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BreakThrough News   Brian Becker is joined by Manolo De Los Santos of The People’s Forum to discuss Trump’s “total blockade” against Venezuela — an “act of war” targeting oil tankers and ports, according to members of Congress as they vote on a War Powers Resolution to prevent the president’s attacks from escalating even further. De Los Santos also reviews Venezuela’s response to Trump’s attacks, as well as its history of foreign colonization and how it has shaped the consciousness of every generation in the country. 

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Though Chinese exports to the US have declined almost 19% since the start of Trump’s tariff war in April, it has been able to diversify both its export destinations as well as the basket of goods to counter the effects.   by Abdul Rahman  Part 2 - Defying the impact of US tariffs The figures are more impressive because of the fact that China’s exports to the US dropped 29% year on year in November, despite a temporary tariff truce announced in late October by the two countries. November’s figures are higher than October’s, when Chinese exports to the US declined by roughly 25%. In 2024, the bilateral trade in goods and services between the US and China was above 700 billion US dollars. China exported over 500 billion dollars of goods to the US, importing over 160 billion dollars worth of goods in return. The trade between the two countries was negatively impacted due to the announcement of Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariff policy in April. Though both the countries have nego...

As Trump continues to lodge threats against the Bolivarian Republic, US Congress and grassroots movements mobilize to stop a new war.   by Devin B. Martinez   Part 3 - As threat of war grows, so does the people’s resistance In the same CBS/YouGov poll, 75% of people in the US said that the government needs to show evidence that the boats it is bombing are carrying drugs. Only 13% of Americans believe that Venezuela is a “major threat” to US national security. “The Trump administration is wildly out of step with public opinion as he threatens to initiate a new forever war with the aim of looting Venezuela’s vast oil resources,” said Brian Becker, National Director of the ANSWER coalition. After Trump declared Venezuelan airspace to be “closed”, claiming that land strikes would begin “very soon”, a coalition of organizations, including the ANSWER coalition, The Peoples Forum, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and others, announced a national...

Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. But Ellison is not alone. Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.   by Alan Macleod  Part 4 - Pentagon Contractors   A key factor in the rise of many of the world’s top seven richest individuals is their proximity to the U.S. national security state, with many of their companies growing wealthy in part due to feeding from the trough of Pentagon contracts. Today’s wars and espionage rely as much on hi-tech computing equipment as tanks and guns, and in 2022, the Department of Defense awarded Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a $9 billion cloud computing contract. Bezos’ Amazon h...

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The Jimmy Dore Show   Recent media reports warning of a possible Hamas attack in Europe bear all the hallmarks of Israeli “Hasbara” propaganda designed to pre-emptively shape public opinion and provide cover for a future false-flag operation blamed on Palestinians or Muslims. Jimmy Dore points out that Israel has historically used deception, intelligence cutouts, and proxy funding to manipulate narratives, citing past allegations about Netanyahu’s role in allowing or encouraging Hamas funding to undermine rival Palestinian groups. He also points to heavy online backlash and “ratio’d” social media posts as evidence that European audiences no longer accept these claims at face value. The discussion concludes that fear messaging about terrorism is being used to distract from Israel’s actions in Gaza and to reframe global opinion through manufactured threats and information warfare.

As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital.   by Pavan Kulkarni  Part 6 - “We are not reaching out to the so-called international community to come to our aid” Amid the chorus by Western countries, the AU’s chairperson, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, called for “a robust, coordinated, and coherent international response to counter terrorism and violent extremism in the Sahel.” “No action can be … taken in Mali without Malians, without the consent of the Malian state, without the Malian state requesting it,” Diop retorted, affirming, “we are not reaching out to the so-called international community to come to our aid.” “This call for international action is all the more worrying since Mali has emerged from this type of paradigm,” he added. Having expelled the Frenc...

