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Economic Strangulation of Venezuela: Final Step before Full-scale US aggression?

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By Drago Bosnick at Global Research. Reposted with permission.

On December 16, American President Donald Trump formally ordered the “total and complete blockade” of Venezuela, claiming that its government is now designated as a “foreign terrorist organization” (FTO). In his signature manner of communicating through the unchecked use of superlatives, Trump also bragged that the US Navy “completely surrounded” Venezuela with “the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America”. The fiercely independent Latin American country has a coastline only in the north, so the claim that it’s “completely surrounded” is patently incorrect. However, Trump’s lack of knowledge when it comes to basic, primary school geography is hardly surprising, given the fact that, at one point, he boasted about “ending war between Aberbaijan and Albania” (yes, you read that right, it’s a “b” instead of “z” for Trump).

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us. The illegitimate Maduro Regime is using Oil from these stolen Oil Fields to finance themselves, Drug Terrorism, Human Trafficking, Murder, and Kidnapping. For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” he posted on Truth Social, adding: “Therefore, today, I am ordering A TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS going into, and out of, Venezuela. The Illegal Aliens and Criminals that the Maduro Regime has sent into the United States during the weak and inept Biden Administration, are being returned to Venezuela at a rapid pace. America will not allow Criminals, Terrorists, or other Countries, to rob, threaten, or harm our Nation and, likewise, will not allow a Hostile Regime to take our Oil, Land, or any other Assets, all of which must be returned to the United States, IMMEDIATELY. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Obviously, the threat that the blockade will “only get bigger” means that the United States is preparing for a full-scale war with Venezuela.

Namely, just like any other country on the planet, Caracas needs unimpeded sea access to export and import goods and commodities. However, what’s probably even more important, Trump effectively admitted that the US aggression on Venezuela is yet another (neo)colonial war when he threatened that the blockade will last “until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us”. This is quite reminiscent of the American aggression on Iraq, when the false accusation of “Saddam’s WMDs” was “magically” replaced by the “need to free the Iraqi people”. Namely, the focus is not on the supposed “Venezuelan drug lords smuggling narcotics into the US” (on boats, mind you).

As for the “return of American land, oil and assets”, it should be noted that those were illegally acquired (i.e., stolen) by Washington DC in a blatant (neo)colonial manner during the (First) Cold War and actually belong to the people of Venezuela. The late Hugo Chavez rightfully restored the country’s land and resources to their original owners, something that the US never forgot (or forgave). Trump will continue to pressure Venezuela into either rolling back the sovereigntist policies started under Chavez or as a preparation for a full-scale attack. At present, the Pentagon lacks the number of troops necessary to invade Venezuela directly, so large-scale attacks using various long-range precision munitions are the most likely scenario. This would probably include “Tomahawk” cruise missiles hitting critical infrastructure, most likely the remaining oil refineries.

The naval blockade itself is a massive problem for both Venezuela and its allies in the wider region, particularly Cuba, which relies on the Bolivarian Republic for most of its oil supplies. The blockade will strand close to a million barrels of oil per day, likely causing a price spike of $2-3. It also marks America’s sharp return to the infamous “gunboat diplomacy” framework, allowing it to enslave entire countries through military (specifically naval) coercion. In the case of Venezuela, this ranges from destroying alleged “drug boats” (for which the Pentagon has no idea who owns them) to stealing oil tankers. The calculus is clear – force Maduro to comply with Trump’s demands (which might not be final and could arbitrarily change along the way) or face economic and governmental collapse under the weight of the total naval blockade.

The only “good” (if there ever was any) that could possibly come out of all this is that the US will expose itself as a nation of thugs, highway robbers and pirates, demonstrating to the whole world that no sovereign country is safe and could easily be the next in line for “freedom and democracy”. For the time being, Trump is stopping short of a full-scale war, instead opting for a mix of economic, financial and continued military pressure on Caracas. Purely militarily speaking, Venezuela has the means to defend itself. Its Russian-built Su-30MK2 AMV multirole fighter jets provide a robust deterrent to direct US aggression, particularly due to a plethora of anti-ship and anti-radiation precision-guided munitions, specifically the subsonic Kh-35 and supersonic Kh-31P missiles. This could keep the US Navy at bay for some time, but it still doesn’t resolve the issue of the blockade itself.

