Trump Pardons a Convicted Drug Dealer While Starting a War Against Venezuela to Fight “Drug Dealers”

 

Trump Pardons a Convicted Drug Dealer While Starting a War Against Venezuela to Fight “Drug Dealers” By Timothy Alexander Guzman Recently, US President Donald Trump has pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, a former president of Honduras and a convicted drug trafficker known as the ‘Narco-Dictator’ who was convicted by a grand jury in New York City for importing 400 tons of cocaine and weapons into the United States. Read here

Escalation? Downward Spiral in China-Japan Relations: Beijing Sends Strong Message to Tokyo. Do Not Intervene in Taiwan By Drago Bosnic Last month saw a dramatic downward spiral in Sino-Japanese relations after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi threatened Tokyo’s potential military involvement in the case of an armed conflict in China’s breakaway island province of Taiwan. Read here

COP30 in Brazil Marked Again by Tensions Over Methods to Address Climate Change By Abayomi Azikiwe This gathering issued a comprehensive program for preserving the planet, yet the United States continues to sabotage efforts to curb global warming since it rejects the scientific data pointing to a deteriorating environment around the world. Read here

Ex-Jihadist in Power: Syria One Year Later – A Façade of Normalcy Amidst Violence By Marc Vandepitte One year after the fall of Assad, Syria is once again deemed ‘acceptable’, despite being led by an ex-jihadist. This façade of normality conceals a deeply fragmented country, plagued by proliferating violence and old political reflexes. Read here

“Perfectly Appropriate”: President Trump Receives the FIFA Peace Prize By Dr. Binoy Kampmark In a two-hour ceremony held on December 5 at Washington’s Kennedy Center, which included the World Cup draw for participants at next year’s games, Trump was presented with a prize few FIFA officials seem to know existed. Last month, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced the award, expressing the view that Trump also deserved that other coveted gong, the Nobel Peace Prize. Read here

BREAKING: Trump Elevates Fossil Fuels in National Security Plan By Tim McDonnell The White House has elevated the role of fossil fuels to a cornerstone of US national security, arguing in a new strategy document that increasing domestic oil and gas production is vital to keep the country and its allies safe, while playing down the risk from Beijing and brushing over the low-carbon technologies now a bulwark of China’s own security strategy. Read here

Russia-Ukraine War Enters Its Fourth Year: Destabilization of the Black Sea. The Effects of Ship Attacks on Turkiye By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its fourth year in 2026, the risk of the conflict spreading to non-combatant states and global maritime trade routes has reached a critical stage. First, on November 27, 2025, a Turkish-owned, Panamanian-flagged tanker named Mersin was severely damaged by four separate external explosions at night while at anchor in the port of Dakar, Senegal, rendering it almost completely unusable. Read here