The United States Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-10-17 at 23:26:23 )

The United States Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The globally influential propaganda multiplier news agencies AP and AFP have both informed their readers that a "fugitive" has been extradited to the United States.

"Fugitive businessman close to Venezuelas Maduro extradited to the United States," reads the AFP headline.

"Alex Saab, a top fugitive close to Venezuelas socialist government, has been put on a plane to the United States to face money laundering charges," AP announced on Twitter.

You would be forgiven for wondering what specifically makes this man a "fugitive", and what that status has to do with his extradition to a foreign government whose laws should have no bearing on his life.

The Colombian-born Venezuelan citizen Alex Saab, as it happens, is a "fugitive" from the United States governments self-appointed authority to decide which populations on our planet are permitted to have ready access to food.

His crime is working to circumvent the crushing United States sanctions which have been starving Venezuelan civilians to death by the tens of thousands.

Absolutely shameful that AP is describing a Venezuelan diplomat being kidnapped by the United States as a "fugitive."-Alan MacLeod (AlanRMacLeod) October 16, 2021

Mr. Saab is being extradited from the African nation of Cabo Verde where he has been imprisoned since last year under pressure from the United States government.

In an article published this past May titled "Alex Saab v. The Empire: How the United States Is Using Lawfare To Punish a Venezuelan Diplomat", Roger D Harris explains how the United States uses its domination of the international financial system to crush nations which disobey it and outlines the real reasons for Mr. Saabs imprisonment, which has included torture and draconian living conditions. Mr. Harris writes:

Special Envoy and Ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela Alex Saab was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan CLAP food assistance program. Mr. Saab was detained on a refueling stop in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020.

Mr. Saabs "crime" - according to the United States government, which ordered the imprisonment - was money laundering. That is, Mr. Saab conducted perfectly legal international trade. Still, his circumventing of the United States sanctions - which are designed to prevent relief to the Venezuelans - is considered by Washington,D.C. to be money laundering.

After a two-year investigation into Mr. Saabs transactions with Swiss banks, the Swiss government concluded on March 25 that there was no money laundering. Mr. Saab is being prosecuted because he is serving his countrys interest rather than that of the United States.

News agencies like AP and AFP are well aware that Mr. Saab is being extradited not for breaking any actual law but for daring to transgress Washington,D.C.s unilateral sanctions. As FAIRs Joe Emersberger wrote back in July:

Reuters (3-15-21, 3-18-21) has casually reported that Mr. Saab "faces extradition to the United States, which accuses him of violating US sanctions," and that he has been "repeatedly named by the US State Department as an operator who helps Mr. Maduro arrange trade deals that Washington,D.C. is seeking to block through sanctions." A Reuters article (8-28-20) about Mr. Saabs case in 2020 mentioned in passing that "the United States this month seized four cargoes of Iranian fuel bound for Venezuela, where fuel shortages are once again worsening."

The extradition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab is a clear signal the Joe Biden Administration has made no break with Donald Trumps all out assault on international law.

Also a worrying sign for the case of Julian Assange- another foreign citizen the United States has essentially kidnapped and held hostage.-Anya Parampil (anyaparampil) October 16, 2021

Critics of the United States empire have had harsh words for the extradition.

"Joe Biden, picking up Donald Trumps baton, has kidnapped Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab for the crime of trying to feed Venezuelans in defiance of United States sanctions designed to prevent that," tweeted journalist Aaron Maté. "Venezuelans are not allowed to eat so long as the D.C. Mafia has marked their government for regime change."

Yes indeed. The United States government has appointed itself the authority to unilaterally decide which of the worlds populations get to eat and which do not, and to imprison anyone who tries to facilitate unauthorized eating in a United States-sanctioned nation.

"The extradition of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab is a clear signal the Joe Biden Administration has made no break with Donald Trumps all out assault on international law," tweeted journalist Anya Parampil. "Also a worrying sign for the case of Julian Assange- another foreign citizen the United States has essentially kidnapped and held hostage."

