https://t.co/St9ljHATk8

[AJ Jaff @aj_geo_analysis]

In short, The American Strategy in the Middle East is this:

1. America has too much debt. China has become too powerful.

2. That debt needs a new way to be fed with fresh natural resources (Oil, Gold, rare earths, minerals, etc).

3. The debt cannot be fed without securing a new source of natural resources... this needs to be priced in USD Currency so that the currency does not collapse.

4. Iran has an economy stuck in 1979, +92M educated potential consumers, sits on TRILLIONS of dollars in natural resources, controls a critical landmass 1/6th the size of USA called "EURASIA", and is actively aligned with Russia & China to bypass America's First, Second and Third Chain containment around China... and all of this is controlled by some Shia mullahs who also do not like the American presence in the Middle East. In short, Iran has everything America NEEDS and WANTS.

5. America, American institutions and the USD Currency NEEDS those resources at a massive discount, something near to free, and the only way anyone gives anything free is through an invasion or by compelling them. America needs to acquire and to cancel everything in point 4 above.

6. American institutions will pay with the blood of some of its soldiers, in order to ensure that the American economy does not collapse, that the USD does not disappear, and that poverty and misery is exported so that the America can survive another 100+ years.

7. It literally did not matter whether it was MAGA Trump, Sleepy Biden, Harris, or Marco Rubio, this war was going to happen because the debt of the USA and its thirst for new fresh resources must be fed or it will turn the USA's USD into toilet paper.

8. Yes, Israel is part of American's National Security Strategy 2025, which is meant to make Israel in charge of the Middle East, and this strategy also cannot be implemented as Iran is standing in the way.

9. Trump, the administration and everyone connected will of course make Billions off of this war as well.

10. All Arab governments are in agreement with the fact the IRGC, Axis of Resistance, Unity of Arenas and the Islamic Republic (of Iran), needs to be subjugated. The Arab street has a different opinion but their opinion does not matter in this equation, at all.

You and I are reading about on X. You can bookmark this because you will have to dissect each point on its own separately, and retweet this so other can get the Signal.

You can listen or read my full analysis, world view and report below:

1. Your thoughts about the Iran War Are Not Really Yours https://t.co/WdBus6JB1N

2. USA, Israel & Iran: 11 Timelines Predicted. All Landed. The Next One Says Ground Invasion of Iran by Q3 2027±? https://t.co/9HZcY7oCpl

2. Why China Will Not Let the Islamic Republic Collapse. This Is Not About Ideology. It Is About Breaking Out of a Cage - https://t.co/QXqFz6itPs

3. America Will Be Renting An Army: Why the Iran Ground War Will Be Fought by Men Who Never Swore the Oath. https://t.co/H3SdxUK3xx

4. Empires Do Not Die From Invasion. They Die When What They Do Abroad Stops Matching What They Can Afford at Home. https://t.co/noPR20JlyL

Signal, Not Noise!!

[CEPR en Español @ceprEspanol]

"@frrodriguezc de @ceprdc aseguró que EE.UU. debe levantar las sanciones económicas a Venezuela para que el país pueda acceder a financiamiento internacional urgente y afrontar una reconstrucción tras los sismos estimada en US$ 5.000 millones."https://t.co/mx7Pq4LH8a

[Fiorella Isabel @FiorellaIsabelM]

BREAKING Colombian Presidential candidate Ivan Cepeda states that if de la Espriella does not renounce his U.S. citizenship & does not clarify ties with U.S. intel agencies, he will not recognize him as President & will call for peaceful civil disobedience.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Venezuela has suffered a devastating earthquake. Hundreds are dead. Tens of thousands missing.

I've written to the Foreign Secretary calling on the Government to provide humanitarian aid and to release Venezuela's gold - held at the Bank of England - to help fund reconstruction.

[Elias Ferrer @FerrerBreda]

Recorriendo Caracas para llevar insumos en zonas afectadas y donde están llegando damnificados de La Guaira, enorgullece ver que hay tanta gente ayudando. Para comprar y transportar agua y herramientas, montando centros de acopio y de distribución, apartando escombros y tratando de rescatar víctimas, incluso ingenieros y arquitectos ofreciendo inspeccionar viviendas. Nos hemos encontrado con miles de otros voluntarios por toda la ciudad.

No hay suficiente maquinaria ni equipos de rescate preparados para la devastación, he visto reportes de 250 colapsados en La Guaira. Es evidente que el Estado no tiene la capacidad de responder solo ante esta tragedia, por eso la ayuda internacional y la contribución voluntaria es fundamental.

En los próximos días muchos vamos a seguir buscando formas de ayudar, así sea visibilizando, llevando medicinas, comida o cobijas a zonas con damnificados, como sea.

Y creo que lo que está ayudando mucho a la moral aquí es ver que el mundo está ayudando, que llegan aviones de todo el mundo con equipos de rescate, maquinaria y productos de primera necesidad.

El siguiente gran reto será recuperar y construir viviendas. Vamos a estar atentos sobre iniciativas en este sentido.

Y una última cosa, basta de compartir noticias falsas, por favor.

