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items: Which country is expanding sweeping anti-protest laws?
items: Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains
items: They Couldn’t Access Mental Health Care When They Needed It. Now They’re Suing Their Insurer.
items: How Chevron played the long game in Venezuela
items: Largest Protests In Iran Yet
items: The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
items: Roaming Charges: In ICE Cold Blood
items: CPJ, partners: RSF must release Sudanese journalist Muammar Ibrahim
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Which country is expanding sweeping anti-protest laws?
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-01-09T10:45:39Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.

Albanese bows to relentless pressure for Bondi royal commission but scepticism remains
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-01-09T10:29:08Z
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description: SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News Corp’s relentless media campaign and advocacy by political critics and victim’s families to announce a royal commission of inquiry into “antisemitism and social cohesion”. The commission advocates were seeking his political downfall over last month’s Bondi
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally bowed to pressure from the Murdoch News Corp’s relentless media campaign and advocacy by political critics and victim’s families to announce a royal commission of inquiry into “antisemitism and social cohesion”. The commission advocates were seeking his political downfall over last month’s Bondi Beach massacre that killed 15 people at a Jewish religious holiday of Hanukkah with complaints that he had “not done enough” against antisemitism. One of the two allegedly ISIS-aligned terrorist gunmen was also killed at the scene of the tragedy and the other was wounded and arrested. He has been charged with 59 counts, including 15 charges of murder and committing a terrorist act. READ MORE: What is a royal commission? Could one into the Bondi attack create meaningful change? Australian PN backflips over royal commission into the Bondi shootings Israel’s propaganda machine endangers every Jew on the planet — including me — Antony Loewenstein Mapping selective media coverage of the post-massacre discourse Albanese held a press conference in Canberra yesterday and confirmed that former High Court justice Virginia Bell would lead the national inquiry. While the royal commission has been mostly welcomed by survivors, victims’ families and Jewish community groups that have been lobbying for a national inquiry, some advocacy organisations have criticised the time it has taken before being called. However, even more serious criticisms have emerged over the terms of reference and a widespread belief that the real objective is to mute criticism of Israel and its brutal policies of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Award-winning journalist and Lamestream co-host Osman Faruqi, for example, argues “this royal commission won’t give us answers to Bondi — it’s set up to protect Israel.” “The terms of reference for the Royal Commission should put aside any doubt: this is an inquiry designed to castigate crit…

They Couldn’t Access Mental Health Care When They Needed It. Now They’re Suing Their Insurer.
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creator: Max Blau
date: 2026-01-09T10:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
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subject: health
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description: The post They Couldn’t Access Mental Health Care When They Needed It. Now They’re Suing Their Insurer. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In late 2024, Nimrod Shimrony, an emergency medical technician for the New York City Fire Department, tried to end his life. After completing an intensive outpatient treatment program, he and his wife searched for a therapist for months. Valeria Calderón, a special education teacher with New York City’s public school system, suffered a miscarriage that same year. Before she tried to have a baby again, she sought help with the depression and anxiety she had been struggling with. She called more than a dozen therapists. The therapists Shimrony and Calderón contacted were listed in their insurance plan’s provider directory, meaning they were supposedly in-network and the fees associated with visiting them would be lower. Given the number of names listed, there should have been lots of options. But Shimrony and Calderón couldn’t find any in-network provider who would see them. “It blows my mind that I couldn’t find a therapist” through the directory, Shimrony said. “It was impossible.” “I was hanging on by a thread,” said Calderón, who eventually paid more for an out-of-network provider. “There’s only so much you can vent to your family about and only so much support that they can do.” Shimrony and Calderón are among the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed last week against EmblemHealth, which offers the most popular health plan for New York City employees. The city employees allege that extensive errors in EmblemHealth’s directory left them with a “deceptive” and “misleading” impression about the size of the insurer’s provider network. The employees were forced to delay care, forgo treatment or seek help from costlier out-of-network providers, said the lawsuit, which is seeking class-action status. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" height="1128" width="752" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/250326_Blesener_GHOSTNETWORKS_008_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?w=752" alt="A woman with brown bangs and her hair pulled back wears a black T-shirt and…

How Chevron played the long game in Venezuela
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creator: Lois Parshley
date: 2026-01-09T09:45:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: chevron
subject: Energy
subject: game
subject: how
subject: long
subject: played
subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Venezuela
description: Chevron met with Trump and spent millions lobbying him to let it continue operating in Venezuela. Now it is uniquely positioned to profit from the country’s vast oil reserves.
encoded: On Saturday, hours after U.S. forces in Caracas killed at least 80 people and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump sounded less like a wartime commander than a developer surveying a newly acquired property. The country’s future, he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort, belonged to “very large United States oil companies,” which would soon be pumping “a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground.” The land in question includes the largest proven oil reserves on Earth — at some 300 billion barrels, roughly 17 percent of global totals. But after years of political turmoil and U.S. sanctions, Venezuela accounts for barely 1 percent of global crude production. “It’s true that they know the oil is there,” said Samantha Gross, the director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings. “But the above-ground risks are huge.” <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1159 1159w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1546 1546w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=640&h=853&crop=1 640w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vz-oil-reserves-map.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=96&h=96&crop=1 96w, …

Largest Protests In Iran Yet
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-01-09T09:30:28Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
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subject: free
subject: iran
subject: largest
subject: Protests
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subject: sources
subject: yet
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
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creator: Miacel Spotted Elk
date: 2026-01-09T09:30:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Indigenous Affairs
subject: Sources
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description: After the tribe sued to stop an immigration detention center, the White House vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded Miccosukee land and environmental stewardship.
encoded: On Thursday, Republicans in the House failed to override President Donald Trump’s first two vetoes in office: a pipeline project that would bring safe drinking water to rural Colorado, and another that would return land to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians in Florida. Their inability to block the president’s move signals their commitment to the White House over their prior support for the measures. The Miccosukee have always considered the Florida Everglades as their home. So when Republicans in Congress voted to expand the tribe’s land base under the Miccosukee Reserved Area Act – legislation that would transfer 30 acres of land in the Everglades to tribal control – the Miccosukee were thrilled. After years of work, the move would have allowed the tribe to begin environmental restoration activities in the area, and better protect it from climate change impacts as extreme flooding and tropical storms threaten the land. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=640&h=853&crop=1 640w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=96&h=96&crop=1 96w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24355470183176.jpg?quali…

Roaming Charges: In ICE Cold Blood
type: item
creator: Jeffrey St. Clair
date: 2026-01-09T07:01:21Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: blood
subject: charges
subject: cold
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: ice
subject: roaming
subject: Roaming Charges
subject: sources
description: Many of the people who have spent the last five years denouncing the killing of Ashli Babbitt for raiding the Capitol in an attempt to overturn an election are celebrating the murder of Renee Nichole Good, a terrified mother killed by masked men from unmarked cars who chased her down a neighborhood street and shot More The post Roaming Charges: In ICE Cold Blood appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396515" class="wp-image-396515 size-full" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/stillofshooting.png" alt="" width="680" height="379" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/stillofshooting.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/stillofshooting-500x279.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/stillofshooting-600x334.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Still of an ICE agent shooting Renee Good from a video posted to X by Max Nesterak. Many of the people who have spent the last five years denouncing the killing of Ashli Babbitt for raiding the Capitol in an attempt to overturn an election are celebrating the murder of Renee Nichole Good, a terrified mother killed by masked men from unmarked cars who chased her down a neighborhood street and shot her in the face. At 9:30 on Wednesday morning, Renee Good was sitting in her Honda Pilot, with her life partner and dog, on Portland Avenue in the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis, when two unmarked cars approached her. Good waved her hand, signaling for the unmarked cars to go around her. Instead, they stopped. Masked men got out. Good told them: “I’m pulling out.” As two of the men advanced near her maroon Pilot, one of them told her to drive away, while the other shouted, “Get out of the fucking car.” These contradictory instructions are a frequent tactic, since, however you respond, you violate one of the orders, and offer an excuse for escalation. One of the masked men tried to open the passenger door and reach through the window toward Good. Meanwhile, the other agent grabbed the side door. Good put her car in reverse, backed up a little, then pulled forward slowly, turning away from the masked ICE agent who was slightly in front of her. He moves out of the way, almost casually. Then one of the agents fired three shots into Go…

CPJ, partners: RSF must release Sudanese journalist Muammar Ibrahim
type: item
creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-01-09T07:00:00Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
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subject: ibrahim
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
subject: muammar
subject: must
subject: partners
subject: protect
subject: release
subject: RSF
subject: sources
subject: sudanese
description: New York, January 9, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists was joined by 75 other rights groups and journalists in expressing concern over the continued detention of Sudanese journalist Muammar Ibrahim by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and calling for his release and protection. Ibrahim has been held since October 26, 2025, following his detention in...
encoded: New York, January 9, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists was joined by 75 other rights groups and journalists in expressing concern over the continued detention of Sudanese journalist Muammar Ibrahim by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and calling for his release and protection. Ibrahim has been held since October 26, 2025, following his detention in El-Fasher, North Darfur. Videos circulated by the RSF confirm he remains in custody, but no independent or verifiable information is available regarding his health, legal status, or conditions of detention, as he has largely been held incommunicado. The statement underscores that journalists are civilians entitled to protection under international humanitarian law and urges all parties to the conflict in Sudan to respect the work and safety of journalists. Read the full statement in English and العربية. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

Hugo Chávez Predicted This
type: item
creator: Nuvpreet Kalra
date: 2026-01-09T06:58:43Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: chavez
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: hugo
subject: predicted
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subject: this
description: On January 3rd, the United States invaded and bombed Venezuela and abducted President Maduro and First Lady Flores. This violent act of imperialist aggression by the Trump regime is a continuation of over two decades of hybrid warfare aimed at suppressing the Bolivarian Revolution. Over the past months, the US has been escalating aggression against More The post Hugo Chávez Predicted This appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Democracy Challenged: Who Governs Gaza? Who Runs Venezuela? “Who Does New York Belong To?”
type: item
creator: Daniel Warner
date: 2026-01-09T06:58:28Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘to
subject: articles 2015
subject: belong
subject: challenged
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Democracy
subject: does
subject: gaza
subject: governs
subject: Leading Article
subject: new
subject: runs
subject: sources
subject: Venezuela
subject: who
subject: york
description: Is Mamdani merely a New York phenomenon? Will his victory and positions have influence outside the five boroughs? He seems not afraid to stand up for his beliefs beyond New York-specific issues. He challenged President Trump after the Venezuela strikes and kidnapping of Maduro. “I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act,” he said. The New York Times reported on the call in which Mamdani recounted that “he told Mr. Trump that he was ‘opposed to a pursuit of regime change, to the violation of federal and international law.’” More The post Democracy Challenged: Who Governs Gaza? Who Runs Venezuela? “Who Does New York Belong To?” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Cultural Hegemony Today
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creator: Richard Moser
date: 2026-01-09T06:57:46Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: cultural
subject: hegemony
subject: Leading Article
subject: sources
subject: today
description: The crisis of the existing order is not going away. Instead, it is fueling an opposition movement that could challenge the legitimacy of the ruling class. It is a perfect time for us to consider how the empire maintains “hegemony,” that is, its command over both the social order and the world of ideas. More The post Cultural Hegemony Today appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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From Venezuelan Communes to U.S. Blocks: Same Struggle, Same Fight.
type: item
creator: Laura Flanders
date: 2026-01-09T06:57:30Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: blocks
subject: communes
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: fight
subject: from
subject: same
subject: sources
subject: struggle
subject: u.s.
subject: venezuelan
description: It’s a different country, but the same question: who does a government serve? By now it seems clear that with the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the Trump crime organization didn’t topple a regime in Venezuela so much as acquire one, in a deadly takeover that swapped the CEO but seems willing to keep the board in the form of Maduro’s former VP, Delcy Rodríguez and her loyalists, as long as they’ll manage the populace while the new owners raid the store. More The post From Venezuelan Communes to U.S. Blocks: Same Struggle, Same Fight. appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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An ICE Murder in Minneapolis and its Horrific Aftermath
type: item
creator: Paul Street
date: 2026-01-09T06:57:08Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: aftermath
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: horrific
subject: ice
subject: it’s
subject: Minneapolis
subject: murder
subject: sources
description: The fascist Trump Gestapo murder of the 37-year-old legal observer, poet, and mother Renee Nicole Good two days ago is horrific almost beyond words: three or four point-blank head shots from an ICE officer as Ms. Good was trying to move her vehicle away from the Homeland Security gendarmes who were conducting a giant racist More The post An ICE Murder in Minneapolis and its Horrific Aftermath appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Plunging Into the Abyss
type: item
creator: Michael T. Klare
date: 2026-01-09T06:56:55Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: abyss
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: into
subject: plunging
subject: sources
subject: the
description: For most of us, Friday, February 6, 2026, is likely to feel no different than Thursday, February 5th. It will be a work or school day for many of us. It might involve shopping for the weekend or an evening get-together with friends, or any of the other mundane tasks of life. But from a More The post Plunging Into the Abyss appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Nicolás Maduro Refused to be a Slave to Empire
type: item
creator: Nick Estes
date: 2026-01-09T06:56:45Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Empire
subject: maduro
subject: nicolas
subject: refused
subject: slave
subject: sources
description: The New York Times reported that Trump officials felt mocked by Venezuela’s president. What provoked them was not a speech or a policy, but Nicolás Maduro’s nonchalance—his dancing in the face of escalating U.S. threats. As the Trump administration bombed fishing vessels in the Caribbean, killing at least 115 people at the time of this writing under More The post Nicolás Maduro Refused to be a Slave to Empire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Against U.S. imperial war on Venezuela!
type: item
creator: Anderson Bean - Gonzalo Gómez
date: 2026-01-09T06:56:27Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: against
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: imperial
subject: sources
subject: u.s.
subject: Venezuela
subject: war
description: On the morning of January 3, U.S. forces, with 150 jets, armed helicopters, and state-of-the-art drones, launched an attack on Venezuela. Strikes hit Venezuela’s largest military complex in Caracas along with targets in La Guaira, Miranda, and Aragua. Less than 90 minutes later, Maduro was kidnapped and flown out of the country. In a subsequent More The post Against U.S. imperial war on Venezuela! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Goebbels’s Ghost and Miller’s Dream of a “Unified Reich.”
type: item
creator: Henry Giroux
date: 2026-01-09T06:56:10Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: dream
subject: ghost and
subject: goebbels’s
subject: miller’s
subject: reich:
subject: sources
subject: unified
description: White House adviser Stephen Miller seems torn from the darkest archive of the 1930s. His ideological fever, spittle-laced tirades, compulsive lying, and theatrical rage are not excesses but instruments: performative rituals through which cruelty is normalized and racism is taught. What he stages is not only a ruthless infatuation with power and updated fascist politics More The post Goebbels’s Ghost and Miller’s Dream of a “Unified Reich.” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Europe’s Strategic Autonomy Problem is No Longer Abstract
type: item
creator: Peter Bach
date: 2026-01-09T06:56:05Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: abstract
subject: articles 2015
subject: autonomy
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: europe’s
subject: Leading Article
subject: longer
subject: problem.
subject: sources
subject: strategic
description: I keep hearing the phrase “strategic autonomy,” including in discussions about the latest joint declaration on Ukraine. The term appears in speeches and policy papers, moving from Brussels to Paris like a chorus and a hook—always about Europe, always about its reliance on the United States. In defence, in technology, in global affairs. At a push, it feels less like a generational project than a much shorter and tighter five-year ambition. “We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot / Five years, that's all we've got...” More The post Europe’s Strategic Autonomy Problem is No Longer Abstract appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Private Equity in the Doldrums and Out of Favor With Some Institutional Investors
type: item
creator: Eileen Appelbaum
date: 2026-01-09T06:55:49Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: doldrums
subject: economics
subject: equity
subject: favor,
subject: institutional
subject: Investors
subject: out
subject: private
subject: some
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: with
description: For years, private equity funds attracted institutional investors — pension funds, university endowments, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds – that could afford to tie up funds for long periods of time with a promise that returns would substantially outperform the stock market. And, during the go-go years between 1995 and 2000, the median fund in More The post Private Equity in the Doldrums and Out of Favor With Some Institutional Investors appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Year in Rebuke
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creator: Joseph Natoli
date: 2026-01-09T06:54:31Z
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description: [M]any have mistaken the force of arms for the consent of the people, and reckon conquest as one of the originals of government. But conquest is as far from setting up any government as demolishing a house is from building a new one in the place. Indeed, it often makes way for a new frame More The post The Year in Rebuke appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-01-09T06:53:11Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: maduro
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subject: the
description: Once done, it remains, by nature and fact, irreversible. The precedent of indicting and abducting a serving head of state and his spouse, dropping them into the jurisdiction of another country to face criminal charges of inventive pedigree (narcoterrorism foremost among them), is the stuff of nightmares in international statecraft. With the now former Venezuelan President Nicolás More The post Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Why White Supremacy Is Never Named in the Venezuela Crisis
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creator: Anita Naidu
date: 2026-01-09T06:52:56Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: crisis
subject: named
subject: never
subject: sources
subject: supremacy
subject: the
subject: Venezuela
subject: white
subject: why
description: Explanations of Venezuela that avoid white supremacy are faithful to the world that made this outcome ordinary. Across the current debate, there is no shortage of analysis. Commentators invoke imperialism, oil, sanctions, international law, authoritarianism, corruption, diaspora exhaustion and the familiar refrain of “complexity”. These explanations often disagree sharply with one another. Yet across ideological More The post Why White Supremacy Is Never Named in the Venezuela Crisis appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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To Each According to His Bank Account
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creator: Jan Ralske
date: 2026-01-09T06:52:54Z
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subject: Culture
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description: This is a photo that should not have been. This is an event you should not know. This is a guy who should not have been killed. This is a moment when truth was briefly on the silver screen of 1934. This is a photo of a chain gang, now hung up as a reprint, More The post To Each According to His Bank Account appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Murder in Minneapolis: Time to Stop Coddling the ICE Gang and Its Enablers
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creator: Thomas Knapp
date: 2026-01-09T06:52:38Z
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subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: coddling
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: enablers?
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subject: ice
subject: it’s
subject: Minneapolis
subject: murder
subject: sources
subject: stop
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subject: Time
description: On January 7, gang members — gathered in Minneapolis for the purpose of abducting immigrants and cowing the state’s population — menaced motorist Renee Nicole Good, then murdered her when she attempted to flee. This wasn’t the ICE gang’s first murder, and won’t likely be its last. ICE, its allied gangs — “Homeland Security,” “Customs More The post Murder in Minneapolis: Time to Stop Coddling the ICE Gang and Its Enablers appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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“We Create Our Own Reality”: Empire and the illusion of International Law from Rafah to Caracas
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creator: Michael Leonardi
date: 2026-01-09T06:52:29Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: caracas
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: create
subject: Empire
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subject: illusion
subject: International
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description: The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own More The post “We Create Our Own Reality”: Empire and the illusion of International Law from Rafah to Caracas appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Obamacare and Defense Spending
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creator: Seth Sandronsky
date: 2026-01-09T06:52:29Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: defense spending
subject: obamacare
subject: sources
description: With Congress overseeing the ending of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, enhanced premium tax credit (subsidies) for Americans, hiking premiums for them to buy private health care insurance, consider such economics and politics in the context of $1 trillion in defense spending. Why? Context matters, economically and politically. Against this backdrop, ACA subsidies More The post Obamacare and Defense Spending appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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‘Teaching Students to Think for Themselves’ Starts with Political Self-Awareness
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creator: Robert Jensen
date: 2026-01-09T06:51:48Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: CounterPunch+
subject: for
subject: political
subject: self-awareness
subject: sources
subject: starts
subject: Students
subject: teaching
subject: themselves
subject: think
subject: with
description: My nomination for the most predictable platitude invoked by university professors when describing the essence of their job is “teaching students to think for themselves.” During my 26 years at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was sometimes accused of politicizing the classroom, I repeated that phrase many times, not as a dodge but More The post ‘Teaching Students to Think for Themselves’ Starts with Political Self-Awareness appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump’s J6 Pardons Increased Risks to Public Safety
type: item
creator: Paul Becker - Dr. Art Jipson
date: 2026-01-09T06:51:33Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: increased
subject: pardons
subject: public
subject: risks
subject: safety
subject: sources
subject: trump’s
description: One year ago this January, in one of the first acts of his second term, President Donald Trump issued blanket pardons, clemency, or commutations to those charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. These included unconditional pardons for the majority of defendants and commutations for high-profile leaders of the More The post Trump’s J6 Pardons Increased Risks to Public Safety appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Public Health Reduces Drug Deaths, Not Wars
type: item
creator: Jordan Liz
date: 2026-01-09T06:51:04Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: deaths
subject: drug
subject: health
subject: not
subject: public
subject: reduces
subject: sources
subject: wars
description: Republicans have defended Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela as necessary to solve the drug overdose crisis. For instance, Vice President J.D. Vance posted on Twitter/X, “cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the Latin America cartels. If you cut out the money from cocaine (or even reduce it) you substantially More The post Public Health Reduces Drug Deaths, Not Wars appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396531" class="size-medium wp-image-396531" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_5822-680x513.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="513" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_5822-680x513.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_5822-835x630.jpg 835w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_5822-768x580.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_5822-1536x1159.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_5822-2048x1546.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_5822-500x377.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_5822-600x453.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Republicans have defended Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela as necessary to solve the drug overdose crisis. For instance, Vice President J.D. Vance posted on Twitter/X, “cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the Latin America cartels. If you cut out the money from cocaine (or even reduce it) you substantially weaken the cartels overall. Also, cocaine is bad too!” Representative Brian Mast (R-FL), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, similarly argued, “Drug lords and terrorists will no longer operate freely in our hemisphere and drugs and illegals will not flow into our country.” Yet there are three key problems with this anti-drug narrative: first, President Trump has explicitly and repeatedly said this invasion was about seizing control of Venezuela’s oil reserves. Second, Trump has been quite lenient on drug traffickers. For instance, in December 2025, Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández. Hernández had been sentenced to 45 years in prison for his role in a more than 18-year long drug-…

Congress Must Stop This War and Help Working Americans Instead
type: item
creator: Lindsay Koshgarian
date: 2026-01-09T06:50:45Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: americans:
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: congress
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: HELP
subject: instead,
subject: must
subject: sources
subject: stop
subject: this
subject: war
subject: working?
description: At a time when nearly half of Americans say they’re struggling to afford basic necessities, President Trump has turned his attention to invading and ruling Venezuela. One in two Americans are having trouble affording groceries, utilities, health care, housing, and transportation, according to a recent poll. Health care costs are rising — and in many cases doubling — for millions More The post Congress Must Stop This War and Help Working Americans Instead appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396173" class="size-medium wp-image-396173" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9202-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9202-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9202-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9202-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9202-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9202-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9202-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/IMG_9202-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair At a time when nearly half of Americans say they’re <a role="link" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/poll-affordability-cost-of-living-00678076?experience_id=EXYF89KVT5UQ&is_login_link=true&template_id=OTJIR2CRKUD6&variant_id=OTV7T8G93R30L" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/poll-affordability-cost-of-living-00678076?experience_id%3DEXYF89KVT5UQ%26is_login_link%3Dtrue%26template_id%3DOTJIR2CRKUD6%26variant_id%3DOTV7T8G93R30L&source=gmail&ust=1767926195002000&usg=AOvVaw2TCbsmLehqDAiG_ml97OM5">struggling to afford basic necessities, President Trump has turned his attention to invading and ruling Venezuela. <a role="link" href="https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/nx-s1-5661666/affordable-care-act-subsidies-have-expired-what-that-means-for-millions-of-americans" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/nx-s1-5661666/affordable-care-act-subsidies-have-expired-what-that-means-for-millions-of-americans&source=gmail&ust=1767926195002000&usg=AOvVaw18VFxL…

Blowback at Bondi
type: item
creator: Evan Jones
date: 2026-01-09T06:48:30Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: Blowback
subject: bondi
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: sources
description: Fifteen people were killed, with more critically injured, at the massacre at Sydney’s iconic, decidedly secular, Bondi beach on 14 December. Members of the local Jewish community were gathered to celebrate Hanukkah. The killers were father and son Indian-born Sajid Akram (killed) and Australian-born Naveed Akram. The inferred motivation, until the injured Naveed can be More The post Blowback at Bondi appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Insufficiency of Wolf “Management”
type: item
creator: Joseph Scalia III
date: 2026-01-09T06:48:28Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: insufficiency
subject: management,
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: wolf
description: We trophy hunt and trap the phenomenally evocative subject that we call canis lupus. Throughout history, the grey wolf – like the wilderness itself – has stirred diverse human imaginings, from a figure of terror, nightmare, and disdain, to one of great awe and respect. Organized collectives of “wolf advocates,” both academics and activists, typically More The post The Insufficiency of Wolf “Management” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Conservation Victory Saves Greater Yellowstone’s Old-Growth Forests and Critical Habitat for Western Birds
type: item
creator: Sara Johnson
date: 2026-01-09T06:45:41Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: Birds
subject: conservation
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: critical
subject: for
subject: Forests
subject: greater
subject: habitat
subject: old-growth
subject: saves
subject: sources
subject: victory’:
subject: western
subject: yellowstone’s
description: The recent halting of the Forest Service’s massive deforestation and road-building project bordering Yellowstone National Park benefitted far more than grizzly bears and lynx. In fact, the area’s old-growth forests provide critical habitat for 67 species of western forest birds, many of which have been classified as “species of conservation concern.’ The population of birds More The post Conservation Victory Saves Greater Yellowstone’s Old-Growth Forests and Critical Habitat for Western Birds appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Cover-Up: How One Reporter Spent 50 Years Exposing America’s Murder Inc.
type: item
creator: John Kendall Hawkins
date: 2026-01-09T06:45:06Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘one
subject: america’s
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: cover-up
subject: exposing
subject: how
subject: inc.”:
subject: murder
subject: reporter
subject: sources
subject: spent
subject: years
description: Laura Poitras opens her documentary Cover Up with an interrogation of the interrogator. She presses Seymour Hersh on the one subject that has become his greatest vulnerability and his most sacred shield: his sources. Hersh, both irascible and steadfast, continues to maintain his fortress-like demeanor. Despite presenting the filmmaker with tangible documents containing the names More The post Cover-Up: How One Reporter Spent 50 Years Exposing America’s Murder Inc. appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396495" class="wp-image-396495 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/hershstill-680x383.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="383" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/hershstill-680x383.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/hershstill-1120x630.jpg 1120w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/hershstill-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/hershstill-500x281.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/hershstill-600x338.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/hershstill.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Seymour Hersh, still from Cover-Up (Netflix). Laura Poitras opens her documentary Cover Up with an interrogation of the interrogator. She presses Seymour Hersh on the one subject that has become his greatest vulnerability and his most sacred shield: his sources. Hersh, both irascible and steadfast, continues to maintain his fortress-like demeanor. Despite presenting the filmmaker with tangible documents containing the names of high-ranking “ghosts” inscribed on them, he remains silent for the sake of documentation. “No,” he barks, “I’m not going to talk about my sources.” It is a masterful opening, mirroring the anecdotal beginning of Hersh’s memoir, Reporter. It immediately plunges the viewer into the fundamental tension of modern journalism: the distinction between adversarial sourcing and stenographic access. For the “steno-journalists” who populate the White House press corps, a source is a transactional partner—someone who provides a curated “truth” in exchange for the journalist acting as a megaphone for the state. For Hersh, the source is a weapon of sabotage. This refusal to name names is not just professional ethics; it is an act of war against an administrative state that relies o…

Iraq and Venezuela: One as Tragedy, Another as Farce
type: item
creator: John O'Kane
date: 2026-01-09T06:44:14Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘one
subject: and
subject: another’:
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: farce
subject: Iraq
subject: sources
subject: Tragedy
subject: Venezuela
description: The invasion of Venezuela we’ve just witnessed brings to mind the two invasions of Iraq—under George H. W. Bush in 1990 and George W. Bush in 2003. The first was flagrantly about oil. The second was more insidious. In a reactionary response to 9/11, the United States invaded Iraq nearly two years later, allegedly to More The post Iraq and Venezuela: One as Tragedy, Another as Farce appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396465" class="wp-image-396465 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/levi-meir-clancy-kj-QJkZMcv8-unsplash-680x453.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/levi-meir-clancy-kj-QJkZMcv8-unsplash-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/levi-meir-clancy-kj-QJkZMcv8-unsplash-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/levi-meir-clancy-kj-QJkZMcv8-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/levi-meir-clancy-kj-QJkZMcv8-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/levi-meir-clancy-kj-QJkZMcv8-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/levi-meir-clancy-kj-QJkZMcv8-unsplash-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/levi-meir-clancy-kj-QJkZMcv8-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Levi Meir Clancy. The invasion of Venezuela we’ve just witnessed brings to mind the two invasions of Iraq—under George H. W. Bush in 1990 and George W. Bush in 2003. The first was flagrantly about oil. The second was more insidious. In a reactionary response to 9/11, the United States invaded Iraq nearly two years later, allegedly to combat terrorism through regime change despite evidence that the perps of the atrocity were elsewhere. The rationale for the operation was also belied by the fact that our forces had invaded Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11. The invasion of Iraq was sold to the American public through the Bush administration’s hyped-up claim that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction. Colin Powell, a credible foreign policy figure, was put forward to present the evidence used to justify the intervention, later admitting that he was pressured. W…

Amid Federal Cuts, Momentum for Direct Cash is Growing for Good Reason: the Washington Example
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creator: Tracy Yeung – Leila Reynolds
date: 2026-01-09T06:42:22Z
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description: Over a quarter of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and have less than $1,000 in emergency savings. This means there’s no buffer when the car breaks down or an unexpected hospital bill hits. Congress’ cuts to SNAP and Medicaid will worsen this crisis for working families, as millions of people lose money to buy groceries More The post Amid Federal Cuts, Momentum for Direct Cash is Growing for Good Reason: the Washington Example appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Over a quarter of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and have less than $1,000 in emergency savings. This means there’s no buffer when the car breaks down or an unexpected hospital bill hits. Congress’ cuts to SNAP and Medicaid will worsen this crisis for working families, as millions of people lose money to buy groceries and face higher health-care premiums and less coverage. In Washington state, advocates and community leaders have stepped up in recent years to enact direct cash programs to support people struggling to make ends meet. When states and cities invest in direct cash support, whether through tax credits or Guaranteed Income programs, people get the autonomy to decide how to cover basic needs like utilities, rent, or school supplies. We’re proud of the way our state is helping people get the cash they need to pay for essentials, and the work to grow these efforts continues. There is momentum nationally around direct cash — now is the time for states to build on it. Our organization was part of a coalition of organizations and individuals that helped pass the Washington state Working Families Tax Credit in 2021. This annual cash boost to people with low incomes passed overwhelmingly with bipartisan support during the pandemic because lawmakers on both sides of the aisle knew people needed cash back in their pockets. In 2025, over $200 million went to around 300,000 low- and moderate-income households, with an average payment of $723. This includes over 400,000 children, or almost one in four Washington kids, whose families are more financially secure because of this tax credit. Thirty one states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have enacted a state tax credit or a child tax credit. This investment in people has ripple effects for the economy: for every $1 paid out in tax credits like these, $2 is returned to local economies. Refundable state tax credits can act like GBI, especially if they are large enough to be distributed monthly, and are…

The Gestapo Murder of Renee Good and Stephen Miller’s Nazi Rant
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creator: Karl Grossman - Harvey Wasserman
date: 2026-01-09T06:38:18Z
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description: A hugely loved 37-year-old mother named Renee Nicole Good, of Colorado and Minneapolis, has been murdered in her residential neighborhood by armed agents of the Trump regime. Videos of the brutal execution by an ICE battalion have gone viral on the internet. The killing is being widely compared to executions of unarmed civilians perpetrated by More The post The Gestapo Murder of Renee Good and Stephen Miller’s Nazi Rant appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396559" class="wp-image-396559 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screen-Shot-2026-01-08-at-7.01.41-PM-680x415.png" alt="" width="680" height="415" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screen-Shot-2026-01-08-at-7.01.41-PM-680x415.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screen-Shot-2026-01-08-at-7.01.41-PM-500x305.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screen-Shot-2026-01-08-at-7.01.41-PM-600x366.png 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screen-Shot-2026-01-08-at-7.01.41-PM.png 708w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Stephen Miller, Youtube screenshot. A hugely loved 37-year-old mother named Renee Nicole Good, of Colorado and Minneapolis, has been murdered in her residential neighborhood by armed agents of the Trump regime. Videos of the brutal execution by an ICE battalion have gone viral on the internet. The killing is being widely compared to executions of unarmed civilians perpetrated by Hitler’s Gestapo. Good was known as a “kind, caring neighbor” widely revered and treasured throughout her community. She was the married mother of a six-year-old. Renee died immediately from gunshots to the head pumped into her car at point blank range by an ICE agent with a handgun. She was unarmed. The viral images of the shooting show a cruel, gratuitous killing which has horrified citizens worldwide. Representatives of the Trump regime have blamed the killing on Good herself. On an icy residential street, Good was attempting to drive away from a scene of police confusion when a masked officer walked up to her driver’s-side door, pulled out handgun and pumped several bullets through Good’s open window. At least one bullet went directly into her face from a distance of a yard or less. As she died the car sped down the street. After it crashed, an ope…

Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty XVI
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creator: Richard Schulman
date: 2026-01-09T06:35:16Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: Architecture
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subject: beauty
subject: Cities
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subject: mapping
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description: Truthful Fiction There is a woman who gestures towards me every night: The city stands alone- -I see: The woman leans like a 1940s starlet in dressed in ready: She the poseur slightly wisps in the lights: Every night silhouetted across, against and over the many metropolises’ sky line- -she awaits- -her poses- – remain the More The post Architecture of Cities: Mapping Beauty XVI appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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2025: An Obscene Accumulation of Wealth
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creator: Rick Baum
date: 2026-01-09T06:29:24Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: accumulation
subject: articles 2015
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subject: obscene’:
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subject: Wealth
description: While many people are struggling to get by, the ten wealthiest U.S. citizens have been experiencing great enhancements to their wealth as seen in the table below based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. They managed an obscene accumulation of additional wealth in 2025 of $563.3 billion over the vulgar quantities they held at the beginning More The post 2025: An Obscene Accumulation of Wealth appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396555" class="wp-image-396555 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morgan-housel-PcDGGex9-jA-unsplash-680x433.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="433" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morgan-housel-PcDGGex9-jA-unsplash-680x433.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morgan-housel-PcDGGex9-jA-unsplash-990x630.jpg 990w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morgan-housel-PcDGGex9-jA-unsplash-768x489.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morgan-housel-PcDGGex9-jA-unsplash-1536x977.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morgan-housel-PcDGGex9-jA-unsplash-2048x1303.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morgan-housel-PcDGGex9-jA-unsplash-500x318.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/morgan-housel-PcDGGex9-jA-unsplash-600x382.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Morgan Housel. While many people are struggling to get by, the ten wealthiest U.S. citizens have been experiencing great enhancements to their wealth as seen in the table below based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. They managed an obscene accumulation of additional wealth in 2025 of $563.3 billion over the vulgar quantities they held at the beginning of the year, an increase of 29.2% which, during the last three years, more than doubled, increasing 211%. Most, if not all of their wealth and the increases, are unlikely to be subject to income taxes except if the assets are sold at a gain. If the assets sold have been held for more than a year, they are taxed at the long-term capital gains rate which is lower than the rate imposed had these people earned the money from working. Obviously, a wealth tax on their financial assets should be imposed to better finance needed programs and services. <img …

Revolution as Therapy in Apocalyptic Times
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creator: Nicky Reid
date: 2026-01-09T06:10:13Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: apocalyptic,
subject: articles 2015
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subject: Revolution
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description: “Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!” -Paul Goodman It feels like I’ve been bringing in the New Year every year for More The post Revolution as Therapy in Apocalyptic Times appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: “Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!” -Paul Goodman It feels like I’ve been bringing in the New Year every year for several years running now with the shocked observation that somehow, by some sort of Satanic miracle, this last year has been even more bombastically fucked up than the last and I’m more than a little tempted to repeat the refrain again as I look back at the wreckage of 2025 from the brink of 2026. In fact, I’m pretty sure I can actually see all the way back to 2023 from here and I still can’t believe I survived it all. That was right around the time I became a woman and the whole fucking world seemed to lose its proverbial shit simultaneously. Don’t get me wrong, I have been losing my mind for about as long as America has been losing its soul, but that was the year when it all finally boiled over into one big hot mess of overlapping personal and political trauma. At a time when an unexpectantly ascendant GOP was pushing transphobic legislation to new heights of downright genocidal malice and Israel’s Christian Zionist facilitated atrocities in the Holy Land provoked the blood drenched blowback of October 7th, I began to remember way too much, way too soon as my long-awaited gender transition reached its hormonal peak. I began to remember all the atrocities that the Christian Zionists at my rural Catholic diocese committed against my young body while I first arrived at the baffling realization that somehow God had gotten my gender wrong. I remembered receiving a graphic lesson on how a “man conducts himself” in the boys’ room from a traveling priest with my preschool teacher’s complete approval. I remembered coming to the horrifying conclusion that all the devout adults around me were in on it. And I remembered literally blacking out in that preschool bathroom after re…

"ICE out of everywhere!": Baltimore joins nationwide protests
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-01-09T06:08:33Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
encoded: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.

The Light of History
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creator: Evaggelos Vallianatos
date: 2026-01-09T05:55:06Z
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description: Prologue The forced Christianization of Hellas / Greece in the fourth century and after wounded ancient Hellenic / Greek culture but did not completely destroy. In medieval Greece (wrongly dubbed Byzantium), elements of Hellenic culture – for instance, in medicine, agriculture, food and rural life, dancing, theater and fishing – survived for centuries without many More The post The Light of History appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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World Art History— Then and Now
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creator: David Carrier
date: 2026-01-09T05:47:12Z
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description: Watching the celebrations for the inauguration of the New York City mayor, my mind suddenly turned back to my intellectual career early in this century. I remembered some writings I had almost forgotten, which I developed twenty-some years ago. Here, then, briefly looking back I return to consider how my early concerns with a world More The post World Art History— Then and Now appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396091" class="wp-image-396091 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/zero-take-HJaYIZ5ewUM-unsplash-680x453.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/zero-take-HJaYIZ5ewUM-unsplash-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/zero-take-HJaYIZ5ewUM-unsplash-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/zero-take-HJaYIZ5ewUM-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/zero-take-HJaYIZ5ewUM-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/zero-take-HJaYIZ5ewUM-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/zero-take-HJaYIZ5ewUM-unsplash-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/zero-take-HJaYIZ5ewUM-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Zero Take. Watching the celebrations for the inauguration of the New York City mayor, my mind suddenly turned back to my intellectual career early in this century. I remembered some writings I had almost forgotten, which I developed twenty-some years ago. Here, then, briefly looking back I return to consider how my early concerns with a world art history now have new relevance. How can people from diverse ethnic or religious backgrounds co-exist justly in a unified society? How can artworks from diverse visual cultures coexist in our artworld? There is an obvious analogy between the two questions. Art is an important form of cultural expression; when we understand someone’s artworks, we know something significant about them. Like contemporary political life, the unity of the art world requires empathetic mutual understanding. Trained as a philosopher in the 1960s and 70s, I transitioned into art history in the late twentieth centu…

End US Intervention against Venezuela and the Americas
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creator: Ukraine Solidarity Network
date: 2026-01-09T05:25:47Z
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description: THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (U.S.) condemns Trump’s imperialist attack on Venezuela and extralegal kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores. As the Ukrainian democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) quite rightly states: “The morning of 3 January marks the beginning a widespread attack on democracy and the relative peace of the peoples of More The post End US Intervention against Venezuela and the Americas appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (U.S.) condemns Trump’s imperialist attack on Venezuela and extralegal kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores. As the Ukrainian democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) quite rightly states: “The morning of 3 January marks the beginning a widespread attack on democracy and the relative peace of the peoples of Latin America – and far beyond. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396548" class="wp-image-396548" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/word-image-396547-1.png" alt="" width="695" height="731" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/word-image-396547-1.png 695w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/word-image-396547-1-680x715.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/word-image-396547-1-599x630.png 599w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/word-image-396547-1-500x526.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/word-image-396547-1-600x631.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px" /> Ukrainians demonstrating in solidarity with Venezuela The arrogant pronouncements of Donald Trump and Marco Rubio that “we will run Venezuela” make it clear that drug trafficking allegations against Maduro and unidentified boat crews were always a smokescreen. The motives for US military actions in and near Venezuela are oil, minerals, and dominance of Latin America – exactly as the Trump regime’s new “National Security Strategy” proclaims Washington’s intent to establish uncontested U.S. control of the Western Hemisphere. Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” for the Americas enables and justifies the annexationist invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia. It invites other imperialist powers to enforce spheres of influence, one for Russia in line with Putin’s claim that Russia is the “natural” and inevitable overlord of eastern Europe, the Cauca…

Former NZ mayoral hopeful arrested at Venezuela solidarity protest
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-01-09T03:06:56Z
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subject: Pacific
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subject: Venezuela
subject: Winston Peters
description: RNZ News Three people, including former Wellington mayoral hopeful Graham Bloxham, have been arrested at a Venezuela solidarity protest in New Zealand’s capital. Around 100 people were rallying against the US military action earlier this week outside New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) on Lambton Quay. During the event Bloxham, who was
encoded: RNZ News Three people, including former Wellington mayoral hopeful Graham Bloxham, have been arrested at a Venezuela solidarity protest in New Zealand’s capital. Around 100 people were rallying against the US military action earlier this week outside New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) on Lambton Quay. During the event Bloxham, who was attempting to film the protest, was seen scuffling with two protesters. READ MORE: Trump says he doesn’t need international law amid aggressive US policies They were taken by officers into a police van and were driven away. Police break up the protest scuffle in Wellington. Video: RNZ Bloxham runs the Facebook page WellingtonLive and has faced controversy in the past after being arrested for failing to stop for police, and being told by the Employment Relations Authority to pay a former employee $30,000. His charges for failing to stop for police were dismissed. Last year, he also posted on social media that he was the victim of an unprovoked assault in Oriental Bay. A police spokesperson said three people were arrested for disorder and charges are being considered. Right to protest The spokesperson said police recognised the lawful right to protest and maintained a presence to ensure the safety of all involved. RNZ has contacted Bloxham for comment. The group was protesting outside MFAT against the US military intervention in Venezuela, and calling for the New Zealand government to take a stronger stance. Since the attack on Vanezuela and capture of president Nicolás Maduro, there has been one statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, in which he expressed concern at developments and called on all parties to act in accordance with international law. The protest against the US military action in Venezuela outside New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) on Lambton Quay. Image: RNZ/Mark Papalii The prime minister Christopher Luxon is yet to comment. Valerie Morse from Peace Action …

Former NZ mayoral hopeful arrested at Venezuela solidarity protest
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description: RNZ News Three people, including former Wellington mayoral hopeful Graham Bloxham, have been arrested at a Venezuela solidarity protest in New Zealand’s capital. Around 100 people were rallying against the US military action earlier this week outside New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) on Lambton Quay. During the event Bloxham, who was
encoded: RNZ News Three people, including former Wellington mayoral hopeful Graham Bloxham, have been arrested at a Venezuela solidarity protest in New Zealand’s capital. Around 100 people were rallying against the US military action earlier this week outside New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) on Lambton Quay. During the event Bloxham, who was attempting to film the protest, was seen scuffling with two protesters. READ MORE: Trump says he doesn’t need international law amid aggressive US policies They were taken by officers into a police van and were driven away. Police break up the protest scuffle in Wellington. Video: RNZ Bloxham runs the Facebook page WellingtonLive and has faced controversy in the past after being arrested for failing to stop for police, and being told by the Employment Relations Authority to pay a former employee $30,000. His charges for failing to stop for police were dismissed. Last year, he also posted on social media that he was the victim of an unprovoked assault in Oriental Bay. A police spokesperson said three people were arrested for disorder and charges are being considered. Right to protest The spokesperson said police recognised the lawful right to protest and maintained a presence to ensure the safety of all involved. RNZ has contacted Bloxham for comment. The group was protesting outside MFAT against the US military intervention in Venezuela, and calling for the New Zealand government to take a stronger stance. Since the attack on Vanezuela and capture of president Nicolás Maduro, there has been one statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, in which he expressed concern at developments and called on all parties to act in accordance with international law. The protest against the US military action in Venezuela outside New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) on Lambton Quay. Image: RNZ/Mark Papalii The prime minister Christopher Luxon is yet to comment. Valerie Morse from Peace Action …

ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Nicole Good Identified as Jonathan Ross
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Billionaire’s Mouthpiece Searches for Reasons to Avoid Taxing Billionaires
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creator: Jim Naureckas
date: 2026-01-09T00:37:58Z
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description: The Washington Post, which serves the interests of its mega-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, unsurprisingly thinks taxing billionaire wealth is a bad idea.
encoded: The Washington Post (1/1/26) illustrates an article on why states should worry about taxing billionaires’ wealth with a photo of Peter Thiel, a billionaire who has figured out a way to avoid ever paying most income taxes. The Washington Post, which exists mainly to serve the interests of its mega-billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, unsurprisingly thinks taxing the wealth of billionaires is a bad idea (FAIR.org, 12/11/19). Its recent editorial (1/1/26) warning California not to institute a tax on extreme wealth—headlined “California Will Miss Billionaires When They’re Gone”—illustrates that when you’re telling the boss exactly what he wants to hear, you don’t have to think very hard. California is considering a referendum on whether to impose a one-time wealth tax on the state’s billionaires. The paper’s hot take: “Many progressives think of taxation the way teenage boys think about cologne: If some is good, more must be great.” The paper offers PayPal’s Peter Thiel and Google‘s Larry Page, both of whom have threatened to leave California, as poster children for why you shouldn’t subject billionaires to a wealth tax—both highly dubious examples. Thiel is well-known for his use of an absurd tax loophole (ProPublica, 6/24/21): He put 1.7 million shares of PayPal stock—which he valued at 0.1 cents apiece, so $1,700—into a Roth IRA, and by 2021 that had grown through reinvestment into a $5 billion nest egg. (In 2026, it’s likely the bulk of his $25 billion fortune.) A Roth IRA means that if he waits until 2027, when he turns 59, he won’t have to pay any taxes at all on that. This is precisely why people want a wealth tax, because the tax code makes it easy for oligarchs like Thiel to pay little or nothing in income tax. Page is also known for tax shenanigans, parking much of his wealth in a “charity” that distributes almost none of its wealth to disclosed recipients (Vox, 12/18/19). When ProPublica (4/13/22) analyzed tax filings from the super-rich, Page had one of the lowest …

Internal Dissent, High-Profile Resignations, and Donor Anxiety Have Shaken the Heritage Foundation
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description: Resignations, Rebellion, and a Right-Wing Rift: Heritage Implodes Over Carlson–Fuentes Affair Folks—let me have your attention for a moment. Because I’ve been hearing some rumbling, some grumbling, a downright thundering from deep inside one of Washington’s most conservative policy halls. Yes sir, trouble. Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with C, that stands […] The post Internal Dissent, High-Profile Resignations, and Donor Anxiety Have Shaken the Heritage Foundation first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" title="HeritageFoundationscarnage.png" src="https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1320189/story_image/HeritageFoundationscarnage.png?1720627641" srcset="https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1320189/story_image/HeritageFoundationscarnage.png?1720627641 1024w, https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1320189/lightbox/HeritageFoundationscarnage.png?1720627641 768w, https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1320189/large/HeritageFoundationscarnage.png?1720627641 600w" alt="HeritageFoundationscarnage.png" width="505" height="505" /> Resignations, Rebellion, and a Right-Wing Rift: Heritage Implodes Over Carlson–Fuentes Affair Folks—let me have your attention for a moment. Because I’ve been hearing some rumbling, some grumbling, a downright thundering from deep inside one of Washington’s most conservative policy halls. Yes sir, trouble. Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with C, that stands for Carlson, and that stands for controversy. (With apologies to Meredith Wilson) Yes, sir, there’s trouble at the Heritage Foundation—real trouble. How deep the rift runs is still an open question, but one thing’s clear: Heritage, the powerful and heavily funded right-wing think tank that brought America Project 2025, is grappling with a very public, very internal crack-up. It’s a foundational kerfuffle, a battle that’s anything but civil. Since its founding in 1973, Heritage has served as the one of the most important intellectual command centers of the conservative movement. It helped shape Ronald Reagan’s governing blueprint and, decades later, supplied Donald Trump with the ideological scaffolding he used to reshape the federal government. Now the same institution that has spent half a century defining the right is being shaken from within—over Tucker Carlson’s decision to hand a megaphone to white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. The current troubles was kicked off when Heritage President Kevin Roberts’ defended Tucker Carlson’…

Former French Foreign Legion soldier key suspect in Vanuatu VT49m heist
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description: By Doddy Morris in Port Vila The Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) has confirmed that the prime suspect in a Port Vila armed robbery is a former member of the French Foreign Legion, who served around 2019. Allegations had circulated on social media for the past four days, but yesterday it was officially confirmed that the
encoded: By Doddy Morris in Port Vila The Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) has confirmed that the prime suspect in a Port Vila armed robbery is a former member of the French Foreign Legion, who served around 2019. Allegations had circulated on social media for the past four days, but yesterday it was officially confirmed that the mastermind of the robbery on December 29 is an ex-Legionnaire with operational experience. The French Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère) is an elite, volunteer military corps within the French Army, known for accepting foreign nationals from around the world to serve in challenging overseas missions. READ MORE: Armed heist at airport believed to be Vanuatu’s first organised robbery Other Vanuatu crime reports The Legion, established in 1831, is famous for its rigorous selection, demanding training, and unique traditions, including name changes and an emphasis on “honour and fidelity.” Legionnaires serve in roles such as infantry, engineers, and airborne troops, undergoing intense physical and mental tests to build cohesion and serve France’s global interests. Social media posts suggest the suspect was deployed in conflict zones, highlighting the level of military training and experience he may have gained. The robbery, described as a “well-coordinated and professionally executed armed robbery,” took place at Bauerfield International Airport, a critical infrastructure site. Western Union vehicle Three suspects in a minivan with an unauthorised number plate closely followed a Western Union vehicle carrying cash to the airport. The suspects blocked the vehicle at the Vanuatu Terminal Services Limited (VTSL) building, assaulted the driver, and stole NZ$700,000 (about VT49 million). They then escaped swiftly in the minivan. The police launched an official investigation on December 30 at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Within three days, they started arresting suspects, thanks to strong collaboration with the community of Port Vila and support from …

Former French Foreign Legion soldier key suspect in Vanuatu VT49m heist
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date: 2026-01-08T23:53:17Z
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description: By Doddy Morris in Port Vila The Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) has confirmed that the prime suspect in a Port Vila armed robbery is a former member of the French Foreign Legion, who served around 2019. Allegations had circulated on social media for the past four days, but yesterday it was officially confirmed that the
encoded: By Doddy Morris in Port Vila The Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) has confirmed that the prime suspect in a Port Vila armed robbery is a former member of the French Foreign Legion, who served around 2019. Allegations had circulated on social media for the past four days, but yesterday it was officially confirmed that the mastermind of the robbery on December 29 is an ex-Legionnaire with operational experience. The French Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère) is an elite, volunteer military corps within the French Army, known for accepting foreign nationals from around the world to serve in challenging overseas missions. READ MORE: Armed heist at airport believed to be Vanuatu’s first organised robbery Other Vanuatu crime reports The Legion, established in 1831, is famous for its rigorous selection, demanding training, and unique traditions, including name changes and an emphasis on “honour and fidelity.” Legionnaires serve in roles such as infantry, engineers, and airborne troops, undergoing intense physical and mental tests to build cohesion and serve France’s global interests. Social media posts suggest the suspect was deployed in conflict zones, highlighting the level of military training and experience he may have gained. The robbery, described as a “well-coordinated and professionally executed armed robbery,” took place at Bauerfield International Airport, a critical infrastructure site. Western Union vehicle Three suspects in a minivan with an unauthorised number plate closely followed a Western Union vehicle carrying cash to the airport. The suspects blocked the vehicle at the Vanuatu Terminal Services Limited (VTSL) building, assaulted the driver, and stole NZ$700,000 (about VT49 million). They then escaped swiftly in the minivan. The police launched an official investigation on December 30 at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Within three days, they started arresting suspects, thanks to strong collaboration with the community of Port Vila and support from …

