Venezuela

Venezuela: The Limits of Gunboat Diplomacy

January 24, 2026 UNAC Editor China, Colonialism, Monroe Doctrine, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Paths to Emancipation, Political Analysis, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, January 14, 2026 January 11. It’s now eight days since U.S. gangsters kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Revolutionary Combatant and former President of the Venezuelan National Assembly Cilia Flores. It’s a month after the Dec. 6 White House release of its National Security Strategy document, with its so-called Trump Corollary to[…]

What Does Venezuela Have to Do With Taiwan?

January 24, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperial Wars, Taiwan, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

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[…]

The Bolivarian Legacy, from Hugo Chávez to Nicolás Maduro

January 19, 2026 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Book Review, Colombia, Democracy and Consent, Resistance, Revolution, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socialism, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, January 14, 2026 Attorney Dan Kovalik is an attorney representing Colombian President Gustavo Petro. He is also author of The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil. Skyhorse Publishing brought the paperback book back into print after the US kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.[…]

Economic Warfare and the imperialist Stranglehold on Iran

January 18, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Economic Collapse, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Iran, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Shortages of Supplies, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

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[…]

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

January 18, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Blowback, Colonialism, Ending War, Featured, Genocide, Imperialism, Latin America, Political Analysis, Racism, U.S. Aggression

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[…]

Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands: Debunking Trump’s Psyop

January 10, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Democracy and Consent, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, LandGrabs, Political Analysis, Propaganda, Resistance, Socialism, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela

by Manolo De Los Santos, published on People’s Dispatch, January 5, 2026 In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution. The events of the past 72 hours represent a qualitative escalation in the 25 years of regime change operations by the[…]

Venezuela, Even More Than Palestine, Is the Linchpin of a Consistent Radical Left in the Era of Global Neofascism Led by the U.S.

January 10, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Fascism, Genocide, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Political Analysis, Socialism, Venezuela

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 7, 2026 Solidarity with Palestine tests morality, but solidarity with Venezuela tests politics. The recent U.S. intervention demands a radical left moving from moral outrage to a material confrontation with its own state. Palestine is the moral heart of global anti-colonial politics. It exposes the brutality of settler colonialism in its[…]

Venezuela, Palestine, And The End Of International Law

January 9, 2026 UNAC Editor Genocide, Global South, Hybrid Warfare, Imperialism, International Law, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Political Analysis, Racism, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Craig Mokhiber, published on Popular Resistance, January 8, 2026 Ushering In The Age Of Impunity. On January 3, 2026, without provocation, cause, or legal justification, the U.S. bombed Venezuela, invaded its capital, killed dozens of people, and violently abducted the President and First Lady of the country, binding, blindfolding, and spiriting them off to the United States. Surely, such[…]

The United States’ War Against Venezuela began in 2001

January 8, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Democracy, Economic Blockade, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Monroe Doctrine, Neocolonial Economic Dominance

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,[…]

China’s Special Envoy Reaffirms Unbreakable Brotherhood With Venezuela Against US Naval Blockade and Piracy

January 7, 2026 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Trade, Venezuela

by Staff at the Orinoco Tribune, January 3, 2026 Editor’s Note: An interesting aside. The day before the U.S. bombed Caracas and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he met with a group of Chinese diplomats regarding economic commitments. At the same time, U.S. President Trump pulled the trigger after meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodomyr Zelensky about our support for[…]