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On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Walter Smolarek fills in for Brian Becker and is joined by Carlos Ron, the Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Venezuela in the United States.

A deadly strike called by the Venezuelan right-wing opposition went ahead yesterday with at least four people killed, but is the corporate media once against misleading the world about the nature of events in the country?

On a tumultuous day in Washington, tensions between special counsel Robert Mueller and the Trump administration heated up as Press Secretary Sean Spicer and the spokesman for Trump’s legal team resigned. Walter is joined by editorial cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall and Jim Kavanagh, editor of ThePolemicist.net.

Mass protests are taking place today at the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem as Israel further restricts the rights of Palestinians living under occupation and confrontation reaches a boiling point. Ben Norton, a journalist with AlterNet’s The GreyZone Project, joins the show.