Minneapolis demands independent investigation into ICE killing of Renee Good
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PNG’s lethal Tsak Valley raid and deeper crisis over guns, policing, trust in Enga
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description: SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent A Papua New Guinea police operation in Tsak Valley, Enga Province, in the early hours of Friday, 2 January 2026 — which resulted in five deaths — has prompted calls for an independent investigation following sharply differing accounts of events from police and community sources, as
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent A Papua New Guinea police operation in Tsak Valley, Enga Province, in the early hours of Friday, 2 January 2026 — which resulted in five deaths — has prompted calls for an independent investigation following sharply differing accounts of events from police and community sources, as well as a growing rift in public opinion. The operation, conducted by members of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary under an anti-terror policing framework, has been described as a success by police leadership, but has drawn strong criticism from some local leaders and clansmen. Acting Police Commissioner Samson Kua said in a statement that security forces commenced operations shortly after 3am, “executing coordinated raids on two locations” in Tsak Valley. READ MORE: Other PNG police reports The objective, he said, was to locate and apprehend suspects believed to be in possession of factory-made firearms linked to tribal fighting and criminal activity. Various sources have indicated that Winis Kaki, one of the primary suspects and a prominent member of the Yambaran Warenge tribe, was armed during the raid when police shot him. His wife, Margaret, a primary school teacher, was also killed. The other victims have been identified as Nancy Kipongi, 60, a former ward councillor; Glendale Taso, 30; and Isaac Ipu, 27, who was reportedly shot near his food garden. In its statement, police said officers attempting entry at the first location, identified as Winis Kaki’s residence, were met with gunfire from inside the dwelling. One officer was wounded. “Police returned fire, killing the armed suspect,” the statement said. An M16 rifle and a loaded magazine were recovered. Police also confirmed the arrest of Joseph Tati, a pastor and community leader. Police further said another armed individual was shot dead during the operation. Officers recovered a second M16 rifle, a modified .38-calibre revolver, and ammunition for 5.56mm and 7…

Mourning in America and Real Resistance
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description: A statement from Gaslit Nation listener Annie in Minneapolis, Minnesota: Real Resistance I live in Minneapolis, 6 minutes from where Renee Good was shot and killed today by an ICE agent. I am 39, a white woman, with a 6 year old like Renee. I am on my neighborhood rapid response thread and on another morning it could easily have been me who was shot and killed. I feel grief, I feel rage, but I am also hopeful that her death will crack open something that needs to see the light of day. On Tuesday, dozens of people were brutally kidnapped and taken from their families, but there were no press conferences and no headlines. Today, all eyes are on ICE. Schools are canceled for the rest of the week. My manager wrote to say she understands if we need to take time off. It finally feels like the whole city is grieving in the way I have been for the past five weeks since ICE first began occupying Minneapolis, and the past five months since ICE first descended on Chicago. It feels like I can finally grieve openly. Politicians are taking the occupation more seriously. Governor Walz is talking about the national guard, Mayor Frey is talking about Minneapolis police officers protecting first amendment rights. There is so much the state and the city could be doing to assist and protect people at risk right now, but their opposition has been limited to press conferences, social media posts, and an ordinance that limits the use of city property by ICE. This is really different than playing an active role in protecting and supporting people. Actual resistance could look like tracking ICE apprehensions and accounting for all victims, running a support hotline for impacted families, providing legal aid to immigrants, tracking ICE locations and sharing this information with immigrants at risk, maintaining a list of ICE license plates, serving as constitutional observers during ICE stops, or even just lifting up the work of rapid response networks and encouraging residents to participate…
encoded: A statement from Gaslit Nation listener Annie in Minneapolis, Minnesota: Real Resistance I live in Minneapolis, 6 minutes from where Renee Good was shot and killed today by an ICE agent. I am 39, a white woman, with a 6 year old like Renee. I am on my neighborhood rapid response thread and on another morning it could easily have been me who was shot and killed. I feel grief, I feel rage, but I am also hopeful that her death will crack open something that needs to see the light of day. On Tuesday, dozens of people were brutally kidnapped and taken from their families, but there were no press conferences and no headlines. Today, all eyes are on ICE. Schools are canceled for the rest of the week. My manager wrote to say she understands if we need to take time off. It finally feels like the whole city is grieving in the way I have been for the past five weeks since ICE first began occupying Minneapolis, and the past five months since ICE first descended on Chicago. It feels like I can finally grieve openly. Politicians are taking the occupation more seriously. Governor Walz is talking about the national guard, Mayor Frey is talking about Minneapolis police officers protecting first amendment rights. There is so much the state and the city could be doing to assist and protect people at risk right now, but their opposition has been limited to press conferences, social media posts, and an ordinance that limits the use of city property by ICE. This is really different than playing an active role in protecting and supporting people. Actual resistance could look like tracking ICE apprehensions and accounting for all victims, running a support hotline for impacted families, providing legal aid to immigrants, tracking ICE locations and sharing this information with immigrants at risk, maintaining a list of ICE license plates, serving as constitutional observers during ICE stops, or even just lifting up the work of rapid response networks and encouraging residents to participate…

‘These Two Powerful Corporations Have a Shared Interest in Trying to Bust This Union’: CounterSpin interview with Derek Seidman on Starbucks and Walmart
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encoded: Janine Jackson interviewed historian Derek Seidman about the Starbucks strike for the December 19, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251219Seidman.mp3 EPI (9/3/25) Janine Jackson: News media talk about the strength and influence of corporations, and we certainly hear about consumers pressed by high prices. You might even find dry, data-based acknowledgement that workers’ wages haven’t kept up with productivity. Maybe there’s even a graph. Where elite media reliably fail is in, No. 1, incorporating the reality that the consumers they evince so much care about are the same people as the workers whose interests are, shall we say, less honored. And then, bigger picture, showing no sustained interest in asking what forces could be brought to bear against corporate power, and its whims and prejudices. Where power is, who has it, how it’s used: That’s the emptiness at the center of much of corporate news media’s storytelling, and it’s where independent reporters start. We’re joined now by writer, researcher and historian Derek Seidman. He’s a regular contributor to Little Sis and to Truthout, where I saw his recent piece, “Why Walmart Wants to See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail.” He joins us now by phone. Welcome back to CounterSpin, Derek Seidman. Derek Seidman: Thank you. Thanks for having me. YouTube (10/12/22) JJ: I have to start with the phrase that’s been in my head from Billy Bragg, but obviously not him alone: “There is power in a union.” I wonder if you could start by bringing us up to date. I think listeners will know that Starbucks workers have been on strike, but that it’s still happening and growing might be news to people, because it’s not really front page anymore. DS: The union drive at Starbucks has been one of the most energizing things in the labor movement over the past few years. Now I’m lucky enough to be based in Buffalo, where the uni…

[Aviva Chomsky] Gunboat Diplomacy: Then & Now
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description: The United States has a long history of intervening in the internal affairs of Latin American and Caribbean countries. From Cuba to Chile, from Grenada to Panama, the U.S. has invaded, occupied, staged coups, carried out assassinations, and imposed san...
encoded: The United States has a long history of intervening in the internal affairs of Latin American and Caribbean countries. From Cuba to Chile, from Grenada to Panama, the U.S. has invaded, occupied, staged coups, carried out assassinations, and imposed sanctions. Today, Washington has oil-rich Venezuela in its gunsights. It has deployed an armada of warships, including the world’s biggest aircraft carrier, near Venezuela. It’s blowing boats out of the water, which legal experts call extra-judicial killings. It’s threatening Caracas with regime change. The White House justifies its saber-rattling rhetoric and aggressive military actions by calling Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a “narco-trafficker.” As Noam Chomsky has often said, to best understand U.S. foreign policy, use the mafia model. Very simply, if you obey the master, you’re safe. Step out of line? Look out. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

Why Venezuela is Making Oil Deals with U.S. Despite Capture of "Prisoner of War" Maduro
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date: 2026-01-08T21:02:34Z
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TV videographer punched in head by woman while filming in Texas
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-01-08T20:44:38Z
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description: KRIS-TV videographer Andrew Bishop was hit in the back of the head by a woman while reporting on homeless issues in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Dec. 17, 2025.Bishop, then a news producer at the station undergoing reporter training, said he set up a small...
encoded: KRIS-TV videographer Andrew Bishop was hit in the back of the head by a woman while reporting on homeless issues in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Dec. 17, 2025. Bishop, then a news producer at the station undergoing reporter training, said he set up a small tripod a few hundred yards away from a homeless encampment near City Hall when a woman began pointing and yelling at him. “I just kept shooting,” he said. “And she walked up around the car, and she basically just came behind me, and she just punched me in the back of my head and neck.” In a broadcast a few days later, reporter Jeydah Jenkins, who was with Bishop at the time, detailed how the city is tackling homelessness for a report on dine-and-dash incidents at an area restaurant. “I saw firsthand how tense it can get,” she said. “While gathering video for this story near City Hall, a homeless person physically attacked my photographer, showing how unpredictable these situations can be for everyone involved.” Although the broadcast did not identify the photographer, Bishop later told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he was the one assaulted. He said he was not injured and avoided further confrontation by packing up his equipment and later filing a police report. Bishop said the assault highlighted safety concerns, as newsrooms face shrinking resources and increasingly rely on journalists to work alone in the field. “With news, we’re losing resources by the day,” he said. “It’s riskier today as the industry moves more to one-man-show journalists.” This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

CPJ calls for immediate release of 3 imprisoned Venezuelan journalists
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Venezuelan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalists Rory Branker, Nakary Mena Ramos, and Gianni González, drop all charges against them, and ensure that journalists in Venezuela can work freely and without fear of retaliation. “Pervasive attempts to silence critical voices under Venezuela’s Chavez and Maduro regimes must...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Venezuelan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalists Rory Branker, Nakary Mena Ramos, and Gianni González, drop all charges against them, and ensure that journalists in Venezuela can work freely and without fear of retaliation. “Pervasive attempts to silence critical voices under Venezuela’s Chavez and Maduro regimes must end as interim President Delcy Rodríguez takes control of the country,” said CPJ Américas Regional Director Jose Zamora. “Rodríguez should immediately release all imprisoned journalists, end the use of arbitrary and temporary detentions, and provide the legal and security guarantees necessary for journalists to report freely, independently, and without fear of reprisal.” Upon claiming victory in a disputed July 28, 2024 election, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro launched a media crackdown that saw journalists detained and jailed, among other tactics to obstruct their reporting, including: Rory Branker, a journalist with the news website La Patilla, was detained by Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) agents and taken to El Helicoide detention center in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on February 20, La Patilla reported. Impacto Venezuela journalist Nakary Mena Ramos and her husband, camera operator Gianni González, were arrested in connection with Mena’s reporting on rising crime in Caracas on April 11, 2025. A criminal court ordered Mena held on preliminary charges including “hate crimes” and “publishing fake news,” while González remains detained at El Rodeo II prison. Both were initially denied access to private legal counsel. Maduro was removed from power during a U.S. military raid on January 3 and transported to the United States to face charges of narco-terrorism. His wife, Cilia Flores, also faces charges. Outlets reported that at least 20 journalists and media workers were detained for hours and five were deported while covering the inauguration of inter…

Neglect at Federal Detention Center Ignored Until a Famous Person Is Held There
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description: The federal Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn usually makes headlines only when famous people—such as Luigi Mangione and Ghislaine Maxwell—are held there while awaiting trial for pending federal charges. However, in June 2025, Katie Rose ...
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CPJ urges release of Tunisian journalist Chadha Hadj Mbarek over health concerns
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description: New York, January 8, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release jailed Tunisian journalist Chadha Hadj Mbarek and ensure she receives urgent, adequate medical care following reports that her health has severely deteriorated in prison. “Denying detained journalist Chadha Hadj Mbarek timely and urgent life-saving medical care is...
encoded: New York, January 8, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release jailed Tunisian journalist Chadha Hadj Mbarek and ensure she receives urgent, adequate medical care following reports that her health has severely deteriorated in prison. “Denying detained journalist Chadha Hadj Mbarek timely and urgent life-saving medical care is simply cruel and inhuman,” said CPJ Chief Programs Officer Carlos Martínez de la Serna. “Tunisian authorities must immediately release Mbarek and ensure she receives the urgent medical treatment she needs.” According to a statement issued by Mbarek’s family on Wednesday, January 7, she was physically assaulted by a fellow prison inmate while held at Messaadine Prison in Sousse, suffering a serious hand injury that went untreated despite severe pain. Prison authorities allegedly denied her proper medical care and diagnostic tests, providing only painkillers after she staged repeated hunger strikes to obtain a medical examination, according to her brother, Amen Hadj Mbarek, who spoke to CPJ over the phone. After her transfer to the Belli prison in Nabeul a year ago, Mbarek’s health further deteriorated. Medical examinations later revealed a malignant tumor in her stomach and chest requiring surgeries. Her family said the delayed diagnosis was the direct result of prolonged medical neglect during her detention, placing her life at risk if not treated promptly. “Chadha’s condition has reached a critical and catastrophic stage,” Amen Hadj Mbarek said. “She asked for medical care months ago and was ignored until her illness became life-threatening. Any further delay puts her life in danger.” Mbarek, a journalist and social media content editor who worked with the independent digital content company Instalingo, was arrested in July 2023 and is serving a five-year prison sentence after being convicted under cybercrime Decree-law 54 of “conspiring against state security” and “offen…

More shocking footage shows federal agents raiding Minneapolis high school, handcuffing staff
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Jan. 08, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Federal immigration enforcement agents on Wednesday swarmed a high school in Minneapolis, where footage and ph...
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Hours after US Citizen shot dead by ICE, JD Vance says ‘door-to-door’ operations are coming
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 8, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Soleimani Statue Toppled As Iran Protests Gain Momentum
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-01-08T17:46:46Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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UN News Today 08 January 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-01-08T17:04:36Z
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description: Ukraine wakes to more devastation from Russia missiles: OCHA Niger in grip of acute malnutrition and childhood disease Human Rights Council elects an Indonesian candidate President for 2026
encoded: Ukraine wakes to more devastation from Russia missiles: OCHA Niger in grip of acute malnutrition and childhood disease Human Rights Council elects an Indonesian candidate President for 2026 This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

‘They are hunting journalists’: Nicaragua’s covert repression tactics strike fear beyond borders
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date: 2026-01-08T16:55:25Z
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description: An estimated 268 Nicaraguan journalists have fled the Central American country for exile, many settling in the neighboring Costa Rica, to escape what CPJ’s research has documented to be a government-backed system of political repression and judicial harassment against media outlets that often prevents journalists, fearing for their families, from reporting the truth. Yet for...
encoded: An estimated 268 Nicaraguan journalists have fled the Central American country for exile, many settling in the neighboring Costa Rica, to escape what CPJ’s research has documented to be a government-backed system of political repression and judicial harassment against media outlets that often prevents journalists, fearing for their families, from reporting the truth. Yet for some exiled journalists, who spoke to CPJ on condition of anonymity due to security concerns, that repression has followed them beyond borders. Forced to uproot their operations to deliver critical reporting from the outside, the exiled journalists say they are still being targeted by Nicaragua’s state security with covert persuasion, coercion, and psychological pressure tactics in hopes of repressing their dissenting voices and gaining information about the whereabouts of others. Yet on the heels of the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID funding — funding that many news outlets rely on across Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela—the journalists say their lives and their livelihoods hang in the balance now more than ever. A covert campaign of fear and intimidation CPJ has extensively documented Nicaragua’s press freedom crisis since the April 2018 eruption of anti-government protests calling for the end of President Daniel Ortega’s administration resulting in 325 reported deaths, including reporter Ángel Gahona, and the arrests of dozens journalists covering the protests. Using public raids and arrests, Ortega, who leads the country with his co-president and wife, Rosario Murillo, began a crackdown on independent media that saw the closure of dozens of outlets and a mass exile. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="663" width="1024" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AP24325823019626.jpg?w=1024" alt="In this Sept. 5, 2018 file photo, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Alfredo …

Trump just took his most dramatic step yet against global climate action
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creator: Jake Bittle
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description: Unlike the Paris Agreement, Trump’s withdrawal from a bedrock U.N. climate treaty may be difficult to reverse.
encoded: President Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the global fight against climate change has gone further than almost anyone expected. During the first year of his second term in office, the president and his administration have cut foreign aid for climate resilience, pressured countries to delay crucial carbon tax agreements, and removed the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, the landmark 2015 accord that saw the world’s nations come together around a plan to limit global warming. Some of this was anticipated, but on Wednesday Trump took arguably his most dramatic step yet against global climate action. In a brief memorandum, he announced that he would “effectuate the withdrawal” of the U.S. from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, the bedrock treaty that first brought countries together to discuss the climate crisis more than three decades ago. In other words, Trump hasn’t just skipped out on the world’s plan for tackling climate change — he’s also decreeing that the U.S. will no longer take any part in international talks on the subject. And this latest move may prove far more durable than leaving the Paris accord. Because of ambiguity in U.S. law, future presidents may not be able to reverse withdrawal from the UNFCCC even if they want to. If Paris was a contract to stop climate change, the UNFCCC was akin to the boardroom in which countries hashed out that contract. Trump’s withdrawal from the latter is an even more extreme measure because it means that the U.S. government will no longer be eligible to attend global climate talks, known as COPs, and will be the only country in the world that is unable to participate in multilateral debates about climate change. “This is a short-sighted, embarrassing, and foolish decision,” said Gina McCarthy, who was the White House climate advisor to former President Joe Biden, in a statement. “The Trump administration is throwing away decades of U.S. climate leadership and global collaboration.” The…

Minneapolis Reels After ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Renee Good, Mother of 3
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Minneapolis Reels After ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Renee Good, Mother of 3
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Trump abandonment of global treaties, including landmark climate deal, ‘threatens all life on Earth’
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creator: Jake Johnson
date: 2026-01-08T16:33:33Z
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Trump Vows to “Indefinitely” Control Venezuela’s Oil
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ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Minneapolis Mother, Renee Good
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Communities Push Back Against AI Data Center Expansion
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creator: Kate Horgan
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description: By Alefiya Presswala Editor’s Note: This is the first of two Dispatches on AI data centers, with a second article, by Ella Mrofka, to be published in January 2026. There are more than 5,400 data centers in the United States, accounting for nearly 50 pe...
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‘There was no regime change’ -Venezuela’s ex-FM Jorge Arreaza on US kidnapping raid
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‘There was no regime change’ -Venezuela’s ex-FM Jorge Arreaza on US kidnapping raid
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 8, 2026
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Fukayama’s Misstep
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creator: Dan Lieberman
date: 2026-01-08T15:00:49Z
subject: Binance
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subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Glen Casada
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subject: Israeli Defense Force (IDF)
subject: Larry Ellison
subject: Pete Hegseth
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subject: Todd and Julie Chrisley
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subject: balances
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subject: binance
subject: casada
subject: changpeng
subject: checks
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subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
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subject: Juan Orlando Hernandez
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subject: nicolas maduro
subject: Palestine
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description: Political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s prediction that we, meaning those who glorify the western world, were at “The End of History and the Last Man,” and that “the rise of Western liberal democracy marked the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution,” meaning that Western style “democracy is the final form of government for all nations,” motivated the […] The post Fukayama’s Misstep first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s prediction that we, meaning those who glorify the western world, were at “The End of History and the Last Man,” and that “the rise of Western liberal democracy marked the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution,” meaning that Western style “democracy is the final form of government for all nations,” motivated the Western world to rest comfortably and applaud its accomplishment in determining the final course of history. The pundits of the Western world failed to recognize that they, as victors, wrote the history, and the history they were writing did not correspond with the history that was occurring. As of Jan 1, 2026, the world has not demonstrated a trend toward democracy. Population Reviews’ <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/ec893250-5b53-4350-8324-5e7a87ea0d4b?j=eyJ1Ijoiam4wMmoifQ.PaddeBtKle9joHJvDN3ueADzsKO9yeCM5BKLmMw0ldw" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://substack.com/redirect/ec893250-5b53-4350-8324-5e7a87ea0d4b?j%3DeyJ1Ijoiam4wMmoifQ.PaddeBtKle9joHJvDN3ueADzsKO9yeCM5BKLmMw0ldw&source=gmail&ust=1767922280321000&usg=AOvVaw2InUNKvTsWt1MU0FHRe-4N">Democracy Ranking by Country 2025depicts the trend. Full Democracy: 25 countries Flawed Democracy: 50 countries Hybrid democracy: 33 countries Totalitarian: 47 countries The emergence of the most autocratic administration in the world’s most promoted democracy, the Donald Trump administration in the American government, has thrown the U.S. into despair and the world into confusion. Despite never being recognized as a bottoms-up democracy, where grassroots filters wants and desires to upper echelons of power, and having operated as a top-down democracy, where echelons of power convince the masses that constant wars and severe economic disparities are good for the nation, and, in times of danger, political repression is a necessary “dark deed” to assure survival (Ed: of the oligarchy), Americans felt protected by two words ─ checks …

Fukayama’s Misstep
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creator: Dan Lieberman
date: 2026-01-08T15:00:49Z
subject: Binance
subject: Changpeng Zhao
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subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: George santos
subject: Glen Casada
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
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subject: Larry Ellison
subject: Pete Hegseth
subject: Sources
subject: Todd and Julie Chrisley
subject: and
subject: autocracy
subject: balances
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: binance
subject: casada
subject: changpeng
subject: checks
subject: chrisley
subject: defense
subject: Democracy
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: ellison?
subject: force
subject: forces
subject: francis fukuyama
subject: friends
subject: fukayama’s
subject: george
subject: glen
subject: Hamas
subject: hegseth
subject: idf
subject: israel
subject: israeli
subject: Juan Orlando Hernandez
subject: julie
subject: larry
subject: mandate
subject: Militarism
subject: misstep
subject: nicolas maduro
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: pete
subject: Rudy Giuliani
subject: santos
subject: Social media
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: TikTok
subject: todd
subject: United States
subject: Venezuela
subject: voice
subject: zhao:
description: Political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s prediction that we, meaning those who glorify the western world, were at “The End of History and the Last Man,” and that “the rise of Western liberal democracy marked the endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolution,” meaning that Western style “democracy is the final form of government for all nations,” motivated the […] The post Fukayama’s Misstep first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Trump Vows to “Indefinitely” Control Venezuela’s Oil as U.S. Seizes Two More Oil Tankers
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-08T13:41:15Z
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description: U.S. forces have seized two more oil tankers with links to Venezuela, days after the U.S. attacked Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro along with his wife, making former Vice President Delcy Rodríguez the new leader of the country....
encoded: U.S. forces have seized two more oil tankers with links to Venezuela, days after the U.S. attacked Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro along with his wife, making former Vice President Delcy Rodríguez the new leader of the country. “This is a decapitation without regime change,” says Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez. “The political system in Venezuela remains intact.” In Caracas, former Venezuelan diplomat Carlos Ron says Maduro is a “prisoner of war” and that Venezuelans “are angry and are upset about this incursion from the United States.” This comes as the Trump administration has announced plans to control sales of Venezuela’s oil “indefinitely.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Terror & Chaos”: Minneapolis Reeling After ICE Killing of Renee Nicole Good
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-08T13:15:30Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: chaos
subject: Democracy
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description: We speak with two people who responded to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday. Trump administration officials claim the agent acted in self-defense, but local officia...
encoded: We speak with two people who responded to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday. Trump administration officials claim the agent acted in self-defense, but local officials, including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, reject that claim. “This could happen to you in your city,” says Robin Wonsley, member of the Minneapolis City Council. “This happening here in Minneapolis sets a tone for this to play out in many other cities.” The shooting comes after the Trump administration deployed over 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota. “This is not normal,” says Edwin Torres DeSantiago with the Immigrant Defense Network, which monitors ICE activity and has received thousands of requests from Minnesotans who want to volunteer as “constitutional observers” of ICE in Minneapolis. “We’ve been seeing people terrorized all over the state and all over the country under the guise of protection.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for January 8, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-08T13:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: for
subject: headlines
subject: january
subject: now
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description: ICE Agent Fatally Shoots 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Mother During Immigration Enforcement Raid, Mayor Tells ICE to “Get the Fuck Out of Minneapolis” as Trump Spreads Disinformation About Shooting, Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly to File Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, White House Plans “Indefinite” Control of Venezuela’s Oil Industry as U.S. Seizes More Tankers, Trump Invites President Gustavo Petro to White House After Threatening Attacks on Colombia, Trump Announces U.S. Withdrawal from Dozens of International Groups and U.N. Agencies, Drone Strike by Sudanese Paramilitary Group Kills 13, Including Children, Israeli Forces Kill Children and Civilians in Fresh Violations of Gaza Ceasefire, U.N. Rights Chief Decries “Apartheid” in Occupied West Bank as Israel Approves New Settlements, Trump Calls for Increasing U.S. Military Spending to $1.5 Trillion, House Oversight Committee to Subpoena Billionaire Les Wexner over Epstein Ties
encoded: ICE Agent Fatally Shoots 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Mother During Immigration Enforcement Raid Mayor Tells ICE to "Get the Fuck Out of Minneapolis" as Trump Spreads Disinformation About Shooting Illinois Rep. Robin Kelly to File Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem White House Plans "Indefinite" Control of Venezuela's Oil Industry as U.S. Seizes More Tankers Trump Invites President Gustavo Petro to White House After Threatening Attacks on Colombia Trump Announces U.S. Withdrawal from Dozens of International Groups and U.N. Agencies Drone Strike by Sudanese Paramilitary Group Kills 13, Including Children Israeli Forces Kill Children and Civilians in Fresh Violations of Gaza Ceasefire U.N. Rights Chief Decries "Apartheid" in Occupied West Bank as Israel Approves New Settlements Trump Calls for Increasing U.S. Military Spending to $1.5 Trillion House Oversight Committee to Subpoena Billionaire Les Wexner over Epstein Ties This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-01-08 Thursday
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date: 2026-01-08T13:00:00Z
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description: Democracy Now! Thursday, January 8, 2026
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350.org on the US withdrawal from the UNFCCC & other international bodies
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-08T12:20:28Z
subject: Common Dreams
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description: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from 66 international organizations, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 1992 treaty that underpins all global climate cooperation,...
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In 2025, America suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days
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creator: Matt Simon
date: 2026-01-08T11:00:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: 2025
subject: america
subject: billion-dollar
subject: days
subject: disaster
subject: every
subject: extreme weather
subject: sources
subject: suffered
description: A new analysis finds that in 2025, major catastrophes took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.
encoded: Last year began with the costliest wildfires in American history, as a series of blazes tore across Los Angeles for nearly all of January. A parade of other catastrophes followed: severe storms across the southern and northeastern United States, tornadoes in the central states, drought and heatwaves through the western expanse of the country. All told, the U.S. notched 23 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2025, which claimed 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages, according to a new analysis from the research group Climate Central. Only 2023 and 2024 recorded more of these events, and 2025 was the 15th consecutive year with an above-average number. (Since 1980, the annual average has been nine events costing $67.6 billion. In that time, the country tallied 426 total billion-dollar disasters, costing more than $3.1 trillion.) Last year was the ninth most expensive on record for billion-dollar disasters. The clear signal here is climate change: It’s worsening wildfires, causing heavier rainfall and flooding, and supercharging hurricanes. In the 1980s, billion-dollar disasters happened on average every 82 days, according to the analysis, but over the last decade that window has tightened to just 16 days. In 2025, Americans endured one of these events every 10 days on average — an almost nonstop cavalcade of suffering. Last May, the Trump administration announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would no longer update the federal government’s own billion-dollar disaster database, to the alarm of experts who call it an essential tool for determining risk and adapting to climate change. In October, Climate Central revived that database, hence its release of these figures for 2025. “The continuation of this dataset, like other datasets, is important because it helps demonstrate the economic impact of extreme weather and climate events,” said Adam Smith, senior climate impacts scientist with the organization, who’s leading the pro…

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”
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creator: Heather Vogell
date: 2026-01-08T10:30:00Z
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subject: too
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description: The post “We’re Too Close to the Debris” appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: This story works best on ProPublica’s website. Delta Airlines Flight 573 took off from San Juan, Puerto Rico, at 4:45 p.m. Eastern time on Jan. 16, 2025, and headed for Atlanta. At 5:49 p.m., air traffic controllers told pilots over the Caribbean that a SpaceX Starship rocket had exploded. All planes were ordered to avoid an area where the Federal Aviation Administration estimated debris would fall. The plane turned sharply south to get out of the debris zone. And it wasn’t alone. ProPublica identified 20 other planes that appeared to make sudden turns to exit or avoid the danger zone in the minutes after the explosion. While none of the planes were damaged by the debris, such emergency maneuvering can be risky. The airspace remained closed for 86 minutes, during which time flight patterns show dozens of other planes likely had to change course — making pilots and passengers unwitting participants in SpaceX’s test of the most powerful rocket ever built. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry. Each time SpaceX did a test run of Starship and its booster, dubbed Super Heavy, the megarocket’s flight path would take it soaring over busy Caribbean airspace before it reached the relative safety of the open Atlantic Ocean. The company planned as many as five such launches a year as it perfected the craft, a version of which is supposed to one day land on the moon. The FAA, which also oversees commercial space launches, predicted the impact to the national airspace would be “minor or minimal,” akin to a weather event, the agency’s 2022 approval shows. No airport would need to close and no airplane would be denied access for “an extended period of time.” But the reality has been far different. Last year, three of Starship’s five launches exploded at unexpected points on their flight paths, twice raining flaming de…

Our Year in Visual Journalism
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description: The post Our Year in Visual Journalism appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Paul Windle for “Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to ‘Munch’ Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health.” Art direction by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photography by Sarahbeth Maney for “Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.” Photo editing by Peter DiCampo. Photography by Sarahbeth Maney for “We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.” Photo editing by Cengiz Yar. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="3000" height="2000" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png" alt="" class="wp-image-63303" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png 3000w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=863,575 863w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=422,281 422w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=552,368 552w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=558,372 558w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=527,351 527w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=752,501 752w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-EOY-still-02.png?resize=1149,766 1149w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uplo…

DN! Thursday, January 8, 2026
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Trump invaded Venezuela to restore an oil industry he helped destroy
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creator: Naveena Sadasivam
date: 2026-01-08T09:45:00Z
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description: U.S. sanctions helped cause the near-total collapse of Venezuelan oil production — damage that President Trump is now using as justification for his military strike against the country.
encoded: The middle-of-the-night kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shocked the world on Saturday. Military helicopters bombed Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, as U.S. special forces breached Maduro’s residence, captured him, and flew him to New York to stand trial on unproven charges of narcoterrorism. President Donald Trump has offered several justifications for Maduro’s ouster, including the collapse of Venezuela’s oil industry. But the very conditions Trump has been pointing to were exacerbated by the actions of past U.S. presidents — including Trump himself. If the Venezuelan oil industry is in tatters, it’s at least partially because of U.S. policies dating back at least a decade. On Wednesday, Trump’s Department of Energy put out a “fact sheet” stipulating that the U.S. is “selectively rolling back sanctions to enable the transport and sale of Venezuelan crude and oil products to global markets.” This outcome is doubly ironic because U.S. sanctions are one of the reasons the Venezuelan oil industry is diminished in the first place. The announcement also states that the U.S. will market Venezuelan oil, bank the proceeds, and disburse the revenue “for the benefit of the American people and the Venezuelan people at the discretion of the U.S. government.” Maduro first drew the ire of President Trump in 2017 after the Venezuelan government stripped powers from the opposition-controlled legislature and violently suppressed mass protests. Trump responded by imposing sanctions on Maduro, several senior officials, and Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, significantly broadening the targeted sanctions that the Obama administration first imposed in 2015. Speaking to reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, that August, Trump said he would not rule out a “military option” in Venezuela. Two years later, after Maduro secured a second term in a contested election, the Trump administration dramatically escalated its pressure campaign, announcing a full oil e…

The right to protest is under attack in the United Kingdom
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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The US Propaganda Campaign to Smear Venezuela’s New President Delcy Rodriguez
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creator: Stansfield Smith
date: 2026-01-08T08:27:17Z
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description: The US “regime change” operation against Venezuela has been defeated. The Bolivarian Revolution remains firmly in power. Now, Washington’s campaign against the Chavistas attempts to paint Interim President Delcy Rodriguez as compromising on the heritage of Presidents Nicolas Maduro and Hugo Chavez. The Wall Street Journal ran an article Venezuelan Regime’s New Strategy: Appease Trump […] The post The US Propaganda Campaign to Smear Venezuela’s New President Delcy Rodriguez first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The US “regime change” operation against Venezuela has been defeated. The Bolivarian Revolution remains firmly in power. Now, Washington’s campaign against the Chavistas attempts to paint Interim President Delcy Rodriguez as compromising on the heritage of Presidents Nicolas Maduro and Hugo Chavez. The Wall Street Journal ran an article Venezuelan Regime’s New Strategy: Appease Trump to Survive, referring to Delcy Rodriguez’ official statement January 4 (below). The Washington Post on January 6 could state “the Trump administration appears to have quietly settled on Delcy Rodríguez, Nicolás Maduro’s right hand, as the figure it prefers to lead Venezuela after Maduro’s fall. This was not an improvised choice. Reportedly, it is the result of prolonged negotiations in which she presented herself as the natural successor to Maduro.” In fact, Venezuela operated according to its constitution, approved in a national referendum, where the vice president takes office if the President cannot fulfill his duties. The vice president is Delcy Rodriguez. Her becoming president follows Venezuela’s highest law. Trump had nothing to do with it. Trump’s remarks on January 3 that Rodríguez had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and appeared “quite courteous,” saying “we’re going to do whatever you need,” aimed to sell the story of her acquiescing to Washington. But Rodríguez swiftly contradicted that story hours later, appearing on state television to declare that “there is only one president in this country, and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros.” January 5, the Wall Street Journal escalated the campaign to smear now acting President Delcy in an article that came out two days after she assumed presidential powers. It claimed the CIA viewed Delcy as the best-positioned short-term successor to President Maduro. The intention is to make us think the CIA has a special connection with her. In fact, by this time, she was already interim president, and Washington saw it could do nothi…

Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-01-08T08:14:24Z
subject: Anwar Ibrahim
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subject: Kim Dong-yub
subject: Kim Jong-un
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description: Once done, it remains, by nature and fact, irreversible. The precedent of indicting and abducting a serving head of state and his spouse, dropping them into the jurisdiction of another country to face criminal charges of inventive pedigree (narcoterrorism foremost among them), is the stuff of nightmares in international statecraft. With the now former Venezuelan […] The post Kidnapping Blues: The Maduro Abduction Precedent first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Once done, it remains, by nature and fact, irreversible. The precedent of indicting and abducting a serving head of state and his spouse, dropping them into the jurisdiction of another country to face criminal charges of inventive pedigree (narcoterrorism foremost among them), is the stuff of nightmares in international statecraft. With the now former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores facing such charges in New York, other world leaders are doubtless feeling a prevailing gloom. Is there anything stopping US President Donald Trump from deploying the US military and law enforcement agents from nabbing the next sitting leader in the middle of the night? Even more broadly, is there anything stopping other States from doing the same? This is something that has excited discussion in various political quarters, notably in East and Southeast Asia. Regarding the sullen, fleshy North Korean despot, Kim Jong-Un, the question is a pressing one. Certain lawmakers certainly think so. South Korean Rep. Lee Jun-seok, leader of the Reform Party, noted the brazen indifference the Trump administration had taken to renaming Maduro as a “leader of a transnational crime ring” instead of accepting him as a legitimate head of state. “The logic applied to President Maduro could also be applied to the North Korean leader,” reasoned Lee on Facebook. The US Justice Department had, after all, indicted North Korean hackers in 2021, using rather hyperbolic language in describing them as the “world’s leading bank robbers”. The former mayor of Daegu, Hong Joon-pyo, was similarly confident that the North Korean leader “must have been startled by this.” Here, we were witnessing “a return to the logic of power and the era of imperialism”. That said, the tendency of brutish US power to apprehend and dispose of sovereign heads of state, was not spanking, new exercise. “There was the invasion of Panama in 1989, the arrest of [Manuel] Noriega in 1990, and the United States has …

Photographer duo Guzman (Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock) on learning to see your work objectively
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creator: Annie Bielski
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description: I recently attempted to get a lamp rewired, and the repair guy said it actually worked fine, and “you’d be surprised how many people just have two bad light bulbs lying around.” I keep thinking about that specific insight and wondering what I know. Do you feel like you have some insight about people based on the nature of your work?
encoded: I recently attempted to get a lamp rewired, and the repair guy said it actually worked fine, and “you’d be surprised how many people just have two bad light bulbs lying around.” I keep thinking about that specific insight and wondering what I know. Do you feel like you have some insight about people based on the nature of your work? Russell: Insight into the human condition? Yes. Russell: Gee, you’re going to make us think. Constance: You know what? I’d say in a lot of ways we’re voyeurs, and so we’re always watching how people react to certain things. It’s like a visual dialogue rather than writing it down. So yeah, we do think about what’s going on in a sly way. A lot of times we maybe add little bits of it into our work. It’s ambiguous, but it’s in there. Ozzy Westside Highway Ozzy and Kelly Collaboration is a significant part of your life and work together. Has your approach changed over the years? Russell: When we first started, we both took pictures. We took turns kind of alternating, not every other shot, but it would vary. We did that for a while until about the year 2000. And then I stopped taking pictures totally, and Connie just took the pictures and I would kind of be around putting my two cents in. So that’s the biggest shift in approach. And then within that, things change. Constance: We don’t really think about it. If someone has to climb a tree, go under water, I’m like, “Hey, Russell, you want to do that?” It’s not so regulated, it’s just that he likes to stand right there and he has a dialogue with the person. He makes suggestions, and I think it works out really well. In other words, I feel that we kind of know when the right moment is, and we work at it by playing with the person. In the beginning, we wouldn’t really know who was going to take the picture sometimes, or the picture could end up being from the side, a different angle. Russell: The other thing I was just thinking about, is when both people are taking the picture, it’s kind of like a…

Jonathan Cook: From Gaza to Venezuela, the US has been unmasked as the serial villain
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description: The path to Caracas — and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed– was paved in Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook For decades, the United States and Israel have stuck closely to their respective, scripted roles in the Middle East: the job of good cop
encoded: The path to Caracas — and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed– was paved in Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook For decades, the United States and Israel have stuck closely to their respective, scripted roles in the Middle East: the job of good cop and bad cop. The charade has continued despite Washington’s active participation in Israel’s 25-month slaughter of Gaza’s people — and a dawning realisation among ever-larger sections of Western publics that they have been duped. Here is my first prediction of 2026: this law enforcement role-playing is going to continue even after the Trump administration’s outrageously illegal abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, at the weekend, and Trump’s admission that the US attack was about grabbing the country’s oil. READ MORE: Venezuela attack, Greenland threats and Gaza assault mark the collapse of international legal order The path to Caracas — and potentially next to Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Greenland and Canada, other targets of Donald Trump’s greed — was paved in Gaza. It is worth standing back, as one year ends and another begins, to consider how we got here, and what lies ahead. The central conceit of the good cop, bad cop narrative is that both the US and Israel are the ones upholding the law and fighting the criminals. Unlike the Hollywood version, neither of these real-world cops is in any way good. But there is a further difference: the spectacle is not intended for those the pair confront. After all, the Palestinians know only too well that they have been suffering for decades under the boot of a lawless, joint US-Israeli criminal enterprise. No, the intended audience are the onlookers: Western publics. Ban on aid groups The US “honest broker” myth should have perished long ago. But somehow it persists, despite the evidence endlessly discrediting it. And that is because Western capitals and Western media keep propping the myth…

‘An extraordinary, charismatic man’: Sir Tim Shadbolt dies at 78
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date: 2026-01-08T07:30:49Z
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description: RNZ News New Zealand former Invercargill and Waitematā mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt died today. He was 78. Sir Tim, who was awarded the Knight Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List, served eight terms as Invercargill Mayor between 1993 and 1995, and again between 1998-2022, and two terms
encoded: RNZ News New Zealand former Invercargill and Waitematā mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt died today. He was 78. Sir Tim, who was awarded the Knight Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List, served eight terms as Invercargill Mayor between 1993 and 1995, and again between 1998-2022, and two terms as Waitematā (Auckland) Mayor, between 1983 and 1989, making him one of the longest-serving mayors in New Zealand. “Today we lost the cornerstone of our family and the man who has devoted himself to promoting the City of Invercargill for almost 30 years,” the mayor’s partner of many decades, Asha Dutt, said in a statement on behalf of the family. READ MORE: ‘Our hearts are broken’: Tim Shadbolt dies “Tim was a kind-hearted man who cared deeply about the people around him. He was a champion for the underdog and an active political campaigner from his student days of anti-war protest, his activism for Māori rights, and his fight to keep the Southern Institute of Technology and Zero Fees autonomous. “Tim will be remembered with gratitude, respect, and affection for his commitment to the south and his passion for life. The citizens of Invercargill can be proud of the enormous legacy he leaves.” Invercargill Mayor Tom Campbell told RNZ he was saddened by the news of Sir Tim’s passing. “He was an extraordinary, charismatic man. On the surface he was a bit of a joker and a bit of a showman. But also a profoundly capable person. ‘Beloved by Invercargill’ “He is beloved by the people of Invercargill and they’re going to be deeply affected by his death.” The longstanding local leader was responsible for amplifying the city’s profile, not just around New Zealand, but offshore, Campbell said. “You went anywhere in this country, you go into a taxi, the taxi driver says: ‘where do you come from?’ you say: ‘Invercargill’. They say ‘Sir Tim Shadbolt’. “You could go to London and the same thing happened. You could go to Melbourne and the same thing happened. “He was e…

The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient
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creator: Vijay Prashad – Carlos Ron
date: 2026-01-08T07:05:58Z
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description: As dawn broke on 3 January and the stench of bombs lingered in the air, the population was both alarmed and shocked. It is important to emphasise that the 2003 Operation Shock and Awe bombing campaign in Iraq was dwarfed by the bombing of Operation Absolute Resolve (2026) against Venezuela. The bombs were way more powerful, and the weapons systems far more sophisticated and overwhelming. Yet it did not take long for people to take to the streets. A spontaneous open-mic outside the Presidential Palace of Miraflores drew crowds to speak out against the attack on their country. Most speakers spoke passionately with great feeling about the Bolivarian process. They understood that this attack was against their sovereignty, and-more significantly–that this was an attack on behalf of the Venezuela’s old oligarchy and US oil conglomerates. Their clarity was striking, yet corporate media ignored this coverage. More The post The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Outscooped By Trump: The Strike on Nigeria’s Real Target Was Venezuela
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creator: Walden Bello
date: 2026-01-08T06:57:50Z
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description: Trump’s kidnapping of Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it immediately, not only to get the story out first but to warn the world if it’s about something bad that might be coming. Shortly after Trump bombed Nigeria on Christmas day, I wrote a piece More The post Outscooped By Trump: The Strike on Nigeria’s Real Target Was Venezuela appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The USA Today: a Derangement Threatening the World
type: item
creator: Chandran Nair
date: 2026-01-08T06:53:38Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: derangement
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: threatening
subject: today
subject: usa
subject: World
description: Hong Kong. People around the world walked into 2026 carrying a fragile hope that this year would be better than 2025 and 2024, years defined by the horrific genocide in Gaza. After two years marked by genocide, the collapse of moral restraint, and the reckless shredding of international law, there was a quiet desire to believe that More The post The USA Today: a Derangement Threatening the World appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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A Lawless Regime
type: item
creator: Jacob G. Hornberger
date: 2026-01-08T06:52:39Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Lawless
subject: regime
subject: sources
description: There are, of course, many interesting aspects of the Trump regime’s illegal and deadly intervention in Venezuela: 1. The mainstream press’s reaction to the operation, at least in comparison to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is interesting. After the latter invasion, all we heard was “Aggression! Aggression! Aggression! Russia is threatening the world with its aggression!” More The post A Lawless Regime appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Shakespeare, Kissinger and Bardot
type: item
creator: Robert Fantina
date: 2026-01-08T06:52:14Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: bardot
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: kissinger
subject: shakespeare
subject: sources
description: In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Mark Antony says the following at Caesar’s funeral: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”. This suggests that, after a person dies, anything good they did in their life is forgotten, but their mistakes or ‘evil’ actions, are remembered. It More The post Shakespeare, Kissinger and Bardot appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Dear Americans, You Live in an Evil Empire
type: item
creator: Kenn Orphan
date: 2026-01-08T06:52:05Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: americans:
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: dear
subject: Empire
subject: evil
subject: live
subject: sources
subject: you
description: Since the Trump regime’s recent assault on Venezuela, a lot of Americans have been talking more about the nature of their country. This is significant because most Americans have been conditioned to see their nation as both a democracy and a superpower. But the two cannot exist simultaneously. These concepts are polar opposites. Yet, this More The post Dear Americans, You Live in an Evil Empire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Centrality of the Global South: A History
type: item
creator: Ron Jacobs
date: 2026-01-08T06:51:28Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: centrality
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Global
subject: History
subject: sources
subject: south
subject: the
description: The recent military attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife make it clear once again that the people of what we currently call the Global South need a planetary anti-imperialist solidarity to live uncolonized in a capitalist world. Without that solidarity, their very lives are subject to the quest for More The post The Centrality of the Global South: A History appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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On the Language of Global Politics
type: item
creator: Jonah Raskin
date: 2026-01-08T06:48:07Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Global
subject: Language
subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: the
description: Years ago, when I used the words “colonialism” and “imperialism” in academia in the U.S., I was viewed as a communist. Now, in the wake of the US assault on Venezuela, I see that those two words are back again, along with “gunboat diplomacy” and “the Monroe Doctrine,” also known now as the “Donroe Doctrine.” More The post On the Language of Global Politics appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Bringing Gaza Home to Middle America’s Flyover Country
type: item
creator: Mike Ferner
date: 2026-01-08T06:45:03Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: america’s
subject: articles 2015
subject: bringing
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: country
subject: Flyover
subject: gaza
subject: home
subject: middle
subject: sources
description: Will a jury in Middle America’s flyover country care enough about the genocide in Gaza to acquit 4 protesters arrested for nonviolent civil resistance? Will it matter once they’ve seen “Bringing Gaza Home?” That’s the question eight jurors will decide in Toledo a few weeks from now when they hear from four activists arrested October More The post Bringing Gaza Home to Middle America’s Flyover Country appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Pax Americana, Trump-Style
type: item
creator: Edward Hunt
date: 2026-01-08T06:40:49Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: americana
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: pax
subject: sources
subject: trump-style
description: Establishment officials in Europe and the United States are shedding longstanding norms of empire denial by taking positions on what the Trump administration’s foreign policy means for the future of Pax Americana. Since former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and longtime architect of American empire Ivo Daalder declared “the end of Pax Americana” after the 2024 More The post Pax Americana, Trump-Style appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Walz Pulls Out: Score Another Another One for Racism, Coupled with Democratic Party and Media Ineptitude
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description: Simple question folks: how much money was stolen in the fraud hyped by Republicans and media clown Nick Shirley? My guess is that if we did a poll of highly knowledgeable people, those who regularly follow the news closely, we would get a range of answers from less than $1 billion to $20 billion. Who More The post Walz Pulls Out: Score Another Another One for Racism, Coupled with Democratic Party and Media Ineptitude appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396434" class="size-medium wp-image-396434" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tim_Walz_Jesse_Ventura_cannabis_bill-680x454.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="454" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tim_Walz_Jesse_Ventura_cannabis_bill-680x454.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tim_Walz_Jesse_Ventura_cannabis_bill-943x630.jpg 943w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tim_Walz_Jesse_Ventura_cannabis_bill-768x513.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tim_Walz_Jesse_Ventura_cannabis_bill-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tim_Walz_Jesse_Ventura_cannabis_bill-500x334.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tim_Walz_Jesse_Ventura_cannabis_bill-600x401.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tim_Walz_Jesse_Ventura_cannabis_bill.jpg 1616w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph Source: Office of Governor Tim Walz & Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan – Public Domain Simple question folks: how much money was stolen in the fraud hyped by Republicans and media clown Nick Shirley? My guess is that if we did a poll of highly knowledgeable people, those who regularly follow the news closely, we would get a range of answers from less than $1 billion to $20 billion. Who knows where we would end up with the larger public? Trump and some of the MAGA crew might even throw out numbers in the trillions. I’m not picking on people’s ignorance. The point is whether or not this should have been a career-ending scandal for Tim Walz absolutely depends on the number. There will always be fraud in any government social program, just like there is some level of fraud in everything in the private sector. The question must always be how much? Sometimes even high levels of fraud are apparently tol…

Humanitarianism is the Warmest Place to Hide
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description: Zohran Mamdani’s promise to bring “the resurgent flame of hope” to “the January chill” as mayor of a literally frozen New York City during his January 1 inaugural address got the cold shoulder from conservative commentators. Despite his vow to move the city to unity past “a tale of two cities, the rich versus the More The post Humanitarianism is the Warmest Place to Hide appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-385925" class="size-medium wp-image-385925" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4581-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4581-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4581-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4581-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4581-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4581-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4581-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4581-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Zohran Mamdani’s promise to bring “the resurgent flame of hope” to “the January chill” as mayor of a literally frozen New York City during his January 1 inaugural address got the cold shoulder from conservative commentators. Despite his vow to move the city to unity past “a tale of two cities, the rich versus the poor” and highlighting constituents “who supported President Trump a year before they voted for me,” some just aren’t buying Mamdani’s narrative. At most, reactions to lines such as the pledge to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” in City Journal or the Wall Street Journal don’t go quite as far as National Review’s Noah Rothman in invoking “the warmth generated by torchlit marches, book burnings, and crematoria.” Yet those red-baiting Mamdani’s “Red Apple” could stand to scratch the surface and see how much the gilded apple of Trump Tower pokes through — and not just because he won’t be able to “deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few” if those fat cats pull up stakes. Mamdani at least acknowledg…

Threnody (for the people of Gaza)
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creator: John Snider
date: 2026-01-08T05:27:17Z
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description: “We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer “In those years only the dead smiled, glad to be at rest.” – Anna Akhmatova “Requiem” Now the winds blow fair A wedding feast of blood Cities sacked, crops despoiled The endless drone of clever and evil men faceless and already dead A dawn More The post Threnody (for the people of Gaza) appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: “We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer “In those years only the dead smiled, glad to be at rest.” – Anna Akhmatova “Requiem” Now the winds blow fair A wedding feast of blood Cities sacked, crops despoiled The endless drone of clever and evil men faceless and already dead A dawn without light A blank sky, an indifferent sea The cries of mothers, always and only mothers Their cries freeze the air Children set aflame, walking towards us Embraces we scorn Quiet moments we explode Silencing the song of birds Invocations we ignore from the rising of the wind, the rivers, the forest A funeral pyre in all lands What words will answer for the children? The one torn to pieces The one starving The one beneath the rubble The one violated Who will say no? Who will cast the demons out? Blood will not wash away blood Where will the ashes fall? What days will become night? Cattle, children, sheep, infants Men, donkeys, camels, women Amalekites all What desperate tinkering will shape the final machine? The one to replace the forest and the sea Blind physicians, drunken priests, and mad prophets All conjuring augeries of stone Their ears stuffed with wax The world does not speak to us Who will place one stone upon another? And speak the name of a single child in the city where we dropped the sun? Who will let their words join the land efficacious and true? The post Threnody (for the people of Gaza) appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by John Snider.

