Jacobin
- Trump’s War on Latin America Must Be Stopped
Any hope that Donald Trump would be an “antiwar” president went out the window almost as soon as he won the 2024 election, when he filled his administration with a coterie of warmongers. After a year in which Trump backed Israel’s war with Iran, went on a spree of blowing up boats in international waters,
- The Fake Antiwar Right Goes to War
In January 2023, J. D. Vance had just arrived in the Senate. One of the first things he did was to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination. His primary argument was that Trump, “started no wars despite enormous pressure from his own party and even
- America’s Ties to Israel Might Lead It to War With Iran
Two new histories of US-Iran relations ask why these nations — once strategically linked by Cold War imperatives — have been hostile to one another for almost half a century. Afshin Matin-Asgari’s Axis of Resistance: A History of Iran–US Relations engages this question through the lens of imperialism, while Dalia Dassa Kaye’s Enduring Hostility: The Making of
- Killer Robots and the Fetish of Automation
For far too long, two specters have been haunting the world of artificial intelligence and warfare, and they both featured in the same movie. The first is Skynet — the specter of general artificial intelligence achieving consciousness and turning against its creators. The second is the Terminator itself — the anthropomorphized killing machine that has
- In Britain, Palestine Action Prisoners Starve for Freedom
It’s New Year’s Eve in central London, and a group of several hundred demonstrators has gathered outside Pentonville Prison to see out the year with drums and raised voices. They are here to offer company and solidarity to an inmate who is, in medical terms, dying. Entering his fifty-fourth day of hunger strike, twenty-eight-year-old Kamran
Mother Jones
- Democratic Senators on the Armed Services Committee Condemn Trump’s Capture of Venezuela’s President
Democratic members of the Committee on Armed Services, which helps oversee the nation’s military, denounced President Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that United States military forces struck Venezuela and captured the nation’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. Trump did not seek congressional authority for the attack and said at a press conference
- Trump Says US Captured Venezuela’s President and Plans to “Run the Country”
In a steep escalation in the United States’ ongoing military offensive in the region, President Donald Trump said early Saturday that the US had captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Trump did not seek congressional approval for this move. In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote that the US had “successfully
- The Black Market for a Lifesaving Cat Drug
In 2023, Marlena Arjo adopted a one-eyed kitten with a penchant for destruction. She named him Otto, and over the next eight months, Otto grew into his own little chaotic personality. “ He’s laying on houseplants, he’s tearing books out of the bookshelves, ripping the calendar off the wall…I wasn’t prepared for having a criminal in
- Hero of 2025: Rosalía
The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Whether it’s AI-generated music artists debuting on the Billboard charts, music labels courting TikTok virality, Grammy-nominated
- We Know What’s Killing Loons and How to Stop It. So Why Are They Still Dying?
This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New Hampshire called. “I’ve got a dead loon here,” she said. “If I bring it down to you, can you tell me
The Real News Network
- Trump invades Venezuela, kidnaps Maduro, and hurls the Western hemisphere into chaos
This is the first time the United States has used its own military to invade a South American country, and President Trump made the purpose of the invasion very clear on Saturday: oil.
- The 1994 Zapatista Uprising: Resisting NAFTA and corporate capitalism
The Zapatistas rose up on January 1, 1994, just over three decades ago. They remain an inspiration for social movements, communities, and individuals seeking change around the world. This is episode 83 of Stories of Resistance.
- Trump’s piracy in the Caribbean won’t end with Venezuela
How Trump is redefining US foreign policy in Latin America with Monroe 2.0. This is Season 2, Episode 1 of Under the Shadow.
The Progressive
- Uncharted Waters
Recovered from decades of industrial waste dumping, one river in the nation’s capital is again threatened—this time by federal budget cuts.
- Who Are the Real Outlaws at Sea?
Donald Trump’s tanker grab is different from the Houthis’ anti-genocide blockade.
- School-Based Health Centers Are at Risk
Cuts threaten to undermine a successful program that provides care to students in need.
Z Network
- A New Year of Empire
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism. The unapologetic kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and of Celia Flores (not just a wife as the media refers to her, but also former head of the National Assembly)
- The AI Race and the Space Race: Can Great Power Rivals Inch toward Cooperation?
At the July 2025 launch of America’s AI Action Plan, President Trump said that the country is in a fast-moving competition to develop groundbreaking technology that may well determine the global balance of power. He pledged that the U.S. would do whatever it takes to lead: “America is the country that started the AI race,
- How Queer Ecology Reveals the Diversity of Nature and Human Experience
Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations. Yet when it comes to discussing queer behaviors in the natural world, we often hear only a handful of familiar examples: same-sex penguin couples raising chicks, male seahorses giving birth, or dolphins engaging in
Occupy.com
- Hegseth's Alleged War Crime Is the Exact Illegal Order the 6 Democrats Warned Us About
Regardless of the motive for the boat strikes in the Caribbean, the Sept. 2 strike has sparked bipartisan outrage among members of Congress who have oversight over the Pentagon.
FAIR
- Best of CounterSpin 2025
We call it the “best of,” but these are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.
- Most-Read FAIR Posts of 2025
The rise of authoritarianism was the big story of 2025, and the censorship that goes along with it.
- Kimberle Crenshaw on Anti-Blackness
US corporate media have a white supremacy problem: They decide whose ideas are taken for granted and whose deemed marginal.
Counterpunch
- The US Attacks Venezuela and Seizes It President
A little after 2am, Venezuela time, on 3 January 2026, in violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, the United States began an attack on several sites in the country, including Caracas, the capital. Residents awoke to loud noises and flashes, as well as large helicopters in the sky. Videos began to appear on social media, but without much context. Confusion and rumor flooded social media. More The post The US Attacks Venezuela and Seizes It President appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Monroe Doctrine: the Bad Neighbor Returns
President Trump signaled the Monroe Doctrine’s return from the start of his second term. A volatile mix of geopolitical, hemispheric and local politics was in play. The world’s largest reserves of “Texas Tea” turned the wandering Eye of Sauron in Washington on the birthplace of the Bolivarian Revolution. The Trump Administration intends to juice US and global economic growth by reducing energy costs, as we saw in the 1980s and 1990s when oil prices dropped. Fossil fuels are the Trump Administration’s preferred choice of dirty energy to fuel the AI boom, which the US intends to lead. Oil-laden tankers departing from Venezuela en route to China are not part of the program. More The post Monroe Doctrine: the Bad Neighbor Returns appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Trump’s Contempt for the Constitution
Donald Trump has, once again, shown his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law. The President of the United States does NOT have the right to unilaterally take this country to war, even against a corrupt and brutal dictator like Maduro. The United States does NOT have the right, as Trump stated this morning, to “run” Venezuela. Congress must immediately pass a War Powers resolution to end this illegal military operation and reassert its constitutional responsibilities. More The post Trump’s Contempt for the Constitution appeared first on CounterPunch.org.