Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 8, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Trump/Vance was presented as “the peace ticket,” and was voted in with the expectation of focusing on America instead of the rest of the world. But alas, the addiction to Empire has proven to be too strong once again. The Trump Administration has been laser-focused on foreign nations, while […]

William Astore

January 8, 2026

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In Venezuela, one might say President Trump said “You’re fired!” to Maduro without any firm plan of succession and without any authority to fire Maduro in the first place other than the authority of guns. That’s thugocracy, not democracy. It’s a violent ethic, a conceit consistent with […]

John Mearsheimer

January 7, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack: On 6 January 2025, I spoke at length with Glenn Diesen on his popular podcast about ongoing events in Venezuela coupled with the US threat to conquer Greenland. We spent considerable time talking about how US policy on these two issues affects Europe.

Kyle Anzalone

January 7, 2026

A president is kidnapped, the government remains, and we’re told it isn’t regime change. We pull back the curtain on what our guest calls “regime changeover,” a strategy that uses spectacle and lawfare to force leverage without admitting occupation. From sanctions that harden national unity to a reworked indictment against Nicolás Maduro that quietly retreats […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 7, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The US Coast Guard has boarded and seized a Russian-flagged tanker in the north Atlantic, claiming the right to interdict any shipping contrary to US sanctions. Will Russia respond? Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

Brett Wilkins

January 7, 2026

As leaders in Europe respond to once-unimaginable threats by the United States to take territory from a NATO ally, one US senator on Monday proposed legislation banning funding for any Trump administration military action against Greenland. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) put forth an amendment to the Senate Defense Appropriations bill “to prohibit the use of […]

Sarah Neumann

January 6, 2026

In the early days of January 2026, as the world looked forward to a move toward stability after years of friction, the roar of more than 150 warplanes and bombers over Caracas and the images of Nicolás Maduro’s arrest by U.S. Special Forces sent a massive shockwave through the international community. Donald Trump – a […]

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 6, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The case against Nicolas Maduro hinged on the Trump Administration’s designation of Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist drug organization with Maduro in charge. The Administration has now admitted there is no such cartel. The operation looks like not much more than a big payoff to Trump’s donors, […]

Kyle Anzalone

January 6, 2026

A pre-dawn post, a capital in darkness, and a president in cuffs aboard a U.S. ship—what started as a “one-night raid” is already morphing into something far bigger. We unpack how the strike on Venezuela unfolded, why the official story leaves key gaps, and what it means when the White House says, without hesitation, that […]

John Mearsheimer

January 6, 2026

Reprinted from John’s Substack:  On 4 January 2026, John Bolton and I appeared on Tom Switzer’s new show — “Switzerland” — to talk about the US kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. Although we were interviewed sequentially, the issues Bolton and I addressed were unsurprisingly very similar while the answers we gave were unsurprisingly […]