Evolving Beyond cynicism
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creator: Robert Koehler
date: 2026-01-08T05:08:25Z
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description: Oh good. Now we have a war to focus on. Everyone’s tired of Epstein by now, and tired of the possibility that the bad guy may be, ho hum, our own national leader, a.k.a., the commander-in-chief. So the commander-in-chief has stepped in for the sake of the public good, bestowing on America a far more More The post Evolving Beyond cynicism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Oh good. Now we have a war to focus on. Everyone’s tired of Epstein by now, and tired of the possibility that the bad guy may be, ho hum, our own national leader, a.k.a., the commander-in-chief. So the commander-in-chief has stepped in for the sake of the public good, bestowing on America a far more traditional enemy to hate and fear and let dominate the headlines: narco-terrorists. I’m still trying to grasp the fact that Donald Trump has actually invaded Venezuela. He’s no longer simply bombing boats in the ocean. The U.S. military bombed Caracas on Jan. 3 and broke into the home of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. They were kidnapped and extradited to the United States, where they are now on trial for drug trafficking – as though that was the moral purpose of the invasion. Obviously it wasn’t. As The Intercept notes: “This is a clear-cut act of military aggression, a brazen violation of international law, and a textbook example of unreconstructed 19th-century colonialism. “Donald Trump now says that the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela and ‘take’ the country’s vast oil reserves.” I’m in sync with the enormous outrage over this invasion, both here in the U.S. and around the world. Where I back away slightly, however, is when a critic points out that Trump’s military action was “illegal,” because he invaded Venezuela without congressional approval. When I read this kind of criticism, I feel an inner alarm go off. Making a war “legal” doesn’t make it just or moral. Legal wars still kill and maim innocent people, still destroy communities, still create intense hatred that guarantees future wars. In other words, war itself is always the core of the wrong. In no way am I saying I oppose self-defense, or even retaliation. I’m saying, instead, that I believe we need to rethink what self-defense actually means. What, oh what, is power? We live in a world that is armed against itself with preposterous enormity – nuclear-armed against itself, for …

Venezuela Is the Linchpin of a Radical Left
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creator: Ajamu Baraka
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description: Palestine is the moral heart of global anti-colonial politics. It exposes the brutality of settler colonialism in its most naked form: land theft, ethnic cleansing, military occupation, and white supremacist domination. For many on the left, solidarity with Palestine has become a defining ethical commitment. But while Palestine functions as a moral litmus test for More The post Venezuela Is the Linchpin of a Radical Left appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Palestine is the moral heart of global anti-colonial politics. It exposes the brutality of settler colonialism in its most naked form: land theft, ethnic cleansing, military occupation, and white supremacist domination. For many on the left, solidarity with Palestine has become a defining ethical commitment. But while Palestine functions as a moral litmus test for individuals and organizations across the political terrain from left to right, Venezuela is a structural and political one. Recent events in Venezuela have dramatically escalated the stakes of anti-imperialist politics in a way that cannot be ignored. On January 3, 2026, the United States launched a large-scale military operation with the objective of kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and transporting them back to the United States to face federal charges. This marks a decisive escalation in the forms of subversion and interventionist tactics that have characterized U.S. interventions in recent decades. It also became a game-changer for radical politics inside the empire. The turn toward overt military force and the forcible removal of a sitting head of state signals a return to the raw practice of colonial domination — a form of power not seen so explicitly since the 2004 removal of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by the George W. Bush administration. The Empire has dropped the mask. The question now is whether the left will continue to speak in the language of “liberal critique” and “class collaboration,” or whether it will finally confront bipartisan-supported imperial power in its most direct and unapologetic form. Venezuela is the issue where anti-imperialism stops being a slogan and becomes a confrontation with one’s own state. It is therefore also the issue where U.S.-based radicals should unapologetically affirm Venezuela’s right to self-determination and openly oppose the U.S. imperial project in Venezuela. If they are not prepared to do this, it demonstrates une…

Photos of attack on Palestine activist’s property ‘censored’ by Facebook
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date: 2026-01-08T04:50:23Z
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description: COMMENTARY: By Saige England What happened at New Zealand human rights campaigner John Minto’s home? Let me tell you. Let me tell you that he wrote about it and Facebook took it down. Yep. Wrong after wrong. Minto, national co-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) advocacy and protest group, has been arrested at
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Saige England What happened at New Zealand human rights campaigner John Minto’s home? Let me tell you. Let me tell you that he wrote about it and Facebook took it down. Yep. Wrong after wrong. Minto, national co-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) advocacy and protest group, has been arrested at least 23 times for standing against racism. READ MORE: Prominent activist targeted in ‘pathetic’ attack on property Facebook censorship on West Papua – then deafening silence Other reports on the Gaza genocide A couple of nights ago two Palestinian flags were stolen from the Christchurch Ōtautahi home of John and his partner, Bronwen. “Nazi scum” was spray-painted in large letters on his footpath. The sign “make poverty history” ripped off the fence and the Te Tiriti sign spray-painted. But John, who has been a leader in New Zealand protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza which has killed at least 71,000 people since October 2023, has been unable to report this because Facebook removed his original post about this crime. Why? Because white supremacists and their allies want to win this round, their complaints are supported by oppressive social media mechanisms. Human rights are under threat. A genocide in Gaza is supported by our New Zealand government. Propaganda is rife. And the Treaty that represents partnership, that should uphold the rights of the tangata whenua is being pushed to the gutter. And speaking of gutter. Here you see it. People who feel entitled to storm private property and tear down signs that stand against extermination and exile. Facebook is blocking shares about the details about the vandalism. Censorship! To thwart the censorship, share this commentary if you wish to share the truth and disempower those who want supreme power. Saige England is an award-winning journalist and author of The Seasonwife, a novel exploring the brutal impacts of colonisation. She is also a contributor to Asia Pacific Report. Republishe…

AS BATUCADEIRAS DAS OLAIAS (Lisbon, 2025)
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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This Isn’t the First Killing By ICE — And It Won’t Be the Last #politics #trump
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‘Straight-up piracy and extortion’: Trump says he will control money from sale of Venezuelan oil
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date: 2026-01-07T23:21:20Z
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description: By Jake Johnson US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela’s interim leadership will turn over to the United States as many as 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to be sold at market price, part of a broader, unlawful administration effort to seize the South American nation’s natural resources. Trump, who authorised the illegal
encoded: By Jake Johnson US President Donald Trump has claimed that Venezuela’s interim leadership will turn over to the United States as many as 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to be sold at market price, part of a broader, unlawful administration effort to seize the South American nation’s natural resources. Trump, who authorised the illegal US bombing of Venezuela and abduction of its president this past weekend, said he would control the proceeds of the sale — which could amount to $3 billion. “Just straight-up piracy and extortion from the US president,” Zeteo journalist and publisher Mehdi Hasan wrote in response. READ MORE: Sanctioned oil tanker falsely using Cook Islands flag, authority says ‘Anywhere in the world’: US seizes Venezuela-linked Russian oil tanker Other Venezuela invasion reports Consistent with his administration’s conduct since the weekend attack that killed at least 75 people in Venezuela, Trump provided few details on how his scheme would work or how it would comply with domestic and international law, both of which the president has repeatedly disregarded and treated with contempt. Where are our humane profiles of the families of these murder victims? Where are the calls being amplified in the media to “Free the Hostages”? As we all know by now, not all lives matter. “State funeral in Venezuela to bury the 80 people murdered by American troops who… https://t.co/FXSyujFdcx — Peter Cronau (@PeterCronau) January 7, 2026 It is also not clear that Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s acting president and an ally of Nicolás Maduro, has agreed to Trump’s plan, which he announced on social media as his administration worked to entice US oil giants to take part in its effort to exploit the South American nation’s vast reserves. Ahead of the US attack on Venezuela, the Trump administration imposed a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers approaching or leaving Venezuela, pushing the country closer to economic collapse. The New York Times noted yesterday that Trump’…

‘Is It Worth Running a Race Where the Prize Is Some Dystopian Future?’: CounterSpin interview with Mitch Jones on AI vs. environment
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creator: Janine Jackson
date: 2026-01-07T22:32:06Z
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description: "All of the changes that happen economically that are going to harm the most of us and enrich a few of the others are sold to us as inevitable."
encoded: Janine Jackson interviewed Food and Water Watch’s Mitch Jones about artificial intelligence versus the environment for the December 19, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251219Jones.mp3 Common Dreams (12/8/25) Janine Jackson: Imagine that a nascent industry says they’re going to take wide swaths of local communities to build production sites—even if that means commandeering tremendous amounts of natural resources, and even if it means working against the communities involved that have explicitly said they don’t want it. Oh, but wait—what if the product is AI, or crypto? Would that make it somehow different, and future-y? That sort of confusion seems to be what proponents of data centers across the country are counting on, with an assist from corporate news media susceptible to a “gee whiz” approach to any new (corporate-induced) technology that tends to push precautionary principles to the back pages—or, at best, below the fold. A range of environmental and economic justice groups are speaking out right now. A letter signed by more than 200 groups was delivered to Congress, calling for an end to what is described as “one of the biggest environmental and social threats of our generation.” The coalition is spearheaded by Food and Water Watch, and we’re joined now by Mitch Jones, deputy director at Food and Water Watch, as well as their managing director of policy and litigation. He joins us now by phone from Baltimore. Welcome back to CounterSpin, Mitch Jones. Mitch Jones: Thank you, Janine. It’s always great to be with you. JJ: I know that many people have long had critical eyes on this, but I still believe that, for a lot of people, “data center” is kind of a vague, science-y thing that happens in a lab, and however you might think about it existentially, it’s not bread and butter. So it seems important to make clear we aren’t talking about computer chip…

Sanctioned oil tanker falsely using Cook Islands flag, authority says
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date: 2026-01-07T21:33:11Z
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subject: Oil shipping
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description: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The Cook Islands Maritime Authority says a US-sanctioned oil tanker is falsely using Cook Islands identifiers to evade capture. The Bertha, which flew under the Cooks flag for almost nine months in 2024, is among at least 16 vessels that have reportedly attempted to evade US blockades in Venezuela.
encoded: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The Cook Islands Maritime Authority says a US-sanctioned oil tanker is falsely using Cook Islands identifiers to evade capture. The Bertha, which flew under the Cooks flag for almost nine months in 2024, is among at least 16 vessels that have reportedly attempted to evade US blockades in Venezuela. The New York Times reported the Bertha, under the false name of Ekta, had reportedly been located by US authorities in the Caribbean, but had yet to be captured. READ MORE: ‘Anywhere in the world’: US seizes Venezuela-linked Russian oil tanker Others have either been captured, or have “spoofed” (turned off) their signals to evade tracking, The NYT reported. A major American naval blockade on Venezuela’s energy exports was introduced last month. The Bertha was sanctioned for transportation of Iranian crude oil in December 2024, less than a month after it was deregistered by Maritime Cook Islands in November. “It appears that Bertha is continuing to use Cook Islands identifiers (MMSI 518999103 and Call Sign E5U5084) in her Automatic Identification System (AIS) transmissions.” the authority said in a statement today. Deceptive practice This deceptive practice enables the vessel to show falsely as being registered with the Cook Islands on commercial tracking platforms.” Numerous Cooks-flagged ships have been identified with Russia’s “shadow fleet” of vessels illicitly trading in Russian and Iranian crude oil. Maritime Cook Islands said vessels within the “shadow fleet” are usually deceptive in their location signalling through Automatic Identification System (AIS) transmissions. This typically includes spoofing locations and broadcasting false vessel identities. MarineTraffic.com, which lists the Bertha under the Cooks flag, reported the vessels last location near the Gulf of Guinea on December 23. The Cook Islands Maritime Authority has been approached for further comment. This article is republished under a community partnership agreeme…

De-ICEing the Big Easy (documentary report)
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creator: Michael Nigro
date: 2026-01-07T20:41:17Z
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"Greenland is not for sale": Inuit activist says Greenland must be independent
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Video Shows ICE Agent’s Fatal Shooting of Civilian in Minneapolis
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‘ICE should leave now’: Community fury in Minneapolis after deadly shooting by federal agent
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“Step in the Right Direction”: Connecticut DMV Commissioner Calls for More Reforms to State Towing Law to Protect Drivers
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description: The post “Step in the Right Direction”: Connecticut DMV Commissioner Calls for More Reforms to State Towing Law to Protect Drivers appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Despite a slew of reforms enacted last year to rein in the practices of towing companies, more needs to be done to protect consumers whose cars face removal and possible sale, the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles said Tuesday. DMV Commissioner Tony Guerrera laid out five recommendations he plans to make for the legislature to consider during its session that begins in February. The recommendations follow a Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica investigation that exposed how state law for decades favored towing companies at the expense of low-income consumers. They also follow months of meetings with a group of industry and consumer representatives. The recommendations would require towing companies to make more effort to notify owners that their cars have been towed and streamline the process by which the firms can sell unclaimed vehicles. The commissioner announced his proposal at the last scheduled meeting of a working group of towing and consumer representatives. The group was created as part of a towing reform law passed last year after the news organizations showed how towing companies were seeking the DMV’s permission to sell some cars after as little as 15 days, one of the shortest time frames in the country. Many low-income residents were towed for minor violations, sometimes from their own apartment complexes, only to lose their cars when they couldn’t afford to get them back before they were sold. If the legislature adopts the recommendations, towing companies would no longer place values on vehicles that they tow, which now determines whether a tower can start the sales process in 15 days or 45 days. Instead, all cars would be sold at a public auction after 30 days, Guerrera said. Other recommendations include requiring towing companies to send two letters to the registered owner of the vehicle after it’s towed, one certified and one not. If the car isn’t claimed, towers would have to send a third letter to the owner after 30 days …

ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis; US seizes Venezuela-linked oil tankers, including Russia-flagged vessel – January 7, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Deck of oil tanker, image by Hervé Cozanet ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis, Trump administration claims domestic terrorism, Mayor Frey calls justification “garbage”; US seizes Venezuela-linked oil tankers, calls plan to sell seized oil “leverage”, Dems call it “insanity”; On 1-year anniversary of LA wildfires, survivors still awaiting federal aid as they deal with toxic contamination; Protesters in Lafayette gather to mark 5th anniversary of January 6th capitol insurrection The post ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis; US seizes Venezuela-linked oil tankers, including Russia-flagged vessel – January 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis, Trump administration claims domestic terrorism, Mayor Frey calls justification “garbage”; US seizes Venezuela-linked oil tankers, calls plan to sell seized oil “leverage”, Dems call it “insanity”; On 1-year anniversary of LA wildfires, survivors still awaiting federal aid as they deal with toxic contamination; Protesters in Lafayette gather to mark 5th anniversary of January 6th capitol insurrection The post ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis; US seizes Venezuela-linked oil tankers, including Russia-flagged vessel – January 7, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

Without Water, We Are Nothing.
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-01-07T17:24:20Z
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2025’s L.A. fires are preview of the future: Jacob Soboroff
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-07T17:15:31Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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The Zionist billionaire behind Venezuelan oil theft
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-01-07T17:05:17Z
subject: Sources
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subject: theft
subject: venezuelan
subject: zionist”
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Alarming Statistics Reveal High Rates of Illiteracy Among US Adults
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creator: Kate Horgan
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description: In 2024, the National Literacy Institute found that 79 percent of US adults were literate, but only 46 percent could read above a sixth-grade level. Literacy is the ability to read and write, and generally also involves critical thinking and analysis s...
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Pornography a Primary Sex-Information Source for Many Young Britons, Study Finds
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-01-07T16:40:05Z
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description: Although many people think of pornography consumption as a harmless form of entertainment, research shows that regular consumption can have negative impacts on the brain. The conclusions of this research become all the more concerning in light of a new...
encoded: Although many people think of pornography consumption as a harmless form of entertainment, research shows that regular consumption can have negative impacts on the brain. The conclusions of this research become all the more concerning in light of a new finding about the prevalence and influence of pornography consumption. In… The post Pornography a Primary Sex-Information Source for Many Young Britons, Study Finds appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

UN News Today 07 January 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-01-07T16:35:35Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
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description: West Bank emergency: Israeli must end ‘apartheid’-like system, says UN Human Rights chief Volker TürkUkraine: The deadly reality of delivering aid in a war zoneUganda elections must be free and fair, insist independent rights experts
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"Firestorm": MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & "America’s New Age of Disaster"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-07T15:49:39Z
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Trump’s Plan to Seize Greenland Would "Militarize the Arctic," Trample Indigenous Rights
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-07T15:48:34Z
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"This Is Our Hemisphere": Report from Colombia on Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-07T15:47:09Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 7, 2026
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Day 9 of Protests in Iran
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creator: Faramarz Farbod
date: 2026-01-07T15:30:30Z
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description: DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod joined AnewZ.tv (Baku, Azerbaijan) on the 9th day of protests in Iran to discuss the evolving situation. The post Day 9 of Protests in Iran first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Searching for Gaza’s lost people
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date: 2026-01-07T15:21:12Z
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Canada Cites Democracy to Support Trump’s Coup in Venezuela
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creator: Yves Engler
date: 2026-01-07T15:00:37Z
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description: As part of justifying Donald Trump’s crass imperial aggression in Venezuela, Canadian officials have taken up the mantra of “democracy”. In one post on the weekend Mark Carney opined about “the democratic will of the Venezuelan people” while in a follow-up statement the prime minister boasted that “Canada has not recognised the illegitimate regime of […] The post Canada Cites Democracy to Support Trump’s Coup in Venezuela first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: As part of justifying Donald Trump’s crass imperial aggression in Venezuela, Canadian officials have taken up the mantra of “democracy”. In one post on the weekend Mark Carney opined about “the democratic will of the Venezuelan people” while in a follow-up statement the prime minister boasted that “Canada has not recognised the illegitimate regime of Maduro since it stole the 2018 election.” But Canadian hostility to the independent, socialist minded government dates to a time when no credible observer questioned the government’s electoral legitimacy. Ottawa has been hostile to the Venezuelan government for over two decades. The Jean Chretien government wasn’t overly concerned about democracy in April 2002 when the military took President Hugo Chavez prisoner and imposed an unelected government. Ottawa passively supported a coup, which lasted only 48 hours before popular demonstrations, a split within the army and international condemnation returned Chavez. While most Latin American leaders condemned the coup, Canadian diplomats were silent. “In the Venezuelan coup in 2002, Canada maintained a low profile, probably because it was sensitive to the United States ambivalence towards Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez,” writes Flavie Major in Promoting Democracy in the Americas. Taking up his post three months after the coup, Canada’s ambassador to Venezuela, Allan Culham was hostile to Chávez. According to a WikiLeaks publication of US diplomatic messages, “Canadian Ambassador Culham expressed surprise at the tone of Chavez’s statements during his weekly television and radio show ‘Hello President’ on February 15 [2004]. Culham observed that Chavez’s rhetoric was as tough as he had ever heard him. ‘He sounded like a bully,’ said Culham, more intransigent and more aggressive.” The US cable quoted Culham criticizing the national electoral council and speaking positively about the group overseeing a presidential recall referendum targeting Chavez. “Culham added that Súmate i…

The Reality of a Broken Congress
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Why Silicon Valley Is Backing Away from UBI
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“Firestorm”: MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & “America’s New Age of Disaster”
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description: We speak with journalist Jacob Soboroff about his new book and ongoing reporting about the Los Angeles fires one year ago, when destructive infernos razed entire neighborhoods, killing 30 people and displacing over 100,000 more. The book Fires...
encoded: We speak with journalist Jacob Soboroff about his new book and ongoing reporting about the Los Angeles fires one year ago, when destructive infernos razed entire neighborhoods, killing 30 people and displacing over 100,000 more. The book Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster provides a detailed look at how the fires unfolded, the emergency efforts and the political response. Soboroff, who grew up in the area, describes seeing the charred remains of his own childhood home while misinformation from Donald Trump, Elon Musk and other powerful figures was “pouring rhetorical fuel on the flames of the very real fire.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump’s Plan to Seize Greenland Would “Militarize the Arctic,” Trample Indigenous Rights
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date: 2026-01-07T13:29:21Z
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description: Following the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the Trump administration has renewed its campaign to take over Greenland, which has been controlled by Denmark for more than 300 years. The White House says it’s considering “a range of optio...
encoded: Following the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the Trump administration has renewed its campaign to take over Greenland, which has been controlled by Denmark for more than 300 years. The White House says it’s considering “a range of options,” including the use of military force. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that if the U.S. were to attack Greenland, it would spell the end of NATO. “Greenland is not up for sale,” says Aaju Peter, a Greenlandic Inuit activist and attorney, who says Indigenous Greenlanders want their independence from both the U.S. and Denmark. We also speak with analyst Pavel Devyatkin, who says the U.S. is “acting like a rogue state” and enacting a policy of “pure imperialism.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

IÚRI OLIVEIRA (Lisbon, 2025)
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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“This Is Our Hemisphere”: Report from Colombia on Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region
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description: Following his attack on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has escalated his threats against Colombia and claimed without evidence that President Gustavo Petro is involved in cocaine trafficking. Trump and ot...
encoded: Following his attack on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has escalated his threats against Colombia and claimed without evidence that President Gustavo Petro is involved in cocaine trafficking. Trump and others in his administration have also threatened military action against Cuba, Greenland, Iran and Mexico in recent days. Manuel Rozental, a Colombian physician and activist with more than 40 years of involvement in grassroots political organizing, tells Democracy Now! that Trump’s attacks on Petro are lies. The former guerrilla “has seized more cocaine than any other government in the past,” says Rozental. “President Petro is not a drug trafficker. President Petro has been a victim of drug mafias and their allies.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for January 7, 2026
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description: Venezuela’s Military Announces 24 Security Officers Were Killed in U.S. Attack, Trump: Venezuela Will Give the U.S. Up to 50 Million Barrels of Oil, Secretary of State Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Wants to Buy Greenland, U.S. Pledges to Provide Ukraine with Security Guarantees for the First Time, Qatar Accuses Israel of “Political Blackmail” for Refusing to Reopen Rafah Crossing, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar Visits Somaliland, At Least 34 People Killed During Protests in Iran, ICE Arrests 150 People After DHS Surges 2,000 Agents to Minnesota, Trump Admin Slashes $10 Billion in Funding for Social Programs in Five Democratic-Led States, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Dissolve Itself, American Federation of Teachers Sues Texas Education Department for Probing Teachers’ Speech After Charlie Kirk’s Death, GOP Congressmember Doug LaMalfa of California Dies at 65, Trump Warns Democrats Will Impeach Him If Republicans Don’t Win Midterm Elections
encoded: Venezuela's Military Announces 24 Security Officers Were Killed in U.S. Attack Trump: Venezuela Will Give the U.S. Up to 50 Million Barrels of Oil Secretary of State Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Wants to Buy Greenland U.S. Pledges to Provide Ukraine with Security Guarantees for the First Time Qatar Accuses Israel of "Political Blackmail" for Refusing to Reopen Rafah Crossing Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar Visits Somaliland At Least 34 People Killed During Protests in Iran ICE Arrests 150 People After DHS Surges 2,000 Agents to Minnesota Trump Admin Slashes $10 Billion in Funding for Social Programs in Five Democratic-Led States The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Dissolve Itself American Federation of Teachers Sues Texas Education Department for Probing Teachers' Speech After Charlie Kirk's Death GOP Congressmember Doug LaMalfa of California Dies at 65 Trump Warns Democrats Will Impeach Him If Republicans Don't Win Midterm Elections This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-01-07 Wednesday
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Mobilizing Communities, Plant by Plant with Braiding Sweetgrass’ Robin Wall Kimmerer [episode cut]
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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In Iran, 27+ protesters and bystanders, including children, have been k_lled in just over a week
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Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules
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creator: Lisa Song
date: 2026-01-07T10:00:00Z
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description: The post Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Ethylene oxide was once considered an unremarkable pollutant. The colorless gas seeped from relatively few industrial facilities and commanded little public attention. All that changed in 2016, when the Environmental Protection Agency completed a study that found the chemical is 30 times more carcinogenic than previously thought. The agency then spent years updating regulations that protect millions of people who are most exposed to the compound. In 2024, the EPA approved stricter rules that require commercial sterilizers for medical equipment and large chemical plants to slash emissions of ethylene oxide, which causes lymphoma and breast cancer. It was doing what the EPA has done countless times: revising rules based on new scientific knowledge. Now, its ability to do that for many air pollutants is under threat. In government records that have flown under the radar, President Donald Trump’s EPA said it is reconsidering whether the agency had the legal authority to update those rules. Chemical companies and their trade organizations have argued that the EPA cannot reevaluate hazardous air pollution rules to account for newly discovered harms if it has revised them once already. It doesn’t matter if decades have passed or new information has emerged. If the EPA agrees, environmentalists fear that the decision could have wide implications, significantly curbing the EPA’s ability to limit nearly 200 pollutants from thousands of industrial plants. The next time new science reveals that a chemical is much more toxic, or that the amount of pollution released from a factory had been underestimated and would cause legally unacceptable health risks, the agency would not be able to react. “It’s a poor reflection on this administration’s claim that they are actually interested in clean air,” said Ana Baptista, a professor of environmental policy and sustainability management at The New School. “By saying we’re no longer going to consider science, it’s abdicating your mission.…

DN! Wednesday, January 7, 2026
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Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks
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date: 2026-01-07T09:30:00Z
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description: Public Health Watch chronicles a fossil-fuel infrastructure boom that could worsen air pollution in some areas and exacerbate climate change.
encoded: Let’s establish some baselines. Texas is responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than Saudi Arabia or the global maritime industry. Its oil, gas and petrochemical operations discharge tens of millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into the air each year, comprising almost one-fifth of such releases in the United States. It is the nation’s top emitter of the carcinogens benzene, ethylene oxide and 1,3-butadiene. It accounts for 75 percent of the petrochemicals made in the U.S. It is an engine of the world’s plastics industry, whose products clog oceans and landfills and, upon breaking down, infuse human bodies with potentially dangerous microplastics. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=2048 2048w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=640&h=853&crop=1 640w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=96&h=96&crop=1 96w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=150 150w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PHW-StoryMap-1.png?quality=75&strip=all 1024w" alt="A map of Texas petrochemical plants" data-caption="" data-cred…

Bryce Edwards: NZ’s craven stance on the US invasion of Venezuela
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description: ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, New Zealand responded with unusual speed. Sanctions followed. Condemnations were issued. The language was unambiguous. We were told this was about defending the “rules-based international order” — a phrase our politicians have grown remarkably fond of. Winston Peters has deployed it frequently in his time
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, New Zealand responded with unusual speed. Sanctions followed. Condemnations were issued. The language was unambiguous. We were told this was about defending the “rules-based international order” — a phrase our politicians have grown remarkably fond of. Winston Peters has deployed it frequently in his time as Foreign Minister. So where is that principled clarity now? READ MORE: Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry? Trump says Venezuela to hand over up to 50m barrels of oil to US Fact-checking Trump on promised US oil company investment in Venezuela US says military ‘always an option’ in Greenland as Europe rejects threats ‘I am still president of my country,’ kidnapped Nicolas Maduro tells US court On Saturday, the United States attacked the Venezuelan capital Caracas, seized President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and spirited them away to face charges in New York. President Donald Trump then declared that America would “run” Venezuela — including, he made abundantly clear, its oil reserves. He threatened the acting president with a fate “probably worse than Maduro” if she failed to cooperate. This is, by any reasonable definition, an invasion. An act of aggression against a sovereign state. A violation of Article Two of the UN Charter. The kind of thing New Zealand normally objects to, or used to. Peters’ response? After about 24 hours, he made a brief statement on social media: “New Zealand is concerned by and actively monitoring developments in Venezuela and expects all parties to act in accordance with international law.” That’s it. “Concerned”. “Monitoring”. Expecting all parties to behave. One party has just bombed a capital city, kidnapped a head of state, and announced it will control the country’s resources. But sure, let’s urge “all parties” to play by the rules. The Prime Minister’s Office, when asked for a response at the highest level, simply referred journalists …

The US Justice Department, Fake Cartels, and Maduro
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-01-07T08:05:29Z
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description: The Trump administration is increasingly resembling a government previously abominated by the current US president as entangling, bumbling, and prone to fantasies. President George W. Bush was well versed in baseless existential threats stemming from Mesopotamia, supposedly directed by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. There was a critical problem in this assessment: in his dry […] The post The US Justice Department, Fake Cartels, and Maduro first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The Trump administration is increasingly resembling a government previously abominated by the current US president as entangling, bumbling, and prone to fantasies. President George W. Bush was well versed in baseless existential threats stemming from Mesopotamia, supposedly directed by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. There was a critical problem in this assessment: in his dry drunk state, Bush was criminally wrong, proposing a doctrine in response to the attack by al-Qaeda on the United States on September 11, 2001 heavy on violence and slim on evidence. The patchy formulation came to be known as the Bush Doctrine, permitting the United States to unilaterally and pre-emptively attack any country allegedly posing a threat to its security despite never evincing any genuine means of doing so. There would also be, Bush stated in his address to the nation, “no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts [of 9/11] and those who harbor them.” Such streaky reasoning eventually fastened upon Iraq’s alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), apparently at the ready to strike the US and its allies. If not Baghdad, then certainly an opportunistic terrorist proxy would be more than willing to deploy them. In his 2003 State of the Union Address, Bush solemnly stated that “the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.” Such weapons might be used “for blackmail, terror, and mass murder” or provided or sold “to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least hesitation.” As the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq proceeded with its increasingly bloody bill of sale, there were no WMDs to be found. Saddam, foolishly as things would have it, destroyed or disarmed those weapons he had made free use of in the Iran-Iraq War. This hardly mattered. There was shoddy intelligence aplenty, including false claims that Iraq had tried to purchase 500 tons of yellowcake uranium powder from Nig…

The Anger that Masks the Sadness
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creator: Philip A. Farruggio
date: 2026-01-07T08:02:12Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
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subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: maga
subject: Masks
subject: Opinion
subject: Racism
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subject: sources
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description: We have always lived in a society that hinders mental health care instead of enabling it. Now, this writer is surely not a psychiatrist, but I did spend a night in a Holiday Inn Express. My experiences as a patient of Freudian psychoanalysis 40 years ago taught me, among many things, that ‘The child is […] The post The Anger that Masks the Sadness first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: We have always lived in a society that hinders mental health care instead of enabling it. Now, this writer is surely not a psychiatrist, but I did spend a night in a Holiday Inn Express. My experiences as a patient of Freudian psychoanalysis 40 years ago taught me, among many things, that ‘The child is father of the man’. What happened to us as little baby boys and girls from birth to the age of six can influence who we become as adults. Keep that in mind folks as you watch the car crash this Trump Cabal is causing. Mary, his niece who has seen more than 99% of us regarding her dictatorial uncle, and happens herself to be a psychologist, relates much about him. She recently stated in an interview that ‘Donald was an unloved child in his formative years’. She notes that, as with most children at a very young age, Trump had that nurturing withheld from him. He became more and more demanding as he grew. By the time he became an adult, Trump the bully sought the most important prize of all: Power and control. There is a documentary on Netflix, made in the 1970s, called Hitler: A Career. Go and watch it to see just how closely this Trump MAGA Cabal has emulated Hitler and his National Socialists, AKA Nazi Party. Hitler made countless speeches at countless rallies (just as Donald has done). He and his minions set their sights on ‘The stab in the back’ by the Deep State of that era. The Jews and Slavs were singled out for deportation (and ultimate death) while the Trump Cabal chooses the undocumented who usually happen to be brown or black skinned. Hitler had his dream of Lebensraum, or the ‘Need for land for the German people’. The Trump Cabal has gone just as far as Adolf, if not further, by demanding the need for control or actual ownership of sovereign nations — and of course their natural resources. When I first heard and saw what this cabal had just done in Venezuela, I was so outraged, which quickly turned to tears. Tears not only for the Venezuelan people who rejec…

Musician Courtney Marie Andrews on starting now and learning later
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creator: Anna DeNelsky
date: 2026-01-07T08:00:00Z
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description: Where are you right now?
encoded: Where are you right now? I’m driving back to Nashville from New York. I did a listening party for my new album Valentine at the National Arts Club, alongside some of my paintings, so I figured I had to drive them up. Because your album isn’t officially out yet, I’m wondering how you’re feeling pre-release? It’s only been three years since I released a record, which feels long for some people and short for others. For me, it felt long simply because it seems like the entire music world has changed in that time. I feel like it’s a completely new landscape. Mostly, I feel so excited and grateful to be able to continue to release music. I was reading some of your other interviews, and you once said, “Being in a room amongst active listeners suddenly feels radical.” As music continues to move into the digital space, I sometimes worry that live shows might become less of a gathering point. Can you talk about that? When I started touring, live was everything. It was the beginning of the social media era, with MySpace becoming popular, but it had not yet become a climate in which everyone was completely living online. For me, live shows and touring were how I learned to perform and how I imagined sustaining a career. Now, it feels almost like the opposite. The goal often seems to be creating a viral moment, even within a live performance. If I’m being honest, I’m finding it really hard to connect with this. I feel like artists should be lauded for their time, their bodies of work, their depth, and the journeys that they go on. I don’t think that is the era we’re living in. I’m sure that there are exceptions to that statement, but overall, it seems very flaccid, and that makes me really sad. I feel like there’s this added layer now where you walk off stage, and the show has already been reviewed within seconds. When you’re immediately tagged in videos post-show, does it shift how you perceive your performance? I’m guilty of engaging in that instant feedback loop. But on my l…

Gobsmacking Fabulists ‘R Us
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-01-07T07:57:13Z
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description: On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that almost toppled democracy (more quickly than now), the hacks and crackpots in power concocted a deranged, revised history of the event so "evil," "pathological" and deeply "Stalin-level propaganda" it's someho...
encoded: On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that almost toppled democracy (more quickly than now), the hacks and crackpots in power concocted a deranged, revised history of the event so "evil," "pathological" and deeply "Stalin-level propaganda" it's somehow dragged us ever further through the looking glass. In its telling, "orderly patriots" marched to the Capitol, Democrats who "masterfully reversed reality" "staged the real rebellion," and Trump "triumphed over tyranny." Up is down. Orwell lives. A few days ago, Robert Reich described the Jan. 6 insurrection as "the most shameful day in American history." Then he wisely upped the ante to draw a direct line from that crime to all the rest, including his capture of Maduro, arguing they're all based on the same disturbing premise: "The hubris of omnipotence." Many have made the same connection, calling Jan. 6 a stark "fork in the road" whose moral implications - supremacy of political loyalty over the rule of law - poisoned all that followed. It became "a riot that never ended," a turning point that was not "the final, violent death spasms of the cult of Trump" as we thought but "the dawn of Trump’s total liberation." Today, amidst all the gaslighting, denial, lies, the ongoing, well-fed hubris, we pay the price. A few weeks ago, former special counsel Jack Smith appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, testifying that his team had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power." We all know Trump should be behind bars. Tragically, he isn't, because he inexplicably weaseled his way into getting elected, a complicit, lawless SCOTUS gave him an unconscionable lifeline, Merrick Garland was a dud, Biden got old, and Smith was forced to drop the case. Since then, Trump has blasted ahead with his revenge tour, his toadies have gutted the DOJ, the far-right, fueled by Charlie Kirk's death, has soared…

Malcolm Evans: What have we become that we accept such brigandry?
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-01-07T07:28:37Z
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subject: Global international order
subject: Rules-based order
subject: Sources
subject: Venezuela attack
subject: Violations of international law
subject: accept
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attack
subject: become
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subject: Indigenous
subject: International
subject: International Law
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subject: nicolas maduro
subject: order
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subject: Palestine
subject: Politics
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subject: Security
subject: Self Determination
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description: COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn a blind eye to cold-blooded genocide, must arm ourselves to oppose our major trading partner, must support a contrived war to defeat an adversary that no longer exists, (lest its new form otherwise achieves its potential)
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Malcolm Evans What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn a blind eye to cold-blooded genocide, must arm ourselves to oppose our major trading partner, must support a contrived war to defeat an adversary that no longer exists, (lest its new form otherwise achieves its potential) must sanction some and not others, trade with some and not others — and now must, yet again, be silent as another sovereign nation is brazenly plundered for its wealth. US President Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela is not a “police operation” against a criminal “fugitive,” nor is it part of an “escalating pressure campaign” against a hostile regime. It’s none of the things that the White House and our media claims, faithfully copying and pasting stories supplied by The New York Times, CNN and The Washington Post. READ MORE: Trump says Venezuela to hand over up to 50m barrels of oil to US Fact-checking Trump on promised US oil company investment in Venezuela US says military ‘always an option’ in Greenland as Europe rejects threats ‘I am still president of my country,’ kidnapped Nicolas Maduro tells US court Blithely asserting the right to “run” Venezuela and “take” the country’s vast oil reserves, in a textbook example of the 19th century colonialism, Trump’s actions brazenly violate international law and numerous entrenched conventions. And all of it whitewashed by our media in euphemistic pseudo-legalese, to impress those gullible enough. With Trump not only flouting the US Constitution but no longer even pretending that this is about anything other than the theft of another country’s resources, bragging that US oil companies will begin “taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground,” what does it say about us that we accept such brigandry? How, in God’s name, have we allowed ourselves to be swayed by the dribblings of a scurrilous misogynist, the associate of a convicted paedophile and a creature so altogether odious that, in any …

Trump and Pump: Another Oil Quagmire
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creator: David Schultz
date: 2026-01-07T06:58:25Z
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description: Kleptocracy, crony capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, carbon politics or Kissinger-style politics. Call it what you wish. But the Trump semi coup in Venezuela is another example of the retro politics of the Trump administration, and it is destined to pull the US into yet another quagmire, reminiscent of Iraq, Afghanistan and perhaps even Vietnam. More The post Trump and Pump: Another Oil Quagmire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Net Zero: Fantasy, Red Herring, or Reality?
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creator: John K. White
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description: Ten years after the 2015 Paris Agreement provided a framework to keep average global temperatures from rising 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) above pre-industrial levels, the world continues to advance towards climate breakdown. Time is running out on a human-induced Anthropocene: a decade of record high temperatures, more disastrous climate events per year, 428.2 ppm atmospheric carbon dioxide (up 3 ppm in 2025). Why can’t we improve our lot rather than making things worse? We have the technology. “Net Zero” is a fundamental concept for good clean living. More The post Net Zero: Fantasy, Red Herring, or Reality? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Mayor Mamdani and the Roots of Islamic Democratic Socialism
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creator: Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi
date: 2026-01-07T06:57:02Z
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description: On a hot September day in 1976, Mohammad Nakhshab, an Iranian political figure, died of a heart attack on a New York subway car. He was 53. His death happened not far from the abandoned subway station under the City Hall in which Mayor Mamdani took the oath of office in the early hours of More The post Mayor Mamdani and the Roots of Islamic Democratic Socialism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Is Greenland Next?
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creator: Peter Bach
date: 2026-01-07T06:56:36Z
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description: In the recent Atlantic interview, Donald Trump reiterated that the United States “absolutely needs Greenland,” effectively renewing his push for American control or influence over the Danish territory, a stance drawing sharp criticism from Denmark and Greenland’s leaders, and which many had hoped had gone away. As Thucydides—more accustomed to the warm waters of the More The post Is Greenland Next? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Operation Absolute Resolve and the Realpolitik of American Empire
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creator: George Ygarza Quispe
date: 2026-01-07T06:56:01Z
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description: The inherent fallacy of the political scientist is that she cannot test her theory. There are, of course, no controlled experiments (unless you’re running a country like an economic laboratory for neoliberal policies. See Chile 1973). Thus, making hypotheses or predicting the outcome in politics is a fool’s game. However, you can count on a More The post Operation Absolute Resolve and the Realpolitik of American Empire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Venezuela Will Pay for Its Own Reconstruction
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2026-01-07T06:55:52Z
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description: When George W. Bush and his team invaded Iraq, ostensibly about weapons of mass destruction (something like drugs with Venezuela), their claim was that the country would pay for its own reconstruction with its oil revenue. They assured us that US troops (a.k.a. “boots on the ground”) would be welcomed with flowers. It didn’t quite More The post Venezuela Will Pay for Its Own Reconstruction appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Another Day, Another Coup: Tawdry Addictions of the Oligarchy
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creator: Kathleen Wallace
date: 2026-01-07T06:55:13Z
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description: We definitely should not be surprised that this happened. Venezuela is known for that addictive substance, used the world over. The use of this item will most certainly cause the death of untold millions, that much is true. The addiction requires that country to be invaded. Of course, I’m speaking of oil, but the controlled More The post Another Day, Another Coup: Tawdry Addictions of the Oligarchy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The United States and Israel: Two Halves of a Toxic Whole
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creator: M. Reza Behnam
date: 2026-01-07T06:53:04Z
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description: America’s close partnership with Israel has been costly. Tel Aviv’s expansionist policies in Palestine and pursuit of military dominance over its neighbors have driven instability in the Middle East and distorted once predictable international institutions and norms. The United States, banking on its regional proxy, has followed Israel into the abyss, destroying the framework of international More The post The United States and Israel: Two Halves of a Toxic Whole appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Empire is Teetering! Why is There No General Strike?
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creator: Rich Gibson
date: 2026-01-07T06:52:34Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Empire
subject: General
subject: sources
subject: strike
subject: teetering
subject: the
subject: there
subject: why
description: Going downhill, like a Slinky on a staircase, the empire rolls down almost imperceptibly, until it reaches the floor and collapses in on itself. But the empire isn’t a Slinky. It is busy with class and imperial warfare, the few attacking the many in ways more numerous than a short essay can outline. Where is More The post The Empire is Teetering! Why is There No General Strike? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Cowardice of the Powerful: Educational Leadership in DEI
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creator: James Endres Howell
date: 2026-01-07T06:52:00Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘educational
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: cowardice
subject: dei
subject: leadership
subject: powerful
subject: sources
subject: the
description: Every year my institution measures faculty productivity by requiring us to submit a report of our annual activities. This year I noticed that two sections had silently disappeared. The entries still exist in the awful web platform through which we are forced to submit our responses. But when you generate the report, those headings and More The post The Cowardice of the Powerful: Educational Leadership in DEI appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Venezuela vs. the Empire
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creator: Jack Rasmus
date: 2026-01-07T06:51:29Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Empire
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Venezuela
subject: vs.
description: The USA is descending into a state of general lawlessness, at home and abroad. From using domestic special ops paramilitary units (ICE) to kidnap people off the streets of America and send them abroad, the US government is now deploying secret special ops military units (Delta Force) to snatch foreign heads of governments from their More The post Venezuela vs. the Empire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump’s Forest Service Wants to Log Next to Glacier National Park
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creator: George Wuerthner
date: 2026-01-07T06:48:17Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: “log
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: forest
subject: glacier
subject: national
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subject: park
subject: service
subject: sources
subject: trump’s
subject: wants
description: The Hungry Horse Ranger District on the Flathead National Forest in Montana recently announced the Moccasin Granite Project to “treat” a 67,536-acre area along the Wild and Scenic Middle Fork of the Flathead River which it alleges will reduce wildfire threat and “promote forest health.” Among the lands that will be affected are roadless lands More The post Trump’s Forest Service Wants to Log Next to Glacier National Park appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The United States in Venezuela and Beyond
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creator: Edgar Kaskla
date: 2026-01-07T06:44:43Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: beyond’
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: sources
subject: states
subject: the
subject: united
subject: Venezuela
description: About a month ago, I was worried about an awful lot of saber-rattling that was going on in the Trump administration. That rattling became a reality with the invasion of Venezuela and more threats issued against other countries, first against Colombia, then Mexico, Cuba, and the dreamiest of all dreamworlds, the annexation of Greenland, which More The post The United States in Venezuela and Beyond appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-396190" class="wp-image-396190 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/planet-volumes-badTuQ1flsg-unsplash-1-680x389.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="389" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/planet-volumes-badTuQ1flsg-unsplash-1-680x389.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/planet-volumes-badTuQ1flsg-unsplash-1-1103x630.jpg 1103w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/planet-volumes-badTuQ1flsg-unsplash-1-768x439.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/planet-volumes-badTuQ1flsg-unsplash-1-1536x878.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/planet-volumes-badTuQ1flsg-unsplash-1-2048x1170.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/planet-volumes-badTuQ1flsg-unsplash-1-500x286.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/planet-volumes-badTuQ1flsg-unsplash-1-600x343.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Planet Volumes. About a month ago, I was worried about an awful lot of saber-rattling that was going on in the Trump administration. That rattling became a reality with the invasion of Venezuela and more threats issued against other countries, first against Colombia, then Mexico, Cuba, and the dreamiest of all dreamworlds, the annexation of Greenland, which is still under the protective flag of Denmark. Panama was the subject of some saber-rattling as well, so the threat against them appears to not be as serious. However (somewhat presciently), I said the following: Panama has momentarily escaped Trump’s threats, primarily by promising to rethink the contract it has with CK Hutchison to run the canal. The president is worried that the Hong Kong-based company (and its subsidiary, Panama Ports Company) is giving too much power to China in a region where “rightfully” the US mus…

Trump’s War on Women
type: item
creator: Karen J. Greenberg
date: 2026-01-07T06:28:22Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: sources
subject: trump’s
subject: war
subject: women
description: “Quiet, Piggy.” The president was intent on silencing Catherine Lucey. The Bloomberg reporter had provoked him with a question about the release of the Epstein files. His insult caught the public’s attention. But Trump’s tongue-lashing lexicon against women has a long history. Other female journalists have been dubbed “obnoxious,” “terrible,” “third-rate” and “ugly.” Vice President Kamala Harris, More The post Trump’s War on Women appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump’s plan to ‘run’ Venezuela is ‘wish-casting’
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-01-07T04:59:31Z
subject: Sources
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subject: run
subject: sources
subject: trump’s
subject: Venezuela
description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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US regime kidnaps Venezuelan Pres. Nicolas Maduro
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-01-07T04:57:04Z
subject: Sources
subject: kidnaps,
subject: maduro
subject: nicolas
subject: pres
subject: regime
subject: sources
subject: venezuelan
description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Trump Admin Won’t Be Able to ‘Run’ Venezuela
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-01-07T04:55:36Z
subject: Sources
subject: able
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subject: run
subject: sources
subject: trump
subject: Venezuela
subject: won’t
description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
encoded: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.

The “New Alcatraz”: The Darkest Threat of the Venezuela Looting Spree
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-01-07T04:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
subject: Sources
subject: ‘darkest
subject: “alcatraz
subject: gaslit
subject: Looting
subject: nation?
subject: new
subject: sources
subject: spree
subject: the
subject: threat
subject: Venezuela
description: Andrea joins Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman to expose the transnational looting spree and warn Stephen Miller will turn Venezuela into a new Alcatraz. First, we look at who stands to get rich off Trump's illegal invasion. Devin Nunes and a squad of Trump Media cronies just took over a company that tried to bid $10 billion for Citgo, Venezuela's oil crown jewel, right as their boss plotted a secret invasion. So who won Citgo? Why, MAGA billionaire Paul Singer, a vulture capitalist who serves as Trump's ATM and hand-picked Marco Rubio for Secretary of State. Who else is a big winner? The Republican Party's longtime backers, Exxon. Just as Trump hoped invading Venezuela would boost his plummeting approval ratings, Maduro threatened to invade oil-rich Guyana to distract from his own corruption. Now that Maduro is no longer harassing Exxon in Guyana, Exxon's stocks are soaring along with the rest of Big Oil. But the darkest "follow the money" story goes beyond oil. The private prison industry rakes in a fortune thanks to Trump's cruelty. El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison holds 40,000, but Trump and Stephen Miller want space for 80,000 people kidnapped from the U.S. Construction takes years; so Venezuela offers the obvious solution: the "New Alcatraz." Outsourcing prisoners to a lawless, torture-filled transnational Gulag, a story censored by Bari Weiss's CBS News, is the most troubling crisis of MAGA's illegal invasion of Venezuela and co-rule with a violent oil mafia. There's always hope, but it requires a blueprint and courage. The Venezuelan people proved their 2024 election victory through heroic citizen vote-counting: a model of resistance that we in the U.S. must study to reclaim our own democracy. We must align with these transnational forces for good to dismantle the global crime syndicate. We warned you this would happen. Now, we must organize, stand up, and remain defiant. Show Notes: Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media became officers of a company so…
encoded: Andrea joins Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman to expose the transnational looting spree and warn Stephen Miller will turn Venezuela into a new Alcatraz. First, we look at who stands to get rich off Trump's illegal invasion. Devin Nunes and a squad of Trump Media cronies just took over a company that tried to bid $10 billion for Citgo, Venezuela's oil crown jewel, right as their boss plotted a secret invasion. So who won Citgo? Why, MAGA billionaire Paul Singer, a vulture capitalist who serves as Trump's ATM and hand-picked Marco Rubio for Secretary of State. Who else is a big winner? The Republican Party's longtime backers, Exxon. Just as Trump hoped invading Venezuela would boost his plummeting approval ratings, Maduro threatened to invade oil-rich Guyana to distract from his own corruption. Now that Maduro is no longer harassing Exxon in Guyana, Exxon's stocks are soaring along with the rest of Big Oil. But the darkest "follow the money" story goes beyond oil. The private prison industry rakes in a fortune thanks to Trump's cruelty. El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison holds 40,000, but Trump and Stephen Miller want space for 80,000 people kidnapped from the U.S. Construction takes years; so Venezuela offers the obvious solution: the "New Alcatraz." Outsourcing prisoners to a lawless, torture-filled transnational Gulag, a story censored by Bari Weiss's CBS News, is the most troubling crisis of MAGA's illegal invasion of Venezuela and co-rule with a violent oil mafia. There's always hope, but it requires a blueprint and courage. The Venezuelan people proved their 2024 election victory through heroic citizen vote-counting: a model of resistance that we in the U.S. must study to reclaim our own democracy. We must align with these transnational forces for good to dismantle the global crime syndicate. We warned you this would happen. Now, we must organize, stand up, and remain defiant. Show Notes: Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media became officers of a company so…

De-ICEing the Big Easy
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-01-07T02:00:37Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Real News Network
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subject: network
subject: News
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subject: sources
subject: the
description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
encoded: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.

Philippines tells CPJ it will uphold due process ahead of Frenchie Mae Cumpio verdict
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-01-07T00:37:54Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
subject: Frenchie Mae Cumpio
subject: Imprisoned
subject: Legal Action
subject: Sources
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description: New York, January 7, 2026—The Philippines’ presidential office has told the Committee to Protect Journalists that it will uphold due process and protect the rights of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, weeks before key judgments in a long-running case that could see her jailed for up to 40 years. On December 8, ahead of International Human...
encoded: New York, January 7, 2026—The Philippines’ presidential office has told the Committee to Protect Journalists that it will uphold due process and protect the rights of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, weeks before key judgments in a long-running case that could see her jailed for up to 40 years. On December 8, ahead of International Human Rights Day, CPJ wrote to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. urging him to free Cumpio, a 26-year-old journalist who has been held in detention for nearly six years since her arrest in February 2020 on charges of illegal possession of firearms and financing terrorism. In a response on behalf of Marcos, the Presidential Task Force on Media Security said in a December 22 letter to CPJ that while the president’s executive powers cannot be invoked at this time to secure Cumpio’s release, the Marcos administration “is dedicated to protecting her rights and upholding due process to ensure a legitimate and lasting resolution.” It added that upcoming verdicts in Cumpio’s case “will be critical for recognizing her rights.” A court in Tacloban, a central Philippine city on Leyte island, is due to rule on the firearms charge on January 22, and the financing terrorism charge on February 9. CPJ has been advocating for Cumpio’s release for years. “We are encouraged by the Philippine government’s pledge to protect Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s rights. It is high time to end the injustice,” said CPJ Asia-Pacific Director Beh Lih Yi. “Authorities must now turn words into action and right past wrongs. Cumpio has been targeted for her critical journalism and each day she spends in jail is a travesty of justice.” Read the Philippine government’s letter to CPJ in full here. CPJ’s December 8 letter to Marcos can be read here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

The Case of Free Speech v. Trump
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creator: Bill Lueders
date: 2026-01-07T00:36:03Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: speech
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subject: trump
description: The courts, American institutions, and the public can still reject the lawlessness of the Trump Administration.
encoded: The courts, American institutions, and the public can still reject the lawlessness of the Trump Administration. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Bill Lueders.

The Real Reason Trump Invaded Venezuela
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creator: Stephen Zunes
date: 2026-01-07T00:20:30Z
subject: Sources
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description: It’s not drugs, democracy, or even oil. It’s power.
encoded: It’s not drugs, democracy, or even oil. It’s power. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Stephen Zunes.

