Rick Sterling

January 5, 2026

Just World Educational and Task Force on the Americas are hosting a series of webinars on the US attack on Venezuela. Register below to receive a reminder and link to the recorded broadcasts. Nine experts from Venezuela and North America will provide crucial background and analysis. Register at this URL or use the QR Code […]

Eric Garris

January 5, 2026

Economist and UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs delivered blistering remarks at an emergency UN Security Council meeting, condemning U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Sachs warned of U.S. “hegemonic power grabs,” urging the Council to defend the UN Charter and international law.

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams

January 5, 2026

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The Republican establishment – and some of MAGA – is celebrating what appears to be a very quick victory against Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Early “victories” are always enthusiastically celebrated. But we with all regime change, things tend to go south quite quickly. Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute […]

David Swanson

January 5, 2026

Reprinted from World BEYOND War: “Peace” seems to be permitted in subway stations in Washington, D.C., as long as it doesn’t appear to mean anything. World BEYOND War has a project to put peace billboards up around the world. It has had lots of successes and met lots of censorship. Success (that is, getting companies […]

Conflicts of Interest

January 5, 2026

COI #863, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news in Venezuela, Ukraine, and Israel. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

William Astore

January 5, 2026

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Today I caught this grim summary on Twitter/X: The scary part is that the official death toll of 76,134 is an undercount. So many bodies remain under rubble or just plain obliterated by bombs. Of course, the so-called cease fire in Gaza is anything but as Israel […]

James Carden

January 4, 2026

Reprinted from The Realist Review: At this Saturday morning’s rambling, incoherent press conference announcing the invasion and take over of Venezuela, President Trump made a Freudian slip when, as he was about to hand the mic over to his brain-dead secretary of war, he said the operation related to, among other things, “an attack on […]

Eric Garris

January 4, 2026

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft online Zoom conversation featuring Prof. John Mearsheimer, Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Curt Mills, and Miguel Tinker Salas is free but requires registration: Date & Time: Jan 6, 2026 02:00 PM On January 3, 2026, the United States launched a complex military operation against Venezuela, conducting airstrikes across Caracas and other key […]

Thomas L. Knapp

January 4, 2026

I’m writing this column on the morning of Saturday, January 3, with initial news trickling in. “The facts” are still thin, and some of them will likely turn out to be either incomplete or not “facts” at all, but a few real facts are foundational and not subject to change. Let’s go through them: First, […]

Eric Garris

January 4, 2026

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro.