One is a hard-core revolutionary hip-hop artist and the other a conspiracy “nut” right?
NO! listen to this and tell me it’s not way more sophisticated and scholarly than anything you you get on mainstream media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUPdkxsOV8

Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

The Wealth of Nations (1776, Chapter IX, p. 117)

now just combine Tor networking (https://www.torproject.org/) over this and we just may have a chance

https://commotionwireless.net/

 

Here’s a good documentary on Chavez in the broader context of Latin America’s 500+ years genocide, slavery, exploitation, and poverty. There are many other sources on this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6vBlV5TUI64

 

Empires are always dependent on violent repression and this is not a revelation; but the specifics are new to me.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/06/james-steele-america-iraq-video