Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Attacks Venezuela and Kidnaps President Maduro
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro.
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The Maduro Interruption
Donald Trump’s assault on Venezuela and the seizure of its leader, Nicholas Maduro, interrupted the final preparation of an article that describes Trump’s assault on American democracy and his seizure of institutions in the governing apparatus. The assaults are related. Here is another article before presenting the previously prepared article.
Unaware that the world is composed of sovereign nations, not all to the liking of one another, that they cooperate for benefit, and limit interferences according to international law, Trump has disregarded diplomatic norms, and imposed himself as the world leader, shaping nations, including his own, in his image. Argentina receives …
They Kidnapped Maduro Because The World Is Ruled By Unaccountable Tyrants
Well, Trump finally did it. US special forces attacked Venezuela and abducted President Maduro from Caracas, reportedly killing at least 40 people in the process.
And now that it’s all over, the White House is getting a lot more honest about the real motives behind its actions. After all those months of babbling about fentanyl and “narcoterrorism” and freedom and democracy, the Trump administration has come right out and admitted that its regime change interventionism in Venezuela has always been a good old-fashioned oil grab.
“We’re gonna take back the oil that frankly we should have taken back a long time ago,” …
The Don-roe Doctrine in Action: Trump’s Gangster Intervention in Venezuela
It has been an accusation long levelled at certain US politicians that their brains might have been softened by a lengthy diet of television, Westerns, and the heroic triumphalism of the prattling cowboy. There was never going to be a break with this tradition regarding President Donald Trump, except for the fact that he claimed to be more restrained on the draw. Of late, that restraint has vanished. A buildup of US army personnel in the Caribbean; the bombing, on fatuous grounds, of vessels in the Caribbean Sea carrying fictional narco-cargo destined for the United States, and, just to top things, …
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Kidnap Presidents
What was defined at Nuremberg as the supreme international crime (one country attacking another one) is depicted by Trump and even the supposedly anti-Trump corporate media as some sort of law enforcement. Bombing is liberating. Kidnapping is capturing. Murdering people on boats is “impeding the flow of drugs.”
Imagine if, say, Saudi Arabia or Norway or India were to impose deadly sanctions on the United States, attempt numerous comical coups, murder boaters off the U.S. coast, impose a no-fly-zone and naval blockade, bomb Washington, kidnap the U.S. president, and declare its intent to “run” the country and its most planetarily destructive …
Israel And Its Supporters Deliberately Foment Hate And Division In Our Society
I’ve noticed a lot of angry comments underneath my posts these past few days, which bizarrely mention the words “Islam” and “Muslims” completely out of the blue.
“Why don’t you turn your attention sometimes to the genocidal intent of the radical Muslims, or does that suit your racist narrative?” reads one tweet.
“What can you say about Islamic Jihadists Muslims murdering thousands of Christians in Sudan and other parts of Africa?” reads another.
“The muslims must be irradicated,” reads another.
There are too many examples to quote here, but here’s what’s so funny about all this: I haven’t been saying …
Iran Faces New Round of Protests
DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod joined a panel on AnewZ.tv (Baku, Azerbaijan) on 31 December, the 3rd day of protests in Iran — now in its sixth day — to discuss the evolving situation.
Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland
For a country so upset about recognition being afforded to people under their thumb and control, the Israelis have decided to get into the state recognition business with festive aplomb. Africa’s Somaliland presented itself as a suitable candidate, an entity that remains part of Somalia but has asserted its own autonomy since 1991.
Israel’s recognition on December 26 of that entity carried a vengeful sting. With a majority of UN Member States recognising the rubble and rump of a State of Palestine, despite arguments by the Netanyahu government that this was a reward for terrorism, the Israelis have clearly decided to …
The Impending US Colonial Administration over Gaza, Palestine
Behind the diplomatic language of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘stabilisation’, a new colonial framework for Gaza is being assembled. The following is why the latest Security Council resolution matters and what it sets in motion.
On 17 November, the UN Security Council approved a draft resolution authored by the United States endorsing President Donald Trump’s plan for administering the devastated Gaza Strip.
The resolution mandates transferring control of Gaza to a so-called ‘Peace Council’ led by Washington, alongside another body called the ‘International Stabilisation Authority’ tasked with ‘security’ functions and likewise deployed in Gaza. Ultimately, both bodies fall under the authority of Trump and …
“Self-Hating Jew, Kapo, What About Hamas?”
Every Zionist accusation is a confession: There is no bothsidesing genocide
Zionists have attempted to teach me the following: 1) Because I am Jewish, all Palestinians clamor and scheme to have me erased from the Earth. 2) There is no such entity as the Palestinian people.
Damn convenient: The people you are perpetrating a genocide upon do not exist. Damn odd: The people you are erasing — who do not exist — aim to erase you.
