Caitlin Johnstone
You wouldn’t know it from any western mass media reporting as of this writing, but musician Roger Waters’ rendition of the iconic Pink Floyd song ‘Wish You Were Here’ in front of the office of British Home Secretary Priti Patel in order to draw attention to the persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is something that never happened.
Earlier this year, billionaire Richard Branson staged a ‘Live Aid’-style concert in Colombia near the Venezuela border with the purported goal of helping the Venezuelan people.
In reality the stunt was nothing other than a ploy to advance the entirely false narratives that President Maduro was blockading bridges and turning away all foreign aid, and the funds raised ended up being embezzled by the Trump-backed regime change opposition group led by US puppet Juan Guaido. The British mass media, however, went absolutely bananas over the story.
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