Venezuela - Important comment

 

Important words, from Tammam Aloudat CEO of The New Humanitarian, on his LinkedIn account:

I suppose what we talked in The New Humanitarian most recent Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast about Internatinal Law being under threat and the Liberal International Order failing is now an undisputed fact.
https://lnkd.in/ecfwJT7G

The other failing system is Western journalism. We saw this in the biased coverage of the genocide in Gaza over more than two years. Journalism has become, by and large, a tool for power and any pretence of balance or objectivity, or any adherence to what we are seeing with our own eyes is gone down the drain.

Yet, the past hours are shoking in their own way. All western news outlets repeat the Trump administration talking points: Maduro Captured. Not abducted, not kidnapped, not illegally ceased in an act of agression, but captured as if he was a wanted criminal. No one talks about the need to actually capture Netanyahu, the genocidaire with an ICC warrant against him who still flies over EU airspace with impunity.

The whole of the journalistic world, from the "left" in the Guardian and Independent to the "right" in Fox, The Times, and the Economist parrot the exact words. So do the liberal CNN, BBC, and others.

This is no longer journalism. Why do we even need so many outlets who are all culturally, economically, and politically captured and controlled by ruling classes that have little regard for human life.

All this is not to defend Maduro, to be clear. There are very many ways to be both against dictators and against western imperialism and hegemony. Those are not the only choices we have.

Nigeria was attacked a few days ago, Iran is threatened, Venezuela is attacked, Gaza is still attacked every day. The cowardly EU and its governments have no guts to condemn the vulgar aggression.

We are going towards dark times.