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Trump Pardons a Convicted Drug Dealer While Starting a War Against Venezuela to Fight “Drug Dealers”

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By Timothy Alexander Guzman at Global Research. Reposted with permission.

f someone or some organization can win an award for hypocrisy, the Trump regime would win in a landslide. Recently, US President Donald Trump has pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, a former president of Honduras and a convicted drug trafficker known as the‘Narco-Dictator’ who was convicted by a grand jury in New York City for importing 400 tons of cocaine and weapons into the United States. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Mr. Hernandez was convicted “for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses.” Let that sink in for a minute, Hernandez helped import more than ‘400 tons’ of cocaine and weapons into the United States, and Trump pardoned him, at the same time, a new war is on the table in Washington to remove Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro for allegedly sending drugs into the United States. This is hypocrisy on steroids.

The Department of Justice published a Press Release on June 6, 2024, titled, ‘Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses.’ The following statement explains in a nutshell what Hernandez was clearly involved in: 

As President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández abused his power to support one of the largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world, and the people of Honduras and the United States bore the consequences,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Thanks to the diligent work of the Justice Department’s agents and prosecutors, Hernández will now spend more than four decades in prison. The Justice Department will hold accountable all those who engage in violent drug trafficking, regardless of how powerful they are or what position they hold

Image: Juan Orlando Hernández (CC BY-SA 2.0)

The evidence against Hernandez was undeniable:  

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As the former two-term president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández had every opportunity to affect positive change for his country,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. “Instead, Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras. Now, after years of destructive narco-trafficking of the highest imaginable magnitude, Hernández will spend 45 years where he belongs: in federal prison

However, Trump is fighting “Narco-terrorists” from Venezuela because he is concerned about the American people, right?  When Trump first announced on September 2nd, that the US Navy hit an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, he said that a “kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narco-terrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” and that the attack took place while the boat was “at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States.” Trump boasted that “the strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action” he continued, “TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of [Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere.”

Fox News, one of the mainstream media outlets who is cheerleading for a war on Venezuela reported that Trump is prepared to order direct attacks, “on land” inside Venezuela, warning that the Nicolás Maduro regime has already sent “killers, murderers … gang members” and other violent offenders into the U.S. during past years of mass migration” Trump continued, “We’re knocking out drug boats right now at a level that we haven’t seen,” and that “Very soon we’re going to start doing it on land too.”

Trump claimed that “We know every route. We know every house. We know where they manufacture this crap, the poison … they’ve been feeding us.” This made me think that if the US military started bombing Venezuela, and they hit a civilian target and murder innocent people, will Trump conveniently claim that drug dealers were hiding there? That will be the same excuse Israel uses when they hit civilian targets in Gaza claiming that Hamas was hiding among civilians and using them as human shields.

As Trump’s team of zionists and neocons prepare for a possible war against Venezuela, he pardons Hernandez, a big time drug dealer who helped ship 400 tons of cocaine and weapons into the US. Maybe Hernandez will be used for another ‘Iran-Contra Scandal’ for a secret operation involving drugs against another Latin American nation who is on Washington’s hit list that can include Cuba, Nicaragua and possibly Colombia to re-establish full-spectrum dominance in their “backyard,” with this regime, anything is possible.    

Can a War on Venezuela Become Another Vietnam in Latin America?

The problem with a US war on Venezuela is that it won’t be a cakewalk. Just imagine this, the US tapped out in a short battle against the Houthis of Yemen in the Red Sea, yet, they want to challenge Venezuela, a country that is twice the size of Yemen with a civilian militia of more than 4 million people alongside 300,000 plus well-trained soldiers willing to fight for their country. Venezuela’s military is armed with mostly Russian and Chinese made weapons that includes Surface-to-Air Missile systems such as the S-300 VM Antey, the Buk M2 and the Buk M2E that can give US fighter jets and bombers a run for their money. Venezuela’s military can also fight a US invasion by using guerrilla warfare tactics within their cities, vast jungles and mountains. Neighboring countries such as Colombia and Brazil will surely have people that will volunteer alongside Venezuelans to fight against the ‘Gringo Invasion.’  

