The Cradle and Syriana Analysis The second episode of our interview series, ‘Rock The Cradle,’ features @KevorkAlmassian breaking down the latest developments in Syria. How America Abandoned Syria’s Kurds An Islamic Monarchy for Syria: When Washington’s “Reformer” Starts Talking Like a Caliph The Collapse of Russia’s Strategy in the Middle East China Is Sleepwalking Into…
Carney at Davos: Removing That Sign in the Window
Dr Binoy Kampmark “It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry – that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.” These were the grave reflections of Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, delivered…
Jeffrey Sachs: Davos Revelation – US Empire Unhinged & Europe Subordinated
Glenn Diesen Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses how Davos Reveals a Fractured West: U.S. Empire is Unhinged, Canada Pushes Back, Europe Falls in Line. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the World Economic Forum at Davos that the U.S.-led “rules-based international order” is finished and “will not return.” “For decades, countries like Canada benefited from what…
Fragmentation, Force, and Fascism: The Architecture of the Repressive National Security State
Ajamu Baraka The response by law enforcement to protesters in Ferguson 2014 saw a brutal crackdown using military-style equipment labeld here. (Tom LeGro and Thomas Gibbons-Neff/The Washington Post) The state is not drifting toward repression; it is building it on purpose. ICE raids, militarized police, and mass surveillance are the tools of a system…
Mark Carney’s ‘Historic’ Davos Speech Will Soon Be Forgotten
Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris On January 20, in a “special address” to the World Economic Forum, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech that was widely hailed as courageous, transformational and historic. Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Professor Radhika Desai about the true meaning and intention behind Carney’s words. They also discuss Mark Carney’s recent…
Why Nicaragua Is Not Washington’s Next War – Yet
John Perry and Roger D. Harris Nicaragua advances in peace, prosperity and security – (Image: :el19digital Since the US invasion of Venezuela on January 3rd and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s opposition figures – who enthusiastically identified with their confederates in Venezuela – have hoped that regime-change efforts in Caracas would encourage Washington…
“Planned Community” in Rafah Would Force Palestinians Into Israeli Panopticon
Sharif Abdel Kouddous U.S. Army personnel, Israeli military personnel and others international officials monitor screens displaying maps and imagery of the Gaza Strip during a media tour inside the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) on November 20, 2025 in Kiryat Gat, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images) The U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center is proposing a residential…
Trump’s Man in Argentina Expands Surveillance Powers
Sam Carliner Argentine President Javier Milei, October 26, 2025. Photo: Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images. Milei, who has regularly defended Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was also invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace. Argentine President Javier Milei closed out 2025 by quietly issuing a decree that centralizes the country’s vast intelligence apparatus and give its intelligence agencies…
‘Full Circle’: AIM Patrols Minneapolis Streets to Protect Indigenous Community from ICE
Stewart Huntington AIM members are showing up in force in Minneapolis to protect the community in the 2026 unrest. Here, an AIM members attends a demonstration in 2020 in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. Photo: John Arthur Anderson The wave of federal immigration agents swarming the Minneapolis area…
Gaza’s ‘Phase Two’: The Illusion of Transition and the Reality of Control
Mohammad al-Ayoubi Washington claims the war has entered a ‘second phase,’ but conditions in Gaza show no power shift, no end to violence, and no real sovereignty – only what appears to be a rebranded form of occupation. The announcement arrived wrapped in the familiar choreography of diplomacy. Carefully chosen language, optimistic briefings, and reassurances…
The Venezuela Technocracy Connection
Derrick Broze The US bombing of Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro cannot be rationally explained as a drug enforcement operation, or even solely about recovering oil. The bigger picture is Technocracy. In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, the United States military launched military strikes on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro…
Sudan Civil War Spills Over into Neighboring Chad
Pavan KulkarniRapid Support Forces (RSF). Photo: screenshot Pursuing armed groups affiliated to the army into Chad, Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning.” The civil war in Sudan, which has continued for over 1,000 days, is spilling over its western borders into Chad…
Iran: Independence, Freedom, Respect – Our Crime Was This
Ramin Madadlou Our story with America has reached its final chapter. Our story with America began with World War II. The Americans were one of the three occupying forces that entered Iran. Like the British, they spoke English, but unlike them, they did not have a bad record—indeed, they had no record at all. Even…
US Re-engages in GERD Dispute as Tensions Between Ethiopia and Egypt Escalate
Nicholas Mwangi Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed inaugurating the GERD. Photo: Abiy Ahmed / X Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. Since the launch of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) last year, a USD 5 billion mega-project and Africa’s…
Is Venezuela a Victim of the Trump-Epstein Labyrinth?
José Gregorio Biomorgi It is acknowledged that US politics is built on media manipulation and reality show deception to distract the public sphere from US internal issues. This is a strategy primarily used by the US deep state to enable a criminal policy globally, all in the name of ‘democracy’. In reality it is all…
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Power, Rupture, and the Discipline of Governing Under Siege
Prince Kapone A Weaponized Intellects excavation of Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker, tracing how popular rupture collides with institutions, empire, class power, and the unfinished task of building a revolution that can survive its own victories. A Revolution That Refuses the Script Marta Harnecker opens this book with a simple admission…
Building the Frantz Fanon School: An Interview with Mqapheli Bonono
Richard Pithouse We share Richard Pithouse’s monumental interview with Mqapheli Bonono, the current deputy president of Abahlali baseMjondolo, conducted for ROAPE’s special issue 186 celebrating the Frantz Fanon centenary. Bonono discusses the building of the Frantz Fanon School in Durban and the movement’s evolving approach to political education. Introduction Formed in Durban on 4 October 2005, Abahlali…
How America Abandoned Syria’s Kurds
Kevork Almassian When people talk about the Kurds in Syria, they usually tell a story that begins in 2014 with ISIS, then ends with the SDF being portrayed as the heroic anti-terror force that “saved the world.” That story is not entirely false, but it is dangerously incomplete. And the incompleteness is not an accident….
