Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Failed ‘coup’ actually a corporate fake news story designed to trick Venezuelan soldiers and...

we now know the truth: the whole thing was a fraud staged at the instigation of Washington in hopes that the Venezuelan people and rank-and-file troops would fall for the trick and think a coup was underway.

Social movements under intense attack despite Colombia ‘peace plan’

What connection does the U.S. government or U.S. companies have to the conflict?
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Trita Parsi: John Bolton has wanted war with Iran for 20 years. Now could...

In a statement on Sunday night, Bolton said the move was intended to “send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attacks on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.”

Old roads and new paradigms: on the last BRI Summit

On April 26 and 27, the summit of the Belt and Route Initiative, also known as the New Silk Road, was held...

Ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince makes a comeback under Trump selling mercenary armies around the...

House Democrats are accusing Prince of lying to Congress during his November 2017 testimony before the Committee, when he described a meeting in the Seychelles with a Russian banker before Donald Trump’s inauguration as a chance encounter.

A farewell to arms control?

Let’s hope that the Trump administration proves to be the detour on the path to finally bidding farewell to nuclear arms.
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs: US sanctions have devastated Venezuela & killed over 40,000 since 2017

“American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela’s economy and thereby lead to regime change. It’s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.”

US and China push global military spending to record high

U.S. military expenditure along accounted for 36 percent of total global military spending, as much as the next eight biggest-spending countries combined.

Tackling the ‘Impossible’: Ending Violence

Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands in horror and comment along the...