Jonathan Cook: "The issue isn’t whether Maduro was a good or bad leader of Venezuela – the matter the western establishment media wants us concentrating on. It is how do we put the US back in the box before it is too late for humanity."

Two coalitions comprising over two dozen civil society orgs just sent this letter to @mark-carney.bsky.social urging him to condemn the unlawful, lethal, U.S. military attack in Venezuela and take immediate steps to ensure peace and security in the region. tinyurl.com/2u79mues

Hugo Chávez predicted this. This war on Venezuela has been two decades in the making. (Quite a good summary from CodePink of what has gone on these past 20+ years in Venezuela and beyond.)

Drop Site Daily newsletter provides excellent summary of events that followed the U.S. intervention (and other news too). Maduro pleads not guilty in U.S. court; DOJ drops claim that “Cartel De Los Soles” exists....

Chris Hedges: America the Rogue State

Jacobin interviews Carlos Ron, until last year Venezuela's vice minister for foreign affairs for North America: jacobin.com/2026/01/vene...

Luke Goldstein and Lucy Dean Stockton of Lever News: Trump’s removal of President Nicolás Maduro could tilt international court proceedings and provide a windfall to corporate plaintiffs.

Michelle Ellner at CodePink re Trump's news conference and Venezuela's future: “We’re Going to Run the Country:” Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela

If you're in Canada, here's a Take Action to make it easy to send letters to Carney and Anand. actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... In defence of its own sovereignty and that of others, Canada should be #ElbowsUp for Venezuela and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

U.S. Forces Kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Midnight Operation

The U.S. kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Celia Flores today has nothing to do with debates over the quality of Venezuelan democracy or about drug-trafficking. Like Iraq more than 20 years ago, this intervention has everything to do with oil.

The World Council of Churches condemns the U.S. attack on Venezuela, calls for respect for international law: www.oikoumene.org/news/wcc-con...

Chris Hedges: Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance

“What we have to say is that we do not agree with interventions, especially military ones. That is enshrined in our country's constitution, and that is what we will continue to defend,” said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum of repeated U.S. threats to Venezuela and its neighbours.

The promise to focus on “the worst of the worst” dissolved almost immediately. Enforcement followed stereotypes. Foreign students, green card holders, naturalized citizens. Broadened interpretations of disloyalty. These are not about national security, but about creating uncertainty and silence.

María Paez Victor: "The war of Washington against Venezuela is not just about that country, but against all of Latin America and the Caribbean which the USA insists is their back yard’ – with Canada thrown into the bargain."

Drop Site News reports on Israel's construction for permanent presence inside Gaza.

Good background and analysis here: Trump admits he wants to take Venezuela's oil - and give it to US corporations

It will be a hard Christmas for many Cubans to celebrate this year in the face of shortages of power, food and medicines. Here's a way to write to Canadian political leaders to ask for additional aid. Please take action now!

“How is it that members of parliament are a public safety concern?” she said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “How is it that civil society organisations who are doing humanitarian work… [are] a security concern?” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Ethiopia's bondholders are trying to get paid 50% more than government creditors. This would mean they'd make 100% profit after 'debt relief'. New research by us and Afrodad: debtjustice.org.uk/press-releas...

Garbage Is Poisoning Gaza Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been systematically destroyed by the Israeli military, including waste management services. Massive piles of garbage have accumulated across the enclave.

THE NEXT WARS WERE ALWAYS HERE Michelle Ellner, CodePink: The legal theories invented after 9/11 – elastic self-defense, limitless definitions of terrorism, enemy combatants, global strike authority – became the backbone of a permanent war machine.

Unaccompanied minors like Lucy flee their home countries for a number of reasons, including to get away from violent crime, gang violence, and economic turmoil— often at the urging of their own parents....

Beyond the constant noise, the United States has a plan for domination of the Americas. Boat strikes and election interference are part of it, but its essence would isolate countries from each other. Resistance grows and is not futile.

Pardon Me? Dan Rather explains why Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras (convicted of drug trafficking by a U.S. court) and why he endorsed that man's party in Sunday's presidential election. Hypocrisy abounds.

Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu A good, long read: a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.

Faith communities send open letter urging preservation of El Salvador’s historic ban on metals mining

Charlie Angus denounces conservative attacks on Canada’s multiculturalism, "multi-genderism" and multilateralism.

As Hondurans head to the polls Sunday, Trump says he will grant a pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges. This while Trump casts himself as being tough on drug traffickers.

Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power

A decade of promises and a measure of good will were flushed away with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s declaration that his government does not have a feminist foreign policy. We need to be less dependent on politicians and more assertive in pressing for change.

Not in every instance, but this is pretty much what happened.

Michelle Ellner: A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela open.substack.com/pub/codepink...

70% of US Public Opposes Military Attack on Venezuela as Trump Eyes 'Deadly New Phase' www.commondreams.org/news/america...

Roger Harris in Popular Resistance: The United States combines open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. #SanctionsKill #HandsOffVenezuela

A brilliant, heart-breaking story: At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.

Economist Jeffrey Sachsnotes that regime change is a “core tool of US foreign policy.” The overt military attacks on Venezuela and the more covert ones planned for Honduras are part of the same imperial game plan. popularresistance.org/the-quiet-pl...

Canadians need to call on their government to speak out against illegal U.S. airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, say Common Frontiers and the Americas Policy Group.

Canadian organizations with decades of experience and partnerships in the Americas sent a letter to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, @manindersidhu.bsky.social, Minister McGuinty urging them to protect the rule of law, sovereignty and security in Latin America and the Caribbean. bit.ly/3K03kv9

Noah Bullock, executive director of El Salvador’s human rights monitor, Cristosal, speaks about the human rights abuses and torture in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT): www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...

Charlie Angus noticed what Anand said in response to Trump’s violence. (Read all the way to the end.)

As we watch with horror the U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean and threats against Venezuela, CodePink provides an excellent summary of past U.S. regime change disasters.

Canada is cutting foreign aid while increasing its military spending. As other rich countries do the same, what does the future hold for "international development?"

Rev. Emilie Smith’s reflections on Day One of #COP30. She is in Belem with the Latin American ecumenical justice group SICSAL.

It's in the realm of Latin American historical novels that Chris Hedges finds apt description of the space Trump occupies in the public imagination.

Zohran Mamdani: a victory for the global left He won over half the vote, defying the opinion polls, and he is the first mayoral candidate to win over a million votes since John Lindsay in 1969.

A Conversation with David Abdulah: A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region. progressive.international/wire/2025-11...

BILLIONARIES FOR CUOMO, WORKERS FOR MAMDANI They say Mamdani lacks experience. But experience in what? In managing a city that works only for the rich? In balancing budgets on the backs of the poor?