Before Trump took office there have been many other extremist Presidents, but Trump often looks like a satirical clown intentionally trying to appear more insane and absurd than any of them, which, of course sounds insane, like something that could never happen, but I'm not completely ruling this possibility out because something insane certainly is going on. Besides, if this were all happening without an absurd plan like that it would be just as insane and unbelievable, so the question isn't if something insane is going on but which explanation is true.
Contrary to Trump's campaign promises that he would keep us out of wars in all his campaigns he attacked ten countries in his first term, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, and in his second term so far he's attacked seven of these same countries, excluding Afghanistan, Libya and Pakistan, most if not all based on obvious lies, and this doesn't count attacks carried out by Israel in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and other locations with financing and weapons from the United states, which includes some of the worst atrocities, including genocide, in recent history, nor does it include the embargo against Cuba or many other similar embargoes or other non-military forms of interventions, but there may be plans to attack Cuba soon according to some reports. Even when he avoided wars he did it in a clownish satirical manner that seems like it could never happen, yet it did.
The most bizarre example of this was his "Fire and Fury the likes of which this world has never seen" statement about North Korea, that sounded like something a bratty ten-year-old would say. When it comes from a president of the most powerful country in the world it sounds like a raving lunatic. The video of this Donald Trump: North Korea 'Will Be Met With Fire And Fury' 08/08/2017 went viral at the time, but it's almost forgotten now in the United States of Amnesia. But, of course, for those that remember history, this wasn't the first time an absurd president behaved in an irrational and foolish manner with North Korea. In the nineties Jimmy Carter helped Bill Clinton negotiate a nuclear deal with North Korea which would have prevented them from developing a nuclear bomb, but for some bizarre reason, which George Bush never adequately explained, one of the first things he did was pull out of that deal, and that paved the way for North Korea to eventually develop a nuclear bomb.
This result was predictable before Bush pulled out of the deal!
Are they intentionally trying to maintain a permanent state of war? This obviously sounds insane. like it could never be true, but if that's not the case, why would one president after another do one incredibly obviously stupid thing after another?
Trump's response may seem to have been effective to some as indicated about a year or so later when Trump said: "We fell in love" 09/30/2018 after exchanging "beautiful letters," but this seemed equally clownish, although the results seemed to be good. But it's hard to believe that Trump's tough guy approach, similar to Nixon's "Mad-man" theory was the reason for this, at least for me, and more recent events indicate it wasn't as effective.
In August according to one article North Korea fires 10 missiles a day after Trump scales back U.S. drills with Seoul 08/20/2026 "The weapons test came a day after North Korea shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy." And just a few days ago it happened again according to this article, North Korea fires two ballistic missiles off east coast in three hours 09/20/2026
This isn't getting nearly as much attention as other incidents got, including the original "fire and fury" statement, but it clearly shows his policies and Bush's are a disaster, and neither the Obama or Biden administration did much better when they had a chance. This may also have the effect of showing many other countries around the world that they may get more respect if they have nuclear weapons than if they don't especially after Bush negotiated a deal with Libya not to get nuclear weapons, and Obama responded by helping overthrow Muammar Gaddafi and enabling his death anyway, and Trump raving like a lunitic against dozens of countries that don't have nuclear weapons, but making friends with those that do.
Another absurd issue or charade is his constant threats to take over Greenland one way or another, which no one from the Western world would ever support the same way they support attacks on Muslim or Latin American countries. Regardless of why he's gone on this gave researchers an opportunity to study how the public reacts to this compared to his other rants, even if that's not the motive in the first place. It seems to have ended with comparatively mild results compared to the wars that he started, but if you look closely at the deal described in this article Trump signs Greenland deal giving U.S. broad military authority on the island 09/22/2026 It may have increased access or influence for the military at the expense of Greenland and Denmark.
However the biggest atrocities involve full fledged wars or invasions which should include the kidnapping of Nicholas Maduro, mass bombing of Iran and numerous other countries, assassinations in the Atlantic or Caribbean based on drug running accusations that haven't been proven and are almost certainly false, and, even though The Genocide in Gaza and War in Lebanon are being carried out by Israel, they're being financed and armed by our country and couldn't be taken to extremes without help from both the Biden and Trump administrations.
Donald Trump is far from the first president to start wars and carry out coups based on lies, but he is the most obvious one and hardly tries to come up with good propaganda to cover up his obvious lies, and even brags about his atrocities and occasionally admits atrocities by other presidents, like when he was told that Putin was a killer and he responded by saying "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?" as reported in Asked about Putin, Trump says U.S. isn't 'so innocent.' 02/05/2017 Trump was of curse right, but traditional media hardly ever reports on the vast majority of atrocities committed by our government, at least not honestly, instead reporting on many incidents as they happen often trying to spin and downplay them before letting them go down the memory hole, which works very well in the United States of Amnesia.
Mainstream media and the political establishment reacted with shock to this comment, as if it wasn't true and criticized Trump for basically telling the truth, without actually checking the details, although may alternative media outlets and people on Social Media did a much better job discussing the truth as told in hundreds of books that get virtually no promotion from MSM. Some of the most popular of these books or the best ones include those written by authors like William Blum, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Douglas Valentine, Eduardo Galeano, Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappe, and given time I could list dozens more, but few if any of these people are well known or get on best sellers lists because they get virtually no promotion or media coverage from mainstream media, and when they are mentioned they're often referred to as "radical" or portrayed as fringe, because they don't go along with the mainstream media's false narrative, even though the authors I mentioned provide much better sourced material and are far more credible than mainstream media.
Of course, the majority of Trump's claims aren't as honest as his admission that the U.S. isn't "so innocent" and they're often quite insane and incredibly obvious lies, but a lot of people seem to find them amusing and his outrageous comments often appeal to many people's emotions. In fact his lies and bluster is so insane I can't understand why anyone would support him, let alone enough people to get him elected. Yet the media clearly indicates he has a huge cult following and polls that said a shocking percentage of Republican support, although never a majority of the public, but was able to get elected mainly because the so-called "Democrats" rigged their primaries for incredibly horrible candidates. It's possible that these polls are exaggerated, which I'm guessing they are, but it's unlikely they're totally made up. This means there are a lot of idiotic or foolish people supporting him that don't seem to realize that they're supposed to look out for the best interests of the country and themselves, and electing a lunatic carnival barker doing one insane thing after another isn't in anyone's best interests, even their own.
Regardless of why the political establishment is allowing so many insane politicians, businessmen, war mongers and media pundits to control the most powerful institutions it's providing an opportunity for them to study how people react to it and how to manipulate the masses, and overwhelming evidence shows they're constantly studying how to do this.
Does this sound like an insane conspiracy theory?
It's not.
There are literally at least a couple dozen books books that I could name and presumably dozens if not hundreds more writing about propaganda and how people, mostly the wealthy, but occasionally cult leaders like Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, learn how to manipulate cult followers or the majority of the public to advance their own best interests, or insane ideologies leading to disasters, like Hitler brought about. The fact that the wealthy, the media and the political establishment is constantly trying to manipulate the majority isn't a conspiracy theory, it's supported by an enormous amount of evidence, although traditional media doesn't try to report on this in a manner people can understand and try to prevent.
Why would they?
Do you expect them to expose their own propaganda?
For the most part they try not to, but the final results, including ads and spin, has to be presented to the public, and there are some researchers that expose their tactics either to try to educate the public, assuming they're trying to warn us, or to share tips with their allies, and in many cases, propagandists try to pretend they're educating the public when it's actually indoctrination.
Some of the most well known books on propaganda used to either warn the public or advise the propagandists include Upton Sinclair The Brass Check 1920 with 2003 introduction by Robert McChesney Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" 1988 which were clearly written to warn the public, Edward Bernays "Propaganda" 1928 With Introduction by Noam Chomsky, Edward Bernays "Crystallizing Public Opinion" 1923/1934 and Frank Luntz "Words That Work." 2007 Bernays two books are classics and written at a time when the author probably didn't expect the majority of the republic, and as Noam Chomsky explains in his introduction "the term 'propaganda,' incidentally, did not have negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War that the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things." Now Bernays reads more like a confession, although mainstream media rarely reminds us of this and only a minority of the public read up on good research to expose Propaganda, which makes it easier for mainstream media to use it.
Frankly Frank Luntz's book also reads like a confession as I explained in Frank Luntz confesses to sabotaging democratic process for clients, and when his book came out a few other people also noticed, which is why I had a hard time understanding why he wrote it publicly. However, most of the criticism of his book fell down the Memory-Hole in the United States of Amnesia, and the majority of the public forgot about it without learning from it, so he's still able to use his propaganda to indoctrinate people, and so are the wealthy people studying this, who are much less likely to forget this research than the majority of the public who are often very gullible.
People like Edward Bernays and Frank Luntz should understand much better how much damage their propaganda causes and that it will eventually backfire even on those that get a short term benefit from it. On at least one or two occasions they each warned about this, but they continued to use propaganda for their own purposes, which is often very destructive, and defended this more or less showing their brief criticisms were meaningless and that they were still enabling those abusing propaganda and doing it themselves. Neither of them advised a massive effort to educate the public about falling for propaganda, which is what we need. Edward Bernays found out that the NAZI's were using his book "Crystallizing Public Opinion" to create propaganda to make them look like the good guys and Jews look like the monsters no later than 1933, and even though he refused to accept their money and help with this effort, his warnings were very low profile and ineffective. He repeated some of these disclaimers to deflect blame in the 1960s, but by then he had used propaganda efforts to justify the unjustifiable coup in Guatemala which led to death squads and thousand of murders, if not much more, and he also used propaganda to convince women to get hooked on cigarettes, which of course led to thousands, if not millions more deaths. He may have used propaganda for some good purposes, as he claims, but they're mild compared to the damage his propaganda did which must have been at least ten times worse, but his wealthy clients profited from it.
Amazingly according to An American PR firm led by a Jew worked for Adolf Hitler 06/24/2026 another Jewish public relations propagandist, Carl Byoir, agreed to work with for the NAZIs to help them develop their propaganda to demonize Jews. The author of this article is also a Jewish Public Relations officer, Ronn Torossian, and he also often also skips the part where he figures out what is true before deciding what to promote. Ronn Torossian also declines to teach the public how to recognize and prevent propaganda from distracting from the truth and seems to consider Bernays a good guy despite his propaganda to defend the Guatemalan coup, death squads that followed, indoctrination to hook women on cigarettes, and at the end of the article he promotes a heavily censored and false version of history to demonize Palestinians and protesters opposing the Gaza Genocide.
Both Ronn Torossian and Frank Luntz have been providing propaganda to help enable Israeli atrocities by demonizing Palestinians; I previously explained how Frank Luntz was doing this in Is the Hasbara Handbook The True Protocols of Zion? There are a shocking number of propagandists and wealthy people that don't seem to understand that if they ignore the truth and base their decisions on their own propaganda, one way or another, basing important decisions on obsessive lies is inevitably going to lead to disasters, in this case, almost endless wars, that may only end with a massive collapse of society which ultimately destroys everyone, especially when they combined with other massive social problems including epidemic environmental destruction and eventually Ecocide, which is already in progress. I've explained this in previous articles like It's Official, Ecocide Is Happening & It's Intentional!
Is the entire political establishment so deluded and insane that they want to fight endless wars based on lies, combined with epidemic environmental destruction, including Ecocide along with many other social problems that will lead to a collapse in society just so a small percentage of the public can become incredibly rich for a relatively short time, before Wars and Ecocide cause the destruction of society including the wealthy?
Judging by their actions that clearly appears to be the case.
This isn't limited to Trump's insane behavior, which seems so obvious I can't rule out the possibility that it's intentional.
Could they be using some kind of insane reverse psychology effort to incite resistance?
Technically, I can't completely rule this out; but if they wanted to reverse environmental destruction and prevent the destruction of society, even if it is partly rigged in favor of the rich there's no way this could be the most effective way of accomplishing this. If something like this were true there would be much more to the story, including a motive, but there's no way that motive could involve looking out for the best interests of the majority of the public.
Regardless of what insane reason the business, media and political establishment is insanely obsessed with ignoring good science and following a course of behavior that will inevitably lead to destruction, are the majority of us going to let them finish the job??
Yes, this is almost guaranteed, and it may not change until they do much more damage and make it much more difficult to fix.
There's no shortage of protests, and despite mainstream media's refusal to cover how bad wars based on lies and environmental destruction are happening there seems to be modest, but growing percentage of the public learning about it anyway, and some of them are trying to act on it, but they're making little or no progress, and the political, business, and media establishment is constantly blocking most improvements, often with the help of the police who enforce petty rules against protests harshly, while letting the real crooks, destroying the environment and contributing to wars based on lies, including Genocide and Ecocide get away with it and even protecting them.
For some reason the establishment has portrayed anyone challenging them on many issues, including wars based on lies, environmental destruction, protesting against police violence, and other issues as "radicals" and in some cases they even try to portray peaceful protesters as "terrorists;" the most obvious example is when they portray defenders of Palestinian rights as "terrorists" or sympathizers of terrorists, arresting dozens if not hundreds of protesters in England for holding signs that say "I oppose genocide and I support Palestine Action," which for some insane reason England has labeled a terrorist organization, not for supporting terrorism, but for telling the truth and opposing the Gaza Genocide. They even tried to portray Erin Brokovich as a "terrorist" three and a half years ago, and only after this claim was met with ridicule did they retract it, but it's not the first time they tried to portray some environmentalists as terrorist and probably won't be the last. Real "Eco-terrorists," if they exist or ever did exist, are extremely rare, and they tend to be fanatical loners who are stopped quickly. But the establishment exaggerates these rare people or groups to create the false image of "Eco-Terrorism."
Amazingly, as I said in previous articles about this subject, sometimes those that seem to be trying to oppose wars based on lies, environmental destruction, and other issues, including the Occupy Wall Street movement, turn around and sabotage the movements. The Occupy Wall Street partly ended because of this; but the most obvious examples of this are politicians who run on progressive campaigns, then, if they look like they might win, they occasionally sabotage the own campaigns intentionally or not, and on the rare times they get elected, turn around and defend the establishment instead of pushing progressive issues.
If you go through the history of elected officials I'm sure you'll find dozens if not hundreds or thousands of them that campaigned as progressives promising to serve the best interests of the majority, and those that got elected may have often seemed to try early in their careers, but the longer they stay in office the more they serve campaign donors instead of the vast majority of the public. If you check the history of Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jefferies and Diane Fienstien early in their careers they were much more progressive than when they gained seniority and joined the leadership class, with at least two of those supporting Medicare For All early in their career, but opposing it by the time they joined the leadership, showing they serve campaign donors, not voters. And as I pointed out in another previous article, Howard Dean campaigned as a progressive for president in 2004 before making incredibly obvious blunders alienating many people crashing his campaign enabling the establishment candidate John Kerry to get the nomination, intentionally or not, then he was rewarded by electing him to head the DNC where he behaved like another Corporate Democrat. Bernie Sanders did something similar, when he abandoned two presidential campaigns and falsely claimed the primaries were fair, ultimately supporting the corporate candidates when it counted.
More recently there seem to have been a much larger number of progressive candidates quickly turning into corporate candidates, including the so-called "Squad" who campaigned on Medicare for All and a watered down version of the Green Parties Green New Deal, which they never credited the Green Party for, and used a study saying that if we don't take drastic action in twelve years Climate Damage may escalate much faster and do irreparable damage. They got elected and quickly came to Nancy Pelosi's rescue to elect her speaker and though she ridiculed Progressive policies and made it clear she would block them. They made some good speeches in their first year or so in office, including AOC's sarcastic "I'm the bad guy" speech, but then went on to defend Corporate Democrats, only making more promises when massive pressure from the grassroots convinced them to, but didn't back it up with actions that worked. If you go through some of the most progressive elected officials you'll find many more like this, including ones that crashed their own campaigns like Gaham Platner's progressive campaign that went through one accusation after another and he finally withdrew, Nina Turners sabotaged campaign from within, a few candidates that one one term before behaving absurd and loosing, like Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman who made obviously absurd mistakes, including pulling a fire alarm for some reason leading to their losses, and more progressives that go back and forth between caving to the establishment when it counts and temporarily making progressive arguments when it doesn't count, and perhaps the most absurd one is John Fetterman who ran a great progressive campaign for Senate in 2016, but lost anyway, then when he finally won he became an extreme right wing nut case almost over night, once in office.
Republicans routinely make so many absurd blunders that they should be incredibly easy to beat, but instead so=called "Democrats" who only pretend to serve the will of the people make almost as many absurd blunders constantly rigging nominations for widely disliked candidates often enabling Republicans to win what should be easy elections, as if they're intentionally rubbing our noses in it. Trump's lies to support wars are incredibly bad, like claims of drug running even though almost all credible sources reported the evidence of his claims won't stand up to scrutiny, and as he was carrying out the coup he was already bragging about "taking the oil." The same goes with Iran; they had a deal to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons, but Trump withdrew from it, just like Bush did, in his first campaign. Iran was cooperating with negotiations when they attacked almost out of nowhere, and it wasn't long before Trump was bragging about "taking the oil," "to the victor go the spoils," as if wars based on lies are legitimate, and even saying "we're like pirates" bragging about his atrocities!
This obvious insanity isn't limited to Trump; Benjamin Netanyahu is also obviously insane and has been since the first time he was elected Prime Minister about thirty years ago, yet he keeps coming back and his insanity keeps getting more obvious. In his recent speech he claimed accusations of him committing genocide, despite the fact that there's overwhelming evidence, but insanely in the same speech he bragged about pager attacks in Lebanon in 2024 which killed dozens of innocent people, and wounded hundreds more, showing he also brags about atrocities.
The official explanation for all these wars based on lies and why they're doing nothing about protecting the environment, often even referring to various environmental disasters, including Climate Change, as "Hoaxes" are so insane that far-fetched conspiracy theories often seem more rational which is why I can't completely rule some of them out, even if I can't confirm them either. In the past couple days a few of these conspiracy theories are escalating, and there might be something to them, there's certainly enough evidence to raise doubts about the official explanations. These include legitimate concerns about The Fairford Plot 09/30/2026 where some conspiracy theorists or satirists are actually making more sense then the establishment and reasonable concerns about how Netanyahu seemed to predict the attempted hijacking that happened today 09/30/2026 but he didn't increase security or background checks for the pilot even though he allegedly suspected it might happen and other concerns about how they were able to break in to the cockpit which is supposed to be locked with people passing background checks in it, not hijackers. 09/30/2026 This implies a reasonable possibility that they did allow it to happen or that it was a false flag, although I can't completely fill in the details or prove it all, but I can't rule it out either.
An older 60 minutes clip is making the rounds again where a Mossad agent says 09/30/2026 “We create a pretend world. We are a global production company: We write the screenplay. We are the directors, producers, the main actors, and the world is our stage.” Even mainstream media occasionally adds credibility to some of these theories. And amazingly some of the alleged "scientific skeptics" that normally raise doubts about false flags of Psy-Ops like Sam Harris are coming up with their own incredibly bad Psy-op claims (Video) who previously said that Palestinian supporters are carrying out a Psy-Op to convince people of genocide and a famine in Gaza 06/07/2026 but if you go through the reports of many human rights groups that are peer reviewed you'll find they're far more credible than his claims and he even claims that he shouldn't even debate critics or check facts and simply accept Zionist propaganda. 06/06/2026 This was of course widely ridiculed by many people.
Regardless of the explanation for all this we clearly need to stop all these absurd wars based on lies and epidemic environmental destruction, start repairing the environment and solve many other social problems where we do have the research for any given subject to do so while saving much more money than real solutions cost, yet we're doing the opposite, because we're being ruled by lunatics!
Delcy Rodríguez poses with Trump in New York as Maduro languishes in jail nearby 09/23/2026 Hours earlier, Rodríguez had sat in the general assembly hall watching Trump celebrate the “massive military operation” during which Maduro – whom he called an “outlaw dictator” and “a real criminal” – was captured. “It was a war … [and] to the victor belong the spoils,” Trump bragged of the recent oil deal between the US and Venezuela, as Rodríguez appeared to wince.
Angelo Giuliano: The Coup in Caracas: How Maduro Was Taken, the Army Was Cleaned Out, and Venezuela’s Wealth Went Up for Sale 09/24/2026
Angelo Giuliano: The coup in Caracas was not just a raid. On 3 January 2026, U.S. forces took Maduro out of the capital. Explosions lit up the night. Then he appeared in handcuffs in New York. That same week, Delcy Rodríguez was already in place. Months later she was standing next to Trump, smiling, talking oil, mining and “cooperation.” What followed was not a transition. It was a clean-out. The old defence minister was moved aside. The high command was replaced. More than a hundred generals and admirals were retired. Then the assets started to move. That purge was not an accident. A revolution in Venezuela only works if parts of the army join it. They know that. Chávez was not a top general when he moved. He was a lieutenant colonel. That is why this story is not finished. The Chavista forces are probably regrouping. The next chapter is not another photo with Washington. It is whether enough men with guns still remember who the country was sold to. 09/25/2026
Former Honduras President Hernández freed from prison after Trump pardon 12/02/2025 Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, his wife announced Tuesday.
Trump says US Navy acting ‘like pirates’ to enforce Iran blockade 05/02/2026 "We took over the ship, we took over the cargo, we took over the oil. It's a very profitable business. We're like pirates. We're sort of like pirates, but we are not playing games."
‘We’re Like Pirates’: Trump Defends US Navy Seizure of Oil Cargo, Claims Profits from Iran Conflict 05/01/2026
U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba 09/25/2026
30 of Donald Trump's wildest quotes 03/18/2026 "I dealt with Qaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land. That's what we should be doing. I don't want to use the word 'screwed', but I screwed him. That's what we should be doing."
The 199 Most Donald Trump Things Donald Trump Has Ever Said 08/14/2015 “It’s always good to do things nice and complicated so that nobody can figure it out.” (New Yorker, May 19, 1997) “I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.” (The Art of the Deal, 1987) “For many years I’ve said that if someone screws you, screw them back. When somebody hurts you, just go after them as viciously and as violently as you can.” (How to Get Rich, 2004)
The 41 most unreal Donald Trump quotes of 2018 12/20/2018
70+ Funniest Donald Trump Quotes That Made History 09/17/2026 "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters." "I am the chosen one."
Trump urges crowd to 'knock the crap out of' anyone with tomatoes 02/01/2016 “So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of ‘em, would you? Seriously,” Trump said to cheers from the audience. “Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise. It won’t be so much because the courts agree with us, too.”
Fascism in America: Andy Zee 017/2/2017 Trump boasted that he would “bomb the shit out of them!” and said: “if we have nuclear weapons why can’t we just use them.” And then there’s Vice President Pence standing on the North Korean border declaring: “we’re going to abandon the failed policy of strategic patience.”
Trump, hours until deadline, threatens Iran's 'whole civilization will die tonight' 04/07/2026 "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will," Trump wrote on his social media platform.
Iran: President Trump’s apocalyptic threats of large-scale civilian devastation demand urgent global action to prevent atrocity crimes 04/07/2026
"A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight:" The Day the American President Threatened Genocide 04/08/2026
Trump: 'A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!' 04/07/2026
In First TV Interview, President Trump Says Torture “Absolutely” Works 01/26/2017 During his first televised interview as president, Donald Trump openly embraced torture and waterboarding. “I have spoken, as recently as 24 hours ago, with people at the highest level of intelligence, and I asked them the question: Does it work? Does torture work? And the answer was 'Yes, absolutely,'” Trump said. We speak to Vincent Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Faiza Patel of the Brennan Center.
Trump says ‘torture works,’ backs waterboarding and ‘much worse’ 02/17/2016 “Don’t tell me it doesn’t work — torture works,” Trump said during a campaign event at a retirement community here Wednesday morning. “Half these guys [say]: ‘Torture doesn’t work.’ Believe me, it works.”
Donald Trump Defends Torture at Republican Debate 03/03/2016
The Fox News GOP debate transcript, annotated 03/03/2016 TRUMP: They won't refuse. They're not going to refuse me. Believe me.
BAIER: But they're illegal.
TRUMP: Let me just tell you, you look at the Middle East. They're chopping off heads. They're chopping off the heads of Christians and anybody else that happens to be in the way. They're drowning people in steel cages. And he -- now we're talking about waterboarding.
This really started with Ted, a question was asked of Ted last -- two debates ago about waterboarding. And Ted was, you know, having a hard time with that question, to be totally honest with you. They then came to me, what do you think of waterboarding? I said it's fine. And if we want to go stronger, I'd go stronger, too, because, frankly...
Transcript of the Republican Presidential Debate 02/06/2016 So Senator Cruz, you have said, quote, “torture is wrong, unambiguously, period. Civilized nations do not engage in torture.” Some of the other candidates say they don’t think waterboarding is torture. Mr. Trump has said, I would bring it back. Senator Cruz, is waterboarding torture?
CRUZ: Well, under the definition of torture, no, it’s not. Under the law, torture is excruciating pain that is equivalent to losing organs and systems, so under the definition of torture, it is not. It is enhanced interrogation, it is vigorous interrogation, but it does not meet the generally recognized definition of torture. .......
