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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.
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 ›
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The U.S. government is set to partner with the fossil fuel industry to take over Venezuela’s crude oil reserves.
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How Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson turned a metaphor into a reality. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2025 Looking back on this crazy year, one event, right at the start, seems to me to encapsulate the whole. In January, recording his podcast in a studio in Austin, Texas, the host, Joe […]
On my regular commute from Liverpool Central train station to the University of Liverpool, I pass several physical reminders of the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement (MWLM). Walking up Bold Street, I see that the News from Nowhere radical bookshop still stands on my right, a flourishing non-profit women’s co-operative and long-standing focal point for non-sectarian […]
New Year Office Chitchat How was your Christmas?you ask and I think ofthe bloodstained rug and the silent scrapingof the spade in the gardenat midnight and the wash washwashing of my hands and the dreams,those endless dreams which hauntthe night-time and smudgetheir thumbprints on the dayto come and I replySuper, thanks. Yours?
How door-knocking for Mayor Mamdani restored my faith in the power of organized people to defeat organized money.
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January 5th, 2026: Welcome to 2026! Well my holiday is over. Not that I had one! This morning we submitted the manuscript to the publisher for the Second Edition of our Macroeconomics text, which will come out later this year. Finishing a massive project like that is always non-linear – the last few months are hideous – checking everything and filling…
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