So how will the US Navy and the Marines do in an all-out war against Venezuela given the fact that Venezuela has a standing army and a civilian militia who will be ready to fight the US empire to the very end? The US public will end up witnessing US Navy sailors and Marines coming home in body bags on the evening news. 

I mention Yemen because it was the most recent conflict under Operation Rough Rider, a failed operation against the Houthis of Yemen that involved the US Navy who eventually had to retreat from the short-lived battle at the Red Sea.     

The Middle East Monitor, ‘A Story of Retreat: America’s Failure in the Red Sea’ mentions that after two months of fighting, Trump had established a ceasefire with the Houthi resistance, why? The US Navy could not withstand Yemen’s persistent missile attacks and their relentless determination to fight the US and Israel in the Red Sea:

In spring 2025, the Red Sea became a tense battleground between the United States and Yemen’s Houthis—a part of the so-called Resistance Axis who had intensified their attacks on international shipping. U.S. President Donald Trump, vowing to restore deterrence and secure freedom of navigation, launched a large-scale military operation titled Operation Rough Rider against the Houthis. This campaign—costing over $1 billion and involving aircraft carrier strike groups, B-2 bombers, and advanced missiles—was intended to cripple the Houthis’ military capabilities. However, just two months after the operation began, on May 6, 2025, Trump unexpectedly announced a ceasefire agreement with the Houthis—a deal effectively brokered by bypassing Israel, and one that ultimately brought the U.S.-Yemen conflict to a halt  

The consequences of the Trump regime’s actions against the Houthis are undeniable:

Trump’s failed war and the ceasefire agreement had deep consequences for both U.S. credibility and Houthi positioning in Yemen. For America, the failure weakened its regional and global standing. The Houthis emerged stronger after surviving over 1,000 airstrikes, casting doubt on U.S. military efficacy. The heavy use of precision-guided munitions—vital for potential conflicts with China—raised concerns within U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

Trump’s ceasefire meant a Houthi victory against the US Navy: 

For the Houthis, the ceasefire bolstered their standing in Yemen and across the region. They framed the agreement as a victory, solidifying their control over large parts of the country. Continued attacks on Israel despite the U.S. ceasefire illustrated their regional ambitions and unwavering resolve to play a major role in reshaping Middle Eastern and even global dynamics

The US Navy and over 17,000 Marines are now awaiting orders in the Caribbean Sea to enter Venezuelan territory for a regime change operation, but it’s going to be another quagmire. 

This war is about oil and other valuable resources, but it is also about making sure that the BRICS alliance does not influence Latin America to eventual ditch the US dollar. The US government with Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio are leading the charge and are hoping that they can get their dirty hands-on Venezuela and impose one of their puppets to become Venezuela’s next president such as the “Nobel Prize Winner” Maria Corina Conchado. Conchado has openly called for the Trump regime to bomb her own country so that US corporations can once again, control the oil and other natural resources. 

Trump’s approval rating would sink further into the abyss, probably into the single digits if he goes to war against Venezuela. Expect Anti-War protests all over the world as the US government would be seen once again, as the belligerent actor on the world stage.

Let’s hope that the Trump regime will back off Venezuela, but with an economy that is slowly collapsing due to his reckless tariffs, mass layoffs in government and private industries, the Epstein files scandal, and other failures including rising tensions in the Middle East with the Gaza genocide still going on, unfortunately, a new war seems more likely by the day to distract the US population from Trump’s economic and foreign policies disasters. Let’s hope some sort of diplomacy can prevail, but I must admit, when it comes to Washington’s thirst for war, I am very pessimistic.   

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Trump Administration Justifies Murder and War Crimes in the Caribbean

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What the Trump admin. is doing in the Caribbean is murder and a war crime. They can lie and try to justify it all that they want but it doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. If their goal was to stop the drug trafficking then why is Trump pardoning them?

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Venezuela: Is the U.S. Preparing to Wage an Invasion? What is the Pretext?

