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US Cargo Planes Have Flooded the Persian Gulf Since the First of December

US Cargo Planes Have Flooded the Persian Gulf Since the First of December

by | Jan 13, 2026 |

In December 2025 and January 2026 (through early/mid-January), open-source intelligence (OSINT) and flight-tracking data indicate a significant surge in US military transport aircraft (primarily heavy lifters like C-17 Globemaster III and C-5M Galaxy) flying to or toward US bases in the Persian Gulf, such as Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, with reports consistently describing “dozens” of such movements. Al Udeid Air Base (also known as Abu Nakhlah Airport) is the largest U.S. military installation...

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From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders

From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders

by | Jan 13, 2026 |

While it has undoubtedly shocked the world, the Trump administration’s abduction of President Nicolás Maduro fits into a long history of United States kidnapping of foreign leaders. On January 3, U.S. Special Forces entered Venezuela by air, captured Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, killing around 80 people in the process. They were flown to the United States, where Maduro was put on trial on spurious drug trafficking and possession of firearms charges. Despite President Trump...

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The CIA/Mossad Operation to Spark a Color Revolution in Iran has Failed

The CIA/Mossad Operation to Spark a Color Revolution in Iran has Failed

by | Jan 12, 2026 |

The CIA/Mossad plan to spark a color revolution in Iran, which has attracted global attention and a tsunami of propaganda pieces portraying the Iranian protests as a massive, unstoppable popular movement, has failed. Yes, protests continue in some parts of the country, but Iranian security forces have taken off the gloves and are fighting back. Casualty estimates are all over the board… Ranging from hundreds to thousands dead. Iranian officials have announced that the alleged ring leaders of...

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EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, files show

EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, files show

by | Jan 12, 2026 |

A senior European Union official has been secretly seeking to remove Hungarian President Viktor Orban since at least 2019, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The files show in January 2019, the EU’s International Coordinator for the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, Marton Benedek, authored a “project proposal” aimed at “developing a permanent coordination forum to organise resistance against the Orban regime.” In addition to his role at the...

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Making Imperialism Great Again?

Making Imperialism Great Again?

by | Jan 12, 2026 |

It did not take long for President Trump to change the reason for sending the US military to “arrest” Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The allegation that President Maduro ran a drug cartel was front and center in the months leading up to President Maduro’s “arrest.” Afterwards, President Trump said the invasion was about Venezuela’s oil and announced plans for the US government to send American oil companies into Venezuela. About a week after the invasion, President Trump had...

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What Does Venezuela Have to Do with Israel?

What Does Venezuela Have to Do with Israel?

by | Jan 10, 2026 |

It is interesting to observe how United States foreign policy, such as it is, often appears to have an Israeli back story that explains at least in part how Donald Trump’s mindless aggression against much of the world is driven by Zionist imperatives rather than actual American interests. Ukraine is supported by Israel and the US Israel Lobby in part because the roots of many diaspora and Israeli Jews are “Kazarian,” i.e. they derive from that part of Eastern Europe. Plus, Ukraine’s acting...

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When it Comes to Venezuelan Oil, Trump is Drilling a Dry Hole

When it Comes to Venezuelan Oil, Trump is Drilling a Dry Hole

by | Jan 10, 2026 |

I was wrong. I believed that controlling Venezuelan oil was the primary objective behind Donald Trump’s decision to order the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. After reviewing the actual numbers it is clear that the belief that Venezuelan oil would provide a buffer if the Persian Gulf is closed as a consequence of an Israeli/US attack on Iran is sheer nonsense. My apologies for entertaining that hypothesis before looking at the actual numbers. The following graphic...

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Winter Strikes Kiev

Winter Strikes Kiev

by | Jan 9, 2026 |

Last night Ukraine was finally confronted with the consequences of attacking Russian infrastructure. And no, I do not mean last nights Oreshnik strike on the large gas storage facility in west Ukraine. The seismic impulse from that strike likely damaged the geological structure that allowed the gas to be stored in caverns. It can now escape and has been seen burning. Those were the Ukrainian reserves for the rest of the winter. The strike was in revenge for the late December drone...

