Reminiscent of a remark by another violent, racist authoritarian:

As the U.S. pursues regime change in Venezuela, it's worth remembering that the U.S.-led post-9/11 wars left millions dead and cost U.S. taxpayers trillions, with no strategic benefit to the citizens of the U.S. or any other nation. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Not sure about a hundred, but in 1985 the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on MOVE, a Black community, and killed eleven. Police were also central to the 1921 Tulsa massacre, where a white mob killed from 50 to 300 Black people. The Texas Rangers killed 15 unarmed Mexican American men in 1918.

Today's op-ed by @oonahathaway.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com nails why it is so important for all states to defend the international legal order, and call out the intervention in Venezuela as unlawful. The whole piece is worth your time - gift link in the comment 👇

DIFFERENT WARS, SAME PROPAGANDA ...a montage showing the direct parallels between the rhetoric around the Iraq war & the current rhetoric around Venezuela. Jon Stewart 🎥 #IraqNeverAgain

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

”Keir Starmer has said when asked if he would condemn the US action in Venezuela that he wants to wait to “establish the facts” and speak to Donald Trump“ -The Guardian

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

The 3rd of January 2026 will go down in history as a seminal moment - the death of the international order that has held the world together for 80 years. Through their cowardice, our European leaders were willing accomplices in its destruction. We should never forget that.

“This is an extraordinary response from a leader of a political party in Canada - celebrating and endorsing a clearly unlawful act of aggression.” -Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social

“It‘s mind-blowing how[W. leaders]can call for respect of Int law while simultaneously celebrating an act that dismantles it. They r pretending that this operation is about liber‘ngVenezuela when..it’s just about extracting Venezuela’s resources in a move that returns us to a 19c. world of imper‘sm”

From Craig Mokhiber, former top UN Human Rights official and HR lawyer.

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

Here is my preliminary analysis of the US intervention in Venezuela, and brief explanation of the violations of international law so far. craigxmartin.substack.com/p/the-us-int...

Art 21(1) TEU provides that the Union’s action on the international scene shall be guided by respect for the UN Charter and international law principles. Why's there not a word of condemnation of US act of aggression—nor even an expression of "concern"? Call things by their name or lose credibility.

Time to recognise the Nobel Committee's role in awarding this year's Peace Prize to Trump's favourite Venezuelan, Maria Corina Machado? Without their efforts, it would have been far harder to whitewash the US illegal invasion, the kidnapping of a sitting president, and the murder of Venezuelans.

Remember, it's the same people who were shocked at Russia illegally invading Ukraine who are now gloating over the US illegally invading Venezuela. They have no principles, no scruples, no morals at all. And they head every western state.

Giant criminal enterprise

Pillage is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. An instrument which Venezuela has ratified, giving the Court jurisdiction over such crimes on its territory, no matter who comments them. But the US has attacked and sanctioned several ICC judges and officials.

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.

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.

Israel’s government says it will suspend the licenses of dozens of humanitarian groups operating in Gaza beginning Thursday, which relief workers say will lead to deeper suffering and difficulty receiving medicine. https://wapo.st/4qxbFWC

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