The single biggest challenge is rescuing journalism from its deferential role as the stenographer of great power. The United States has constitutiona… - John Pilger

Kim Hill: All this time, then, the United Nations and weapons inspectors have been some kind of puppets of the US.
Pilger: Are you saying that?
Hill: I am asking you whether that is what you are implying?
Pilger: That's a leading question, I wouldn't ...
Hill: How would you describe the activities of the United Nations up until this point?
Pilger: Which area of the United Nations? It's a very big organisation.

We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power.

Should the CIA stooge Guaido and his white supremacists grab power, it will be the 68th overthrow of a sovereign government by the United States, most of them democracies. A fire sale of Venezuela’s utilities and mineral wealth will surely follow, along with the theft of the country’s oil, as outlined by John Bolton. Under the last Washington-controlled government in Caracas, poverty reached historic proportions. There was no healthcare for those could not pay. There was no universal education; Mavis Mendez, and millions like her, could not read or write.