I am tempted to say that US congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes (AOC) has a talent for receiving softball interviews and undeserved praise from…
Joe Emersberger
Joe Emersberger was born in 1966 in Windsor, Ontario. He is an engineer and a member of the UNIFOR trade union. His work has appeared in Telesur English, ZNet and CounterPunch. He is the co-author of Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela, published by Monthly Review.
Fernando Villavicencio, who was running for president of Ecuador on an anti-corruption was assassinated in broad daylight on August 9th. Who stands…
GUEST: Author and journalist Joe Emersberger. You can find his work published at CounterPunch, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), MintPress News…
From the trailer alone, it’s obvious that A La Calle depicts Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López as a noble democrat. That’s outrageous.
Source: FAIR Chávez was actually going to try to follow through on his promises to change the system and assert his country’s…
The US government will (perhaps within a month) probably succeed in extraditing businessman Alex Saab from Cape Verde. His “crime” was being…
I reviewed Josiah Thompson’s new book in a blog post the other day. The book makes a persuasive case that there was…
I just finished Josiah Thompson’s excellent new book on the JFK assassination: Last Second in Dallas (University Press of Kansas, 2021). Near…
In 1980, Venezuela’s infant mortality rate ranked 58th best in the world, far below Cuba, whose infant mortality rate was 28th that…
Venezuela has been an important oil exporter since the 1920s. See this essay for historical details. As the chart below shows, It…