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By Drago Bosnic from Global Research. Reposted with permission.

The warmongers in Washington DC don’t seem to be getting the usual dose of death and destruction, so they’re now frantically looking for an excuse to destroy yet another sovereign country, which happens to be the “Number One Oil and Gas Economy Worldwide”.

Namely, The MAGA Trump adminstration is now desperate to attack Venezuela, no matter the cost.

Numerous attempts to stage coups and other forms of civil unrest to topple the legitimate government proved ineffective.

The Venezuelan people remember the time when they were effectively treated as slaves by the US (neo)colonial system, so they’re not exactly too keen on returning to that status.

Thus, Trump is now blaming Caracas for its fentanyl addiction epidemic, with the latest designation including the infamous “chemical weapons threat” to the US.

Yes, you read that right.

Venezuela is suddenly a “WMD threat” because “its mythical fentanyl is reaching America”.

Multiple blatant lies need to be unpacked and dissected in this case.

First, the idea that Caracas is behind the fentanyl epidemic in the US is beyond laughable.

And second, if fentanyl is a chemical weapon, then the Trump administration should investigate the various U.S agencies that have been directly involved in drug smuggling for well over half a century.

Unfortunately, the truth doesn’t matter to Washington DC. Thus, it didn’t take long for President Nicolás Maduro to go from “Venezuelan Pablo Escobar” to “Venezuelan Saddam Hussein”. In a twisted way, this is a somewhat positive revelation, as it’s effectively an admission as to why the US is so keen on invading Venezuela.

Namely, Washington DC used this excuse to destroy at least half a dozen countries in the Middle East, most notably Iraq.

However, this was only the beginning, followed by similar accusations that gave the US a perfect pretext to invade other oil-rich countries.

The very idea that Venezuela would want to be a “WMD threat” to America at a time when a massive naval force is just waiting to invade is beyond ridiculous.

However, that’s precisely the excuse peddled by the mainstream media and various “security think tanks”. Namely, according to the Wall Street Journal, a classified Department of Justice (DoJ) brief “authorizing strikes on drug-smuggling boats describes fentanyl as a potential chemical weapons threat, according to a House member and another person familiar with the memo”.

The report cites “a lengthy document by the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which lays out the legal justification of the Trump administration for continuing military operations in the southern Caribbean with an eye on Venezuela”. This revelation came mere hours after US War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Trump’s “Operation Southern Spear”, which is the last step before an actual, full-scale invasion of Venezuela.

“Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people,” Hegseth said, adding: “The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it.”

Obviously, the US “never attacks” other countries. It’s “only defending”.

This “defense” extends to virtually every part of the planet, including Serbia/former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. In addition, the US has “legitimate interests” in the Persian Gulf, the East and South China Seas, but Iran (Persia) and China “don’t”, according to this “logic”. Still, the US “has the right” to proclaim an entire hemisphere “its backyard”.

The “chemical weapons/WMD” narrative is there just to give the “perfect pretext” for yet another invasion that would stifle all “dangerous ideas”, such as the belief in self-determination and true democracy (although a new word is needed to describe the will of the people, as this one has been forever smeared by US/NATO aggression against the world).

In purely legal terms, the Trump administration’s main argument is that the designation of drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) makes them legitimate military targets, asserting they’re smuggling drugs to “fund deadly and destabilizing actions against the US and its allies”.

The WSJ report further states that “the mention of fentanyl is one of many points in the brief, which was drafted over the summer to justify the use of military force against drug traffickers”.

Obviously, these drug traffickers are Venezuelans, right? Well, not really. Namely, according to its own admission, the Pentagon doesn’t know who the people in these boats were.

In other words, they could indeed be drug traffickers, but they could also be simple fishermen.

Still, what’s definitely not known is whether they’re Venezuelans at all. And yet, even the legal claim that they’re a “chemical weapons threat” to the US doesn’t really hold. The WSJ report further states that “the legal case for military action doesn’t rest on concerns about chemical-weapons use” and even questions whether Venezuela is truly involved in the fentanyl trade. In other words, even the mainstream propaganda machine is refusing to make a direct accusation against Caracas, although it claims that Venezuela is a “transit zone” for Colombian cocaine.