The Grayzone   As Israel violates the ceasefire with relentless attacks on Gaza, The Grayzone 's Aaron Maté sits down with senior Hamas negotiator [and former head of Gaza's Health Ministry] Basem Naim in Doha, Qatar. Naim survived the Israeli military's attack on a gathering of Hamas officials in September. He discusses the UN-endorsed demand that Hamas disarm without a path to Palestinian self-determination; faltering efforts to unify Palestinian political factions; the bid to free political prisoners including Marwan Barghouti; the new Syrian government's interdiction of weapons shipments to Hezbollah, and more. 

Double Down News   Norman Finkelstein’s Most EXPLOSIVE Interview Yet 

Declassified UK and Double Down News   Declassified presents the first documentary about Britain's complicity in the Gaza genocide, exposing Keir Starmer's shady spy flight missions for Israel. What does a British base in Cyprus have to do with Israel's genocide in Gaza? Declassified travelled to this Mediterranean island to investigate the hundreds of spy flights Keir Starmer has sent over Gaza, that coincided with Israeli airstrikes and the killing of British aid workers Declassified goes where the British media and military experts have refused to look and ask whether this scandal could put Keir Starmer in The Hague. 

Geopolitical Economy Report   How does China's economic model work? Political economist Ben Norton explains the ideas behind Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, discussing China's socialist market economy, historical development, reform process, poverty reduction, industrial policy, and more. 

The Grayzone   In a riveting interview with OANN host and former US congressman Matt Gaetz, The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal discusses the recent indictment of a former top DEA official and veteran CIA asset in a $12 million scheme to launder money and procure drones for Mexico's Jalisco cartel. Blumenthal uses the scandal as a window into the US government's history of covert collaboration with drug traffickers, explaining how the CIA created Venezuela's so-called "Cartel of the Suns," and calling out Trump's pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former Honduran president convicted of shipping over 400 tons of cocaine into the US. 

Though Chinese exports to the US have declined almost 19% since the start of Trump’s tariff war in April, it has been able to diversify both its export destinations as well as the basket of goods to counter the effects.   by Abdul Rahman  Part 1 China’s yearly trade surplus crossed the one trillion USD mark for the first time ever in November, as per customs data released on Monday, December 8. The figure is seen as a sign of Chinese resilience in the face of the tariff war waged by the US. As per the official data, Chinese exports registered a growth in November, reversing the 1.1% contraction the previous month due to its rising demands in various regions outside the US. Chinese exports climbed 5.9% in November in comparison to the same month last year while imports grew by 1.9%. China exported goods and services worth over 330 billion US dollars in the month. The total value of imports in the same month stood at nearly 219 billion US dollars, generating a surplus of over 11...

As Trump continues to lodge threats against the Bolivarian Republic, US Congress and grassroots movements mobilize to stop a new war.   by Devin B. Martinez   Part 2 - Pressure mounts in Congress against Trump’s threats of war As the Trump cabinet prepares for fresh violations of international law, they are already feeling the backlash of those already committed. Committees in US Congress have launched investigations into US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for crimes related to missile strikes on boats in the Caribbean, in which the order was reportedly to “kill everybody”. “These are serious charges, and that’s the reason we’re going to have special oversight,” said Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as reported by PBS. The mounting scrutiny follows a Washington Post report that details Hegseth’s direction to strike a bombed boat a second time, called a “double tap” strike, even as survivors clung to the edge of the b...

Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. But Ellison is not alone. Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.   by Alan Macleod  Part 3 - MAGA Mouthpieces   Many of these wealthy individuals have joined forces with President Trump, in an effort to support Republican policies and push a conservative worldview. Chief among these is the Ellison family, who quickly announced significant changes as CBS News, promising “unbiased” coverage and more “varied ideological perspectives”– widely understood as a shift towards right-wing, pro-Trump coverage. Larry Ellison holds deeply conservative views, and became a top donor and fundrai...

AJ+   Dena Takruri speaks to Assal Rad about how badly legacy media has failed at one of its most important jobs: covering war crimes and genocide.  

