Starvin Larry

In Washington, nothing succeeds like failure, and there have been few bigger failures than our government’s regime change attempts. Which means everyone’s on board for the latest regime change effort, Venezuela. From Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies at antiwar.com:

In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back of the latest edition says simply, “Far and away the best book on the topic.” We agree. If you have not read it, please do. It will give you a clearer context for what is happening in Venezuela today, and a better understanding of the world you are living in.

Since Killing Hope was published in 1995, the US has conducted at…