#humanitarian intervention

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DNC 2020: Don’t let Democrats revive ‘humanitarian’ imperialism

By Anti-War Committee

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Anti-War Committee to cancel our plan to bus to Milwaukee to protest the DNC this year. We support our friends in the Milwaukee-based Coalition to March on the DNC who will protest, as well as individuals who travel to join them, whom we encourage to do so safely. The organizational challenges posed by the worsening COVID-19 outbreak in the US highlight the failure of both political parties to prioritize human needs over war and imperialism.

A false division occupies our cultural imagination: The Republicans are warhawks, the Democrats peaceniks. Both parties turn these popular imaginings to their advantage come election season but in reality no such division exists.

[johntheduncan]

This video explores the concept of Just War and humanitarian intervention by looking at it through the lens of the NATO bombing of Kosovo in 1999

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[progressivemillennial]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

‘The humanitarian bridge of Mr. Trump’ by Polo

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So that's what they mean by "humanitarian aid." #HandsOffVenezuela 

 Learn more -> https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-company-that-smuggled-weapons-into-venezuela-linked-to-cia-renditions/255049 … 

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff from @LatuffCartoons

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Russia, China back Maduro as US-led showdown nears

China and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against military intervention in the Latin American country which is facing a showdown Saturday.

China and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against military intervention in the Latin American country which is facing a showdown Saturday when the opposition plans to bring in a US "aid" package.

China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday the "so-called aid" should not be forced into Venezuela, lest it cause violence. A Venezuelan minister also planned to meet Russian leaders in Moscow later in the day.

On Friday, Venezuela's Industry Minister Tareck El Aissami was to meet Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov in Moscow, Interfax news agency reported.

Maduro announced in a televised speech on Thursday that the vast border with Brazil would be closed "completely and absolutely" until further notice.

He called the aid delivery plans a US-orchestrated show, saying, “It’s better to prevent than to regret.”

The order also came after Colombian troops deployed “all of their capabilities” on the border with Venezuela in order to help the US package enter the country.

Maduro has said what Washington and the Venezuelan opposition call a humanitarian crisis “is nothing but a cover-up for military plans of the Trump government.”

The US has threatened several times to take military action against Venezuela to topple the elected government of Maduro amid anti-government protests.