As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital.   by Pavan Kulkarni  Part 5 - A proxy war “We must not think we are simply facing terrorist groups,” Diop maintains. “No, this is a proxy war, where certain powers, cowardly and unable to confront us directly, are using terrorist groups and asymmetric forces to fight us … These terrorist groups have drones. Where do they come from? Who manufactures them? Who provides them in areas where people cannot even eat?” Le Monde had reported last year that Ukrainian authorities are training an armed group to use drones. Spokesperson of Ukraine’s military intelligence, Andriy Yusov, had said in an interview that it provided “information, and not only information,” to armed groups fighting the state in Mali. Earlier in 202...

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Kit Klarenberg explains how the British government is working with the Israeli embassy to tackle the "threat" of Palestinian human rights activists.  

The Young Turks   Israel is scrambling to form a media strategy as foreign journalists enter the Gaza Strip for the first time. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks . 

Geopolitical Economy Report   The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire's new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring manufacturing into Latin America via "nearshoring", in order to economically decouple from China and prepare for conflict in Cold War Two. Ben Norton analyzes the important document.  

The Electronic Intifada   Ali Abunimah, executive director, reports on the Israel lobby's attacks on Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, for acknowledging lack of evidence in 7 October rapes. 

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The West Report   The Zionist Federation of Australia has launched one of the most extraordinary legal actions we have ever seen, a sprawling 18C case against former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis over 61 tweets and retweets. This episode breaks down exactly what is being dragged into the Federal Court, from October 7 narratives and Gaza to Epstein, Mossad, Hezbollah, UK politics, CIA operations and even the history of Israel itself. A single lawsuit that could choke the courts for years and reshape free speech in Australia. Why is this happening, who benefits, and what precedent could it set for journalists, academics and anyone who posts online?   

As Trump continues to lodge threats against the Bolivarian Republic, US Congress and grassroots movements mobilize to stop a new war.   by Devin B. Martinez   Part 1 The US government has continued to accelerate its drive to war with Venezuela. While rumors circulate about phone calls and possible talks between US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in tandem, the US head of state has continued to launch bizarre and illegal threats and accusations against the South American nation. On Saturday, November 29, Trump unilaterally declared that Venezuelan airspace was closed, despite international law stipulating that only Venezuela has authority over the airspace above its territory and reports that air traffic above Venezuela has since continued. While Trump, his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have claimed land strikes and “action” against Venezuela could begin imminently and that the country should be on alert, a...

The visit of Syria’s interim president to Washington has once again showcased the ambivalence of US counter-terrorism policy, which changes according to temporal interests   by Aseel Saleh Part 6 - US declares partial suspension of sanctions on Syria following Al-Sharaa-Trump meeting Syria’s interim president affirmed that lifting the sanctions imposed by the United States on the Arab country was among the most important topics, which he discussed with his US counterpart. As both nations are looking forward to bolstering mutual security and economic interests, Al-Sharaa told The Washington Post that lifting the sanctions is essential for maintaining stability, which is, in turn, linked to economic development. It is worth noting that shortly after the meeting, the United States Treasury Department announced that the Trump administration suspended key provisions of the Caesar Act sanctions on Syria for 180 days. This partial suspension replaces a previous sanctions relief, which wa...

Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. But Ellison is not alone. Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.   by Alan Macleod  Part 2 - Billionaire Capture   Rather is correct. No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class – a fact that raises tough questions about freedom of speech and diversity of opinion. Today, the world’s seven richest individuals are all major media barons, giving them extraordinary control over our media and public square, allowing them to set agendas, and suppress forms of speech they do not approve of. This include...

As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital.   by Pavan Kulkarni  Part 4 - Government restores fuel supply Two days later, on November 5, residents of Bamako cheered on the streets as large convoys of fuel tankers entered the city under the protection of the armed forces. Nevertheless, France 24 persisted with headlines like “Jihadists threaten to overrun Mali as blockades continue“, “fuel blockade squeezes Mali’s military rulers“, etc. “There have been disruptions in the supply system,” but “the state organized itself, put in place a strategic plan to resume supplies, to ensure the security of convoys … And gradually, you see that hundreds of trucks are arriving every day to resume supplies to Bamako and other localities,” Diop added in his press conferenc...