“Venezuela, a base for one of the criminal groups designated as a terrorist organization, has long been a transit route for Colombian cocaine. There is no evidence it produces or traffics fentanyl, which is typically made in Mexico and smuggled over land,” the report noted, also quoting Brian Finucane, a former legal adviser to the State Department during the Obama and the first Trump administration, who said: “It is an incredible stretch.”

However, other state institutions are directly contributing to the fake narrative that Venezuela is involved with a combination of factual data and blatantly false reporting in the American media. Namely, the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) states that “fentanyl depresses central nervous system (CNS) and respiratory function” and that “exposure to fentanyl may be fatal”, as it has a “potency at least 80 times that of morphine”. Needless to say, this is true. However, what’s not true is that Venezuela is behind smuggling fentanyl into the US. As the WSJ report claims, fentanyl supposedly comes from México. This is yet to be proven, but let’s assume it’s true. So, México would have to ship the drug to Venezuela and then to the US, which makes little to no sense.

However, it doesn’t matter whether things make any sense as long as the war junkies in Washington DC get their dose of death and destruction. Whether it’s WMDs, terrorism, autocracy or any other pretext you can imagine, the US-led political West is determined to continue its aggression against the entire world. Now, the rest of the planet (approximately 80% of the global population) needs to make a decision – do we continue to look the other way or do we finally unite and make a stand against imperialism?

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Russian Military Arrives in Venezuela as they Warn the US…

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Well now it appears that the shoe is on the other foot as Russia is directly supplying Venezuela with offensive and defensive weapons, just as NATO and the US have been directly supplying Ukraine in their proxy war against Russia.

Venezuelan President Maduro has asked Russia, China and Iran for urgent military support, according to The Washington Post The request for Russia includes missiles, radar overhauls, and aircraft repairs. Caracas has also sought aid from China and Iran, asking for drones, detection systems, and GPS jammers to bolster defenses. So what happened?

Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Venezuela covering defense, political and economic sectors. Afterwards, Russian military cargo planes began arriving. Analysts said the aircraft may have delivered as much as 34 tons of material, including portable air-defense systems and air-to-air missiles.

According to reports The Il-76 transport plane, registered as RA-78765, departed the Moscow area on 24 October and landed in Venezuela on 26 October after stops in Armenia, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, and Mauritania.

The aircraft reportedly remained in Caracas for about 45 hours before departing for Cuba. Gee what countries have we been talking a lot about recently? The same countries that Dumitru Dudaman talked about during his American Church tours of the 80s. In the vision that God gave Dumitru he saw Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico and two other Latin/South American countries he couldn’t remember would participate in a war against America. It appears those two countries are going to be Venezuela and possibly Colombia.

In regard to what Russia has said today regarding Venezuela and their requests for aid. The Russian government appeared to send a warning to the Trump administration over its pressure campaign against Venezuela, saying Moscow stands “ready to respond appropriately to the requests of our partners in light of emerging threats.”

“We support the leadership of Venezuela in defending its national sovereignty, taking into account the dynamics of the international & regional situation” said press official Maria Zakharova, according to a social media publication from the Russian Foreign Ministry. Source Latin Times

Given the U.S. military buildup off the coast of Venezuela, the probability that Russia transferred possible air defense equipment, or worse, anti-ship weapons, is a significant development.

Of course many in the Trump administration think that Russia is bluffing and that they won’t help Maduro directly in a war. They must be forgetting about the massive arsenal of Russian weapons, mainly nuclear powered missiles and torpedoes like the Poseidon super torpedo Russia tested the other day.

Still the Trump administration is moving forward and is making plans for war in Venezuela. The Wall Street Journal detailed that the targets are considered nexus between the Nicolas Maduro regime and drug-trafficking organizations. They include military ports and airports, as well as naval facilities and airstrips. The administration continues to use the drug war as their excuse while anyone with more than 2 functioning brain cells knows that this isn’t about drugs.