The Silent Danger of AI
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creator: Sylvia Ghazarian
date: 2026-01-07T00:09:04Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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description: Artificial intelligence is endangering lives and privacy, especially for survivors, children, and people seeking reproductive care.
encoded: Artificial intelligence is endangering lives and privacy, especially for survivors, children, and people seeking reproductive care. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Sylvia Ghazarian.

Why America Must Rewrite Charter School Laws Now
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creator: Carol Burris
date: 2026-01-06T23:53:54Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: charter:
subject: laws
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subject: school
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subject: why
description: Research shows charter school laws enable mismanagement, profiteering, and instability at the expense of students and taxpayers.
encoded: Research shows charter school laws enable mismanagement, profiteering, and instability at the expense of students and taxpayers. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Carol Burris.

Resisting Attacks on Academic Freedom / Ellen Schrecker
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creator: CounterPunch Radio
date: 2026-01-06T22:59:10Z
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subject: ellen
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description: On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome Ellen Schrecker to discuss the legacy of McCarthyism and the current right-wing attack on academic freedom in the U.S., and why the situation is even worse today than it was in the 1950s. Ellen Schrecker is an American historian and author who has More The post Resisting Attacks on Academic Freedom / Ellen Schrecker appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome Ellen Schrecker to discuss the legacy of McCarthyism and the current right-wing attack on academic freedom in the U.S., and why the situation is even worse today than it was in the 1950s. Ellen Schrecker is an American historian and author who has written extensively about McCarthyism and American higher education. She is the author of many books, including The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, published by the University of Chicago Press, which provides the first comprehensive analysis of American higher education’s most turbulent decade. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, taught there and at NYU and Princeton, and later joined Yeshiva University, from which she retired as a full professor. Head over and grab some books from the best shop, Pilsen Community Books. The post Resisting Attacks on Academic Freedom / Ellen Schrecker appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by CounterPunch Radio.

Trump’s January 6 Coup Ushered in the New World Order
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-01-06T22:38:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
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subject: Coup
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subject: january
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subject: ushered
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description: With Trump's unpunished coup, we officially entered a New World Order. And it's a lot like the car-bomb 1990s in Russia–a lawless era where the biggest oligarch wins. But the crisis is bigger than Trump. It also comes down to the American elite hitting the panic button on China. While China secures global influence through infrastructure and green tech, the U.S. has reverted to the Monroe Doctrine. We are seeing this with the illegal invasion of Venezuela and the impending invasions of Greenland and Mexico. The objective is resource acquisition: oil from the south and rare earth minerals from the north. Their premature celebrations and promise of big oil money are Bush/Cheney hubris. Successfully extracting Venezuela's famously challenging oil would require major oil giants to commit roughly $10 billion annually in a viper's den of Russian intelligence agents and fierce anti-American resistance, thanks to generations of traumatic American foreign policy in the region. The Venezuela crisis is larger than Trump, as Andrea explains in this recording from Monday's salon with Gaslit Nation listeners. The American empire is throwing a violent tantrum against Chinese global dominance. This leaves Europe abandoned to fight Russian terrorism and genocidal imperialism on its own. And once again, the arrogant Washington, D.C. elite think tank world underestimates Russia–the same stupidity that helped bring Trump to power in the first place, with the Kremlin's illegal help. Trump and the Pentagon are banking on "shock and awe" to normalize their grab for resources. They want us to accept this lawlessness as the status quo. We must refuse. We must own our agency and demand a future defined by democracy and the global community, not the violent whims of the highest bidder. January 6 is a day of national mourning and rage. Commemorate this dark day by shining your light into the world. Find ideas to fight back at the Gaslit Nation Action Guide. And see you at Monday's Salon at 4pm…
encoded: With Trump's unpunished coup, we officially entered a New World Order. And it's a lot like the car-bomb 1990s in Russia–a lawless era where the biggest oligarch wins. But the crisis is bigger than Trump. It also comes down to the American elite hitting the panic button on China. While China secures global influence through infrastructure and green tech, the U.S. has reverted to the Monroe Doctrine. We are seeing this with the illegal invasion of Venezuela and the impending invasions of Greenland and Mexico. The objective is resource acquisition: oil from the south and rare earth minerals from the north. Their premature celebrations and promise of big oil money are Bush/Cheney hubris. Successfully extracting Venezuela's famously challenging oil would require major oil giants to commit roughly $10 billion annually in a viper's den of Russian intelligence agents and fierce anti-American resistance, thanks to generations of traumatic American foreign policy in the region. The Venezuela crisis is larger than Trump, as Andrea explains in this recording from Monday's salon with Gaslit Nation listeners. The American empire is throwing a violent tantrum against Chinese global dominance. This leaves Europe abandoned to fight Russian terrorism and genocidal imperialism on its own. And once again, the arrogant Washington, D.C. elite think tank world underestimates Russia–the same stupidity that helped bring Trump to power in the first place, with the Kremlin's illegal help. Trump and the Pentagon are banking on "shock and awe" to normalize their grab for resources. They want us to accept this lawlessness as the status quo. We must refuse. We must own our agency and demand a future defined by democracy and the global community, not the violent whims of the highest bidder. January 6 is a day of national mourning and rage. Commemorate this dark day by shining your light into the world. Find ideas to fight back at the Gaslit Nation Action Guide. And see you at Monday's Salon at 4pm…

Papua New Guinea fully retires debt for Liquefied Natural Gas project
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-01-06T22:19:16Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Global PNG prices
subject: Kumul Petroleum Holdings
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subject: PNG infrastructure
subject: Sources
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subject: Business
subject: Debt
subject: Development
subject: economics
subject: Featured
subject: for
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subject: Technology
description: SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s largest resource development has reached a milestone more than a decade in the making. The PNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project has fully retired its bank-financed project debt, closing one of the most complex financing arrangements in the country’s economic history. The debt,
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s largest resource development has reached a milestone more than a decade in the making. The PNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project has fully retired its bank-financed project debt, closing one of the most complex financing arrangements in the country’s economic history. The debt, raised in the late 2000s to fund construction of onshore and offshore infrastructure, totalled about US$16 billion, including interest. READ MORE: Other PNG LNG Project reports Although liquefied natural gas exports began in 2014, repayments continued for more than a decade, limiting how much revenue flowed to equity holders, including the state through Kumul Petroleum Holdings, which holds a 19.4 percent stake. In December 2025, joint venture partners accelerated the final repayment, clearing the facility around six months ahead of schedule. Sustained production, disciplined cost control and favourable global LNG prices helped bring forward the close, removing a long-standing financial constraint from the project. Prime Minister James Marape described the milestone as a national achievement during a site visit to the LNG facilities. “PNG LNG is now debt-free. It is a free-standing, world-class asset for the country,” he said, linking the early repayment to Papua New Guinea’s credibility as a destination for large-scale global investment. The Prime Minister has pointed to the project’s long delivery arc — from financing during the global financial crisis to more than a decade of continuous operations — as evidence that PNG can sustain projects of international scale. What changes now With the project finance facility closed, PNG LNG’s future revenues will no longer be directed first to servicing debt. After operating costs, cash will flow directly to shareholders, including Kumul Petroleum and, by extension, the state. That reshapes the project’s financial profile. It does not create an immediate budget windfal…

Papua New Guinea fully retires debt for Liquefied Natural Gas project
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-01-06T22:19:16Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Global PNG prices
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subject: Sources
subject: asia
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subject: Development
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subject: Featured
subject: for
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subject: Technology
description: SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s largest resource development has reached a milestone more than a decade in the making. The PNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project has fully retired its bank-financed project debt, closing one of the most complex financing arrangements in the country’s economic history. The debt,
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s largest resource development has reached a milestone more than a decade in the making. The PNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project has fully retired its bank-financed project debt, closing one of the most complex financing arrangements in the country’s economic history. The debt, raised in the late 2000s to fund construction of onshore and offshore infrastructure, totalled about US$16 billion, including interest. READ MORE: Other PNG LNG Project reports Although liquefied natural gas exports began in 2014, repayments continued for more than a decade, limiting how much revenue flowed to equity holders, including the state through Kumul Petroleum Holdings, which holds a 19.4 percent stake. In December 2025, joint venture partners accelerated the final repayment, clearing the facility around six months ahead of schedule. Sustained production, disciplined cost control and favourable global LNG prices helped bring forward the close, removing a long-standing financial constraint from the project. Prime Minister James Marape described the milestone as a national achievement during a site visit to the LNG facilities. “PNG LNG is now debt-free. It is a free-standing, world-class asset for the country,” he said, linking the early repayment to Papua New Guinea’s credibility as a destination for large-scale global investment. The Prime Minister has pointed to the project’s long delivery arc — from financing during the global financial crisis to more than a decade of continuous operations — as evidence that PNG can sustain projects of international scale. What changes now With the project finance facility closed, PNG LNG’s future revenues will no longer be directed first to servicing debt. After operating costs, cash will flow directly to shareholders, including Kumul Petroleum and, by extension, the state. That reshapes the project’s financial profile. It does not create an immediate budget windfal…

Editorial Boards Cheer Trump Doctrine in Venezuela
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creator: Ari Paul
date: 2026-01-06T21:24:06Z
subject: FAIR
subject: Sources
subject: Blog
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subject: cheer
subject: doctrine
subject: donald trump
subject: editorial
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subject: sources
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subject: Venezuela
subject: War & Military
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description: Rather than worrying the US will encourage other countries to behave lawlessly, US papers could be more concerned about their own country's lawlessness.
encoded: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” Mark Twain allegedly quipped. On January 3, 1990, Panamanian Commander Manuel Noriega surrendered to US forces, who carried him off to face drug charges. Thirty-six years to the day later, US forces swooped into Venezuela, abducting President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, following decades of hostility between the oil-rich socialist country and the United States. The pretext offered: Maduro had to be taken to the US to face drug charges. The coincidence is a reminder that the US has a long history of both covert and military intervention in Latin America: President Donald Trump, as extreme as he might be, isn’t an outlier among American presidents in this regard. And despite the right’s attempt to paint Trump as some sort of peacenik (Compact, 4/7/23; X, 10/14/25), he is no less an imperialist than his predecessors. And that’s precisely why many of the nation’s leading editorial pages are hailing Maduro’s capture. ‘Hemispheric hygiene’ To the Wall Street Journal (1/3/26), the devastation of Venezuela’s economy was not the intentional effect of US sanctions, but part of President Nicolás Maduro’s sinister scheme to “flood…the US with migrants in an effort to sow political discord.” The Wall Street Journal editorial board (1/3/26) called the abductions “an act of hemispheric hygiene,” a dehumanizing comparison of Venezuela’s leaders to germs needing to be cleansed. For the Journal, the abductions were justified because they weren’t just a blow to Venezuela, but to the rest of America’s official enemies. “The dictator was also part of the axis of US adversaries that includes Russia, China, Cuba and Iran,” it said. It called Maduro’s “capture…a demonstration of Mr. Trump’s declaration to keep America’s enemies from spreading chaos in the Western Hemisphere.” It amplified Trump’s own rhetoric of adding on to the Roosevelt Corollary, saying “It’s the ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine”—a nod to the long-standing i…

"He just can’t stop talking about the oil"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T20:00:43Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

"Donroe Doctrine": How Trump is bringing 19th-century imperial ambitions to Latin America
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T19:51:58Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: america
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

At least 14 journalists detained during presidential inauguration in Venezuela
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-01-06T19:38:49Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Delcy Rodríguez
subject: National Union of Press Workers
subject: Sources
subject: Arrested
subject: committee
subject: delcy
subject: Detained
subject: during
subject: Inauguration
subject: Journalists
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subject: Workers
description: Mexico City, January 6, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the detention of at least 14 journalists and media workers in Caracas during the inauguration ceremony of Delcy Rodríguez as president, and urges Venezuelan authorities to guarantee that journalists can report freely without intimidation, surveillance, or retaliation. On January 5, 13 journalists and media...
encoded: Mexico City, January 6, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the detention of at least 14 journalists and media workers in Caracas during the inauguration ceremony of Delcy Rodríguez as president, and urges Venezuelan authorities to guarantee that journalists can report freely without intimidation, surveillance, or retaliation. On January 5, 13 journalists and media workers affiliated with international media outlets and news agencies, and one working for a national outlet, were detained while covering the inauguration, according to information documented by Venezuela’s National Union of Press Workers. Thirteen of those detained were later released without being formally presented before judicial authorities, while one journalist was deported, the union reported. While the identities of most of those detained have been withheld for security reasons, Venezuelan press freedom organization Espacio Público reported that the deported journalist is Stefano Pozzebon of CNN. “These detentions are part of a broader pattern of intimidation aimed at obstructing independent coverage of events of public interest,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ Latin America program coordinator. “Venezuelan authorities must immediately end practices that expose journalists to surveillance and arbitrary detention, and ensure that the press can work safely and without fear.” The press workers’ union documented that, during the detentions, security officials searched journalistic equipment, forced journalists to unlock their mobile phones, and reviewed calls, messages, and activity on messaging platforms and social media. The detentions occurred inside the National Assembly, in surrounding areas, and in the Altamira neighborhood of Caracas. In a related incident, on January 4 — the day of the US military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country — officers from Venezuela’s intelligence police, SEBIN, detained two reporters for several …

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 6, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-01-06T18:00:00Z
subject: Pacifica Evening News
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subject: Politics
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subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 6, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

‘They Beat Everyone’: How Iranian Medical Staff Protected Shot Protesters
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-01-06T17:40:53Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Analysis: Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Could Generate 4,000+ Oil Spills
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-06T17:17:26Z
subject: Common Dreams
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description: The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity.The Center’s spill...
encoded: The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center’s spill analysis of Trump’s draft 2026-2031 leasing plan is based on historical data and federal records. “Our analysis shows that Trump’s ridiculously reckless drilling plan could cause thousands of new oil spills, threatening almost every U.S. coast,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Nobody wants beaches and marine life coated in crude, but that’ll be our future if Trump’s scheme goes forward. Every new drilling project signs us up for decades of problems, and our wildlife and coastal economies will suffer the most.” Today’s analysis assumes average spill rates for platforms and pipelines based on 1974-2015 data. It does not include catastrophic events like the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which released more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Trump’s draft plan calls for as many as 34 offshore oil and gas lease sales over the next five years. It could open up as much as 1.27 billion acres of federal waters to drilling off California, Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico. That amount is far more than previous administrations have offered. It is in addition to 36 offshore oil lease sales mandated in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Center’s oil spill calculations and estimates for each planning area are available here and FAQs for the projections are here. By the administration’s own estimates, the increase in extraction and fossil fuel combustion could also add as much greenhouse gas pollution to the atmosphere as burning nearly 200 billion pounds of coal. Several imperiled species are at risk from increased drilling: Pacific Sea otter: Known for their thick furry coats, sea otters once inhabited the entire U.S. Pacific coast, all the way from A…

Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 6, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T16:36:18Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Report: Major outlets informed of plan to abduct Maduro, but withheld reporting
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creator: Sharon Zhang
date: 2026-01-06T16:27:09Z
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GEZAN • LIVE IN OKAYAMA (Japan, 2025)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-01-06T16:26:39Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Trump & US oil-igarchy want to ‘run Venezuela.’ How is Latin America responding?
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creator: Maximillian Alvarez and Michael Fox
date: 2026-01-06T16:26:37Z
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subject: Venezuela
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Can U.S. Oil Companies Really Take Over Venezuela’s Industry?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T16:12:54Z
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subject: Democracy
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Irreversible Robust Tempo of Charter School Failures and Closures
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creator: Shawgi Tell
date: 2026-01-06T16:00:40Z
subject: Angela Gillenwaters
subject: charter school failures and closures
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Legends Academy Charter School
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subject: academy
subject: and
subject: Charter Schools
subject: charter:
subject: closures
subject: dissident
subject: failures
subject: gillenwaters
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subject: Legends
subject: robust
subject: school
subject: sources
subject: tempo
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description: Charter schools are deregulated private entities that embrace “free market” ideology. They rest firmly on consumerism, competition, and the medieval view that every individual should fend for themselves. Winning and losing are considered normal, healthy, and desirable in this obsolete outlook where “shopping for a school and hoping for the best” replaces the right to […] The post Irreversible Robust Tempo of Charter School Failures and Closures first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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"Imperial Laboratory": Alexander Aviña on the "Donroe" Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T15:58:50Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: alexander
subject: america
subject: aviña
subject: Democracy
subject: doctrine
subject: donroe
subject: imperial
subject: intervention
subject: laboratory
subject: latin
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: u.s.
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!": Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro
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date: 2026-01-06T15:53:54Z
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subject: it’s
subject: kidnapping
subject: maduro
subject: mehdi
subject: now
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subject: Venezuela
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Mock Strategy
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creator: Michael Brenner
date: 2026-01-06T15:50:22Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Eldrige Colby
subject: National security strategy
subject: Sanae Takaichi
subject: Sources
subject: China
subject: colby
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: eldrige
subject: Empire
subject: Imperialism
subject: marco rubio
subject: Militarism
subject: mock
subject: national
subject: Russia
subject: sanae
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: strategy
subject: Taiwan
subject: takaichi
subject: United States
subject: voice
description: The crazy-quilt National Security Strategy released a few weeks back is a patchwork of declarations of intent, admonitions thrown at other countries and ad hominem statements of dubious validity. It lacks coherence or consistency – much less a theme, a central idea, or a concept that gives pattern to its incongruent parts. Clearly, the document is […] The post Mock Strategy first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The crazy-quilt National Security Strategy released a few weeks back is a patchwork of declarations of intent, admonitions thrown at other countries and ad hominem statements of dubious validity. It lacks coherence or consistency – much less a theme, a central idea, or a concept that gives pattern to its incongruent parts. Clearly, the document is the artless product of an assemblage of authors undisciplined by editorial direction. Yet, many serious analysts claim to see in this disjointed attempt at composing a grand strategy a landmark signaling a fundamental shift in the way the United States sees itself in the realm of international affairs. Only the last is surprising. There is no formal policy process in the Trump administration. Neither clear organizational lines, nor designation of mandated responsibilities, nor fixed procedures for deliberation and decision, nor an articulated set of policy guidelines. The critical role of National Security Adviser belongs nominally to Marco Rubio whose day job of Secretary of State exhausts his limited time, skills and authority. He is merely one of Trump many appointees, White House aides, family and pals who vie for the President’s attention. Policy as free-form existential art. The National Security Strategy is the sort of pot-pourri you get when nobody oversees and coordinates the document’s drafting. This disorder suits the temper of Trump himself. For tidy procedure, disciplined logical thinking, action based on design – all are totally alien to his personality. They constitute restraint on impulse – on the freedom that his extreme narcissism demands. That need requires a license to superimpose his distorted impressions of reality on actuality – to contradict himself in order to sustain Trump’s grandiose sense of self. Ignorance follows – more precisely, perpetuating a condition wherein ignorance about the world outside the inflated ego’s imaginary reality is Trump’s narcissistic bliss. The National Security Strategy…

UN News Today 06 January 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-01-06T15:47:02Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: 2026
subject: january
subject: News
subject: podcasts/un
subject: sources
subject: today
description: Venezuela: US actions make all countries less safe, says rights chief TürkUkraine: WFP teams continue to reach frontline communitiesSudan: Escalating violence in Darfurs and Kordofan sparks panic, warns OCHA
encoded: Venezuela: US actions make all countries less safe, says rights chief TürkUkraine: WFP teams continue to reach frontline communitiesSudan: Escalating violence in Darfurs and Kordofan sparks panic, warns OCHA This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made?
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-01-06T15:13:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
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subject: propublica
subject: sources
subject: was
subject: where,
description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T13:59:26Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: after
subject: ai:
subject: billion
subject: businesses
subject: crypto
subject: Democracy
subject: family
subject: focus
subject: his
subject: now
subject: Nuclear
subject: rake
subject: reelection
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subject: trump
subject: with
description: Ventures launched by the Trump family since Donald Trump’s reelection have generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the Trump family. With investments across sectors like real estate, hospitality, media, cryptocurre...
encoded: Ventures launched by the Trump family since Donald Trump’s reelection have generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the Trump family. With investments across sectors like real estate, hospitality, media, cryptocurrency and more, the Trumps are “increasingly integrating their business empire” into the wider U.S. economy, says David Uberti, who has been reporting on the family’s self-enrichment for The Wall Street Journal. The coupling of Trump’s economic and political influence is raising major questions about conflicts of interest. “You have all of these different business interests in different areas in which the government regulates,” and this “proximity to power may help along some of these deals and the valuations at which they’re made.” We look at the Trumps’ cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial and the Trump Organization’s planned $6 billion merger with a firm hoping to build a nuclear fusion plant to power AI data centers with Uberti, who says such “very speculative, highly risky corners of financial markets” are key to the family’s investment strategy. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to “Take Back” Venezuela’s Oil After U.S. Attack
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T13:45:03Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: after
subject: attack
subject: back
subject: chevron
subject: Democracy
subject: now
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subject: stocks
subject: surge
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description: The share prices of U.S. oil companies surged following the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president, Nicolás Maduro. In public statements, Trump has been clear about his desire to reassert U.S. corporate...
encoded: The share prices of U.S. oil companies surged following the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president, Nicolás Maduro. In public statements, Trump has been clear about his desire to reassert U.S. corporate control over Venezuela’s nationalized oil industry. Now with Trump’s show of force over Venezuela’s political sovereignty, many investors see the potential for a similar overpowering of the socialist country’s economic independence. However, notes financial reporter David Uberti, it won’t be so easy for Wall Street to make a profit. In addition to upgrading Venezuela’s “decrepit” oil-producing infrastructure, “they have to push for more appetite for oil around the world.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

January 6th Five Years On: Our Democracy Crisis Persists
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-06T13:44:46Z
subject: Common Dreams
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description: Five years ago, our nation’s Capitol was stormed by rioters. They were there because President Trump lied about the outcome of the 2020 election. And five years later the threat to American democracy hasn’t faded – it has evolved, expanded, and grown...
encoded: Five years ago, our nation’s Capitol was stormed by rioters. They were there because President Trump lied about the outcome of the 2020 election. And five years later the threat to American democracy hasn’t faded – it has evolved, expanded, and grown more dangerous. Public Citizen’s co-president Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement on the 5th anniversary of the January 6th insurrection: "On January 6th five years ago, a sitting U.S. president incited violence against our nation in a shameless attempt to overturn a democratically-held election.This day must live forever in our memory, so that we continue to seek accountability for the perpetrators and work tirelessly to safeguard our democracy from future lawlessness. “As we reflect on the solemn anniversary of the insurrection, we must grapple with the reality that the same president is back in office. And that his disdain for the rule of law and disregard of the U.S. Constitution are more brazen than ever, amplified by endless incendiary rhetoric and reckless actions. From the unwanted and unlawful military deployments of the national guard to U.S. cities to the indefensible and brazenly unlawful kidnapping of a foreign leader for the benefit of fossil fuel corporations, this president’s authoritarianism is a real and living threat to our democracy and it demands vigilance and resistance from us all.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

“Imperial Laboratory”: Alexander Aviña on the “Donroe” Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T13:33:49Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: alexander
subject: america
subject: aviña
subject: Democracy
subject: doctrine
subject: donroe
subject: imperial
subject: intervention
subject: laboratory
subject: latin
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: u.s.
description: We take a closer look at the Trump administration’s Monroe Doctrine-based “Donroe Doctrine” — a tightening of U.S. control over the Americas amid weakening global hegemony and internal divisions within the governing MAGA coal...
encoded: We take a closer look at the Trump administration’s Monroe Doctrine-based “Donroe Doctrine” — a tightening of U.S. control over the Americas amid weakening global hegemony and internal divisions within the governing MAGA coalition. “As has happened in the past, when the U.S. has faced resistance or defeat elsewhere in the world, they come back 'home' to the Western Hemisphere. They use Latin America as an imperial laboratory, as they have since almost the founding of the United States,” explains Alexander Aviña, an associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University. “It’s just part of this long history of constant U.S. intervention in the region to prevent and not tolerate Latin American assertions of sovereignty and self-determination.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T13:14:29Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: about
subject: all
subject: attacking
subject: Democracy
subject: hasan
subject: it’s
subject: kidnapping
subject: maduro
subject: mehdi
subject: now
subject: oil
subject: sources
subject: stupid’:
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subject: trump
subject: Venezuela
description: _Zeteo_’s Mehdi Hasan outlines Donald Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine,” a throwback foreign policy exemplified by the Trump administration’s shocking intervention in Venezuela. With his claims of U.S. sovereignty over na...
encoded: _Zeteo_’s Mehdi Hasan outlines Donald Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine,” a throwback foreign policy exemplified by the Trump administration’s shocking intervention in Venezuela. With his claims of U.S. sovereignty over nations in the Western Hemisphere, “Trump’s basically saying, 'Well, this is ours, and China, Russia can have their spheres of influence,' and it is very 19th-century-esque. ’Let’s divide up the world between the powers.’” This orientation is a major shift from U.S. foreign policy of recent decades, such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when interventionist actions were framed around ideological motivations, explains Hasan. “They said it was WMDs. They said it was democracy. They said it was al-Qaeda. They at least pretended that it wasn’t about the oil.” Meanwhile, Trump is brazen about his aims to seize control of Venezuela’s resources and demonstrate that “might is right.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

WSJ’s David Uberti on Trump’s War on Wind & How AI Data Centers May Be Key 2026 Political Issue
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T13:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: centers
subject: Data
subject: david
subject: Democracy
subject: how
subject: issue
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description: Watch Part 2 of our interview with David Uberti, reporter for The Wall Street Journal, about President Trump’s “war on wind” farms, and backing of AI Data Centers.
encoded: Watch Part 2 of our interview with David Uberti, reporter for The Wall Street Journal, about President Trump’s “war on wind” farms. Despite well-established demand for new power, Trump recently paused leases for all large offshore wind farms under construction, which has “thrown the renewable energy industry into turmoil,” Uberti says. He has covered how the U.S. is forfeiting the clean energy race to China after Trump scrapped projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. Trump’s “animus for offshore wind has a personal link, as well,” notes Uberti: He once tried unsuccessfully to stop windmills off the coast of one of his golf courses. Uberti also discuses his piece “What Happened When Small-Town America Became Data Center, U.S.A.” and his coverage of the role AI may play in the modern economy. Uberti expects in 2026, this will move from being “an emerging political issue” among the left to one that is more mainstream. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-01-06 Tuesday
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-06T13:00:00Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: Democracy
subject: now
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description: Headlines for January 06, 2026; “It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro; “Imperial Laboratory”: Alexander Aviña on the “Donroe” Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America; Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to “Take Back” Venezuela’s Oil After U.S. Attack; Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear
encoded: Democracy Now! 2026-01-06 Tuesday Headlines for January 06, 2026 "It's All About the Oil, Stupid!": Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro "Imperial Laboratory": Alexander Aviña on the "Donroe" Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to "Take Back" Venezuela's Oil After U.S. Attack Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear Download this show This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for January 6, 2026
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description: Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Plead “Not Guilty” to Drug and Weapons Charges in U.S. Court, Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodríguez Sworn In as Interim President, U.S. Assault on Venezuela Condemned by Allies and Adversaries Alike at U.N. Security Council, Grand Rapids Police Arrest Protest Antiwar Organizer on TV After She Condemns Trump, WSJ: Trump Tipped Off Oil Executives a Month Before U.S. Attack on Venezuela, Venezuelan Opposition Leader Machado Says She Plans to Return to Venezuela, Danish Prime Minister Warns U.S. Attack on Greenland Would Mean the End of NATO, Israel Launches Airstrikes in Lebanon, Claiming to Target Hezbollah and Hamas, U.S. Drops the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Every Child, Democrats Demand Speaker Johnson Unveil a Plaque Honoring Police Officers from Jan. 6 Insurrection, Defense Secretary Hegseth Censures Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Trump Admin Deploys 2,000 ICE Agents to Minneapolis to Probe Alleged Cases of Fraud
encoded: Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Plead "Not Guilty" to Drug and Weapons Charges in U.S. Court Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodríguez Sworn In as Interim President U.S. Assault on Venezuela Condemned by Allies and Adversaries Alike at U.N. Security Council Grand Rapids Police Arrest Protest Antiwar Organizer on TV After She Condemns Trump WSJ: Trump Tipped Off Oil Executives a Month Before U.S. Attack on Venezuela Venezuelan Opposition Leader Machado Says She Plans to Return to Venezuela Danish Prime Minister Warns U.S. Attack on Greenland Would Mean the End of NATO Israel Launches Airstrikes in Lebanon, Claiming to Target Hezbollah and Hamas U.S. Drops the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Every Child Democrats Demand Speaker Johnson Unveil a Plaque Honoring Police Officers from Jan. 6 Insurrection Defense Secretary Hegseth Censures Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly Trump Admin Deploys 2,000 ICE Agents to Minneapolis to Probe Alleged Cases of Fraud This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative.
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creator: Alice Hines
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description: The post Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Kaitlin spent the first weeks of her newborn son’s life in a panic. The hospital where she gave birth in October 2022 had administered a routine drug test, and a nurse informed her the lab had confirmed the presence of opiates. Child welfare authorities opened an investigation. Months later, after searching her home and interviewing her older child and ex-husband, the agency dropped its investigation, having found no evidence of abuse or neglect, or of drug use. The amount of opiates that upended Kaitlin’s life — 18.4 nanograms of codeine per milliliter of urine, according to court documents — was so minuscule that if she were an Air Force pilot, she could have had 200 times more in her system and still have been cleared to fly. But for Kaitlin, the test triggered an investigation with potentially life-altering consequences. (ProPublica is using Kaitlin’s first name because her full name has been redacted from court documents. She declined to be interviewed for this story.) The ordeal “tempered what was otherwise supposed to be a joyous occasion” for the family, according to a lawsuit filed in 2024 by New Jersey’s attorney general against the hospital system, Virtua Health. The hospital said in a statement that it has “a relentless commitment to evidence-based, equitable care for every family.” In court documents, it denied the lawsuit’s allegation that it discriminated against pregnant patients and noted that Kaitlin consented to the test. It also said that New Jersey law mandates it to submit reports of “substance-affected infants” to the state’s Division of Child Protection and Permanency. The lawsuit is pending and a judge has referred it to mediation. Drug-testing labs typically report results in black and white: positive or negative. But a little-known fact about the industry is that those results are often based on standards that are wholly discretionary. For example, nearly all states use a threshold of 0.08% blood alcohol content to decide if a motorist is …

DN! Tuesday, January 6, 2026
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Why forcing people to go green can backfire
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creator: Tik Root
date: 2026-01-06T09:30:00Z
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description: A new study reveals a conundrum for climate policy: People hate when you tell them what to do.
encoded: Combating climate change can feel particularly difficult these days. Countries, states and municipalities across the globe are missing greenhouse emission reduction targets and, in the United States, President Donald J. Trump has rolled back key elements of his predecessor’s climate agenda. Given the trajectory, it might be tempting for pro-climate policy makers to turn to more aggressive measures of getting people to take action, such as mandates, bans or restrictions. People would then have to save the planet. But a study published last week in the journal Nature Sustainability suggests that approach can carry real risks. It found that climate policies aimed at forcing lifestyle changes — such as bans on driving in urban centers — can backfire by weakening people’s existing pro-environmental values and triggering political backlash, even among those who already care about climate change. The findings suggest that how climate policy is designed may matter as much as how aggressive it is. “Mandates can sometimes get you over a hump and tipping point, but they come with costs,” said Sam Bowles, an author of the paper and an economist at the nonprofit Santa Fe Institute. “There could be negative impacts that people don’t anticipate.” Researchers surveyed more than 3,000 Germans and found that even people who care about climate change had a notably negative response to mandates or bans that did things like limit thermostat temperatures or meat consumption, which they saw as restricting their freedoms. The paper also compared that to people’s reaction to COVID-related requirements, such as vaccine and mask mandates. While researchers found a backlash effect, or “cost of control,” in both instances, it was 52 percent greater for climate than COVID policies. “I didn’t expect that people’s opposition to climate-mandated lifestyle would be so extreme,” said Katrin Schmelz, the other author of the study, who is also at Santa Fe Institute. She said that people’s trust in thei…

New journal warns Pacific media near breaking point amid revenue collapse and political pressure
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description: By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their history, marked by governance issues, political instability, geopolitical pressures and escalating climate threats, while simultaneously grappling with declining revenue streams and threats to their financial survival. This is highlighted in the inaugural edition of the Pacific
encoded: By Monika Singh of Wansolwara News Pacific media are facing one of their most challenging reporting environments in their history, marked by governance issues, political instability, geopolitical pressures and escalating climate threats, while simultaneously grappling with declining revenue streams and threats to their financial survival. This is highlighted in the inaugural edition of the Pacific Media academic journal, by co-editors, associate professor and head of the University of the South Pacific (USP) Journalism Programme, Dr Shailendra Singh, and co-founder of The Australia Today, Dr Amit Sarwal. In their editorial, Dr Singh and Dr Sarwal say Pacific media systems — already vulnerable due to their small scale — continue to be hit by the collapse of traditional advertising models that once kept legacy media afloat. READ MORE: Inaugural edition of Pacific Media Pacific Media website They point out that although small and geographically isolated, the regional media have not been spared the ravages of digital disruption, which continues to pose a threat to the media’s traditional advertising-based revenue model. This was compounded by losses from the covid-19 pandemic. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-121980" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PACIFIC-MEDIA-team-680wide-.jpg" alt="Dr Shailendra Singh (from left), Dr Sarwal, and Dr David Robie" width="680" height="235" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PACIFIC-MEDIA-team-680wide-.jpg 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PACIFIC-MEDIA-team-680wide--300x104.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Inaugural edition coeditors Dr Shailendra Singh (from left) and Dr Sarwal, and Pacific Media founder Asia Pacific Media Network’s Dr David Robie. Image: Wansolwara News These issues, and more, re-surfaced at the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference in Suva, Fiji. The conference, the first…

Confronting Genocide with Civil Disobedience
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date: 2026-01-06T08:47:34Z
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description: While the secret signals and surveillance facility at Pine Gap in Northern Australia, officially named the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG) is billed as a joint affair between Australia and the United States, it is nothing of the sort. Just as offices direct the callow intern to make the coffee, Australian officials remain America’s […] The post Confronting Genocide with Civil Disobedience first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-164178" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/pine-gap-protest-activists-2025-300x169.webp" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/pine-gap-protest-activists-2025-300x169.webp 300w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/pine-gap-protest-activists-2025.webp 720w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />While the secret signals and surveillance facility at Pine Gap in Northern Australia, officially named the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG) is billed as a joint affair between Australia and the United States, it is nothing of the sort. Just as offices direct the callow intern to make the coffee, Australian officials remain America’s permanent interns, helpful, certainly, but never powerful or given challenging roles. The contempt with which Australians are treated is shown by the level of secrecy that continues to enshroud one of the largest signals intelligence centres outside the United States. It is this secrecy that does, from time to time, make its way into court. For this, we can thank those plucky protestors who have, over the years, sought to expose the role of the base in aiding US military operations against targets in any number of locations unbeknownst to the Australian parliament, and not even the Australian Prime Minister and Cabinet. Two of those protestors, Carmen Escobar Robinson and Tommy Walker, brought attention to the base’s activities when they blocked Hatt Road, the main access route to Pine Gap in October 2023. On November 27, 2023, a second effort was made that temporarily prevented some 100 Pine Gap employees from entering the facility. Robinson and Walker were part of a group of 50 activists, an eclectic makeup of health workers, community members, and the Arrernte Traditional Owners, all steered by the social justice outfit Mparntwe for Falastin. The action had b…

Musician and writer cehryl on the value of being true to your own pace
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description: I’m wondering why you released two albums this year, whether due to your natural creative pace or some intention of defying the music industry’s expectation that artists release albums once every two years.
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On Seeing the Photo of Nicolás Maduro Aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima
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description: The use of blindfolds and earmuffs to transport Maduro can’t be justified on national security grounds. Did they fear Maduro calling his generals on a cellphone to report his latitude and longitude so they could attempt an ocean rescue? Did they think he’d ever be in a position to reveal the secret assets and vulnerabilities of the battle-tested Wasp Class, Iwo Jima amphibious assault ship? The reason sensory deprivation devices were used was to intimidate, disorient, and otherwise induce in Maduro a sense of helplessness and distress. This is a form of “touchless torture” proscribed by the U.N. Convention Against Torture. More The post On Seeing the Photo of Nicolás Maduro Aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Sleepless Again: Or What the World of Yesterday Says About Trump’s Attack on Venezuela and the World of Today
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creator: Jean Wyllys
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description: Things don’t happen randomly. The shocking news of Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela broke on the 101stanniversary of Benito Mussolini’s announcement to the Italian parliament accepting full responsibility for blackshirt violence and declaring himself dictator of Italy. That gesture—greeted by applause, complicit silence, and opportunistic support—ushered in fascism, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second World War. History isn’t a machine, automatically repeating itself, but it does rhyme, as Mark Twain is said to have commented. And sometimes it rhymes in macabre ways. More The post Sleepless Again: Or What the World of Yesterday Says About Trump’s Attack on Venezuela and the World of Today appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Minnesota Day Care Fraud Story: Trump Says Fraud is a Big Problem When Black People Do It
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2026-01-06T06:59:57Z
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description: Trump has been just fine with public sector fraud in the past. The largest single biggest rip-off in U.S. history occurred under the Paycheck Protection Program created during the pandemic in Trump’s first term. The Inspector General of the Small Business Administration (SBA) estimated that there may have been as much as $200 billion in fraudulent payments in the program, which was administered by the SBA. More The post The Minnesota Day Care Fraud Story: Trump Says Fraud is a Big Problem When Black People Do It appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump, Venezuela and the Roosevelt Corollary
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date: 2026-01-06T06:59:46Z
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subject: trump
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description: Theodore Roosevelt was one of our most interesting and progressive presidents. Donald Trump is uninteresting and uninterested to the extreme and is a political obscurantist. Nevertheless, Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela will ineluctably link him with Roosevelt and the Roosevelt Corollary from 1904. U.S. citizens are generally familiar with the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, particularly More The post Trump, Venezuela and the Roosevelt Corollary appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Naked Imperialism in Venezuela
type: item
creator: David S. D’Amato
date: 2026-01-06T06:58:23Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
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subject: Imperialism
subject: Leading Article
subject: naked
subject: sources
subject: Venezuela
description: Trump has never been a peace president or a principled opponent of aggressive war and imperial looting. His crude rhetoric, with its open acknowledgement of Venezuela’s oil riches, merely removes the polite, decorous language we’ve come to expect from our political figureheads. The U.S. government is not pursuing a new logic or discarding old values. It is reinstating our political-economic system’s commitment to imperialism and extraction, only without any pretense to humanitarian motivations or democracy-building. If the past several years have taught us anything politically, it is that the old categories of identity and ideological narrative are no longer capable of assuaging people’s fears or satisfying their need for answers. More The post Naked Imperialism in Venezuela appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Mud, Poetry and Political Imagination
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creator: Julie Wark
date: 2026-01-06T06:57:21Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Culture
subject: imagination:
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subject: sources
description: The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets. – James Baldwin, “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity” “Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.” – Adrienne More The post Mud, Poetry and Political Imagination appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Moral Bankruptcy of the West Can No Longer Be Ignored
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creator: Hamza Shehryar
date: 2026-01-06T06:57:13Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: After months of thinly veiled threats, disregard for international law, and the brutal murder of fishermen in the Caribbean Sea, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have achieved what they set out to do – what many on the Left had been warning about for months. On January 3, the US bombed sites across Venezuela and More The post The Moral Bankruptcy of the West Can No Longer Be Ignored appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The (Over)Reach Of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza
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creator: Phil Rockstroh
date: 2026-01-06T06:55:13Z
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subject: gangster,
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subject: overreach
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subject: the
subject: Venezuela
description: The Trump administration’s military aggression against the people of Venezuela proves the dictum: US/Western imperialism is gangsterism on an international level. The World has witnessed an attempted smash and grab/shakedown operation, and extortion racket perpetrated by a gangster state. Of course, Trump is going to strut and preen and sputter braggadocio about his exercise in More The post The (Over)Reach Of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Venal Reactions: US Allies Validate Maduro’s Abduction
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-01-06T06:52:59Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: abduction
subject: allies
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: maduro’s
subject: reactions
subject: sources
subject: validate
subject: venal
description: On the surface, abducting a Head of State is a piratical act eschewed by States. A Head of State enjoys absolute immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction, known as ratione personae, at least till the term of office concludes. The International Court of Justice was clear enough about this principle in the 2002 Arrest Warrant Case, holding that high More The post Venal Reactions: US Allies Validate Maduro’s Abduction appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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How This Federal Legislation Would Save Veterans’ Lives
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creator: David McCall
date: 2026-01-06T06:52:51Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: CounterPunch+
subject: federal
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description: Marcelo Assis served as an Army medic from 1998 to 2002 and went on to build a purpose-driven civilian career as a licensed plumber, gas company worker, and union activist. Assis, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 12000 at Southern Connecticut Gas, wants to see other veterans thrive like he has. He knows that they More The post How This Federal Legislation Would Save Veterans’ Lives appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Perilous Shift in Weapons Sales to Taiwan
type: item
creator: Jianlu Bi
date: 2026-01-06T06:50:46Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: Taiwan
subject: the
subject: weapons
description: The recent announcement by the U.S. government of a record-breaking $11.1 billion arms package for Taiwan marks a dangerous escalation that threatens to shatter the fragile peace of the Taiwan Strait. Although Washington cloaks these transactions in the language of “regional stability,” a deep analysis of the hardware and the timing reveals a predatory strategy. More The post The Perilous Shift in Weapons Sales to Taiwan appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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West Coast Levee Failures Show Growing Risks From America’s Aging Flood Defenses
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creator: Farshid Vahedifard
date: 2026-01-06T06:48:53Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: america’s
subject: articles 2015
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description: In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across Washington, Oregon and California, unloading enormous amounts of rain. As rivers surged, they overtopped or breached multiple levees – those long, often unnoticed barriers holding floodwaters back from homes and towns. Most of the time, levees don’t demand attention. They quietly do their job, year More The post West Coast Levee Failures Show Growing Risks From America’s Aging Flood Defenses appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Venezuela and Congress’s Duty to Act
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date: 2026-01-06T06:06:44Z
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description: The elements behind Trump’s war on Venezuela are fourfold. They center on the theft of Venezuela’s oil; the removal of Cuba’s primary lifeline; the protection of the dollar-based petrodollar; and Trump’s desperate need to deflect attention from the deepening quagmire that is the Epstein scandal. And the ultimate question they raise is: will his blatantly More The post Venezuela and Congress’s Duty to Act appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnap of Maduro was very wrong
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description: Asia Pacific Report Amid widespread condemnation of the United States over its brazen weekend attack on Venezuela around the world and in the UN Security Council today, Senator Bernie Sanders has posted on social media six reasons why the operation to kidnap President Nicolás Maduro on Venezuela was very wrong. Abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro told
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Amid widespread condemnation of the United States over its brazen weekend attack on Venezuela around the world and in the UN Security Council today, Senator Bernie Sanders has posted on social media six reasons why the operation to kidnap President Nicolás Maduro on Venezuela was very wrong. Abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro told a packed New York City courtroom that he was “innocent”, a “decent man”, and that he had been “kidnapped”, in his first public comments since the US attack, reports Al Jazeera. Members of the 15-strong UN Security Council (UNSC), including key US allies, condemned Washington and warned that the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife by US special forces could be a precedent-setting event for international law. READ MORE: ‘I’m still president,’ says Venezuela’s abducted leader Maduro in NYC court US critics and allies condemn Maduro’s abduction at UN Security Council Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour – revealing what a lie US foreign policy really is The reasons Senator Sanders (Democrat-Vermont) has given why Trump’s actions were wrong are: It is illegal and unconstitutional. Congress did not authorise or even know about this military action. It will make the world less safe. If international law is ignored, any nation or terrorist organisation can justify violent attack by pointing to Trump’s actions in Venezuela. This was Putin’s logic in Ukraine. It is blatant imperialism. Powerful nations do not have the legal or moral right to invade smaller countries to steal their natural resources. Venezuela’s oil belongs to the people of Venezuela, not US corporations. At a time when the entire world is moving away from fossil fuels for cheaper and non-polluting sustainable energies, protecting the interests of Big Oil is bad for the climate and bad economics. Maduro is corrupt and anti-democratic. So is MBS of Saudi Arabia. So are many other leaders around the world. Just because we do not li…

Out-scooped by Trump – the US attack in Nigeria did indeed point to the operation to kidnap Venezuela’s Maduro
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description: ANALYSIS: By Walden Bello US President Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it immediately, not only to get the story out first but to warn the world if it’s about something bad that might be coming. Shortly after
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Walden Bello US President Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has taught me a lesson: that if you think you have a scoop, you file it immediately, not only to get the story out first but to warn the world if it’s about something bad that might be coming. Shortly after Trump bombed Nigeria on Christmas day, I wrote an article that said his real aim was to send a message to Maduro and that among the options he was entertaining was a SEAL-type operation to capture or kill Maduro. How did I come to this conclusion? I have no assets in the US intelligence community. I was completely running on instinct, and my instincts told me that the egomaniac Trump wanted to eclipse Obama’s feat in sending in the SEALS to kill Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad in 2011, just as he wanted badly to get the Nobel Peace Prize that Obama got. READ MORE: US corporations are ready to cash in on Venezuela Global Battlefields: My close encounters with dictatorship, capital, empire, and love But it was the holidays and, out of consideration for the folks that run my stories, who deserved a New Year’s break to be with their families, I sat on it after I finished it on December 27 and only sent it to Foreign Policy in Focus on January 2, eight hours before the Caracas operation that kidnapped Maduro, in violation of all the norms of civilised conduct among states. But though out-scooped by Trump, I still think that there are elements in the unfiled article that could be useful in helping us anticipate what could unfold in the days and weeks ahead. So here’s the scoop that wasn’t. Trump strikes Nigeria but real target is Venezuela The Trump regime’s air strikes on Islamic State targets in Nigeria on Christmas Day may have had symbolic significance but no strategic value. There will likely be no impact on the efforts of the militant group called Lakurawa, allied to ISIS, to establish a base in Sokoto state. Many have been puzzled by the attacks that involved the…

Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact
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description: ANALYSIS: By Dr Satyendra Prasad Internationally, we are marking the 2025 Human Rights Day at a time of extraordinary retreat from human rights protection across the World. Every human right, every breach of human right and every advance in the protection of human rights must matter equally to us. The frameworks for human rights protection
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Dr Satyendra Prasad Internationally, we are marking the 2025 Human Rights Day at a time of extraordinary retreat from human rights protection across the World. Every human right, every breach of human right and every advance in the protection of human rights must matter equally to us. The frameworks for human rights protection are well established internationally reflecting the genesis of the international system in the horrors of the Second World War. Social, cultural, political, women’s, indigenous, children’s, and all fundamental human rights are well protected in international laws that have evolved since then. What may seem like a paralysis in protection of fundamental human rights internationally today does not arise from the absence of protections in international law but from the fractures that characterise the international interstate system in a phase of severe disruption. READ MORE: How climate change is threatening human rights Climate change demands a step up on human rights protection <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-120808 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Dr-Satyendra-Prasad-WN-300tall.png" alt="Fiji’s former ambassador to the UN Dr Satyendra Prasad" width="300" height="402" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Dr-Satyendra-Prasad-WN-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Dr-Satyendra-Prasad-WN-300tall-224x300.png 224w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Fiji’s former ambassador to the UN Dr Satyendra Prasad . . . “When the Blue Pacific discusses human rights impacts of climate change, it is shaped by our lived realities..” Image: Wansolwara News The significant advances in protection of human rights internationally arose from a rare postwar geopolitical consensus. That global consensus is dead. Though the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have their origins in this context, it was n…

El Salvador, Again
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description: The United States and its ally incite new levels of international chaos.
encoded: The United States and its ally incite new levels of international chaos. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Nyki Duda.