TRUMP: Well, I’ll tell you what. In the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians, we have people chopping the heads off many other people. We have things that we have never seen before — as a group, we have never seen before, what’s happening right now.
The medieval times — I mean, we studied medieval times — not since medieval times have people seen what’s going on. I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.
(APPLAUSE)
MUIR: Mr. Trump, thank you. Governor Bush, you have said that you won’t rule waterboarding out. Congress has passed laws banning the use of waterboarding by the military and the CIA, as you know. Would you want Congress to change that if you’re elected president?
(Video) Power to the People ☭🕊: Breaking: According to a military memo reviewed by CBS News, Trump and the United States are making plans to invade Cuba. Now here is what corporate media won’t report: Like all US wars the mission is not “freedom or democracy”, but to loot and privatize Cuba’s industries and resources in order to enrich the US billionaire class. If the US wanted to help Cuba it would lift the decades long trade embargo, not invade and loot it. 09/25/2026 The people of the world deserve better than being ruled by a brutal empire that wages endless wars to loot their countries’ resources. The American people also deserve better than being constantly pitted against each other to ensure said empire is never challenged from within.
MintPress News: The Pentagon announces the bloodthirsty & Orwellian “Operation Total Extermination” against Latin American countries to dominate the region. MintPress explains its plan… 03/26/2026 Eight more Memes
(Video) Genuinely beyond satire: "Nobel Peace Prize winner gives her medal to U.S. President to thank him for bombing her country." The Trump presidency is basically a dare to put The Onion out of business. 01/16/2026
(Video) WikiLeaks: President Donald Trump has accepted the 2025 Nobel “Peace” Prize from awarded winner María Machado. The fate of the $1.15m monetary award remains outstanding. Will the monetary transfer to Machado be blocked as an unlawful “gross misappropriation,” (as argued in Julian Assange’s legal filing)? Will the Nobel Foundation instead send the $1.15m to Machado’s victims - killed by her incitement of President Trump to war? Or will the money be kept in the Nordic region and sent to the people of Greenland to buy body bags? 01/15/2026
Abbas Al Hikmah: BREAKING: “We were terrified they were going to kill us!” Innocent Ecuadorian fishermen speak out about how Pete Hegseth’s goons bombed their boat, arrested them at gunpoint, stole all their food, and then dumped them in another country with no explanation! While Trump and Hegseth have been busy committing war crimes in the Middle East, their illegal strikes on Caribbean fishing boats have continued unabated, as part of an ostensible war against “narcoterrorists” despite never providing any evidence that their victims are guilty of any crime. On March 26th, the crew of the Don Maca, a 35-ton fishing boat were finishing up their day of work when all of a sudden an explosion ripped through the ship. “We were just working, waiting for the last trawler to return,” Jhonny Sebastián Palacios, one of the fishers, told the Guardian. “Everything was perfectly fine.” From nowhere, an explosion ripped through the boat. “There was a sudden crash – boom! It came from a drone,” he said. The blast tore through the vessel, shattering glass, and injuring several crew members. “I ran upstairs and saw the boat destroyed … The whole ship was stripped bare,” he said. ..... Much more 04/21/2026
(Video) The Resonance: Lindsey Graham: “Who is in charge of Venezuela? Donald J. Trump. If you defy him, what happened to Maduro is going to happen to you” 01/06/2026
(Video) RT: Hugo Chavez donated Venezuelan oil to poor families in the Bronx and was the first leader to send aid after Hurricane Katrina. Reed explains how the US establishment ‘never forgave Venezuela’ for ‘EMBARASSING’ them like that 01/06/2026 ‘If I see it, it’s MINE.’ ‘If I want it, I’m gonna take it.’ ‘The Donroe Doctrine’ is just the latest interpretation of a long-running US policy of imperialism in Latin America, Grayzone editor Wyatt Reed tells RT.
(Video) Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Attacks Venezuela & Kidnaps President Maduro 01/03/2026 Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro.
(Video) Carlos: Very important from Jeffrey Sachs, interviewed by @Glenn_Diesen. A number of people have made the facile point that Trump's actions in Venezuela mirror Putin's actions in Ukraine, and that people should be consistent and condemn both. 01/06/2026 This ignores the basic class content of global politics. Sachs points out that both Venezuela and Ukraine are cases of the US attempting to impose its domination; both are instances of McDonalds not being able to flourish without McDonnell Douglas (to use Thomas Friedman's memorable expression); both are microcosms of a global struggle between imperialism and an emerging multipolarity. "In the case of Ukraine, it was a 30-year project to bring Ukraine into the American military orbit... One should not glibly say that the US is doing in Venezuela what Putin did in Ukraine. It's actually that the US is doing in Venezuela what the US did in Ukraine. Both are US-provoked. These are both projects of the US and I hope people can come to understand how US foreign policy works and what a military-industrial state really means. What a military-industrial complex without constitutional bounds means. What the CIA means in such operations. If they did, they would understand that when we view Ukraine and Venezuela, we're viewing the same phenomenon as long-term projects of the would-be global hegemon carried out in different ways." The full interview is well worth watching:
Latin City: 🇨🇺 What happened in Cuba wasn’t a simple story of “good” or “evil.” It was a clash between empire and independence — between those who owned the island, and those who worked it. After 1959, the Cuban Revolution promised something radical for its time: land for farmers, schools for the illiterate, doctors for the poor, and equality for Black and brown Cubans who had long been pushed aside. For many, it meant dignity for the first time. But as private wealth became public good, the powerful fled — and the U.S. struck back with an embargo designed to choke the new system. Trade collapsed. Shortages followed. Ordinary Cubans, not the elites who left for Miami, paid the price. The Revolution made real gains — literacy, healthcare, racial inclusion — and also real mistakes: censorship, bureaucracy, dependence. But history shows that most of Cuba’s hardships came not from socialism itself, but from isolation. Despite everything, the dream of equality — though imperfect — remained real. And those who stayed didn’t flee tyranny. They stayed to build something of their own. 🇨🇺✨ “They fled equality, not tyranny.” 04/02/2026 Eighteen more Memes
(Video) Karena Acree-Páez: 🔴 Colonial Secretary of State N@rco Rubio states that Cuba is in need of two things: economic reform and political reform. 🔴 Even today, Che's words ring true, "Our two main problems are IMPERIALISM AND IMPERIALISM." 04/02/2026
René M. Upshaw: Wrapped in a bow. Not because he is African American. It's because Obama ushered in the Homewreckers on Wall Street to run his administration. And, he placed Super predator Bomb Iran run a coup in Honduras and Libya Hillary at the Chevron owned State Department. Also ... Obama brought in Biden who had spent his entire career locking African Americans up in prison for the same drugs his children consumed. ........ Much more 03/28/2026
Alan MacLeod: Unbelievable. After months of propaganda claiming Maduro is the head of the dangerous drug-smuggling cartel, the US government has admitted it was all a ruse in order to kidnap a sitting head of state. 01/05/2026
(Video) 🚨 THIS IS CHILLING. Jake Tapper asked a basic question: Can the U.S. rule out using force to take Greenland? Stephen Miller wouldn’t. Instead, he questioned Denmark’s right to Greenland, invoked U.S. dominance inside NATO, and ended with this: “Nobody is gonna fight the U.S. militarily over the future of Greenland.” That’s not reassurance. That’s imperial logic, said out loud. 01/05/2026
(Video) Briahna Joy Gray: ‼️The "Donroe" Doctrine (w/ @EugenePuryear)‼️ "Everything Hakeem Jeffries said about Venezuela is just totally false, & the fact that almost all of the Democratic response to this has all been like: 'Well, Maduro is the worst person who's ever existed on the planet Earth, but' ....our biggest complaint is he didn't go to Congress....The vast majority of it is based on a total false misrepresent a total false representation of what Venezuela is & what's actually taking place." 01/05/2026
Video showing men tortured is from a movie, not after Venezuelan election | Fact check 08/09/2024
Caitlin Johnstone: Literally every single time an empire simp shows up in my mentions going "HERE'S RAW PROOF THAT MADURO WAS AN EVIL MONSTER AND TRUMP WAS RIGHT TO REMOVE HIM YOU COMMIE SHILL" it's fake. Every single time, without a single, solitary exception. 01/05/2026
(Video) Images forbidden in US corporate media. 01/05/2026 RT: THIS is Venezuela RIGHT NOW. Hundreds on the streets calling for Maduro’s RELEASE. Holding his portraits and giant national flag
(Video) Ben Norton: At the UN Security Council, the US regime justified its criminal attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Maduro by saying: "You cannot continue to have the largest energy reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States" 01/05/2026
(Video) Saul Staniforth: Occasionally they spell it out. Here's the US at the UN security council this afternoon 03/05/2026 "You cannot continue to have the largest energy reserve under the control of the adversaries of the United States."
(Video) Medea Benjamin: CODEPINK disrupted the OAS when the U.S. ambassador tried to whitewash aggression as an “enforcement operation.” You don’t kidnap a head of state, threaten to run another country, and call it “law enforcement.” We know this is all about oil and control. We refuse to let the U.S. lie its way into another war. 01/06/2026
(Video) Ben Norton: At the UN Security Council, the US regime justified its criminal attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Maduro by saying: "You cannot continue to have the largest energy reserves in the world under the control of adversaries of the United States" 01/05/2026
(Video) Saul Staniforth: US imperialism summed up in a single exchange: Vanessa Neumann: Maduro was a fugitive from justice @jeremycorbyn : From where? Neumann: The United States Corbyn: But he wasn't in the United States Neumann: It doesn't matter where you are. You can be snatched anywhere 01/06/2026
(Video) Ben Norton: The US is an imperial gangster regime. Trump threatened Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez, and said if she doesn't give US corporations "total access" to "the oil and other things", she will "pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro". 01/05/2026
(Video) Max Blumenthal: A Mariacorina propagandist from Venezuela condescendingly orders Americans to stop using the phrase “regime change” as she campaigns for regime change 01/04/2026 🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets: American Media. Pay attention.
Ali Abunimah: If the president of the United States was kidnapped by a foreign country, would the @nytimes call him "ousted"? President @NicolasMaduro remains the president of Venezuela. He was not "ousted," he was abducted. 01/05/2026
(Video) Max Blumenthal: If you protest Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro and assault on Venezuela, you hate freedom and will be arrested 01/05/2026
Ali Abunimah: "Neutral" Switzerland, always doing the dirty work of the empire – whether laundering Nazi gold, aiding and abetting Zionist genocide, or helping its masters in Washington take out disobedient, sovereign governments. 01/05/2026 Swiss Federal Government: Venezuela: With immediate effect, Switzerland is freezing any Swiss-based assets linked to Nicolás Maduro. If any assets turn out to be of illicit origin, Switzerland will do its best to ensure that these benefit the Venezuelan population.
Federal Council freezes any assets held in Switzerland by Nicolás Maduro 01/05/2026 On 5 January 2026, the Federal Council decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by Nicolás Maduro and other persons associated with him with immediate effect. In doing so, the Federal Council aims to prevent an outflow of assets. The asset freeze does not affect members of the current Venezuelan government. Should future legal proceedings reveal that the funds were illicitly acquired, Switzerland will endeavour to ensure that they benefit the Venezuelan people. The asset freeze is in addition to the sanctions against Venezuela that have been in place since 2018 under the Embargo Act.
(Video) Aaron Rupar: BRENNAN (Face the Nation pundit, not the former head of CIA: But you're describing the regime as still in place. I'm confused why the Trump administration only arrested Maduro. The chief thug who controls the police and has a $25m price on his head is still in place. RUBIO: You're confused? I don't know why that's confusing to you. BRENNAN: They are still in power. RUBIO: You're gonna go in and suck up 5 people? They're already complaining about this one operation 01/04/2026
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: Having Trump stand on his plane threatening more regime-change operations, including one of the neocons' decade-long crown jewel in Cuba, while Lindsey Graham stands next to him twitching in glee and ecstasy -- is the perfect illustration of MAGA foreign policy: 01/05/2026 Kim Dotcom: Look at Lindsey Graham. He looks like a little boy at Christmas. He can’t hide his neocon orgasm when he hears Trump about Cuba. When he looks at the other guy he’s thinking “See. I told ya I would get him to do it, I told ya.”
Veterans For Peace: Nicolás Maduro is being held in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He is in a tiny cell about 3 by 2 meters, with a metal bed, a toilet, and a small window. He can only leave the cell three times a week for one hour under guard. This is considered torture under international law. The United States has kidnapped and is torturing the democratically-elected leader of a sovereign state. We call for the release of President Maduro and First Lady Celia Flores! 03/13/2026
Jonathan Cook, journalist: The biggest misdirection in Rubio’s remarks at the Munich Security Conference, in favour of more aggressive US imperialism, was his omission of the real reason the West abandoned overt colonialism after the Second World War and built international institutions such as the United Nations. It was not an acceptance of defeat or decline by the US, but rather a recognition that, with the rapid development of nuclear arsenals by the superpowers in the wake of the war, a system capable of mediating the worst excesses of power had become a necessity. It was the only hope of preventing reckless colonial competition and confrontation that could trigger a Third World War likely to spiral quickly into nuclear armageddon. Nothing has changed over the past eight decades. Russia and China still have large nuclear arsenals, and Moscow now has hypersonic missiles capable of carrying these warheads at unprecedented speeds. There is still no failsafe mechanism to prevent misunderstandings from rapidly escalating into mutual attack. Human nature has not changed since the 1940s – only the arrogance of a superpower determined to prevent great powers like China or Russia from ever ousting it from its imperial perch. The threat of nuclear annihilation has not diminished. It has grown exponentially as limitations on global resources – those needed to sustain western consumption and endless “economic growth” – put ever greater pressure on the US to discard its mask as the guardian of superior values. Rubio used the Munich conference to lay bare the new reality: Washington will no longer pay lip service to being the nice guy or abiding by any red lines. The US is determined to crush all opposition to its permanent status as imperial top dog – even if it means destroying everything, and all of us, in the process. 02/19/2026
Ben Norton: This is a very important report, showing the true intentions behind the US war on Venezuela. After World War Two, Venezuela and its oil industry "became the single largest destination for U.S. foreign investment and one of its main sources of foreign income". "In 1957, at the peak of this extractive regime, profits earned by U.S. oil companies in Venezuela were roughly equal to the profits earned by all U.S. multinationals—across all industries—in the rest of Latin America and in continental European countries combined". "About 12 percent of Venezuela’s net domestic product—the value of everything produced in the country each year—flowed directly to the pockets of U.S. shareholders. That was roughly the same amount of income received by the poorest half of the Venezuelan population combined". Trump wants to return to this "golden age" of pillage. 01/04/2026
(Video) Zei_squirrel: this is amazing. In 1963 a deranged "journalist" asks JFK why he won't block Soviet oil to Cuba because "Castro would not be able to survive two weeks" without it. JFK answers because that would obviously constitute an act of war. Now the Trump-Epstein regime is actively blocking ships delivering oil, and the entire Western media class launders it as perfectly normal and just. They're literally enacting the murderous starvation war policy going back to the start of the revolution, and the entire world is just sitting there and looking at it while the Western media and political class launders it and salivates over how great and awesome it is as they talk about "human rights" and "sovereignty". 02/24/2026
(Video) This is insane. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave one of the most explicitly pro-colonialist speeches I have seen in the 21st century. The US empire wants Europe to help it recolonize the Global South. Rubio praised Western colonialists for "settl[ing] new continents, build[ing] vast empires extending out across the globe". Then Rubio complained about the Global South's decolonization, portraying it as a sinister communist plot. Rubio lamented: "The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come". Rubio delivered this speech at the Munich Security Conference, surrounded by European leaders, who gave him a standing ovation. They loved the pro-colonialist diatribe. The US secretary of state insisted that North American and European imperialists should unite in order to reverse "the West’s managed decline", to revive "the West’s age of dominance", to "renew the greatest civilization in human history". This is a blatant call by the US empire to resuscitate Western colonialism and recolonize the Global South (which represents the Global Majority). What the US empire did to Gaza, Venezuela, and currently Cuba is what it wants to do to the entire Global South. This is from the official transcript published by the US State Department: 02/14/2026
(Video) Ben Norton: A right-wing member of Congress from Colombia's Conservative Party -- which worships the US empire, loves Trump, and supports US attacks on Venezuela -- posted a video crying because her son in the US has been detained by ICE for weeks and is held in horrible inhumane conditions. 02/15/2026 Serris 🌀: Angela Vergara, congresswoman from @soyconservador (the pro-Trump and pro-coup party), posts this video crying because ICE has her son detained in the United States. The devil pays badly to those who serve him well...
(Video) Trump kidnaps Venezuela’s president to steal the country's oil 01/04/2026 The “Donroe Doctrine” comes for Venezuela's sovereignty, and any other challenge to "American dominance."
Aaron Maté: New: Trump kidnaps Venezuela’s president to steal the country's oil, by @aaronjmate 01/04/2026
Aaron Maté: According to the New York Times opinion age, the US ouster of a key Russian ally in Venezuela as part of an effort to control the country's oil "Plays Right Into Putin’s Hands." Under BlueAnon logic, even when Putin loses a key ally, he still wins. The guy can't lose. And Russiagate lunacy never dies. 01/05/2026
(Video) Niall Stanage: “You couldn’t ask for a more textbook example of what colonialism or imperialism are.” Had to get something off my chest about Trump and Venezuela — and the need for the media to call things as they are. From C-Span’s “Washington Journal” today. 01/05/2026
Owen Jones: BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists. 01/05/2026
(Video) Saul Staniforth: Beth Rigby: "Has the US violated international law?" Keir Starmer: "Intl law is really important..." "You're not going to say whether they have or they havn't?" "I'm going to be clear that I believe in intl law, I've long been an advocate of intl law" 01/05/2026
(Video) Ben Norton: Blatant imperialism: Marco Rubio claimed Latin America is the US empire's so-called "backyard" and made it clear he doesn't respect its sovereignty. Rubio said Latin American countries are not allowed to have close relations with China, Russia, and Iran. 01/05/2026 0105
(Video) The Panama Deception 1992
(Video) Nibs Niven: I fear the vicious, filthy rich grifter class in Venezuela have a shorter wish list than the filth in Panama did. What they did to all the poors in that shanty town was a huge war crime. The Panama Deception is a must watch: 10/27/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: After its illegal 1989-90 war on Panama under a phony anti-drug pretext, the US military left mass graves of civilians across the country. Many of the dead were children, and some bore signs of execution. The US regime is using Panama as a model for its planned war on Venezuela 10/27/2025
Noriega's version of this story may not be perfect; but it's far more credible than MSM or our government & many of the most important parts can be confirmed! It's available free online! 01/04/2026 Max Blumenthal: Two years after Bush's invasion of Panama and abduction of Noriega - all justified as an anti-drug operation - the US Government Accountability office found that drug trafficking from Panama had dramatically *increased* under the US puppet gov't
(Video) Medea Benjamin: This should shock the world. The Trump administration just crossed a dangerous line, kidnapping Venezuela’s president, declaring the U.S. will “run” the country, and threatening more attacks and troops on the ground. This isn’t about drugs. It’s about oil, power, and empire. U.S. interventions bring devastation, not peace. Contact Congress now and demand they invoke the War Powers Resolution to stop this illegal war: https://codepink.org/warpowersvzla CODEPINK stands with the people of Venezuela and all of Latin America. Hands Off Venezuela. Hands Off Latin America. 01/03/2026
(Video) Hamza Yusuf: Listen to language Sky News uses when reporting on the US attack on Venezuela: “stunning,” “spectacular,” “lit up the night sky…” You’d never guess they’re describing a coup, illegal strikes, and a kidnapping. This is propaganda, not journalism. 01/03/2026
(Video) Rania Khalek: The Venezuelans say that Maduro’s security detail was murdered in cold blood. 01/04/2026 Luigino Bracci Roa: In the statement read by Minister Vladimir Padrino López, it is denounced that "in cold blood a large part of the President's security team" Maduro was assassinated, "soldiers, female soldiers, and innocent citizens."
(Video) The Tennessee Holler: GS: “Sen. Warner said you can’t argue drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case while issuing a pardon in another…”🤔 @marcorubio : “Maduro was indicted.” GS: “Hernandez was CONVICTED.” RUBIO: “I wasn't involved in the pardon… I've got other things going on.” 🤷🏽♂️ 01/04/2026
(Video) Saul Staniforth: #BBCLauraK to Keir Starmer: "You've been incredibly clear, that Putins attack on a sovereign country, Ukraine, was wrong & ought to be condemned. What about Trumps attack on a sovereign country of Venezuela.. will you condemn that action against a sovereign state? 01/04/2026
(Video) Katie Halper: Colonel WARNS Venezuela Attack Means War With China 12/20/2025 Col. Lawrence Wilkerson talks nuclear war, China, Venezuela, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump.
(Video) Katie Halper: The REAL REASON Trump attacked Venezuela with retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. 01/03/2026
(Video) The Resonance: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: “The US is deliberately out to rip up any semblance or shred of international law. I don't know how Europe will feel when the United States invades Greenland. But don't be surprised when it happens...” 01/04/2026
(Video) Siddharth: Reporter: You said Maduro is responsible for drug trafficking. You recently pardoned the former president of Honduras convicted of drug trafficking. Trump: He was the head of the country. He was persecuted very unfairly. Irony died a thousand deaths. 01/03/2026
(Video) Trita Parsi: "You don't sound like you're speaking for an important country, you sound like you're speaking on behalf of a supplicant country who’s afraid of a bigger country.’ @Lewis_Goodall tears Labour’s Darren Jones apart on the UK's utter spinelessness on Venezuela. 01/04/2026
(Video) Max Blumenthal: They brought out the Bush torture memo guy who openly argued that no law or treaty could stop a US president from ordering the crushing of a child’s testicles to extract a confession from their parent 01/04/2026 Jacqui Heinrich: Fmr. US Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo disputes Kaine’s underpinning point that this was an act of war requiring congressional authorization
(Video) Marco Foster: Mehdi Hasan on Venezuela: “JD Vance claimed the legal rationale was the DOJ had indicted, this was a law enforcement operation which is absurd. Can a foreign country indict Donald Trump and send in their special forces into DC to grab the president? This is madness” 01/04/2026
(Video) Brian Allen: 🚨 HOLY HELL: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud. Asked by Kristen Welker why the U.S. needs Venezuelan oil, Rubio didn’t cite law, trade, or consent. He said: “Why does China need their oil? Russia? Iran? This is the West. This is where we live.” Russia, China, and Iran must “get out,” Rubio said — because the Western Hemisphere is ours, and no one from “outside our hemisphere” is allowed in America’s backyard. 01/04/2026
(Video) Meidas_Charise Lee: It sounds so ridiculous, doesn't it? It is a great analogy‼️ 01/04/2026 Satire about treating neighbors the way Trump treats Venezuela and Maduro.
(Video) Bill Madden: Holy shit! Trump's plan to steamroll Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez into acquiescing to him is not going as planned. After the 80-year-old pedophile attempted to intimidate Rodriguez, she apparently told him to go fuck himself. This isn't over. 😂🤣i😂🤣😂🤣👇 01/03/2026
(Video) The Resonance: “Trump is utterly wrong, utterly lying, when he says that the oil companies were stolen from the Americans, they were fully compensated, they had received compensation over and over and over, in addition to what they had extracted in profits out of Venezuela previously..” —Venezuelan Historian Miguel Tinker Salas 01/04/2026
(Video) Krystal Ball: It’s not supposed to be believable, it’s supposed to signal you are willing to lie and humiliate yourself for the regime. The more ridiculous the lie, the better. 01/02/2026 Acyn: Kayleigh: My mom went to see Melania. She said the theater was packed, it was standing room only. People were cheering through it, they were excited. It was interactive—people interplaying with the film. She said it was just electric.
Senator Chris Van Hollen: Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below: 01/03/2026
(Video) Zei_squirrel: Jeffrey Sachs published a study in 2019 showing US "sanctions" had already killed at least 40,000 people by then. Here he talks about how the US regime waged this economic terror campaign against Venezuela because it dared disobey its orders, which it continues to this day 01/03/2026
(Video) Dror Dayan: Nothing Imperialism hates more than people of the Global South asserting their agency and sovereignty. My heart goes to the people of Venezuela for the horrors inflicted upon them by our governments and our silence. 01/03/2026 BreakThrough News: “Maduro, hold on — the people are rising!” Reacting to reports that the US government has seized Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelans began to gather early this morning at the Presidential Palace in Miraflores, Caracas.
(Video) BreakThrough News: BreakThrough LIVE: US Bombs Venezuela, Trump Abducts Maduro 01/03/2026
(Video) BreakThrough News: "The entire Global South needs to come together and show solidarity and fight against it because this is not the end, this is not just an individual operation, this is the beginning of US complete domination of Latin America, of another Monroe Doctrine, the beginning of a neoliberal plan that Trump has for Latin America" @AChavezAlava 01/03/2026
I've seen some excellent reporting by Amnesty International, including about Israel & occupied territories; but this is shocking Machado is a War mongering puppet of Neo-Colonialists, far worse than Maduro, despite his problems! Amnesty International should know much better! 01/03/2026 Sa’eed Jiddan: Western “Human rights” orgs are tools for empire, as Palestinians have been telling you, never forget this. // 10/10/2024 Amnesty International: This is an important recognition to María Corina Machado, but also to the people of Venezuela who, for years, have endured repression and persecution for daring to think differently and challenging authorities over human rights violations.
