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By Max Blumenthal The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony from an unreliable witness The Grayzone The January 3 US military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores was followed by the Department of Justice’s release of its superseding indictment of the two abductees as well as their son, Nicolasito Maduro, and two close political allies: former Minister of Justice Ramon Chacin and ex-Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello. The DOJ has also thrown Tren De Aragua (TDA) cartel…

(Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images) By Aaron Maté The “Donroe Doctrine” comes for Venezuela’s sovereignty, and any other challenge to “American dominance.” In announcing the US military’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of president Nicolás Maduro, an operation that reportedly killed at least 80 people, President Trump laid bare his real motive. Invoking the 1823 Monroe Doctrine, which has underpinned decades of US aggression against Latin American governments, Trump bragged that “they now call it the Donroe Doctrine… American dominance in the Western Hemisphere won’t be questioned again.” The main target of that dominance is Venezuela’s…

By Sõzarn Barday “Every ruling power tells stories to justify its rule.” — Noam Chomsky Venezuela’s geopolitical significance has long been tied to its vast oil reserves. In recent years, Venezuelan crude has increasingly been sold to China, the world’s largest oil importer, and notably outside the U.S. dollar system, with transactions reportedly conducted in alternative currencies. China has become Venezuela’s primary oil buyer, a development that directly challenges long-standing U.S. economic dominance in the region. Against this backdrop, the United States under President Donald Trump has escalated its military posture toward Venezuela. Reports indicate the mobilisation of approximately 15…

By Dr Ahmed Haroon Jazbhay The Media Review Network (MRN) issues its strongest condemnation of the United States’ unlawful military strikes on the sovereign territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the brazen, illegal capture of its democratically elected President, Nicolás Maduro. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of international law, the United Nations Charter, and the fundamental principles of national sovereignty and self-determination. This is not counter-terrorism. Rather, it is state-sponsored terrorism and a criminal act of war. The aggression, rooted in a decades-long campaign of illegal coercive measures aimed at destabilising Venezuela for its resources and political…

By Iqbal Jassat   “General Soleimani, architect of the ‘Axis of Resistance,’ shaped a framework that goes beyond current policies, reflecting the ideals of the Islamic Revolution and Iran’s Constitution—what should be called ‘resistance-based diplomacy,’” Iran’s FM Araghchi. Major General Qassem Soleimani, heralded as one of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s most skilled and experienced battlefield commanders, was killed in a calculated US airstrike near Baghdad’s international airport six years ago.  On the fateful day of his martyrdom in January 2020, a remotely controlled US Reaper drone from a US air base in Nevada fired three Hellfire missiles at the two-vehicle convoy…

TEHRAN– A provocative social media post by U.S. president Donald Trump has triggered a wave of sharp reactions across Iran’s political establishment and social media landscape, reviving long-standing memories of U.S. interventionism and exposing what Iranian officials describe as the deep hypocrisy embedded in Washington’s rhetoric on human rights. In a post published on his personal social media platform, Trump claimed that if Iran “shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters,” the United States would “come to their rescue,” adding that Washington was “locked and loaded and ready to go.” Framed as a warning and a declaration of readiness, the statement…

By Zafar Bangash Tiny UAE (population 11 million of which only one million are Emiratis) have spread their tentacles into Yemen, Sudan, Libya and even established bases on Socotra Island helped by zionist Israel. From the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and areas in-between such as Yemen and even beyond into the Horn of Africa, the Emirati Beduoins are spreading their tenticles. They are punching way above their weight and are likely to have a great fall. As the saying goes, the higher the monkey climbs, the harder it falls. The Emiratis’ arrogance rests on their close alliance with…

Photo Credit: The Cradle By Fehim Tastekin Ankara’s attempt to straddle east and west is collapsing under the weight of US-Israeli designs, with Syria once again the critical battleground. As 2025 drew to a close, West Asia remains convulsed by a chain reaction set off by the Arab uprisings of the 2010s. What began as civil unrest has metastasized into overlapping wars, targeted killings, and fierce geopolitical rivalries. From Libya to Sudan, from the Persian Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean, local actors are locked in escalating peripheral battles. Amid this storm, Turkiye is both participant and prize. Once seen as a…

By Abdel Bari Atwan With whom will the Israeli-American alliance align? And why have the Houthis emerged as the biggest winners? What did “rebel” Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz and President Ali Abdullah Saleh tell me about Yemen’s wars in two historic testimonies? They divided Libya, desecrated its leader’s remains, and plundered its assets. Then they moved on to Yemen, breaking away the country’s territorial unity by starting a ten-year conflict. They then moved on to Syria, overthrowing its regime and security forces and demolishing its geography. Now it’s the turn of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, dragging them into a financial, military,…

Are Israel and the Trump admin planning to revive the dystopian Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme that spawned famine and death under cover of humanitarian aid? The Grayzone By Max Blumenthal In its bid to continue the genocide in Gaza, Israel has banned 37 international aid organizations from entering the decimated, militarily occupied coastal enclave. This leaves only five humanitarian groups still able to operate inside Gaza. At the same time, one of the US mercenary firms responsible for securing the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites which were present during the worst periods of famine in Gaza, when at least 3000 Palestinian civilians…