When asked about Maduro’s appeal to Russia, Trump told reporters, “If Russia or anyone else wants to get involved in that mess, they’ll regret it. We know what’s happening in our hemisphere.” This statement was interpreted by analysts as a warning shot — suggesting Washington will not tolerate a Russian military footprint in the Americas, a region long considered under the Monroe Doctrine sphere of U.S. influence. Source Defense News

We have all kinds of rumors of war flying around today. As I’m typing this it appears Venezuela is having massive GPS interference that just lit up northern Venezuela and Trinidad like a Christmas tree, and nobody’s saying why. This started out of nowhere. Planes, boats, and anyone trying to navigate with a phone? Good luck.

Last but definitely not least it appears that the DOD has sent the long range Tomahawks to Ukraine with the final decision to use them left up to Trump. That is all the more reason for Russia to strike the USA directly as the USA is definitely planning on striking them. Remember the Tomahawks are all American, being fired by Americans, using American satellites and GPS to guide them to their targets in Russia. If that’s not getting directly involved I don’t know what is.

I will keep my eyes on this as usual but I believe we are seeing the Dumitru Duduman prophecy about America/Mystery Babylon coming to pass! In case you’re not familiar with that prophecy, the short version is in this video link. Here is a link to his book that contain these prophecies as well as his life story which is very interesting. This man went through the fires indeed!

As for our housing situation we are still up against it. Thank you very much to those who have already supported but we are still about $744 short! If you’d like to help we have until tomorrow to make it happen! I do have an inner peace today after a rough night last night. Thank you very much for the prayers as most of all, including those for my grandson Christian and his grandmother Retha. Christian lost his dad, my son in law Monday evening.

If you’d like to help us stay in our home and keep the lights on the link is here: https://donorbox.org/emergency-funding-for-housing-utilities?preview=1761599796 Thank you and blessings to you.

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Blessings to you and stay ready! Prayed up and prepped up!

PS I do plan on putting this into a video today God willing, I just have a few other things to attend to as you can imagine.

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What’s Going On in the Middle East and Venezuela? Peter Koenig

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Guest Post by Peter Koenig from Global Research. Reposted with permission.

What we observe today in the Middle East is Israel attempting to expand to the “Greater-Greater Israel”, including Iran and possibly Iraq.

It is the Oded Yinon Plan of the early 1980s, not known to most people even Israelis.

The plan goes way beyond the Greater Israel plan. Pursing this plan means endless war and bloodshed.

Neither Israelis nor anybody else in the world wants this.

So, its existence – let alone talking openly about – is immediately and politically silenced.


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On the other side of the Atlantic, President Trump is attempting to revive and impose the 1823 Monroe Doctrine 2.0, beginning with Venezuela and now also Colombia. All under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking.

He recently insulted Colombia’s President Petro, calling him a chief drug trafficker and stopped all financial transactions with Colombia, including what he calls “aid” to Colombia.

The world, however, knows or should know that the US is by far the globe’s biggest drug (and human) trafficker.

Even Trump, during his election campaign often referred to the US’ involvement in drug and human trafficking. That is one of the reasons why he was – and still is – so adamant in stopping immigration.

So, what you see in the Middle East and in the Caribbean is not what meets the eye.

The plan for “Greater-Greater Israel”, destruction of Iran (which in the original Greater Israel was not included), which will also attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz, to cut off the rest of the western world from hydrocarbon energy, especially China (Israel does the dirty job for the US, supported with US weaponry and money).

Close to 35% of oil and gas – the main source of worldwide energy – is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.

China is clearly targeted, number ONE for Trump and his handlers.

On the other hand, Trump is trying to take over Venezuela, with the world’s largest hydrocarbon resources, replacing those from the Gulf States, first for MAGA, of course, second for all those puppets who remain obedient to King Donald. A perfect scenario.

To disguise his intentions, in his Trump Social platform, he is ramping against two oil-rich countries, US neighbors. He is now also accusing Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, as being a drug trafficker. As long as much of Latin America still largely depends on the US dollar, the notorious dollar sanction is still a major issue for many, if not most, Latin American countries (LAC).