(Video) ‘Thumbing the Nose’: CNN’s Erin Burnett Reports Maduro’s No. 2 Is Defying Trump 12/03/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: CNN’s Erin Burnett cheerfully announces that Venezuela and its people are “owned by the United States.” 01/03/2026 Erin Burnett Just to think about it, for such a simple black and white Venezuela and its people are “owned by the United States.”
(Video) Max Blumenthal: I interviewed incoming Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez in her office four years ago. Toward the end of our exchange, I asked her about her father, revolutionary leader Jorge Antonio Rodriguez, who was jailed and tortured to death by the US-backed gov't in 1976, and how that experience has informed her as Venezuela confronts the coordinated violence of the opposition and threats of invasion from Washington. Reflecting on the torture that leftists endured under cover of "liberal democracy" during Venezuela's Fourth Republic, she said, "The same forces who disappeared people, who tortured and murdered when they were in power, is the same opposition that has not changed its behavior but points to us as the violators of human rights" 01/03/2026
Clare Daly: Which principle of international law and the UN Charter permits one sovereign country to conduct an extraordinary rendition of the sitting head of the government of another sovereign country under the cover of shock and awe airstrikes on a high density civilian centre? 01/03/2026 Kaja Kallas: I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela. The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. Under all circumstances, the principles of international law and the UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint. The safety of EU citizens in the country is our top priority.
They faked drug charges against Noriega too, to justify Regime Change, his memoirs aren't perfect but its better than MSM! Some of his comments are self-serving, of course, but much more describes a pattern of behavior of Wall Street/CIA Neo-Colonialism! 01/03/2026
Chris Hedges: The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state. Violence does not generate peace. It generates violence. The immolation of international and humanitarian law, as the U.S. and Israel have done in Gaza, and as took place in Caracas, generates a world without laws, a world of failed states, warlords, rogue imperial powers and perpetual violence and chaos. If there is one lesson we should have learned in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, it is that regime change spawns Frankensteinian monsters of our own creation. The Venezuelan military and security forces will no more accept the kidnapping of their president and U.S. domination — done as in Iraq to seize vast oil reserves — than the Iraqi security forces and military or the Taliban. This will not go well for anyone, including the U.S. 01/03/2026 George Galloway: The kidnapping of Maduro and his wife by Trump is an illegal act of international piracy and gangsterism. He did it because he could. Because he had procured traitors. Let there be no further talk of law, of order, of rights. It’s a victory for Trump in Venezuela. It’s the end of Ukraine and Taiwan.
Ali Abunimah: Breaking: @antonioguterres has finally spoken and has failed to clearly and unequivocally condemn a gross and blatant violation of the UN Charter, a war of aggression and the kidnapping of a head of state of a UN member. Shameful but not surprising. 01/03/2026
(Video) Abby Martin: Insanity. The Bush admin spent months manufacturing WMD lies as pretext to their criminal invasion. Trump and his mafia cohort openly admit this war is about stealing Venezuela’s oil 01/03/2026 Aaron Rupar: FOX & FRIENDS: What do you see as the future of Venezuela's oil industry? TRUMP: Well I see that we're gonna be very strongly involved in it. That's all. What can I say. We have the greatest oil companies in the world.
(Video) The Resonance: 🇻🇪 Protester : “Enough sabotage! Enough blockade! Enough hatred! Enough threats from the North American empire against the homeland of Bolívar and Chávez!” “Today we demand that they return our President Nicolás to us...” 01/03/2026
(Video) Camila: “Where is the statement from the supposed Nobel Prize winner who speaks of peace when her country, Venezuela, has been attacked by U.S. imperialism? Where are you? Where are those countries that have remained silent in the face of this situation, this circumstance? We, as a people, as working men and women, demand respect first. And second, we are in the streets. First, because we believe in democracy. Just as we went out to vote on July 28th for President Nicolás Maduro, and just as all sectors of the country recognized his victory, today we demand that the U.S. government, imperialism, and all the transnational corporations that we know very well are behind all of this, return President Nicolás Maduro to us safe and sound.” 01/03/2026
(Video) Ben Norton: After bombing Venezuela and abducting President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump said the US government is "going to run the country" until there is a "transition" to pro-US leadership. He boasted that "very large" US corporations will exploit its oil. This is blatant colonialism. 01/03/2026
(Video) Drop Site: Chris Gilbert shares an update for Drop Site from outside Miraflores Palace in Caracas, where people have gathered to reject the violation of their sovereignty: “People have come together to defend the Bolivarian process, to defend the government, and to defend our President Nicolas Madura,” Gilbert says. “The government is in control of the situation. There will be no transition to another government,” he adds. 01/03/2026
(Video) Owen Jones: Donald Trump has just announced that the US is taking over Venezuela. He has also made clear that Venezuela’s oil industry will fall into US hands. It's not even subtle. It's loud and proud, in your face, naked imperialism. 01/03/2026 Aaron Rupar: Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
(Video) Ounka: The reason why Venezuela is under attack. U.S. Southern Command chief General Laura Richardson just said the truth out loud: The U.S. focus in Latin America isn’t “democracy” — it’s controlling oil, lithium, gold, and rare earth minerals. Venezuela, with the largest oil reserves and key strategic resources, is the main target 12/03/2025
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Rep. Brian Mast openly bragged about bombing Caracas, killing 100 people, and “snatching” Venezuela’s president. Every life lost in Caracas was someone’s family member, neighbor, or friend. This moment should force us to ask not only what powers the U.S claims, but why we keep tolerating them, and at what cost to human dignity and international law. Call your member of Congress TODAY at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to vote yes on the War Powers Resolution to rein in unauthorized military action in Venezuela 12/22/2025
(Video) There's more evidence of violent protesters in Iran, Venezuela, or in the 1980s in Panama or Nicaraagua, than there is in the USA, and these violent protesters are often funded by the CIA! 01/25/2026 PS the video Blumenthal shared is several years old, possibly from Trump's first term, which would make it five years old, and it's a Florida Sheriff. Max Blumenthal: Best take on the past 3 weeks // Iran Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands: When U.S. police say, “If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at our deputies, we will kill you,” it’s called law enforcement. But when hundreds of Iranian police & thousands of innocent civilians are killed, Western media calls the perpetrators “peaceful protesters".
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Rep. Brian Mast openly bragged about bombing Caracas, killing 100 people, and “snatching” Venezuela’s president. Every life lost in Caracas was someone’s family member, neighbor, or friend. This moment should force us to ask not only what powers the U.S claims, but why we keep tolerating them, and at what cost to human dignity and international law. Call your member of Congress TODAY at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to vote yes on the War Powers Resolution to rein in unauthorized military action in Venezuela 12/22/2025
(Video) LeaAnn Duncan: Ounka: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina #Machado wants more bombs, not just for #Venezuela but for #Cuba and #Nicaragua too 01/21/2026
(Video) Acyn: Watters: How does taking out a dictator in Venezuela help the average American? Vance: It means is we are going to be able to control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela 01/07/2026
(Video) COMBATE |🇵🇷: Nicaragua President Ortega: "As Don Quixote said—if they bark, it's because we're moving forward. They've been exposed. We said they wanted oil. And what did they do? Steal oil tankers. They are thieves. Thieves in suits." 12/28/2025
Ben Norton: The US-backed electoral coup has succeeded in Honduras. Nearly a month after the election, which featured some of the most blatant fraud I have ever seen, the "winner" was declared to be Trump-backed oligarch candidate Nasry "Tito" Asfura, who is from the notoriously corrupt right-wing National Party, which is run by drug traffickers. Asfura pledged that he will break Honduras' ties with China and recognize Taiwan separatists. And he will strongly support the Israeli apartheid regime, of course. He is an obedient US puppet. Below, a member of Honduras' National Electoral Council (CNE) reveals how the other members of the CNE conspired with foreign governments in order to carry out an "electoral coup d'etat". The CNE was supposed to carry out a full recount of the votes, but it didn't finish the recount, and instead the other counselors went to a foreign embassy, where they reported that US-backed candidate Asfura had "won", without evidence. The US government openly meddled in Honduras' election. Trump publicly endorsed and campaigned for Asfura, and threatened to punish the entire country if he didn't "win" the election. Trump also pardoned and released from prison the right-wing former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), the previous leader of Asfura's National Party. JOH is one of the worst drug traffickers on Earth. His close allies will now be governing Honduras, on behalf of Washington (and Wall Street). Below, this CNE official says, "The United States and the elites, who are allies of organized crime, want a president who responds to their interests". They now have one. 12/25/2025 Marlon: Continuing their tradition of illegalities, the representatives of the bipartisanship, Councilors Ana Paola Hall and Cossette López, have hurried to impose from an embassy the final declaration of the presidential election without having concluded the vote count and without even having resolved the complaints and demands for a recount. Of course I understand the United States, and the elites allied with organized crime, want a President who answers to their interests NO MATTER that he emerges from an electoral coup d’état. Honduras will only be free, sovereign and independent when it is Hondurans who are the owners of their destiny. I request that it be recorded in the minutes of the national memory that today, December 24, 2025, the date on which we celebrate the birth of the redeemer crucified by the Roman empire, was the day that in Honduras the will of the people was murdered and supplanted by that of the empire. They will not be able to crucify the truth!
White House orders military to focus on 'quarantine' of Venezuela oil 12/24/2025
Ben Norton: Reuters reports: "The White House has ordered U.S. military forces to focus almost exclusively on enforcing a 'quarantine' of Venezuelan oil for at least the next two months". So the US military is the largest force for piracy on Earth. Trump's plan is to continue stealing Venezuela's oil and imposing this criminal naval blockade for months -- to starve the Venezuelan government of export revenue, crash the currency, provoke hyperinflation, and intentionally unleash an economic crisis that causes millions of Venezuelans to suffer, all to desperately try to bring about regime change and install a US puppet regime that will sell off Venezuela's oil, gas, gold, critical minerals, and other assets to US corporations on the cheap. 12/25/2025
Multidimensional poverty in Argentina reached 67 percent 12/10/2025 According to INDEC, Argentina currently has a poverty rate of 31.6 percent . However, this measurement has faced criticism from various quarters. On one hand, the Argentine Social Debt Observatory (OSDA) at the Catholic University of Argentina ( UCA ) pointed out errors and stated that the real figure is 36.3 percent . Separately, experts indicate that if poverty is measured multidimensionally , the figure doubles, reaching 67 percent. This was explained on Radio 750 by Martín Maldonado , PhD in Political Science and Researcher at Conicet, who explained that "the poverty measurement shows 67 percent of people lacking access to rights ," but that "Indec only measures monetary deprivation."
Ben Norton: The actual poverty rate is 67% in Argentina's US-backed libertarian Javier Milei regime, when it is measured with a multidimensional index. Official Argentine government statistics grossly underestimate the poverty rate, because they only measure it as a certain threshold of income, which has failed to take into account the enormous inflation in Argentina and the skyrocketing cost of basic services. When researchers used the multidimensional poverty index -- measuring other factors like access to electricity, water, housing, health care, sanitation, nutrition, education, etc. -- they found that two-thirds of Argentines are living in poverty in Milei's "anarcho-capitalist" experiment (despite the tens of billions of dollars of funding given by the US and IMF to prop up Milei's regime). The multidimensional poverty index is already officially used by Mexico, Brazil, and Chile, but not by Argentina, likely because the government wants to make poverty appear much lower than it actually is. 12/23/2025
(Video) Howard Beckett: Trump 🇺🇸 fails to hold back his smirk as he casually tells the world he is “keeping” Venezuela 🇻🇪 stolen oil & tankers. Theft & piracy normalised. Gangsters are running the world. International law is no more. 12/23/2025
(Video) Sony Thăng: Cuba is not a "disaster" because Cubans are incompetent. Cuba is a poor country that has survived 60+ years of blockade from the richest empire on earth. You call them "incompetent people" while ignoring that Washington has tried, every single decade, to strangle their economy, sabotage their development, and punish any country that trades with them. The miracle is not that Cuba is poor. The miracle is that after Bay of Pigs, assassination attempts, terrorism, sanctions, and embargoes, Cuba still has doctors, schools, and a state that never once knelt and begged for U.S. permission to exist. If Cuba is "destroyed," what do you call a country that spends trillions on wars and still can’t give its people free healthcare, affordable housing, or debt-free education? You look at a nation that has been economically suffocated for generations and blame the victim’s "incompetence." I look at the same island and see something else: A small country that refused to sell its sovereignty, and is still being punished for the crime of not wanting to be someone else’s plantation. 12/20/2025 Clash Report: Marco Rubio: Cuba is a disaster. It is not just because they are Marxists and because they are terrorists. They are incompetent. These are incompetent people, and they destroyed that country.
Max Blumenthal: Marco Rubio could be the first Secretary of State with first hand experience in the "Cocaine Cowboy" scene of 1980's Miami, in which his drug smuggler brother-in-law made a fortune. In her book, Corporate Coup, @anyaparampil explains why they call him Narco Rubio 11/12/2024
Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire 2024 by Anya Parampil (Author), Jorge Arreaza (Foreword)
Max Blumenthal: US corporate media portrayed Hugo Chavez as paranoid for preparing for a US invasion of his country. Seems like he was on to something 12/18/2025
(Video) Medea Benjamin: If @RepCuellar and @RepGonzalez had voted to stop a war with Venezuela, the resolution would have passed. Instead, they were the only Democrats to vote no. Surprise, surprise! These Texans sided with the oil companies instead. 12/17/2025
Max Blumenthal: Several authors have pulled out of the Hay Festival Cartagena due to the participation of coup plotter Maria Corina Machado. Colombian author Laura Restrepo: “one cannot give a platform and facilitate an audience to someone who, like Mrs. Machado, promotes positions and activities in favor of the subjugation of our peoples and against the sovereignty of our countries” 12/18/2025 La Jornada Impresa: 📚 Colombian Authors Cancel Attendance at Hay Festival Due to María Corina Machado's Presence. Laura Restrepo and Giuseppe Caputo, along with Dominican author Mikaelah Drullard, announced that they are canceling their participation in the 2026 edition of the event to be held in Cartagena in protest of the attendance of the Venezuelan opposition figure. The author of *Delirio* (Alfaguara Prize 2004) argues that “one cannot give a platform and facilitate an audience to someone who, like Mrs. Machado, promotes positions and activities in favor of the subjugation of our peoples and against the sovereignty of our countries.”
When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning. 10/10/2025 When I saw the headline Maria Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize, I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering. Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics.
Holly Blomberg: “Machado isn’t a symbol of peace or progress. She is part of a global alliance between fascism, Zionism, and neoliberalism, an axis that justifies domination in the language of democracy and peace” 12/17/2025
(Video) WAR: 🇻🇪🚨 Attention: 89% of Venezuelans reject Maria Corina Machado. Polls are revealing the real opinion in Venezuela, not what social media says. 12/16/2025
Exclusive / Trump allies seek White House visit for Venezuelan opposition leader 12/17/2025
Ben Norton: Trump allies are organizing a White House visit for far-right Venezuelan coup leader María Corina Machado. Machado wants to give Trump her Nobel "Peace" Prize medal, to thank him for waging war on Venezuela, to show "that strength is a force for peace". War is peace. 12/17/2025
Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado 12/17/2025
Max Blumenthal: Insiders used advanced knowledge of Maria Corina Machado's imminent win to rake in ~$100,000 on Polymarket. The Nobel Committee announced an investigation into the scandal last October, but has produced no conclusions. Did they interview Machado and members of her team? 12/18/2025
(Video) Guille Vidal: Interviewer: "How can you reconcile the fact of calling for a military invasion with the Nobel Peace Prize?" Maria Corina Machado: "We need war to achieve peace because peace is an act of love" George Orwell warned us about this in '1984' #DoubleSpeak 12/16/2025
Ricardo Hausmann’s ‘Morning After’ for Venezuela: The Neoliberal Brain Behind Juan Guaido’s Economic Agenda 03/14/2019
How obvious can the demonization of Venezuela be? Even those not familiar with Neo-Colonialism who pay attention to the news, especially alternative media more credible than corporate media see through this! 12/17/2025 Max Blumenthal: Thank you for hosting the former Juan Guaido advisor Ricardo Hausmann who helped destroy Venezuela’s economy in the 1980’s by implementing IMF austerity packages, triggering bread riots and social unrest. Makes it clear what the opposition has planned // Jim Sciutto: “Venezuelans are massively in favor of maximum pressure on #Maduro for him to leave,” Venezuela’s fmr Planning Minister Ricardo Haudmann told me. So I asked if that maximum pressure includes a US invasion of #Venezuela? Hausmann: “Well, the calculus has to be what will make president Maduro or the dictator Maduro think that he's better off in some golden exile somewhere else than in Venezuela, and that will be, you know, essentially making it unbearable for him to stay. And that's that's the only thing that needs to happen, make it unbearable on Maduro.”
(Video) Rania Khalek: Venezuela being in charge of its own oil wealth is considered a form of theft by the US ruling class. 12/17/2025 Aaron Rupar: Trump on Venezuela: "They took all of our oil and we want it back. They illegally took it."
(Video) Alan MacLeod: HatsOff: Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado an intervention in Venezuela would be an "act of love," not a "conventional regime change." 12/1/2025
(Video) Afshin Rattansi: Hugo Chavez predicted the US using the fake narco-trafficking pretext being used against Venezuela🇻🇪: ‘I've received alerts-even from serious people not aligned with us, about a long-term operation being orchestrated by the Pentagon. They want to link Chávez to drug trafficking. Why? Because against a 'narco-president,' anything goes.’ 12/10/2025 $50 million bounty on his head, constant threats of assassination by the CIA, President Trump saying his days are numbered: Venezuela’s🇻🇪 President Nicolas Maduro:
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Under Venezuela’s pre-Chavez “democracy,” 40% of the population was disenfranchised, most were mired in poverty, the military mowed down those who protested IMF austerity, and two neoliberal parties traded power with bankers holding sway - just like US politics today 12/11/2025 Afshin Rattansi: The daughter of CIA asset Maria Corina Machado is now publicly mourning and romanticising Venezuela🇻🇪 before Hugo Chavez. The Venezuela she cries for is the Venezuela where only a small minority enjoyed wealth and opulence. Poverty before Hugo Chavez came to power was at 70.8% in 1996, reduced to 21% by 2010. Extreme poverty was at 40% in 1996, and was reduced to 7.3% in 2010 by Chavez. Then came the US’ economic warfare against Venezuela. Maria Corina Machado and her family want to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution, which is under siege, so a small parasitic elite can enjoy wealth and opulence again as the natural resources of her country are plundered by the USA.
(Video) Afshin Rattansi: Nobel Farce Prize Winner Maria Corina Machado is not a freedom fighter, she’s a CIA asset and de facto spokeswoman for US corporations: Here she is smiling gleefully at the prospect of selling $1.7 trillion of infrastructure and resources should the US🇺🇸 carry out regime change in Venezuela🇻🇪 and install her in Miraflores, promising ‘we have a massive privatisation program waiting for you.’ It should come as no surprise, considering she is from one of Venezuela’s elite families that lost their privileges after Chavez’ Bolivarian Revolution. 12/13/2025 Going Underground: 🇻🇪Maria Corina Machado: From one of Venezuela’s richest elite families, now masquerading as a freedom fighter. ‘Maria Corina Machado is a representative of the Venezuelan elite. She has been so throughout her political life, and she has strived against the democratic process that was being carried out here in Venezuela. Her family is one of the wealthiest families that helped maintain a system of exclusion to the masses here in Venezuela. ........ Much more
Max Blumenthal: This is how Venezuela's "Cartel of the Suns" was born. The CIA created it to traffic drugs into the US, and it has never existed since. This is the entire basis of Trump's "narco-terror" designation 12/11/2025
(Video) Irlandarra: President Trump says war in Venezuela is "starting." An American War Soldier in Vietnam in 1969 gave a message to the future for the next 50 years. "Don't send your sons to finish what politicians start" 12/13/2025 The Kobeissi Letter: BREAKING: President Trump says land strikes in Venezuela are "starting."
Max Blumenthal: Reuters: "legal specialists" say the US seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker is not piracy because when the US does it, it's merely enforcing the rules-based order 12/12/2025
(Video) The Grayzone Max J Blumenthal: "God saved our lives that day. Because they planned it to perfection, and Venezuela would have entered a new phase" In a 2019 interview with @maxjblumenthal Nicolas Maduro reflected on surviving an assassination attempt, and explained how the US and its proxies were hunting him. Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel. Follow @thegrayzonenews 01/19/2026
AJ+: Almost 10 years since Honduran Indigenous activist Berta Cáceres was murdered, a report has shed new light on how her murder was financed by funds disbursed by international development banks. Cáceres fought against land exploitation and was a fierce advocate for Indigenous and environmental rights. The report builds on a 2017 investigation on how the Honduran company, hired to manage the construction of a hydroelectric dam, created shell companies to divert funds to pay for Cáceres’ murder and other illicit activities. 01/16/2026
(Video) The Grayzone: Max Blumenthal The "star witness" against Maduro cut a secret deal with the US 01/11/2026
AJ+: When you look at the last 200 years of the United States’ relationship with Latin America, President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “Donroe Doctrine” is nothing new – at least so far. Since it was declared in 1823, the U.S. has repeatedly used the Monroe Doctrine to justify its actions across the Western Hemisphere. Presidents from James Monroe himself to Trump have used the doctrine to assert the U.S.’ power in the region at the expense of Latin American countries. From taking territory from Mexico in the Mexican-American War to toppling leftist governments during the Cold War, the United States has repeatedly involved itself in the affairs of independent countries in the region whenever they are perceived as challenging American interests, whether ideological or economic. 01/08/2026
Bruce Fanger: REGIME CHANGE BY INDICTMENT. Venezuela and the quiet collapse of sovereignty. White Rose January 3 2026 What happened in Venezuela is being described as enforcement. That word is doing enormous work. It is meant to shrink the event, to make it procedural, to imply inevitability. But what unfolded was not routine and not regional. It was a declaration that power, armed with domestic law, can now reach across borders and remove a head of state. ..... Much more 01/03/2026
Lee Camp: 🚨 Here's Every Time The US Has Coup'ed A Latin American Country Since 1950 🚨 Sadly, when the US government invaded Venezuela and kidnapped their president this weekend, they committed a horrific and criminal act that is not new for the United States. Below is all the times the US has kidnapped, assassinated and invaded a Latin American country in order to create regime change since 1950. But in order to cut it down to a reasonable number, I left out lawfare coups, economic warfare, funding of guerrilla groups, and attempted coups (with one or two exceptions). Please include any I missed in the comment section. ..... Much more with long list of coups 01/07/2026
(Video) Ian UltraLau: Never once has the country invaded by the US benefited from it; they invade to steal resources for the rich. 01/07/2026
AJ+: The U.S. has invaded countries on almost every continent on Earth. The attack and kidnapping of Venezuela’s president and his wife was just the latest in a long history of invasions that breach international law. Here’s how the U.S. keeps attacking the world with few consequences. 01/05/2026 Almost a dozen Memes for various coups.
Elizabeth Berry: HERE ARE A FEW FACTS ABOUT VENEZUELA OMITTED BY THE ZIONIST OWNED USA MEDIA: [Photo: Jorge Antonio Rodriguez, father of Delcy Rodriguez, tortured to death by CIA backed security forces in 1976] 1.They never mentioned that 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the torture to death of Delcy Rodriguez's father, socialist activist Jorge Rodríguez, by the C.I.A.-backed security services of the U.S.-aligned Pérez regime in Venezuela. 01/07/2026 2. Nor did they mention that the elected governments of Hugo Chávez reduced extreme poverty by over 70 percent, reduced poverty by 50 percent, halved unemployment, quadrupled the number receiving a state pension and achieved 100 percent literacy. Chávez took Venezuela from the most unequal society for wealth distribution in Latin America to the most equal. 3.Nor have they mentioned that María Corina Machado [the "darling" who gave her Nobel Prize to Trump] is from one of Venezuela’s wealthiest families, which dominated the electricity and steel industries before nationalisation, and that her backers are the very families that were behind those C.I.A.-controlled murderous regimes. __________________________________ Stupid accusation that Venezuela is a major production or trafficking point for narcotics entering the U.S.A. is simply a nonsense. Nicolás Maduro has his faults, but he is not a drug trafficking kingpin. The claim is utter garbage. “The kidnap of Maduro, the rush of Western powers to accept it, and the inability of the rest of the world to do anything about it, have underlined that international law is simply dead.” - Craig Murray. I agree but it has been dead at least since Oct 7, 2023 ifi not before.
Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras by Costa-Gavras
(Video) Kim Carlson: Several days ago I posted a video screen grab—that Facebook immediately censored because of a (cough-cough) copyright violation—of the 1982 Costa-Gavras' film "Missing"—which, if you've never seen it, you absolutely should—with the following accompanying text rendered toothless without the clip. It felt synchronistic that only hours before I posted this, the US had invaded one more country and renditioned its president, adding Venezuela to a long list of "overthrowing other people's governments" in the vernacular of William Blum. I knew nothing about the coup until the next day. “One of the most powerful and revealing indictments of ruthless US regime change for its own selfish interests is seen here in Costa-Gavra's 1982 Oscar-winning film "Missing," based on the 1978 book by Thomas Hauser originally titled "The Execution of Charles Horman and American Sacrifice." ....... Much more 01/06/2026
(Video) The Sundeep: BBC instructed reporters not to call the kidnapping of Maduro "kidnapping." 01/06/2026
(Video) I'm no fan of Saddam Hussein, of course, but when it served Bush and Reagan's agenda they were; Qaddafi is a little strange but much better than they want us to believe, just about everything our government says about the other three is wrong, and they're all much stronger supporters of Democracy than our government! 01/06/2026 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1391477859017720
(Video) James Rivers: The US has called Venezuela a dicatorship; let's take a look at some of the real discators the US has supported. 01/06/2026 "For them democracy is a a government that doesn't allow them to steal their oil, a dictatorship is someone who puts the will of the people over the will of the wealthy elites."
The Socialist Correspondent: I WAS AN ELECTION OBSERVER FOR THE JULY 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN VENEZUELA By Calvin Tucker The US and the Western media have been lying about Venezuelan 🇻🇪 elections being rigged for over 25 years — to soften up public opinion for a military attack. I was an election observer for the July 2024 presidentials and I went to both the opposition’s and Maduro’s final rallies in Caracas. The Western media covered the former (fifty thousand strong) but ignored the million who came out for Maduro. See pic - I was on the stand to the right of the stage. This is a war for Venezuela’s oil and resources, and to dominate and colonise Latin America. The US is resorting to war precisely because the Bolivarian Revolution is too popular to be defeated through sanctions and pop-up middle class ‘colour revolutions’. Don’t be fooled by media manipulation. 01/04/2026
(Video) Hugo Chavez warns that the United States is planning to attack and lists many past coups or attacks to show a pattern of behavior. 01/05/2026
Big Surprise: Legal Story Changes as Maduro Brought to Court 01/06/2026
Jay Cryer: an excellent summary of what we know now and what may be happening in caracas.. 01/06/2026
Vince: They are too stupid to realize it but this picture is such a self-own. They have to pixelate their own faces out of fear, meanwhile President Maduro has his thumbs up. Unbreakable. Everything he said about the US, they proved him right. @riichimedhurst 01/05/2026
(Video) Jeffrey Sachs Blasts US Power Grab Over Venezuela, Maduro Capture at Historic UN Meeting | AC1G 01/05/2026 Economist and UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs delivered blistering remarks at an emergency UN Security Council meeting, condemning U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Sachs warned of U.S. “hegemonic power grabs,” urging the Council to defend the UN Charter and international law. For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News.
(Video) James Rivers: This always gets me. 01/05/2026 When they kidnapped Maduro they killed 40 people including an 80 year old woman and declared there were no casualties, because they only count troops not citizens from other countries.
(Video) Zach for the People: American coups from Iran 1953 to kidnapping Maduro 01/04/2026
The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War 01/04/2026 By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.
The Intercept: "For the past several months, U.S. media has been working overtime to provide pseudo-legal cover for Trump’s aggression against Venezuela, a task the White House itself has barely bothered to feign interest in," writes Adam H. Johnson. 01/05/2026
Commie Economist: Trump literally just admitted Maduro is an overwhelmingly popular leader and everybody hates that right wing fascist, Machado, whom NATO pretended won the election. So, she won an election with no support of the people? Feel propagandized by fascist NATO yet? 01/04/2026
Noriega said protesters showed up in Mercedes; if they got tired in the heat they had maids take their place! Miami Now! 👇👇👇 01/04/2026 Like I said in a previous article I don't guarantee everything he said, but Peter Eisner confirmed many details and I also recognized he described a pattern of behavior. Now MSNBC and other media outlets are highlighting phony rallies by rich immigrants faking support for the coup and Maria Corina Machado. Despite his flaws, and there are many, Noriega is more credible than Trump or MSM, read his book and judge for yourself! // Excerpt: "There was a distorted notion that Panama was close to revolution. All eyes focused on Calle 50, where the protesters arrived in their Mercedes, and their perfume-soaked women waved starched white handkerchiefs. Instead of going to play tennis or find a game of poker at the Union Club, they would drive down to Calle 50 for a few hours of protest. And when they got hot and tired in the evening heat, they could always send down their maids to do the protesting for them, carrying along their Teflon-coated pots and pans to bang a phony protest rhythm. It didn’t sound like the fire-hardened,blackened iron pots of San Miguelito or of the poor neighborhoods. There were no protests there."
(Video) Karena Acree-Páez: @telesurenglish Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez rectifies the attack on the country and the kidnapping of the Constitutional President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in the early hours of January 3. He also rectified that the Venezuelan military remains firm and united in the face of threats. 01/04/2026
(Video) Deanna McCann: Jeffrey Sachs talking about how the US government is the most corrupt in the world; lies about WMDs in Iraq was for marketing purposes based on a focus group. 01/04/2026
(Video) Deanna McCann: I don't know if Maduro is a good guy, but the way they went about this is wrong, it's not drugs, but natural resources. 01/04/2026
Councilmember Kshama Sawant: NO WAR ON VENEZUELA. MASS STRIKE ACTION URGENTLY NEEDED! Despite widespread opposition from working people, Donald Trump and the Republicans have launched a horrific attack against Venezuela and carried out a military coup, including abducting President Nicolás Maduro. This assault by U.S. imperialism must be completely condemned. It is a culmination of a decades-long project of both parties of U.S. imperialism, motivated not by the false allegations of “narco terrorism” but by a grab for Venezuela’s oil wealth and retaliation against the anti-imperialist stances of the Venezuelan government. Swipe to read my full statement and join my independent working-class campaign to build the antiwar movement and to send the first-ever revolutionary socialist to the U.S. Congress. 01/04/2026
(Video) Deanna McCann: Nicolás Maduro was not a dictator, has never been a dictator. 01/04/2026 Miami provides wealthy elites amnesty and resources if they oppose governments that defend the poor.
(Video) Ian UltraLau: Vice President Delcy Rodriguez declares Venezuela will not cooperate with Trump and will protect natural resources. 01/04/2026
(Video) Peter Beinart: Nicolás Maduro was an authoritarian leader who did terrible things, but the fundamental principle is unless a government is actually threatening the safety of Americans, which is almost never the case, then the United States may not violate another country’s sovereignty, regardless of the pretext offered. 01/04/2026
(Video) Vince: Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez says that Venezuela was attacked by "Zionists" seeking to enslave them. 01/04/2026
Oil, China, BRICS, and Cuba: The Real Reasons for Washington's Regime Change in Venezuela 01/03/2026 Dorothy Lennon Allegations of drug trafficking against Venezuela are a lie to justify something greater.
Dorothy Lennon: Trump tried to claim Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is going to bow to the dictates of Washington. Max Blumenthal interviewed her several years ago. If the Trump administration believes she’s going to placate them, they clearly don’t know her or her past. 01/03/2026
(Video) Ahnala Sutherland: I'm going to explain Venezuela like you're five. 01/03/2026
The Memoirs Of Manuel Noriega 1997 by Manuel Antonio Noriega, Peter Eisner
They faked drug charges against Noriega too, to justify Regime Change, his memoirs aren't perfect but its better than MSM ! 👇👇👇 01/03/2026 Many people may have doubts about Noriega's credibility, including myself; but Peter Eisner said he was able to confirm a large portion of his story, and I also read enough to know it follows a pattern of behavior of our government. If you read through his book you might find a few examples where he might be a little to biased in his own favor, as I have, but there are many more examples that can be confirmed independently. The Free Internet Archive copy is fewer pages than the print, possibly because of smaller print, but there's still a few cheap copies available, but not many. It seems to be out of print.
(Video) Roger Jao: The attack against Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro is an act of War, and it was never about drugs. 01/03/2026
(Video) Pissed Magistus: Who didn't see this coming? 01/03/2026 The attack on Venezuela is part of a long pattern of behavior that goes back decades, it's just more brazen than most recent attacks.
Carlito Rovira: COMMUNIQUÉ BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, condemns, and denounces to the international community the grave military aggression perpetrated by the current Government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and population in the civilian and military localities of the city of Caracas, capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, particularly its Articles 1 and 2, which enshrine respect for sovereignty, the legal equality of States, and the prohibition of the use of force. Such aggression threatens international peace and stability, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean, and gravely endangers the lives of millions of people. ...... Much more 01/03/2026
Andrea Nabi: Breaking News🚨 🇷🇺✊🏻Russia blasts Trump at the UN: "For several months now, the entire world has had the opportunity to observe how the United States continues to deliberately escalate tensions around our friendly nation Venezuela under the pretext of combating drug trafficking and terrorist threats, while illegally destroying civilian vessels in the Caribbean Sea. At the previous Council meeting, we all had the opportunity to see that behind this artificial façade lies the objective of building up American military forces and exerting pressure on an independent state whose policies do not suit Washington. ....... Much more 12/23/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Trump proudly announces an act of piracy, with the US theft of an oil tanker from Venezuela bound for Cuba. This act of financial terrorism was aimed at starving Cuba of energy, worsening its blackout crisis and tormenting its population 12/10/2025
Max Blumenthal: According to WSJ, citing a "person" and "people," this is the story of how Maria Corina Machado supposedly "escaped" Venezuela: "Wearing a wig and a disguise, María Corina Machado began her escape from Venezuela on Monday afternoon... Over the course of 10 nerve-racking hours, Machado and two people helping her escape hit 10 military checkpoints, avoiding capture each time, before she reached the coast by midnight, said a person close to the operation. She rested for a few hours, the person said, before the next leg of her journey: a perilous trip across the open Caribbean Sea to Curaçao. She and her two companions set out on a typical wooden fishing skiff at 5 a.m., the person said, with strong winds and choppy seas slowing them down." So Machado made it through ten full military checkpoints without government knowledge, then sailed through perilous seas in a simple wooden peñero boat - the kind which US drones routinely attack - risking her life to collect a Nobel Prize in Oslo. What's more, she'd been "in hiding" in Venezuela, as though the government had not tolerated her presence for decades as she clamored for foreign military interventions, sanctions, coups and engaged in seditious activities no Western state would tolerate within its borders. And there is no absolutely chance she's been secretly living abroad in a US-aligned country for months, or perhaps longer, waiting for her carefully staged Oslo ceremony to come out in exile. If you believe this risible CIA propaganda, you might also believe that Machado is a freedom fight who merely wants to restore democracy to the country she loves. 12/10/2025
Max Blumenthal: The US regime has carried out piracy and theft against designated enemies under Democratic and Republican admins. Biden’s goons stole a plane belonging to Venezuela. Before that, Trump stole Citgo from Venezuela. Washington normalizes these crimes through unilateral sanctions 12/10/2025 09/02/2024 A Biden spokesman explained that the hijacking of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s plane was a “consequence” of his “misgovernance.” Of course, it is the exceptional governance of the United States which entitles it to engage in piracy abroad
Trump says US seized oil tanker off Venezuela coast in major escalation 12/11/2025 Venezuela accuses the US of ‘blatant theft’ and ‘international piracy’ after US forces stormed a sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean
Ben Norton: The US regime is run by imperialist pirates: Donald Trump boasted, "We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized". Trump added that the US regime will steal the oil in the tanker. 12/10/2025
(Video) CALL TO ACTIVISM: 🚨You can’t make this up. Donald Trump announces he has intercepted a tanker off the coast of Venezuela that contained “illegal Iranian oil” - And says the United States will KEEP the oil. So piracy is his foreign policy? This is completely unhinged. 12/10/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Nobel winner Maria Corina Machado lured Venezuelans to the US as migrants after lobbying for starvation sanctions, then endorsed their torture in CECOT. She supports the boat strikes and blocking flights to Venezuela. Last year, she incited these riots 12/10/2025 Witness the nail in the coffin of the already discredited Nobel Prize, as it awards the US govt-sponsored author of two failed coups, multiple violent riots, and several public calls for apartheid Israel and the US military to attack Venezuela in order to install her as leader.
(Video) Max Blumenthal: The Jalisco Cartel’s alleged US co-conspirators: Paul Campo, former DEA official in charge of fighting money laundering. Robert Sensi, longtime CIA asset who served as a witness to Reagan’s October Surprise. Now let’s bomb some Venezuelan speed boats 12/08/2025 The Grayzone: A top ex-DEA official and veteran CIA asset were busted in $12 million scheme to launder cash and procure drones for Mexico’s Jalisco cartel. @MaxBlumenthal visits a Northern Virginia home raided by federal agents and wonders who America’s drug warriors are really working for
Maine: The Sackler Family did more for the fentanyl epidemic and are responsible for more American deaths than Venezuela. None of them are in prison. 12/07/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: The whole rationale for massacring boat crews and attacking Venezuela is an insult to our intelligence, an affront to our basic sense of humanity, and cover for a criminal racket based out of Washington and Miami 12/04/2025
(Video) The Tennessee Holler: NAVARRO: “No Fentanyl comes from Venezuela. You’re wrong. You’re lying to the American people.” @HarrisonWField : “Your day job is ‘The View.’” 🔥 @ananavarro : “You have no day job.” 👀 12/03/2025
Machado: Overthrowing Maduro in Venezuela Isn’t ‘Regime Change’ 12/03/2025 The support of the U.S. isn’t standard interventionism; it is a principled alignment with a people who have already decided their future. Your editorial “The High Stakes in Venezuela” (Dec. 1) rightly underscores the regional consequences of the conflict in Caracas. Critics who describe the moment as a debate over U.S.-orchestrated “regime change” miss the deeper truth: This is a national awakening inspired by millions of citizens determined to reclaim their republic and live in freedom.
Alan MacLeod: They really think that you are this stupid. 12/04/2025
(Video) "You've saved hundreds of millions of lives with the cocaine you've blown up in the Caribbean." 12/04/2025 Glenn Greenwald: Pam Bondi claimed Trump saved "258 million lives" by stopping fentanyl. Trump this Monday said: "300 million people died last year from drugs." Now Kristi Noem says something similarly insane. Total number of US overdose deaths for 2024: 70,000.
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast 12/29/2025
Ben Norton: The CIA is now launching drone strikes inside Venezuela, reportedly with help from US Special Operations forces. This is an act of war. The US is waging a colonial war of aggression in Venezuela, to try to impose a US puppet regime that will privatize its oil, gas and minerals. 12/30/2025
(Video) CNN’s Bash to GOP Rep. Salazar: Is Oil One of the Reasons You Want Regime Change in Venezuela? 12/01/2025
(Video) Grabien: VIDEO - CNN’s Bash to GOP Rep. Salazar: Is Oil One of the Reasons You Want Regime Change in Venezuela? @DanaBashCNN @RepMariaSalazar 12/01/2025
Caitlin Johnstone’s Newsletter: World's Most Tyrannical Government Wants To Free Venezuela From Tyranny 12/02/2025
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone: World's Most Tyrannical Government Wants To Free Venezuela From Tyranny. If the US empire wants to make the world less tyrannical, its first and only move should be to dismantle itself. Reading by Tim Foley. 12/02/2025
(Video) ADAM: NEW: 🚨 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Right-wing media company Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” Newsmax saying it means Hegseth is being thrown under the bus. 12/03/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Believing the Official Lie rots your soul 12/02/2025 Republican Accountability: Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
Mick Wallace: The US is engaging in Piracy as it seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker on its way to Cuba. Has any EU Member State condemned this lawless behaviour..? Has the EU lost all interest in International Law..? 12/11/2025 The Cradle: Russia demands answers after US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker —— Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called for a full investigation into the US seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. He said US forces boarded the vessel after accusing it of carrying crude barred from sale, yet noted that US oil giant Chevron continues to operate in Venezuela and purchase Venezuelan oil. Lavrov said the US must clarify what quantities of allegedly illegal hydrocarbons were on board and explain on what grounds it believes it can conduct such actions. Trump announced that the US had seized an oil tanker near Venezuela’s coast and intends to take possession of its cargo. Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said “the masks are falling,” arguing that the move exposes the true objective of the Trump administration behind its so-called War on Drugs in the Caribbean. Caracas condemned the seizure as a brazen act of theft and international piracy, recalling that during the 2024 presidential race Trump openly stated that his long-standing goal was to take Venezuela’s oil without offering compensation.
(Video) Michael Tracey: Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize travels to Norway to pick up her prize, and makes an argument in favor of US military intervention in her country. You can't make this shit up! 12/11/2025
(Video) After all the attention she received after being awarded the "Nobel Peace (Or is it War) Prize" and the absurd statements she made, before and after that went viral, her own people will hate her more than ever, assuming she returns. 12/11/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: At the Nobel War Prize ceremony, Maria Corina Machado enthusiastically endorses the US military pirating a Venezuelan oil tanker and stealing its oil. Western imperial institutions honor global south politicians who hand over their countries’ resources 12/11/2025
(Video) Ken Klippenstein (NSPM-7 Compliant): If you're wondering how cable news is reporting the US seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, here's CNN saying, "This is absolutely normal." 12/10/2025
Caitlin Johnstone: World's Most Tyrannical Government Wants To Free Venezuela From Tyranny 12/02/2025
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone: World's Most Tyrannical Government Wants To Free Venezuela From Tyranny. If the US empire wants to make the world less tyrannical, its first and only move should be to dismantle itself. Reading by Tim Foley. 12/02/2025
(Video) ADAM: NEW: 🚨 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Right-wing media company Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” Newsmax saying it means Hegseth is being thrown under the bus. 12/03/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Believing the Official Lie rots your soul 12/02/2025 Republican Accountability: Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Here's the 1993 60 Minutes report on how the CIA recruited a Venezuelan military officer, General Ramón Guillén Davila, to help them ship 22 tons of cocaine into American cities. The Cartel of the Suns disappeared once it lost its utility to the CIA, and was resurrected by the US government when it began targeting Venezuela 09/10/2025 The Grayzone: The Trump admin accuses Nicolas Maduro of leading the now-defunct Cartel of the Suns. Diego Sequera explains how the CIA directed its top Venezuelan asset to ship tons of cocaine into US cities during the early 1990's. The CIA asset was known as leader of "Cartel of the Suns"
Ben Norton: Donald Trump has officially pardoned and released one of the worst drug traffickers on Earth. 12/02/2025 Juan Orlando Hernández (known as JOH) was the US-backed right-wing dictator of Honduras. JOH was convicted -- by a US court! -- of trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine (and machine guns). He personally collaborated with El Chapo Guzmán. Ironically, although JOH was a close US ally, his drug-trafficking operations were so enormous and had such a big (and negative) impact on US society that the US Justice Department started investigating JOH during Trump's first term, when JOH was still the dictator of Honduras. ..... Much more
(Video) Judge Napolitano: Reporter: 'What law is it that allows no survivors?' WH: 'SELF-DEFENSE'. Laughable! 12/02/2025
(Video) Is Trump going to start bombing the CIA, who have been complicit, at a minimum, in selling Drugs for decades on a far larger scale than Venezuela, which probably isn't selling many if any drugs to the USA? 12/0/2025 Suppressed News: ⚡️🇺🇸JUST IN: U.S Trump will soon conduct “land strikes” on cartels and any country suspected of trafficking drugs into the U.S.: "Anybody that's doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack... not just Venezuela."
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: The Honduran drug smuggler whom Trump just pardoned received a 45-year sentence from a US federal court for flooding the US with cocaine. Given this, how can anyone believe Trump’s motive for toppling Maduro is to impede drug trafficking to the US???? 12/02/2025 Kaitlan Collins: President Trump has now formally pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and he has been released from prison, according to his attorney Renato Stabile.
(Video) Republicans against Trump: Megyn Kelly: I not only want to see them killed in the water, whether they’re on the boat or in the water, but I’d really like to see them suffer. I want Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out. 12/01/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: I crashed Jorge Ramos’ presser and turned the tables on him, asking him to condemn Marco Rubio’s explicit call to murder Nicolas Maduro. He couldn’t do it, and wound up admitting he coordinated his failed ambush interview of Maduro with Rubio. 12/02/2025 Going Underground: Zohran Mamdani caves again: "Maduro's government is one of repression, there's no question about it.” And calls the leaders of Cuba🇨🇺 and Venezuela🇻🇪: "dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press." Mamdani represents the segment of the left that parade themselves as ‘democratic socialists’, but then help manufacture the consent for Washington to continue attacking every socialist nation on Earth. ..... Much more
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Once again Maria Elvira lets the truth out: the US assault on Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs; it’s a regime change war with US puppet Maria Corina promising to accelerate mass deportations after she rides to power on the back of a tank. (In reality, the country will be destabilized under IMF austerity, triggering a new wave of migration and deepening cartel penetration) 12/01/2025 Rep. María Elvira Salazar: Maduro is the last wall between tyranny and a free Venezuela. Once he falls, the nation will finally breathe again. Nearly eight million Venezuelans are waiting for that day, ready to return home, rebuild their country, and turn it into a beacon of liberty for the entire hemisphere.
(Video) RussiaNews 🇷🇺: 🚨⚡️ Trump in 2024: "We buy oil from Venezuela! When I left office, Venezuela was on the verge of collapse. We were going to take it over completely… and we were going to take all that oil." Trump today: "I want Venezuela's oil for free." MAGA supporters: "Trump just wants to liberate Venezuela from the dictator." 🤡🤡 12/01/2025
Bombing Iraq Isn't Enough William Kristol and Robert Kagan 01/30/1998 Bombing Venezuela Isn't Enough William Kristol and Robert Kagan
To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran By John R. Bolton 03/26/2015 To Stop Venezuela’s Bomb, Bomb Venezuela By John R. Bolton
Bomb North Korea, Before It’s Too Late By Jeremi Suri 04/12/2013 Bomb Venezuela, Before It’s Too Late By Jeremi Suri
Bomb Venezuela, Even if It Is Illegal By Ian Hurd 08/27/2013 Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal By Ian Hurd
Alan MacLeod: Media pundits right now...🇻🇪 (Substitute Venezuela in past War mongering op-eds) 11/30/2025 I've written a ton of peer-reviewed academic studies about the media manipulation on Venezuela. Check them out here:
Caitlin Johnstone: As a general rule you should always be skeptical of anyone saying "Please invade/bomb/sanction my country," because it means they either (A) aren't living in that country, or (B) have some socioeconomic reason to believe they'll be safe from the repercussions of what they're asking for which everyone else will suffer from. But honestly it doesn't even matter if they are 100% legit. I don't care if you really are an impoverished Venezuelan civilian living in Venezuela, it's still an indisputable fact that US regime change interventionism is reliably disastrous. Your position isn't made any less stupid and crazy by where you happen to live; anyone who supports US regime change interventionism is still always wrong. 12/01/2025 Hassan Mafi: "I'm Venezuelan and I'm in favor of US intervention." Man at computer in CIA jacket
(Video) Sabby Sabs: Trump is trying to overthrow Maduro so he can steal their oil, install a Western puppet and get Venezuela to create a alliance with Israel. 12/01/2025 The Resonance: 🇻🇪Vice President Of Venezuela: “The US intends to seize the vast oil reserves of our country, the largest in the world, through the use of military force..” “Venezuela will remain firm in the defense of its natural energy resources. Nothing will stop us..!”
Housewives, retirees in Venezuela line up to join militia in response to what Maduro calls "outlandish threats" by U.S. 08/25/2025
Musti: They've been doing this for a while now, this article is from late august. 11/30/2025
Was this community notice removed because it was debunked? It's no longer there, as of this moment, adding to evidence that some community notices are far more credible than others. 12/01/2025 Alan MacLeod: This community note is wrong on multiple levels. Actually, eight MILLION people are now registered with local militias. And my post does not claim or imply there is an active conflict. It's basic English!
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Will you designate the CIA as a terror org? Because it was the CIA which created Cartel de los Soles in the early 1990s to ship 22 tons of drugs into the US. Today, the Cartel of the Suns does not exist, it is a fantasy. You’re spinning another WMD fraudX 11/16/2025 Secretary Marco Rubio: @StateDept intends to designate Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Headed by the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro, the group has corrupted the institutions of government in Venezuela and is responsible for terrorist violence conducted by and with other designated FTOs as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe.
Alan MacLeod: Venezuelan citizens join local militias to defend their homeland from a US attack 🇻🇪 11/30/2025 I haven't promoted this much, but I've published a ton of academic articles about Venezuela and the media distortions against the country. Check them out here: ..... This community note is wrong on multiple levels. Actually, eight MILLION people are now registered with local militias. And my post does not claim or imply there is an active conflict. It's basic English!
