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Phony Progressives Follow Trump Lead on Venezuela
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
14 Oct 2019
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So-called progressives sound just like Donald Trump when they describe Venezuela’s elected government as a “dictatorship,” said Nicholas Evan Ayala, co-editor of Anti-Conquista.  “A lot of Democrats pretend to be anti-war, yet fail to see that every intervention they advocate follows a long history of US evil…leading to the deaths of millions of people,” said Ayala.

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