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Venezuela under assault: socialism, imperialism and oil

2 February 2019 | MEDIA DIVERSIFIED| Mohamed Elmaazi

In recent years the Venezuela government has found itself in conflict with right-wing opposition forces, but also with genuine grassroots organisers who want to carry the “Bolivarian revolution” forward. Thus democratising policies under Chavez have stalled. Mohamed Elmaazi details the steps that have led to ordinary Venezuelans being caught between a rock and a hard place.

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Inside the Temple of Covert Propaganda: The Integrity Initiative and the UK’s Scandalous Information War

17 December 2018| The Grayzone project|
MOHAMED ELMAAZI AND MAX BLUMENTHAL

The Grayzone entered the carefully concealed offices of a covert, British government-backed propaganda mill that is at the center of an international scandal the mainstream media refuses to touch.

Featured image via Mohamed Elmaazi

Recent hacked documents have revealed an international network of politicians, journalists, academics, researchers and military officers, all engaged in highly deceptive covert propaganda campaigns funded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), NATO, Facebook and hardline national security institutions. 

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Leaked US documents reveal a warped vision of regime change in Syria

28 September 2018|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi

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Leaked US documents have revealed Washington’s vision of regime change in Syria. And it’s not pretty. Planners never thought democratic opponents to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad stood a chance, according to a 2011 US military intelligence assessment.  The US Marine Corps’ (USMC) Intelligence Department and private intelligence firm Stratfor jointly produced this August 2011 assessment. Journalist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed discovered this document among a trove of leaked emails published by WikiLeaks.

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UK black and minority ethnic groups blast Labour Party antisemitism debate for seeking to defend Israel by erasing Palestinian history

23 August 2019|Mondoweiss|Mohamed Elmaazi

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Last week an unprecedented intervention occurred into the debate in the UK over the definition of antisemitism. Over 80 community, professional and rights-based organisations representing black, minority ethnic and diaspora peoples decried what they say is the framing of antisemitism in a way to ‘silence’ Palestinians, and other migrant groups, from speaking about their history.

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‘Blatantly xenophobic’ and ‘shameful’ anti-refugee laws are passed by new Hungarian government, says UN

4 July 2018| Open Democracy| Mohamed Elmaazi

Hungary is at the forefront of delivering nativist and xenophobic laws that target refugees, migrants, and those that assist them. But the state is only a canary in the coal mine.

On World Refugee Day, 20 June 2018, Hungary passed anti-migrant laws championed by right-wing nationalist Prime Minister, Viktor Orban. The Hungarian parliament voted overwhelmingly to pass the legislative package by 180 votes 18. Amnesty International blasted the laws as ‘draconian’. The UN has decried them as “shameful”.

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