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From Industrial Power to Military Keynesianism: Germany’s Engineered Collapse

From Industrial Power to Military Keynesianism: Germany’s Engineered Collapse

by | Jan 8, 2026 |

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz now admits that “parts of Germany’s economy are in very critical condition” and that his government “hasn’t done enough.” That phrasing is an evasion. Germany did not drift into this collapse. The numbers were visible in real time. The warnings were explicit. And suicidal decisions were made anyway. Start with energy, because everything downstream flows from it. Before the 2022 launch of Russia's special military operation (SMO), Germany’s industrial model...

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A Lawless Presidency

A Lawless Presidency

by | Jan 8, 2026 |

The United States invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the domestically recognized Venezuelan president, violated the US Constitution and international law. The Constitution makes clear that only Congress can authorize a foreign invasion. In the pre-World War II era, Congress declared war on countries that attacked the US or were allied with those that did, and those declarations expired upon the surrender by legal authorities in the targeted countries. In the post-9/11 era,...

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The Ugly Cold War Racket Against Cuba Rears Its Ugly Head Again

The Ugly Cold War Racket Against Cuba Rears Its Ugly Head Again

by | Jan 7, 2026 |

American interventionists are besides themselves with glee over the deaths of 32 members of Cuba’s national-security establishment who were serving as part of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s security team during the US national-security establishment’s violent abduction of Maduro. Their ecstasy demonstrates that the old Cold War mentality that held interventionists in its grip for some 45 years never went away, not even with the ostensible end of the Cold War in 1989, at least not...

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Donald Trump, and Most Americans, Do Not Understand the Monroe Doctrine

Donald Trump, and Most Americans, Do Not Understand the Monroe Doctrine

by | Jan 7, 2026 |

I want to make you a wager… I bet that 99 percent of Americans have never read the speech that President James Monroe made to the US Congress on December 2, 1823. As part of that speech — which was the seventh annual address to the US Congress — President Monroe outlined a policy that is now commonly referred to as the Monroe Doctrine. Understanding what President Monroe actually said has taken on more importance because Donald Trump referenced the Monroe Doctrine to justify his kidnapping of...

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VENI, VIDI, VENEZUELA: Pox Americana from War-a-Iago.

VENI, VIDI, VENEZUELA: Pox Americana from War-a-Iago.

by | Jan 6, 2026 |

This Administration, elected with a promise to end forever wars, has since taken America to war against Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Somalia and Nigeria, while funding genocide against Gazans. It has invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its President, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife; pledged to “run” the county, and to appropriate (steal) Venezuela’s extensive oil reserves. Venezuela spent approximately $ ZERO for its defense in 2024. This is not Pax Americana. It is Pox Americana from War-a-Iago. As a...

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The precursors for war are in place. Iran is the peg to intense political jockeying to define the post-Trump future

The precursors for war are in place. Iran is the peg to intense political jockeying to define the post-Trump future

by | Jan 6, 2026 |

At the 30 December meeting with Netanyahu and his team, President Trump publicly committed to attacking Iran: If they continue with their ballistic missile program, “Yes.” And for their nuclear: “Immediate.” “We’ll knock the hell out of them,” Trump said. By contrast to this belligerency, the Trump language at the Mar-a-Lago meeting reflected only warmth and fulsome praise for Netanyahu and Israel. Publicly, Netanyahu had received Trump’s public backing on an attack on Iran and for Gaza Phase...

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Marco-Terrorism: The US Enters A New Age Of Neoconservatism

Marco-Terrorism: The US Enters A New Age Of Neoconservatism

by | Jan 5, 2026 |

In the interregnum between the Republican administrations of George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump, the foreign policy of the former of the two presidents served as the largest obstacle keeping the party from returning to the White House. Although the Democratic Party under President Barack Obama continued the Bush-era foreign policy by perpetuating the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq while expanding it to Syria, Libya, and elsewhere through covert operations, the Republican Party's...

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Making Imperialism Great Again?

Regime Change and Nation-Building Are Back!

by | Jan 5, 2026 |

As was the case the morning after “Shock and Awe” signaled the start of the Iraq war, many are cheering the US military raid on Venezuela and capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro. Overwhelming US military power – and likely some bribed Venezuelan officials – ensured that the operation was swift and dramatic. This was not a war, we were told. It was just a surgical operation to remove a criminal dictator and restore democracy to the country. American oil companies would soon get even richer...

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