How Human Rights Watch Shattered Yugoslavia
By Kit Klarenberg Substack On August 25th 2025, this journalist documented how the 1975 Helsinki Accords transformed “human rights” into a highly destructive weapon in the West’s imperial arsenal. At…
Kidnapping a President: Leonardo Flores on Trump’s War Against Venezuela
Posted by Joshua Scheer In this episode of Informed Rant, host Joshua Scheer speaks with Venezuelan‑American analyst and CodePink organizer Leonardo Flores about one of the most explosive geopolitical stories…
“Hostile Takeovers”: As U.S. Claims Venezuela’s Oil, Trump Seeks “Vassal States” Across the World
By Democracy Now In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump…
Ushering In the Age of Impunity: Venezuela, Palestine, and the End of International Law
The recent sound of explosions over Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria are not merely the spasms by a declining U.S. empire. They are something much…
O’ Canada, how long can your facade stand, while wielding a genocidal hand?
By Umer Azad and Anne Kamath for Codepink For decades, Canada has carefully cultivated a global reputation for principle, human rights, and moral clarity. However, that image is now cracking,…
A Very Good Definition of Imperialism”: Stephen Miller Says the Quiet Part Out Loud on Venezuela—and Greenland
Posted by Joshua Scheer What one Democratic lawmaker described as “belligerent,” Sen. Bernie Sanders called something else entirely: clarity. During a remarkable appearance on CNN Monday night, top White House…
Oil, Power, and Empire: Why the U.S. Is Targeting Venezuela Now
“What the United States is telling the rest of the world is that it believes it has the right to overthrow any government it doesn’t like.” on the latest Geopolitical…
Was Colonialism a Crime? Algerian Parliament Criminalizes 130 Years of French Rule
By Juan Cole for Informed Comment The Algerian newspaper al-Masa’ reports that on December 24, the Algerian parliament passed a law recognizing French colonialism in that country, 1830-1962, as having…
Israeli Police Release Settler Filmed Running ATV Over Praying Palestinian in West Bank
By Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Israeli police have released a soldier from custody after he was filmed running his vehicle over a Palestinian man who was praying outside the…
When sanctions fail, power turns to seizure: The unraveling of the western coercive order
By Peiman Salehi for the Cradle The recent escalation in US–Venezuela tensions is often framed narrowly in tactical terms: the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, new sanctions targeting Venezuelan…
Who’s the Real Outlaw at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies for Codepink The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also…
How the US empire creates chaos to disrupt multipolarity
By Daniela A. Rodríguez for the Geopolitical Economy Report With the return of Donald Trump for his second term, diplomacy increasingly resembles a battlefield, rather than a paved road to…
‘Furious Backlash’ Inside Pentagon as Hegseth Seeks to Avoid Blame for Deadly War Crimes
By: Brad Reed Original to Common Dreams Finger-pointing has reportedly begun inside the Pentagon as the Trump White House has tried to shield US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from taking…
No Quarter: The White House’s New ‘War’ Lets the President Kill First — and Pardon Drug Lords Later
By: Joshua Scheer With the president claiming that we are in an armed conflict with the cartels — and with the AP reporting from a memo it obtained from the…
Trump and Rubio’s Venezuela Play: Regime Change Under the Guise of the Drug War
By: Joshua Scheer There is a running theme today, but it is vital to understand that what is happening in Venezuela is unacceptable. I have added reporting from Venezuelanalysis.com about…