Sabby Sabs: Trump is seriously trying to pardon a REAL LIFE narco in Honduras. Meanwhile he’s calling Maduro a narcoterrorist. You would have to be a fool to believe anything this man says. 11/30/2025
(Video) Acyn: Welker: What vetting did the Trump administration do before giving this suspect asylum? Noem: That’s the Biden administration’s responsibility. Welker: Asylum was approved in April of this year on the Trump administration’s watch. So just to be very clear, was there a vetting process in place to approve that asylum request? Noem: Yeah, the vetting process all happened under Joe Biden’s administration. Welker: Are you saying he wasn’t vetted when he was granted asylum? 11/30/2025
Max Blumenthal: While waging a fake anti-drug war on Venezuela, Trump will pardon the convicted narco prez Juan Orlando Hernández, who trafficked 500+ tons of drugs into the US – mainly because he figures in Washington's plot to manipulate Honduran elections. 11/29/2025 Raul Pineda, a Honduran lawyer and analyst who worked in his country’s Council to Fight Drug Trafficking, explained to The Grazyone that Hernández’s main achievement was to “create a fourth estate of drug trafficking within the republican model of governance.” Hernández “began to replace [the old narco kingpins] with institutional trafficking, where military personnel and police were used [for protection], along with the cover of prosecutors and judges…” Pineda said. “He tried to replace narcos with elected military personnel, with police officers, with elected politicians accompanied by an entire structure of media, opinion leaders, and organized political groups.” According to Pineda, Hernández transformed Honduras into a pivotal transit center for the drug trade: “He built six airports in a country of nine million inhabitants. And each airport, some of which have recently had three plane accidents in one year, had the sole function of being a logistical platform for drug trafficking. So instead of the plane landing on a dirt road, it landed on a paved runway and they paid for using it.” Even though the US knew Hernández was a prolific drug trafficker, the DEA worked with him to provide the illusion of an anti-narcotics policy. “The DEA has very little credibility in the world of interdiction agencies,” Pineda said. “After all, the DEA’s highest decoration was awarded to Manuel Noriega. And the head of the Southern Command repeatedly came to Honduras to praise the virtues of Don Juan Orlando Hernández.”
(Video) The Tennessee Holler: Stephen Miller’s Wife @KatieMiller: “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?” @Bakari_Sellers: “The due process clause in the constitution.” 11/2/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: This shocking on-camera murder was brought to you by the elite criminal network that Donald Trump is actively rehabilitating through his pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez 11/29/2025 Nery Orlando López’s ledgers were used to convict Tony Hernández - brother of US-backed Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández - for drug trafficking. This shocking video shows López being murdered days later in prison in Honduras. Warning: extremely gruesome
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Is this you? 11/21/2025 Rep. María Elvira Salazar supports wars based on lies and flawed ideologies even if it could mean nuclear War Rep. María Elvira Salazar: I warned the House today: Venezuela also said “it could never happen” until it did. Chávez won in ’98. It was their last free election. Now NYC elects a proud SOCIALIST, and most young Americans say they prefer socialism to capitalism. This is why we must remember socialism’s record of death and destruction. My community has lived it. Congress must denounce it with one voice, before it’s too late.
Max Blumenthal: Every diabolical coup plot conceived by criminal neocon chickenhawk Elliott "Gargamel" Abrams against Venezuela has failed, so he's now pushing a US special forces invasion 11/21/2025 Foreign Affairs: “Trump’s advisers should persuade him that he’s already past the point of no return: the game is on, and either he wins or Maduro wins.” Read Elliott Abrams on the case for regime change in Venezuela:
Trump designates street fentanyl as a WMD, escalating militarization of the drug war 12/15/2025 "Two to three hundred thousand people die every year, that we know of, so we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction," Trump said. ..... But many critics say the deadly strikes are based on unverified, false, or wildly exaggerated claims. Last month, for example, Trump justified the use of military force against alleged traffickers by saying "300 million people died last year from drugs, that's what's illegal."
(Video) US President Trump blames left wing for agitation, burning of national flag. “300 Million people died…” US President Trump’s ‘epic’ claim on death from drugs in 2024 12/15/2025
David Fisk: This was donnie trying to justify bombing boats, killing around 100 people, simply because he n petieH think they look suspicious. 300 Million deaths donnie says? The actual #is around 70,000. Still too many but... The problem I have here is not that the maga klan never questions his BS. I don't expect anything better from them at this point. My problem is w the press letting this BS like this slide...WTF! 12/17/2025
(Video) Reporter: Would you welcome a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela? Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado: Venezuela has been already invaded. We have the Russian agents, we have the Iranian agents. We have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, operating freely in accordance with the regime. 12/11/2025
Andrea Nabi: Incredible history of the previous leader of the Cuban🇨🇺 Revolution Fidel Castro with ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’ Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso.🇧🇫To support the Burkinabe Revolution, Cuba received many young people from Burkina Faso for training in various fields: Medical training: From 1986, Cuba received many young people from Burkina Faso who attended Cuban Medical Schools, learning from the world-class Cuban experts. 12/02/2025 Cuba provided full scholarships which included tuition, food, accommodation, uniforms and educational materials. Sankara’s plan to bring universal healthcare to the Burkinabe people was greatly advanced by Cuba’s assistance. Agriculture and agronomic training: Cuba played a substantial role in training Burkina Faso’s agricultural technicians in irrigation, pest control, soil management, and community-based farming systems. Engineering and vocational training: Cuba’s technical institutes provided training for Burkinabe workers in civil engineering, rural water systems, electrical installation, and construction trades. This was pivotal for building wells, building schools, improving housing, and rural electrification in Burkina Faso. Literacy: With Yo Sí Puedo, one of the world’s most successful literacy campaigns, Cuba advised Thomas Sankara’s government on rapid rural literacy strategy, women’s educational programs, and teacher mobilisation programs. Cuba’s assistance was pivotal in Sankara’s government reducing illiteracy from 90% to 70% during Sankara’s short-lived revolution before the US-French-backed assassination of Sankara. This was one of the fastest recorded drops in illiteracy in all of Africa at the time.
(Video) Midwestern Marx: How the U.S. sanction regime prevents Venezuela from refining their own oil. #Venezuela #oil #crude #refining #citgo #southamerica 12/04/2025
Brian Hawkins: YOU SEE THAT BOAT IN THE PHOTO? That’s a fuel transport boat — the kind used to carry fuel to marina fueling stations. There’s fuel inside those containers, not cocaine, you absolute geniuses. It’s literally designed for marine refueling, not smuggling. And here’s what really blows my mind: A boat like that would have to refuel every 200 miles. From Venezuela to Puerto Rico is over 1,300 miles to the nearest port. So the idea that this thing made some “drug-running super voyage” is not just wrong — it’s laughably ignorant. ...... Much more 12/04/2025
(Video) Pissed Magistus: Side with your morals, not your government. 12/04/2025 "If the United States went to war with Columbia who do you side with?" "Columbia" Get the hell out of this country." It's more likely that US invades them on trumped up excuses than they attack us, which would make them right.
Karena Acree-Páez: Eugene Hasenfus has passed, just as Trump is threatening a fake "drVg war" on Venezuela. Photo: Sandinista soldiers with Eugene Hasenfus after his plane was shot down in Nicaragua while on a CIA-funded supply drop for Contra guerrillas. Hasenfus had been shipping military supplies (funded by CIA drVg money) into Nicaragua for use by the Contras, an anti-Sandinista force that had been created and supported by the U.S. in violation of congressional action stopping the funding, and run by the CIA. ...... Much more 12/03/2025
(Video) Kim Iversen: CNN Guest Slips Venezuela Is About the Oil — ‘We Should Take It' 12/01/2025 Trump pardons a convicted narco-president while allies push to seize Venezuela’s oil.
(Video) CNN’s Bash to GOP Rep. Salazar: Is Oil One of the Reasons You Want Regime Change in Venezuela? 12/01/2025
(Video) Kim Iversen: Representative Maria Elvira Salazar wants to invade Venezuela to exploit oil Dana Bash 12/02/2025 They're not even trying to hide it.
(Video) Lamont Watson: We can send $40 BILLION to Venezuela, drop $500 million on a private jet makeover, and throw $200 million at a ballroom like it’s prom night… But helping someone not die on a sidewalk? That’s where MAGA finds its “fiscal responsibility”? Clown behavior. 12/01/2025 Contrasst: A woman was questioned about illegal immigrants and remained unbothered , ate her burrito and fact checked a severely mistaken Republican.
Lee Camp: 🚨 Let's Debunk The NY Times' Anti-Venezuela Vomit 🚨 (This will only take a minute.) It’s time to yet again decode / debunk / defenestrate the pro-war garbage pumped out by the New York Times. This time they’re trying to make sure the US invades Venezuela. Apparently just blowing up fishermen in the Caribbean is not enough for the bloodthirsty clowns worthy of starring in Stephen King’s It. They want a full-blown disaster like the US invasion of Iraq. ...... Much more 11/24/2025
(Video) LeaAnn Duncan: Max Blumenthal: It's not every day you get to expose a top US gov't coup plotter in real time. When we reported at The Grayzone on @DiploStory's secret 2021 #Venezuela insurrectionist summit, his office refused to comment. When confronted with it to his face, he had nothing but slander. The Grayzone: Watch Max Blumenthal wipe the smile off the face of former US Ambassador to #Venezuela James Story by exposing his role in nefarious coup plots with violent, anti-democratic opposition figures. Story responds with a worn-out, baseless smear while refuting nothing 11/19/2025
(Video) Medea Benjamin: A mother teaching her kids what real civics looks like. No president should be able to drag us into war, not in Venezuela, not in Palestine, not anywhere. For 60 days, the U.S. has carried out boat strikes near Venezuela without congressional approval. So she brought her children to Congress to remind lawmakers of their job: Keep executive power in check. Stop illegal wars. Represent the people. 11/19/2025
The problem with calling Venezuela's crisis under Maduro a genocide 05/13/2019 Rick Scott Says "Nicolás Maduro is carrying out a genocide on his people." False
Wikipedia: Genocide of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela
Genocide Emergency: Venezuela 10/04/2021
(Video) The Genocide that Nobody is Talking About and that People Still are Being Expelled Back To 11/14/2025 Possible false accusations or propaganda with credibility problems
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison 11/08/2025 Luis Chacón, 26, from the Venezuelan state of Táchira, was one of several men who said the constant abuse at the prison led him to contemplate suicide. A father of three, he said he had been working as a driver for Uber Eats in Milwaukee before being detained and expelled to the prison. His low point there came in June, he said, on the day of his oldest child’s seventh birthday. “We had heard that if there was a person who died among us that they would let us all go,” he said. He thought maybe he should be that person: He climbed on a bunk bed, he said, and tried to hang himself with a sheet. The other men, he said, pulled him down.
🛠️ Joe Biden is a MF'ing Warmonger 💥: Can someone remind Meghan that US sanctions on food and medicine were responsible for the deaths of 40,000 Venezuelans in just ONE YEAR? The article is from 2019, but the goal is still the same: "Claim comes as US seeks to dislodge Venezuela's president" 11/05/2025 Meghan McCain: Can someone remind New Yorkers that Venezuela went from being the third richest country in the world in 1992 to eating zoo animals because of socialism.
(Video) Afshin Rattansi: Veteran CIA asset and the Nobel Peace Prize Winner who advocates for bombing her own country brags about being hard at work advertising the fire sale of her country’s natural resources to global mega corporations, saying “Venezuela🇻🇪 has become sexy.” She begs the US to bomb her own country, and then salivates at the prospect of mega corporations swooping in for a disaster capitalism profit bonanza, while Venezuelans suffer war and becoming subjects of a vassal state. Via @KawsachunNews 11/02/2025
Ben Norton: The US war on Venezuela is a terrorist war on civilians: Trump admin officials acknowledged that they do not know the identities of the victims of their military attacks in the Caribbean & eastern Pacific. The US War Department has no evidence. 11/01/2025
(Video) Ken Klippenstein (NSPM-7 Compliant): The US military buildup off the coast of Venezuela isn't just about drugs. It's also driven by Trump admin's belief that "Iran's tentacles...go straight through Caracas and Venezuela," say counterterrorism director Sebastian Gorka. GORKA: "It's not just about the drugs. I can't talk about the classified aspects of this, but in open source right now, your viewers can go online and they can search for the connections of that regime, the Maduro regime, to other bad actors, other states, other nations who, for example, have been plotting to target members of this administration, including the president. Iran's tentacles into this hemisphere go straight through Caracas and Venezuela." 11/02/2025
Saagar Enjeti: ICYMI from @ryangrim and me: I obtained internal USG assessments showing hundreds of millions of USAID $ flowing into the Venezuelan regime change op (including to Nobel winner Maria Machado) that is being ramped up by the Trump admin 11/02/2025
Rodney Latstetter: Two weeks ago, the commander overseeing Trump’s bombings in the Caribbean Sea abruptly resigned. Republicans haven’t heard from him—and they don’t apparently want to. “It appears the U.S. president is asserting a license to kill and may be taking the country to war in Venezuela.” 11/01/2025
(Video) This was, of course, before she sold out to Trump for a cabinet position! 11/01/2025 Sprinter Press: Tulsi Gabbard: The USA should not be in the business of intervening in Venezuela and picking who should lead the country.
(Video) Khalissee: Senator Rick Scott warns of an upcoming “internal or external” event set to unfold in Venezuela. He's adamant it will happen peacefully, without U.S. military invasion or use of force. He says Maduro should self-deport to Russia or China before it’s too late. 10/29/2025
(Video) MintPress News: Did he just say the quiet part out loud? On 60 Minutes, former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela James Story called President Nicolás Maduro a “bad actor” — adding: “He’s sitting on top of the world’s largest oil reserves, minerals that will fuel the 21st-century economy… and he’s in bed with our strategic competitors.” His remarks came as Washington is escalating pressure on Caracas and openly discussing “options” for regime change. The admission makes clear what Venezuela has said for years: the U.S. obsession with “democracy” in Latin America has always been about control of oil and minerals, not freedom. 10/28/2025
(Video) Nick Cruse 🥋: 60 minutes does an entire show filled with imperialist propaganda against Venezuela. Neocons openly admit they plan to violate International Law on national tv. Hands off Venezuela you imperialist scum 10/28/2025
What's next for embattled Nicolás Maduro as Trump pressures Venezuela 10/28/2025
(Video) David Adler: Somehow, the United States of America has found a way to combine two of its greatest foreign policy failures — the Iraq War and the War on Drugs — into a single regime change narrative.... and sell it again to the mainstream media. Incredible. 10/28/2025 60 Minutes: “This is a criminal organization masquerading as a government,” says Ambassador James Story, the last American diplomat at the now-closed U.S. Embassy in Venezuela.
(Video) The Resonance: The US is planning to strike and possibly invade Colombia and Venezuela. 10/27/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: After its illegal 1989-90 war on Panama under a phony anti-drug pretext, the US military left mass graves of civilians across the country. Many of the dead were children, and some bore signs of execution. The US regime is using Panama as a model for its planned war on Venezuela 10/27/2025
(Video) Afshin Rattansi: XX 10/27/2025 🇺🇸🇻🇪‘Maduro is sitting on top of the world's largest oil reserves, minerals that will fuel the 21st century economy, and he's in bed with our strategic competitors.' Former US Ambassador James Story blatantly exposes the real reason why the US is about to launch a regime change war on Venezuela… It isn’t about ‘narco-trafficking’, it certainly is not about democracy…it’s about Monroe Doctrine imperial domination, to steal Venezuela’s resources for US corporations. What is about to come is daylight robbery of the Venezuelan people, for those who think this is some problem in a distant country, eventually Washington will come for your country.
🅹🅾️🅴🆈աrecκ ☭: The government under Batista was dominated by white elites who controlled the economy and oppressed the working-class and marginalized communities. When the Cuban Revolution succeeded and Batista was overthrown, many of these white elites and their supporters fled the country. 04/08/2023
(Video) 60 Minutes: “Something’s going to happen. Whether it’s internal or external, I think something’s going to happen,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. 60 Minutes asked the senator if the U.S. would invade Venezuela. “I don’t think so,” Scott responds. “If we do, I’d be surprised.” 10/26/2025
(Video) This was JUST AIRED on 60 Minutes. Rick Scott is saying “we are gonna take care of the southern hemisphere ( including Venezuela) and bring them democracy.” Pretty funny given he and his party are systematically dismantling democracy in America. Make no mistake .. this isn’t about delivering democracy.💰💰💰💰It’s about trump & co wanting to get their mitts on the natural abundance of oil and rare earth minerals 10/26/2025
(Video) Camila: Senator Lindsey Graham says the U.S. can invade Venezuela to overthrow President Maduro since the U.S. has done it already, in Panama and Grenada. He Freudian slips, confusing ‘Noriega’ with ‘Ortega’. 10/27/2025
‘We’re just gonna kill people’: Trump says he does not need declaration of war for Venezuela strikes – as it happened 10/24/2025
(Video) Power to the People ☭🕊: Trump: “I don't think we're gonna ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people. Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead.” The mask is off… Everyone can see the U.S. for what it is: THE MOST EVIL EMPIRE ON EARTH. 10/24/2025
(Video) Christine Rodamer: Maduro: Venezuela will be a 'Republic in Arms' if U.S. attacks 10/28/2025
(Video) Margaret Kimberley: Have any democrats made such a clear case against attacking Venezuela? 10/21/2025 Blue Georgia: Rand Paul: There is no fentanyl made in Venezuela. Not just a little bit, there's none being made... These are outboard boats that, in order for them to get to Miami, would have to stop and refuel 20 times... We don't just summarily execute people.
(Video) : "When I listen to people talk about Venezuela, they sound as though they're ready to climb into their Viking boats... to steal everything they want without regard for the population. Because all they talk about is Venezuela's oil and gas, etc." @DougAMacgregor noted that there's not nearly as much conversation on the Hill and inside the Beltway about Venezuela's alleged role in drug trafficking, "because, frankly, it's very small." 10/20/2025
Medea Benjamin: Will the Norwegian committee still feel proud of their decision to give the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado when its only practical effect will be to justify another US intervention in the Western Hemisphere - this time in Venezuela? 10/19/2025
(Video) Revolutionary Blackout🥋: MSNBC openly endorses Donald Trump’s regime change efforts in Venezuela. This is the resistance in a nutshell. The No Kings rally is a pro war movement organized by a pro war party 10/19/2025
(Video) Jimmy Dore: While we are currently trying to overthrow Venezuela so we can take their oil (they have more oil than Saudi Arabia), -Here’s a great Reminder that the U.S. is the most murderous terrorist organization in the Western Hemisphere: 10/18/2025 Afshin Rattansi: Every CIA coup in Latin America from 1947-2002 to enforce Washington’s hegemony with an iron fist by installing fascist dictatorships and disastrous neoliberalism to create favourable conditions for US corporations to cheaply extract resources.
(Video) Sabby Sabs: Trump is really trying to start a war with Venezuela. This is insane. 10/17/2025 Jesse Watters: 🚨 BREAKING: B-52 BOMBERS were just DEPLOYED on Venezuela’s Doorstop 🚨
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Trump said he’s authorized the CIA to conduct operations in Venezuela while the U.S. carries out another drone strike off its coast. No transparency. No approval. No accountability. This is not a war on drugs; it’s a war for oil and control. From October 20 – November 3, CODEPINK is organizing the Latin America Anti-Imperialist Campaign Action Series to expose these illegal attacks, denounce sanctions and militarization, and demand peace, sovereignty, and dignity across Nuestra América. Join us: Let Latin America Live! 10/16/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Rick Scott’s $500 million family fortune is heavily invested in Big Oil companies desperate to plunder Venezuela, from ExxonMobil to Phillips 66. These same companies have funded his campaigns. Scott represents a web of rapacious corporations, not a political party or a state 10/16/2025 DD Geopolitics: 🇺🇸🇻🇪 "I think if Maduro's smart he's gonna go ahead and move to Russia, China, some place like that. Because his days are numbered." - Repulican Senator Rick Scott 0 shame. // DD Geopolitics: 🇺🇸🇻🇪 BREAKING: The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, escalating its campaign to remove President Nicolás Maduro. The new authorities, a presidential finding, allow the agency to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela and the Caribbean, either unilaterally or alongside potential U.S. military action. This comes as the Pentagon draws up strike options and continues a large military buildup in the Caribbean, with 10,000 U.S. troops, eight warships, and a submarine already in place. The authorization was developed under National Security Adviser Marco Rubio and C.I.A. Director John Ratcliffe, who has vowed to make the agency “more aggressive.” Privately, U.S. officials have been clear: the goal is regime change.
This has already happened & all involved, including Miller, Vance, Trump etc. should be charged with murder & other atrocities. 09/30/2025 DonkConnects ♻️: Stephen Miller is ordering hellfire missiles fired on Venezuelan "drug" boats. If it is found that he is attacking civilians, should he be liable for murder? Yes or No???
Donnie's Missing Hairpiece 🇺🇸 🇺🇦: Most of the fentanyl that comes to the US comes from China and Mexico. In fact, Venezuela plays no major role in the export of ANY drugs to the US. This is performative terrorism, nothing more. 09/27/2025 Reply to Tweet that was deleted or censored by the author
NYT: Fear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk 09/2/2025 On a visit to Venezuela, The Times found a nation bracing for potential U.S. military action.
Occupy Democrats: BREAKING: AWFUL! Trump MURDERED a fisherman and father of four and smeared him as a terrorist! Donald Trump’s administration has been bombing Venezuelan boats and killing everyone aboard, then claiming without any evidence that they were drug smugglers or “narco-terrorists.” But new interviews in the New York Times tell a very different story. 09/29/2025 “In an interview, one woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the dead men said that her husband was a fisherman with four children who left one day for work and never came back,” reports the Times. Trump, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, JD Vance and Pete Hegseth are murdering innocent people just trying to make a living in a country suffering from intense economic hardship thanks to America’s crippling sanctions, and then JOKING about it. “Hell, I wouldn’t go fishing right now in that area of the world,” said JD Vance about Venezuela, tacitly admitting that the US is just illegally murdering poor fishermen and laughing about it. The worst part? After JD Vance said that, the MAGA crowd at an event in Howell, Michigan actually LAUGHED. Even GOP Senator Rand Paul called out Vance for his inhumanity, posting “What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.” When asked about critics who argue that those potentially innocent people on board the bombed boats were never given a chance to defend themselves in a court of law, and who questioned the legality of the strikes in international water and without Congressional approval, JD Vance shamelessly replied: “I don’t give a s--t.” Moreover, the Daily Beast notes that "maritime drug laws usually require drug smugglers’ vessels to be seized by the Coast Guard, not blown up." MAGA critic Brian Krassentein correctly called out Vance, writing “Killing the citizens of another nation who are civilians without any due process is called a war crime.” He's absolutely right — Vance's reply shows his complete disregard for human life or for the law. Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, trashed Trump's attacks as an “outrageous violation of the law and a dangerous assault on our Constitution...No president can secretly wage war or carry out unjustified killings—that is authoritarianism, not democracy.” Trump and Rubio claim that they’re stopping the drug trade by bombing Venezuelan boats, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. A 2020 report from the U.S. State Department said just 10 percent to 13 percent of the global cocaine supply goes through Venezuela. It’s becoming clearer than ever before that the Trump regime wants to start a war and depose Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, no matter how many innocent people die. We can’t let them get away with it.
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Here's the 1993 60 Minutes report on how the CIA recruited a Venezuelan military officer, General Ramón Guillén Davila, to help them ship 22 tons of cocaine into American cities. The Cartel of the Suns disappeared once it lost its utility to the CIA, and was resurrected by the US government when it began targeting Venezuela 09/10/2025 The Grayzone: The Trump admin accuses Nicolas Maduro of leading the now-defunct Cartel of the Suns. Diego Sequera explains how the CIA directed its top Venezuelan asset to ship tons of cocaine into US cities during the early 1990's. The CIA asset was known as leader of "Cartel of the Suns"
Glenn Greenwald: You've been told for 8 years that it's China flooding the US with fentanyl. Government reports on drug smuggling into the US don't even mention Venezuela. But now Trump and Rubio want a regime change war in Venezuela, so they tell you it's about drugs, and you mindlessly nod. 09/09/2025 Dena Fredrickson: We're against foreign wars with attenuated connections to US interests. I'm not sure why you don't see the difference.
General Laura Richardson on security in the Western Hemisphere 03/19/2024
(Video) In this carefully scripted video she, of course, avoids discussing CIA coups that destabilized Latin America & falsely claims "Guyana is a strong Democracy" possibly setting the stage for conflict with Venezuela. 09/08/2025 ADAM: Gen. Laura Richardson lists the Lithium Triangle in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, Venezuela’s gold and oil, Guyana’s crude, and 31% of the planet’s fresh water as “national security” interests. No mention of democracy, human rights, or self-determination, just resources.