UAE Loses Bases in Somalia Over Dealings with Pro-Israel Separatist Group
Pavan Kulkarni Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Somalia/X Somalia’s federal government has banned UAE’s military and cargo aircraft and cancelled all agreements with the Gulf power to protect “the nation’s unity, territorial integrity, and constitutional order.” The government of Somalia terminated all agreements with the United Arab Emirates on January 12, ending defense and…
Venezuela: Invasion and Constitution
Luis Britto Garcia We have been victims of military aggression. Until a Peace Treaty is signed, there are no diplomatic relations and no agreements of any kind can be made with the aggressor. Traitors, agents of foreign powers, and hitmen with superior computer equipment and sophisticated weapons interfere with communications, murder dozens of compatriots, kidnap…
Israel and the US Overthrow of Venezuela’s Government
Robert Inlakesh Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was kidnapped by the United States. (Photo: via Donald Trump Truth Social account) A US invasion reveals deeper strategic goals tied to Israel’s push to weaken Iran, reshape Latin America, and consolidate control over global energy resources. The overthrow of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro may appear to be a…
Demystifying Iran: Venezuela and Iran… A Shared Struggle
In this episode of Demystifying Iran, Seyed Mohammad Marandi unpacks a turning point in global politics: the US aggression on Venezuela, the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and the open declaration of Venezuela’s oil as “an indefinite American asset”. Marandi situates this attack within a broader strategy that simultaneously targeted Venezuela and…
Cuba Honors 32 Killed in Venezuela
Pablo Meriguet Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana, Cuba honoring the 32 fallen combatants. Photo: Presidencia Cuba “To die for the freedom of a brother people is the highest form of living” During the commemoration of the combatants who fell on January 3, several Cuban leaders responded to Washington’s threats and affirmed that they will not surrender…
“Where the Walls Remember” Exarcheia: Athens’ Revolutionary Heart
Free Palestine TV Laith Marouf joins Konstantina Kartsioti, from the Anti-Imperialsit Front Greece, for a tour of Athen’s revolutionary neighborhood of Exarcheia. The two examine the graffiti on the walls, to understand the history of the area, and the struggles the locals stand for, and are martyred for. The tour starts at the memorial for…
From Caracas to Tehran: How Trump’s Venezuela Invasion Serves Israel’s Geopolitical Agenda
Robert Inlakesh AT FIRST GLANCE, REGIME CHANGE IN CARACAS THROUGH THE ABDUCTION OF VENEZUELA’S SITTING PRESIDENT, NICOLÁS MADURO, MAY NOT APPEAR DIRECTLY LINKED TO ISRAEL. YET, THIS UNDERTAKING BY THE US TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS MAJOR GEOSTRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS AND FITS INTO A MUCH BROADER SCHEME, INCLUDING THE COMING WAR AGAINST IRAN AND MUCH MORE. Russia and…
Iran Calm. Israel’s Genocide Continues During “Ceasefire”.
Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran about the rioting in Iran, the likelihood of another U.S. attack on the country, and the newly appointed members of Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace”. In Reason2Resist’s weekly livestream, Dimitri Lascaris and Rami Yahia discuss the countless ways…
After the Bombs: Venezuelans Concerned About a Future of Coercion and Colonization
Jessica Dos Santos Jardim A man sits on steps decorated with a mural representing the eyes of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 12, 2026. (Graphic by Truthdig; images via AP Photo, Adobe Stock) With the whole country seemingly held hostage by the U.S., Venezuelans and local experts anticipate a politically…
“Biker Gang Members are Abusing Palestinians for 2K Dollars a Day”
BettBeat Media We talk to retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel and Special Forces officer Anthony Aguilar about the horrors he witnessed in Gaza and how it drove him toward anti-imperialist activism. Anthony Aguilar is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel and Special Forces officer who served for 25 years. In 2025, he became known…
Laith Marouf: The Imperialist Plan in Iran
ATTRITION Podcast and Free Palestine TV In this episode of ATTRITION, Ammar Kazmi speaks with Lebanon-based journalist Laith Marouf of Free Palestine TV about the foreign-backed riots in Iran, delving into hybrid warfare, betrayal by Western leftists, Zionist influence over the US, and predictions for Iran’s future. Chapters: 0:00 – Preview 1:02 – Introduction 2:04…
The Greeks & the Mountains that Defeated the Nazis
Free Palestine TV Laith Marouf joins Evan Katsounis as they travel to Lamia and Gorgopotamos north of Greece, to discover what the Nazis called the “Mountain Stronghold” of the resistance. Lamia is the home town of the most revered Greek resistance fighter against Nazi and then British occupation in the 1930s and 40s, Aris Velouchiotis;…
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