Mr. Trump and his economic advisors believe this, coupled with Trump’s wild and incoherent tariff policy, will also reverse the international monetary and trade flow in favor of the US, away from and against China.

This is a wrong concept because the monetary / trade flow in favor of China involves not just the yuan, but all those local currencies of the BRICS and BRICS associates, commanding a total of 40% to 50% or world GDP. Many of them are closely linked to the yuan and keep distancing themselves from the US dollar and its sanction policies.

Even if the BRICS have little else in common, they all want to trade outside of the US dollar stranglehold, and stick to their local currencies and to the yuan.

China has no problem getting energy from Russia, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other Asian / ASEAN associates.

Once Trump realizes that there is nothing left but a hot war with China, which means also with Russia, and all the SCO members plus other China associates, the end game may begin, or explode.

Not even his self-declared “grandeur” has a chance to survive such a WWIII-type aggression.

That might be the final demise of the US / Trump Kingdom.

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Trump’s Bogus Drug War Targets Colombia

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By Kurt Nimmo at Global Research. Reposted with permission.

On October 19, President Donald Trump added Colombia to the target list of Latin American countries he insists are behind drug production.

“President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Columbia,” Trump posted on X. “The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc.”

Not only did Trump cancel “large scale payments and subsidies from the USA” slated for Colombia, he also ordered his War Department to destroy, in violation of international law and the US Constitution, what he described as a drug-carrying submarine “navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route.”

He said US intelligence “confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics,” and two of four “terrorists” were killed, while two survivors were returned to Ecuador and Colombia “for detention and prosecution.”

The day after a million or more Americans took to the streets to protest the policies of the Trump administration, including that of his foreign policy, Trump posted from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida that Colombian President Gustavo Petro “better close up” alleged drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”

Pedro Sánchez, the Colombian defense minister, refuted Trump’s unverified remarks.

“If there’s a country that has used all its capabilities and also lost men and women fighting drug trafficking … it’s Colombia,” he said. The baseless allegations are “disrespect from Trump to Colombia,” Sánchez added. 

Petro weighed in on the claim Colombia is a narcoterrorist state.

“I ask President Trump to contain his oil greed, to think about humanity, to think about the effectiveness of a greater America,” he said. 

After the War Department targeted a fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters on September 15, Petro accused the US president of murdering fisherman Alejandro Carranza and two crew members from Trinidad and Tobago.

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure,” he explained.

Petro said Carranza did not have a connection with drug traffickers.

“His daily job is just fishing. Colombia is waiting for an official explanation from the US side.” 

The elected government of Gustavo Petro (he won 50.44% of the popular vote), like that of Nicolás Maduro in neighboring Venezuela, is the target of US regime change actions. In January, Petro refused to allow a US military aircraft carrying deported Colombian nationals to land in Colombia. In response, Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff on the country and implement travel bans and visa revocations for Colombian government officials. In response, Colombia backed down and allowed the deportees to return.

The Pink Tide vs. The Monroe Doctrine

The Trump administration is targeting Colombia and other Latin American countries in response to a so-called “pink tide” (marea rosa) or “turn to the left” (giro a la izquierda). Latin American countries have rejected the “Washington Consensus” of economic “policy prescriptions” (trade liberalization, privatization, and finance liberalization) imposed by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the US Treasury. The austerity of these “prescriptions” resulted in social mobilization and a turn toward leftist government. 

“The U.S. Government’s aggressive push to expand free trade in Latin America,” writes Nadia Martinez, “helped catapult… new leaders into the presidential palaces,” most notably Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva in Brazil. The rise of socialism in Latin America drew a sharp response from the United States.

As of 2006,  approximately 300 million of Latin America’s 520 million citizens lived under governments that wanted out from under the Washington Consensus that produced “staggering levels of poverty and inequality.” The landslide victory of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998 resulted in a move to the left by a number of  Latin American countries.

“Latin America’s new leftists have produced over the last couple of years their own consensus, a common project to use the centrifugal forces of globalization to loosen Washington’s unipolar grip,” writes Greg Grandin. 

Soon after Trump was elected for a second term, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. Although the administration said the primary reason for the visit was related to immigration and security arrangements, the primary reason was economic: China is the number one trading partner for South America. 

