Yea, a Dr and a lawyer and he was one of the poorest congressmen at the time...

Paul's financial holdings proves the famous quote by Truman

" You can't get rich in politics unless you are a crook" - Bingo

HAA! There you go.

Just realized. Russian meddling kicks in the Monroe Doctrine maybe. The US has always fought for its interests in many corners of the world. Thats one of the reasons our oil is cheap. Capitalist Venezuela will trade with us.

Venezuela has been trading with us - until the sanctions we imposed, unilaterally and in violation of International Law, prevented them from getting paid for the oil that they'd already sent us.

The Koch Brothers far-right ideologues. They have two refineries on the Gulf Coast that need heavy crude - or Canadian Tar Sands - to operate. It appears that they have been driving some of the bipartisan policy consensus for "Regime Change" - all along. Them and the Venezuelan oligarchs living in Florida (along with their gusano cuban-exile friends).

i had to comment again,because this meme is just so..*muah* lacking in all self awareness.it is like the CIA wrote it.

Because thats working out just great for Syria

yes because that really worked out well in Afghanistan for America..... lol

You mean the people who wanted socialism and now changed their mind? Maybe they should suffer the consequences just a little longer.

We fund money to rebels.

[image deleted]Or we could just watch the Russians take over.

Venezuelans have plenty of freedom (you might notice that the minority CIA-backed "opposition" feels free to demonstrate - even conspire seditiously with a foreign power - in public). What they need is an end to the illegal regime of US Imperial Sanctions, and coup attempts.

Russia and China have moved economically - because we won't do business with them - or allow others to do so. Our ideologically driven warfare against Venezuela - goes back to the Coup attempt in 200, that we supported.

https://youtu.be/O4U6-ox3uNk Florida Maquis channel is probably pretty far to my right. But he gets it, too.
https://youtu.be/eQPS2fkh3rE
Jimmy Dore is a comedian from the left who gets it, too. He's interviewed Abby Martin, Eva Bartlett, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate' on the subject - all of whom have gone to Venezuela to get the story first hand.

"The Real News", RT and "Redacted Tonight"/Lee Camp - have all done a great job covering the Venezuela story. "The Greyzone" is also a great Youtube channel and website - for ANYONE who wants to understand the big picture in Venezuela.

You know who has been typically abysmal - PBS and NPR - in spite of the right wing meme, that they are somehow bastions of socialism and lefties. (Neo)Liberalism perhaps... But they have long been rightly criticized for their not-so-subtle collusion with the US' STATE (Department) Media narratives - as this article alleges: http://www.constantinereport.com/npr-despite-the-brainwashed-bleatings-of-conservatives-is-a-corporate-state-propaganda-network/ - from prior to the present crisis.

If anybody would like more info on the US/CIA destibilization campaign, links to Guiado', or anything else about the Venezielan coup attempt on-going since 2001ish - feel free to ask. I got citations to plenty of evidence.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/latin-america/article225949200.html