Trump says he’ll unleash Venezuela’s oil. But who wants it?
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creator: Jake Bittle
date: 2026-01-06T00:15:35Z
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description: As oil prices fall and demand nears a peak, exploiting Venezuela’s heavy crude reserves won’t be as easy as Trump thinks.
encoded: Shortly after launching a dramatic raid in which U.S. forces abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, President Donald Trump justified the action with a promise to revive Venezuela’s moribund oil industry. The country has by far the largest claimed reserves of crude oil in the world, accounting for almost a fifth of the world’s remaining known crude oil, but its production has plummeted under Maduro, who has ruled the country since 2013. “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” Trump said during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in which he announced Maduro’s capture. This intervention comes at a pivotal movement for the global oil industry, which continues to stare down the prospect of a broad transition to renewable energy. For this reason, it’s not obvious that future markets can justify a surge of investment in Venezuela. On one hand, the country’s extra-heavy crude oil is perfect for diesel and jet fuel, which are helpful in hard-to-decarbonize industries. This makes it less threatened by the meteoric rise of electric vehicles displacing gasoline-powered cars. On the other hand, the world is already experiencing an overall glut of oil, and analysts expect demand to peak in the next decade. While there are buyers for additional oil that could be pumped in Venezuela — some of them on the U.S. Gulf Coast — experts say a total revival on the order that Trump is promising may not be in the cards. “There’s a guaranteed market for it, but a market that has its limitations in size,” said Antoine Halff, the founder of the climate and data analysis firm Kayrros and a non-resident fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. As electric vehicles and renewable energy continue to expand, the world appears to be approaching a peak in oil demand. While …

The Americas will never be the same after Trump invasion of Venezuela
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The Americas will never be the same
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What’s Next in Trump’s War on Venezuela?
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date: 2026-01-05T22:01:22Z
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CPJ, 37 others urge respect for human rights, press freedom in Venezuela’s transition
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-01-05T21:09:54Z
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 37 other civil society and press freedom organizations in a joint statement calling on Venezuelan authorities to guarantee a peaceful and democratic transition that respects human rights and freedom of expression after President Nicolás Maduro was captured by the United States in a January 3 strike. As documented by CPJ, Maduro’s administration launched a media...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 37 other civil society and press freedom organizations in a joint statement calling on Venezuelan authorities to guarantee a peaceful and democratic transition that respects human rights and freedom of expression after President Nicolás Maduro was captured by the United States in a January 3 strike. As documented by CPJ, Maduro’s administration launched a media crackdown following the country’s disputed July 2024 elections that saw several journalists arrested in connection with their work. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have since been transported to the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges. The statement calls for an “immediate, firm, and coordinated international response grounded in human rights and democratic principles, upholding multilateralism and constructive dialogue to preserve Latin America as a region free from war.” Read the full statement in Spanish here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

CLARA YSÉ "Lettre à M" (La Simfonia de Santa Maria, Cadaqués, 2025)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-01-05T19:34:55Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Venezuelans deserve democracy not fossil fuel-driven regime change
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-05T19:27:41Z
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subject: sources
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description: Global Witness has criticised the US attack on Venezuela in what the Trump administration says will enable US companies to exploit the country’s vast fossil fuel reserves. The investigative campaigning organisation has called for a peaceful and democr...
encoded: Global Witness has criticised the US attack on Venezuela in what the Trump administration says will enable US companies to exploit the country’s vast fossil fuel reserves. The investigative campaigning organisation has called for a peaceful and democratic solution that allows the people of Venezuela to decide the future of their country and resources. After the US conducted an attack on the Latin American country and abducted Maduro, President Trump said that: “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies – the biggest anywhere in the world – go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country. We’re going to have a presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil… we’re going to be taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground,” Trump stated. Global Witness CEO Mike Davis said: “Trump’s attack on Venezuela reminds us that a world dependent on fossil fuels is one that’s riven with conflict, instability and human rights abuses. “Much of the oil and gas the world uses is controlled by regimes that are undemocratic and systematically abuse human rights. We know that these qualities breed instability but the global addiction to fossil fuels entrenches that harmful power and condemns us all to the impacts of further conflicts. “Switching to renewables is great for the climate but it is also a form of liberation, as it frees us all from dependence on dictators and warmongers. “At COP30 in Brazil, 80 countries pledged to develop national plans to phase down their use of fossil fuels. Events of the past two days in Venezuela underscore how urgently not just plans, but action, to end dependence on oil and gas are.” A history of oil and power Following Venezuela’s nationalisation of its oil industry in 1976, there has been tension between its government, the US and the foreign oil companies operating in the country. In the late 90s and 2000s, Venezuela introduced policies a…

CLARA YSÉ & LOU DU PONTAVICE "La Malagueña" (La Simfonia de Santa Maria, Cadaqués, 2025)
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AI’s Imperial Agenda With Karen Hao ⎹ The Intercept Briefing
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Law Prof. David Cole on the Illegality of U.S. Attack on Venezuela
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 5, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 5, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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‘Hands off Venezuela!’: Baltimoreans protest Trump invasion
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Oxfam condemns the violation of international law in Venezuela and warns of its impact on peace, democracy and human rights
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description: Oxfam categorically rejects the recent US military intervention in Venezuelan territory, which constitutes a violation of international law and an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country. This action threatens regional...
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Graham Nash
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‘What an authoritarian oligarchy looks like’: Trump says oil execs tipped off about Venezuela attack
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UN News Today 05 January 2026
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description: Venezuela: Security Council convenes in New York after Maduro extractionUkraine: UNOCHA supports victims of latest deadly Kharkiv attacksEthiopia: Refugee response now at breaking point, warns WFP
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Ghosts in the Machine: Israel’s Military Myths and the Private Equity State
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creator: Kate Horgan
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description: In the first part of the program we welcome back Dr. Shir Hever to talk about what’s really going on behind the media veil of an infallible Israel. Dr. Hever debunks Israel’s claims that they can become militarily independent, and the effect of both mi...
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The EU’s Extralegal Sanctions Regime
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description: EU Sanctions against the block’s own citizens and residents are a horrible development toward a totalitarian future. Their extralegal nature is what gives them their force. A proffered explanation. It has come as a shock to many of us in the alternative media sphere when, on December 15, the EU put the esteemed analyst, political […] The post The EU’s Extralegal Sanctions Regime first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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What’s Next in Trump’s War on Venezuela?
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What’s Next in Trump’s War on Venezuela?
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Law Prof. David Cole on the Illegality of U.S. Attack on Venezuela
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Report from Caracas on U.S. Attack & Maduro Abduction
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date: 2026-01-05T15:42:07Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 5, 2026
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Iranian Security Forces Shoot At Protesters
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Why do we need to connect to the natural world to survive? #shorts
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Where Democracy Breaks Down
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-01-05T14:00:47Z
subject: Sources
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Massive Russian Attack On Kyiv Hits Medical Clinic, Kills Patient
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date: 2026-01-05T13:58:37Z
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Trump “Just Wants Oil,” Not Democracy: What’s Next in Trump’s War on Venezuela?
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date: 2026-01-05T13:39:53Z
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description: Democracy Now! discusses the attack on Venezuela with two Venezuelan American scholars: Alejandro Velasco, an associate history professor at New York University, and Miguel Tinker Salas, emeritus professor of history at Pomona College. The pro...
encoded: Democracy Now! discusses the attack on Venezuela with two Venezuelan American scholars: Alejandro Velasco, an associate history professor at New York University, and Miguel Tinker Salas, emeritus professor of history at Pomona College. The professors react to President Trump’s comments on the presence of oil in the region and claims that Venezuela had “stolen” oil from U.S. companies. “There was no taking of 'American property or American oil' — it was Venezuelan oil,” says Tinker Salas. “It belonged to Venezuela.” Velasco also comments on Marco Rubio, a central figure in the U.S. campaign against Venezuela, who may have another country as his ultimate target. “Rubio’s primary interest in the region is not Venezuela, it’s not Colombia, it’s not Mexico — it’s Cuba,” says Velasco. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Imperialist Intervention”: Law Prof. David Cole on the Illegality of U.S. Attack on Venezuela
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date: 2026-01-05T13:27:34Z
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description: The Trump administration did not seek congressional authorization prior to attacking Venezuela, as is required by the Constitution. It also violated “probably the first principle of international law … that countries have to respect thei...
encoded: The Trump administration did not seek congressional authorization prior to attacking Venezuela, as is required by the Constitution. It also violated “probably the first principle of international law … that countries have to respect their neighbors, and they can’t simply invade a neighbor or any other sovereign nation because they don’t like the way they are running things there,” says law professor David Cole. The attack was clearly not a law enforcement operation, as the administration has claimed, but an “imperialist intervention,” says Cole, who notes President Trump’s comments on extracting oil from the region. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Venezuela Is Not Going to Be a U.S. Colony”: Report from Caracas on U.S. Attack & Maduro Abduction
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-05T13:13:53Z
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description: U.S. forces attacked Venezuela and abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a Saturday night raid. About 80 people were reportedly killed, including 32 Cubans. Democracy Now! speaks with Andreína Chávez, a Venezuelan report...
encoded: U.S. forces attacked Venezuela and abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a Saturday night raid. About 80 people were reportedly killed, including 32 Cubans. Democracy Now! speaks with Andreína Chávez, a Venezuelan reporter based in Caracas, who calls the strikes an “imperialist attack.” Trump also said the U.S. would take the oil from Venezuela, which has the world’s largest proven reserves. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for January 5, 2026
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date: 2026-01-05T13:00:00Z
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description: U.S. Launches Attack on Venezuela, Captures Maduro and His Wife, Trump Threatens Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Iran and Mexico After Attack on Venezuela, Secretary of State Rubio Warns Cuban Government After U.S. Attack on Venezuela, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Congratulates Trump on “Perfect Operation” in Venezuela, Russia Affirms Support for Venezuelan Gov’t After Attacking Ukraine’s Second-Largest City Kharkiv, Greenland’s Prime Minister Nielsen Fires Back Against Trump’s Threats, Top Democrats Say Trump Admin Still Has Not Briefed Congress About Venezuela Attack, Protesters Worldwide Condemn U.S. Assault on Venezuela, Trump Threatens to Strike Iran on Behalf of Protesters, Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Resigns While Appealing Felony Conviction for Aiding Immigrant
encoded: U.S. Launches Attack on Venezuela, Captures Maduro and His Wife Trump Threatens Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Iran and Mexico After Attack on Venezuela Secretary of State Rubio Warns Cuban Government After U.S. Attack on Venezuela Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Congratulates Trump on "Perfect Operation" in Venezuela Russia Affirms Support for Venezuelan Gov't After Attacking Ukraine's Second-Largest City Kharkiv Greenland's Prime Minister Nielsen Fires Back Against Trump's Threats Top Democrats Say Trump Admin Still Has Not Briefed Congress About Venezuela Attack Protesters Worldwide Condemn U.S. Assault on Venezuela Trump Threatens to Strike Iran on Behalf of Protesters Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Resigns While Appealing Felony Conviction for Aiding Immigrant This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-01-05 Monday
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Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases
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creator: Nicole Santa Cruz
date: 2026-01-05T10:00:00Z
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description: The post Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: What happened: Judge Jennifer Green, who oversees the Maricopa Superior Court’s criminal department, has quietly rolled out a program to facilitate quicker resolutions to death penalty cases in Arizona’s most-populous county. The court has begun issuing orders for the prosecution and defense to participate in settlement conferences two years after a notice to seek the death penalty is filed, according to a statement from the court. The orders are meant to “encourage” settlement talks in capital cases, which often drag on for many years only to end with prosecutors reducing the charges. Court officials said current and retired judges will conduct the hearings. Why it’s happening: An investigation by ProPublica and ABC15 Arizona in June found that prosecutors in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office have frequently pursued the death penalty but rarely secured death sentences. In nearly 350 such cases over 20 years, just 13% ended in a death sentence. The outcomes raised questions about the office’s judgment in pursuing the death penalty, said former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, who called for a review of capital charging decisions after the news organizations shared their findings with him. “Once you allege death, the whole game changes,” Romley told ProPublica and ABC15 at the time. “So many more resources go into that particular case.” Capital cases can be litigated across the terms of multiple county attorneys and cost more than a million dollars each to prosecute. In the hundreds of Maricopa County death penalty cases pursued since 2007, the cost of furnishing the accused with an adequate defense alone has totaled $289 million. That figure did not include the costs of the prosecution, which the county attorney’s office said are not recorded in a way that can be tracked separately. Romley applauded the court for implementing the settlement conferences. “The courts have recognized this isn’t the right way to be doing this,” he said, adding that the orders c…

DN! Monday, January 5, 2026
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DN! Monday, January 5, 2026
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The biggest climate migration problem may be that there’s not enough of it
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creator: Julian Hattem
date: 2026-01-05T09:45:00Z
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subject: Climate
subject: Culture
subject: International
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description: In his new book, Julian Hattem explores how migration can be a climate solution — not just for those who are able to move, but for their home communities as well.
encoded: In Guatemala, outside the town of Jocotán, in a house hidden from the main road by a thin wall of vegetation, I met Elena, a slight 38-year-old with bright eyes and dark hair that was just starting to show the first hints of gray. Elena had seven kids whom she spent most of her time caring for, while her husband found unsteady work as a for-hire farmer. Her husband’s job paid enough to get by, just barely, but the family struggled to travel to see a doctor for their 5-year-old daughter, who had an undiagnosed heart issue. The eldest daughter, who was 19, had been going to school but dropped out during the COVID-19 pandemic because they could no longer afford the $40 per month for books, her uniform, and other costs. Meanwhile everything was getting more expensive, Elena complained, and it often did not rain enough to yield a fruitful harvest. We met in a neighbor’s dirt-floor compound, where chickens and ducks pecked at a trash heap and muddy patches of ground. Behind me, tortillas smoked on the stove in the detached cinder-block kitchen. Nearby, cars and trucks rumbled down the main road heading to the Honduras border a half hour away. When I asked Elena about the prospect of going to the United States, a shy smile crept across her face. Her husband talks about it, she said, but she knows it’s just a dream. It would cost thousands of dollars to hire a coyote and make the trip, and the only way they could raise that kind of cash would be to put up their land as collateral. Some of her neighbors have made that bet, and sometimes it has worked out, but not always. Migration would be a huge risk. It could take weeks or months for Elena’s husband to travel and establish himself in the United States, assuming he could even get in, during which time Elena would have no source of income. If things didn’t work out and her husband was deported or couldn’t pay off the coyote’s fee plus interest — or worse, if he was injured or killed en route — their land could be swiped from…

US Strikes on Venezuela Sound an Alarm for Global Governance
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creator: Global Times
date: 2026-01-05T09:01:13Z
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description: Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas on January 3, 2026. The US military was behind a series of strikes against the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Saturday, which reportedly led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, US […] The post US Strikes on Venezuela Sound an Alarm for Global Governance first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Fire-at-Fuerte-Tiuna.png" alt="" width="505" height="302" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-164138" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Fire-at-Fuerte-Tiuna.png 505w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Fire-at-Fuerte-Tiuna-300x179.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px" /> Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas on January 3, 2026. The US military was behind a series of strikes against the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Saturday, which reportedly led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, US media reported. Photo: AFP Launching a military strike against a sovereign country in the name of “law enforcement” and forcibly seizing another country’s president by relying on overwhelming power – this is a scenario so outrageous that even Hollywood screenwriters would struggle to imagine it. Yet Washington has made it a reality in full view of the world, shocking the international community. UN Secretary-General António Guterres was deeply alarmed, warning that the move sets “a dangerous precedent,” while Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated that such actions are “the first step toward a world of violence, chaos, and instability.” Within a day, many countries around the world condemned the US’ hegemonic behavior. Even US allies, for the most part, expressed their lack of support by stressing that international law must be respected. According to various sources, the US is highly satisfied with both the process and the outcome of the military operation. What the international community sees, however, is the enormous damage and grave harm caused by it. The US side places its so-called federal indictment above the authority of international law and substitutes military violence for diplomatic m…

With the Gaza genocide, the world changed – sovereignty died and thuggery became a system
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date: 2026-01-05T08:41:37Z
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description: COMMENTARY: By Sameer Barghouthi The road from Beijing to Taiwan no longer seems impossible. Nothing appears to prevent Moscow — should it decide — from abducting the Ukrainian president from the heart of Kyiv. There is no longer any real immunity protecting political leadership anywhere, including Iranian leaders. The reason is not international chaos. READ
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Sameer Barghouthi The road from Beijing to Taiwan no longer seems impossible. Nothing appears to prevent Moscow — should it decide — from abducting the Ukrainian president from the heart of Kyiv. There is no longer any real immunity protecting political leadership anywhere, including Iranian leaders. The reason is not international chaos. READ MORE: Trump’s abduction of Maduro escalates concerns over potential war with Iran Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour – revealing what a lie US foreign policy really is The reason is Gaza. Gaza: The moment of great exposure Gaza is not a passing war, nor a limited regional conflict. Gaza is the moment when the international system collapsed entirely. In Gaza, the following fell: International law; The concept of sovereignty; The neutrality of international institutions; and The claim of Western values A people were annihilated before the eyes of the world. Hospitals, schools, and United Nations facilities were destroyed. Children were killed. Starvation was used as a weapon. And yet — no one was held accountable. When the killer walks free in Gaza Israel’s impunity in Gaza was not a detail; it was a dangerous precedent. A clear message reached every capital: Do whatever you want, as long as you are protected by the United States. From that moment, red lines collapsed: Sovereignty was no longer protected; Leaders lost immunity; Agreements lost meaning; and International courts lost relevance If the annihilation of a besieged city is possible, what prevents the kidnapping of a president, the assassination of a leader, or the toppling of an entire state? America: From guardian of order to sponsor of crime The United States is no longer a mediator or even a biased partner. It has become the political guarantor of crime. It has: Provided cover; Supplied weapons; Used the veto; Obstructed accountability; and And legitimised extermination Then it has continued speaking of “international orde…

Trump Has Metaphorsed into Caligula
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creator: George Galloway
date: 2026-01-05T08:19:02Z
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description: Maduro isn’t a gunrunner, they’re in Rubio’s backyard sniffing the product. He was betrayed. If you want the oil Donald, you’ll have to invade, despite your bone spurs. The post Trump Has Metaphorsed into Caligula first appeared...
encoded: Maduro isn’t a gunrunner, they’re in Rubio’s backyard sniffing the product. He was betrayed. If you want the oil Donald, you’ll have to invade, despite your bone spurs. The post Trump Has Metaphorsed into Caligula first appeared on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by George Galloway.

Blow to Trump’s Venezuela Plan after Maduro’s Deputy Contradicts US President
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creator: Janta Ka Reporter
date: 2026-01-05T08:11:54Z
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description: Donald Trump’s plan to smoothly run Venezuela after attacking the sovereign country and capturing its president with his wife has faced a major setback. This was after the Venezuelan armed forces and Nicolas Maduro’s deputy condemned the US invasion of their country and capturing of their president and the First Lady. Rifat Jawaid digs deeper […] The post Blow to Trump’s Venezuela Plan after Maduro’s Deputy Contradicts US President first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Donald Trump’s plan to smoothly run Venezuela after attacking the sovereign country and capturing its president with his wife has faced a major setback. This was after the Venezuelan armed forces and Nicolas Maduro’s deputy condemned the US invasion of their country and capturing of their president and the First Lady. Rifat Jawaid digs deeper in Venezuelan history to explore why anti-Americanism has been an integral part of the ideology of the current lot governing Venezuela. The post Blow to Trump’s Venezuela Plan after Maduro’s Deputy Contradicts US President first appeared on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by Janta Ka Reporter.

Journalist, editor, and podcaster Zach Stafford on not doing it alone (and doing it for more than yourself)
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creator: Max Freedman
date: 2026-01-05T08:00:00Z
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description: Sam Sanders just left your podcast Vibe Check after three years. I’m curious how you felt when Sam said he was leaving.
encoded: Sam Sanders just left your podcast Vibe Check after three years. I’m curious how you felt when Sam said he was leaving. It was complicated for a few [reasons]. One, the show began as a threesome, so to break it up and not be the original three felt very much like I was living out Destiny’s Child’s history, which was my favorite pop girl group as a kid. There’s that first very human reaction of, “Oh God, my life’s about to change.” And that sucks because change is scary. As a friend, I was not surprised at all. Sam is such a force within the podcasting space, and because we are very close, and we live in the same city and we’re together a lot, I began to notice that juggling the two shows and other ambitions he had creatively was a lot, and he was really close to burnout if he didn’t take a break. When we found out that all our shows were going [up to] twice a week, that just became the big sign flashing in the sky that something needed to change for us all to keep building these things. That’s when the decision became real. It was a shock but not a shock. It became a real good test of our friendship, which still remains very strong and intact. We even did a show together after that live at The Ford, so it worked out. Sam did something about the burnout before you could, but did you have any moments where you were like, “I should talk to him about this”? Oh, yeah. We’re friends, and doing anything with your friends, you have good days, bad days, weird days, and really wonderful days. I could tell things were getting tough to manage for all of us. When the new contract negotiations came up, he and I had really frank conversations—we all did—about, “Should you stay? Should you go? Is this an opportunity?” I looked to the universe for guidance, and weirdly enough, so much hit at once. All of our contracts were coming up at the same time. He had an opportunity to expand the show that’s under his actual name, which means a lot to him. Sam had a podcasting career before we…

Tel Aviv offers to train Australian police officers in Israel after Bondi
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-01-05T07:44:32Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Australian police
subject: Bondi attack
subject: Countering terrorism
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Israeli military
subject: Israeli police
subject: Israeli training
subject: OnePath
subject: Sources
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subject: Antisemitism
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subject: Asia Report
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Israeli government has offered to train senior Australian police officers in Israel as part of efforts to combat terrorism and antisemitism, reports OnePath Network. In a letter to Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said his government was “ready and willing to assist” following the
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Israeli government has offered to train senior Australian police officers in Israel as part of efforts to combat terrorism and antisemitism, reports OnePath Network. In a letter to Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said his government was “ready and willing to assist” following the Bondi beach massacre on December 14 which killed 15 civilians. “We bring extensive experience in combating radical Islamic terrorism and antisemitism,” Chikli wrote. READ MORE: Israel offers to train Australian police Israeli leaders condemned for politicising Bondi massacre ‘No evidence’ Australia’s Bondi gunmen trained in the Philippines: Official “We would welcome the opportunity to host and train senior Australian police officers and security personnel in Israel, sharing our expertise and best practices in countering terrorism and antisemitism.” This comes amid growing public scrutiny over the handling of the Bondi attack and broader concerns around antisemitism and Islamophobia in Australia. The Israeli offer has sparked criticism. Writing on social media, handala.bds said: “Might as well rollout the red carpet for Mossad [Israeli secret service]”. Juju_b.22 asked about the Israeli training offer: “To commit genoc1de?” Adam_h_y_k asked: “Train them in what? The Hannibal directive?” This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Tel Aviv offers to train Australian police officers in Israel after Bondi
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-01-05T07:44:32Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Israeli government has offered to train senior Australian police officers in Israel as part of efforts to combat terrorism and antisemitism, reports OnePath Network. In a letter to Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said his government was “ready and willing to assist” following the
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Israeli government has offered to train senior Australian police officers in Israel as part of efforts to combat terrorism and antisemitism, reports OnePath Network. In a letter to Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli said his government was “ready and willing to assist” following the Bondi beach massacre on December 14 which killed 15 civilians. “We bring extensive experience in combating radical Islamic terrorism and antisemitism,” Chikli wrote. READ MORE: Israel offers to train Australian police Israeli leaders condemned for politicising Bondi massacre ‘No evidence’ Australia’s Bondi gunmen trained in the Philippines: Official “We would welcome the opportunity to host and train senior Australian police officers and security personnel in Israel, sharing our expertise and best practices in countering terrorism and antisemitism.” This comes amid growing public scrutiny over the handling of the Bondi attack and broader concerns around antisemitism and Islamophobia in Australia. The Israeli offer has sparked criticism. Writing on social media, handala.bds said: “Might as well rollout the red carpet for Mossad [Israeli secret service]”. Juju_b.22 asked about the Israeli training offer: “To commit genoc1de?” Adam_h_y_k asked: “Train them in what? The Hannibal directive?” This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Captain America for Sale: $72 Billion
type: item
creator: Nika Dubrovsky
date: 2026-01-05T07:02:58Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: 72%
subject: america
subject: articles 2015
subject: billion
subject: captain
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: for
subject: Leading Article
subject: sale
subject: sources
description: On 5 December 2025, Netflix announced it would buy Warner Bros — including the film studio, TV studio, HBO, HBO Max, and the entire DC Comics universe — for $72 billion. The deal is expected to close, despite interest from Paramount, in the third quarter of 2026.​ Everyone is talking about higher subscription fees, tighter More The post Captain America for Sale: $72 Billion appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Roaming Charges: Preliminary Notes on a Kidnapping
type: item
creator: Jeffrey St. Clair
date: 2026-01-05T07:00:50Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: charges
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: kidnapping
subject: Leading Article
subject: notes
subject: preliminary
subject: roaming
subject: Roaming Charges
subject: sources
description: The cocksure boast that the US will "run" Venezuela appears to be another Trumpian fantasy. It’s impossible to “run a country,” if you don’t have control of it, which the US doesn’t by any measure. The Maduro government remains in place and defiant, even with Maduro renditioned to New York City. Indeed, the attack appears to have only strengthened the resolve of the Venezuelan people, instead of inspiring the chimerical uprising Rubio led Trump to expect, much as Rumsfeld and Cheney deceived Bush into believing about Iraq. More The post Roaming Charges: Preliminary Notes on a Kidnapping appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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“We’re Going to Run the Country:” Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela
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creator: Michelle Ellner
date: 2026-01-05T06:59:09Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: country
subject: going
subject: illegal
subject: Leading Article
subject: Occupation
subject: preparing
subject: run
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Venezuela
subject: were
description: I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and a living connection to the country being spoken about as if it were a possession, what I heard was very clear. And that clarity was chilling. More The post “We’re Going to Run the Country:” Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Arctic–Greenland–Florida Conga
type: item
creator: Robert Hunziker
date: 2026-01-05T06:59:05Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: arctic–greenland–florida
subject: articles 2015
subject: conga
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: sources
subject: the
description: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump’s FY2026 budget) from October 2024 to September 2025 temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, As of year-end, the status of the Arctic and Greenland present the world More The post The Arctic–Greenland–Florida Conga appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Could Venezuela Happen in Brazil?
type: item
creator: Brian Mier
date: 2026-01-05T06:58:42Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: brazil
subject: could
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: happen
subject: Leading Article
subject: sources
subject: Venezuela
description: We’ve been hearing for years from back-stabbing opportunists of the far right that Brazil’s Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores/PT) will transform Brazil into another Venezuela. For better or worse, 19 years of PT governments have proven the absurdity of those words. Now that the Trump administration, hailed by some self-proclaimed geopolitical analysts as a lesser More The post Could Venezuela Happen in Brazil? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Prominent Think Tank Joins Media in Endorsing Trump’s Foreign Policy
type: item
creator: Melvin Goodman
date: 2026-01-05T06:58:41Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: endorsing
subject: foreign
subject: joins
subject: Leading Article
subject: Media
subject: Policy
subject: prominent
subject: sources
subject: tank
subject: think
subject: trump’s
description: Donald Trump views armed dominance as the essential element of U.S. policy in the global arena. The New York Times and the Washington Post support his notions with their regular calls for greater military spending and nuclear modernization. Now it seems that the think tank community is joining the mainstream media in praising aspects of More The post Prominent Think Tank Joins Media in Endorsing Trump’s Foreign Policy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Stop Slandering Me, Mr. Trump
type: item
creator: Gustavo Petro
date: 2026-01-05T06:56:56Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: me.
subject: mr.
subject: slandering
subject: sources
subject: stop
subject: trump
description: I don’t know if Maduro is good or bad, not even if he’s a drug trafficker; in the files of the Colombian justice system, after half a century of dealing with the biggest cocaine mafias, the names of Nicolás Maduro or Cilia Flores don’t appear. Those who have come forward to denounce him are Venezuelan More The post Stop Slandering Me, Mr. Trump appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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American Imperialism and the Mad Fantasies of Donald Trump
type: item
creator: Kenn Maurice
date: 2026-01-05T06:53:50Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: american
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: donald
subject: fantasies
subject: Imperialism
subject: mad,
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: trump
description: Trump has said that he intends to “run Venezuela.” That should come as a surprise to the thousands of Venezuelans who have taken to the streets to denounce the American assault on its capital. Regardless of Trump’s fantasies, he can barely run the US, except by driving it further into the abyss. No matter how More The post American Imperialism and the Mad Fantasies of Donald Trump appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Restoring the Nobel Peace Prize to Its Peace-Promotion Vocation
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creator: Alfred de Zayas
date: 2026-01-05T06:53:48Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: it’s
subject: nobel
subject: Peace
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description: On 27 November 1897 the multi-millionaire Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament establishing a foundation to honour, among others “champions of peace”, those “who shall have done the most or the best work for creating the brotherhood of nations, for the abolition of reduction of standing armies, and for More The post Restoring the Nobel Peace Prize to Its Peace-Promotion Vocation appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Fraud, Drugs, and Hope for 2026
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2026-01-05T06:52:32Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: drugs
subject: economics
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subject: hope
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description: The year 2025 ends the way Donald Trump began his foray into politics: full-fledged, unapologetic racism. Team Trump is pushing his anti-Somali campaign for three big reasons. First, insofar as he succeeds, it justifies his mass deportation. He has explicitly attacked Somalis as a people and imposed new bans on their entering the country. The More The post Fraud, Drugs, and Hope for 2026 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-01-05T06:52:12Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
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description: For a country so upset about recognition being afforded peoples under their thumb and control, the Israelis have decided to get into the state recognition business with festive aplomb. Africa’s Somaliland presented itself as a suitable candidate, an entity that remains part of Somalia but has asserted its own autonomy since 1991. Israel’s recognition on December More The post Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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2026: The Year We Say ‘Enough is Enough’
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creator: George Ochenski
date: 2026-01-05T06:52:00Z
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description: It’s almost impossible to fathom the extent of the fall of democracy in our nation in one year — but 2025 indeed saw an assault on our freedoms across the board from the most authoritarian president and administration in recent history. Unfortunately, those same tendencies have trickled down through various state governments as well — More The post 2026: The Year We Say ‘Enough is Enough’ appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Does Legalization of Sex Work Create Trafficking and Sex Tourism?
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creator: Martha Rosenberg
date: 2026-01-05T06:51:37Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: create
subject: does
subject: legalization
subject: Sex
subject: sources
subject: tourism
subject: trafficking?
subject: work
description: With sex work (prostitution) legal in some parts of Europe, one place in the US and many parts of the world, questions about legalization abound. Will decriminalization help women who are just trying to make a living or create victims from trafficking and sex tourism? The revival of Jeffrey Epstein’s deeds heightens and crystallizes such human rights questions. Recently, More The post Does Legalization of Sex Work Create Trafficking and Sex Tourism? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395701" class="wp-image-395701 size-full" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/femalecopsforcp.jpg" alt="" width="669" height="579" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/femalecopsforcp.jpg 669w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/femalecopsforcp-500x433.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/femalecopsforcp-600x519.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px" /> Image: Martha Rosenberg. With sex work (prostitution) legal in some parts of Europe, one place in the US and many parts of the world, questions about legalization abound. Will decriminalization help women who are just trying to make a living or create victims from trafficking and sex tourism? The revival of Jeffrey Epstein’s deeds heightens and crystallizes such human rights questions. Recently, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pro-sex work legalization stance was highlighted–replete with its possible drawbacks. A story in the New York Post quotes critics who say they fear New York will “devolve into a hedonistic den of iniquity” under Mamdani. “The public needs to be fully aware that Mr. Mamdani wants a New York City where selling sex, buying sex, and promoting the sale of sex is completely normal and legal,” warned Sonia Ossorio, executive director of National Organization for Women NYC,” reported the Post. “The consequences” of decriminalizing prostitution would make New York “a sex tourism destination,” Ossorio said. Decriminalization advocates say abuse from pimps, clients and even police would lessen if the sector were decriminalized while others note that where sex work is legal, crime often follows including human trafficking. Overseas sex tourism is often cited as an example––commercial hubs where workers are often underage, coerced and non-consenting. Should Workers Be “Saved”? Some sex workers say they are just f…

What Planet Are We On?
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creator: Tom Engelhardt
date: 2026-01-05T06:48:03Z
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description: As 2026 begins, what a strange planet we find ourselves on. The two great empires of my youth, the Soviet Union (now Russia) and my own country, are clearly experiencing some version of imperial decline, even if Vladimir Putin is acting otherwise in Ukraine (as is Donald Trump in his own strange fashion in the Caribbean More The post What Planet Are We On? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Crisis of British Democracy
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creator: Paul Buhle - Raymond Tyler
date: 2026-01-05T06:46:06Z
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subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: crisis
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description: Paul Holden, The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy. New York: OR Books, 2025. 534pp. $26 +++ More than a half century ago, Ralph Miliband’s Parliamentary Socialism—published by Monthly Review Press in 1964—described the uncertain course of the Labour Party. It was, truth to tell, pretty much always uncertain about More The post The Crisis of British Democracy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395760" class="wp-image-395760 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/annie-spratt-icJ4Fxf1EEU-unsplash-680x454.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="454" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/annie-spratt-icJ4Fxf1EEU-unsplash-680x454.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/annie-spratt-icJ4Fxf1EEU-unsplash-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/annie-spratt-icJ4Fxf1EEU-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/annie-spratt-icJ4Fxf1EEU-unsplash-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/annie-spratt-icJ4Fxf1EEU-unsplash-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/annie-spratt-icJ4Fxf1EEU-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Annie Spratt. Paul Holden, The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy. New York: OR Books, 2025. 534pp. $26 +++ More than a half century ago, Ralph Miliband’s Parliamentary Socialism—published by Monthly Review Press in 1964—described the uncertain course of the Labour Party. It was, truth to tell, pretty much always uncertain about what its leaders meant when they called themselves socialists. They had carried over a vague sense, from earlier generations, that capitalism, a system of exploitation, somehow and sometime had to go. But left to their own devices, they could just as easily devote themselves protecting the Monarchy, a favorite project of Harold Wilson. Or to demanding somewhat better government services in lieu of public ownership of the means of production. At moments of real social crisis, as in the early 1930s, they would rush to join the Tories to save society, that is, to save capitalism from public bankruptcy. At present, they seem to be in a rush to do the same.…

From Minarets to City Hall
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creator: George Payne
date: 2026-01-05T06:25:53Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: city
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: from
subject: hall
subject: minarets
subject: sources
description: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass America likes to tell its story as a procession of wars won and enemies defeated. But its deeper moral history, the one that actually bends toward justice, has been written by those who resisted domination: slavery, empire, and the dangerous fiction that violence is More The post From Minarets to City Hall appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395783" class="wp-image-395783 size-full" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screen-Shot-2026-01-02-at-12.27.25-PM.png" alt="" width="550" height="370" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screen-Shot-2026-01-02-at-12.27.25-PM.png 550w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screen-Shot-2026-01-02-at-12.27.25-PM-500x336.png 500w" sizes="(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px" /> Youtube screenshot. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass America likes to tell its story as a procession of wars won and enemies defeated. But its deeper moral history, the one that actually bends toward justice, has been written by those who resisted domination: slavery, empire, and the dangerous fiction that violence is the engine of progress. On a cold January afternoon outside City Hall, Zohran Mamdani stepped into that unfinished struggle. As he raised his right hand and took the oath of office as mayor of New York City—the first Muslim ever to do so—he embodied a quieter American tradition: the insistence that conscience belongs in public life. The headlines captured the spectacle. But Mamdani’s inauguration matters less as pageantry than as moral signal. It arrives at the crossroads of a long American argument—about power and belonging, yes, but also about whether a nation repeatedly shaped by war can ever learn to govern itself through restraint. That argument predates the republic itself. When North Carolina debated ratifying the Constitution in 1788, Anti-Federalist William Lancaster warned that abolishing religious tests might allow Muslims to hold office. “Papists may occupy that chair,” he cautioned, “and Mahometans may take it.” What he framed as alarm now reads as reluctant foresight. Even then, Muslims were already here—not as lawmakers, but as the enslaved. Between five and twenty percent of enslaved Af…

‘Hands off Venezuela!’: Baltimoreans protest US invasion
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-01-05T04:13:49Z
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A Softening of Hearts: The Mayor Is Listening
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-01-05T03:58:46Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
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subject: dreams
subject: hearts,
subject: listening
subject: mayor
subject: softening
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subject: the
description: In a new year that promises to be as wretched, rancorous and bloody as the last one - cue oil lust and delusions of empire - we celebrate the stirring hope and promise of newly elected Democratic Socialist and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who h...
encoded: In a new year that promises to be as wretched, rancorous and bloody as the last one - cue oil lust and delusions of empire - we celebrate the stirring hope and promise of newly elected Democratic Socialist and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has embraced diversity, collectivism, and the rare chance to shape "lives we (will) fill with freedom" when for too long "freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it." Lesson for now: (Good) change happens. Yeah, we know the bad kind does too, like America's heedless, illegal attack on and kidnapping from the sovereign state of Venezuela, "actions of a rogue state" overseen by an addled, clueless, slurring commander-in-chief (sic) making fake claims and struggling to stay upright during his own purportedly exultant news conference on storming "blind into Caracas." Add in preening drunktank bully Hegseth bragging, "America is back!" - to deadly quagmires - and spineless lil' Marco disparaging a country, ostensibly Cuba, "run by incompetent, senile men" - oops - and their brazen disregard of legal mandates to consult with Congress by dismissing that entire, pesky branch of government as "so so weak" - all told, the insane, unschooled act of hubris that is their inevitably catastrophic return to "naked imperialism" is best summed up by James Fallows: "Good God." Which is why we'd rather bask, at least briefly, in Mamdani's stunning rise, and in the opportunity he represents "to transform and reinvent." "A moment like this comes rarely," he said at his jubilant inauguration, "and rarer still is it the people themselves whose hands are the ones upon the levers of change." Promising to govern "expansively and audaciously," Mamdani, 34, was ceremonially sworn in on New Year's Day by Bernie Sanders, a key political mentor, after taking his official oath the night before from A.G. Letitia James in the City Hall subway station. Both times, he put his hand on two Qurans - one a historic copy from the New York Public…

The (Over)Reach of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza
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creator: Phil Rockstroh
date: 2026-01-05T03:19:03Z
subject: Diosdado Cabello
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Nat Turner
subject: Sources
subject: cabello
subject: diosdado
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: from
subject: gangster,
subject: gaza
subject: imperium
subject: israel
subject: judaism
subject: mandate
subject: narco-state
subject: nat
subject: nicolas maduro
subject: Opinion
subject: overreach
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: turner
subject: United States
subject: Venezuela
subject: voice
subject: Zionism
description: The Trump administration’s military aggression against the people of Venezuela proves the dictum: US/Western imperialism is gangsterism on an international level. The World has witnessed an attempted smash and grab/shakedown operation, and extortion racket perpetrated by a gangster state. Of course, Trump is going to strut and preen and sputter braggadocio about his exercise in […] The post The (Over)Reach of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Capone.Trump_-300x169.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="169" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-164152" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Capone.Trump_-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Capone.Trump_-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Capone.Trump_.jpeg 960w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />The Trump administration’s military aggression against the people of Venezuela proves the dictum: US/Western imperialism is gangsterism on an international level. The World has witnessed an attempted smash and grab/shakedown operation, and extortion racket perpetrated by a gangster state. Of course, Trump is going to strut and preen and sputter braggadocio about his exercise in plundering Venezuela’s oil assets. Trump’s personality evinces the traits of a gangster given to ostentatious displays of his criminality, not the smart type who schemes from the shadows. The history of the Mob proves the latter’s reign is given to greater longevity. After his moment of (fantasized) glory (early signs point to egomaniacal overreach) the tanking US economy and the shadow of Epstein will continue the (dismal and deranged) undoing of the Bitcon Don. Trump’s increasing cusp-of-Alzheimer’s impulsiveness, his angry outbursts and non-sequitur-laced diatribes mirror Al Capone’s unseemly and pathetic end, undone, as syphilis ravaged the body and brain of the once king of the Chicago underworld. Regarding Trump’s lies about Venezuela being a narco-state The Hugo Chavez government halted CIA drug smuggling operations in the nation, decades back. Venezuela presents nada threat to the US on a military nor any other basis. And no, a contrived court case, sans a UN mandate and congressional resolution regarding war powers, does not constitute a legal justification for military action. Trum…

The Maduro Interruption
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creator: Dan Lieberman
date: 2026-01-05T01:38:44Z
subject: Carlos Andrés Pérez
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: kidnapping
subject: Petroleos de Venezuela
subject: Sources
subject: Sovereignty
subject: "Regime Change"
subject: andres
subject: carlos
subject: Crimes against Peace
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: History
subject: Hugo Chavez
subject: interruption
subject: maduro
subject: nicolas maduro
subject: Oil, Gas, Coal, Pipelines
subject: Opinion
subject: perez
subject: petroleos
subject: Sanctions
subject: sources
subject: sovereignty
subject: the
subject: United States
subject: Venezuela
subject: voice
description: Donald Trump’s assault on Venezuela and the seizure of its leader, Nicholas Maduro, interrupted the final preparation of an article that describes Trump’s assault on American democracy and his seizure of institutions in the governing apparatus. The assaults are related. Here is another article before presenting the previously prepared article. Unaware that the world is […] The post The Maduro Interruption first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Donald Trump’s assault on Venezuela and the seizure of its leader, Nicholas Maduro, interrupted the final preparation of an article that describes Trump’s assault on American democracy and his seizure of institutions in the governing apparatus. The assaults are related. Here is another article before presenting the previously prepared article. Unaware that the world is composed of sovereign nations, not all to the liking of one another, that they cooperate for benefit, and limit interferences according to international law, Trump has disregarded diplomatic norms, and imposed himself as the world leader, shaping nations, including his own, in his image. Argentina receives a $20 billion bribe to elect his favored despot; Iran, already battered by the Trump war machine, receives a threat to not harm a population that has been severely harmed by his sanctions, which amounts to a dictate for regime change; Gaza, destroyed by U.S. military assistance to Israel, will be resurrected in Trump style. South Africa, Somalia. Nigeria, and Honduras, among others, have also received the Trump touch of aiding look-alikes and scolding detractors. Uncertainty of the accuracy of press coverage of Maduro, leads to uncertainty of who is Maduro. Is he a corrupt despot, an enlightened despot, or a democratically elected leader with a mandate? Compared to Trump, he leans to the middle description. Maduro has subdued his adversaries; Trump daily demolishes them ─ Joe Biden has suffered a thousand wounds. Maduro may have his inner circle of family and friends; Trump has a magnitude wider inner circle of only family, friends, and sycophants. Maduro may have formed support from the Venezuela armed forces; Trump, before the Quantico meeting, told the press, “I’m going to be meeting with generals and with admirals and with leaders, and if I don’t like somebody, I’m gonna fire them right on the spot.” Maduro may have violated the Venezuela constitution; Trump has shredded the U.S. constitution. M…

US attack on Venezuela ‘clearly illegal’ under UN charter, says former NZ prime minister Helen Clark
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-01-04T21:59:35Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: RNZ Morning Report
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subject: UN Charter
subject: US violations
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subject: attack
subject: charter:
subject: clark
subject: clearly:
subject: Crime
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: former
subject: Global
subject: helen
subject: Helen Clark
subject: Human Rights
subject: illegal
subject: International Criminal Court
subject: kidnappings
subject: military
subject: minister,
subject: morning
subject: new zealand
subject: nicolas maduro
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Politics
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subject: says
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subject: Syndicate
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subject: us invasion
subject: Venezuela
subject: violations
description: RNZ News There is no doubt that Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela was illegal, former prime minister and UN leader Helen Clark says. Over the weekend, the US attacked the Venezuelan capital Caracas and captured the South American nation’s president and his wife, citing alleged drug offences. Nicolás Maduro is now being held in a
encoded: RNZ News There is no doubt that Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela was illegal, former prime minister and UN leader Helen Clark says. Over the weekend, the US attacked the Venezuelan capital Caracas and captured the South American nation’s president and his wife, citing alleged drug offences. Nicolás Maduro is now being held in a federal jail in New York City, and is expected to appear in court this week. READ MORE: Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour — revealing what a lie US foreign policy really is Venezuela army ready to ‘confront imperial aggression’ after Maduro seized <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" src="https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--kNa-arUd--/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_576/v1767464261/4JVCD6K_AFP__20260103__89J48G4__v3__MidRes__TopshotUsVenezuelaConflictMaduro_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD" alt="This image was posted on US President Donald Trump's Truth Social account on 3 January 2026, showing Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro onboard the USS Iwo Jima after the US military kidnapped him" width="576" height="765" /> This image was posted on US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account on 3 January 2026, showing Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro onboard the USS Iwo Jima after the US military kidnapped him. Image: X@TruthTrumpPost Speaking to RNZ’s Morning Report, Clark said there was no argument for the steps the US had taken. “Article 24 of the UN Charter says states must refrain from using military force against each other and respect their sovereignty. “There is a case for Maduro appearing before a court — that should be the International Criminal Court — on charges for crimes against humanity and there’s quite a long list of those that have been documented by various UN bodies over the years but this operation by the US . . . is illegal.” There was not an argument to be made that removing Maduro was in the security interests on the US, she said. ‘Not self-defence’ “There’s no ev…

Progressive Democrats of America Condemns Trump’s Attacks On Venezuela
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-04T21:13:26Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: america
subject: attacks
subject: common
subject: condemns
subject: democrats
subject: dreams
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: trump’s
subject: Venezuela
description: Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) today issued the following statement:Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) condemns Donald Trump and his administration for launching unprovoked, unwarranted, illegal military attacks against the people of Venez...
encoded: Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) today issued the following statement: Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) condemns Donald Trump and his administration for launching unprovoked, unwarranted, illegal military attacks against the people of Venezuela. We further condemn their operations abducting Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. No democratic nation can tolerate illegal secret warfare, clandestine regime change operations, or removal of foreign leadership carried out in our name. PDA joins with the Congressional Progressive Congress (CPC) in demanding passage of H.Con.Res. 61 and H.Con.Res. 64, Described by the CPC as “Congressional directives to remove U.S. forces from unauthorized hostilities in the Western Hemisphere without delay.” We support the CPC’s advocacy for what they described as “[T]wo resolutions led by House Foreign Affairs and Rules Committee Ranking Members Meeks and McGovern to end Trump’s brutal military campaign that has killed at least 87 people and is driving us toward a catastrophic forever war in Venezuela. The resolutions are privileged under the War Powers Resolution and are available for floor action this week.” PDA calls upon the U.S. Congress to act immediately, employing its authority under the Constitution to force the Trump Administration to halt all military operations targeting Venezuela. This, by passing privileged emergency War Powers legislation directing the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from the area and cessation of hostilities, as well as defunding all regime‑change, assassination or kidnapping plots, or other military or paramilitary operations. The Congress must move swiftly to end, prohibit, and defund all offensive actions against Venezuela, including sanctions, blockades, strikes, and other so‑called “counter‑narcotics” missions that serve as a pretext for war. The Congress must exercise its Constitutional appropriations, investigative, and legislative powers to halt and prevent …

Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Attacks Venezuela and Kidnaps President Maduro
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creator: Glenn Diesen
date: 2026-01-04T16:03:14Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Jeffrey Sachs
subject: Maria Corina Machado
subject: Sources
subject: "Regime Change"
subject: and
subject: attacks
subject: corina
subject: Crimes against Peace
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: Imperialism
subject: International Law
subject: Interview
subject: jeffrey
subject: kidnaps,
subject: machado
subject: maduro
subject: maria
subject: nicolas maduro
subject: president
subject: sachs
subject: sources
subject: u.s.
subject: United States
subject: Venezuela
subject: voice
description: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro. The post Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Attacks Venezuela and Kidnaps President Maduro first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro. The post Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Attacks Venezuela and Kidnaps President Maduro first appeared on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by Glenn Diesen.

Iranians Clash With Police On Seventh Night Of Protests
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-01-04T14:09:52Z
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subject: iranians
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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The Consequences of Pandemic Spending #Policy #Accountability #SSHQ
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-01-04T14:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: Vice News
subject: #sshq
subject: Accountability
subject: consequences
subject: News
subject: pandemic
subject: Policy
subject: sources
subject: spending
subject: the
subject: vice
description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Despite Trump-era reversals, 2025 still saw environmental wins. Here are 7 worth noting.
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creator: Maya Yang, The Guardian
date: 2026-01-04T14:00:00Z
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subject: saw
subject: solutions
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subject: trump-era
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description: Environmental advocates notched key wins at local and state levels this year — despite the Trump administration’s rollbacks.
encoded: As 2025 draws to a close, environmental advocates across the U.S. find themselves weighing a year marked by both setbacks and successes. Despite major environmental reversals taken by the Donald Trump administration, including loosening fossil fuel rules and weakening endangered-species safeguards, conservationists, lawmakers, and researchers still notched key wins at local and state levels. Here are some environmental triumphs across the country amid a year of political turbulence. 1. California launches methane-tracking satellite California turned to space technology this year to curb methane pollution, launching a new program that uses satellite-mounted sensors to spot major leaks in near real time. The $100 million effort, funded through the state’s cap-and-trade program, sends data to the California Air Resources Board as the satellite passes over the state roughly five times a week. One satellite is already in orbit, with seven more expected to launch in the coming years. By November, the system had helped identify and stop 10 large leaks of the colorless and odorless gas since May — the climate equivalent of taking about 18,000 cars off the road for a year. 2. Hawai‘i researchers identify microplastic-eating fungi Scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa have discovered that many fungi living around the islands can naturally degrade plastic, with some even being trained to consume the microparticles faster. In February, after testing various marine fungi species, researchers announced that over 60 percent could break down polyurethane, a common plastic found in consumer and commercial products. By repeatedly exposing the fastest-growing fungi to plastic, researchers also boosted their degradation rates by up to 15 percent in just three months. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Pongan-fin-a-la-contaminacion-plastica.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="People hold signs protesting plastic pollution. A woman in center has a sign…

Trump’s gift-wrapped Maduro package has done the world a favour – revealing what a lie US foreign policy really is
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date: 2026-01-04T10:54:35Z
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subject: Christian morality
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subject: Analysis
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subject: christian
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Development
subject: donald trump
subject: done
subject: economics
subject: Editor's Picks
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subject: Featured
subject: foreign
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subject: Human Rights
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subject: military
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subject: us democracy
subject: US Foreign Policy
subject: Venezuela
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description: Kidnap, murder, torture, brutality, subversion, treachery, and barbarism, writes Adrian Blackburn reflecting on US President Donald Trump’s New Year present to the world. COMMENTARY: By Adrian Blackburn Blatantly, boastfully, bullyingly, shamelessly, Trump overnight threw open to the world’s eyes the cruel reality of US foreign policy. He has brought out from the shadows the ugly
encoded: Kidnap, murder, torture, brutality, subversion, treachery, and barbarism, writes Adrian Blackburn reflecting on US President Donald Trump’s New Year present to the world. COMMENTARY: By Adrian Blackburn Blatantly, boastfully, bullyingly, shamelessly, Trump overnight threw open to the world’s eyes the cruel reality of US foreign policy. He has brought out from the shadows the ugly reality of what for generations previous administrations have found politic to keep covert. That foreign policy has been shown most especially arrogant in regard to its neighbours anywhere in the Americas. It has been based on a lie, a lie to its own people first but no less potently to the nations, including New Zealand, which have subscribed to that fiction of a United States democracy representing all the best human qualities. READ MORE: Maduro being questioned in New York as Trump says US will ‘run’ Venezuela Maduro joins Iraq’s Saddam, Panama’s Noriega as latest leader taken by US World reacts to ‘kidnapping’ of Venezuela’s President Maduro The nicely gift-wrapped package includes belief in equality, fairness, justice, the sanctity of human life, acceptance of difference, mutual respect, kindness and love: The American way, the ultimate Christian morality in practice. Trump has done all of us who have bought that lie a favour. What he is saying out loud with the attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro is the age-old message of a rogue state — might is right, all power comes from the barrel of a gun, bow down to us. Any self-reflection by Trump, unlikely, would reveal to him the deeper historical truth that empires which once seemed invulnerable resort to such desperate measures as his Venezuelan adventure in an attempt to deny, to delay, to divert from the fact they are in their death throes. Decline and fall. It will get worse for the United States, as a state. The lie will become increasingly acknowledged internationally as trust is shown to be a one-way st…

Venal Reactions: US Allies Validate Maduro’s Abduction
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2026-01-04T08:04:41Z
subject: Anita Anand
subject: Anthony Albanese
subject: Delcy Rodríguez
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Kaja Kallas
subject: Ker v Illinois
subject: Ker-Frisbie doctrine
subject: Maria Corina Machado
subject: Mark Carney
subject: ratione personae
subject: Sources
subject: Sovereignty
subject: abduction
subject: albanese
subject: allies
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subject: anita
subject: anthony
subject: Australia
subject: Canada
subject: carney
subject: corina
subject: Coup
subject: delcy
subject: dissident
subject: doctrine
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subject: Hugo Chavez
subject: illinois
subject: Imperialism
subject: International Court of Justice
subject: International Criminal Court
subject: International Law
subject: kaja
subject: kallas
subject: ker
subject: ker-frisbie
subject: machado
subject: maduro’s
subject: marco rubio
subject: maria
subject: mark
subject: nicolas maduro
subject: personae
subject: ratione
subject: reactions
subject: rodriguez,
subject: sources
subject: sovereignty
subject: United States
subject: validate
subject: venal
subject: Venezuela
subject: voice
description: On the surface, abducting a Head of State is a piratical act eschewed by States. A Head of State enjoys absolute immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction, known as ratione personae, at least till the term of office concludes. The International Court of Justice was clear enough about this principle in the 2002 Arrest Warrant Case, […] The post Venal Reactions: US Allies Validate Maduro’s Abduction first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/venezuela-300x217.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="217" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-90026" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/venezuela-300x217.jpg 300w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/venezuela.jpg 475w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />On the surface, abducting a Head of State is a piratical act eschewed by States. A Head of State enjoys absolute immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction, known as ratione personae, at least till the term of office concludes. The International Court of Justice was clear enough about this principle in the 2002 Arrest Warrant Case, holding that high ranked government officials such as a foreign minister are granted immunity under customary international law to enable the effective performance of their functions “on behalf of their respective States.” That said, international law has been modified on this score by the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, whose founding Rome Statute stipulates that the official standing of a serving Head of State is no exemption from criminal responsibility. The effectiveness of this principle lies in the cooperation of State parties, something distinctly unforthcoming regarding certain serving leaders. (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu springs to mind.) US domestic law puts all of this to side with the highwayman logic of the Ker-Frisbie doctrine. Decided in Ker v Illinois in 1886, the decision overlooks the way, lawful or otherwise, a defendant is apprehended, even if outside the jurisdiction. Once American soil is reached, judicial proceedings can commence without challenge. The US Department of Justice has further attempted to puncture ancient notions of diplomatic immunity by recategorizing (how else?) the standing of a leader – in this case Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro – as nothing more than a narco-terroris…

Trump’s Unprovoked Attack on Venezuela and International Law
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creator: Laura Carlsen
date: 2026-01-04T07:00:24Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘unprovoked’
subject: and
subject: attack
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Feature Articles
subject: International
subject: Law
subject: sources
subject: trump’s
subject: Venezuela
description: Every time I say “He wouldn’t go that far”, he goes farther. All bets are off. Donald Trump has demonstrated no respect for human life or international law. The United States government has committed crimes that transgress not only the law but all sense of human decency. It is not just Venezuela that is at risk–it is every nation that has something the US wants, every human being who stands up for democracy and human rights, and the planet itself. This is not the first time, but this is our moment to either react or resign ourselves to authoritarianism at gunpoint. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post Trump’s Unprovoked Attack on Venezuela and International Law appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Every time I say “He wouldn’t go that far”, he goes farther. All bets are off. Donald Trump has demonstrated no respect for human life or international law. The United States government has committed crimes that transgress not only the law but all sense of human decency. It is not just Venezuela that is at risk–it is every nation that has something the US wants, every human being who stands up for democracy and human rights, and the planet itself. This is not the first time, but this is our moment to either react or resign ourselves to authoritarianism at gunpoint. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post Trump’s Unprovoked Attack on Venezuela and International Law appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Laura Carlsen.