This is true. It would seem that the primary difference between Mr. Assanges case and Mr. Saabs is that the United States empire is working to extradite Mr. Assange because he transgressed its self-appointed authority over the worlds access to information, whereas Mr. Saab transgressed its self-appointed authority over the worlds access to food.

"The United States rogue state just ripped up every international law, after imprisoning and now extraditing Venezuelan DIPLOMAT Alex Saab.

Diplomatic immunity is dead; the United States empire killed it.

Now all foreign diplomats are fair game to be kidnapped and imprisoned, if Washington,D.C. wants to," tweeted journalist Ben Norton, adding, "The United States accusations of "money laundering" are absurd and politically motivated. The United States claims anyone who violates its ILLEGAL sanctions is a "criminal"."

Indeed, "money laundering" is a vague charge which basically just means trying to conceal the source or destination of money that is deemed to have been obtained illegally, and since the United States government considers itself the arbiter of what financial transactions are lawful in nations it is sanctioning, it can apply that claim to anyone who tries to get around United States sanctions financially.

The United States government does not deny that its sanctions hurt Venezuelans by attacking the economy they rely on to feed themselves, in fact it has openly admitted that "sanctions, particularly on the state oil company in 2019, likely contributed to the steeper decline of the Venezuelan economy."

The United States government also does not deny that the starvation sanctions it has inflicted upon Iran are directed at its civilian population, with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo openly admitting in 2019 that Washington,D.C.s economic warfare against that nation is designed to pressure Iranian civilians to "change the government," i.e. make them so miserable that they wage a domestic uprising to topple Tehran.

The United States government also does not deny that the starvation sanctions it has inflicted upon Syria are designed to hurt its civilian population, with current Secretary of State Tony Blinken reaffirming just this past Wednesday that it is the Joe Biden administrations policy to "oppose the reconstruction of Syria" as long as Mr. Assad remains in power.

In other words the United States will not allow Syria the funds to help rebuild itself from the devastating regime change proxy war the United States and its allies waged against it, even as the United Nations reports that 60 percent of the nations population is close to starvation.

And of course there is the United States power alliances horrific blockade on Yemen which is murdering people by the hundreds of thousands via starvation and disease, with the United Nations reporting that a further 16 million people are "marching towards starvation."

Starvation is the only kind of warfare where, because of the continual reframing of mass media propaganda, it is considered perfectly normal and acceptable to deliberately target a civilian population with deadly force.

Last month, the United Nations warned that 16 million Yemenis are currently "marching towards starvation" due to the United States-backed Saudi war on Yemen.-Human Rights Watch Watcher (queeralamode) October 16, 2021

The United States empire is entirely open about the fact that it sees itself as the gatekeeper of the worlds food supply.

If a population disobeys the empire its people will starve, and anyone who tries to obtain food for them will be arrested by United States proxies and extradited to a United States jail cell.

This is the imperialists vision of heaven on earth.

A world where the United States of Americas stranglehold over global financial systems allows it to choke off entire populations if their governments disobey imperial decrees, without even firing a shot.

A world where the Public Relations nightmares of bombed civilians and destroyed nations are a thing of the past, where disobedient nations can simply be squeezed to death by modern siege warfare tactics while imperial propaganda firms like AP and AFP blame their starvation on their nations leaders.

That is ultimate power right there.

That is total control.

Having the world so bent to the will of the almighty dollar and the massive military force with which it is inextricably intertwined to such an extent that disobedience becomes impossible.

That is what is being fought for in the slow motion third world war that the empire is waging against unabsorbed governments like Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia and China.

And that is why those unabsorbed governments are fast at work moving away from the dollar in response.

It should really go without saying, but a power structure that would openly starve civilians to death to ensure global domination is not the sort of power structure that humanity should want dominating the globe.

The willingness to do such monstrous things exposes a depravity and a lack of wisdom which has no business determining what direction our world should take into the future.

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