I have been instructed — because I understand the reason for Palestinian resistance — that I am a Kapo (defined as, …
Reflections on a Neoliberal Ne’er-do-well’s Road to Redemption
The unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
‘In the bad old days when I was embroiled in the business of churning out MBAs from capitalist ‘sausage’ factories masquerading as places of ‘higher education’ (business schools that were “the engine rooms of neoliberal indoctrination and elite formation” – Blunt, 2023), among many other harmful ideas (e.g., Purser, 2025), I used to teach eager would-be managers about ‘sequential’, ‘pooled’ and ‘reciprocal’ interdependence – between organisations and their environments, between workers within organisations, between departments, and between ‘teams’, and so on. Needless to say, ‘harmful’ because it was done with a …
The U.S. Airstrike in Nigeria Confirms why the U.S African Command (AFRICOM) Must be Shut Down
If it was not clear before the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Christmas Day bombing of its Sokoto state, that Nigeria is not a sovereign African nation but is instead a neo-colonial state with a Western puppet government, it should be crystal clear now. The longstanding fundamental crisis of the sovereignty of African nations lies in the continuity of its neo-colonial structures, with the unrestrained operation of AFRICOM as a graphic example of that dependency.
The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unequivocally condemn this veiled act of aggression in the strongest …
Trump’s Hosting of Kennedy Center Honors Tanks
It's the Least-Watched Ever
While Donald Trump has long treated ratings as a personal scorecard, his turn as host of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors delivered a result he has conspicuously avoided addressing: the lowest viewership in the history of the broadcast. While its clear that the often-addled Trump should not keep his day job, he certainly shouldn’t consider hosting awards programs as an avocation!
CBS 19 News noted that Programming Insider reported that preliminary Nielsen data found that the show on CBS “drew its smallest audience ever … averaging an estimated 2.65 …
A Tale of Colliding World Views
In December, documents were released asserting two radically different political perspectives.
They could not be more different.
On December 4, under the President of the United States’ Seal, the White House published the administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy, expressing the government’s current evaluation of the global challenges facing it.
The next day, December 5, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) publicly announced its forthcoming 22nd Congress, followed by the publication of its Theses of the Central Committee — the product of long preparatory discussions by the KKE’s members– constituting an assessment of the …
Spyware and Murder: The NSO Group, Governments, and Khashoggi
The efforts to hold the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate in October 2018 continue. In his complex connubial life, the slain scribbler can now count, not only on efforts made by fiancée Hatice Cengiz in 2020 but his widow Hanan Elatr Khashoggi in seeking curial scrutiny on why he was do remorselessly dispatched by a death squad authorised by the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Unfortunately, whether focusing on the culpability of the Israeli spyware company NSO Group, or that of the Kingdom of Saudi …
Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity
The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-ranging and allow me to explain decades of my work in many areas of science. A main focus is to understand the Covid period, the so-called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
The main intermingled topics, somewhat in the order of the questions are:
my multi-disciplinary intellectual and professional paths (Q1)
striking conclusions in my June 2020 paper on mortality (Q2)
conclusions from studying mortality in 125 countries (Q3)
impossible geo-temporal patterns, no viral spread (Q4)
COVID-19 vaccines associated …
Artificial Intelligence, Global Inequality, and the Colonial Machinery of Capital
Copilot in the Shadow of Empire
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a universal breakthrough — a tool that will democratize knowledge, expand opportunity, and usher in a new era of human progress. But AI does not emerge in a vacuum. It is built inside a global order shaped by conquest, extraction, and the long shadow of empire. The world into which Copilot is deployed is not neutral terrain; it is a landscape carved by centuries of unequal development.
Copilot becomes not only a technological assistant, but a mirror — revealing the deep inequalities that structure our world. …
The Teacher’s Burden
Teachers have always been society’s most underestimated heroes. They carry the emotional, intellectual, and social development of entire generations—yet they work inside systems that often value credentials more than contribution, compliance more than creativity, and paperwork more than human potential.
This essay explores the invisible load teachers carry — a burden that cannot be quantified, standardized, or fully understood by anyone who has never stepped into a classroom with 30 different …
Jacques Baud and the EU/NATO Censorship Architecture
The West, once proud of its values, now erodes them and thrives on security political disinformative narratives hoping you shall not know...
If Baud, then we are all potential targets now!
Jacques Baud’s case is mind-boggling. A Swiss citizen, a former NATO-, OSCE- and UN-related colleague and author who relies mainly on Western sources, has been sanctioned by the European Union. There is no evidence that he worked with or for Russia. His “crime” is interpretation: offering analyses that diverge from the official NATO/EU narrative. There is also no legal process.
This is not an anomaly—it is a window into how censorship now operates in Europe. Baud’s exclusion reveals a hidden architecture of …
A Moment of Hope in Gaza
Gazan doctors graduate in front of an Al-Shifa Medical Complex building destroyed by Israeli bombing. Photo credit: Al Jazeera
On Thursday, December 25, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white coats, they stood in front of the ruined façade of what was formerly Gaza’s largest hospital, the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. As a backdrop, the destroyed building realistically conveys perils the graduates faced while earning their medical degrees. Throughout the last two years of their …
Understanding Western Praxis
Review of Killing Democracy
A recent book offers valuable lessons on Western crimes and their global impacts.