[Francisco Rodríguez @frrodriguezc]

As we continue to come to grips with the magnitude of the devastation caused by Venezuela's earthquakes, the international community needs to rapidly move to develop a course of action to help Venezuela address the emergency. One key element that needs to be reconsidered wholesale is the pertinence of the current sanctions regime. There are strong reasons to believe that maintaining current sanctions on the Venezuelan government and its economy will significantly impede the rapid mobilization of funds and help necessary to assist Venezuela.

Since the removal of Nicolás Maduro on January 3rd, the US has maintained sanctions on the Venezuelan government, including its state-owned oil industry and central bank. It has chosen to address the goal of sanctions easing through the issuance of general and specific licenses. Just today, it issued a general license to authorize all otherwise prohibited transactions related to earthquake relief.

The evidence shows that limited humanitarian licenses fall far short of what is necessary to allow resources and relief efforts to be adequately channeled to dealing with natural disasters. The basic reason is that while these licenses authorize specific transactions, financial institutions still tend to block or significantly delay any transactions for which they see a potential risk of being found to provide material assistance to sanctioned entities.

This is the well-known problem of overcompliance. Financial institutions need to devote significant amounts of resources to carry out the required due diligence in the context of a sanctions regime, and in many cases they decide that the cost isn't worth it and therefore end up blocking all transactions with a particular country. There is still the memory of the infamous case of GoFundMe, which suspended accounts that attempted to collect funds for relief efforts in the wake of the serious 2023 earthquake.

Given the strong evidence that sanctions regimes significantly slow responses to humanitarian emergencies, it is worth asking what the rationale is for still maintaining such a sanctions regime in the case of Venezuela, especially given that the Trump administration claims to have a good working relationship with the interim government of Delcy Rodríguez.

Proponents of maintaining the sanctions regime claim that it is necessary in order to put pressure on the Rodríguez administration to democratize. Yet this argument gets the picture completely wrong by misunderstanding how the combination of licenses and a sanctions regime actually operate. Given that the key institutions of the Venezuelan government have obtained specific and general licenses that allow them to carry out transactions, the current sanctions regime does not block the government's access to funds. What it does instead is make it more difficult for non-government entities and organizations to access funds.

A regime of sanctions plus licenses creates a structural asymmetry in that it divides actors between those whose transactions are pre-cleared (i.e., those who have licenses) and those who suffer from the overcompliance effects (those who do not have licenses). And so, while they allow the government to respond to the emergency, they impede civil society from doing so. But in a setting of diminished institutional capacity, and with a government that lacks the human and economic resources to effectively respond, what we need is to be able to empower civil society to actively participate in this response.

[Nancy Graterol #FreeMaduro&Flores @Moncaro]

Dear all,
What has happened in Venezuela is catastrophic. Please share this statement by Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign (VSC) everywhere: https://t.co/Sd15IgBxId

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I know this tweet is going to make me lose what rest of my career but: the United Nations high commissioner for human rights is complicit in the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. He’s the biggest Zionist inside the UN human rights, alongside some members of his team—including Arabs.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Mark Bonnick gave 22 years to Arsenal. They sacked him for speaking out about Palestine. Sign the petition to get his job back 👇  https://t.co/uNAOtOYaBM

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

It might seem strange, comrade, but it’s actually an indication that the British State is directly involved in attempting to sabotage the Palestine Action case.

And when I say the British state, I mean MI6.

Before she became Advocate General, Catherine Smith was a long time trustee of the John Smith Trust, named after her late father, the former leader of the Labour Party.

What is that? It’s a charity which is in effect an MI6 cut-out or contractor. In the years between 2020 and 2024 when Catherine stepped down after being appointed Advocate General, the *lowest* proportion of the budget which came from the Foreign Office was 92.8%. In 3 of the five years it was 100%.

The money came from the intelligence controlled ‘slush fund’, as it was described by a parliamentary committee, of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund. The fund is overseen by the Deputy National Security Adviser in the Cabinet Office, a bona fide spook.

In addition to being funded directly by British intelligence, the Trust has been attended by a variety of spooks, some of whom may indeed be ‘former’!

These include Jeremy Craig Oliphant, a former MI6 operative; Margaret ‘Meta’ Ramsay, a career MI6 operative and university friend of John Smith and other Labour Party luminaries from Glasgow University; and our old friend Chris Donnelly of Integrity Initiative fame. Donnelly is a former colleague of Oliphant, and while he was running the Integrity Initiative was an Hon Colonel in the Specialist Group Military Intelligence. The integrity Initiative came to grief when it was revealed that Donnelly’s think tank was registered to a derelict mill in Fife, and was revealed to be taking state money to attack the leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn.

The Scottish charity regulator concluded this was not a charitable purpose and both the think tank and the initiative were closed down.

It’s interesting to note that the JST and the Integrity Initiative were funded from the same pot, the CSSF ‘slush fund’ for taking on the Russians in covert operations. All of this was run out of an obscure part of the Foreign Office called HMG Russia Unit, which was a ‘liaison point’ for covert ops against Russia and involved reps from all 7 (as it was then) British Intelligence agencies.

A key element of this work was known as ‘counter disinformation’ and was run for some years by a diplomat called Andy Pryce. He gets a little shirty when described as a MI6 officer, which he denies. Nevertheless, he was clearly the handler/overseer of the Integrity Initiative and very possibly the JST too.

So, perhaps the strange happenings in Edinburgh are not so strange after all?

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

The Effect of US-led Sanctions on Venezuela

(I created this video in March 2019)

The Effect of US-led Sanctions on Venezuela has been largely ignored by Western corporate and establishment press, despite the availability of information on the subject. U.S. overt and covert sanctions date to 2015, at the latest, and are designed to create a political and economic crisis — even a humanitarian crisis — in order to push the Maduro government out of power. The goal is to back right-wing domestic and oligarchical forces that would dismantle the entire progressive and revolutionary movement and reverse all economic and political gains made by the majority of the Venezuelan population, especially the poor. The U.S. has backed coups against Venezuela's elected popular governments since 2002.

[Wiphalas across the World (Wiphalas por el Mundo) @WiphalasW]

#Bolivia Urgente! Estas son las imágenes que la mainstream media no te mostrará: violencia de Estado y represión contra el pueblo boliviano.

Rompe el cerco mediático. Comparte ampliamente.

El pueblo lucha por nuestra patria y por el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
#RodrigoPaz

[Nancy Graterol #FreeMaduro&Flores @Moncaro]

@MoraYilma @planwac Con racismo no se llega a nada bueno….

[Nancy Graterol #FreeMaduro&Flores @Moncaro]

@Arkithector2 @planwac @TareckPSUV Bueno dáselos a Guaido! O peor aún a uno de los primitos Mendoza/Machado😂😂😂😂

[John Stealer @JohnStealer]

This is Izzy Lenga. A @UKLabour councillor in Camden. If you come across her canvassing ask this IOF soldier if she killed any Palestinian children with that automatic weapon she’s proudly brandishing.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I rarely have reasons to be proud of France these days, but this is definitely one.

France's parliament just voted - unanimously, 170 votes to 0 - a law that institutionalizes the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during the colonial era (the law covers a massive 157-year period).

It's going absolutely viral in Chinese social media because of this speech 👇 by MP @JPatrierLeitus who noted in Parliament that it included items stolen to China during the joint British-French sack of the Summer Palace in 1860.

Patrier-Leitus cites Victor Hugo's famous 1861 letter to Captain Butler, the British officer who wrote to him seeking his endorsement of the expedition - and got the exact opposite.

Hugo wrote (whole letter here: https://t.co/zyWomXJYBn):

"One day two bandits entered the Summer Palace. One plundered, the other burned. Victory can be a thieving woman, or so it seems. The devastation of the Summer Palace was accomplished by the two victors acting jointly. Mixed up in all this is the name of Elgin, which inevitably calls to mind the Parthenon. What was done to the Parthenon was done to the Summer Palace, more thoroughly and better, so that nothing of it should be left. All the treasures of all our cathedrals put together could not equal this formidable and splendid museum of the Orient. It contained not only masterpieces of art, but masses of jewelry. What a great exploit, what a windfall! One of the two victors filled his pockets; when the other saw this he filled his coffers. And back they came to Europe, arm in arm, laughing away. Such is the story of the two bandits.

We Europeans are the civilized ones, and for us the Chinese are the barbarians. This is what civilization has done to barbarism.

Before history, one of the two bandits will be called France; the other will be called England. But I protest, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity! the crimes of those who lead are not the fault of those who are led; Governments are sometimes bandits, peoples never.

The French empire has pocketed half of this victory, and today with a kind of proprietorial naivety it displays the splendid bric-a-brac of the Summer Palace. I hope that a day will come when France, delivered and cleansed, will return this booty to despoiled China.

Meanwhile, there is a theft and two thieves. I take note.

This, Sir, is how much approval I give to the China expedition."

Hugo's letter is so revered in China that a bronze bust of him stands today at the Summer Palace ruins - I believe the only instance of a Westerner honored in China at the site of his own country's crime.

A powerful testament of how much a single act of intellectual honesty can redeem, if not a nation, then at least a name.

Hugo was also prescient: as Patrier-Leitus notes, that day "when France, delivered and cleansed, will return this booty to despoiled China" has indeed come (even though the "delivered and cleansed" part is, overall, pretty questionable in the current context).

This new law doesn't only concern China and the Summer Palace: it concerns ALL stolen artifacts by France during the period ranging between November 1815 and April 1972 - corresponding to the start of the second French colonial empire to the entry into force of the UNESCO convention on cultural property.

It's a massive scope: 157 years, thousands of objects and dozens of nations with potential claims. It's France reckoning with its colonial past in an unprecedented way and the fact ALL of France's MPs voted in favor of the law, without a single exception, is also pretty remarkable.

Hopefully this will also serve as a signal to other countries, especially the UK - the other "bandit" in Hugo's letter.

There is this Chinese saying from the Zuo Zhuan (左传), one of the foundational Confucian classics:

"To err and be able to correct it - there is no greater virtue." ("过而能改，善莫大焉", "guò ér néng gǎi, shàn mò dà yān").

France, with this law, proved its virtue.