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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.

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

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.

The post Widespread protests rock Iran first appeared on Solidarity Online.

“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.

“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.

The post Doctor Who Magazine 623 winners appeared first on Doctor Who Magazine.

1. Johnson’s Thrush
2. Brown Jumping Quaff
3. Pandora’s Baffle
4. Yellow-Eared Tiegslider
5. Jaundiced Terpsichore
6. Pink-Bellied Sneech Destroyer
7. Very Normal Bird #9
8. Grouch-Throated Arabesque
9. McQueeqy-McSqueeg
10. Brown Jumping Quaff Goes to London
11. Pink-Footed Trumpole
12. Roy
13. Jamaican Cat Dodger
14. Sartorial Eumonia
15. Brown Jumping Quaff Visits Sailor Moon
16. Gnostic Speed Warbler
17. Ryan’s Reynold
18. Threecan
19. Vermilion-Spotted Mandora
20. Lacy-Footed Tristesse
21. McSqueegy-McQueeg
22. Reticulated Thong Snatcher
23. Very Normal Bird #86
24. Thomason’s Hornbill
25. Brown Jumping Quaff and the Wrath of Piet Mondrian
26. Rumpole’s Ordinal
27. Eastern Cloudmonger
28. Tit-Licking Fump Rucker
29. Feathers McGee
30. Get Down from There
31. Show Me the Money
32. Jack