On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil, author of ‘Corporate Coup: Venezuela and The End of US Empire’. She discusses the release of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange and why she didn’t believe Washington would risk extraditing him to the US, the growth of the US grassroots movement in support of Assange, what Julian Assange’s plea deal means for journalists in the US, and how Wikileaks exposed how the US uses NGOs as fronts across the world to destabilise governments that do not obey Washington. She also discusses the US persecution of Alex Saab and Venezuela’s CLAP food program, which helped Venezuelans avoid starvation as a result of US sanctions, Donald Trump’s instincts on Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro, and what a second Trump presidency would mean for the country. Plus, the recent coup attempt in Bolivia against President Luis Arce and why it was doomed to fail, Richard Branson’s involvement in the corporate coup in Venezuela, why the Russia-NAYO proxy war in Ukraine ended up saving Venezuela, and much more.