Manufacturing Nuclear Consent
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creator: Ed Rampell
date: 2026-01-04T06:52:05Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: consent
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Culture
subject: Feature Articles
subject: manufacturing
subject: Nuclear
subject: sources
description: Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post Manufacturing Nuclear Consent appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie Groves press conference. Still from “Bombshell.” Courtesy PBS. Leslie […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post Manufacturing Nuclear Consent appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Ed Rampell.

They Kidnapped Maduro Because The World Is Ruled By Unaccountable Tyrants
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creator: Caitlin Johnstone
date: 2026-01-04T02:20:01Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: narcoterrorism
subject: regime change interventionism
subject: Sources
subject: Sovereignty
subject: United States oil companies
subject: "Regime Change"
subject: because
subject: change
subject: companies
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: Drug Wars
subject: Empire
subject: fentanyl
subject: Imperialism
subject: interventionism”
subject: kidnapped
subject: maduro
subject: Media
subject: nicolas maduro
subject: oil
subject: Oil, Gas, Coal, Pipelines
subject: regime
subject: ruled
subject: sources
subject: sovereignty
subject: states
subject: the
subject: they
subject: trump supporters
subject: tyrant’s
subject: unaccountable
subject: united
subject: United States
subject: Venezuela
subject: voice
subject: war
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description: Well, Trump finally did it. US special forces attacked Venezuela and abducted President Maduro from Caracas, reportedly killing at least 40 people in the process. And now that it’s all over, the White House is getting a lot more honest about the real motives behind its actions. After all those months of babbling about fentanyl and “narcoterrorism” and freedom […] The post They Kidnapped Maduro Because The World Is Ruled By Unaccountable Tyrants first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Well, Trump finally did it. US special forces attacked Venezuela and abducted President Maduro from Caracas, reportedly killing at least 40 people in the process. And now that it’s all over, the White House is getting a lot more honest about the real motives behind its actions. After all those months of babbling about fentanyl and “narcoterrorism” and freedom and democracy, the Trump administration has come right out and admitted that its regime change interventionism in Venezuela has always been a good old-fashioned oil grab. “We’re gonna take back the oil that frankly we should have taken back a long time ago,” Trump told the press following Maduro’s abduction, saying “We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela, and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela, and it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country.” “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country, and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so,” Trump said. “We have tremendous energy in that country. It’s very important that we protect it. We need that for ourselves, we need that for the world,” the president added. Trump made it explicitly clear that this is going to be some sort of long-term US occupation project, contradicting early claims of his supporters who had defended the president’s actions in Venezuela as a brief in-and-out, one-and-done special ops intervention. “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said. “So we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in. And we have the same situation that we had for the last long perio…

They Kidnapped Maduro Because The World Is Ruled By Unaccountable Tyrants
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description: Well, Trump finally did it. US special forces attacked Venezuela and abducted President Maduro from Caracas, reportedly killing at least 40 people in the process. And now that it’s all over, the White House is getting a lot more honest about the real motives behind its actions. After all those months of babbling about fentanyl and “narcoterrorism” and freedom […] The post They Kidnapped Maduro Because The World Is Ruled By Unaccountable Tyrants first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Well, Trump finally did it. US special forces attacked Venezuela and abducted President Maduro from Caracas, reportedly killing at least 40 people in the process. And now that it’s all over, the White House is getting a lot more honest about the real motives behind its actions. After all those months of babbling about fentanyl and “narcoterrorism” and freedom and democracy, the Trump administration has come right out and admitted that its regime change interventionism in Venezuela has always been a good old-fashioned oil grab. “We’re gonna take back the oil that frankly we should have taken back a long time ago,” Trump told the press following Maduro’s abduction, saying “We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela, and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela, and it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country.” “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country, and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so,” Trump said. “We have tremendous energy in that country. It’s very important that we protect it. We need that for ourselves, we need that for the world,” the president added. Trump made it explicitly clear that this is going to be some sort of long-term US occupation project, contradicting early claims of his supporters who had defended the president’s actions in Venezuela as a brief in-and-out, one-and-done special ops intervention. “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said. “So we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in. And we have the same situation that we had for the last long perio…

The Don-roe Doctrine in Action: Trump’s Gangster Intervention in Venezuela
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Kidnap Presidents
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creator: David Swanson
date: 2026-01-03T23:31:13Z
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description: What was defined at Nuremberg as the supreme international crime (one country attacking another one) is depicted by Trump and even the supposedly anti-Trump corporate media as some sort of law enforcement. Bombing is liberating. Kidnapping is capturing. Murdering people on boats is “impeding the flow of drugs.” Imagine if, say, Saudi Arabia or Norway […] The post Lies and the Lying Liars Who Kidnap Presidents first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: What was defined at Nuremberg as the supreme international crime (one country attacking another one) is depicted by Trump and even the supposedly anti-Trump corporate media as some sort of law enforcement. Bombing is liberating. Kidnapping is capturing. Murdering people on boats is “impeding the flow of drugs.” Imagine if, say, Saudi Arabia or Norway or India were to impose deadly sanctions on the United States, attempt numerous comical coups, murder boaters off the U.S. coast, impose a no-fly-zone and naval blockade, bomb Washington, kidnap the U.S. president, and declare its intent to “run” the country and its most planetarily destructive resources. Unlike in Venezuela, in the United States, you could poll the public and find majority support for disappearing the president. The problem is that, after our national town square was deprived of its idiot, the country wouldn’t be “run” at all. Even a coalition of 100 nations couldn’t occupy the United States without massive tumultuous resistance of the predictable violent or the more powerful but less likely nonviolent sort. And if an occupied nation were ever well run, more bombings and kidnappings by someone else could put an end to that. Whether Trump and those bowing before his illegal orders simply pretend they are running Venezuela or attempt to militarily occupy it, Venezuela is in for worse times than ever. And so is the globe, with the rule of law shredded and the pirates of the Caribbean dressed up as cops of the world. And so is Trump, as his latest war promises to drag on as long as his Epstein ordeal. To state the obvious, the United Nations Charter makes it a crime to threaten war and a crime to wage war except in defense or by UN authorization, neither of which is the case here, and neither of which has even been alleged here. The shortcomings of a government provide no legal basis for a foreign government to attempt to overthrow it. Trump was just threatening to attack Iran should its government engage …

CEPR Condemns Trump Administration’s Dangerous and Illegal Military Assault on Venezuela and Violation of Its National Sovereignty
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date: 2026-01-03T23:14:04Z
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description: The Trump administration’s illegal military assault on Venezuela and its violation of Venezuela’s national sovereignty should be widely condemned, Center for Economic and Policy Research directors said today. US military strikes on Venezuelan territor...
encoded: The Trump administration’s illegal military assault on Venezuela and its violation of Venezuela’s national sovereignty should be widely condemned, Center for Economic and Policy Research directors said today. US military strikes on Venezuelan territory early this morning, and the reported abduction by US forces of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, are illegal under international law, were conducted without congressional authorization or ― reportedly ― notification, and set a dangerous precedent, they warned. While US administration officials initially described this morning’s attack as a law enforcement operation, President Trump’s remarks earlier today ― where he stated that the US would be “running Venezuela” and that US companies would be managing the oil infrastructure ― suggest that the goal is regime change and a long-term US occupation, much like the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq. If Trump’s assertions reflect a concrete plan, then the US is now embarked on an unauthorized and unprovoked open-ended war against a country that poses no believable threat to US national security. “This is an illegal assault on a country that poses no security threat to the United States, and Trump himself has repeatedly said that he is going after the country’s oil, the largest proven reserves in the world,” CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot said. “Only one in five Americans in the most recent poll said they supported such military intervention. Most people don’t like our government putting forth plans and threats, and taking actions that make it look like a criminal enterprise. Trump has repeatedly shown that he has no regard for international law.” According to media reports, the US military attack on Caracas was conducted without first notifying Congress, including members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Trump administration has not made a case for war against Venezuela to the US Congress, and “top Trump officials previously te…

Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Abducts Maduro, Trump Says "We Are Going to Run" Oil-Rich Nation
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Trump Embraces Big Oil and Empire After Kidnapping Venezuela’s President
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description: President Trump just delivered an hour-long press conference at Mar-a-Lago touting his attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president, Nicholas Maduro, adding that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela for the foreseeable future and extract its oil ...
encoded: President Trump just delivered an hour-long press conference at Mar-a-Lago touting his attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president, Nicholas Maduro, adding that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela for the foreseeable future and extract its oil resources. In response, Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman issued the following statement: “The president who once bragged untruthfully about his alleged opposition to the deadly and unconstitutional regime change war in Iraq has launched a deadly and unconstitutional regime change war for oil and empire. Even the best-case scenarios will be devastating. “There is no Congressional declaration of war nor authorization for the use of force in Venezuela, making Trump's actions transparently unconstitutional and illegal. “Importantly, Trump's actions in Venezuela would be illegal under international law even if there were Congressional authorization. No twisting of words can possibly conjure a story by which Venezuela constitutes a national security threat to the United States, let alone an imminent threat, justifying military action. “Trump’s shocking claim that the United States will occupy Venezuela, run the country and exploit the nation’s oil resources echoes the imperial arrogance of the United States after the invasion of Iraq and may well foretell a comparable disaster. “Trump is embracing both a resource imperialism and regime change mentality that the American people overwhelmingly reject, for good reason. Trump seems to think that Venezuelan oil belongs to the United States. In invoking the Monroe Doctrine, or a ‘much bigger’ ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ he explicitly embraces a lawless, immoral and dangerous claim that the United States has a right to dominate the Western Hemisphere by force. “Trump made fantastical claims that a Venezuelan-led drug trade had led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. In fact, Venezuela has no role in the fentanyl trade. Trump is cutting funding for drug addiction t…

Government by gangsterism – The Grayzone live
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Government by gangsterism – The Grayzone live
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‘A criminal act of imperial aggression’: Statement from Progressive International’s Cabinet on the US invasion of Venezuela
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description: The Cabinet of the Progressive International firmly condemns the US military attack against Venezuela, the bombing of Caracas, and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro. On 2 January, US military forces l...
encoded: The Cabinet of the Progressive International firmly condemns the US military attack against Venezuela, the bombing of Caracas, and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro. On 2 January, US military forces launched an illegal and unprovoked military assault against Venezuela — bombing Fuerte Tiuna, La Carlota Air Base, the port of La Guaira, residential neighborhoods across Caracas, and military and civilian installations in the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. Missiles fired from US helicopters killed military personnel and civilians, left entire neighborhoods without power, and terrorized the Venezuelan people. Hours later, President Donald Trump announced that US special forces "captured" President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. The kidnapping of a sovereign head of state represents an act of imperial lawlessness with few precedents in history. President Donald Trump has clearly articulated the imperial logic of this intervention — to seize control over Venezuela's natural resources and reassert US domination over the hemisphere. The "Trump corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine — applied in recent hours with violent force over the skies of Caracas — is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today. This armed attack on Venezuela is not an isolated event. It is the next step in the United States' campaign of regime change that stretches from Caracas to Havana — and an attack on the very principle of sovereign equality and the prospects for the Zone of Peace once established by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. This renewed declaration of impunity from Washington is a threat to all nations around the world. In this moment of clear, acute, and mounting violence against the people of Venezuela, silence is complicity. The Progressive International calls upon political parties, trade unions, social movements, and civil society organizations across the…

Peace Action Statement on illegal US attack on Venezuela
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description: Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, issued the following statement today:“The United States’ military special forces attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, i...
encoded: Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund, issued the following statement today: “The United States’ military special forces attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, is illegal, immoral, dangerous, and must be condemned and repudiated by the American public, the international community, and the US Congress. While no one should shed a tear for Maduro, who is credibly depicted as a corrupt, authoritarian leader, concern for the people of Venezuela, already suffering under terrible economic conditions, must be in the forefront, as the possibility of internal conflict is now increased. Bogus assertions that Venezuela stole US oil raise suspicions this is not about narcotics trafficking, but rather seizing resources such as oil and minerals. Moreover, other countries in the region are surely on high alert that they might be next in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs, and US forces deployed worldwide could be targeted for reprisals. Trump just announced, ‘…we are going to run the country, until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.’ No one voted for that, nor has Congress authorized it on behalf of the American people. In less than a year in office, Trump has now attacked seven countries -- Somalia, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and Venezuela, along with alleged drug boats at sea -- with at least 626 airstrikes, according to Military Times. So much for his being a peace president, or focusing on improving economic and social conditions for Americans. Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives narrowly failed to pass War Powers Resolutions against US attacks on Venezuela, along almost entirely partisan lines, with Republicans refusing to vote against their president and in favor of their own authority over declaring war. Earlier, the Senate also narrowly failed to uphold its constitutional responsibilities, but US Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) stated a few d…

2025 Highlights
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creator: Ralph Nader
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description: Steve, David, Hannah, Jimmy, Matthew. and Francesco give Ralph a well-deserved break and highlight some of the clips they want to revisit from another challenging, inspiring, fascinating, infuriating, and galvanizing year. Featuring interviews with Chr...
encoded: Steve, David, Hannah, Jimmy, Matthew. and Francesco give Ralph a well-deserved break and highlight some of the clips they want to revisit from another challenging, inspiring, fascinating, infuriating, and galvanizing year. Featuring interviews with Chris Hedges, Jon Merryman, Mike German, and more. Featured Clips Douglas Brinkley — The Legacy of Jimmy Carter (January 11, 2025) Chris Hedges — A Genocide Foretold/ World BEYOND War (March 29, 2025) Peter Beinart — Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (March 15, 2025) John Bonifaz — Impeach Trump!... Again (August 30, 2025) Mike German — Policing White Supremacy (March 8, 2025) Stephen Witt — The AI Prompt That Could End the World (November 8, 2025) Jon Merryman — Trading Life For Death (July 12, 2025) News 1/2/26 * Our top story this week is of course the news that the CIA has conducted a drone strike inside the sovereign borders of Venezuela. CNN reports U.S. Special Operations Forces provided intelligence support for this strike, though spec-ops leadership denies this claim. Unsurprisingly, the CIA itself declined to comment. Earlier this month, self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth compared Venezuelan “narcoterrorists,” to Al-Qaeda, indicating that the U.S. plans to use the same counterterrorism playbook that they deployed in the Middle East in Latin America. This, of course, begs the question of whether the United States is willing to reckon with creating a miniature Iraq or Afghanistan so close to home. * Giving the game away, Mike Pompeo – who served as Trump’s Secretary of State from 2018 to 2021, told Fox News that the U.S. “can help rebuild…their oil sector,” and that, following a successful ouster of President Nicolás Maduro, American energy companies like Halliburton and Chevron would be able to “go down to Venezuela, [and] build out an economic capitalist model.” This from CBS Austin. President Trump has certainly not been subtle about his designs on Venezuela’s oil, but this naked salivation over…

Trump invades Venezuela, kidnaps Maduro, and hurls the Western hemisphere into chaos
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description: In the early hours of Saturday morning, Venezuelans were jolted from sleep by the sounds of bombs falling. Video after shocking video shared over WhatsApp and social media captured the pre-dawn scenes of chaos: US helicopters whirling overhea...
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Statement of Sen. Bernie Sanders on Venezuela
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date: 2026-01-03T18:20:16Z
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description: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday condemned President Donald Trump’s unilateral military action against Venezuela as illegal and unconstitutional, warning that it violates international law, endangers global security and usurps Congress’ exclusi...
encoded: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday condemned President Donald Trump’s unilateral military action against Venezuela as illegal and unconstitutional, warning that it violates international law, endangers global security and usurps Congress’ exclusive authority to declare war. Sanders called on Congress to immediately pass a War Powers resolution to end the operation. Donald Trump has, once again, shown his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law. The President of the United States does NOT have the right to unilaterally take this country to war, even against a corrupt and brutal dictator like Maduro. The United States does NOT have the right, as Trump stated this morning, to “run” Venezuela. Congress must immediately pass a War Powers resolution to end this illegal military operation and reassert its constitutional responsibilities. Trump’s attack on Venezuela will make the United States and the world less safe. This brazen violation of international law gives a green light to any nation on earth that may wish to attack another country to seize their resources or change their governments. This is the horrific logic of force that Putin used to justify his brutal attack on Ukraine. Trump and his administration have often said they want to revive the Monroe Doctrine, claiming the United States has the right to dominate the affairs of the hemisphere. They have spoken openly about controlling Venezuela’s oil reserves, the largest in the world. This is rank imperialism. It recalls the darkest chapters of U.S. interventions in Latin America, which have left a terrible legacy. It will and should be condemned by the democratic world. Trump campaigned for president on an “America First” platform. He claimed to be the “peace candidate.” At a time when 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, when our healthcare system is collapsing, when people cannot afford housing and when AI threatens millions of jobs, it is time for the president to focus on the crises faci…

Trump’s Regime Change War on Venezuela is Patently Illegal
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date: 2026-01-03T17:42:33Z
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subject: war
description: Today, President Trump announced a “large scale strike” on Venezuela that toppled its leader Nicholas Maduro, who has been kidnapped and flown to the U.S. to stand trial, according to attorney general Pam Bondi. In response, Lisa Gilbert, co-president...
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Congress Must Urgently Stop Trump’s Illegal War with Venezuela
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-03T17:41:38Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: common
subject: congress
subject: dreams
subject: illegal
subject: must
subject: sources
subject: stop
subject: trump’s
subject: urgently
subject: Venezuela
subject: war
subject: with
description: Early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. conducted military strikes on Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The day before, Trump also said he was “locked and loaded and ready to go” into Iran. De...
encoded: Early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. conducted military strikes on Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The day before, Trump also said he was “locked and loaded and ready to go” into Iran. Demand Progress is leading a campaign driving Americans to demand their representatives support a war powers resolution to stop the war with Venezuela, and drove millions of constituent contacts to Congress opposing war in 2025. The following is a statement from Demand Progress Senior Policy Advisor Cavan Kharrazian: “Invading a country and kidnapping their head of government without any congressional authorization is a terrifying and blatantly illegal act that tears at our Constitution. Congress must step in and stop this reckless, unconstitutional act of war. Politicians in both parties have spent the last 20 years denouncing endless wars after witnessing the devastation in the wake of regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere. Now it’s time for them to put their votes where their mouths are. We have seen what happens when the White House invents a pretext to launch a regime change war with an oil-rich nation: disaster and suffering for innocent civilians, our troops and their families, all while costing the American taxpayer a fortune as well. Congress must do the right thing by voting to stop this obvious catastrophe.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Report from Caracas: The US Kidnaps President Nicolás Maduro, but Venezuela Fights Back to Maintains Its Revolution
type: item
creator: Chris Gilbert
date: 2026-01-03T16:21:13Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: back
subject: but
subject: caracas
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: fights
subject: from
subject: it’s
subject: kidnaps,
subject: Leading Article
subject: maduro
subject: maintains
subject: nicolas
subject: president
subject: report
subject: Revolution
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Venezuela
subject: war
description: The U.S. armed forces bombed Venezuela from approximately 2:00 to 2:45 a.m. on January 3. At least seven sites in the greater Caracas area were affected, as well as locations in Aragua State and the coastal city of Higuerote in Miranda State. Both military personnel and civilians were killed, including children. Infrastructure damage is significant. Some parts of the city lost power, but as of Sunday morning electricity has been fully restored. More The post Report from Caracas: The US Kidnaps President Nicolás Maduro, but Venezuela Fights Back to Maintains Its Revolution appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Iran Mass Protests Continue, People Arrested
type: item
creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-01-03T15:55:13Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
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subject: Arrested
subject: continue
subject: europe/rl
subject: free
subject: iran
subject: mass,
subject: People
subject: Protests
subject: radio
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Response to U.S. military strikes in Venezuela: a fossil-fueled act of war
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-03T15:44:22Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: ACT
subject: common
subject: dreams
subject: fossil-fueled
subject: military
subject: response
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
subject: u.s.
subject: Venezuela
subject: war
description: In response to U.S. military strikes in Venezuela, Elizabeth Bast, Executive Director, Oil Change International, said: “President Trump’s launch of large‑scale military strikes in Venezuela, including the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, is a flag...
encoded: In response to U.S. military strikes in Venezuela, Elizabeth Bast, Executive Director, Oil Change International, said: “President Trump’s launch of large‑scale military strikes in Venezuela, including the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, is a flagrant act of war and violation of international law. This reckless aggression is part of a shameful pattern of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, where military power secures economic interests, in particular fossil fuels and critical resources. “The Trump administration justifies hostility toward Venezuela with accusations of drug running and authoritarianism — but this escalation follows a historic playbook: undermine leftist governments, create instability, and clear the path for extractive companies to profit. The most powerful multinational fossil fuel corporations stand to benefit from these aggressions, and U.S. oil and gas companies are poised to exploit the chaos and carve up one of the world's most oil-rich territories. “This act defies the U.S. constitution’s delegation of Congress’ war making authority and disregards international rules that prevent acts of war without debate or authorization. The U.S. must stop treating Latin America as a resource colony. The Venezuelan people, not U.S. oil executives, must shape their country’s future.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

The US Attacks Venezuela and Seizes It President
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creator: Vijay Prashad – Taroa Zúñiga Silva
date: 2026-01-03T15:15:17Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: attacks
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Leading Article
subject: president
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subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Venezuela
subject: war
description: A little after 2am, Venezuela time, on 3 January 2026, in violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, the United States began an attack on several sites in the country, including Caracas, the capital. Residents awoke to loud noises and flashes, as well as large helicopters in the sky. Videos began to appear More The post The US Attacks Venezuela and Seizes It President appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump’s Venezuela Regime Change Attempt an Illegal Act of War
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-03T15:14:19Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
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subject: attempt’
subject: change
subject: common
subject: dreams
subject: illegal
subject: regime
subject: sources
subject: trump’s
subject: Venezuela
subject: war
description: In response to the United States launching military attacks in Venezuela, Center for International Policy Executive Vice President Matt Duss issued the following statement:“Donald Trump has launched an illegal and reckless regime change operation in V...
encoded: In response to the United States launching military attacks in Venezuela, Center for International Policy Executive Vice President Matt Duss issued the following statement: “Donald Trump has launched an illegal and reckless regime change operation in Venezuela. This act of war violates both U.S. and international law, and follows nearly one hundred extrajudicial killings at sea on Trump’s orders. “None of this use of military force has been authorized by Congress. Lawmakers must assert their constitutional war powers and force the president to remove U.S. armed forces from the hostilities with Venezuela that he has started. They should also seek other possible legislative measures to impose accountability on this administration for its lawless actions. “Americans across the political spectrum overwhelmingly do not want to fight another war of choice. 70 percent of U.S. voters oppose taking military action in Venezuela. “Trump was elected on a promise to end wars, not start them. His illegal aggression against Venezuela once again breaks that promise, and threatens to repeat some of the worst moral and strategic failures of past U.S. military adventurism, for which the American people and communities around the world have paid enormous costs.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Monroe Doctrine: the Bad Neighbor Returns
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creator: Jeffrey Sommers
date: 2026-01-03T14:58:58Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: bad
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: doctrine
subject: Leading Article
subject: monroe
subject: neighbor,
subject: returns
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: war
description: President Trump signaled the Monroe Doctrine’s return from the start of his second term. A volatile mix of geopolitical, hemispheric and local politics was in play. The world’s largest reserves of “Texas Tea” turned the wandering Eye of Sauron in Washington on the birthplace of the Bolivarian Revolution. The Trump Administration intends to juice US and global economic growth by reducing energy costs, as we saw in the 1980s and 1990s when oil prices dropped. Fossil fuels are the Trump Administration’s preferred choice of dirty energy to fuel the AI boom, which the US intends to lead. Oil-laden tankers departing from Venezuela en route to China are not part of the program. More The post Monroe Doctrine: the Bad Neighbor Returns appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump’s Contempt for the Constitution
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creator: Bernie Sanders
date: 2026-01-03T14:58:54Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: constitution
subject: contempt
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: for
subject: Leading Article
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: trump’s
subject: war
description: Donald Trump has, once again, shown his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law. The President of the United States does NOT have the right to unilaterally take this country to war, even against a corrupt and brutal dictator like Maduro. The United States does NOT have the right, as Trump stated this morning, to “run” Venezuela. Congress must immediately pass a War Powers resolution to end this illegal military operation and reassert its constitutional responsibilities. More The post Trump’s Contempt for the Constitution appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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CODEPINK Statement Against U.S. Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping President Maduro
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-01-03T14:58:40Z
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subject: maduro
subject: president
subject: sources
subject: statement
subject: u.s.
subject: Venezuela
description: Last night, the United States government bombed civilian and military sites across Venezuela and illegally kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. These are blatant and illegal acts of war by the Trump Administration. This act of aggression is ...
encoded: Last night, the United States government bombed civilian and military sites across Venezuela and illegally kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. These are blatant and illegal acts of war by the Trump Administration. This act of aggression is a continuation of U.S. attempts to seize and plunder Venezuela’s natural resources and undermine Venezuela’s sovereignty as well as the sovereignty of other countries in Latin America. This war also does not reflect the will of the people. Nearly 70% of Americans oppose another war and reject the endless cycle of military interventions carried out in their name. In the past months, the United States has: bombed 36 boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific and killed more than 117 people; seized two tankers containing over 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan oil; unilaterally imposed a “total and complete blockade” on Venezuelan oil shipments; designated the democratically elected government of Venezuela a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”; backed opposition figures to push regime change; and launched psychological warfare with threats against the Venezuelan people. This comes after decades of unilateral coercive measures, including a lethal sanctions regime that has killed over 100,000 people, theft of companies like CITGO, and seizure of billions of dollars of sovereign assets. The U.S. now claims Maduro will face “criminal charges” in a U.S. court. This sham proceeding will be done under the auspices of “drug trafficking” — but we know it has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with Trump’s policy of regime change. “Drug trafficking” in Venezuela is this generation's “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, a familiar pretext for regime change. Polls show that people in the U.S. may know better now than to sign off on a regime-change war. In the next few days, as the death toll and destruction of the U.S. attacks is revealed and the country faces continued imperialist aggression, we must stand steadfast with the peo…

US Starts 2026 by Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping Its President, Setting a Tone of Imperialist Violence for the Year
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creator: Tamara Pearson
date: 2026-01-03T14:58:17Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
subject: bombing
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subject: for
subject: imperialist
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subject: kidnapping
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subject: president
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subject: tone
subject: Venezuela
subject: violence
subject: war
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description: With its violent military intervention into Venezuela–a country I used to live in–the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism. The unapologetic kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and of Celia Flores (not just a wife as the media refers to her, but also former head of the National Assembly) and killing of at least 40 Venezuelans aims to cement and normalize the U.S.'s standard operating procedure for international relations as violence and control. It will take Venezuela's oil and the DRC's tech minerals, and to hell with Global South self-determination, agency, and ownership. More The post US Starts 2026 by Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping Its President, Setting a Tone of Imperialist Violence for the Year appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395903" class="wp-image-395903 size-full" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/nyprotestyear.jpeg" alt="" width="680" height="907" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/nyprotestyear.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/nyprotestyear-472x630.jpeg 472w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/nyprotestyear-500x667.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/nyprotestyear-600x800.jpeg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> NYC demonstration against the bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president. Photo: Susie Day. With its violent military intervention into Venezuela–a country I used to live in–the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism. The unapologetic kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and of Celia Flores (not just a wife as the media refers to her, but also former head of the National Assembly) and killing of at least 40 Venezuelans aims to cement and normalize the U.S.’s standard operating procedure for international relations as violence and control. It will take Venezuela’s oil and the DRC’s tech minerals, and to hell with Global South self-determination, agency, and ownership. I remember when I lived in Venezuela and we talked about what we would do if the U.S. attacked. We were already facing other kinds of attacks, including basic food shortages orchestrated by private companies, destabilization attempts, right-wing violence, and English-language mainstream media lies. The conversation particularly came up around elections, when the shortages and destabilization typically increased, and U.S. attacks felt less hypothetical. Even then, though, we would balance the very real and long history of violent U.S. interventions in Latin America with skepticism. How could they kill innocent people and bomb what felt like to me the closest …

With the Attack on Venezuela, Trump Has Put the Death of International Law in Plain Sight
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description: What the United States is signaling in Venezuela is not merely a dispute over one government, one election, or one leader. It is a warning to the world that international law—already fragile, already selectively enforced—has now been openly pushed aside. And this warning comes from a man who presents himself as a global peacemaker, a would-be Nobel laureate, a self-styled dealmaker who claims to have “ended” nearly twenty wars that exist largely in his own imagination. More The post With the Attack on Venezuela, Trump Has Put the Death of International Law in Plain Sight appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Don-roe Doctrine in Action: Trump’s Gangster Intervention in Venezuela
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description: It has been an accusation long levelled at certain US politicians that their brains might have been softened by a lengthy diet of television, Westerns, and the heroic triumphalism of the prattling cowboy. There was never going to be a break with this tradition regarding President Donald Trump, except the fact that he claimed to More The post The Don-roe Doctrine in Action: Trump’s Gangster Intervention in Venezuela appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395919" class="wp-image-395919 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rubiotrump-680x382.png" alt="" width="680" height="382" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rubiotrump-680x382.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rubiotrump-1123x630.png 1123w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rubiotrump-768x431.png 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rubiotrump-1536x862.png 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rubiotrump-2048x1149.png 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rubiotrump-500x281.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/rubiotrump-600x337.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Screen grab from Fox News broadcast of Trump and Rubio’s press conference on the US attacks against Venezuela. It has been an accusation long levelled at certain US politicians that their brains might have been softened by a lengthy diet of television, Westerns, and the heroic triumphalism of the prattling cowboy. There was never going to be a break with this tradition regarding President Donald Trump, except the fact that he claimed to be more restrained on the draw. Of late, that restraint has vanished. A buildup of US army personnel in the Caribbean; the bombing, on fatuous grounds, of vessels in the Caribbean Sea carrying fictional narco-cargo destined for the United States and, just to top things, delirious notions about attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran in the early hours of the morning in the event protestors are shot. It was clear after the release of the 2025 National Security Strategy that this administration was going to shred the inhibitions imposed by international law and opt for the more liberating costumery of gangsterism. In the Western Hemisphere, the United States would a…

Brazil’s President Lula condemns US Bombing and Kidnapping in Venezuela
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description: The following statement was made by President Lula on the morning of January 3, in response to the US government’s attack against Venezuela. The bombings on Venezuelan territory and the capture of its president cross an unacceptable line. These acts represent an extremely serious affront to Venezuela’s sovereignty and yet another extremely dangerous precedent for More The post Brazil’s President Lula condemns US Bombing and Kidnapping in Venezuela appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-395840 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ab059fe3-54ef-4236-8f77-b209dfb18123_900x506-680x382.webp" alt="" width="680" height="382" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ab059fe3-54ef-4236-8f77-b209dfb18123_900x506-680x382.webp 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ab059fe3-54ef-4236-8f77-b209dfb18123_900x506-768x432.webp 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ab059fe3-54ef-4236-8f77-b209dfb18123_900x506-500x281.webp 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ab059fe3-54ef-4236-8f77-b209dfb18123_900x506-600x337.webp 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ab059fe3-54ef-4236-8f77-b209dfb18123_900x506.webp 900w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> The following statement was made by President Lula on the morning of January 3, in response to the US government’s attack against Venezuela. The bombings on Venezuelan territory and the capture of its president cross an unacceptable line. These acts represent an extremely serious affront to Venezuela’s sovereignty and yet another extremely dangerous precedent for the entire international community. Attacking countries, in flagrant violation of international law, is the first step toward a world of violence, chaos, and instability, where the law of the strongest prevails over multilateralism. The condemnation of the use of force is consistent with the position Brazil has always adopted in recent situations in other countries and regions. This action recalls the worst moments of interference in the politics of Latin America and the Caribbean and threatens the preservation of the region as a zone of peace. The international community, through the United Nations, must respond vigorously to this episode. Brazil condemns these actions and remains ready to promote the path of dialogue and cooperation. This first appeared …

The US Government is Not the Daddy of US Oil Companies
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description: Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the Venezuelan government nationalized American oil interests many years ago. The notion is that since “they stole our oil” several decades ago, it is entirely proper, U.S. officials say, for the U.S. government More The post The US Government is Not the Daddy of US Oil Companies appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395846" class="wp-image-395846 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Orinoco_USGS-680x578.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="578" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Orinoco_USGS-680x578.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Orinoco_USGS-500x425.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Orinoco_USGS-600x510.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Orinoco_USGS.jpg 719w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Oil reserves of the Orinoco Belt, Venezuela. US Geological Survey. Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the Venezuelan government nationalized American oil interests many years ago. The notion is that since “they stole our oil” several decades ago, it is entirely proper, U.S. officials say, for the U.S. government to retaliate against Venezuela, including, presumably, getting back the oil they supposedly “stole from us.” But contrary to what many Americans now have convinced themselves is true, Venezuela never stole “our oil,” especially if one is referring to you and me and most other American citizens with the use of the possessive pronoun “our.” That’s because neither you nor I or the vast majority of other Americans ever owned Venezuelan oil. For that matter, the U.S. government didn’t own any Venezuelan oil either. It was U.S. oil companies that were granted concessions from the Venezuelan government near the beginning of the 20th century to extract oil from Venezuela in return for payment of concession fees to the Venezuelan government. The situation was similar to what happens when an oil company enters into a lease contract with a private landowner here in the United States. The oil company pays the landowner a bonus to sign the leas…

Trump’s Venezuelan Coup: Criminal Attacks by a Criminal Empire
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description: There is only one word to describe the US attacks on Venezuela. That word is criminal. It is the only word that describes the act of invading another nation and kidnapping its president. Of course, it is also a word that describes the essential nature of the US empire—an empire currently run by a band More The post Trump’s Venezuelan Coup: Criminal Attacks by a Criminal Empire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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A Predawn Op in Latin America? The US has Been Here Before, But the Seizure of Venezuela’s Maduro is Still Unprecedented
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description: An image of a captured Nicolás Maduro released by President Donald Trump on social media. Truth Social In the dead of night during the holidays, the United States launched an operation inside a Latin American country, intent on seizing its leader on the pretext that he is wanted in U.S. courts on drug charges. The More The post A Predawn Op in Latin America? The US has Been Here Before, But the Seizure of Venezuela’s Maduro is Still Unprecedented appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Louisiana town fights for relief after a billion-dollar oil disaster
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description: Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but Roseland, Louisiana, residents say the case won’t bring relief to their town.
encoded: Four months have passed since a Louisiana oil facility burst apart, spewing a dense black sludge that drifted across homes, farms, and waterways as far as 50 miles away. Since then, the U.S. Department of Justice and Louisiana environmental regulators have filed a sweeping lawsuit against Smitty’s Supply, the company that ran the facility storing oil and vehicle lubricants. But residents in the majority-Black town are skeptical that they’ll benefit from the $1 billion federal lawsuit. Much of that belief stems from the fact that despite repeated calls for help, the black goo still clings to walls, roofs, and soil of more than half of the town’s properties, according to Van Showers, the mayor of Roseland, Louisiana. “People want to know when they’re going to receive help, and there is nothing to make them think that this process would lead to that,” said Showers, who works at a local chicken processing plant and has struggled financially through the clean-up process. That skepticism is rooted in hard experience — and in a broader history of environmental racism that has left Black communities shouldering disproportionate burdens. The gap has left residents in a state of prolonged uncertainty about their water, their health, and whether the legal action unfolding in distant courtrooms will ever reach their homes. It is a familiar pattern, particularly in Louisiana, where environmental disasters have consistently hit Black and low-income communities hardest while leaving them last in line for recovery. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2245219147-e1762813265453.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="Front of the National Gallery of Art with sign that it is closed due to federal shutdown." class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2245219147-e1762813265453.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1024w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2245219147-e1762813265453.jpg?resize=…

Venezuela’s Communes: Socialism of the Twenty-First Century
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description: The United States is committed to removing Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, along with the government he leads. The pretext—that Maduro is involved in sending drugs to the US—is even refuted by the US government’s own intelligence agencies, so many wonder why a carrier fleet has been sent to threaten war. To answer that question, it More The post Venezuela’s Communes: Socialism of the Twenty-First Century appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: The United States is committed to removing Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, along with the government he leads. The pretext—that Maduro is involved in sending drugs to the US—is even refuted by the US government’s own intelligence agencies, so many wonder why a carrier fleet has been sent to threaten war. To answer that question, it is necessary to look at what has been going on inside the country. What do most Americans know about Venezuela? Coverage in the corporate media has focused largely on actions of the upper-class opposition—coup attempts, violent demonstrations, economic sabotage, claims of electoral fraud, etc. We learn about how effective the United States’ blockade on Venezuela’s international commerce has been in impoverishing the country, but the media assure us that the real cause of poverty is “corruption and mismanagement” by the government. The fact that the Venezuelan people have not overthrown what they call the “regime” is explained as evidence of “authoritarianism” and “repression.” Most Americans have no further information, and many assume that it is all really just about control of the oil. But there is more to the story: a revolutionary process over the last quarter-century that envisions a viable alternative to the capitalist world order, a peaceful transition to a form of socialism based on a truly bottom-up democracy in which decisions are made by the people in their communities. That is an outcome that the United States’ government is sworn to prevent. Our corporate media does its part by its virtual silence about the Venezuela’s communes, even as the late President Hugo Chávez put them at the heart of the Bolivarian revolution. They are the key to understanding why the Bolivarian revolution has survived 25 years of relentless attack. Chávez summed it up in the slogan Commune or nothing!–¡Comuna o nada!–in his last major speech. He argued that capitalism had led the country into poverty and subjugation; the commune is the path to…

Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Kidnaps Maduro, Trump Says “We Are Going to Run” Oil-Rich Nation
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description: Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and ...
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Ground Drones Are Helping Ukraine Battle Russian Troops
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Israel And Its Supporters Deliberately Foment Hate And Division In Our Society
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encoded: I’ve noticed a lot of angry comments underneath my posts these past few days, which bizarrely mention the words “Islam” and “Muslims” completely out of the blue. “Why don’t you turn your attention sometimes to the genocidal intent of the radical Muslims, or does that suit your racist narrative?” reads one tweet. “What can you say about Islamic Jihadists Muslims murdering thousands of Christians in Sudan and other parts of Africa?” reads another. “The muslims must be irradicated,” reads another. There are too many examples to quote here, but here’s what’s so funny about all this: I haven’t been saying anything about Islam or Muslims on Twitter — I’ve been tweeting about Israel. Hasbarists just babble about Islam when they can’t defend Israel’s actions. It is not a coincidence that they’ve been doing this. In September of last year, Drop Site News published a leaked polling report that had been commissioned by the Israeli government, which found that while Israel’s reputation is crumbling throughout the Western world, one way to salvage it would be to foment panic about Muslims. Drop Site reports the following: “Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of ‘Radical Islam’ and ‘Jihadism,’ which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to ‘destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,’ Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country. ‘Especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved, the room for growth in all countries is very significant,’ the report concludes.” So if you speak critically about Israel online and suddenly find your replies inundated with Zionists shrieking about Islam and Muslims, that’s why. Their research has concluded that convincing Westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel. In addition to committing genocide and starting wars and working to stomp out free speech t…

Iran Faces New Round of Protests
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encoded: DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod joined a panel on AnewZ.tv (Baku, Azerbaijan) on 31 December, the 3rd day of protests in Iran — now in its sixth day — to discuss the evolving situation. The post Iran Faces New Round of Protests first appeared on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by Faramarz Farbod.

Uncharted Waters
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description: Recovered from decades of industrial waste dumping, one river in the nation’s capital is again threatened—this time by federal budget cuts.
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Who Are the Real Outlaws at Sea?
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description: Donald Trump’s tanker grab is different from the Houthis’ anti-genocide blockade.
encoded: Donald Trump’s tanker grab is different from the Houthis’ anti-genocide blockade. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Medea Benjamin.

Mobilizing Communities, Plant by Plant with Braiding Sweetgrass’ Robin Wall Kimmerer [Full Uncut …
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School-Based Health Centers Are at Risk
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description: Cuts threaten to undermine a successful program that provides care to students in need.
encoded: Cuts threaten to undermine a successful program that provides care to students in need. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Eleanor J. Bader.

When Is it Okay to Kill the Disabled?
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description: The Supreme Court is weighing whether an Alabama man is mentally fit to be put to death.
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Eight New Year’s Resolutions for NPR and CEO Katherine Maher to Consider
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description: The reasons Congress created NPR (National Public Radio) under the Nixon Administration were to fill the yawning gaps of commercial radio in local, national, and international news coverage and to give voice to the people without the censorship that co...
encoded: The reasons Congress created NPR (National Public Radio) under the Nixon Administration were to fill the yawning gaps of commercial radio in local, national, and international news coverage and to give voice to the people without the censorship that comes from advertisers. It was to be publicly funded by taxpayers. Almost 55 years later, NPR… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by nader.

Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland
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description: For a country so upset about recognition being afforded to people under their thumb and control, the Israelis have decided to get into the state recognition business with festive aplomb. Africa’s Somaliland presented itself as a suitable candidate, an entity that remains part of Somalia but has asserted its own autonomy since 1991. Israel’s recognition […] The post Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: For a country so upset about recognition being afforded to people under their thumb and control, the Israelis have decided to get into the state recognition business with festive aplomb. Africa’s Somaliland presented itself as a suitable candidate, an entity that remains part of Somalia but has asserted its own autonomy since 1991. Israel’s recognition on December 26 of that entity carried a vengeful sting. With a majority of UN Member States recognising the rubble and rump of a State of Palestine, despite arguments by the Netanyahu government that this was a reward for terrorism, the Israelis have clearly decided to turn the matter on its head. Israel’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Jonathan Miller, captured the moment by saying that the recognition of Somaliland was not a “hostile step toward Somalia” when it evidently was, and did not “preclude future dialogue between the parties”, as well as it might. The salesman in Miller seemed to come through. “Recognition is not an act of defiance. It is an opportunity.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shamelessly plagiarised the lingo and language kit of those Member States of the UN who dared treat the Palestinians as a national group worthy of acknowledged sovereignty. In a call with Somaliland President Abdirhaman Mohamed Abdullahi on December 26, Netanyahu stressed the importance of Somaliland’s “right to self-determination” in recognising it. In a paper published in November 2025 by the Israeli-based Institute for National Security Studies, Asher Lubotzky recommended that Israel, along with its sympathisers in Washington, push the United States towards recognition. While falling short of endorsing the recognition gambit, the paper notes the value of the territory in terms of offering “an operational area” for Israeli military operations. Israel required allies in the Red Sea area for various reasons, “among them the possibility of a future campaign against the Houthis.” There were also economic an…

Zohran Mamdani: I will govern as a democratic socialist
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 2, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 2, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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AOC, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams & Poet Cornelius Eady: Voices from Mamdani Inauguration
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"I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist": Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration
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Zohran Mamdani Supporters Celebrate “Politics of Optimism” at His Inauguration
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Mamdani Takes Oath at Abandoned NYC Subway Station to Highlight Plan to Improve Public Transit
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 2, 2026
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Best of CounterSpin 2025
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description: We call it the “best of,” but these are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.
encoded: https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260102.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). The Best of CounterSpin for 2025 features Silky Shah on mass deportations, Gregory Shupak on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Paul Offit on RFK Jr.’s pro-virus policies, Karen Thompson on policing pregnancy, Erin Reed on anti-trans pseudo-science, Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness, Mumia Abu-Jamal on unheard stories and Tom Morello on music as protest. We call it the “best of,” but, as always, we are deeply thankful to all of the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show. These are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year. 2025 was a rough one; we appreciate everyone who helps us stay informed, forward-looking and in communication. Featured Image: Top row: Silky Shah, Gregory Shupak, Paul Offit and Karen Thompson; second row: Erin Reed, Farrah Hassen, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Tom Morello This content originally appeared on FAIR and was authored by CounterSpin.

‘Enough Is Enough’: New Year Protests Expose Iran’s Deepening Crisis
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Swatted on Thanksgiving: The threats against journalists #shorts
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“I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist”: Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration
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description: Zohran Mamdani hailed “a new era” for New York on Thursday, promising in his inaugural address to deliver on the ambitious agenda that electrified progressives in the city and saw him defeat the political establishment in both the ...
encoded: Zohran Mamdani hailed “a new era” for New York on Thursday, promising in his inaugural address to deliver on the ambitious agenda that electrified progressives in the city and saw him defeat the political establishment in both the Democratic primary and the general election last year. Addressing thousands of supporters who braved freezing temperatures to attend the ceremony at City Hall, Mamdani vowed to “govern expansively and audaciously” for residents. “I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical,” he said. Mamdani was sworn in by Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who also spoke during the ceremony. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist”: Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration
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description: Zohran Mamdani hailed “a new era” for New York on Thursday, promising in his inaugural address to deliver on the ambitious agenda that electrified progressives in the city and saw him defeat the political establishment in both the ...
encoded: Zohran Mamdani hailed “a new era” for New York on Thursday, promising in his inaugural address to deliver on the ambitious agenda that electrified progressives in the city and saw him defeat the political establishment in both the Democratic primary and the general election last year. Addressing thousands of supporters who braved freezing temperatures to attend the ceremony at City Hall, Mamdani vowed to “govern expansively and audaciously” for residents. “I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical,” he said. Mamdani was sworn in by Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who also spoke during the ceremony. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

AOC, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams & Poet Cornelius Eady: Voices from the Mamdani Inauguration
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description: “We have chosen courage over fear. We have chosen prosperity for the many over spoils for the few,” said Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her introduction to the historic inauguration of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdan...
encoded: “We have chosen courage over fear. We have chosen prosperity for the many over spoils for the few,” said Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her introduction to the historic inauguration of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor. We feature part of her remarks, along with poet Cornelius Eady, who performed his original poem “Proof” during the inauguration ceremony, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who began to cry as he addressed part of his speech to his younger self. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Zohran Mamdani Supporters Celebrate “Politics of Optimism” at His Inauguration
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description: Tens of thousands of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures and police barricades to be part of Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as mayor on New Year’s Day. Democracy Now! spoke with many Mamdani supporters, including a high school ...
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Mamdani Takes Oath at Abandoned NYC Subway Station to Highlight Plan to Improve Public Transit
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description: New York City started 2026 with a new mayor, as democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani made history when he was sworn in as the city’s first Muslim, first South Asian and first African-born leader, as well as the youngest in over a century...
encoded: New York City started 2026 with a new mayor, as democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani made history when he was sworn in as the city’s first Muslim, first South Asian and first African-born leader, as well as the youngest in over a century. Ahead of a public ceremony on New Year’s Day that drew tens of thousands of people in the freezing cold, Mamdani was privately sworn in at midnight by New York Attorney General Tish James in a small ceremony held at a decommissioned subway station below City Hall. He took his oath using two Qur’ans, including one that belonged to his grandfather. Andrew Epstein, one of Mamdani’s closest advisers, spoke with Democracy Now! about the significance of the private ceremony and how it connected the new mayor to the history of the city he now leads. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for January 2, 2026
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description: Zohran Mamdani Sworn In as New York’s First Muslim and First Democratic Socialist Mayor, U.S. Federal Minimum Wage Remains Flat for 16th Straight Year as Billionaires’ Wealth Skyrockets, Trump Hosts Netanyahu as Guest of Honor at Lavish Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Party, Winter Storms Batter Tents Housing Displaced Palestinians in Gaza, Killing Two More Children, Israel Demolishes Palestinian Homes in West Bank Refugee Camp, Approves Even More Settlements, Hundreds of Thousands March in Istanbul to Demand End to Israel’s Genocide in Palestine, Pentagon Says It Blew Up 5 More Boats in Caribbean and Pacific, Killing at Least 8, Governor of Russian-Occupied Kherson Says Ukrainian Attack Killed 24 and Wounded 50, Trump Says He’ll Withdraw National Guard Troops from Chicago, L.A. and Portland, ICE Plans $100 Million “Wartime Recruitment” Campaign Targeting Military and Firearms Enthusiasts, Trump Administration Freezes Federal Child Care Funds Nationwide, “We Are Locked and Loaded”: Trump Threatens to Attack Iran as Protesters Clash with Security Forces
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Democracy Now! 2026-01-02 Friday
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DN! Friday, January 2, 2026
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Wildfire smoke is a national crisis, and it’s worse than you think
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description: Greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from fires globally may be 70 percent higher than once believed.
encoded: Wildfire smoke is an emerging nationwide crisis for the United States. Supercharged by climate change, blazes are swelling into monsters that consume vast landscapes and entire towns. A growing body of evidence reveals that these conflagrations are killing far more people than previously known, as smoke travels hundreds or even thousands of miles, aggravating conditions like asthma and heart disease. One study, for instance, estimated that January’s infernos in Los Angeles didn’t kill 30 people, as the official tally reckons, but 440 or more once you factor in the smoke. Another recent study estimated that wildfire haze already kills 40,000 Americans a year, which could increase to 71,000 by 2050. Two additional studies published in December paint an even grimmer picture of the crisis in the U.S. and elsewhere. The first finds that emissions of greenhouse gases and airborne particles from wildfires globally may be 70 percent higher than once believed. The second finds that Canada’s wildfires in 2023 significantly worsened childhood asthma across the border in Vermont. Taken together, they illustrate the desperate need to protect public health from the growing threat of wildfire smoke, like better monitoring air quality with networks of sensors. The emissions study isn’t an indictment of previous estimates, but a revision of them based on new data. Satellites have spied on wildfires for decades, though in a somewhat limited way — they break up the landscape into squares measuring 500 by 500 meters, or about 1,600 by 1,600 feet. If a wildfire doesn’t fully fill that space, it’s not counted. This new study increases that resolution to 20 by 20 meters (roughly 66 feet by 66 feet) in several key fire regions, meaning it can capture multitudes of smaller fires. Individually, tinier blazes are not producing as much smoke as the massive conflagrations that are leveling cities in the American West. But “they add up, and add up big time,” said Guido van der Werf, a wildfire r…

University of Nebraska is eliminating a key climate research department
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description: As Nebraska's weather intensifies, farmers are losing a critical resource to understand it.
encoded: In his 15 years of farming full time, Quentin Connealy has weathered his share of storms — literally. The first major flood hit in 2011. Three more came in 2019. The waters rose again in 2024 and ruined about 20 percent of his crops. This past summer, he dealt with at least three hail and wind events that damaged his corn and soybeans. To Connealy, whose family has been farming in Nebraska for 131 years, the weather has grown more extreme, posing a greater threat to his family’s farmland, which extends across thousands of acres in Burt County about an hour north of Omaha. He tries to plan as much as possible and relies on multiple sources of scientific information to do so. “The weather’s so unpredictable, we need as many resources around as possible,” Connealy said. But one of those resources that he — and others — rely on is going away. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=640&h=853&crop=1 640w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Quentin-Connealy_FlatwaterFreePress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=…

[Noam Chomsky] Manufacturing Consent
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date: 2026-01-01T22:00:29Z
subject: Sources
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subject: consent
subject: manufacturing
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subject: sources
description: The media like to present themselves as objective, balanced, and free from any bias or agenda. Reality suggests something quite different. The media function as weapons of mass distraction. Much of what passes as news is, sometimes subtle, sometimes cr...
encoded: The media like to present themselves as objective, balanced, and free from any bias or agenda. Reality suggests something quite different. The media function as weapons of mass distraction. Much of what passes as news is, sometimes subtle, sometimes crude, propaganda. The media are large conglomerates that serve to mobilize support for the special interests that dominate state and corporate power. In democratic societies, populations are not controlled by force. Rather, they are subject to more refined forms of ideological manipulation. Emotionally potent oversimplifications and necessary illusions are created and repeated endlessly. Embedded ideas, such as Washington’s right to intervene anywhere in the world, go unexamined and unchallenged. Consent is manufactured. The public, reduced to being spectators, is marginalized. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