The boat left San Juan de Unare: The Whistle 09/04/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: The Venezuelan boat and crew destroyed in an extrajudicial drone execution under Rubio-Trump orders was not heading to the US. The boat was a Panga with a range of ~100 miles and 4 outboard motors that get about 5-7 miles per gallon. Reaching Florida would have been impossible 09/07/2025 Arepita: #LaLancha: it left from San Juan de Unare #Sucre and was heading to Trinidad and Tobago, sources from @ElPitazoTV said. Of the 11 navigators allegedly annihilated by the US anti-drug operation, 8 were from the town. In the area, vessels set sail with drugs, but 👉important👈 also fishermen and migrants
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Trump’s war machine has no place in Latin America. From the Monroe Doctrine to today’s threats, U.S. aggression has only brought violence and suffering. Venezuela is not a threat. Venezuela is hope. Hope for the Caribbean, hope for Latin America, hope for a future of peace and dignity. We demand peace. We demand justice. We demand: Manos Fuera de Venezuela! 08/30/2025
(Video) Afshin Rattansi: Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton in 2019: ‘Our sanctions on Venezuela have frozen $7 billion in PDVSA’s assets and will cost Venezuela🇻🇪 $11 billion of lost revenue in the next year’ Socialism didn’t destroy Venezuela, US sanctions did. Now the US has sent warships to the coast of Venezuela for a potential regime change intervention under the pretext of countering drug trafficking. 08/27/2025
African Hub: "Africa has a) 40% of the World's Gold b) 50% of the World's Diamonds. But Africa is poor. We don't mine our own minerals. Americans, United Kingdom, Canadians and France extract our minerals like they do in Zambia, Nigeria, Togo and Ghana. Take our major proceeds & tell us if we mine our own minerals as black people, our Economy will collapse. Then my own African people will attack me and claim my choice of government scares investors out of Burkina Faso, but within 2years, over $20B has been realized from the true taste of freedom” ~ Burkina Faso President, Ibrahim Traore 08/25/2025
Ben Norton: The 2nd Trump admin is reviving the coup attempt in Venezuela that the 1st one started. Except this time, Trump doesn't even have a puppet like Juan Guaidó whom he can try to put in power. Speaking of drugs, Narco Rubio has shady links to his cocaine-trafficking brother-in-law. 07/27/2025 Secretary Marco Rubio: Maduro is NOT the President of Venezuela and his regime is NOT the legitimate government. Maduro is the head of the Cartel de Los Soles, a narco-terror organization which has taken possession of a country. And he is under indictment for pushing drugs into the United States.
Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis: Last year, during the Biden Administration, I pointed out that the US was planning to invade Venezuela and Guyana by increasing border tensions between the countries. Don't doubt for a minute there haven't been operatives sowing seeds of discord for years to prepare for this. 08/23/2025 Pamphlets: 🚨🇻🇪 BREAKING — Venezuelan Special Forces with Chinese Tech Mobilize in Response to US Threats.
(Video) Pamphlets: 🚨🇲🇽 BREAKING — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaun Denounced US "Interventionism" in Venezuela. 08/21/2025
(Video) Sprinter Express: Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks about why the US is preparing to invade Venezuela: Maduro's elections were completely rigged. Russia's presence in Venezuela is noticeable, and Iran's influence is growing. The Iranians are building drone manufacturing plants there — right in our hemisphere. Additionally, the Venezuelan regime issues illegitimate but genuine passports to Hezbollah forces. 08/23/2025
Trump Accused of Sharing Bogus Video of Deadly Drug Boat Strike 09/03/2025 President Donald Trump has been accused of sharing an AI-generated video showing a U.S. military airstrike targeting a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela.
(Video) Kim Iversen: Finally, a war that ISN'T for Israel! Finally, a war that ISN'T for Israel! 09/03/2025 Attacking and murdering alleged drug smugglers near Venezuela
(Video) 🐘🐻🐺Ken🐋🐬🐧: I LOVE leaders like Maduro... he's smart, he's honest, he cares about his country & the world at large. If only USA would ALLOW WE THE PEOPLE leaders like THIS GREAT MAN... instead they FEAR his greatness & seek 2 harm him like USA harms EVERYTHING EVEN IT'S OWN PEOPLE! 08/08/2025 Khalissee: This is why America put a $50 Million Bounty on Venezuelan President Maduro: "Who's the one that bombs their neighbouring countries every day, Iran? No. The Zionist state led by Netanyahu."
(Video) Khalissee: This is why America put a $50 Million Bounty on Venezuelan President Maduro: "Who's the one that bombs their neighbouring countries every day, Iran? No. The Zionist state led by Netanyahu." 08/07/2025
(Video) Muntadhar al-Zaidi: I am very pleased that American citizens are against Bush’s policy & against the war. I always defend you in front of my people and say that we cannot confuse the White House’s policy with the American people, just as they cannot confuse terrorists with the Arab and Muslim people 07/12/2025 Please contact my office to license my commentary.: Mr. al-Zaidi, speaking as an American, this incident is one of maybe four things that people remember about Bush's time as president. There's him reading a book as 9/11 happens, there's the image in my icon, and there's you throwing shoes at him. Proud of you buddy.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi: Who can do that again? 04/15/2025
Muntadhar al-Zaidi: Of course not, he did not occupy my country. 08/02/2025 No disrespect, but do NOT throw your shoes at that guy
(Video) Margaret Kimberley: This man is the hero who threw his shoe at Bush in Baghdad. 08/03/2025 Muntadhar al-Zaidi: Hello my friends: I am currently visiting the Venezuelan capital, #Caracas. Hola mis amigos: Actualmente estoy visitando la capital #venezolana Caracas
Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Legitimize Regime Change in Venezuela 02/28/2019
(Video) The Resonance: Lindsey Graham: “Who is in charge of Venezuela? Donald J. Trump. If you defy him, what happened to Maduro is going to happen to you” 01/06/2026
(Video) RT: Hugo Chavez donated Venezuelan oil to poor families in the Bronx and was the first leader to send aid after Hurricane Katrina. Reed explains how the US establishment ‘never forgave Venezuela’ for ‘EMBARASSING’ them like that 01/06/2026 ‘If I see it, it’s MINE.’ ‘If I want it, I’m gonna take it.’ ‘The Donroe Doctrine’ is just the latest interpretation of a long-running US policy of imperialism in Latin America, Grayzone editor Wyatt Reed tells RT.
(Video) Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Attacks Venezuela & Kidnaps President Maduro 01/03/2026 Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro.
(Video) Carlos: Very important from Jeffrey Sachs, interviewed by @Glenn_Diesen. A number of people have made the facile point that Trump's actions in Venezuela mirror Putin's actions in Ukraine, and that people should be consistent and condemn both. 01/06/2026 This ignores the basic class content of global politics. Sachs points out that both Venezuela and Ukraine are cases of the US attempting to impose its domination; both are instances of McDonalds not being able to flourish without McDonnell Douglas (to use Thomas Friedman's memorable expression); both are microcosms of a global struggle between imperialism and an emerging multipolarity. "In the case of Ukraine, it was a 30-year project to bring Ukraine into the American military orbit... One should not glibly say that the US is doing in Venezuela what Putin did in Ukraine. It's actually that the US is doing in Venezuela what the US did in Ukraine. Both are US-provoked. These are both projects of the US and I hope people can come to understand how US foreign policy works and what a military-industrial state really means. What a military-industrial complex without constitutional bounds means. What the CIA means in such operations. If they did, they would understand that when we view Ukraine and Venezuela, we're viewing the same phenomenon as long-term projects of the would-be global hegemon carried out in different ways." The full interview is well worth watching:
Understanding U.S. Intervention in Venezuela 01/04/2026 You cannot make sense of Nicolás Maduro’s removal without grasping the enormous financial interests involved with regime change in Caracas.
(Video) Kerry Burgess: Another shit show that is going to dramatically backfire on the United States... 02/26/2026 Venezuela refuses to cave to Trump's demands after they kidnap President Maduro even though Trump falsely claimed they would.
(Video) The Resonance: More than a million Iraqis were K!lled in the brutal US🇺🇸 invasion of Iraq🇮🇶.... They Lied They Invaded They Murdered They Stole oil & Gold..... Today they are trying to do the same with Venezuela🇻🇪. 12/06/2025
Marco Rubio Helped Brother-in-Law Get Real Estate License After Prison Release, Report Says 12/30/2015
A Reminder That Marco Rubio’s Brother-in-Law Was a Prolific Cocaine Trafficker 09/17/2025
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Marco Rubio has never adequately explained his familial narco-trafficking links. Rubio's brother-in-law, Orlando Cicilia, stored kilos of cocaine in the bedroom of a house where Marco Rubio lived. Cicilia was one of the top drug traffickers in South Florida, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison for distributing $15 million worth of cocaine. After Cicilia's early release from prison in 2000, Marco Rubio used his influence as majority whip of Florida's House of Representatives to help his brother-in-law obtain a real estate license. In an interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos, Rubio reacted angrily when asked about Cicilia, acknowledging that the Cocaine Cowboy had given him gifts while housing him. Univision also reported that police have not been able to determine whether Marco Rubio was involved in Cicilia's operation. Today, Rubio assists Trump's deportation of immigrants for petty drug infractions, while falsely labeling Venezuela's government as "narco-terrorists" to justify a looming regime change war that could soon destabilize the region and trigger another major migrant wave 11/15/2025
(Video) 𝔪𝔦𝔪𝔦🥀: I'd like to point out that Biden was laying the groundwork for this. He put out a $30 million dollar reward for the arrest of Maduro at the end of his term. Imperialism is a bipartisan position. 10/24/2025 Acyn: Trump on boat strikes: The land is going to be next. We may go to the senate and congress and tell them about it. But I can't imagine they would have any problem. What are they going to say?
(Video) Zei_squirrel: The utterly deranged "report" about how Maduro went to the US and promised to give them all their oil and minerals and cut off all ties with Russia, China and Iran and embrace and love Israel is solely sourced to anonymous US officials which is code for the CIA, and has been laundered in the NYT, CNN, AP, Reuters, Economist. Trump himself has now also repeated it. The entire Western media and political class is united in the most insane deranged pathetic psy op propaganda campaign to try to foment a color revolution. 10/17/2025
(Video) There's far more justification for arrest warrants for politicians, political appointees, Wall Street oligarchs and other white collar crooks who happen to be allies, including both Pam Bondi and Donald Trump! 08/07/2025 Sulaiman Ahmed: JUST IN: U.S PUT A BOUNTY ON VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO The DOJ announce a $50 MILLION reward for information leading to the arrest of Nicolas MADURO Bondi said: “He is one of the largest narco traffickers in the world, and a threat to our national security,” Bondi says DOJ has already seized over $700 MILLION of Maduro’s assets, as he traffics fentanyI-laced cocaine into the U.S.
Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after drug cartels: report 11/03/2025
(Video) Accidentally or not, she's admitting she's more interested in extracting natural resources than supporting democracy or the best interests of the people in these countries. 10/16/2025 Richard: US General Laura Richardson has pulled back the curtain, exposing the United States as a ruthless global predator,one that shows no genuine concern for democracy, human rights, or any so-called "rules-based order" Instead, it plunders other nations for their resources to sustain its own sprawling empire, while its talk of "defending freedom" serves merely as a cynical façade for raw imperial ambition.
(Video) Margaret Kimberley: Germany was never going to oppose the U.S. Their little performance just made them look more foolish. 01/18/2026 Glenn Diesen: The German soldiers leave Greenland immediately after Trump threatens with tariffs.
(Video) Sarah: Greenland politician Tillie Martinussen: We don’t want American wealth. Their greed drives them to shoot or invade their friends. Even with billions in oil and minerals beneath our land, we will not sell ourselves. We know what happened to Indigenous people in Alaska and Native Americans. We refuse the same fate. 01/19/2026
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: I've seen many cases like this, where people believe the propaganda and myths about US militarism and wars -- until they can start studying it and realize it's all lies and bullshit. Jennifer Welch thus admits: nothing Trump did in Venezuela is remotely new for US Presidents: 01/20/2026 CaseStudyQB: .@NewYorker (1/17/2026): @ivehaditpodcast Jennifer Welch on American foreign policy. "These provocations that Trump just did (in Venezuela), they're not new"
Arnaud Bertrand: This CNN article is beyond satire: first they say Maduro "cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man" and "accused it without evidence" of wanting to topple him, framing it all as a baseless conspiracy theory. And in the same breath, immediately afterwards they're like "anyhow, now that the CIA did in fact supplant Maduro," but without any self-awareness that this means Maduro was right all along 😂 01/28/2026 Zachary Cohen: New: The CIA is quietly working to establish a permanent US presence on the ground in Venezuela, spearheading the Trump administration’s plans to exert its influence over the country’s future post-Maduro, sources tell me, @jmhansler & @kylieatwood.
Exclusive: US planning CIA foothold in post-Maduro Venezuela 01/27/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: "MARCO RUBIO YOU AND TRUMP ARE THUGS!" This morning, CODEPINK Latin America Organizer Leo disrupted war criminal Marco Rubio's testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Rubio has led the Trump administration's theft, collective punishment, and war crimes against the Venezuelan people. 01/28/2026
(Video) Zei_squirrel: Fidel Castro explains why the US despises Cuba and is desperate to destroy it: "Our country does not drop bombs on other people, nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities. Instead our country sends doctors to those most lost corners of the world." 01/29/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Trump calls Cuba a “threat” while tightening the blockade and trying to cut off its oil supply. But no oil means no electricity, no functioning hospitals, no food reaching markets, no dignity for ordinary people. Are we really ready to starve an entire nation? Can you imagine telling a child that the pain in their stomach, the empty plate in front of them, the days without enough food are simply the price of U.S. foreign policy? This is economic warfare, and it has to stop. 01/30/2026
Margaret Kimberley: “So in effect this is the U.S. stealing ports from a company it already investigated and cleared - using a lie it debunked itself 27 years ago.” But wasn’t Panama itself stolen from Colombia because the U.S. wanted it for the canal? 02/04/2026 Arnaud Bertrand: What's happening in Panama with the "China-owned" ports (which actually aren't China-owned) is absolutely extraordinary: after the U.S. failed to have BlackRock buy the ports, they're effectively outright stealing them with the help of Panama's Supreme Court. I'm not exaggerating: Panama's Supreme Court just ruled that the 29-year old concession of the ports is suddenly "unconstitutional". Legally speaking, this means the concession was never valid so there's nothing to compensate for. Effectively the ruling says that CK Hutchison - the Hong Kong company that invested $1.8 billion to build the ports into world-class facilities and paid fees to Panama to operate them during 29 years - did all of this illegally, without anyone in Panama noticing for 28 years, until Trump decided he wanted the ports 🙄 ....... Much more
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is causing a humanitarian catastrophe in Cuba. US sanctions are causing shortages of food, water, and medicine. Hospitals are operating without power. Children under 5 are dying at alarming rates. This is economic warfare against the people of Cuba. 02/04/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Just pathetic. Rep. Sherman can't even comment on Trump's latest sanctions on Cuba. They are cutting off food, water, electricity, and medicine to children on the island. Infant mortality is skyrocketing. It's not complicated. You either support a war against children or you don't. 02/04/2026
(Video) Max Blumenthal: The US regime is Gazafying Cuba, blockading fuel to the country to starve its population in a bid for the longstanding gusano dream of regime change. This is a titanic war crime against a small nation that poses no threat to its neighbors – unlike the US 02/06/2026 COMBATE |🇵🇷: Cuba's Díaz-Canel: "The naval blockade against Venezuela began in December. Since that date, no fuel has entered this country." Council of Ministers has prepared an updated decree based on the 1990s Special Period framework, the emergency measures enacted after USSR collapse
Ben Norton: The imperial stenographers at the New York Times prefer doing softball interviews with US war criminals, who are complicit in massacres of civilians in Latin America, and who use the platform to advocate for more war. 02/06/2026 NY Times pro-war propagandist Ross Douthat refuses to publish an interview he did with anti-war journalist @SethHarpEsq. But he recently did a softball interview with war criminal and convicted Iran-Contra felon Elliott Abrams, who supported fascist death squads in Central America that tortured and massacred civilians for the Ronald Reagan administration. Look up the horrific El Mozote massacre, when US-backed forces in El Salvador massacred more than 800 civilians. Abrams was absolutely complicit in that crime against humanity. Abrams also helped oversee the failed coup attempt in Venezuela as Trump's special envoy during his first term. Now Abrams is openly defending Trump's bombing of Venezuela and illegal kidnapping of its constitutional, internationally recognized President Maduro, and he is calling for Trump to go even further and carry out complete "regime change" to install a pro-US right-wing regime. Only advocacy for more war is permitted at the New York Times. Anti-war voices are prohibited. // Ross Douthat: Since it's a matter of public controversy: Last month we recorded an interview with Seth Harp but decided not to publish it as an episode of Interesting Times. As one of my producers told him in a message that he has published, the main reason for the decision was our own overcrowded schedule and our sense that we had missed the ideal spot in the news cycle for a conversation pegged to the Delta Force raid in Venezuela. But another reason was my own judgment that the episode did not hold together well. I was primarily interested in discussing Mr. Harp's reporting on drug dealing and corruption in the Special Forces and linking that to a discussion of how a reliance on special operations has shaped U.S. foreign policy and military preparedness. But I felt that the latter half of our discussion became unmoored from Mr. Harp's specific reporting in a way that undermined the first half of our conversation. "Interesting Times" is a show where I try to give a lot of space to the guest's perspective while posing challenging questions, creating episodes where the audience gets the best version of an idea or worldview that they might not have understood before. I don't think I succeeded in that goal in my conversation with Mr. Harp. If he believes I'm covering up the fact that he beat me in some sort of debate, I think I didn't make my intentions and the goal of the show clear to him -- which may help explain why it was an unsuccessful episode. Ultimately that responsibility is mine and I'm sorry for taking his time without steering us to a fruitful destination.
Decensored News: 13K+ likes and counting on @sethharpesq's post, @DouthatNYT. There's clearly widespread interest in this interview. Release the raw footage and let people decide for themselves if it was “fruitful” or not. It doesn't have to be an episode of your show. 02/06/2026 Seth Harp: Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT challenged me to a debate on foreign policy. We recorded a 90-minute segment for his show, Interesting Times, on 1/15/26. But I defeated him so decisively that he refuses to air the footage. What an absolute coward.
(Video) Max Blumenthal: The US indictment of Maduro relies on testimony from Hugo Carvajal, who will likely serve as the DOJ's main witness. But Carvajal has cut a secret deal to reduce his own sentence in exchange for securing Maduro's conviction. He's coerced, compromised and devoid of credibility 01/10/2026 The Grayzone: Hugo "El Pollo" Carvajal is likely to serve as the 'star witness' for the US against Maduro @MaxBlumenthal reveals Carvajal is a coerced witness who cut a secret plea deal to save himself. He's even indulging Trump's conspiracy theory that Venezuela rigged the 2020 US election
(Video) Ben Norton: This ridiculous corporate media propaganda doesn’t mention WHY Cuba is suffering from blackouts and shortages: It's because the US regime has imposed an illegal, barbaric, medieval blockade on Cuba, to starve it of fuel, food, and medicine. The US is also threatening tariffs and sanctions on any countries that trade with Cuba. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are intentionally trying to cause a massive humanitarian catastrophe, to collapse the economy and the health sector, to kill as Cuban civilians as possible and make their lives hell, in order to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary anti-imperialist government. This is a monstrous crime against humanity. 02/10/2026 CBS News: Cuba is facing a deepening crisis as fuel shortages are triggering blackouts and worsening existing food and medicine shortages. Passengers arriving in Miami from Havana tell CBS News' Cristian Bienvenides that conditions on the island are the worst they’ve ever experienced, with growing anxiety over what could come next.
Glenn Greenwald: US sanctions that choke off countries from the world are always depicted as a benevolent attempt to help that country's oppressed peoples, when they always immiserate those exact people while achieving little else. The US blockade of Cuba, creating a hunger crisis, is sadistic. 02/09/2026 Ryan Grim: There are obviously a lot of shameful moments in American history, but Mexico being forced to send militarily protected humanitarian relief to a Cuban population we are starving for now reason, while we all stuff our faces with chicken wings, has to rank among our low moments .... Drop Site: 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 Mexico has dispatched two Navy logistics ships from Veracruz to Cuba carrying more than 814 tons of humanitarian aid for civilians, under orders from President Claudia Sheinbaum. The shipment includes staple foods and hygiene supplies, with the Papaloapan transporting mixed goods and the Isla Holbox carrying powdered milk. The vessels are due to arrive in about four days. Mexican authorities said another 1,500 tons of powdered milk and beans are slated for future delivery, describing the operation as part of Mexico’s ongoing humanitarian support to Cuba in a statement.
(Video) as this report comes out never forget Bernie Sanders voted to confirm Marco Rubio, ensuring Trump keeps being able to boast about how "Marco had unanimous support! Everyone loves him!" To this day Sanders has not expressed regret over his vote. He is a scumbag of the first order 02/09/2026 Drop Site: 🚨 Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks. The Secretary of State has told the president that talks are happening with high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news. Story for Drop Site News from @ryangrim, @nkulw, & @GranadosCeja
EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks 02/09/2026 The Secretary of State has told the president that talks are happening with high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news.
(Video) Karena Acree-Páez: ‼️‼️ 68 years ago, protesters in Venezuela attacked former U.S. President Richard Nixon's car 💪🏾🇻🇪 Nixon was visiting the country on a so-called "goodwill" tour. As his motorcade drove across Caracas, protesters spat upon his car, threw rocks and eggs, and chanted anti-imperialist slogans at him and his wife. via my collective ANTICONQUISTA 05/14/2026
(Video) Our government, including the Trump and first Bush administrations, either exaggerated or fabricated drug charges for political purposes against Noriega and Nicholas Maduros, and they tried to fabricate them against Evo Morales as well. To the best of my knowledge there's little or no evidence against Maduro for drug running and Noriega was only involved in it to a minimal amount, much less than our allies at the time, including the Contras, which were running much more. Trump also pardoned a drug runner involved in much more who served his interests. This has nothing to do with Justice! Evo also discusses Neo-Colonialism and opression of the poorest people in the world. I hesitated to spend half an hour to watch this, but it was worth it. 05/20/2026 Victor Hernandez: Of course, the hands of the USA, and probably even Europe, are all over the situation in Bolivia. The Grayzone's Oscar Leon interviews Evo Morales, former president of Bolivia and leader of the country's indigenous and peasant sectors, about the national uprising which now threatens the survival of the government of neoliberal President Rodrigo Paz. Morales discusses the factors behind the growing rebellion and the refusal of the pro-US government in La Paz to address its demands. He describes the Paz administration as a cesspool of corruption which has presided over numerous drug trafficking scandals as it seeks to sell the country's land to the highest foreign bidder. Finally, Morales discusses being targeted under the Trump administration's so-called Donroe Doctrine, as leaked documents reveal plans to kidnap him in cooperation with the DEA.
(Video) Evo Morales to The Grayzone: 'The people have reached their breaking point' 05/18/2026
Jose Vega — Vote Vega!: I was there too 😭 you were so bad and got your ass handed to you. It was 90 minutes of you trying to lie, manipulate and push pro imperialist propaganda. You were a complete joke and you stormed out of the room like a child throwing a tantrum. 12/03/2025 Germania Rodriguez Poleo : I was at a DSA-filled event last night where the crowd cheered for the assassination of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton. They booed when I said I prefer the US to Russia. You’ll never convince me DSA socialism is like Norway lol. They are so dangerous and advancing.
(Video) Max Blumenthal debates Venezuela war in NYC 12/02/2025 Watch Max Blumenthal debate whether the US should wage war on Venezuela against pro-war journalists Orlando Avendano and Germania Poleo live in New York City as part of the Young Voices debates.
(Video) Max Blumenthal: State Dept-backed journos are claiming that Delcy Rodriguez is the target of a secret indictment – while admitting they don't know what she could be charged for. The US regime previously weaponized secret indictments against Julian Assange and Alex Saab. Pure mafia tactics. 02/10/2026 : Trump's DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuelan Pres. Delcy Rodriguez to “hold it over her head,” and will execute it if she “derails," according to a top opposition journo @MaxBlumenthal on Washington's latest tactic to hold Caracas captive:
US holds secret indictment of Delcy Rodriguez, top opposition journo claims 02/10/2026 A US-funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuela’s Acting President to “hold it over her head,” and will execute it if she “derails.”