PRCF - Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France   Communist Initiative is sharing the exclusive interview between the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the former President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, regarding the threats of imperialist aggression by the United States. As the interview dramatically demonstrates, behind the fallacious pretext of "drug trafficking" allegedly orchestrated by the Maduro government, it is indeed resources (hydrocarbons, gold, water, agricultural land, etc.) that Washington is targeting, always quick to raise the "red specter" which, as Nicolas Maudro reminds us, was used to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954, the government of the Dominican Republic in 1965, and Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973.   Certainly, criticisms can be leveled at the Maduro government regarding its construction of socialism compared to its predecessor. But whatever reservations one may have about it—pa...

Good Politic Guy   Hillary Clinton, John Fetterman, Eric Adams and more attend a pro-Israel conference to complain about GenZ turning against Israel over Gaza.  

The Young Turks   Hillary Clinton blamed TikTok for surge in criticism of Israel by young Americans. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks .  

by system failure   In one thing Donald Trump and his liberal rivals are united: to keep the US imperialist project alive. No matter how much angry they are with him, the liberal clowns (and their corporate media) fully align behind the orange clown under the roof of the US imperialist circus.  After supporting ridiculously that Venezuela is a key drug cartel hub to justify a possible invasion, the orange clown suddenly remembered that Colombia "is making cocaine". For decades, the Colombian cartel under right-wing US-puppet governments, collaborated with CIA in drug trafficking. Yet, now, "coincidentally" under a Leftist government who actually tries to deal with the problem of drug trafficking, Trump discovered the Colombian cocaine.  Of course, even a ten-year old kid knows today that the US aggression against Latin America countries, has nothing to do with drugs, or defending Democracy and human rights. It has to do with the resources and the fact that Russia a...

Danny Haiphong   Danny Haiphong answers the essential question: China save the world through its foreign policy and end 70 years of US dominance? This segment of an upcoming episode of The Bridge to China podcast dives deep into whether China can avoid war with the US and in doing so, change everything about the current world order. 

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The visit of Syria’s interim president to Washington has once again showcased the ambivalence of US counter-terrorism policy, which changes according to temporal interests   by Aseel Saleh Part 5 - Al-Sharaa offers extraction of Syria’s gas to become US ally Al-Sharaa also told Fox News that he discussed with Trump future investment opportunities in Syria, particularly the extraction of gas by the United States. “We talked about the investment opportunities in the future in Syria, so that Syria is no longer looked at as a security threat. It is now looked at as a geopolitical ally. And it’s a place where the United States can have great investments, especially extracting gas,” he noted. Regarding Syria’s future relation with Israel, Al-Sharaa ruled out the possibility of joining the “Abraham Accords”, but he expressed his hope that the Trump administration will help his country to reach a security agreement with Israel to end its occupation of the Golan Heights. “I believe that the...

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the latest escalation of psychological warfare on Venezuela through a series of threats by Trump.

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the revealing and cringeworthy commentary of former Obama speechwriter turned pro-Israel activist Sarah Hurwitz, who attempts to explain why more Jewish youth are turning against Israel without any self-reflection. 

The Jimmy Dore Show   The arguments being made by U.S. lawmakers advocating for military intervention in Venezuela are becoming more unhinged than ever, and all while a majority of Americans object to regime-change wars and were promised the opposite by the Trump administration. Guest host Chris Keene and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how politicians justify intervention with claims about oil, terrorism, and “freedom,” despite Venezuela never threatening the United States. The conversation contrasts these hawkish narratives with Trump’s campaign promises to end foreign entanglements, exposing how presidents ultimately serve entrenched war-driving interests regardless of rhetoric. Ultimately, the segment portrays Venezuela as the next manufactured conflict in a long line of disastrous U.S. interventions driven by corporate profit and bipartisan corruption rather than national security. 

