Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

What Does Venezuela Have to Do With Taiwan?

by Biljana Vankovska, produced by Globetrotter, January 12, 2026 The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that feeds on permanent war. Orders are flowing, profits are booming, and blood has once again become a growth sector. For any normal society, pirates belong in adventure films, not[…]

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Bombing Somalia, Raiding Minnesota: Two Fronts of the Same War

by Gary Wilson, published on The Struggle/La Lucha, January 15, 2026 The intensified bombardment of Somalia and the assault on Somali communities in Minnesota are not separate policies. They flow from the same source: a capitalist system that requires military domination abroad and uses raids, deportations and the threat of denaturalization to terrorize nationally oppressed workers at home. In the[…]

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Economic Warfare and the imperialist Stranglehold on Iran

by Gary Wiilson, published on The Struggle/LaLucha, January 11, 2026 Shuttered stalls in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar amid a rapid collapse of the rial in January 2026, as imperialist economic warfare disrupted daily life and paralyzed trade. On the morning of Jan. 8, Zahra Mohammadi stood in line outside a bakery in southern Tehran for three hours. When she finally reached[…]

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Breaking the Silence Revisited: Gaza, Venezuela and the Enduring Relevance of Dr. King’s Critique of Empire

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 14, 2026 The annual ritual of sanitizing Martin Luther King Jr. serves to obscure his radical anti-war politics, which are urgently needed to challenge U.S. imperialism. Every year in the U.S., what has emerged as a cynical ritual around the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King takes place, where the state[…]

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The United States’ War Against Venezuela began in 2001

by Vijay Prashad, published on Socialist Action, December 31, 1025 The United States had no problem with Venezuela itself, nor with the country or its former oligarchy. The problem the U.S. government and its business class have is with the process initiated by President Hugo Chávez’s first administration. In 2001, Chávez’s Bolivarian process passed a law called the Organic Hydrocarbons Law,[…]

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A Unified Venezuela Strongly Condemns US Threat of Blockade, Gains International Backing

Published on Socialist Action, December 18, 2025 Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com) In an escalation of the US empire’s ongoing illegal sanctions on Venezuela, US President Donald Trump has announced a “full blockade” of the sovereign nation and its oil tanker fleet. He claimed the measure would remain in place until Venezuela “returns all the oil, land, and other assets” he alleged were[…]

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Stop Escalation in the Caribbean!

Editorial by Workers World, October 27, 2025 Every doubt about U.S. aims, every trace of the Big Lie about a “drug war” was erased when the Pentagon’s top Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed Oct. 24 that the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group is being sent to the Caribbean Sea. You don’t need Darth Vader’s Death Star to stop speedboats. The[…]

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Unmasking Imperial Hypocrisy: Trump’s 2025 Venezuela Escalation Is a Sham for Oil

by Gloria Giullo, published on CovertAction, October 27, 20225 n October 16, 2025, Donald Trump’s second term ignited a reckless campaign against Venezuela, greenlighting covert CIA operations, deploying 4,000 Marines and F-35 jets to the Caribbean, and launching strikes on Venezuelan vessels that have killed more than 27 people—all framed as a fight against drugs and migration. This is no noble mission: It[…]

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U.S. Out of Venezuela and Iran!

Statement by U.S. Peace Council, published on October 13, 2025 END THE FOREVER WARS ABROAD AND AT HOME The U.S. Peace Council condemns the U.S. government’s escalating wars abroad and its deepening war against working-class, Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, and other oppressed and vulnerable communities here at home. The same imperialist system that wages aggression against Venezuela and Iran intensifies[…]

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“We Will Blow You Out of Existence”, Trump’s Caribbean Spectacle

by Carlos Ron, produced by Globetrotter,  October 3, 2025 On 23 September 2025, US President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those allegedly involved in drug trafficking to the United States with being blown “out of existence”. This statement, taken as a blatant disregard for international law and due process, made reference to the latest escalation in the[…]

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