The Impending US Colonial Administration over Gaza, Palestine
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creator: Tricontinental Asia
date: 2026-01-01T18:33:15Z
subject: Craig Mokhiber
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
subject: [craig
subject: Administration
subject: colonial
subject: Colonialism
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: impending
subject: International Court of Justice
subject: Land Theft
subject: mokhiber
subject: over
subject: Palestine
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: un security council
subject: voice
description: Behind the diplomatic language of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘stabilisation’, a new colonial framework for Gaza is being assembled. The following is why the latest Security Council resolution matters and what it sets in motion. On 17 November, the UN Security Council approved a draft resolution authored by the United States endorsing President Donald Trump’s plan for […] The post The Impending US Colonial Administration over Gaza, Palestine first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Behind the diplomatic language of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘stabilisation’, a new colonial framework for Gaza is being assembled. The following is why the latest Security Council resolution matters and what it sets in motion. On 17 November, the UN Security Council approved a draft resolution authored by the United States endorsing President Donald Trump’s plan for administering the devastated Gaza Strip. The resolution mandates transferring control of Gaza to a so-called ‘Peace Council’ led by Washington, alongside another body called the ‘International Stabilisation Authority’ tasked with ‘security’ functions and likewise deployed in Gaza. Ultimately, both bodies fall under the authority of Trump and operate in constant and ongoing coordination with Israel. The draft resolution faced no veto from any permanent members. Algeria voted in favour, giving the resolution thirteen supporting votes, while both Russia and China abstained. Luis Felipe Noe (Argentina), Free Palestine, n.d. Palestinian factions and political forces described the resolution as ‘an instrument of tutelage and international partnership in the extermination of our people’, stressing that it bypasses international legal frameworks and paves the way for field arrangements imposed outside the Palestinian national will. They warned that any international force in the proposed form would become ‘another form of foreign occupation’ and ‘a new instrument of aggression’. Law for Palestine warned, in a policy brief, that the resolution does not rest on any international legal framework but instead aims to create a ‘parallel system’ based on security and foreign control. International law expert Craig Mokhiber, former senior official at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, argued that the resolution ‘ignores international law, punishes Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide’. According to Mokhiber’s reading, the most troubling aspect of the resolution is that the Security C…

KPFA News Year In Review Part 2 – January 1, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-01-01T18:00:00Z
subject: Pacifica Evening News
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: evening
subject: january
subject: kpfa
subject: News
subject: pacifica
subject: part
subject: Politics
subject: Review
subject: sources
subject: year
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. KPFA News Year In Review Part 2. The post KPFA News Year In Review Part 2 – January 1, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Gaslit Nation’s Predictions for 2026
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-01-01T16:11:00Z
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subject: Sources
subject: 2026
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subject: gaslit
subject: nation?
subject: nations
subject: predictions,
subject: sources
description: Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to the very first Gaslit Nation episode of 2026, one of the most consequential years for humanity, because the world is about to find out whether American democracy survives Donald Trump and his MAGA crime cult. Will they try to steal the midterms? Will Trump attempt another January 6-style power grab as 2028 approaches? Stick with Gaslit Nation as we fight back and build a new American revolution, one act of hope and defiance at a time. This special bonus show, made for our Patreon community, highlights a thoughtful question from Ken B., a listener and Democracy Defender supporter on Patreon. Ken asks us to focus on a dangerously undercovered issue: the GOP's coordinated effort to loot America's public lands. From rolling back the Roadless Rule to gutting park budgets and opening millions of acres to extraction, Trump and his donors are positioning massive areas of national parks and forests for a sell-off. Ken, thank you for your insights, and thank you to all of our listeners who keep our show going. Your questions shape our show. If you want to submit your questions, comments, and hear them on the show, subscribe at the Democracy Defender tier or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit. If you want to hear this full episode, including our three major predictions for 2026 and what they mean for democracy, join us on Patreon. Get ready for another big year of the people fighting back. Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, Q&A sessions, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit!
encoded: Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to the very first Gaslit Nation episode of 2026, one of the most consequential years for humanity, because the world is about to find out whether American democracy survives Donald Trump and his MAGA crime cult. Will they try to steal the midterms? Will Trump attempt another January 6-style power grab as 2028 approaches? Stick with Gaslit Nation as we fight back and build a new American revolution, one act of hope and defiance at a time. This special bonus show, made for our Patreon community, highlights a thoughtful question from Ken B., a listener and Democracy Defender supporter on Patreon. Ken asks us to focus on a dangerously undercovered issue: the GOP's coordinated effort to loot America's public lands. From rolling back the Roadless Rule to gutting park budgets and opening millions of acres to extraction, Trump and his donors are positioning massive areas of national parks and forests for a sell-off. Ken, thank you for your insights, and thank you to all of our listeners who keep our show going. Your questions shape our show. If you want to submit your questions, comments, and hear them on the show, subscribe at the Democracy Defender tier or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit. If you want to hear this full episode, including our three major predictions for 2026 and what they mean for democracy, join us on Patreon. Get ready for another big year of the people fighting back. Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, Q&A sessions, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit! This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

“Self-Hating Jew, Kapo, What About Hamas?”
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creator: Phil Rockstroh
date: 2026-01-01T15:43:09Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Heinrich Meyer
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Sources
subject: The Gazan Great Walk Of Return
subject: about
subject: adolf hitler
subject: bigotry
subject: dissident
subject: gazan
subject: Genocide
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subject: Hamas
subject: heinrich
subject: islamophobia
subject: israel
subject: jew
subject: judaism
subject: kapo,
subject: mandate
subject: meyer
subject: nazis
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: Racism
subject: Resistance
subject: return
subject: self-hating
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: voice
subject: walk
subject: what
subject: Zionism
description: Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people. Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing […] The post “Self-Hating Jew, Kapo, What About Hamas?” first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people. Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing — who do not exist — aim to erase you. I have been instructed — because I understand the reason for Palestinian resistance — that I am a Kapo (defined as, a Jew who gained privileges by their cooperation with their oppressors within Nazi concentration camps). Yet I am met with belligerent obtuseness, mental walls of bristling denial, when I point out, before my grandfather was arrested and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he was a member of the anti-Nazi underground. He was, in short, a member of a resistance organization that stood in violent opposition to a nation attempting to create a highly militarized, ethno-supremacist state. Yet when I aver, Israel is exactly that, Zionist apologists snarl, “I am a Kapo.” Think this through: If my grandfather and his fellow Jewish prisoners had managed to stage an uprising against their Nazi prison keepers and an attendant prison breakout, including their resistance spilling out into the streets of Berlin, without a doubt, history would have regarded them as heroes. Yet, history as related by Third Reich Nazis, if Germany had emerged victorious in the end, would have label them as Oct 7 type of rampaging terrorists. Therefore, in memory of my grandfather, I stand in solidarity with the besieged, living in constant terror, Palestinian people, and their acts of resistance against their ethno-supremacist oppressors, the latter, the actual betrayers of Jewish resistance against state sanctioned hate. Pictured: My maternal grandfather, Heinrich Meyer, anti-Nazi resistance fighter. Regarding, “but Hamas,” My late father, orphaned as an infant, adopted by a Jewish mother from The Lower Eastside, New York and …

“Self-Hating Jew, Kapo, What About Hamas?”
type: item
creator: Phil Rockstroh
date: 2026-01-01T15:43:09Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Heinrich Meyer
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Sources
subject: The Gazan Great Walk Of Return
subject: about
subject: adolf hitler
subject: bigotry
subject: dissident
subject: gazan
subject: Genocide
subject: great
subject: Hamas
subject: heinrich
subject: islamophobia
subject: israel
subject: jew
subject: judaism
subject: kapo,
subject: mandate
subject: meyer
subject: nazis
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: Racism
subject: Resistance
subject: return
subject: self-hating
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: voice
subject: walk
subject: what
subject: Zionism
description: Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people. Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing […] The post “Self-Hating Jew, Kapo, What About Hamas?” first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people. Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing — who do not exist — aim to erase you. I have been instructed — because I understand the reason for Palestinian resistance — that I am a Kapo (defined as, a Jew who gained privileges by their cooperation with their oppressors within Nazi concentration camps). Yet I am met with belligerent obtuseness, mental walls of bristling denial, when I point out, before my grandfather was arrested and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he was a member of the anti-Nazi underground. He was, in short, a member of a resistance organization that stood in violent opposition to a nation attempting to create a highly militarized, ethno-supremacist state. Yet when I aver, Israel is exactly that, Zionist apologists snarl, “I am a Kapo.” Think this through: If my grandfather and his fellow Jewish prisoners had managed to stage an uprising against their Nazi prison keepers and an attendant prison breakout, including their resistance spilling out into the streets of Berlin, without a doubt, history would have regarded them as heroes. Yet, history as related by Third Reich Nazis, if Germany had emerged victorious in the end, would have label them as Oct 7 type of rampaging terrorists. Therefore, in memory of my grandfather, I stand in solidarity with the besieged, living in constant terror, Palestinian people, and their acts of resistance against their ethno-supremacist oppressors, the latter, the actual betrayers of Jewish resistance against state sanctioned hate. Pictured: My maternal grandfather, Heinrich Meyer, anti-Nazi resistance fighter. Regarding, “but Hamas,” My late father, orphaned as an infant, adopted by a Jewish mother from The Lower Eastside, New York and …

“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-01T14:30:33Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ai:
subject: colonial
subject: creating
subject: Democracy
subject: Empire
subject: hao
subject: how
subject: karen
subject: new
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: threatening
subject: World
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-01-01T13:01:16Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ai:
subject: colonial
subject: creating
subject: Democracy
subject: Empire
subject: hao
subject: how
subject: karen
subject: new
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: threatening
subject: World
description: In this holiday special, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI....
encoded: In this holiday special, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the environment. “This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms,” says Hao, in an extended interview. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

American Pogrom: the Year in ICE Abductions
type: item
creator: Jeffrey St. Clair
date: 2026-01-01T07:00:23Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: abductions
subject: american
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: ice
subject: Leading Article
subject: Pogrom
subject: Roaming Charges
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: year
description: A year into Trump’s mass purge of immigrants from the United States, it’s beyond debate that the people orchestrating and conducting the raids, round-ups and deportations have committed more grievous crimes than the vast majority of the people they’ve harassed, assaulted, arrested, jailed and sent into exile. They’ve committed crimes against the Constitution of the government they’re acting in the name of and they’ve used the force, often violent force, of the federal government against innocent people. They’ve lied to Congress and federal judges. They’ve systematically violated judicial orders. They’ve denied people the most fundamental right guaranteed to residents, regardless of legal status, in the US: the right to due process of law. More The post American Pogrom: the Year in ICE Abductions appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Portraits by the Mysterious “Master I.S.”: An Art History Detective Story
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creator: Stephen F. Eisenman
date: 2026-01-01T06:59:11Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: “an
subject: ‘master
subject: Art
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: detective
subject: History
subject: i.s.”:
subject: Leading Article
subject: mysterious
subject: portraits
subject: sources
subject: story
subject: the
description: It’s often difficult to tell if a Dutch work of art from the 17th century is a portrait (conterfeytsels) or a tronie. Many pictures lack documentation, so we don’t know who, if anybody, was the subject of a given canvas or who may have commissioned it. As a rule, paintings of prosperous-looking people in contemporary costume are presumed portraits, and poor people tronies. After all, it’s generally only the rich that can afford commissioned portraits, though in the Dutch Republic, even some shopkeepers could. Wealthy people also enjoyed owning pictures of poor people -- so long as the latter are shown as weak, subordinate, ugly, drunk, or just different from themselves. More The post Portraits by the Mysterious “Master I.S.”: An Art History Detective Story appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Oligarchy XIV: Thoughts on the Anarchism of Dorothy Day
type: item
creator: David S. D’Amato
date: 2026-01-01T06:58:43Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: Anarchism
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: day
subject: dorothy
subject: Leading Article
subject: oligarchy
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: thoughts
subject: xiv
description: Remarking on the 1927 murder of Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Day noted that anarchism “is the word, or label, which confuses many of our readers (especially the bishops?)” Day saw anarchism, as a philosophy of mutual respect and voluntary cooperation, as a natural extension of Christian spiritual practice and fellowship. She argued that there is no human law applicable to those who love and follow Jesus, and that “anarchism means ‘Love God, and do as you will.’” From the moment it became aware of the Catholic Worker movement, the U.S. government has treated it with suspicion, targeting and spying on Day and the movement as supposedly subversive elements. Day’s activism drew the attention of the FBI, and she is said to have enjoyed reading her FBI files. More The post Oligarchy XIV: Thoughts on the Anarchism of Dorothy Day appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Meditations on the Loss of a Voice
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creator: Julia Abusharr
date: 2026-01-01T06:58:33Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
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subject: Leading Article
subject: loss’:
subject: meditations
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subject: voice
description: The ‘minutely privileged’, the people lucky enough not to be in the direct line of fire as of right now, are paralyzed in outrage and bewilderment, paralyzed in their attempts to simply function and survive their daily life in our capitalist hellscape. A new scandal each week keeps our minds attuned to the fact that the bar is just being set lower. Presidential and Homeland Security accounts parading AI videos of defecation on protesters and ‘hip memes’ of utterly dehumanized shackled individuals being led onto planes, Kanye West selling swastika t-shirts without consequence and still losing the finalist title of ‘antisemite of the year’ to a children’s influencer who dared show Gazan children compassion, billionaires working on startups to block out the sun, and it all just keeps getting more and more insane and degenerate. Yet they can’t look away, because they know their constant duty to be informed, lest mass ignorance make things even worse. More The post Meditations on the Loss of a Voice appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Outsourcing Torture to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison
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creator: Daniel Falcone
date: 2026-01-01T06:57:59Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: bari
subject: cecot
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subject: minutes
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description: According to the concept of “manufactured consent,” elaborated by Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman in the 1980s, the media carries out a propaganda function in support of the dominant political system. In the United States, this consent has favored particular governments beyond the U.S. government itself—for instance, Israel in its conflict with Palestinians. A recent More The post Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Outsourcing Torture to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Looking Beyond the 2026 Midterms: Slogans Are Not a Strategy
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creator: Daniel Warner
date: 2026-01-01T06:57:47Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: are
subject: articles 2015
subject: beyond’
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subject: looking
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description: The current buzzword is affordability. “‘Affordability’ mantra helps Democrats turn tide” the New York Times headlined. “Democrats used ‘affordability’ to harness worries about the cost of living and sweep to victory in this November’s [2025] election. And once that happened, references to ‘affordability’ as a stand-alone term skyrocketed,” Lisa Lerer and Jonah Smith wrote on More The post Looking Beyond the 2026 Midterms: Slogans Are Not a Strategy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Russian Idée Fixe
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creator: Andriy Movchan
date: 2026-01-01T06:57:18Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: fixe
subject: idée
subject: russian
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subject: the
description: ‘Russia’s defensive war against NATO expansion’ — a concept that has become almost axiomatic for many Western leftists. This concept conveniently serves both to rationalize Russia’s actions and to radicalize criticism of their own governments. But what role does Putin himself assign to the supposed NATO threat? A close reading of his key speeches reveals More The post The Russian Idée Fixe appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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A Moment for Desire
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creator: Laura Flanders
date: 2026-01-01T06:56:48Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: desire
subject: for
subject: moment
subject: sources
description: I’ve been thinking about moments. Under the heavy onslaught of the last year, the moments of relief I’ve felt in these last twelve months have felt slight. Resistance — I’ve seen lots of it — but it has felt flimsy against the heft of aircraft carriers in the Caribbean and heavy-tread bulldozers in Gaza. The More The post A Moment for Desire appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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10 Good Things That Happened in 2025
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creator: Medea Benjamin
date: 2026-01-01T06:56:14Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: “good”
subject: 2025
subject: articles 2015
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description: It’s true — 2025 has been a hard year. It’s easy to focus on the disasters, and there have been many. But we also had real victories that moved us closer to a better world. Here are some of my highlights from 2025: 1. Israel was forced to negotiate a ceasefire In October, a ceasefire More The post 10 Good Things That Happened in 2025 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Rat Cage is NSPM-7: On Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5
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creator: John Kendall Hawkins
date: 2026-01-01T06:56:06Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
subject: cage
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subject: Culture
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description: I. 2+2=5: The Father’s Warning The film opens with a scene inside an automobile: a father is talking to his young son about deep and troubling issues that the child cannot hope to understand yet. The father is saying to the boy, “How much is two and two?” The boy replies, “Four.” “There are people More The post The Rat Cage is NSPM-7: On Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Hildegard Knef’s Century
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creator: David Yearsley
date: 2026-01-01T06:55:55Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: Century
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: hildegard
subject: knef’s
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description: Hildegard Knef would have celebrated her 100th birthday on December 28 just passed. Given the number of cigarettes she smoked (Marlboros, three packs a day), the years she spent addicted to morphine (nearly twenty) as a result of the many operations she underwent and after the disastrous birth of her only child, and her long More The post Hildegard Knef’s Century appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Hildegard Knef’s grave. Waldfriedhof (Forest Cemetery), Zehlendorf, Berlin. Public domain. Hildegard Knef would have celebrated her 100th birthday on December 28 just passed. Given the number of cigarettes she smoked (Marlboros, three packs a day), the years she spent addicted to morphine (nearly twenty) as a result of the many operations she underwent and after the disastrous birth of her only child, and her long battle with breast cancer, she was lucky to make it to 77 when she died in 2002. She was lucky even to make it out of her teens in Berlin. She survived harrowing air raids, was once nearly incinerated trying to get into a crowded bunker. In the last days of the war she fought against the Russian advance into her neighborhood dressed as a male in German army uniform. She helped operate a machine gun, fired on the enemy though she hated the Nazis. In this disguise, she avoided rape, but also, miraculously, execution for impersonating a soldier. In the conflict’s closing chaos she married an older German officer who, after the defeat, was disappeared to Russia and never returned. In the weeks after the surrender, Knef’s beloved grandfather killed himself. Her gripping memoir, Der geschenkte Gaul (The Gift Horse), published in 1970, four years before she turned fifty, was a huge hit. The English translation remained atop The New York Times bestseller list for eighteen weeks. Her surreal account of the Battle for Berlin is literally hair-raising: severed limbs aflame, oxygen sucked from the air, people losing their minds and lives or both. Soon after the war she was summoned to America by David Selznick, keen on making her the next Ingrid Bergman. On her arrival, the notorious producer insisted that she take six hours of English lessons every day. Selznick also wanted her to change her name to Gilda Christians. She refused. Out in L.A., she studied German literature with Herbert Marcuse, but he didn’t teach her her extraordinary gifts for language. Her autobiog…

The Reactionary Backwash: Year 2025 in Review for Latin America and the Caribbean
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creator: Roger D. Harris - John Perry
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description: 2025 saw progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) delegitimized and displaced. Right-wing forces have seized on drug-related crises to attack the so-called Pink Tide governments, driving a reactionary backwash and putting new, neoliberal administrations in power. The irony is that the rise in drug use and crime is driven by neoliberalism’s failure More The post The Reactionary Backwash: Year 2025 in Review for Latin America and the Caribbean appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395586" class="size-medium wp-image-395586" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Antiimperialismo_caracas-680x332.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="332" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Antiimperialismo_caracas-680x332.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Antiimperialismo_caracas-768x374.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Antiimperialismo_caracas-500x244.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Antiimperialismo_caracas-600x293.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Antiimperialismo_caracas.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph Source: Erik Cleves Kristensen – “Fuera el Imperialismo” – CC BY 2.0 2025 saw progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) delegitimized and displaced. Right-wing forces have seized on drug-related crises to attack the so-called Pink Tide governments, driving a reactionary backwash and putting new, neoliberal administrations in power. The irony is that the rise in drug use and crime is driven by neoliberalism’s failure to meet social needs. But this has been successfully cloaked. A further irony is that governments with the strongest records in limiting the social damage caused by illegal narcotics have been the principal targets of US destabilization campaigns. + Contrary to Trump’s ludicrous mistruths, reports from the United Nations, the European Union, and even the US Drug Enforcement Agency certify that Venezuela is essentially free of drug production – no cocaine or marijuana production, and certainly no fentanyl. +With its community-based policing, Nicaragua is one of the safest countries in the whole region. In contrast, neighboring Costa Rica – under aggressively neoliberal administrations – is beset by a “tsunami of cocaine” and crime “amid a backdrop o…

The Abbey and the Airbase
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description: The first thing you notice when you exit London is the silence. The city’s noise becomes an abstract memory. “In silence there is eloquence,” wrote Rumi. “Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” Lying awake at night, there is utter silence. It is loud, almost physical, and revealing what is usually hidden, such as More The post The Abbey and the Airbase appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395588" class="size-medium wp-image-395588" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Chamber_of_the_Pyx-680x452.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="452" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Chamber_of_the_Pyx-680x452.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Chamber_of_the_Pyx-947x630.jpg 947w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Chamber_of_the_Pyx-768x511.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Chamber_of_the_Pyx-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Chamber_of_the_Pyx-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Chamber_of_the_Pyx-500x332.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Chamber_of_the_Pyx-600x399.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph Source: Chamber of the Pyx, Westminster Abbey, London. “ptwo” – https://www.flickr.com/photos/ptwo/8328037714 – CC BY 2.0 The first thing you notice when you exit London is the silence. The city’s noise becomes an abstract memory. “In silence there is eloquence,” wrote Rumi. “Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” Lying awake at night, there is utter silence. It is loud, almost physical, and revealing what is usually hidden, such as heartbeat, expectation. It also gives meaning to what comes next. Without silence, sound would have no shape. The artist and the artist’s mother visited “the Abbey” to light a candle for my recently deceased father-in-law—an attentive man of wide interests, still deeply grieved by the family. The real abbey itself was founded by Henry I in 1130 on the site of a late-Saxon church. It didn’t survive Henry VIII and Cromwell. It was dissolved and largely destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s. People still call the main church “the Abbey” because of historical mem…

Claudia Sheinbaum, I Love You!
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creator: Charles Pierson
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description: I have a crush on Claudia Sheinbaum, who has been president of Mexico since October 2024. Foreign leaders usually strike me as more intelligent and accomplished than the ones we produce in the US. President Sheinbaum, a climate change scientist with a doctorate in energy engineering, is no exception. I wish we had someone like More The post Claudia Sheinbaum, I Love You! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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NFL Welfare in Oz: Pay No Attention to that Billionaire Behind the Curtain
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creator: Kathleen Wallace
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description: Don’t say dreams don’t come true. If you wish very hard, wish upon a STAR and click your feet together (and are a billionaire with a net worth of 1.6 billion dollars), you too can get your 3 billion dollar domed football stadium. You can get that stadium built with a majority of public funds—a More The post NFL Welfare in Oz: Pay No Attention to that Billionaire Behind the Curtain appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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This is Not a Ceasefire: The Israeli Genocide Continues
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creator: Vijay Prashad
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description: On 19 January 2025, a ceasefire took effect to halt the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. This ceasefire emerged from a mediation process by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, which had been sealed in June 2024 with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735. However, the Israelis rejected the agreement and waited until Donald Trump More The post This is Not a Ceasefire: The Israeli Genocide Continues appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395607" class="size-medium wp-image-395607" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Bombed_buildings_of_Gaza_during_the_Gaza_war_2023-2025_10-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Bombed_buildings_of_Gaza_during_the_Gaza_war_2023-2025_10-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Bombed_buildings_of_Gaza_during_the_Gaza_war_2023-2025_10-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Bombed_buildings_of_Gaza_during_the_Gaza_war_2023-2025_10-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Bombed_buildings_of_Gaza_during_the_Gaza_war_2023-2025_10-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Bombed_buildings_of_Gaza_during_the_Gaza_war_2023-2025_10-600x450.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Bombed_buildings_of_Gaza_during_the_Gaza_war_2023-2025_10.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph Source: Hla.bashbash – CC BY-SA 4.0 On 19 January 2025, a ceasefire took effect to halt the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. This ceasefire emerged from a mediation process by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, which had been sealed in June 2024 with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2735. However, the Israelis rejected the agreement and waited until Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election to proceed so that Trump could take credit for the deal. Yet, Israel neither fully withdrew from Gaza nor ceased its attacks, nor did it allow the necessary aid into Gaza. Despite the ‘ceasefire’, the genocide against the Palestinians continued. A month into the ceasefire period, it was clear that Israel had committed at least 265 violations of the agreement (including home demolitions, ground incursions, and shootings targeting civilians). During…

The Pro-Israel Propaganda Complex
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description: Caitlin Johnstone’s customary finger on the Zionist pulse is how I was first exposed to the telling presentation by Sarah Hurwitz to the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly on 16 November 2025. Hurwitz was a senior adviser in the Obama administration (from which she was appointed as a member of the United States More The post The Pro-Israel Propaganda Complex appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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2025: The Year the Government Stopped Pretending It Cared About Freedom
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creator: John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead
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description: Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution—when executive power expanded openly and unapologetically, surveillance became ambient, dissent became dangerous, and the machinery of militarized government embedded itself into daily life. Under Trump 2.0, the erosion of civil More The post 2025: The Year the Government Stopped Pretending It Cared About Freedom appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-372821" class="size-medium wp-image-372821" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_8541-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_8541-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_8541-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_8541-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_8541-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_8541-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_8541-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_8541-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution—when executive power expanded openly and unapologetically, surveillance became ambient, dissent became dangerous, and the machinery of militarized government embedded itself into daily life. Under Trump 2.0, the erosion of civil liberties gave way to something more brazen: the dismantling of constitutional government itself. What made 2025 different was not any single abuse of power, but the relentless accumulation of them. The losses mounted week by week, crisis by crisis, executive order by executive order, until exhaustion itself became a political condition. Outrage no longer led to accountability; it simply rolled into the next emergency. What follows is not a list of grievances or a catalogue of partisan disputes. It is a record of the year freedom lost its guardrails—and of a nation torn apart from within by the very individuals and institutions entrusted with preventing such tyranny. Donald J. Trump entered his second term …

A Thesis Confirmed: Epstein, Dershowitz and the Israel Lobby
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
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description: Conman, convict, paedophile and a life terminated in circumstances of purported suicide. The list for Jeffrey E. Epstein, figure of cosmic social and political influence in the United States, is long. Trafficking in female flesh for his extensive client list, lubricated by his lover Ghislaine Maxwell, tends to be the crowning feature of most discussions about his More The post A Thesis Confirmed: Epstein, Dershowitz and the Israel Lobby appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Kitchen Tables and Tariffs
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creator: Seth Sandronsky
date: 2026-01-01T06:51:34Z
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description: As 2025 ended, one thing was as plain as day. American small businesses and their customers are paying a price for global trade tariffs, an import tax, courtesy of President Donald J Trump. How this economic fact plays out legally and politically is an open question, connected with long-running trends. On the legal front, small More The post Kitchen Tables and Tariffs appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Thinking Like a Forest
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creator: George Wuerthner
date: 2026-01-01T06:50:33Z
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subject: environment
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description: In his classic book of essays, Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold described his changing view of wolves. Initially, like many men of his era, Leopold shot wolves whenever he could. However, over time, Leopold came to see that wolves played a critical role in the ecosystem, and he urged us to think on a different More The post Thinking Like a Forest appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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But Wouldn’t It Be Nice? A Paean to Decency
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creator: Kim C. Domenico
date: 2026-01-01T06:49:03Z
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description: [The Combine] worked on (my father, the Chief) for years. He was big enough to fight it for awhile…. He said [to the government men with the checks]; What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for what a man is?…The Combine… whipped him. It beats everybody. More The post But Wouldn’t It Be Nice? A Paean to Decency appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: [The Combine] worked on (my father, the Chief) for years. He was big enough to fight it for awhile…. He said [to the government men with the checks]; What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for what a man is?…The Combine… whipped him. It beats everybody. It’ll beat you too.” –“Chief” Bromden, narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey Civilization is by its nature ‘bourgeois’ in the deepest spiritual sense of the word. ‘Bourgeois’ is synonymous precisely with the civilized kingdom of this world…The spirit of civilization is that of the middle classes; it is attached and clings to corrupt and transitory things; and it fears eternity. – Nicolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History What would a politics be like that was obliged at last to be fully part…not just of capitalism, but of capitalism as form of life, capitalism as terminator of anything resembling society? –T. J. Clark, The Job, London Review of Books, 12/4/25 Perhaps, as an aged person, I simply fear the whole idea of obsolescence. Thus, like old people everywhere, I lament the changes happening that appear to old one-foot-in-the-grave me, to be the knell of doom for civilization “as we know it.” As it happens, while I probably am becoming more predictably conservative with age, I am one of those who, while not cheering for the end of civilization, cannot lament it. This for a whole checklist of doom-burdened reasons to which my recent reading of Nicolai Berdyaev has added ontological critique! It is not loss of civilization I mourn or fear, indefensible as it is from so many perspectives; rather, I fear, in its continuation, with Mr. Clark, loss of any possibility of being anchored in recognizably human life, “in anything resembling society.” Though I do not characterize myself as “warm and outgoing,” and, yes, I am comfortable being much in my own head, nothing terrifies me more than imagining the loss of human warmth, easily conjured for me in possibilities of either…

The New York Times Goes Deep…for Propaganda
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creator: Fred Baumgarten
date: 2026-01-01T06:48:58Z
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description: Pornographic associations aside, I’m old enough to remember when “Deep Throat” was a quasi-heroic figure spilling the beans on U.S. government malfeasance during Watergate. In the New Year, Deep Throat is a shapeless phantom who peddles propaganda for the New York Times. He/she/they might as well be a clerk in the Times mailroom, for all More The post The New York Times Goes Deep…for Propaganda appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-337081" class="size-medium wp-image-337081" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-10-at-5.13.28%E2%80%AFPM-680x519.png" alt="" width="680" height="519" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-10-at-5.13.28 PM-680x519.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-10-at-5.13.28 PM-825x630.png 825w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-10-at-5.13.28 PM-768x587.png 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-10-at-5.13.28 PM-500x382.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-10-at-5.13.28 PM-600x458.png 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-10-at-5.13.28 PM.png 1508w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photo by Rafael Hoyos Weht Pornographic associations aside, I’m old enough to remember when “Deep Throat” was a quasi-heroic figure spilling the beans on U.S. government malfeasance during Watergate. In the New Year, Deep Throat is a shapeless phantom who peddles propaganda for the New York Times. He/she/they might as well be a clerk in the Times mailroom, for all we know. What’s important is that they get to make claims the Times wants to promote sound more real by coming from a secret source. Such is the Fourth Estate in the Year 2026. On the last day of 2025, the Times ran with a story headlined “Venezuela Detains Americans Amid Growing U.S. Pressure,” leading off with, “Venezuelan security forces have detained several Americans in the months since the Trump administration began a military and economic pressure campaign against the government of the South American nation, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.” This “U.S. official … spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not aut…

There is No Bothsidesing Genocide
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creator: Phil Rockstroh
date: 2026-01-01T06:46:55Z
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subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Genocide
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description: Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people. Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing More The post There is No Bothsidesing Genocide appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Phil Rockstroh.

We are Consumers Being Consumed
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creator: Gary Lindorff
date: 2026-01-01T06:46:46Z
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description: Much of the world we live in is artificial and there are forces in the world that take advantage of our psychological / emotional vulnerability. AI is a perfect example, but it’s not the only artificial intelligence out there that is out to exploit and control us. There is the media, with its invasive advertising More The post We are Consumers Being Consumed appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-385618" class="size-medium wp-image-385618" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4528-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4528-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4528-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4528-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4528-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4528-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4528-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4528-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Much of the world we live in is artificial and there are forces in the world that take advantage of our psychological / emotional vulnerability. AI is a perfect example, but it’s not the only artificial intelligence out there that is out to exploit and control us. There is the media, with its invasive advertising of products that we buy but that we need like we need a hole in the head. You might think that capitalism is behind advertising but it is more sinister than that. It is the zeitgeist that serves the entrenched self-centeredness of Western civilization. (zeitgeist = from the German “Zeitgeist”, meaning “spirit of the times”) Think of how often you hear the word “consumer” used to refer to a generic you or me or our neighbor. It is now being used instead of “the public” which originally meant “people” or “adults”. Consumer in current usage means “those who consume goods and services”. When we are just consumers we aren’t even human, or at least our humanity isn’t relevant. Consumer, definition 2: “A person or thing that eats or uses something.” I find that insulting, deme…

Interview With a Bolivarian Miliciana
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creator: Macdonald Stainsby
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subject: Interview
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description: Her parents were too poor for her to get a proper education, and the schools were houses of neglect. With a family that couldn’t feed itself with love, it was time to move out and get to work. She was only twelve years old and it was 1997. “I couldn’t continue my studies because there More The post Interview With a Bolivarian Miliciana appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-395463" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-12-31-at-10.49.32-AM-680x603.png" alt="" width="680" height="603" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-12-31-at-10.49.32-AM-680x603.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-12-31-at-10.49.32-AM-710x630.png 710w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-12-31-at-10.49.32-AM-768x681.png 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-12-31-at-10.49.32-AM-500x444.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-12-31-at-10.49.32-AM-600x532.png 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screen-Shot-2025-12-31-at-10.49.32-AM.png 1418w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Her parents were too poor for her to get a proper education, and the schools were houses of neglect. With a family that couldn’t feed itself with love, it was time to move out and get to work. She was only twelve years old and it was 1997. “I couldn’t continue my studies because there were so many of us at home, so many siblings,” said Yolimar Semprum, who spoke to me from Valencia in the centre of Venezuela. Her employment was as a nanny for a family that wasn’t Venezuelan. She had to use her sisters papers in order to legally get the work taking care of children while she was still a child. “But I needed a permit, and the permit I needed to stay with that family was given to me by my older sister.” By 1999, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias had become the elected president of Venezuela, and much to the surprise of cynics across the country, Chávez actually went about doing the things he campaigned on in during the election. Right from the beginning of what he would term the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez worked for a radical level of inclusivit…

The ‘Sacred’ Pledge that Will Power the Relaunch of Far-Fight Militia Oath Keepers
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creator: Alexander Lowie
date: 2026-01-01T06:45:37Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: Militia
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description: Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, announced in November 2025 that he will relaunch the group after it disbanded following his prison sentence in 2023. Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes committed during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. In More The post The ‘Sacred’ Pledge that Will Power the Relaunch of Far-Fight Militia Oath Keepers appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, announced in November 2025 that he will relaunch the group after it disbanded following his prison sentence in 2023. Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes committed during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. In January 2025, President Donald Trump granted clemency to the over 1,500 defendants convicted of crimes connected to the storming of the Capitol. Trump did not pardon Rhodes – or some others found guilty of the most serious crimes on Jan. 6. He instead commuted Rhodes’ sentence to time served. Commutation only reduces the punishment for a crime, whereas a full pardon erases a conviction. As a political anthropologist I study the Patriot movement, a collection of anti-government right-wing groups that include the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Moms for Liberty. I specialize in alt-right beliefs, and I have interviewed people active in groups that participated in the Capitol riot. Rhodes’ plans to relaunch the Oath Keepers, largely composed of current and former military veterans and law enforcement officers, is important because it will serve as an outlet for those who have felt lost since his imprisonment. The group claimed it had over 40,000 dues-paying members at the height of its membership during Barack Obama’s presidency. I believe that many of these people will return to the group, empowered by the lack of any substantial punishment resulting from the pardons for crimes committed on Jan. 6. In my interviews, I’ve found that military veterans are treated as privileged members of the Patriot movement. They are honored for their service and military training. And that’s why I believe many former Oath Keepers will rejoin the group – they are considered integral members. Their oaths to serving the Constitution and the people of the United States are treated as sacred, binding members to an ideology that leads to action. This action includes su…

Navigating Our Times
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creator: Michael Albert
date: 2026-01-01T06:42:32Z
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description: The world can become a gigantic garbage can. The world can become a liberatory laboratory of fulfillment. Which will it be? To my eyes two tasks beckon. 1. Stop Trump. 2. Advance The Long March Toward A Truly Desirable Society. To my mind, however, the two tasks are not separate. To fail to stop Trump More The post Navigating Our Times appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395635" class="size-medium wp-image-395635" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Crowd_at_the_Hands-Off_rally_Washington_DC_2025-04-05_13-17-52-680x383.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="383" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Crowd_at_the_Hands-Off_rally_Washington_DC_2025-04-05_13-17-52-680x383.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Crowd_at_the_Hands-Off_rally_Washington_DC_2025-04-05_13-17-52-1120x630.jpg 1120w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Crowd_at_the_Hands-Off_rally_Washington_DC_2025-04-05_13-17-52-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Crowd_at_the_Hands-Off_rally_Washington_DC_2025-04-05_13-17-52-500x281.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Crowd_at_the_Hands-Off_rally_Washington_DC_2025-04-05_13-17-52-600x338.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Crowd_at_the_Hands-Off_rally_Washington_DC_2025-04-05_13-17-52.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Crowd in front of the Washington Monument, Hands-Off rally, Washington, DC. G. Edward Johnson, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The world can become a gigantic garbage can. The world can become a liberatory laboratory of fulfillment. Which will it be? To my eyes two tasks beckon. 1. Stop Trump. 2. Advance The Long March Toward A Truly Desirable Society. To my mind, however, the two tasks are not separate. To fail to stop Trump would at best make the Long March much longer. Therefore, to stop Trump and to advance the Long March are really at least potentially one task. But if they can be one task, why the hell did I say “two tasks”? I said they were two because in some people’s minds the Long March to a better society is one task and attempting to stop Trump isn’t part of it and will even distract from it. Those people feel that t…

Whatever Happened to Trump’s “Golden Age” for American Workers?
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creator: Lawrence Wittner
date: 2026-01-01T06:26:59Z
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description: Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the facts. Indeed, Trump has taken the lead in reducing workers’ incomes. One of his key actions along these lines occurred on March 14, 2025, when he issued an executive order that More The post Whatever Happened to Trump’s “Golden Age” for American Workers? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395484" class="wp-image-395484 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yunus-tug-6jTCbyzdzIg-unsplash-1-680x453.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yunus-tug-6jTCbyzdzIg-unsplash-1-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yunus-tug-6jTCbyzdzIg-unsplash-1-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yunus-tug-6jTCbyzdzIg-unsplash-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yunus-tug-6jTCbyzdzIg-unsplash-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yunus-tug-6jTCbyzdzIg-unsplash-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yunus-tug-6jTCbyzdzIg-unsplash-1-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yunus-tug-6jTCbyzdzIg-unsplash-1-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Yunus Tuğ. Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the facts. Indeed, Trump has taken the lead in reducing workers’ incomes. One of his key actions along these lines occurred on March 14, 2025, when he issued an executive order that scrapped a Biden-era regulation raising the minimum wage for employees of private companies with federal contracts. Some 327,300 workers had benefited from Biden’s measure, which produced an average wage increase of $5,228 per year. With Trump’s reversal of policy, they became ripe for pay cuts of up to 25 percent. America’s farmworkers, too―many of them desperately poor―are now experiencing pay cuts caused by the Trump administration’s H-2A visa program, which is bringing hundreds of thousands of foreign agricultural workers to the United States under new, lower-w…

When Dehumanization Becomes Policy
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creator: George Payne
date: 2026-01-01T06:01:11Z
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description: When the most powerful person in the world uses dehumanizing language, it is never just rhetoric. It is instruction. In late November, Donald Trump publicly referred to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as “seriously retarded” while attacking Walz’s leadership. When questioned afterward, Trump did not retract the slur. He doubled down, saying there was “something wrong More The post When Dehumanization Becomes Policy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395473" class="wp-image-395473 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/igor-rodrigues-RoZMtcTotd4-unsplash-680x453.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/igor-rodrigues-RoZMtcTotd4-unsplash-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/igor-rodrigues-RoZMtcTotd4-unsplash-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/igor-rodrigues-RoZMtcTotd4-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/igor-rodrigues-RoZMtcTotd4-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/igor-rodrigues-RoZMtcTotd4-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/igor-rodrigues-RoZMtcTotd4-unsplash-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/igor-rodrigues-RoZMtcTotd4-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Igor Rodrigues. When the most powerful person in the world uses dehumanizing language, it is never just rhetoric. It is instruction. In late November, Donald Trump publicly referred to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as “seriously retarded” while attacking Walz’s leadership. When questioned afterward, Trump did not retract the slur. He doubled down, saying there was “something wrong with him.” This was not a stray insult or an offhand remark. It was a deliberate statement, delivered through the megaphone of presidential power, reviving a word long recognized as dehumanizing toward people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This is not a debate about free speech. It is a lesson in who is human—and who is disposable. Words spoken from the Oval Office are never empty; they shape empathy, justify policy, and redraw the boundaries of moral concern. When a leader devalues a group of people, society fol…

Go Bonobos in 2026
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description: Happy New Year, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners… though frankly, I’m not too happy about it. Old 2024 may have been an Annus Horribilis, but 2025 marked The End. Finis for me. That is, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, my beloved husband, publisher, producer, muse, witness, sweetheart, best friend and better half, Max, aka More The post Go Bonobos in 2026 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395242" class="wp-image-395242 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a-chosen-soul-ARXZYfUpXAI-unsplash-680x383.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="383" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a-chosen-soul-ARXZYfUpXAI-unsplash-680x383.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a-chosen-soul-ARXZYfUpXAI-unsplash-1120x630.jpg 1120w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a-chosen-soul-ARXZYfUpXAI-unsplash-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a-chosen-soul-ARXZYfUpXAI-unsplash-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a-chosen-soul-ARXZYfUpXAI-unsplash-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a-chosen-soul-ARXZYfUpXAI-unsplash-500x281.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a-chosen-soul-ARXZYfUpXAI-unsplash-600x338.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by A Chosen Soul. Happy New Year, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners… though frankly, I’m not too happy about it. Old 2024 may have been an Annus Horribilis, but 2025 marked The End. Finis for me. That is, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, my beloved husband, publisher, producer, muse, witness, sweetheart, best friend and better half, Max, aka Pr. Maximillian Rudolph Leblovic Lobkowicz di Filangieri, aka “Captain Max,” aka Mickey, passed away, and nothing else much matters to me now. Maybe you know how that feels. I have lost the love of my life, and since my life revolved around love, I have lost my life. Physically and mentally, I am, as they say, a ghost of my former self. At least, that’s how I feel. Yes, it’s personal, but “the personal is political,” isn’t it? From the tearstained corners of my bleary eyes, I see the world being torn apart – as my darling Max has been torn away… leaving me in tears – ripped clot…

Celebrate the Holidays like Jesus Did
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creator: Nicky Reid
date: 2026-01-01T05:34:54Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: holidays
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description: “No matter what God’s power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.” -Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity I have plenty of reasons to be pissed off at Jesus this Christmas. More The post Celebrate the Holidays like Jesus Did appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Garden Time
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creator: Elliot Sperber
date: 2026-01-01T05:05:18Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: garden
subject: sources
subject: Time
description: Arotron Not Aerostar The Big Dipper The space spoon Is a kay a the plow Burrowing through night Isn’t that right, Isaiah? Beating swords and spears And cars into ploughs and prunes? Beat your sword into a spoon Do it soon Do it now Beat your spoon into a plow The Big Dipper Points you More The post Garden Time appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-395633" class="wp-image-395633 size-full" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gardentime.jpeg" alt="" width="680" height="680" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gardentime.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gardentime-630x630.jpeg 630w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gardentime-200x200.jpeg 200w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gardentime-500x500.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gardentime-600x600.jpeg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gardentime-100x100.jpeg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photo: Elliot Sperber Arotron Not Aerostar The Big Dipper The space spoon Is a kay a the plow Burrowing through night Isn’t that right, Isaiah? Beating swords and spears And cars into ploughs and prunes? Beat your sword into a spoon Do it soon Do it now Beat your spoon into a plow The Big Dipper Points you to Polaris Guides you to escape Plow up the multilanes The parking lots, the banks Plow up your brains The post Garden Time appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Elliot Sperber.

Upheaval, Resistance, Loss, and Resilience; KPFA News Year In Review Part 1 – December 31, 2025
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creator: KPFA
date: 2025-12-31T18:00:00Z
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subject: 2025
subject: 31,
subject: and
subject: december
subject: evening
subject: kpfa
subject: loss’:
subject: News
subject: pacifica
subject: part
subject: Politics
subject: resilience
subject: Resistance
subject: Review
subject: sources
subject: upheaval
subject: year
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. KPFA News Year In Review Part 1. The post Upheaval, Resistance, Loss, and Resilience; KPFA News Year In Review Part 1 – December 31, ...
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. <img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-469402 size-medium" src="https://kpfa.org/app/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-31-at-4.53.16-PM-345x230.png" alt="" width="345" height="230" srcset="https://kpfa.org/app/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-31-at-4.53.16-PM-345x230.png 345w, https://kpfa.org/app/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-31-at-4.53.16-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https://kpfa.org/app/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-31-at-4.53.16-PM-175x117.png 175w, https://kpfa.org/app/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-31-at-4.53.16-PM-768x512.png 768w, https://kpfa.org/app/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-31-at-4.53.16-PM.png 1250w" sizes="(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px" /> KPFA News Year In Review Part 1. The post Upheaval, Resistance, Loss, and Resilience; KPFA News Year In Review Part 1 – December 31, 2025 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

"The Blue Road to Trump Hell": Norm Solomon on "How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T16:54:46Z
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subject: corporate
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subject: for
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subject: how
subject: norm”:
subject: now
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subject: trump
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"Mayor for the Masses": Can Democratic Socialists Behind Zohran Mamdani Keep Up Their Momentum?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T16:46:38Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: can
subject: Democracy
subject: democratic
subject: for
subject: keep
subject: mamdani
subject: masses
subject: mayor
subject: momentum
subject: now
subject: socialists
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subject: their
subject: zohran
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"One More Step to Push Out Principled Humanitarian Actors": NRC on Israel Ban on Aid Groups in Gaza
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T16:18:36Z
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subject: ‘one
subject: actors
subject: aid
subject: ban
subject: Democracy
subject: gaza
subject: groups
subject: humanitarian
subject: israel
subject: more
subject: now
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subject: out
subject: principled
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Reflections on a Neoliberal Ne’er-do-well’s Road to Redemption
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creator: Peter Blunt
date: 2025-12-31T15:50:44Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Kanaky New Caledonia
subject: Marshall lslands
subject: Sources
subject: "The West"
subject: africa
subject: aid
subject: Business
subject: caledonia
subject: China
subject: dissident
subject: Fiji
subject: Kanaky
subject: kenya
subject: lslands
subject: marshall
subject: Micronesia
subject: mongolia
subject: Nauru
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subject: neoliberal
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subject: new
subject: noam chomsky
subject: Oceania
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description: The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates ‘In the bad old days when I was embroiled in the business of churning out MBAs from capitalist ‘sausage’ factories masquerading as places of ‘higher education’ (business schools that were “the engine rooms of neoliberal indoctrination and elite formation” – Blunt, 2023), among many other harmful […] The post Reflections on a Neoliberal Ne’er-do-well’s Road to Redemption first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates ‘In the bad old days when I was embroiled in the business of churning out MBAs from capitalist ‘sausage’ factories masquerading as places of ‘higher education’ (business schools that were “the engine rooms of neoliberal indoctrination and elite formation” – Blunt, 2023), among many other harmful ideas (e.g., Purser, 2025), I used to teach eager would-be managers about ‘sequential’, ‘pooled’ and ‘reciprocal’ interdependence – between organisations and their environments, between workers within organisations, between departments, and between ‘teams’, and so on. Needless to say, ‘harmful’ because it was done with a view to increasing management control, worker docility and productivity, the extraction of surplus value, and shareholder profits. This is just one of many such examples that I could give, but it will suffice as a vehicle for illustrating how difficult it is once one is ensnared by the capitalist system and ideology to escape, to evade its all-encompassing embrace and to do some good here and there. Even privileged people like me who had the time, money, status, access (to the literature), critical inclination, and capability to break the spell, found it hard to do so. This essay gives an inkling of the wide and long – and in my case inadvertent – path of destruction that such people can wreck on their road to redemption and to doing (limited) good, and some of the obstacles to be overcome on the way. Paving the Way for Imperial Predation As with the evangelists of other religions, it is the duty of capitalist proselytisers to extol its virtues and to convert unbelievers wherever they may be found, particularly in those places with the natural resources and other assets needed to fuel capitalism’s insatiable appetite for perpetual economic growth. Although I have never considered myself to be an unreflective and committed capitalist ideologue or votary, my work within the prevailing system – and my initial …

U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela: Trump "Wants the Oil" as Grassroots Resist "Economic Asphyxiation"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T15:43:00Z
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subject: against
subject: asphyxiation”
subject: Democracy
subject: economic
subject: grassroots
subject: now
subject: oil
subject: resist
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
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subject: trump
subject: u.s.
subject: Venezuela
subject: wants
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 31, 2025
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T15:28:24Z
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subject: december
subject: Democracy
subject: headlines
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subject: Politics
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subject: u.s.
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Overnight Russian Air Strikes On Odesa, Ukraine Injure Civilians
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2025-12-31T15:21:49Z
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subject: civilians
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subject: free
subject: injure
subject: odesa,
subject: overnight
subject: radio
subject: russian
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
subject: Ukraine
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The U.S. Airstrike in Nigeria Confirms why the U.S African Command (AFRICOM) Must be Shut Down
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creator: Black Alliance for Peace
date: 2025-12-31T15:00:51Z
subject: Alliance of Sahel States
subject: Christmas Day bombing
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: ECOWAS
subject: Ibrahim Traoré
subject: Kwame Nkrumah
subject: Micheal Langley
subject: Sources
subject: Tunde Osazua
subject: ae’s
subject: africa
subject: African
subject: africom
subject: airstrike
subject: alliance
subject: bombing
subject: burkina faso
subject: christmas
subject: Colonialism
subject: command
subject: confirms
subject: congressional black caucus
subject: day
subject: democrats
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: down
subject: ecowas
subject: ibrahim
subject: Imperialism
subject: ISIS
subject: kwame
subject: langley
subject: micheal
subject: Militarism
subject: must
subject: nigeria
subject: nkrumah
subject: osazua
subject: sahel
subject: shut
subject: sources
subject: states
subject: terrorism
subject: the
subject: traoré
subject: tunde
subject: u.s.
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: why
description: If it was not clear before the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Christmas Day bombing of its Sokoto state, that Nigeria is not a sovereign African nation but is instead a neo-colonial state with a Western puppet government, it should be crystal clear now. The longstanding fundamental crisis of the sovereignty of African nations lies in […] The post The U.S. Airstrike in Nigeria Confirms why the U.S African Command (AFRICOM) Must be Shut Down first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: If it was not clear before the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Christmas Day bombing of its Sokoto state, that Nigeria is not a sovereign African nation but is instead a neo-colonial state with a Western puppet government, it should be crystal clear now. The longstanding fundamental crisis of the sovereignty of African nations lies in the continuity of its neo-colonial structures, with the unrestrained operation of AFRICOM as a graphic example of that dependency. The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unequivocally condemn this veiled act of aggression in the strongest terms. The U.S. administration claims the strike was “…against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” The Trump administration’s alleged concern for Christians is a transparent ruse for gaining a military foothold bordering the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). The 2011 U.S. destruction of the Libyan state gave power to these “jihadist” groups, who continue to serve U.S. interests by keeping Africa destabilized. The caretakers of the US-EU-NATO axis of domination are incapable of any such humanitarian regard. Palestinian Christians can attest to this. The U.S. has no right to attack anyone in Nigeria. As far as BAP and the USOAN — a network that consists of individuals and organizations throughout the African continent — is concerned the comprador leadership who do not genuinely represent the people, cannot give them permission to do so. The only two real motives for this attack are the influence of white supremacy inherent in the U.S. settler state, as expressed in the Trump administration’s ties to evangelicalism, as well as concern for the insistent anti-imperialism of the AES. It is actually unlikely that only one of these is a factor by itself. As BAP Africa Team member Tunde Osazua explains: The threat of U.S. military action against Nigeria, justified by claims of a ‘C…