Geopolitical Economy Report   Palantir is the corporate Big Brother. The CIA-backed company gets most of its revenue from government contracts. It profits from war, mass surveillance, and even dystopian "predictive policing". Ben Norton shows how Palantir is run by extreme hawks who insist the West is "superior" to the rest of the world, and seek an "unfair advantage" to maintain US hegemony.

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Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. But Ellison is not alone. Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.   by Alan Macleod  Part 1 - Media Monopoly   Paramount Skydance– an Ellison-owned company– is in pole position to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery, a conglomerate that controls gigantic film and television studios, streaming services like HBO Max and Discovery+, franchises like DC Comics, and TV networks such as HBO, TNT, Discovery Channel, TLC, Food Network, and CNN. This lead is largely due to Ellison’s proximity to President Trump, who will ultimately have to sign off on such a deal. Ellison has already spoken ...

As panic-inducing travel advisories and doomsaying media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital.   by Pavan Kulkarni  Part 3 - Attacks on fuel convoys Early this September, the JNIM started attacks on drivers and their tankers carrying fuel from the Ivory Coast in the Sikasso region of southern Mali. “Due to disruptions in fuel supplies that are affecting the movement of school staff,” the Education Ministry suspended classes for two weeks on October 26. “Do Not Travel to Mali for any reason due to crime, terrorism, kidnapping, unrest, and health,” the US State Department said in a travel advisory on October 25. Three days later, the department issued a second alert, insisting that its citizens in Mali “should” leave the country “using commercial aviation, as overland routes to neighboring countries may not ...

The Wall Street Journal has revealed details of a secret plan developed by Germany in the event of war with Russia.   The plan was drawn up by around a dozen senior German officers. Work on it began about two and a half years ago. The 1,200-page document sets out in detail how 800,000 German, US and other NATO troops would be moved eastward to the front line. It maps the ports, rivers, railways and roads they would use, as well as how they would be supplied and protected along the way. German officials earlier said that they expect Russia to be ready and willing to attack NATO in 2029. But a series of espionage incidents, sabotage attacks and incursions into European airspace suggest it may be preparing to strike earlier.                                 [ Related: European imperialist warhawks imply a false flag operation to drag...

Drop Site News   Jeremy Scahill says young people are waking up to decades of lies about Palestinians: “We are told to believe these are terrorists… young and free-thinking people are recognizing the lies they have been told. This is one of the most legitimate causes of national liberation in the history of humanity.” Scahill also discusses Arab nations' complicity and the push to deploy troops following the UN Security Council vote. Scahill says “Saudi Arabia and the UAE from the very beginning really wanted Israel to crush Hamas,” and lays out why their rhetoric doesn’t match their actions. He challenges claims of regional solidarity: “Oh ‘We’re at war with the Zionist entity’… Ok, you’re at war. Have you done anything in that war? Are you going to do anything about the fact that they’re burning children alive every day… that you have Israeli terrorists known as settlers running around burning Qurans… that they’re raping prisoners?” Instead, he says, “what your action is on the g...

The visit of Syria’s interim president to Washington has once again showcased the ambivalence of US counter-terrorism policy, which changes according to temporal interests   by Aseel Saleh Part 4 - Syria joins US-led international coalition against ISIS When he was asked whether he committed to having his country join the US-led international coalition to fight ISIS in the West Asia region, Al-Sharaa answered: “We have fought many battles against ISIS over the past ten years and endured great suffering, losing a significant number of men. While there are reasons for the US military presence in Syria, this presence must now be coordinated with the Syrian government. We need to discuss these issues and reach an agreement regarding ISIS.” On Tuesday, November 11, Syria’s information minister, Hamza al-Mustafa, and a US official announced that Syria signed a “political declaration” with the coalition, confirming that it will have a role in “combating terrorism and supporting regional s...