Ben Norton: Argentina's libertarian US puppet President Javier Milei is pushing through extreme anti-worker "labor reform" that will allow companies to force employees to work 12-hour days. The "reform" also restricts the rights of workers to go on strike, and lets companies fire workers without severance pay. Milei is a loyal servant of Wall Street and Argentina's billionaire capitalist oligarchs. This is the future they want for all workers everywhere -- 12-hour days (and even longer) -- if people don't fight back. Argentine labor unions are planning large protests. 02/11/2026
12-hour shifts, dismissal without severance pay, and a curtailment of the right to strike: Milei’s labor reform, which makes life more precarious for Argentines. 02/11/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: We asked Admiral Tom Allen of the U.S. Coast Guard about Operation Southern Spear. People suspected of smuggling drugs are being murdered without due process. Boats bombed, lives taken, and no accountability. 02/11/2026
Ben Norton: Argentina's libertarian US puppet President Javier Milei just pushed through some of the most extreme anti-worker legislation on Earth. In addition to allowing 12-hour work days, it lets companies pay workers with food and lodging, instead of money. Argentina is a laboratory for the far-right anti-labor policies that capitalist oligarchs hope to impose everywhere. This is why Wall Street, Trump, and many US billionaire oligarchs support Milei so strongly; and it's why the US government has given Argentina tens of billions of dollars to prop up his failing self-described "anarcho-capitalist" regime. 02/13/2026
Ben Norton: Actually existing libertarianism: The infant mortality rate is rising in Argentina, under US puppet President Javier Milei, a self-declared "anarcho-capitalist". Milei gutted public health spending and social programs. Milei also backs anti-worker laws to allow 12-hour workdays 02/16/2026
(Video) Power to the People ☭🕊: Cuba speaking at the UN special committee: "The U.S. is attempting to overcome our sovereignty. It is trying to impose through force, threats, and coercion its own neocolonialist capitalist interests. We will not cede to blackmail. We will continue to defend our independence.” 02/17/2026
(Video) Max Blumenthal: On May 15, 2019, Rev. Jesse Jackson broke the siege of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington to deliver food and supplies to antiwar activists defending it from the Trump admin and its violent proxies among the fake Juan Guaido mafia it had recognized as Venezuela's government. Jesse took this physical risk and stood for international law while afflicted with Parkinson's, which had forced him to dial back his famously frenetic schedule. 02/17/2026 Best known as a civil rights activist and understudy of MLK Jr., Jesse Jackson was also a diplomat who leveraged his status and personal gravitas to secure the release of Navy Lt. Robert Goodman, whose plane was shot down while attacking Lebanon, through in-person negotiations with Syrian Pres. Hafez Al-Assad. Jesse was the first major Democratic presidential candidate to recognize the PLO and force the issue of Palestinian statehood. He campaigned against the criminal US embargo of Cuba, led grassroots opposition to apartheid South Africa, and spoke at the funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. His geopolitical chops were on display during the 1984 and '88 primary debates, demonstrating a command of international issues that would have put any of today's leading Democrats to shame. Jackson's two presidential campaigns paved the way for those of Bernie Sanders, who proved more malleable and milquetoast on foreign policy. Barack Obama considered Jesse a threat to his bid to win over the Zionist lobby and suburban white swing voters. And Jesse privately (and once on a hot mic) recognized Obama as a hollow fraud who would spend more time lecturing Black America than delivering material results for it. With the backing of Wall Street and the war state, Obama supplanted Jackson, ensuring that there would no longer be a place for his brand of politics within the Democratic Party. Indeed, there is no contemporary successor to Jesse Jackson within the party, only the corporate misleaders and progressive pretenders now memorializing a whitewashed version of his legacy.
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Trump openly states that he’s imposing a “humanitarian threat” to force regime change in Cuba. “There’s an embargo. There’s no oil. There’s no money. There’s no anything.” A straightforward war crime confession. 02/16/2026
(Video) Katie Halper: Caracas-based professor Chris Gilbert joined me to talk AOC’s rhetoric on Venezuela and how she’s aligning herself with Democratic leadership by presenting them as “better imperialists.” 02/18/2026
Ben Norton: Incredible: Trump pardoned and freed from prison the right-wing ex dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, one of the world's worst drug traffickers, who trafficked over 400 tons of cocaine. Then the US government paid for this narco-dictator to stay in a luxury NYC hotel. 02/19/2026 ProPublica: New: Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel.
Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment 02/18/2026 After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.
(Video) Medea Benjamin: We are in Venezuela as part of an international peace delegation to see the impacts of US attacks and how we can work for peace. Yesterday, we met and rallied with Venezuelans who are demanding the release of their president, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, who are still being held in US detention. From the United States, we must continue to stand up against the actions of our government against Venezuela. 02/21/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Thiago Ávila has been traveling with our Peace Delegation to Venezuela the past few days. As he puts it: Venezuela — like Palestine, Brazil, Cuba, and so many other countries — has been targeted by US imperialism and we must refuse to normalize this violence. Stay tuned as Thiago and many others head to Cuba with the Nuestra América Convoy in March and to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla in April. No matter the blockades or border walls they put in our way, we will never stop standing with the people fighting for peace and self-determination around the world. 02/24/2026
Ben Norton: This is extremely suspicious. It looks like the US may be trying to carry out a false flag to justify escalating its war on Cuba. This is exactly what the US military planned to do in the 1960s, in Operation Northwoods (and in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in the US war on Vietnam). So what happened just now? A speedboat from Florida attacked Cuban officials. It tried to illegally enter Cuban territory, and armed North Americans shot and injured Cuban security personnel. There are two explanations here: Either these were far-right terrorist extremists from Florida who decided on their own to attack Cuba, or they were supported by the US government and are being used to try to justify more direct US intervention in Cuba. 02/25/2026
Cuban Border Guards Attacked by Florida Speedboat 02/25/2026 Eschewing a U.S.-style double-tap strike, the Cuban government rescued survivors.
All participants are Cuban residents of the United States. Most of them have a known history of criminal & violent activity, ..... supporting, or carrying out acts of terrorism within the national territory or in other countries. 02/26/2026 Sacha Llorenti: It was a terrorist incursion: «Assault rifles, short-barreled firearms, homemade explosive devices (Molotov cocktails), bulletproof vests, telescopic sights, and camouflage uniforms were seized (…) All the participants are Cubans residing in the United States. Most of them with a known history of criminal and violent activity…».
Participants in foiled armed infiltration in Villa Clara identified 02/26/2026 It has been established that the neutralized speedboat, with Florida registration FL7726SH, was carrying 10 armed people who, according to preliminary statements from the detainees, intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes. Assault rifles, handguns, homemade explosive devices (Molotov cocktails), bulletproof vests, telescopic sights, and camouflage uniforms were seized.
‘Had Molotov cocktails, camouflage gear’: Cuban forces engage with gunmen on speedboat 'who came from US' 02/26/2026
Ben Norton: Mexico's left-wing President Claudia Sheinbaum is reducing the work week in Mexico from 48 to 40 hours. (She has a 70% approval rating.) Meanwhile, Argentina's right-wing US puppet President Javier Milei is increasing the work day to 12 hours. (He has a 47% approval rating.) 02/25/2026 ABC News: Mexican lawmakers have approved President Claudia Sheinbaum’s initiative to gradually reduce the work week from 48 hours to 40 hours.
Rania Khalek: One of the 4 men killed while trying to invade Cuba to carry out some sort of violent insurgency is Michel Ortega Casanova. He’s a Cuban with U.S. residency. He conspired with other Miami Cubans and had apparently told the head of the Cuban Republican Party in Tampa, Wilfredo Beyra, about his plans. Beyra told him that it wasn’t the time yet. Just wild how these diaspora Cubans organize violence against their native country. But wouldn’t be the first time. The U.S. government has historically encouraged and backed terrorism like this. Go read about the Bay of Pigs. 02/26/2026
(Video) COMBATE |🇵🇷: Mexico President Sheinbaum: "These high-caliber rifles, rocket launchers used by the cartels - they come from the United States." She named Operation Fast & Furious: the US government ran guns directly to Mexican cartels. Not one person was ever held responsible 02/26/2026
Rania Khalek: A friend of one of the Miami Cubans who violently tried to invade Cuba said they have an organization that recruits Cubans to overthrow the government. He adds, “the only thing authorities in Havana understand is bullets” but goes on the complain that it’s wrong for the Cuban government to call them terrorists… 02/26/2026
Ben Norton: This is insane and Kafkaesque: The US regime invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president, and is subjecting him to a show trial in New York. Now the US is also blocking the Venezuelan government from paying for Maduro's legal representation. So he can't even defend himself! 02/26/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Heavily armed men left South Florida, entered Cuban waters illegally, and fired first on Cuban authorities, yet some U.S. politicians are calling it a “massacre.” Violence against Cuba has repeatedly been organized from U.S. soil. Washington should be stopping these actions rather than enabling them. At the same time, U.S. policies are collectively punishing 11 million Cubans with shortages of food, medicine, and fuel. This results in devastating blackouts that cripple hospitals, farms, and daily life. We stand with the Cuban people, not with terrorism and not with sanctions. Join our Nuestra América solidarity delegation to Havana, March 20–23, and learn more at http://codepink.org 02/26/2026
Ben Norton: Actually existing libertarianism: Argentina's far-right President Javier Milei proudly calls himself a "libertarian" and "anarcho-capitalist". He also strongly supports mass surveillance, militarized police beating up protesters and striking workers, and for-profit prisons. Milei is now trying to create an Argentine version of the authoritarian US agency ICE, in order to terrorize immigrants and refugees. In actually existing libertarianism, the only ones who actually have freedom are billionaire capitalist oligarchs (who funded Milei) and big corporations. 02/27/2026
Argentina’s ICE? Milei government advances immigration agency plans 02/07/2026 President Javier Milei’s government is moving forward with its plan for a new national immigration agency with expanded powers, despite internal disputes, a shift in rhetoric and false data circulating on social media.
Alan MacLeod: Throughout the 1980s, US-backed "Contra" death squads carried out waves of bombings against hospitals throughout Nicaragua, in a (successful) attempt to terrorize the population into giving up their support for the socialist Sandinista Party. A Columbia University study found that, between 1981 and 1984 alone, US-backed forces had forced at least 63 health centers to close. At the scene of the attacks, the Contras often left behind graffiti announcing that “the Lions of Reagan” had visited the area. President Reagan described the Contras as “the moral equivalent of America's Founding Fathers.” 03/02/2026
(Video) Max Blumenthal: Today Reuters claims “exclusive reporting” revealing Trump’s secret indictment of Delcy Rodriguez. But I broke the story almost a month ago. Either way, it’s another sobering message for any Iranian or Cuban official considering agreeing to Trump’s terms of transition 03/03/2026 02/10/2026 The Grayzone: Trump's DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuelan Pres. Delcy Rodriguez to “hold it over her head,” and will execute it if she “derails," according to a top opposition journo @MaxBlumenthal on Washington's latest tactic to hold Caracas captive:
US holds secret indictment of Delcy Rodriguez, top opposition journo claims 02/10/2026 A US-funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuela’s Acting President to “hold it over her head,” and will execute it if she “derails.”
(Video) Nathan J Robinson: I hate communism because my dad was tortured by the right-wing US-backed dictator overthrown by the communists 03/06/2026 06/20/2025 F I R A S 🍉: "My father was imprisoned & tortured in Cuba, I hate communism. Well, actually it was Batista who tortured my dad", Ted Cruz. You'd think you're watching SNL.
(Video) Ryan Rozbiani: JUST IN 🇺🇸🇻🇪: U.S. Interior Secretary Confirms the U.S. took $100 Million of Gold from Venezuela. Doug Burgum: "On Friday, there was $100 million of gold that came from Venezuela to the United States. Venezuela's got $500 billion of resources of gold." 03/08/2026
Alan MacLeod: The US - and I cannot stress this enough - is the bad guy in virtually every situation. No empire in world history has ever held this much power. 03/17/2026
Alan MacLeod: Alert🚨: The US government is starting the process of lawfare against Colombian president, @petrogustavo, trying to do to him what they have done to Maduro. 03/20/2026
U.S. Prosecutors Investigate Colombia’s President, a Onetime Trump Foe 03/20/2026 The Justice Department is examining whether President Gustavo Petro of Colombia has ties to drug traffickers. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, who has had a volatile relationship with President Trump, is under criminal investigation by at least two U.S. federal prosecutors’ offices, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
This was partly confirmed by Snopes, but they also included a Pentagon denial. We need more confirmation and he should obviously testify publicly. There's no doubt Trump's foreign policy in Venezuela, Iran and elsewhere is illegal! 03/20/2026 Typical African: Admiral Alvin Holsey was Forced to Resign After Refusing to Carry Out Illegal Boat Strike Orders from Trump Administration. Admiral Holsey expressed concern for civilian casualties. Secretary Hegseth pushed back and reminded the admiral of his sworn duty. Admiral Holsey informed Hegseth that he had no intention of carrying out an illegal order after 40 years of service in the U.S. Navy. ....... Much more
Did Adm. Alvin Holsey resign over Hegseth's Venezuela boat strike orders? What we know 12/03/2025
(Video) Medea Benjamin: “We support the Cuban people” but what does that actually mean? To us, it means bringing medicine, showing up, and standing in solidarity. To Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, it means defending a policy that cuts off oil, shuts down hospitals, and pushes an entire country deeper into crisis. She shouts “freedom” while taking away people’s basic rights. 03/25/2026
(Video) Max Blumenthal: The US Department of War claimed credit for bombing the training camp of a drug trafficking "terrorist organization." Turns out the target in the video was an innocent dairy farm bombed by Ecuador's military. The Pentagon has lied to the American public and the world 03/24/2026 Sean Parnell: Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, the Department is uniting partners across the Western Hemisphere to detect, disrupt, and destroy designated terrorist organizations that fuel violence and corruption. ..... Much more
Ben Norton: What the US is doing to Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores is absolutely crazy and outrageous. They are being subjected to a ludicrous show trial, in which they cannot fairly defend themselves. They can't pay their lawyers, because unilateral US sanctions block them from using Venezuelan government funds. So they are going to lose competent legal representation, and instead get a court-appointed nobody attorney who knows nothing about the case and can't adequately defend them. Moreover, CNN quotes a legal expert who admits that the US regime's kidnapping of President Maduro was a clear violation of international law, but the US judicial system doesn't care. This is a Kafkaesque imperial travesty of justice. 03/26/2026
Nicolas Maduro heads back to court arguing that the US is trying to hamstring his defense 03/26/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Rick Scott says our trip to bring humanitarian aid to Cuba was “disgusting.” The policies he supports starve the people, block all fuel imports, and cause severe shortages in the healthcare system. We did our best to take all his questions, but it doesn't seem like he liked the answers. 03/26/2026
(Video) Rubio clearly think he and Trump should be able to dictate the truth to others even though they're obviously lying about everything & they're obsessed with depriving people around the world including Cuba, Venezuela & Iran of controlling their own countries! 03/27/2026 Furkan Gözükara: Absolute imperialism on live TV. Marco Rubio explicitly confirms the US goal in Cuba is regime change. He openly admits they want to overthrow the Cuban government and change their entire economic model to serve American capitalist interests. The arrogance is staggering.
(Video) Ben Norton: This is a blatant LIE. The US imposed an illegal oil blockade on Cuba, threatening to impose tariffs on any country that sells it oil. Cuba is willing to buy the oil. It doesn't need charity. But when Russia tried to send Cuba oil, the US blocked it. This is a medieval siege. 03/27/2026
(Video) Furkan Gözükara: Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister drops a massive truth bomb. She confirms Cuba fulfilled every single commitment in their historic peace agreement, but the US government unilaterally dismantled it all. Washington simply cannot be trusted to honor any diplomatic deal. 03/29/2026
(Video) New Direction AFRICA: 🇲🇽🚨 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum just made it clear: Mexico has every right to send fuel to Cuba, whether for humanitarian or commercial reasons. No apology. No hesitation. No asking permission. Washington has spent six decades telling the world who can trade with Cuba and who cannot. Mexico is saying that era is over. Sovereign nations make their own trade policy. They do not wait for a blockade to be lifted. They act. First Mexico restarts oil shipments. Now the President is putting the empire on notice. Cuba is not alone. Latin America is waking up. And the days of Washington dictating who gets fuel and who gets starved are coming to an end. 03/31/2026
(Video) Ounka: Mehdi Hasan catches Vanessa Neumann lying about Maduro: 'He's been indicted by the ICC!' Hasan: 'No, he hasn't.' Neumann: 'I misspoke. I don't know.' This is the level of 'expertise' the regime change crowd brings. They don't know. They just say things. And the media platforms them anyway 03/31/2026
(Video) Ben Norton: The US empire is by far the greatest threat to peace and stability on Earth. Nothing else comes close. While waging nonstop war across the planet, the US empire wants to expand, seize control of foreign territory, and drag the world back to the colonialism of the 19th century. 03/31/2026 Glenn Diesen: Pete Hegseth presents Washington's “Greater North America" concept of dominating everything from Greenland to the Panama Canal.
(Video) Medea Benjamin: A Russian tanker made it to Cuba… but let’s be clear: no country should need permission from Trump or Rubio to send oil to another sovereign nation. Cuba is being strangled by a blockade that turns fuel into a political weapon, and this shipment will only last weeks. The world already votes against this cruelty. Now it must act: send oil, send aid, send solar, and demand what matters most: end the blockade and let Cuba live! 03/31/2026
(Video) Zei_squirrel: Russia and Putin broke the genocidal murderous starvation siege on Cuba. Not Claudia Sheinbaum, who for months lied and pretended that she was just about to send oil but never did. Not Lula. Not Gustavo Petro. Not the CIA-collaborator Delcy Rodríguez regime. Eternal shame on them. .... Much more, string of Tweets 03/31/2026
Ben Norton: There is no end to the ridiculous hypocrisy of the US empire. The US treats Panama as a colony, with no respect for its sovereignty: -Trump vowed to take over the Panama Canal. -Marco Rubio forced Panama to withdraw from China's Belt and Road Initiative. -The US demanded that Panama remove Huawei telecommunications equipment and kick Chinese representatives out of canal committees. -And don't forget that the US invaded Panama in 1989! Panama's courts issued an absurd, politically motivated ruling against China, under intense US pressure. So China took action to defend itself against the anti-China policies that Panama implemented under US pressure. But now the US outlandishly claims to support Panama's sovereignty against so-called "bullying", when it was the US empire that violated Panama's sovereignty and bullied it in the first place. The cynicism is mind-blowing. 04/02/2026 Secretary Marco Rubio: China’s decision to detain or otherwise impede Panama-flagged vessels engaged in lawful trade destabilizes supply chains, raises costs, and erodes confidence in the global trading system. The United States stands with Panama against any retaliatory actions against its sovereignty and will always support our partners in the face of bullying.
(Video) Pamphlets: 🚨🇧🇷 BREAKING — President Lula: “Since 1500, they discovered gold in Latin America they spent 500 years taking everything from us. They left us stripped bare. We sold raw ore for almost nothing, earned very little from mining, and then bought industrialized products back at the price of gold. Now something new has been discovered: rare earths beneath our soil. And once again, they are looking to take, take, take, and leave behind only the holes they dig." 04/03/2026
Alan MacLeod: Not enough people remember when the CIA deliberately introduced African Swine Fever into Cuba 🇨🇺 as part of their biological warfare strategy. 04/04/2026
(Video) Katie Halper: "It doesn't matter who's president. The people who wanna keep the blockade going and who never want Cuba to have any relief, they're always there. They're in the wings, they're underneath." - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on decades of anti-Cuba policy in U.S. government 04/04/2026
(Video) Katie Halper: Journalist @ManInHabana debunks one of the stranger regime change industry talking points of "medical slavery" in Cuba, and exposes a $52 million per year disinformation campaign... brought to you by the U.S. taxpayer! 04/06/2026
(Video) Saffron Sniper: A helpless Vietnamese family watches as U.S. soldiers set fire to their home during the Vietnam War. 04/07/2026
(Video) The Grayzone: Shocking new testimonies reveal that US naval drones bombed several Ecuadorian fishing boats as part of Trump's 'war on drugs.' The fishermen survived the strikes, and disclosed the horrifying details. Mainstream media has ignored these vivid eyewitness accounts of US war crimes 04/11/2026
(Video) Power to the People ☭🕊: Argentinian voter: “I voted for Javier Milei and now I can't afford rent. I’ll either vote for Milei again or I’ll leave the country, but I’ll still never vote for the socialists.” Owning the left by owning nothing at all. This is what capitalist indoctrination does to a person. 04/17/2026
(Video) Chris Hedges: .@medeabenjamin explains one of the primary reasons Cuba, a tiny island with a population of 10 million people, has long threatened the U.S.; it once served as a good example of an alternative to our profit-driven, capitalist system. 04/16/2026
(Video) New Direction AFRICA: 🇧🇷🇨🇺🚨 BREAKING: Lula just said what the world has been thinking. "Stop this damned blockade on Cuba and let the Cuban people live their lives." Cuba has problems. But they are Cuba's problems. Not Lula's. Not Trump's. Not the empire's. The US has punished Cuba for decades. Sanctions. Blockades. Regime change attempts. None of it worked. Cubans are still standing. Still surviving. Still waiting for the world to let them breathe. Lula is not begging. He's demanding. The blockade is not policy. It's cruelty. And the world is tired of watching. Spread the truth. Free Cuba. Not from its leaders. From the blockade. Let the Cuban people live. 04/18/2026
(Video) Sony Thăng: Cuba is ninety miles from Florida. It has been under American embargo for over sixty years. The people who designed that embargo, who maintained it through 13 consecutive administrations, who tightened it every time Cuba showed signs of building a functional public health system, are not considered to be engaged in economic warfare against a civilian population. They are considered to be defending "democracy." The Cuban doctors who went to Africa to fight Ebola. The Cuban literacy programs. The Cuban medical system that, despite the embargo, produces health outcomes that embarrass the richest country on earth. None of that appears in the American curriculum. Because the curriculum is not designed to give you information. It is designed to give you a framework. The framework says: Cuba is a dictatorship. America promotes freedom. The embargo is a consequence of Cuban choices. The framework does not say: the embargo was designed, from the beginning, to make the Cuban population miserable enough to overthrow their government, as documented in declassified State Department memos from the Kennedy era. The framework never gives you the memos. The framework gives you the conclusion. Sixty-four years of civilian suffering. Sixty-four years of medicine shortages and economic strangulation. And in the American schools: Cuba is a cautionary tale about socialism. The operation never ends. 04/18/2026 COMBATE |🇵🇷: Cuba President: "Since the October Revolution raised the wealth-creators to power, every socialist system has faced brutal aggressions and blockades -- yet no one can deny what they gave humanity. Cuba is not a failed state. Cuba is a besieged state."
(Video) Rick Sanchez: If Lukashenko is a dictator, I’m the QUEEN OF ENGLAND. I just sat down with Lukashenko for a two-hour, unscripted conversation with no pre-approved questions. I’ve worked at NBC, CNN, Univision, Fox News, and now at RT, where, despite its flaws, I have more journalistic independence than I ever had. 04/18/2026
Nnamdi Obi: Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing. I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean. https://orange-anselma-35.tiiny.site Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵 04/18/2026
(Video) Craig Murray: In 2018 when Kelloggs announced they were leaving Venezuela overnight, making hundreds redundant, the Venezuelan government just let them go and helped the workers physically take over the factory. It is still producing, using 100% Venezuelan raw materials. An inspirational story 04/20/2026
(Video) Dr. Jill Stein🌻: Russia brings oil. China bring solar energy. The US brings starvation and darkness. Tells you all you need to know. 04/23/2026 Pamphlets: 🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING — Havana Lit Up. Russian Oil is Saving Lives in Hospitals
(Video) Orlando Curioso: ‼️This is how Cuba 🇨🇺 is tonight, fully lit up thanks 🙏 to Russia's 🇷🇺 collaboration that broke the irrational, criminal, and inhumane blockade 🔒 by the USA 🇺🇸. 💪 04/24/2026
(Video) Sovereign Media: THE BOOK THAT TERRIFIED THE UNITED STATES Kwame Nkrumah died on this day in 1972. He passed away from prostate cancer while living in exile in Guinea, after being overthrown in a 1966 military coup. Ghana’s first president had become a major threat to Western interests. Declassified documents show the CIA had foreknowledge of the coup and was supportive of efforts to remove him. For many pan-Africanists, this confirmed what they long argued: Nkrumah’s removal was not simply about internal opposition, but about dismantling a project of genuine African sovereignty that clashed with US strategic interests. 04/27/2026 The catalyst was Nkrumah's 1965 book, 'Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism'—a masterwork that systematically exposed how multinational corporations, financial institutions, and foreign aid programmes kept formerly colonised nations economically dependent even after formal independence. According to a memo from Robert W. Komer, special assistant for National Security Affairs, to President Lyndon B. Johnson, "Nkrumah was doing more to undermine our interests than any other black African," while the new military regime that replaced him was "almost pathetically pro-Western". As Pan-African author and professor Milton Allimadi discusses in a video analysis, this book terrified Washington because it laid bare what Nkrumah called the "extended tentacles of the Wall Street octopus"—the consortium of mining companies, banks, intelligence agencies, and foreign aid bodies that ensured African "independence" remained a fiction. The CIA's overthrow preparations intensified immediately after the book's publication. Today, Nkrumah's legacy finds new expression in the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)—the confederation of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger that is once again striking fear into imperialist hearts. The AES has expelled French troops, abandoned the colonial CFA franc, nationalised mining resources, and declared that any attack on one member is an attack on all. As Nkrumah once warned: "The strength of the imperialist lies in disunity". The AES represents the opposite, and the empire is taking notice.
