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Trump’s Venezuela WAR Talk Gets More Extreme
Trump’s latest Venezuela saber rattling raises the question of whether he will try to use a war scare to invoke the Alien Enemies Act and target Venezuelans while selling another round of “regime change” to the public. In this clip, we look at the talk of airstrikes, drone sorties in the Caribbean, and the familiar mix of drug war rhetoric and terrorism panic that Washington reaches for when it wants to justify military escalation. He compares today’s lazy effort to manufacture consent for action in Venezuela with the massive propaganda campaign that preceded the Iraq War, from Colin Powell’s…
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