United States plans to invade Venezuelan airwaves in propaganda strike

[justinsb]

United States plans to invade Venezuelan airwaves in propaganda strike

Inter Press Service (IPS) Humberto Marquez writes: The Venezuelan Congress has approved a resolution opposing a decision by the US House of Representatives to finance radio & TV broadcasts to Venezuela with the aim of countering Telesur ... a new pan-Latin American station.

Telesur, a Venezuelan government initiative undertaken in association with Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay, has already drawn the wrath of the United States even before it goes on the air this Sunday.

The US lower house of Congress passed an amendment Wednesday "to initiate radio and television broadcasts that will provide a consistently accurate, objective, and comprehensive source of news to Venezuela" to counter Telesur's "anti-Americanism" ... in the words of Republican Representative Connie Mack (Florida), who sponsored the amendment.

more: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=42616

[catnhatnh]

1. Yoohoo, Congressmen....

could we get a second amendment so we can have one of those too???

[getmeouttahere]

2. I really hope the Latin Americans....

and particularly the Venezuelans keep standing up to BushCo. The OAS rejection of so-called "Democracy monitoring" was exactly the kind of backbone we need to see from our own democratic party.

www.handsoffvenezuela.org

[marbuc]

3. Programming to counter programming

that counters programming (CNN and other US news Sources). That's just rediculous. What's the point?

[Missy M]

4. Do you think the US and its politicians will ever leave other...

countries alone to live as they wish? It is amazing that the US believes what we spew out is never propaganda, just other countries do that. Connie Mack of Florida is a nut case, in my opinion. Please leave Venezuela alone!!!

[MsTryska]

5. I was jsut thinking that.....

why are we all up in everybody else's business?


you'd think a sovereign nation would be left alone to conduct it's business as it pleases.


so paternalistic.

[wli]

8. they don't believe it's never propaganda

They just never admit it's propaganda.

[cprise]

6. US just clinched a deal to open a military base in Paraguay

Its probably no accident that the country supplies 20% of Brazil's electricity.

[justinsb]

7. The US needs to get all of it's soldiers back inside it's own borders

really. All of them. Out of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America etc., etc.,