(Video) George Galloway: 14,000 people, mostly women and children, murdered by the Kiev regime's for no other reason than they were Russian 07/16/2026
Historical Africa: Over a million Africans fought for France and Britain in the Second World War. When France was liberated, the soldiers who helped do it were quietly removed from the picture. In the summer of 1944, the Free French Liberation Army landed in the south of France. Two out of every three of those soldiers were African. They took Toulon. They took Marseille. They kept pushing German forces back while the Allies closed in from the west and the Soviets closed in from the east. This was not a supporting role. This was the muscle of the liberation. Then came Paris. Before the march into the capital, De Gaulle ordered a "whitening" of the ranks: roughly 20,000 African soldiers were pulled out and replaced with white French troops, so the liberation of Paris would look purely French for the cameras and the history books. Men who had bled for that city were told to stand down before the parade. British colonial forces sent African divisions even further, into the jungles of Burma to fight Japan. Then the war ended, and the bill came due. France owed these men back pay and demobilization bonuses. Many never saw it. In December 1944, tirailleurs at the Thiaroye camp near Dakar, recently released from German POW camps, demanded the wages they were promised. French officers opened fire on their own soldiers at dawn. For seventy years France's official count was 35 dead. Historians now put it at 300 to 400. A 2025 Senegalese commission found the killing was planned in advance and covered up for decades. France did not call it a massacre until November 2024, eighty years later. There has been no apology. No reparations. France is still accused of withholding the archives that would settle the death toll for good. They fought a war for a country that erased them from its own liberation, then shot them for asking to be paid. 07/22/2026
(Video) CODEPINK: Women For Peace: The State Department wants you to believe that standing with the Cuban people makes you a national security threat. We read the entire 100-page report on Cuba. Here’s what’s really in it. 07/23/2026
(Video) Black People Unite Now: They wrote it all down themselves. The violence of colonialism isn't just a theory—it's recorded history. If you want to understand the true impact and the scale of the loss, you just have to look at the records. Had you heard of those genocide before today? #HumanRights #WorldHistory #Truth #SocialJustice 07/21/2026
If true, and I assume this is, then Delcy Rodríguez pretended to stand up to the Trump administration long enough to make herself look independent, at least to some. Those in the United States are more likely to believe it than those in Venezuela. Wall Street Oligarchs are dismantling the rule of law with Trump as their puppet, which will be disastrous for all, even the Oligarchs. 07/27/2026 Between The Lines: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗦𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗭𝗨𝗘𝗟𝗔 '𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗗' 𝗧𝗢 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗖𝗖. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗘𝗗. 𝗢𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮'𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲. It thanked the new Venezuelan government for its 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻-𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 "𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗖𝗖." It called the court neither credible, independent, nor legitimate. It ended: "𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗖𝗖. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗖𝗖 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲." 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. The interim president who withdrew Venezuela from the court is Delcy Rodríguez. She holds that office because the United States invaded Venezuela this year, captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife by military force, and flew him to New York. Rodríguez was sworn in behind him. US sanctions on Venezuelan oil were lifted, and the oil industry was privatised. 𝗦𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮. Venezuela did not decide to leave the ICC any more than it decided to lose its president, or to hand its oil to foreign companies. A government installed by an occupying power, quitting a court at that power's request, is not exercising sovereignty. It is following instructions. The State Department calls it a partnership. There is no partnership between the country that does the capturing and the country whose president was captured. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀. It says the ICC is illegitimate for charging "𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁." One paragraph later it celebrates that "𝗠𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱." An American court. Trying a foreign head of state. Seized by an army. The principle the United States invokes to condemn the ICC, that a nation's own courts should handle its own people, is the exact principle it violated the moment it put Maduro in a courtroom in New York. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳. Venezuela is being made to speak in Washington's voice, against an institution that might one day examine what was done to it. The government that should be the ICC's witness has been turned into the ICC's opponent, because the people now running it serve at the pleasure of the state that invaded. 𝗦𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗮𝗵𝘂 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸. There, the US Secretary of State reassured Israel it would act forcefully against the court that indicted its prime minister. Here, the State Department calls on every member state on earth to abandon the court entirely. Two statements, one week, one goal: no court that can reach the powerful, and no court the powerful cannot capture a country to silence. 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁. A nation whose president was taken, whose oil was taken, and whose voice is now used against the one court that names crimes like these, is not a partner. It is a possession, and the arrangement is becoming visible in the worst possible way.
The Spearhead: Why Do Africans Seek Love From Those Who Don’t Love Us? – Captain Ibrahim Traoré. On July 16, 2026, Burkina Faso President Captain Ibrahim Traoré paid a visit to the city of Ouahigouya in the Yaadga region of his country, and delivered a powerful address to the Burkinabé people, and the people of Africa as a whole. In this quote from the Yaadga address, Traoré calls out the strange tendency of Africans to constantly seek love and validation from the societies that have been trying to wipe them out for over 400 years. The definition of a toxic relationship. 07/27/2026
Aaron Maté: The world’s most powerful, privileged people spend considerable time and energy trying to hurt the world’s most vulnerable. 05/02/2026 Drop Site: 🇨🇺 Trump signs executive order dramatically escalating "sanctions" on Cuba, targeting energy, finance, and security sectors. President Trump signed an executive order Friday, marking one of the most sweeping expansions of US economic pressure on Cuba in decades, blocking the US assets of foreign individuals and entities operating in Cuba's energy, defense, financial services, metals, mining, and security sectors, as well as anyone acting on behalf of the Cuban government. The order also authorizes sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions with designated Cuban entities, potentially cutting them off from US correspondent banking. This move could further isolate Cuba from the international financial system, limit foreign investment, and exacerbate the island's already severely restricted access to medicine, food imports, and basic goods. The order builds on Trump's January declaration of a national emergency over Cuba — the same legal basis used to justify the ongoing fuel blockade. Researchers at the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that US unilateral coercive measures had driven Cuba's infant mortality rate to its highest level in decades, rising 148% since 2018.
(Video) Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺: 🇺🇦 12 years ago today the Odessa massacre took place. Where 40+ Russians hiding in the trade union building were burnt alive by Ukrainian ultranationalists, some short of oxygen jumped to their dеаths. An event so crucial in understanding the 2022 SMO into Ukraine. 🧵 1/5 ...... Much more 05/02/2026
Ben Norton: Bombshell: Leaked audio recordings prove Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei is conspiring with the drug lord Juan Orlando Hernández -- the drug-trafficking former dictator of Honduras, whom Trump freed from prison. In a recording between Milei and the drug lord, Hernández proposed creating a right-wing fake news operation, with the support of the US government, in order to spread propaganda online to "eliminate the left" in Latin America, targeting Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and the left-wing opposition in Honduras. The self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" Milei offered to contribute $350,000 USD of Argentine government money to help fund this disinformation operation, while millions of Argentines are suffering in poverty, and they have to eat donkey meat, because they can't afford local beef. 05/03/2026
Milei contributed $350,000 to a campaign to discredit Sheinbaum and Petro 05/03/2026 Argentine President Javier Milei allegedly contributed $350,000 to form a regional communications team to launch a media campaign against the presidents of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, according to audio recordings of a conversation between Milei and former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. (Xinhua photo) Buenos Aires. Argentine President Javier Milei allegedly contributed $350,000 to form a regional communications team to launch a media campaign against the presidents of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, according to audio recordings of a conversation between former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and current Honduran authorities, which caused a strong reaction in Argentina. The audios “from WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram are part of a detailed journalistic investigation published in Diario Red América Latina, directed by the Spaniard Pablo Iglesias (based in Mexico), and the Hondurasgate portal ,” notes the newspaper Página 12 .
(Video) Rick Sanchez: My father was my hero. He taught me from a young age about the damage the US caused across Latin America. So when I got to CNN, I tried pitching a serious report on CIA-backed bloodshed in places like Guatemala and Chile. The reaction from executives shocked me. It was shut down immediately. That was the moment I realized there were subjects corporate media simply did not want touched — and that I could never truly do honest journalism inside that environment. Full story: Sanchez Effect. 05/08/2026
Evo Morales Ayma: In Bolivia, Operation Condor 2026 is underway, led by Trump and carried out by his loyal servants on our continent: the right-wing and traitorous presidents. The Operation Condor that was implemented in the 1970s in our region, during the military dictatorships, consisted of “mutual collaboration” among repressors to pursue and assassinate opponents. These days, to quell the people's uprising against the neocolonial, neoliberal, and racist State, the United States, Israel, and several right-wing governments are not only supporting the Bolivian regime with statements and communiqués but also with various “materials.” For example: The Argentine government, for some time now, has been actively participating in the administration of Rodrigo Paz. It sent Fernando Cerimedo, former advisor to several far-right presidents, as a “communications strategist” in dirty war tactics and the criminalization of leaders and social organizations. 05/19/2026 Since the arrival of that operative, there has been an intense campaign to generate hatred toward indigenous people and spark a civil war among Bolivians. The operations of Milei's “digital warriors” and their employees are carried out from sites and platforms that, apparently, are located in Argentina. They act in the same way they did against Presidents Petro and Sheinbaum. But that's not all. On April 30 of this year, Milei sent his Argentine Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation, Federico Sturzenegger, to the Palacio Quemado in La Paz to dismantle the Plurinational State and replace it with a neoliberal and neocolonial one. On the other hand, in recent days, the Argentine government sent two Hercules planes to Bolivia, supposedly with humanitarian aid, but patriotic Bolivian military personnel denounced that anti-riot military equipment was transported to repress protesters, just as Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich did in 2019—an act for which both now face pending trials here. There are suspicions that the Bolivian government is using Milei's “protocols” or manuals to repress social protests, employing infiltrated police dressed in civilian clothes with covered faces to attack and loot; and then blaming those acts on the peaceful protesters from unions. Operation Condor 2026 was reinforced in recent hours with a statement from about 30 right-wing former presidents from Latin America and Spain, including the Bolivians Carlos Mesa, Tuto Quiroga, and Jeanine Áñez, who were never elected at the ballot box. The first two took office through “constitutional succession”; and Áñez self-proclaimed herself through a bloody coup d'état. From the United States, Erik Prince—businessman, ex-military, and mercenary founder of a private company for invading countries and an ally of Trump and the global right—called for intervening in Bolivia to crush the rebellious people. These are some proofs of the macabre plan that Trump's empire and his loyal servants have in store.
Ben Norton: As the US war on Iran fails, Trump and Marco Rubio are desperately trying to find an excuse to justify a US war of aggression against Cuba, to overthrow its revolutionary government. As part of its war propaganda, the US government just filed absurd charges against 94-year-old Raùl Castro, who has not even been president since 2018. The charges, which are obviously politically motivated, are based on a distortion of a controversy back in 1996, when right-wing, US-based Cuban anti-government militants were attempting to enter Cuban airspace as a provocation. The Cuban authorities repeatedly warned them not to enter, but the extreme anti-communist militants ignored the orders and tried to fly into Cuba on a plane from Miami, so they were shot down. It was a deliberate act of provocation and a US-backed threat to Cuban sovereignty. (Imagine how the US regime would act if dissidents who openly called for overthrowing it tried to enter US airspace, and ignored the warnings of US authorities. It would shoot them down without blinking an eye.) The US empire is reviving this 30-year-old case to try to justify a blatant war of aggression against Cuba, to overthrow its government. 05/20/2026
US indicts former Cuban president Raúl Castro as it seeks to oust regime 05/20/2026
(Video) BreakThrough News: BREAKING: Tens of thousands rally in Havana in defense of Raúl Castro. Cubans are accusing the US of using the indictment as "pretext" for a military attack. They say they don't want a conflict, but they're willing to fight to defend the country. 05/22/2026
Margaret Kimberley: Stop the denial. Alex Saab was betrayed. The Bolivarian revolution has been betrayed. 05/20/2026 : The puppet government of Venezuela headed by Delcy Rodríguez handed over to the United States last Saturday Alex Saab, the same man who for years was presented as a diplomat, hero of the anti-imperialist resistance and symbol of the struggle against US sanctions. The operation was confirmed by the Administrative Service of Identification, Migration and Foreigners (SAIME) itself through a brief statement in which it is stated that: "The deportation measure was adopted taking into consideration that the aforementioned Colombian citizen is involved in the commission of various crimes in the United States of America, such as public, notorious and communicational." ...... Much more, complete article
Venezuela's puppet government extradites former Maduro minister Alex Saab to the US 05/18/2026
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist: Betrayal in Venezuela 05/20/2026
(Video) Caitlin Johnstone: Nobody Sincerely Believes Cuba Threatens The United States. In a sign that the US is preparing for yet another evil war, Marco Rubio is now claiming that Cuba poses a “national security threat” to the United States, saying the likelihood of a peaceful agreement is “not high”. 05/21/2026
Nobody Sincerely Believes Cuba Threatens The United States 05/22/2026
(Video) Daniel Mayakovski: "I don't listen to Marco Rubio because I deeply despise him, he doesn't have the slightest sense of what the homeland is." "Everything is planned, first they talked about there being 300 drones in Cuba and now it's Raúl Castro, everything is to justify the aggression against our country." Cuban dignity, that grandmother has more dignity in one nail than the entire Western empire put together. 05/22/2026 This has been the Cuban people's response to the threats from Narco Rubio and the genocidal empire of the United States: a massive march where Cubans have rallied in support of Raúl Castro against the Yankee accusations. These images, of course, you won't see in the Western press. ...... Much more, string of Tweets
Angelo Giuliano: María Corina Machado Could Never Deliver the Oil: Why Trump Chose Delcy Rodríguez Over the CIA Asset in Venezuela. Trump didn’t pick the CIA asset. He picked the one who could actually deliver the oil. That is the whole story. Everything else is theater. María Corina Machado was the product. Nobel, exile ops, CIA extraction, the photogenic face of “democracy.” She was useful when the job was to scream, sanction, and wait for collapse. She was useless when the job became: keep the army from splitting, keep the oil flowing, keep the streets from burning while Washington takes majority control of 65 billion barrels. Delcy Rodríguez did what the US controlled opposition was never going to do. She sat across the table, signed the 25-year deal, smiled for the cameras, and called it “endless benefits” and “sovereignty.” Machado could never have signed that paper without setting half the country on fire. The security services would not have followed her. The colectivos would not have stood down. The oil infrastructure would have become a battlefield. You would have had Libya with extra steps. 08/31/2026 The Empire understood this. The CIA assessment was not mysterious. Regime loyalists were “best placed” for a temporary government. Translation: we need someone who already commands the guns and the ministries, not someone we airlifted out and then tried to parachute back in as president. So they kept Delcy. They kept enough of the old machine to avoid civil war. Then they made her sell Venezuela’s main asset. That is the humiliation. Chavistas now watch their own vice-president — the one who used to shout anti-imperialist slogans — defend a deal that gives the United States majority control of strategic fields for a generation. Some peanuts for a barrel to Caracas. The rest to the partnership. “We keep sovereignty.” The language of a surrender dressed as a historic victory. And the Machado clan? They go along. Of course they do. The US-friendly opposition was never going to fight a deal that Washington wanted. They get to stay relevant, stay funded, stay in the conversation while the actual transfer of resources happens under a Chavista letterhead. Perfect. No messy civil war. No need to occupy. Just a traitor on the inside and a compliant opposition on the outside. Chávez never trusted Delcy Rodriguez > After she called him huevón on the plane he sidelined her for years. He saw the character: ambitious, pretentious, not really of the project. The slogans were a job. When the job changed, so did the slogans. Palestine one season, coordination with the people who kidnapped the president the next. Empty words. Then the contract. The crowds now look quiet. They are watching the deals, the overconfidence, the humiliation negotiated in their name. But then…..Chavez revolution left something the powerful still fear: Chavez cultivated political consciousness and critical thinking. Another revolution is possible. Revenges is a dish best eaten cold. Delcy Rodríguez will not end well. Neither will the people who thought they could auction Venezuela and keep the title.
(Video) Glenn Greenwald: One of the most radical -- and reprehensible -- Obama policies was John Brennan's CIA drone assassination program based on the claimed right to eradicate anyone remotely suspected of terrorist ties: all with no process or evidentiary burden of any kind. Most of the time, they had no idea who they were killing, and we know they murdered large numbers of innocent people in multiple countries (including ones at wedding parties and funerals). At least the Obama officials had the excuse -- frivolous though it was -- of acting under the authority of the "War on Terror." There is not even an arguable legal basis for blowing up small boats in international waters, which Trump and Hegseth have been doing for a year by invoking some vague "War on Drugs" theory. If you suspect these boats carry drugs, they're so easy to interdict with the Coast Guard (as @RandPaul notes, the Coast Guard often finds no drugs on boats they strongly suspect of carrying them). I'm sure it's exciting for many to watch these grainy images of the mighty US military blowing up small boats and killing people, even when it turns out they're just ordinary fisherman. It provides some vicarious sense of power for those who feel powerless. But it's precisely this king of ongoing arrogant assertion of unilateral, unlimited global police power that alienates so much of the world (and has had literally no effect on drug demand or availability inside the US). 08/24/2026 U.S. Southern Command: "This operation is a clear and decisive reminder that SOUTHCOM is taking the fight directly to the cartels." On August 23, under #SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan’s direction, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed two narco-terrorists. "When I ordered the establishment of Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere, it was precisely for this purpose: to accelerate, synchronize, and execute lethal actions against these destabilizing narco-terrorist networks. We are committed to imposing total systemic friction on narco-terrorists -- disrupting their operations, dismantling their leadership, and eliminating cartel terror across the region." Gen. Donovan said. “Let me be clear, we will not permit narco-terrorists to operate with impunity in the Western Hemisphere, nor will we allow their deadly poison to reach American communities. This operation is a powerful demonstration of our lethal precision, overwhelming capability, and absolute resolve to protect the U.S. homeland," Gen. Donovan said. @DeptofWar
Max Blumenthal: With a sealed indictment over her head, Delcy Rodriguez granted Trump Inc. control over 1/5 of Venezuela's oil reserves and unprecedented concessions. The deal will run through the company of oligarch Alejandro Betancourt, who's facing multiple money laundering indictments abroad. The Pentagon has taken a 35% stake in Betancourt's company. Tareck El Aissami, the Chavista oil minister who denounced Betancourt as a "bandit and a thief," has been locked away. Chris Wright, the US Energy Secretary and oil industry hitman, boasted after the deal, "We have a lot of leverage over Venezuela" 09/08/2026 The Grayzone: 'A deal signed at gunpoint'- Francisco Rodríguez slams neocolonial US-Venezuela oil pact. After kidnapping Venezuela's President and First Lady, the Trump administration has struck a historic deal with Venezuela's unelected leadership that effectively grants it control over one fifth of the country's massive oil reserves. Economist Francisco Rodríguez tells Max Blumenthal why he believes the deal represents "gunpoint diplomacy," with Venezuela's de facto President Delcy Rodríguez essentially gifting the US billions of barrels of crude in order to avoid the same fate as her predecessor
(Video) Max Blumenthal The Grayzone: 'A deal signed at gunpoint'- Francisco Rodríguez slams neocolonial US-Venezuela oil pact 09/08/2026
Is he demanding sanctions because of human rights violations as he claims? Or is he demanding them because these states are standing up to Neo Colonialism? My best guess is it's mostly the second! 08/1/2026 Sovereign Media: U.S. Congressman James P. McGovern has called for the United States to impose economic sanctions on Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. McGovern serves as a United States Representative for the state of Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. On 12 August 2026, he addressed a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, claiming that Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, collectively known as the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), are responsible for human rights abuses. He also calls for a re-evaluation of U.S. assistance to the AES, targeted sanctions against ‘human rights violators,’ and the release of former Nigerien president and long-standing Western ally Mohamed Bazoum, who was overthrown and captured during the 2023 revolution. ..... Much more
Medea Benjamin: Taking medical supplies to pediatric hospitals in Cuba is now a crime? Saving the lives of babies is a crime? This administration is beyond grotesque. 05/23/2026 Brian Allen: NEW: Federal officials have subpoenaed Hasan Piker and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin over an aid mission to Cuba involving medicine and medical equipment. According to reports, the Treasury Department is investigating whether the activists violated U.S. sanctions during the trip.
(Video) Medea Benjamin: The Trump administration is investigating people for bringing medicine to Cuban children while defending policies that deprive those same children of food, fuel, and basic medical supplies. If loving the Cuban people is a crime, then millions around the world are guilty too. Don’t investigate solidarity. Investigate the blockade. Leave Cuba alone. Read our statement: 05/24/2026
Statement Regarding Alleged Federal Subpoenas Investigating Humanitarian Aid Trip to Cuba 05/24/2026 Statement by CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin Regarding an Alleged Government Investigation Into March Cuba Trip
Medea Benjamin: I am guilty. Guilty of loving the Cuban people. Guilty of believing Cuban children deserve medicine instead of sanctions. Guilty of believing that trying to save lives should not be treated like a crime. 05/24/2026
Glenn Greenwald: What right does the US Govt have to ban its citizens from visiting certain countries or dictating to them that various hotels, stores, malls, etc. are criminally banned? And what's the justification for investigating Hasan and Medea Benjamin but not Nick Shirley's Cuba trip? 05/25/2026 Fox News: Federal officials have served subpoenas to Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba's communist regime, Fox News Digital has learned.
(Video) Ollie Vargas: Indigenous leaders of La Paz, Bolivia: We don't want dialogue or negotiation with those who have our blood on their hands, we'll be at the barricades until the President is gone. 05/28/2026
(Video) susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى: when the demons first started arriving on our shores in the early 1900s, I wish we had understood the threat then that indigenous Bolivians understand now. Decades later, when we finally understood their nefarious plans, I wish we had been as unyieldingly militant, mistrusting, uncompromising, and unforgiving as indigenous Bolivians are now. Don't give them an inch. it's the only way. 05/29/2026 Daniel Mayakovski: "We are forced to take up arms to defend our natural resources; the homeland is not for sale, it is defended. We warn Rodrigo Paz to cease the repression against the people and his police to stop massacring... or it will be bullet for bullet, think about it a thousand times." Indigenous revolutionary organizations of Bolivia have taken up arms to fight against the criminal regime of Rodrigo Paz, which is massacring the population to impose its sellout and sellout-the-people agenda for the benefit of the USA. ..... Much more, string of Tweets
(Video) Medea Benjamin: “The sanctions are murdering people in Cuba.” That was the message CODEPINK activist Tighe Barry brought directly to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. While millions of Cubans endure blackouts, shortages of fuel and medicine, and the daily consequences of a decades-long economic siege, U.S. officials continue defending policies that make life harder for ordinary people. Marco Rubio has never had to live through a blackout that lasts days. He has never had to wonder whether a hospital will have the supplies it needs. Cubans do. Let Cuba live. 06/02/2026
(Video) Zei_squirrel: Castro on Marco Rubio and his gusano ancestors: "And the worms [gusanos], the privileged, the parasites and the children of the parasites who want to raise the shameful flag of crime and treason, know that they are not going to face "gentlemen", they are going to face men" 06/04/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Yesterday, Marco Rubio announced new restrictions targeting Cuban organizations, further limiting who Americans can meet with while traveling to Cuba. Americans can travel freely to countries with one-party systems, monarchies, mass incarceration, political prisoners, or severe human rights abuses. Yet when it comes to Cuba, Washington tells us where we can travel, which hotels we can stay in, and now even which organizations we can meet with. All in the name of “democracy.” Leave Cuba alone. End the blockade. #LetCubaLive #EndTheBlockade 06/05/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Rep Maria Elvira Salazar says we’ve been fooled by the Cuban government. But listening to her own argument, it sounds more like she’s fooling herself. When I pointed out that Cuba maintained universal healthcare and education while under U.S. sanctions, Maria Elvira didn’t deny it. She said Cuba was receiving support from the Soviet Union. Exactly. Cuba was under sanctions, received resources from an ally, and used them to fund social programs. Today, instead of allowing Cuba to trade and develop normally, Washington doubles down on economic punishment. You can criticize the Cuban government all you want. But after more than 60 years, collective punishment has not brought democracy. It has only made life harder for ordinary Cubans. END THE BLOCKADE NOW! 06/06/2026
(Video) Medea Benjamin: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says she’s pursuing criminal charges for assault. She claims I “smacked” her. What do you think happened? Watch the video and vote in the comments: 1. Yes, you hit her. I hope she got medical attention. 2. You barely touched her. This is a ridiculous attempt to criminalize protest. 06/07/2026
(Video) Ben Norton: If these imperial gangsters want the UN to stop debating Cuba, all the US has to do is lift its illegal blockade of and sanctions against Cuba (which it is required to do under international law anyway). Then there would be no need for any debate. Save money: end the blockade. 07/08/2026 U.S. Mission to the UN: Today’s UN General Assembly debate on Cuba does nothing to help the Cuban people, while wasting all of our money. At $28k/hour, the $84k spent on this repetitive and useless session could have fed 3,500 Cuban children for a month. The UN should be getting back to basics, not funding a regime's propaganda machine. @AmbUNReform
(Video) BreakThrough News: After US Ambassador to the UN Mike Walz accused Cuba of repressing and imprisoning political dissidents, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla fired back. Presenting a photograph of Renee Nicole Good to the UN General Assembly, he states bluntly to Waltz, "This woman cannot be released from jail – because she was murdered by ICE." Showing image after image of ICE raids and repression of protestors, Rodríguez Parrilla says simply, "This isn't Cuba. This is in the US." 07/08/2026
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