We are living in a period of intense global transformation. The transition to a multipolar world has brought historical and contemporary tensions to the surface, revealing patterns of intervention and manipulation that have shaped entire regions. Understanding how the West has historically exercised its power – often under the banner of democracy – is essential to making sense of crises such as those in Venezuela, the Middle East, and other strategic areas around the world. It is in this …
Combatting Antimicrobial-Resistant Infections
“The Good Virus is the most important documentary film I have seen in years.”
Karl Drlica, Prof. of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University
New from Bullfrog Films, The Good Virus explores the global efforts of leading scientists combatting one of the most pressing health challenges of our time: the urgent issue of antimicrobial-resistant infections (AMR).
AMR is already killing millions each year. Antibiotics are failing. What will we do when 10 million people are projected to die every year due to bacterial infections? The global …
Epstein, Dershowitz, and the Israel Lobby
A Thesis Confirmed
Conman, convict, paedophile and a life terminated in circumstances of purported suicide. The list for Jeffrey E. Epstein, figure of cosmic social and political influence in the United States, is long. Trafficking in female flesh for his extensive client list, lubricated by his lover Ghislaine Maxwell, tends to be the crowning feature of most discussions about his sordid legacy. Another shrouded aspect has been neglected.
The fuss about releasing the Epstein files – the slowness with which the US Justice Department is undertaking that task, the erratic nature of its redactions, and what gold nuggets might be found – gives …
Distinguishing Chinese Countermeasures from US Sanctions
On 26 December, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced countermeasures against US military-related companies and senior executives.
Most western mass media has been referring to China as imposing sanctions rather than countermeasures, but the distinction is important.
The US uses sanctions offensively, as a punitive measure to achieve its desired aims.
An early objective of the US was to prevent recognition of a Communist China, so the US embargoed the PRC at its inception in 1949. This aim lasted until 1972.
It was the first of many …
The Charge of the Padded Brigade: England in Australia
It’s been one of the strangest cricket series on record. Hurried, frenetic, foolish, haphazard, and, at times, unbecomingly immature. The cricket between England and Australia in this, the 2025-6 Ashes series, was a recreational coke line, a narcotics fix, a dopamine thrill. But was it even cricket? One thinks of those deathless lines from the French general Pierre Bosquet responding to the British light cavalry attack on Russian artillery during the Crimean War in October 1854: “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c’est de la folie” (It is magnificent, but it is not war: it is madness). Position …
China Changes Everything: A Book Review
A new book edited by Kyle Ferrana, China Changes Everything, bills itself as an anthology by “social justice activists, journalists, and commentators” and brings together chapters about the People’s Republic of China written by prominent left-wing analysts, including Arnold August, Roger Harris, Radhika Desai, Carlos Martinez, Gerald Horne, Lee Siu Hin, Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, KJ Noh, Sara Flounders, and many more.
The publication covers a comprehensive range of subjects in the ongoing “China debate” and includes chapters on such hot topics as China’s relation to Palestine and China’s foreign affairs …
Sharks and Rays and Skates and Chimaeras: Spielberg/Benchley Messed it up big time back then for Great WHITES — Now?
'This administration’s greed and contempt for imperiled wildlife know no bounds.'
As a shark conservation scientist, one of the most common questions people ask me is, “How are shark populations doing?” To answer this question, it’s important to understand two types of fishery surveys: fishery-independent and fishery-dependent. Fishery-dependent population surveys gather data from fishermen’s catches. These data are valuable because there are many more fishermen on the water than marine biologists. However, …
Whatever Happened to Trump’s “Golden Age” for American Workers?
Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the facts.
Indeed, Trump has taken the lead in reducing workers’ incomes. One of his key actions along these lines occurred on March 14, 2025, when he issued an executive order that scrapped a Biden-era regulation raising the minimum wage for employees of private companies with federal contracts. Some 327,300 workers had benefited from Biden’s measure, which produced an average wage increase of $5,228 per year. With Trump’s reversal of policy, they became ripe for pay cuts of up …
To a 2026 of Not Fighting Over Crumbs
Every single person in the United States, from those who’ve been most harmed to those who’ve been most privileged, would be better off if we had a normal government that put even a moderate effort into universally improving everyone’s lives. If we had a government that took trillions of dollars away from the war machine and the untaxed oligarchs and provided, as a matter of basic rights, for all
economic welfare,
education, preschool through college,
healthcare,
a clean and sustainable environment, and
public transit,
then nobody would ever be denied an education or a job for any reason of hateful idiocy. Why should they be when …
For Me, a Jew, a Painful Truth: Israel Is a Perpetual Crime Against Humanity Masquerading as a Nation
Repentance and reparations — not hasbara — is the only way forward
I hold joint US/German citizenship due to the historical fact that my maternal family was stripped of their German citizenship by The Reich Citizenship act attendant to Nazi imposed Nuremberg Laws enacted in 1935. Subsequently, as the Third Reich consolidated power, by means of legalized state criminality, my family’s business interests and personal property were stolen by the Nazis. My grandfather was arrested, imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and my mother and her sister were dispatched to the UK on a Kindertransport.
On the surface German society evinces the artifice of repentance due to its reprehensible history in regard to its …