The U.S. Airstrike in Nigeria Confirms why the U.S African Command (AFRICOM) Must be Shut Down
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creator: Black Alliance for Peace
date: 2025-12-31T15:00:51Z
subject: Alliance of Sahel States
subject: Christmas Day bombing
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: ECOWAS
subject: Ibrahim Traoré
subject: Kwame Nkrumah
subject: Micheal Langley
subject: Sources
subject: Tunde Osazua
subject: ae’s
subject: africa
subject: African
subject: africom
subject: airstrike
subject: alliance
subject: bombing
subject: burkina faso
subject: christmas
subject: Colonialism
subject: command
subject: confirms
subject: congressional black caucus
subject: day
subject: democrats
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: down
subject: ecowas
subject: ibrahim
subject: Imperialism
subject: ISIS
subject: kwame
subject: langley
subject: micheal
subject: Militarism
subject: must
subject: nigeria
subject: nkrumah
subject: osazua
subject: sahel
subject: shut
subject: sources
subject: states
subject: terrorism
subject: the
subject: traoré
subject: tunde
subject: u.s.
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: why
description: If it was not clear before the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Christmas Day bombing of its Sokoto state, that Nigeria is not a sovereign African nation but is instead a neo-colonial state with a Western puppet government, it should be crystal clear now. The longstanding fundamental crisis of the sovereignty of African nations lies in […] The post The U.S. Airstrike in Nigeria Confirms why the U.S African Command (AFRICOM) Must be Shut Down first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: If it was not clear before the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Christmas Day bombing of its Sokoto state, that Nigeria is not a sovereign African nation but is instead a neo-colonial state with a Western puppet government, it should be crystal clear now. The longstanding fundamental crisis of the sovereignty of African nations lies in the continuity of its neo-colonial structures, with the unrestrained operation of AFRICOM as a graphic example of that dependency. The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unequivocally condemn this veiled act of aggression in the strongest terms. The U.S. administration claims the strike was “…against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” The Trump administration’s alleged concern for Christians is a transparent ruse for gaining a military foothold bordering the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). The 2011 U.S. destruction of the Libyan state gave power to these “jihadist” groups, who continue to serve U.S. interests by keeping Africa destabilized. The caretakers of the US-EU-NATO axis of domination are incapable of any such humanitarian regard. Palestinian Christians can attest to this. The U.S. has no right to attack anyone in Nigeria. As far as BAP and the USOAN — a network that consists of individuals and organizations throughout the African continent — is concerned the comprador leadership who do not genuinely represent the people, cannot give them permission to do so. The only two real motives for this attack are the influence of white supremacy inherent in the U.S. settler state, as expressed in the Trump administration’s ties to evangelicalism, as well as concern for the insistent anti-imperialism of the AES. It is actually unlikely that only one of these is a factor by itself. As BAP Africa Team member Tunde Osazua explains: The threat of U.S. military action against Nigeria, justified by claims of a ‘C…

Trump’s Hosting of Kennedy Center Honors Tanks
type: item
creator: Bill Berkowitz
date: 2025-12-31T15:00:18Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: George Strait
subject: Gloria Gaynor
subject: immodesty
subject: Michael Crawford
subject: self-promotion
subject: Sources
subject: Sylvester Stallone
subject: Arts and/or Entertainment
subject: center
subject: crawford,
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: gaynor
subject: george
subject: gloria
subject: honors
subject: hosting
subject: kennedy,
subject: kiss
subject: michael
subject: sources
subject: stallone
subject: strait,
subject: sylvester
subject: tanks,
subject: trump’s
subject: United States
subject: voice
description: While Donald Trump has long treated ratings as a personal scorecard, his turn as host of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors delivered a result he has conspicuously avoided addressing: the lowest viewership in the history of the broadcast. While its clear that the often-addled Trump should not keep his day job, he certainly shouldn’t consider […] The post Trump’s Hosting of Kennedy Center Honors Tanks first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img decoding="async" title="kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg" src="https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1509579/story_image/kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg?1766239864" srcset="https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1509579/story_image/kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg?1766239864 1024w, https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1509579/lightbox/kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg?1766239864 768w, https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1509579/large/kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg?1766239864 600w" alt="kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg" width="505" height="284.1" /> While Donald Trump has long treated ratings as a personal scorecard, his turn as host of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors delivered a result he has conspicuously avoided addressing: the lowest viewership in the history of the broadcast. While its clear that the often-addled Trump should not keep his day job, he certainly shouldn’t consider hosting awards programs as an avocation! CBS 19 News noted that Programming Insider reported that preliminary Nielsen data found that the show on CBS “drew its smallest audience ever … averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers. To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million viewers, which itself had already marked a historical low. Do the math, and this year’s telecast represents a 35% year-over-year decline — a staggering drop for one of broadcast TV’s most traditionally reliable specials.” Even during past controversies, political boycotts, and years of steady erosion in television audiences, no previous Kennedy Center Honors broadcast had fallen to a viewership low this severe. The ratings collapse followed Trump’s own effort to hype the event. In a Truth Social post earlier in the day, he wrote that he was …

Trump’s Hosting of Kennedy Center Honors Tanks
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creator: Bill Berkowitz
date: 2025-12-31T15:00:18Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: George Strait
subject: Gloria Gaynor
subject: immodesty
subject: Michael Crawford
subject: self-promotion
subject: Sources
subject: Sylvester Stallone
subject: Arts and/or Entertainment
subject: center
subject: crawford,
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: gaynor
subject: george
subject: gloria
subject: honors
subject: hosting
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subject: kiss
subject: michael
subject: sources
subject: stallone
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subject: sylvester
subject: tanks,
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subject: United States
subject: voice
description: While Donald Trump has long treated ratings as a personal scorecard, his turn as host of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors delivered a result he has conspicuously avoided addressing: the lowest viewership in the history of the broadcast. While its clear that the often-addled Trump should not keep his day job, he certainly shouldn’t consider […] The post Trump’s Hosting of Kennedy Center Honors Tanks first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img decoding="async" title="kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg" src="https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1509579/story_image/kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg?1766239864" srcset="https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1509579/story_image/kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg?1766239864 1024w, https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1509579/lightbox/kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg?1766239864 768w, https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/1509579/large/kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg?1766239864 600w" alt="kennedy-center-honors-trump-with-name-addition-to-jfk-memorial-768x432.jpg" width="505" height="284.1" /> While Donald Trump has long treated ratings as a personal scorecard, his turn as host of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors delivered a result he has conspicuously avoided addressing: the lowest viewership in the history of the broadcast. While its clear that the often-addled Trump should not keep his day job, he certainly shouldn’t consider hosting awards programs as an avocation! CBS 19 News noted that Programming Insider reported that preliminary Nielsen data found that the show on CBS “drew its smallest audience ever … averaging an estimated 2.65 million viewers. To put that in perspective: the 2024 broadcast averaged 4.1 million viewers, which itself had already marked a historical low. Do the math, and this year’s telecast represents a 35% year-over-year decline — a staggering drop for one of broadcast TV’s most traditionally reliable specials.” Even during past controversies, political boycotts, and years of steady erosion in television audiences, no previous Kennedy Center Honors broadcast had fallen to a viewership low this severe. The ratings collapse followed Trump’s own effort to hype the event. In a Truth Social post earlier in the day, he wrote that he was …

A Tale of Colliding World Views
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creator: Greg Godels
date: 2025-12-31T15:00:08Z
subject: Communist Party of Greece
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: KKE
subject: Monroe Doctrine
subject: National security strategy
subject: Sources
subject: China
subject: colliding
subject: Communism/Marxism/Maoism
subject: communist’
subject: dissident
subject: doctrine
subject: donald trump
subject: greece
subject: Imperialism
subject: kke
subject: monroe
subject: national
subject: party
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: strategy
subject: tale
subject: United States
subject: views
subject: voice
subject: World
description: In December, documents were released asserting two radically different political perspectives. They could not be more different. On December 4, under the President of the United States’ Seal, the White House published the administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, expressing the government’s current evaluation of the global challenges facing it. The next day, December 5, the […] The post A Tale of Colliding World Views first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: In December, documents were released asserting two radically different political perspectives. They could not be more different. On December 4, under the President of the United States’ Seal, the White House published the administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, expressing the government’s current evaluation of the global challenges facing it. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-164081" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE-286x300.png" alt="" width="286" height="300" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE-286x300.png 286w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE-978x1024.png 978w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE-768x804.png 768w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE.png 1145w" sizes="(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px" />The next day, December 5, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) publicly announced its forthcoming 22nd Congress, followed by the publication of its Theses of the Central Committee — the product of long preparatory discussions by the KKE’s members– constituting an assessment of the state of the world and the Party’s approach to it. A comparison of the two documents presents a violent clash of class outlooks. The US National Security Strategy The US ruling class — in its current incarnation — intends to maintain or re-establish US economic domination and grease the wheels for US corporations to succeed internationally. In this regard, the Trump administration is no different than earlier administrations, except — perhaps — being more transparent in this goal. More specifically, extracting policy from the section on the Western Hemisphere, the strategy includes: Militarizing the seas and the oceans. Previous administrations portrayed military force as an instrument of guaranteeing free “access” to trade. This administration, under the “America First” ideology explicitly uses military for…

A Tale of Colliding World Views
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creator: Greg Godels
date: 2025-12-31T15:00:08Z
subject: Communist Party of Greece
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: KKE
subject: Monroe Doctrine
subject: National security strategy
subject: Sources
subject: China
subject: colliding
subject: Communism/Marxism/Maoism
subject: communist’
subject: dissident
subject: doctrine
subject: donald trump
subject: greece
subject: Imperialism
subject: kke
subject: monroe
subject: national
subject: party
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: strategy
subject: tale
subject: United States
subject: views
subject: voice
subject: World
description: In December, documents were released asserting two radically different political perspectives. They could not be more different. On December 4, under the President of the United States’ Seal, the White House published the administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, expressing the government’s current evaluation of the global challenges facing it. The next day, December 5, the […] The post A Tale of Colliding World Views first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: In December, documents were released asserting two radically different political perspectives. They could not be more different. On December 4, under the President of the United States’ Seal, the White House published the administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, expressing the government’s current evaluation of the global challenges facing it. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-164081" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE-286x300.png" alt="" width="286" height="300" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE-286x300.png 286w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE-978x1024.png 978w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE-768x804.png 768w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KKE.png 1145w" sizes="(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px" />The next day, December 5, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) publicly announced its forthcoming 22nd Congress, followed by the publication of its Theses of the Central Committee — the product of long preparatory discussions by the KKE’s members– constituting an assessment of the state of the world and the Party’s approach to it. A comparison of the two documents presents a violent clash of class outlooks. The US National Security Strategy The US ruling class — in its current incarnation — intends to maintain or re-establish US economic domination and grease the wheels for US corporations to succeed internationally. In this regard, the Trump administration is no different than earlier administrations, except — perhaps — being more transparent in this goal. More specifically, extracting policy from the section on the Western Hemisphere, the strategy includes: Militarizing the seas and the oceans. Previous administrations portrayed military force as an instrument of guaranteeing free “access” to trade. This administration, under the “America First” ideology explicitly uses military for…

Illiberal democracy is an oxymoron #shorts
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2025-12-31T14:01:28Z
subject: Sources
subject: #shorts
subject: Democracy
subject: illiberal?
subject: oxymoron
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.

“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T13:46:56Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ‘blue
subject: autocracy
subject: corporate
subject: Democracy
subject: democrats
subject: for
subject: hell,
subject: how
subject: norm”:
subject: now
subject: paved
subject: road
subject: solomon
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: trump
subject: way
description: A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential c...
encoded: A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s “Democratic Autopsy” looks at how factors like “service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, out-of-control militarism [and] disconnection from the base of the working class” contributed to declining support for the party’s platform and candidates. “If you don’t examine real history, then you’re in a cycle that repeats the same problems,” says Norman Solomon, director of RootsAction, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss his organization’s findings. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Mayor for the Masses”: Can the Democratic Socialist Movement That Elected Mamdani Keep Its Momentum?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T13:35:57Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: can
subject: Democracy
subject: democratic
subject: elected
subject: for
subject: it’s
subject: keep
subject: mamdani
subject: masses
subject: mayor
subject: momentum
subject: movement
subject: now
subject: socialist
subject: sources
subject: that
subject: the
description: New York City is preparing to welcome its Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA), into office. Ahead of his highly anticipated inauguration, we sit down wit...
encoded: New York City is preparing to welcome its Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA), into office. Ahead of his highly anticipated inauguration, we sit down with NYC-DSA’s co-chair Grace Mausser to discuss the goals of the incoming administration and next steps for the volunteer-powered campaign apparatus that helped propel Mamdani to City Hall. “Just getting a mayor into office, while impressive and very exciting, is not enough,” says Mausser. “The reason we rallied behind Zohran is because he is committed to building our project.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“One More Step to Push Out Principled Humanitarian Actors”: NRC on Israel Ban on Aid Groups in Gaza
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T13:25:32Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ‘one
subject: actors
subject: aid
subject: ban
subject: Democracy
subject: gaza
subject: groups
subject: humanitarian
subject: israel
subject: more
subject: now
subject: NRC
subject: out
subject: principled
subject: push
subject: sources
subject: step
description: Israel is set to suspend the operating licenses of Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and dozens of other humanitarian aid groups in Gaza and the West Bank over alleged ties to Hamas, preventing international aid workers from entering Gaza and car...
encoded: Israel is set to suspend the operating licenses of Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and dozens of other humanitarian aid groups in Gaza and the West Bank over alleged ties to Hamas, preventing international aid workers from entering Gaza and carrying out critical, lifesaving operations. Citing the groups’ supposed support for the “delegitimization of Israel,” the move is “arbitrary and highly politicized,” explains Shaina Low, communications adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the impacted groups. “This is just one more step to push out principled humanitarian actors, particularly those that speak out on behalf of the people who we’re there to serve, call for accountability for rights violations and violations of international law.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela: Trump “Wants the Oil” as Grassroots Resist “Economic Asphyxiation”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T13:12:46Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: against
subject: asphyxiation”
subject: Democracy
subject: economic
subject: grassroots
subject: now
subject: oil
subject: resist
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
subject: the
subject: trump
subject: u.s.
subject: Venezuela
subject: wants
description: As the Trump administration escalates its military campaign against Venezuela, we speak to Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez about the latest developments. Responding to the U.S. military’s drone strikes on small boats and seizures o...
encoded: As the Trump administration escalates its military campaign against Venezuela, we speak to Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez about the latest developments. Responding to the U.S. military’s drone strikes on small boats and seizures of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, Chávez says U.S. claims of pursuing fentanyl traffickers lack evidence and are “pretext” for an attempt “to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy” and wrest control of the country’s state-owned oil reserves. In the face of U.S. aggression, says Chávez, “Venezuelan communes and Venezuelan popular organizations in general have responded to Trump’s claims that he owns the Venezuelan oil with a very strong response, saying that they’re going to defend sovereignty, that they’re going to defend Venezuela’s self-determination.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for December 31, 2025
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T13:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 2025
subject: 31,
subject: december
subject: Democracy
subject: for
subject: headlines
subject: now
subject: sources
description: Israel Bans More Than Two Dozen Aid Agencies From Operating in Gaza, Saudi Arabia Carries Out Strikes on Yemen’s Port City of Mukalla, Russia Launches Overnight Drone Attack in the Ukrainian Port City of Odesa, Mass Protests in Iran Spread to Universities, Two Oil Tankers Reportedly Arrive in Venezuela Despite the Trump Administration’s Blockade, U.S. Sanctions 10 People and Firms from Iran and Venezuela, Protests Led by Bolivian Miners Enter Second Week, Honduran Presidential Runner-Up Salvador Nasralla Challenges Results of Election, Florida Executes Record 19 People on Death Row in 2025, Unsealed Court Order Reveals DOJ Officials Pushed for Kilmar Ábrego García’s Indictment, Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Admin From Ending Deportation Protections for Immigrants From South Sudan, Trump Admin Announced It’s Freezing Child Care Payments to Minnesota, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani to Be Sworn In as Mayor by New York Attorney General Letitia James
encoded: Israel Bans More Than Two Dozen Aid Agencies From Operating in Gaza Saudi Arabia Carries Out Strikes on Yemen's Port City of Mukalla Russia Launches Overnight Drone Attack in the Ukrainian Port City of Odesa Mass Protests in Iran Spread to Universities Two Oil Tankers Reportedly Arrive in Venezuela Despite the Trump Administration's Blockade U.S. Sanctions 10 People and Firms from Iran and Venezuela Protests Led by Bolivian Miners Enter Second Week Honduran Presidential Runner-Up Salvador Nasralla Challenges Results of Election Florida Executes Record 19 People on Death Row in 2025 Unsealed Court Order Reveals DOJ Officials Pushed for Kilmar Ábrego García's Indictment Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Admin From Ending Deportation Protections for Immigrants From South Sudan Trump Admin Announced It's Freezing Child Care Payments to Minnesota Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani to Be Sworn In as Mayor by New York Attorney General Letitia James This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2025-12-31 Wednesday
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-31T13:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: Democracy
subject: now
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description: Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 31, 2025
encoded: Democracy Now! Wednesday, December 31, 2025 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Vessels of Revolution: Akinsanya Kambon on Art & Liberation [re-air episode cut]
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2025-12-31T11:20:12Z
subject: Sources
subject: [re-air]
subject: akinsanya
subject: Art
subject: cut
subject: episode
subject: kambon
subject: liberation
subject: Revolution
subject: sources
subject: vessels
description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
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creator: Renee Dudley
date: 2025-12-31T10:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
subject: bill
subject: china-based
subject: defense
subject: engineers
subject: pentagon
subject: prohibiting
subject: propublica
subject: signs
subject: sources
subject: Technology
subject: trump
subject: work
description: The post Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: President Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that prohibits anyone based in China and other adversarial countries from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems. The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law, was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade — a practice that left some of the country’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary. U.S.-based supervisors, known as “digital escorts,” were supposed to serve as a check on these foreign employees, but we found they often lacked the expertise needed to effectively supervise engineers with far more advanced technical skills. In the wake of the reporting, leading members of Congress called on the Defense Department to strengthen its security requirements while blasting Microsoft for what some Republicans called “a national betrayal.” Cybersecurity and intelligence experts have told ProPublica that the arrangement posed major risks to national security, given that laws in China grant the country’s officials broad authority to collect data. Microsoft pledged in July to stop using China-based engineers to service Pentagon cloud systems after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly condemned the practice. “Foreign engineers — from any country, including of course China — should NEVER be allowed to maintain or access DoD systems,” Hegseth wrote on X. In September, the Pentagon updated its cybersecurity requirements for tech contractors, banning IT vendors from using China-based personnel to work on Defense Department computer systems. The new law effectively codifies that change, requiring Hegseth to prohibit individuals from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from having direct or indirect access to Defense Department cloud computing systems. Microsoft declined to comment on the new law. Following t…

DN! Wednesday, December 31, 2025
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creator: Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4
date: 2025-12-31T09:31:18Z
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description: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
encoded: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4 and was authored by Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4.

Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments, and Khashoggi
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-12-31T09:15:43Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Eugene Vindman
subject: Hanan Elatr
subject: Hatice Cengiz
subject: John Bates
subject: Pegasus
subject: Robert Simonds
subject: Ron Deibert
subject: Sources
subject: Vincent Brengarth
subject: William Bourdon
subject: and
subject: bates
subject: bourdon
subject: brengarth
subject: cengiz
subject: deibert
subject: dissident
subject: elatr
subject: eugene
subject: governments
subject: group
subject: hanan
subject: hatice
subject: jamal khashoggi
subject: john
subject: khashoggi
subject: mohammed bin salman
subject: murder
subject: nso
subject: pegasus
subject: robert
subject: ron
subject: saudi arabia
subject: simonds
subject: sources
subject: spyware
subject: Surveillance
subject: Technology
subject: the
subject: türkiye
subject: vincent
subject: vindman
subject: voice
subject: william
description: The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his complex connubial life, the slain scribbler can now count, not only on efforts made by fiancée Hatice Cengiz in 2020 but his widow Hanan Elatr Khashoggi […] The post Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments, and Khashoggi first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his complex connubial life, the slain scribbler can now count, not only on efforts made by fiancée Hatice Cengiz in 2020 but his widow Hanan Elatr Khashoggi in seeking curial scrutiny on why he was do remorselessly dispatched by a death squad authorised by the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Unfortunately, whether focusing on the culpability of the Israeli spyware company NSO Group, or that of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, their efforts have yielded lean returns. The October 2020 lawsuit filed by Hatice Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) was dismissed in December 2022 by US District Judge John Bates for reasons of head of state immunity. The judge nonetheless registered his “uneasiness” at the decision by the Kingdom to make the crown prince prime minister, along with “credible allegations of his involvement in Khashoggi’s murder”. The move had the stench of convenient expediency. “A contextualized look at the Royal Order thus suggests that it was not motivated by a desire for bin Salman to be the head of government, but instead to shield him from potential liability in this case.” Prior to the decision, the Biden administration had also intervened on its own accord in the case, suggesting the court heed arguments of sovereign immunity. The State Department also affirmed the position that the US had “consistently, and across administrations, applied these principles to heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers while they are in office.” In 2023, Hanan Elatr filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Virginia against the NSO Group alleging the intentional targeting of her devices, thereby causing “immense harm, both through the tragic loss of her husband and through her own loss of safety, privacy, and autonomy.” At the time, Citizen Lab Director …

Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments, and Khashoggi
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-12-31T09:15:43Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Eugene Vindman
subject: Hanan Elatr
subject: Hatice Cengiz
subject: John Bates
subject: Pegasus
subject: Robert Simonds
subject: Ron Deibert
subject: Sources
subject: Vincent Brengarth
subject: William Bourdon
subject: and
subject: bates
subject: bourdon
subject: brengarth
subject: cengiz
subject: deibert
subject: dissident
subject: elatr
subject: eugene
subject: governments
subject: group
subject: hanan
subject: hatice
subject: jamal khashoggi
subject: john
subject: khashoggi
subject: mohammed bin salman
subject: murder
subject: nso
subject: pegasus
subject: robert
subject: ron
subject: saudi arabia
subject: simonds
subject: sources
subject: spyware
subject: Surveillance
subject: Technology
subject: the
subject: türkiye
subject: vincent
subject: vindman
subject: voice
subject: william
description: The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his complex connubial life, the slain scribbler can now count, not only on efforts made by fiancée Hatice Cengiz in 2020 but his widow Hanan Elatr Khashoggi […] The post Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments, and Khashoggi first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his complex connubial life, the slain scribbler can now count, not only on efforts made by fiancée Hatice Cengiz in 2020 but his widow Hanan Elatr Khashoggi in seeking curial scrutiny on why he was do remorselessly dispatched by a death squad authorised by the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Unfortunately, whether focusing on the culpability of the Israeli spyware company NSO Group, or that of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, their efforts have yielded lean returns. The October 2020 lawsuit filed by Hatice Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) was dismissed in December 2022 by US District Judge John Bates for reasons of head of state immunity. The judge nonetheless registered his “uneasiness” at the decision by the Kingdom to make the crown prince prime minister, along with “credible allegations of his involvement in Khashoggi’s murder”. The move had the stench of convenient expediency. “A contextualized look at the Royal Order thus suggests that it was not motivated by a desire for bin Salman to be the head of government, but instead to shield him from potential liability in this case.” Prior to the decision, the Biden administration had also intervened on its own accord in the case, suggesting the court heed arguments of sovereign immunity. The State Department also affirmed the position that the US had “consistently, and across administrations, applied these principles to heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers while they are in office.” In 2023, Hanan Elatr filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Virginia against the NSO Group alleging the intentional targeting of her devices, thereby causing “immense harm, both through the tragic loss of her husband and through her own loss of safety, privacy, and autonomy.” At the time, Citizen Lab Director …

What Happened at Mauser?
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creator: Chloe Palmer – Joe Allen
date: 2025-12-31T07:01:27Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: happened?
subject: Labor
subject: Leading Article
subject: mauser?
subject: sources
subject: what
description: What has happened to the Mauser strikers — and what could have been different? Teamsters Mobilize believes that these are essential questions that have to be asked by everyone within the Teamsters union and the broader labor movement. There is a concerning trend within the Teamsters union; a local or regional strike will pop off, More The post What Happened at Mauser? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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A Moment of Hope in Gaza
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creator: Kathy Kelly
date: 2025-12-31T07:00:27Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: gaza
subject: hope
subject: Leading Article
subject: moment
subject: sources
description: On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white coats, they stood in front of the ruined façade of what was formerly Gaza’s largest hospital, the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. As a backdrop, the destroyed building realistically conveys perils the graduates faced while earning their medical degrees. Throughout the last two years of their studies, they risked assassination, injury, arrest, imprisonment, and torture, as well as attacks on their own family members. More The post A Moment of Hope in Gaza appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Out of the Greenhouse and Into the Madhouse: the Year in Climate Politics
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creator: Jeffrey St. Clair
date: 2025-12-31T06:59:29Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: Climate
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: greenhouse
subject: into
subject: Leading Article
subject: madhouse
subject: out
subject: Politics
subject: Roaming Charges
subject: sources
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subject: year
description: 2025 will go down as the second or third hottest year on record. The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history. Driven by drought and extreme winds, a massive fire burned its way across the LA Basin, incinerating more than 10,000 homes. The estimated damage ranges from $76 billion to $133 billion. Total losses to businesses and workers in income and wages totaled at least $297. The year saw two of the largest, most rapidly intensifying hurricanes in the history of the Atlantic Ocean. Floods in central Texas killed at least 137 people, while massive flooding driven by twin cyclones that tore across Sumatra and the southern Philippines killed at least 1,800 people and left more than a million people homeless. We are in the midst of the largest mass coral bleaching event in history, affecting 83% of the world’s extant coral reefs. The melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is accelerating. Its surface is fracturing, causing massive ice falls and rockslides that are warping the southern continent’s geology. A total collapse of the ice sheet, which now seems certain, would raise global sea levels by 12 feet. The Arctic Ocean is now expected to be “ice-free” in the summer by 2030, twenty years earlier than predicted just a few years ago. The Atlantic Current is slowing down and may be on the verge of collapse, which would likely destabilize rainfall patterns for much of the planet. Wildfires in Canada now burn year-round. There were 24,000 heat-related deaths in Europe this summer from June to August alone. Deaths from extreme heat in the US have increased by more than 50% since 2000. More The post Out of the Greenhouse and Into the Madhouse: the Year in Climate Politics appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Case for Expelling Israel from Eurovision
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creator: Ramzy Baroud - Romana Rubeo
date: 2025-12-31T06:57:14Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: case
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: eurovision
subject: expelling
subject: for
subject: from
subject: israel
subject: sources
subject: the
description: The term ‘hypocrisy’ is the most convenient term, but certainly not the most apt to describe the inclusion of Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. We must search for other terms that could possibly explain why a country that has just committed one of the most horrific genocides in modern history is celebrated as More The post The Case for Expelling Israel from Eurovision appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Did Mark Zuckerberg Throw $77 Billion in Our Money Into the Toilet?
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2025-12-31T06:54:42Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: $77
subject: articles 2015
subject: billion
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: did
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subject: Money
subject: our
subject: sources
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subject: toilet
subject: zuckerberg
description: Meta recently announced that it was sharply cutting back its Metaverse division so that it could put more money into its AI projects. This is after its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spent around $77 billion to build up his Metaverse, which apparently never really caught on with users. On the one hand, this can be seen More The post Did Mark Zuckerberg Throw $77 Billion in Our Money Into the Toilet? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Operation Domino: Italy’s War on Palestinian Charity and the Criminalization of Survival
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creator: Michael Leonardi
date: 2025-12-31T06:53:22Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: charity
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: criminalization
subject: domino
subject: italy’s
subject: operation
subject: palestinian
subject: sources
subject: Survival
subject: the
subject: war
description: In a chilling escalation of state repression, the Italian government has launched a full-scale judicial assault on the Palestinian solidarity movement. The targets are no longer just individual voices of dissent; they are the very infrastructure of Palestinian survival. This week, under the codename Operation Domino, the Guardia di Finanza and DIGOS orchestrated a theatrical More The post Operation Domino: Italy’s War on Palestinian Charity and the Criminalization of Survival appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Policymakers Must Address Earnings Instability
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creator: Julia Yixia Cai
date: 2025-12-31T06:52:19Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘instability’
subject: address
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: earnings
subject: economics
subject: must
subject: policymakers
subject: sources
description: Current policy debates are often focused on static income or employment status, such as being employed or unemployed, and annual income changes. However, the growing issue of earnings stability is largely overlooked in these discussions. On December 17, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois) reintroduced the Schedules That More The post Policymakers Must Address Earnings Instability appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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I Sat Next To Brigitte Bardot On The Bus In Nice
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creator: Kenn Maurice
date: 2025-12-31T06:52:13Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: bardot
subject: brigitte
subject: bus
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: next?
subject: nice
subject: sat
subject: sources
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description: Okay, no. I did NOT sit next to the late French actress, Brigette Bardot. But it very easily could have been her. I was there on holiday with a group which included my partner, family and friends. After an excursion we took to a monastery in the back country, we decided to take a local More The post I Sat Next To Brigitte Bardot On The Bus In Nice appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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I Sat Next To Brigitte Bardot On The Bus In Nice
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creator: Kenn Maurice
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description: Okay, no. I did NOT sit next to the late French actress, Brigette Bardot. But it very easily could have been her. I was there on holiday with a group which included my partner, family and friends. After an excursion we took to a monastery in the back country, we decided to take a local More The post I Sat Next To Brigitte Bardot On The Bus In Nice appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation
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description: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, 2025, that aims to supersede state-level artificial intelligence laws that the administration views as a hindrance to innovation in AI. State laws regulating AI are increasing in number, particularly in response to the rise of generative AI systems such as ChatGPT that produce text and More The post What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Award Donald Trump Deserves
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description: In Donald Trump’s bizarre concept of the world, he is campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize but what he really should receive is an equivalent of the Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards presented as a parody of the Academy Awards to those movies least deserving of Oscars. Here are some of his qualifications for the first More The post The Award Donald Trump Deserves appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: In Donald Trump’s bizarre concept of the world, he is campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize but what he really should receive is an equivalent of the Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards presented as a parody of the Academy Awards to those movies least deserving of Oscars. Here are some of his qualifications for the first annual Warmonger Prize during just the first year of his second term. After threatening to go into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing,” Trump celebrated Christmas by ordering a bombing strike on Nigeria. A social media post by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened “more to come.” As of this writing at least 107 civilians have been killed in 30 US strikes on Venezuelan speedboats in international waters. Trump has claimed, without presenting any evidence, that these boats were carrying drugs destined for the United States, which justified these strikes as self-defense in an “armed conflict.” How speedboats, apparently destined for nearby countries, could present an imminent danger to the United States, more than a thousand miles away, is hard to imagine. Nor has Congress authorized military action under the War Powers Act. When one strike left two survivors clinging to their boat’s wreckage, they were killed in a second strike even though they hardly presented a danger, imminent or otherwise, to the United States or anyone. In an earlier strike, two survivors were repatriated to Colombia where they were freed without prosecution. Apparently, they were not a danger to the United States. Usually, alleged low level drug dealers are apprehended for interrogation about higher ups and possible prosecution and not killed as there is no death penalty for drug dealing. Trump escalated his undeclared war against Venezuela with a CIA drone strike on a port facility inside Venezuela. Despite the administration not requesting congressional consent, it is likely that this is the first of a series of attacks on land in Venezuela. In June the United State bombed three…

Trans – the New Anti-Gay Crusade
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description: Religious conservatives waged a 50-year battle to deny the rights of gay and lesbian people, especially the right to marry. As the dominate force in the GOP, they coerced traditional Republicans to formally oppose same sex marriage, and make it a national political issue in the 1990’s. They also oppose the Equality Act which would More The post Trans – the New Anti-Gay Crusade appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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What Gives You Hope?
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
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description: We close out this year from hell with a grounded kind of hope, not wishful thinking. Ushering us into a better new year is a montage of organizers, journalists, and activists reminding us that history isn't finished, and that power has always been built from the ground up. We end with a simple reminder: convert hope into power through solidarity, defiance, and showing up, again and again. Be relentless, like water eroding rock. That is how we win. As we face the year ahead together, what's giving you hope right now? Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, Q&A sessions, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit! Show Notes: Erica Smiley — "Building Real Democracy Starts on the Shop Floor" (8/26/2025) Katherine Stewart — "Money, Lies and God" (3/5/2025) Gil Duran — "Nerd Reich" (3/11/2025) Carter Sherman — "Brett Kavanaugh is Ruining People's Sex Lives" (7/1/2025) Sandi Bachom — "Nazi Hunting" (3/25/2025) Mona Eltahawy — "Smash the Patriarchy with Rage and Risk" (8/12/2025) Irin Carmon — "Unbearable: The War on Women" (10/28/2025) Kate Manne — "Naming the Rot: Kate Man Exposes the Lies Holding up the Patriarchy" (8/5/2025) Leah Litman — "Lawless" (5/20/2025) Shawn Werner (Sister District) — "The Midterms Start Now: Virginia is a Belweather" (9/23/2025) Ahmed Gatnash — "Power, Profits and Protest: Trump, Russia and the Middle East" (9/16/2025) Andrea Chalupa — "Nature Always Wins" (5/6/2025)
encoded: We close out this year from hell with a grounded kind of hope, not wishful thinking. Ushering us into a better new year is a montage of organizers, journalists, and activists reminding us that history isn't finished, and that power has always been built from the ground up. We end with a simple reminder: convert hope into power through solidarity, defiance, and showing up, again and again. Be relentless, like water eroding rock. That is how we win. As we face the year ahead together, what's giving you hope right now? Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, Q&A sessions, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit! Show Notes: Erica Smiley — "Building Real Democracy Starts on the Shop Floor" (8/26/2025) Katherine Stewart — "Money, Lies and God" (3/5/2025) Gil Duran — "Nerd Reich" (3/11/2025) Carter Sherman — "Brett Kavanaugh is Ruining People's Sex Lives" (7/1/2025) Sandi Bachom — "Nazi Hunting" (3/25/2025) Mona Eltahawy — "Smash the Patriarchy with Rage and Risk" (8/12/2025) Irin Carmon — "Unbearable: The War on Women" (10/28/2025) Kate Manne — "Naming the Rot: Kate Man Exposes the Lies Holding up the Patriarchy" (8/5/2025) Leah Litman — "Lawless" (5/20/2025) Shawn Werner (Sister District) — "The Midterms Start Now: Virginia is a Belweather" (9/23/2025) Ahmed Gatnash — "Power, Profits and Protest: Trump, Russia and the Middle East" (9/16/2025) Andrea Chalupa — "Nature Always Wins" (5/6/2025) This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

Dark Alliance: Is key US ally Daniel Noboa linked to S. American drug trade?
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Dark Alliance: Top US ally Noboa linked to S. American drug trade
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Bari Weiss Israelifies CBS on behalf of billionaire masters
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Why did Bari Weiss censor 60 Minutes CECOT segment?
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Through the Eyes of Little Crow
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creator: Julian Brave NoiseCat
date: 2025-12-31T00:23:44Z
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description: An excerpt from We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat.
encoded: An excerpt from We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Julian Brave NoiseCat.

The 1994 Zapatista Uprising: Resisting NAFTA and corporate capitalism
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creator: Michael Fox
date: 2025-12-31T00:15:43Z
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Statement on the Retirement of Warren Buffett
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creator: matthew
date: 2025-12-30T23:28:16Z
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description: After over 60 years of historically successful investment, Warren Buffett will pass the baton to his successor on January 1. Now that he has more free time, he can re-enter his longtime cause, which is non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Existing nuc...
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Venezuelan ‘Threat’ Is All Trumped Up
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creator: Carmen Rojas
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description: President Donald Trump has been inching toward war with Venezuela for one reason: oil.
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Homeowner Advocates Fight Back Against HOAs
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creator: Glenn Daigon
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description: Homeowners associations are undemocratic and unaccountable to the communities they govern. Grassroots groups are organizing to change this.
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Gideon Levy & Rami Khouri on Death of Iconic Palestinian Filmmaker
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creator: Democracy Now!
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Gideon Levy & Rami Khouri on Death of Iconic Palestinian Filmmaker
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creator: Democracy Now!
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Students Protest In Iran As Unrest Grows Over Economic Crisis
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date: 2025-12-30T18:54:24Z
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 30, 2025
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 30, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Trump Backs Netanyahu’s Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond
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Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
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Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
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Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-30T16:16:55Z
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Trump Backs Netanyahu’s "Colonial" Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond
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date: 2025-12-30T16:15:49Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 30, 2025
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Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity
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creator: Denis Rancourt
date: 2025-12-30T16:01:25Z
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subject: Hans Selye
subject: John Ioannidis
subject: Knut Wittkowski
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subject: protection racket
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subject: Sucharit Bhakdi
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subject: hegemony
subject: hierarchies
subject: humanity
subject: ioannidis
subject: john
subject: knut
subject: Lockdown
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description: The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-ranging and allow me to explain decades of my work in many areas of science. A main focus is to understand the Covid period, the so-called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The main intermingled […] The post Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-ranging and allow me to explain decades of my work in many areas of science. A main focus is to understand the Covid period, the so-called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The main intermingled topics, somewhat in the order of the questions are: my multi-disciplinary intellectual and professional paths (Q1) striking conclusions in my June 2020 paper on mortality (Q2) conclusions from studying mortality in 125 countries (Q3) impossible geo-temporal patterns, no viral spread (Q4) COVID-19 vaccines associated with 17 million deaths (Q5) importance of transmissionless bacterial pneumonia (Q6) historic global seasonality of mortality (Q7) historical geo-economics, environmental devastation, and emerging state ideologies (Q8) arms and mRNA vaccines as protection rackets (Q9) dominance hierarchy as plate tectonics of sociology (Q10) USA-driven vaccination campaigns as parasitic globalism (Q11) fallacies in the germ theory vs terrain theory debate (Q12) sociology of widespread and institutionalized harmful medical practices (Q13) the Covid campaign in its geopolitical context (Q14) future plans (Q15) Q: Denis, can you please tell us about your journey from being a tenured physics professor at the University of Ottawa to becoming one of the most prominent critics of pandemic policies? What pivotal moments led you to shift your focus from traditional academic research to analyzing public health data? Denis Rancourt: My PhD (1984) was in condensed matter physics, from the University of Toronto. I was 27 years old. Following two years of post-doctoral research in European laboratories (France and The Netherlands), I became a nationally funded lead researcher and university professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. My research laboratory was continuously well funded through competitive awards, and I taught more than 2000 s…

Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity
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subject: dollar hegemony
subject: dominance hierarchies
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subject: Hans Selye
subject: John Ioannidis
subject: Knut Wittkowski
subject: MAHA movement
subject: Mike Yeadon
subject: protection racket
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subject: Sucharit Bhakdi
subject: terrain theory
subject: viral respiratory disease
subject: ‘multi-pronged’
subject: all-cause
subject: and
subject: attack
subject: bhakdi
subject: contagion
subject: covid-19
subject: Data
subject: disease
subject: dissident
subject: dollar
subject: dominance
subject: Empire
subject: germ
subject: hans
subject: hegemony
subject: hierarchies
subject: humanity
subject: ioannidis
subject: john
subject: knut
subject: Lockdown
subject: maha
subject: Masks
subject: mike
subject: mortality
subject: movement
subject: pcr
subject: pharma,
subject: Propaganda
subject: protection
subject: racket:
subject: respiratory
subject: Science
subject: selye
subject: sources
subject: Stress
subject: sucharit
subject: terrain
subject: the
subject: theory
subject: Vaccines
subject: viral
subject: virus
subject: voice
subject: wittkowski
subject: yeadon
description: The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-ranging and allow me to explain decades of my work in many areas of science. A main focus is to understand the Covid period, the so-called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The main intermingled […] The post Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-ranging and allow me to explain decades of my work in many areas of science. A main focus is to understand the Covid period, the so-called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The main intermingled topics, somewhat in the order of the questions are: my multi-disciplinary intellectual and professional paths (Q1) striking conclusions in my June 2020 paper on mortality (Q2) conclusions from studying mortality in 125 countries (Q3) impossible geo-temporal patterns, no viral spread (Q4) COVID-19 vaccines associated with 17 million deaths (Q5) importance of transmissionless bacterial pneumonia (Q6) historic global seasonality of mortality (Q7) historical geo-economics, environmental devastation, and emerging state ideologies (Q8) arms and mRNA vaccines as protection rackets (Q9) dominance hierarchy as plate tectonics of sociology (Q10) USA-driven vaccination campaigns as parasitic globalism (Q11) fallacies in the germ theory vs terrain theory debate (Q12) sociology of widespread and institutionalized harmful medical practices (Q13) the Covid campaign in its geopolitical context (Q14) future plans (Q15) Q: Denis, can you please tell us about your journey from being a tenured physics professor at the University of Ottawa to becoming one of the most prominent critics of pandemic policies? What pivotal moments led you to shift your focus from traditional academic research to analyzing public health data? Denis Rancourt: My PhD (1984) was in condensed matter physics, from the University of Toronto. I was 27 years old. Following two years of post-doctoral research in European laboratories (France and The Netherlands), I became a nationally funded lead researcher and university professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. My research laboratory was continuously well funded through competitive awards, and I taught more than 2000 s…

Artificial Intelligence, Global Inequality, and the Colonial Machinery of Capital
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creator: Sammy Attoh
date: 2025-12-30T16:00:33Z
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subject: global south
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subject: Intelligence
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description: Artificial intelligence is often presented as a universal breakthrough — a tool that will democratize knowledge, expand opportunity, and usher in a new era of human progress. But AI does not emerge in a vacuum. It is built inside a global order shaped by conquest, extraction, and the long shadow of empire. The world into […] The post Artificial Intelligence, Global Inequality, and the Colonial Machinery of Capital first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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The Teacher’s Burden
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description: Teachers have always been society’s most underestimated heroes. They carry the emotional, intellectual, and social development of entire generations—yet they work inside systems that often value credentials more than contribution, compliance more than creativity, and paperwork more than human potential. This essay explores the invisible load teachers carry — a burden that cannot be quantified, […] The post The Teacher’s Burden first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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“Sick in a Hospital Town”: The Narrated Podcast
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2025-12-30T14:49:00Z
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Inside The Abandoned Soviet Uranium Mines Of The Czech Republic
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date: 2025-12-30T14:32:31Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-30T13:49:31Z
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description: Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year. Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 m...
encoded: Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year. Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely. “We’ve done nothing as a country to control healthcare costs,” says Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and member of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She discusses how premiums will work, how to seek help, what to watch for in alternative plans, and more. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-30T13:40:19Z
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description: Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn t...
encoded: Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,” says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial hardship, Barnard suggests “immediately [contesting] when they get a notice of wage seizure.” She lays out what is at stake, options for those facing default, and more. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Israel Crushed Mohammad Bakri”: Gideon Levy & Rami Khouri on Death of Iconic Palestinian Filmmaker
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-30T13:29:20Z
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description: Journalists Gideon Levy and Rami Khouri discuss the work of acclaimed Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, who died at the age of 72 on Christmas Eve. He appeared in more than 40 films and directed documentaries highlighting the exp...
encoded: Journalists Gideon Levy and Rami Khouri discuss the work of acclaimed Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, who died at the age of 72 on Christmas Eve. He appeared in more than 40 films and directed documentaries highlighting the experiences of Palestinians living under occupation. “On a personal level, I can’t tell you how much I loved him,” says Levy. On one hand, Levy describes him as a “brave Palestinian patriot.” On the other hand, he was a victim of “Israeli machinery, which totally crushed his life and his career.” Bakri was best known for his 2002 documentary Jenin, Jenin, featuring the voices of Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp following a devastating Israeli military operation that killed 52 Palestinians. The film is banned in Israel. “Literature, poetry, cinema, art, cooking — any creative work that Palestinians do that reflects their humanity and their attachment to their ancient land, the Israelis and the Zionist movement want to crush this,” adds Khouri. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Whatever Israel Wants”: Trump Backs Netanyahu’s “Colonial” Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond
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description: We speak to journalists Gideon Levy and Rami Khouri about President Trump’s meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump supported Israel’s threats to launch new attacks on Iran and warned Hamas t...
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Headlines for December 30, 2025
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description: U.S. Strikes Another Boat in the Pacific as the CIA Reports a Drone Strike in Venezuela, Trump Expresses Support for Israel’s Threats to Strike Iran, Trump: Hamas Will “Have Hell to Pay” If It Refuses to Disarm, Trump Claims to Have Spoken to Israeli President Herzog About Pardoning Netanyahu, Hamas Confirms Deaths of Spokesman Abu Obeida and Former Gaza Leader Mohammed Sinwar, Somalia Condemns Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland, Protests Erupt in Iran over Currency’s Collapse and Dire Economic Conditions, Russia Accuses Ukraine of Launching a Drone Attack on Putin’s Presidential Residence, Chinese Military Encircles Taiwan to Send “Stern Warning” to U.S. over Arms Shipments, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti Wins Mandate in Snap Parliamentary Elections, Poll Finds Nearly Half of U.S. Residents Report Diminishing Financial Security Under Trump, Judge Tosses Charges Against TikTok Streamer Shot by ICE as Video Refutes Agents’ Claims, Trump Administration Invokes Public Health Regulation to Deny Asylum Claims, Bangladesh’s Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia Dies at 80
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Democracy Now! 2025-12-30 Tuesday
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Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here’s What Changed This Year.
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encoded: A few months ago, Oregon’s green energy outlook was bleak. The state Legislature and Gov. Tina Kotek had repeatedly failed to address a huge obstacle that has held back wind and solar projects in the Northwest for years: aging electrical lines too jammed up to handle more renewable power. A series of articles by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica identified barriers in the federal and state bureaucracies that delayed improvements to the beef up the grid. The failure to complete upgrades is the main reason Oregon, like its fellow progressive state and neighbor Washington, has lagged most of the nation in the growth of clean energy despite an internal mandate to go green. Bills to tackle the transmission problem continued to languish and die in the Oregon Legislature as recently as this spring. But there has been a groundswell of urgency since the stories were published. Kotek, a Democrat, has now issued two executive orders mandating that state agencies speed up renewable energy development by any available means, including fast-tracking permits and directly paying for new transmission lines. Those efforts could eventually be backed up by money. The state’s energy department, in a first, recommended lawmakers consider creating a state entity to finance, plan and build transmission lines. A lawmaker whose bill to create such an authority failed this year suddenly has hope for getting it done, and he said the governor’s office is working with him to make it happen. What was essentially an unacknowledged problem among many Oregon policymakers now has the full attention of the governor and the key agencies that report to her. There has been new attention on electrical transmission in Washington state, as well. The shift comes as President Donald Trump has created new obstacles to ramping up renewable energy. This year, he removed tax credits that made wind and solar cheaper to build, blocked new wind permits and fired employees of the federal agency that reviews t…

25 Investigations You May Have Missed This Year
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encoded: Over the past year, ProPublica has published hundreds of investigations. In January, Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News examined why a sexual assault case took seven years to go to trial in Alaska. In March, our video journalists told the stories of three mothers fighting to address America’s stillbirth crisis. In August, a team across the newsroom calculated how deeply President Donald Trump’s administration cut federal health agencies. And in December, Megan Rose and Debbie Cenziper reported how the Food and Drug Administration’s lax generic drug rules put a lung transplant patient’s life at risk. Here are 25 long-reads to add to your end-of-year reading list. You can also explore our most-read stories of the year. 1. Anchorage Police Say They Witnessed a Sexual Assault in Public. It Took Seven Years for the Case to Go to Trial. By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News. Co-published with Anchorage Daily News. Published Jan. 7. In Alaska, where the time to resolve most serious felony cases has nearly tripled over the past decade, one case was delayed so long that both victims died. A former prosecutor called it “a travesty of justice.” 2. Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response By Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, and Hannah Bassett, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. Co-published with Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. Published Jan. 27. Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the scheme. 3. What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing By Robin Fields Published Feb. 12. Video by Jose Sepulveda/ProPublica Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry…

The Most-Read ProPublica Stories of 2025
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encoded: When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, ProPublica’s reporters set out to cover how his second administration would reshape the government and the country. Our reporters detailed what happened when the Department of Government Efficiency, initially led by Elon Musk, slashed federal agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Social Security Administration. We wrote about the people caught up in the administration’s immigration crackdown, including the more than 170 U.S. citizens who had been detained by immigration agents. We profiled key figures in the administration, including the 22-year-old picked to lead terrorism prevention and the man who has been described as Trump’s shadow president. Our newsroom also focused beyond the White House. Ginger Thompson wrote a five-part series, with research by Doris Burke, that told the story of American health care through the only hospital in Albany, Georgia. Ellis Simani and Lexi Churchill uncovered a Texas charter school superintendent who makes $870,000. And David Armstrong sought to understand why a single pill of his cancer drug cost the same as a new iPhone. Those were all among the investigations that readers spent the most time with this year. In the new year, ProPublica will keep reporting on these storylines — and new ones. In the meantime, revisit our most-read stories of 2025, as measured by the total amount of time spent reading them across several of our publishing platforms. 1. The Militia and the Mole By Joshua Kaplan Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. 2. Sick in a Hospital Town By Ginger Thompson, with research by Doris Burke Why were the people in Albany, Georgia, so sick, when the town’s most powerful institution was a hospital? 3. Insid…

DN! Tuesday, December 30, 2025
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The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of U.S. Hypocrisy on Drugs
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description: Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” exporting terrorism to the U.S. via fentanyl, now labeled as a “weapon of mass destruction.” The charge is not only false, given that virtually no fentanyl enters the country from Venezuela, but transparently political and pretextual. More The post The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of U.S. Hypocrisy on Drugs appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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America’s Loss of Science and Loss of Virtue
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description: The Trump administration has issued a death warrant for science. This kills one of America’s greatest most productive avenues to GDP growth. Simple-minded people are determining the future course of the country. After all, science is foundational to America’s economy. More The post America’s Loss of Science and Loss of Virtue appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Antiracism in the Age of Trump
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description: We are today living in an era of historically ferocious political regression, a massive conservative backlash whose grievances are often more imagined than real. In no case is this more dramatic than race. Notwithstanding the fact that Nick Fuentes is preaching white victimhood to millions, the Coast Guard has declassified nooses and swastikas as hate symbols, and the Supreme Court has eliminated voting rights protections and affirmative action, African Americans continue to be discriminated against. Indeed, for all of the problems with the New York Times' 1619 Project, it did show the ways in which structural racism continues to shape the US from healthcare to the labor market to criminal justice to traffic. Nevertheless, today's anti-woke backlash is so ubiquitous that even some liberals have accepted its premise that in the movement against racism the pendulum has swung too far. More The post Antiracism in the Age of Trump appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth
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creator: Bob Lord
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description: I wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that the post would age poorly. After all, the presence of a trillionaire on American soil would certify that we had unquestionably reached an oligarchic concentration of our nation’s wealth. Unfortunately, More The post Trillionaire Cometh, Democracy Goeth appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Africa Deindustrializes Due to China’s Overproduction and Trump’s Tariffs
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description: At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly failed in its mandate to cut the continent’s foreign debt and assure that appropriate climate-finance grants will be available. Nevertheless, even while the world economy’s value chains suffer disfigurement thanks to Donald More The post Africa Deindustrializes Due to China’s Overproduction and Trump’s Tariffs appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Killjoy Was Here: Monument Envy and the Trump Regime
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description: I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said – “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert…. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped More The post Killjoy Was Here: Monument Envy and the Trump Regime appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The National Security Strategy Paper on China
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creator: Mel Gurtov
date: 2025-12-30T06:52:45Z
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description: The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper, released this month, is filled with nasty, nativist language and half-truths straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. But amidst the bluster about historic success in strengthening national security and claims about resolving wars is a stark reminder of the direction US foreign policy is taking, which looks More The post The National Security Strategy Paper on China appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The US Doesn’t Need a Party, It Needs a Revolution
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creator: Ron Jacobs
date: 2025-12-30T06:51:30Z
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description: Two hundred and fifty years ago, European colonists mostly from Britain were conspiring to chase the elements of the British monarchy from the shores of what we now call the United States. Many of those in the conspiracy were mostly interested in personal financial gain, whether it was measured in stolen land, enslaved humans or More The post The US Doesn’t Need a Party, It Needs a Revolution appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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