US War on Venezuela? Big Oil, a “Nobel Peace Prize Winner” and the Bolivarian Resistance

 

US War on Venezuela? Big Oil, a “Nobel Peace Prize Winner” and the Bolivarian Resistance By Timothy Alexander Guzman It was good news that the Norwegian Nobel committee did not award the warmongering US president, Donald Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize, but they still managed to hammer the last nail in their coffin by awarding one of the main right-wing opposition leaders in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado, a long-time far-right “political activist” who for years has asked every US president since 1999 to lead a coup against the late Hugo Chavez and the Nicolas Maduro-led governments.  Read here

The Oldest Colony, the Newest War: Puerto Rico as a Launchpad for War on Venezuela By Michelle Ellner When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S. drones struck another small boat off Venezuela’s coast, few people in the United States realized that much of this militarization begins on the soil of a land denied its own sovereignty: Puerto Rico. Read here

7 Million People Mobilized for No Kings Day By Abayomi Azikiwe All across the United States millions gathered in large municipalities, suburbs, small towns and rural areas to protest the domestic and foreign policies of the administration of President Donald Trump and his allies within the House of Representatives and the Senate. Read here

How to Create Money From Nothing. “How Stupid Can You Get?” Tucker Carlson Interviews Economist Richard Werner By Richard C. Cook A provocative title indeed! So let’s delve into it, realizing that what Richard Werner represents as his own personal discovery—that banks create money ex-nihilo—what monetary reformers call “out of thin air”—has been known and understood for centuries, even as the Money Power that runs the economies of the world declared this fact taboo even to mention, especially by today’s so-called “economists.” Read here

Trump Cancels Budapest Summit: Five Reasons Why Trump Is Once Again Escalating Against Russia By Andrew Korybko Trump canceled the Budapest Summit on the grounds that he didn’t think it’d be worth his time. He also imposed new energy sanctions on Russia and might be lying about not having approved Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles. Read here

Reviving UNRWA’s Remit: The ICJ, Israel and Humanitarian Aid in Gaza By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Few times in its history has the International Court of Justice been this busy, if ever. For anyone ignorant of the world court’s existence till now, it has blanketed news coverage with provisional orders and advisory opinions on the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Read here

Germany’s Economic Crisis Triggered by Rising Energy Prices: Blindly Followed the U.S. Agenda in the Ukraine Crisis By Ahmed Adel Germany is experiencing a serious economic crisis with no prospect of a short-term solution, especially as the economy is expected to grow by only around 0.2% to 1.3% in 2025 after contracting by 0.2% in 2024, following a decline of 0.3% in 2023. Read here