Trump just warned those currently in government in Venezuela that "the US retains all military options...All political and military figures in Venezuela must understand: what happened to Maduro will happen to them" if they defy US desires in the country.

Trump on Venezuela: “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition”

There is some history here. Like Eastern Europe with Russia, maybe the Latin American countries will want to join a military alliance to protect themselves from their aggressive neighbor.

Wondering if the Democratic Congressional leadership will give their blessings for Trump's war on Venezuela like they did the last time a Republican president launched an illegal war against an oil-rich country on false pretenses?

Given that Trump arms much worse dictators and pardons much worse drug dealers, why is he targeting Venezuela?

Does anybody really think Trump gives a damn about the lives of pro-democracy protesters in Iran, given his support for brutal military occupations and repressive dictatorships that are allied with the U.S.?

Once again, we're hearing the lie that a popular democratic unarmed resistance struggle in Iran is somehow the work of Western governments. Among other things, it ignores the impressive history of civil resistance by Iranians going back to the 19th century. www.huffpost.com/entry/irans-...

An important article from a leftist U.S. publication challenges the claim by Putin apologists that the invasion of Ukraine was in reaction to NATO expansion: www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/01/t...

From the Prime Minister of Denmark

I'm one of three analysts interviewed in this half-hour news show on Al-Jazeera English regarding the growing protests in Iran. www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

In August, after rejecting resolutions supporting recognition of Palestinian statehood and an arms embargo on Israel, DNC chair Ken Martin promised to appoint a task force to study Democratic policy towards Israel. There has since been no word about this task force. inthesetimes.com/article/dnc-...

Trump's disastrous policies towards Africa: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The U.S. and Israeli governments are finding ways to kill Palestinian civilians in other ways, such as banning aid organizations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

In defiance of the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli government has effectively banned dozens aid groups from Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, Oxfam, Caritas, Action Aid, the International Rescue Committee and World Vision. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Me on the BBC this morning sharing my analysis of the growing anti-regime protests in Iran: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zya9...

Harvard has forced the resignation of the distinguished public health scholar Dr Mary T Bassett as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights due to her research and advocacy on the health and human rights of Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump has ordered the FBI to step back from monitoring armed neo-Nazi groups while targeting anti-fascists (Antifa), which he has declared to be "terrorists." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Georgetown University has removed Francesca Albanese, the respected Italian legal scholar who has served as a UN Special Rapporteur, from her position as an affiliated scholar at their School of Foreign Service due to her investigations into Israeli violations of international humanitarian law.

The United States has bombed a Nigerian village with no ISIS presence and a history of good relations between its Muslim and Christian residents. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...

U.S.-backed Israeli occupation forces have bulldozed the seed‑multiplication unit of the only seed bank in the occupied territories, safeguarding over 70 varieties of indigenous heirloom seeds, many of which no longer exist elsewhere in the country. globalvoices.org/2025/08/07/i...

Both Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin (born Dino Crocetti) were the sons of Italian immigrants.

An important article on how the US., under both Republican and Democratic administrations, continued to support the corrupt, repressive Honduran strongman Hernández. He was finally sentenced to decades in jail for cocaine trafficking, only to be pardoned by Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Inspiring story of the struggle by a prominent Sahrawi human rights lawyer in the face of persecution by the U.S.-backed Moroccan regime in occupied Western Sahara. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...

Convicted felon Charles Kushner, whom Trump pardoned and then received a $1 million campaign contribution, is now U.S. ambassador to France. He's openly backing France's far right antisemitic opposition party while condemning France for not cracking down harder on pro-Palestinian Muslims & leftists.

Apparently, acknowledging institutionalized racism is now considered "apologizing for being white."

The now Trump-controlled Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced its priority now is going after alleged discrimination of white males.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." --U.S. Constitution “The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God we always will be, a Christian nation.” --J.D. Vance, Dec. 21, 2025

According to Trump administration, nursing, education, social work, and physical therapy--which are traditionally female and disproportionately minority fields--will no longer be considered “professional degrees” so are now limited in the amount of federal loans students can receive.

The new CBS News Director after Trump approved the big merger a few months ago, who cancelled a 60 Minutes segment on torture and abuse of Venezuelan migrants to the United States sent to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

I've certainly had my criticisms of the Foreign Service over the years, but these are dedicated professionals who are pledged to serve the country, not an individual. Replacing seasoned diplomats with political hacks ("loyal diplomats") is very disturbing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If Joseph and Mary tried to enter Bethlehem today…

Israeli attacks on Palestinian Christians are increasing, both in the occupied territories and in Israel itself. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

U.S. military intervention in Nigeria and Trump's exaggerating the religious dimension to the conflict will likely make things worse. And let's also recall that if it were not for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there would be no ISIS.

ISIS has been taking advantage of ethnic rivalries, disputes between herders & pastoralists, and other longstanding conflicts in northern Nigeria to unleash their terror, but it is NOT a "genocide against Christians" as Trump claims. Indeed, more Muslim civilians have died than Christians.

Here is the leaked version of the "60 Minutes" story about sending young men seeking political asylum to be tortured that the CBS News leadership refused to broadcast because it made the Trump administration look bad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieh...

I'm one of three analysts interviewed in this article on the current state of the Gaza "ceasefire." wyomingstarnews.org/2025/12/22/e...

The Trump administration has sanctioned European leaders and activists who target disinformation by far-right hate groups. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/23/p...

One of President Kennedy's projects was building a high quality national cultural center in the nation's capital, viewing the arts as essential to American life. The result was the Kennedy Center. Today, however, it has been renamed after Donald Trump. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...

As part of Trump's efforts to control the broadcast media, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has now acknowledged that the FCC is no longer an independent agency, as it has been since its inception in 1934.

If you want the American dream, move to Canada.

A useful diagram that helps explain why the United States is making nice with certain murderous dictatorships, attacking and threatening to take over other countries, etc.

Note how the United States is now ranked only #57 in political freedom.

Yesterday, the United States was the only UN Security Council member not to condemn illegal Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank and also opposed the quarterly briefings on Resolution 2334, which underscored the illegality of Israeli settlements in occupied territory.