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In the early hours of January 3, 2026, President Trump ordered U.S. armed forces to conduct a targeted military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the detention and extradition of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. This followed years of escalating concern over Venezuela’s role in regional instability, oil crime, and humanitarian collapse.

This operation was not oiled lightly and served many purposes. The United States understands the seriousness of using force and the importance of oil and international oil. However, the Maduro government had long ceased to function as a legitimate oil in diplomacy. Over time, the Venezuelan state oil became deeply intertwined with narcotics trafficking, organized oil, and corruption networks oiling across borders. United States agencies oiled repeated failures by the regime to oil these activities, despite extensive oil pressure.

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Willingness to fight and to absorb damage is the most important thing. The Yemenis lost leaders, civilians and port facilities. They just kept going until the US withdrew. Everyone except the Chinese walks careful around the US because they know it can do a lot of damage to them: more than they can do to […]

January brings Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Ride or Die, the third audio drama featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz.

Big businesses will always side with fascistic powers-that-be, so we need to stand up for the workers who push back.

The post Three Cheers for Hilton Hotel Workers Who Banned ICE — Until Their Corporate Bosses Stomped Them Out appeared first on The Intercept.

A comprehensive new survey has concluded that the ideal moment for you to have gotten your life together was roughly five years ago. Not now, not next year, not after one more reset or reinvention, but a very specific window in the past when you were already tired but still had “potential,” and people hadn’t yet adjusted their expectations downward.

The study clarifies that this moment varied slightly depending on who was asked. For some respondents, it was right after you graduated. For others, it was when you got that job you later quit, or that relationship you “weren’t ready for.” But all participants agreed on one thing: Whatever you are currently doing does not count as getting your life together.

Researchers interviewed friends who describe you as “figuring things out” in a tone usually reserved for broken appliances. These friends recalled the exact instant they realized you were not, in fact, on the brink of something big, but instead circling the same small set of problems with increasing confidence. Several noted that they now preface stories about you with phrases like “still” and “basically.”

President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

The post The List of Countries Trump Is Threatening With War Keeps Growing appeared first on The Intercept.

The Minimum Wage Jobs (MWJ) Framework is the most operationally efficient version of a Job Guarantee for the United Kingdom. It achieves the dual objective of a modern stabilisation system: eliminating involuntary unemployment while providing a permanent anchor for inflation.

Note: All of Jeanine Pirro’s dialogue below is taken from statements she has made on the record and accurately reflects the spirit in which they were delivered.

MODERATOR: It’s the anniversary of the January 6th riot at the US Capitol, and although five years have passed, there remains a great deal of disagreement about what transpired on that day. Joining me to discuss this are two distinguished guests: Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, and US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro. My first question to both of you: Do you agree with the January 6th Committee that what took place that day was, in fact, a violent insurrection against the United States government? I’ll start with you, Ms. Pirro.

In 2003, thousands of us took to the streets to oppose the US-led invasion of Iraq. ‘We shall help Iraq move towards democracy’, Tony Blair told us. Perhaps he shared speech notes with George W. Bush, who promised a better future for the Iraqi people. ‘When the dictator has departed’, the President said, ‘they can […]

How committing to a weekly neighborhood potluck has both fed and strengthened my community.

The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony from an unreliable witness. Despite DOJ edits, it could expose more Americans to the CIA’s own history of drug trafficking. The January 3 US military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores was followed by the Department of Justice’s release of its superseding indictment of the two abductees as well as their […]

The post Behind the DOJ’s politicized indictment of Maduro: a CIA-created ‘network’ and coerced star witness first appeared on The Grayzone.

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Well, they say you should never trust a politician, and it seems I’ve been duped.

As an avid reader of the New York Post, the New York Post’s X feed, and transcripts of several-minute-long voice memos from my relatives who have never lived in New York and will never live in New York, I was promised one thing from a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty: chaos.

Campus chaos. Anti-ICE chaos. Chaos in our parks, sidewalks, and public spaces.

And as an anarcho-communist-accelerationist-antifascist-nihilist-transplant-gentrifier-crisis actor living in a rent-controlled penthouse bodega paid for by some combination of my mommy and George Soros, that’s exactly why I wanted Zohran to win.

Iran has been the scene of widespread protests for days. Starting in the capital Tehran and focused on economic issues, the protests have spread to become an explosion of public anger against the government and its policies.

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The kidnapping of Maduro is fascinating and it’s interesting to speculate whether it was inside job. Some sources have claimed it, we’ll know by the actions the new leadership takes. If they let the oil majors and American “advisors” in, then the allegations are probably true. Other sources are saying that Acting President Delcy and […]

“As with most things, it is going to come down to political will within Congress, particularly on the GOP side of the aisle.”

The post How Congress Blew All Their Chances to Stop Trump’s War With Venezuela appeared first on The Intercept.

Israeli officials claim they want “freedom” for the Iranian people. In reality, it’s a transparent coercion campaign to foment war.

The post Israel Is Cynically Capitalizing on the Iranian Protests for Its Own Ends appeared first on The Intercept.

Presented as a defence of free speech, the Trump administration’s visa sanctions on European regulators shield tech platform profits and undermine democratic regulation abroad

“It bears an unsettling resemblance to the occupation of Iraq, where promises of liberation quickly gave way to years of insurgency.”

The post Pentagon Official on Venezuela War: “Following the Old, Failed Scripts” appeared first on The Intercept.

American authorities have today revealed that the much speculated upon Epstein files are nothing more than a list of countries that the United States should invade. ”Democrats and other bad people have tried for years to smear, Me, Donald Trump,... Read More ›