Interview: Mouin Rabbani "From Gaza to Venezuela":
Did Israel push Trump's regime change in Venezuela?
What does Venezuela mean for Iran?
Israel, Somaliland, & Palestinian displacement
Saudi–UAE fallout over Yemen
A new Arab coalition
Netanyahu's claim to be protecting Christian communities
2026: A Shifting Global Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0866DI7oFjA
#USPol #Europol #GazaGenocide #Iran #InternationalLaw #Palestine @palestine .
Interview: "Peter Thiel & Silicon Valley’s tech oligarchs want a future without democracy".
They plan to replace nation-states with billionaire-run “network states” powered by crypto, AI, & surveillance.
"How tech billionaires are using Trump & MAGA to upend democracy & remake the world in their image".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlNGpY-uL1Q
#USPol #Europol #Broligarchy #Imperialism #fascism #racism #thiel .
Report: Jessica Plichta, a 22-year-old preschool teacher, was arrested after she criticized Trump’s assault on Venezuela.
Plichta spoke at Saturday’s protest in Grand Rapids, Michigan, & had just finished an interview when two police officers arrested her.
"It just shows how much they feel they can get away with things, how easy it is for them to isolate people from the public eye when they’re doing this,” Plichta said.
Zeteo Jan6
Trump's invasion of Venezuela can be read as "a moment of U.S. weakness":
"They’re basically conceding other parts of the world to peer rivals... they cannot compete frontally with China, eg."
When the U.S. has faced defeat elsewhere in the world, "they come back 'home' to the Western Hemisphere & use Latin America as an imperial laboratory" as they always have done.
~Alexander Aviña
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/alexander_avina
#USPol #europol #monroeDoctrine #Racism #USImperialism #Venezuela .
We take a closer look at the Trump administration’s Monroe Doctrine-based “Donroe Doctrine” — a tightening of U.S. control over the Americas amid weakening global hegemony and internal divisions within the governing MAGA coalition. “As has happened in the past, when the U.S. has faced resistance or defeat elsewhere in the world, they come back 'home' to the Western Hemisphere. They use Latin America as an imperial laboratory, as they have since almost the founding of the United States,” explains Alexander Aviña, an associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University. “It’s just part of this long history of constant U.S. intervention in the region to prevent and not tolerate Latin American assertions of sovereignty and self-determination.”
Interview: "Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to 'Take Back' Venezuela’s Oil"
"Now with Trump’s show of force over Venezuela’s political sovereignty, many investors see the potential for a similar overpowering of the socialist country’s economic independence."
But, to make a profit, Wall St has to "push for more appetite for oil around the world.”
~David Uberti, WSJ
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/venezuela_oil
#USPol #europol #venezuela #Racism #USImperialism #FossilFuels .
The share prices of U.S. oil companies surged following the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president, Nicolás Maduro. In public statements, Trump has been clear about his desire to reassert U.S. corporate control over Venezuela’s nationalized oil industry. Now with Trump’s show of force over Venezuela’s political sovereignty, many investors see the potential for a similar overpowering of the socialist country’s economic independence. However, notes financial reporter David Uberti, it won’t be so easy for Wall Street to make a profit. In addition to upgrading Venezuela’s “decrepit” oil-producing infrastructure, “they have to push for more appetite for oil around the world.”
Report: Musk's Grok is creating deep-fake undressed images of women, including artist Rama Duwaji, Mayor Mamdani's wife.
Grok is "removing the clothes & generating sexually suggestive images of children as young as 3."
It is also modifying women’s photos to make them appear crying or badly beaten. User requests below such photos include “take her dress off” & “spread her legs.”
“Grok is awesome,” said Musk, amidst women speaking out about the violations.
Zeteo 6Jan
More EU collaboration in genocide:
Report: The EU has funded Israeli defence manufacturers with €millions that are supposed to go to civilian projects.
Israel Aerospace Industries, eg, produces drones, missile systems & surveillance technology used in the genocide in Gaza & the occupation of the West Bank.
#USPol #Europol #EUComplicity #GazaGenocide #israeliArms #Press #palestine @palestine .
Report: Aipac donor "could reap billions of dollars from a reshuffle in Venezuela’s oil assets."
Republican donor Paul Singer "has made a cut-rate offer to buy a string of Venezuelan-owned refineries in US"
Singer can now finalise a deal that would see his investment firm "gain control of a network of US-based oil refineries at a steeply discounted price."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aipac-donor-cusp-reaping-billions-us-abduction-maduro
#USImperialism #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #Press #FossilFuels #Racism .
"It’s All About the Oil...!”
"With his claims of U.S. sovereignty over nations in the Western Hemisphere, Trump’s basically saying, 'Well, this is ours, and China, Russia can have their spheres of influence.' And it is very 19th-century-esque. ’Let’s divide up the world between the powers.'"
~Mehdi Hasan
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/maduro_venezuela_mehdi_hasan
#USPol #europol #venezuela #monroeDoctrine #Racism #USImperialism #FossilFuels .
_Zeteo_’s Mehdi Hasan outlines Donald Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine,” a throwback foreign policy exemplified by the Trump administration’s shocking intervention in Venezuela. With his claims of U.S. sovereignty over nations in the Western Hemisphere, “Trump’s basically saying, 'Well, this is ours, and China, Russia can have their spheres of influence.' And it is very 19th-century-esque. ’Let’s divide up the world between the powers.’” This orientation is a major shift from U.S. foreign policy of recent decades, such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when interventionist actions were framed around ideological motivations, explains Hasan. “They said it was WMDs. They said it was democracy. They said it was al-Qaeda. They at least pretended that it wasn’t about the oil.” Meanwhile, Trump is brazen about his aims to seize control of Venezuela’s resources and demonstrate that “might is right.”
“This Is Our Hemisphere”: Report from Colombia on Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region
"Trump has escalated his threats against Colombia and claimed without evidence that President Gustavo Petro is involved in cocaine trafficking."
"Trump and others in his administration have also threatened military action against Cuba, Greenland, Iran and Mexico in recent days."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/7/colombia_trump
#USPol #Europol #USImperialism #Columbia #Racism #Greenland #press .
Following his attack on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has escalated his threats against Colombia and claimed without evidence that President Gustavo Petro is involved in cocaine trafficking. Trump and others in his administration have also threatened military action against Cuba, Greenland, Iran and Mexico in recent days. Manuel Rozental, a Colombian physician and activist with more than 40 years of involvement in grassroots political organizing, tells Democracy Now! that Trump’s attacks on Petro are lies. The former guerrilla “has seized more cocaine than any other government in the past,” says Rozental. “President Petro is not a drug trafficker. President Petro has been a victim of drug mafias and their allies.”
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