“For more than two decades, China has developed close economic and security ties with many Latin American countries, including Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela,” notes the Council on Foreign Relations. “But Beijing’s increasing sway in the region continues to raise concerns in Washington, prompting greater U.S. engagement.”

For Trump, that engagement is murdering fishermen in the territorial waters of Venezuela and Colombia, illegal acts designed to elicit a response. 

“While U.S. President Joe Biden saw China as a ‘strategic competitor’ in the region, the reelection of Donald Trump has marked a shift in U.S. policy toward Latin America, characterized by assertive economic measures that experts say could push countries further toward China.” 

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Image: Official portrait of Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Public Domain)

In response to the “threat” of China in Latin America, the Trump administration has tried to implicate it in its drug trafficking scenario. In June, FBI Director Kash Patel accused China of intentionally exacerbating the fentanyl crisis in the United States as part of a scheme to weaken America by targeting its youth. Patel went on the Joe Rogan podcast and said China is engaged in “chemical warfare” against America. “This isn’t accidental poisoning. This is strategic lethality,” he said. On October 19, Trump told reporters he wants China “to stop with the fentanyl.”

For decades, the so-called “war on drugs” has served as a justification to intervene in Latin America, most notably through Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative.

“Bolivian President Luis Arce became the latest regional leader to denounce the United States’ actions, accusing it of disguising geopolitical ambitions under the cloak of narcotics enforcement,” Damsana Ranadhiran wrote in August. 

“We know that behind this failed international war on drugs lies the real objective to geopolitically control Latin America for its natural resources and to dismantle organized peoples, so that we cannot follow our own sovereign path,” declared Arce.

On October 19, Trump called Petro a “lunatic” and the “worst president [Colombia] ever had.” The president said Colombia has “no fight against drugs, and I’m stopping all payments to Colombia because they don’t have anything to do with their fight against drugs.” 

“President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia (sic)… a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely,” Trump tweeted.

In response to Trump’s caustic remarks, Colombia recalled its ambassador to the United States, Daniel Garcia-Pena. Trump’s response came the day after Petro accused the United States of murdering fishermen in the Caribbean.

Trump has made no secret of his support of autocrats in Latin America, most notably the disgraced former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, in addition to Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, and the “libertarian” president of Argentina, Javier Milei.

“Donald Trump’s authoritarian style and policies have energized the right and the far right across the hemisphere,” writes Jeff Abbott. The United States “has revived the Monroe Doctrine, which holds that the United States has the right to intervene in Latin America to prevent other countries from gaining influence.”

Trump Sends the CIA to Undermine Venezuela

The Trump administration continues to increase pressure on Venezuela. In an unprecedented move, Trump publicly stated that he has ordered the CIA to conduct subversive operations in the country.

“I authorized for two reasons really,” Trump told reporters. “Number one, they have emptied their prisons into the United States of America… they came in through the border. The other thing are drugs.” In addition to CIA subversion, Trump floated the idea of “land strikes” in Venezuela. Asked for clarification, the president said “we are certainly looking at land now because we’ve got the sea very well under control.”

The CIA has worked to undermine governments in Latin America since the early 1950s. It organized coups and terror operations in Guatemala, Guyana, Cuba, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Nicaragua, Honduras, Grenada, El Salvador, Haiti, Panama, and Venezuela.

“The clandestine operations, espionage, secret missions, covert funding, psychological warfare and regime change tactics the U.S. has employed in Latin America for decades, continue today overtly and covertly,” writes Eva Golinger. 

Trump has taken this sordid history of subversion and murder to the next level. His maritime strikes likely serve as a precursor of things to come, possibly including a full blown invasion of Venezuela. The US buildup of guided-missile destroyers, F-35B jet fighters, MQ-9 Reaper drones, P-8 Poseidon spy planes, assault ships and a secretive special operations ship, in addition to more than 10,000 troops, may be nothing more than an expensive show of force in an attempt to intimidate Maduro. 

However, considering Trump’s aggressive rhetoric and a military buildup that rivals the firepower the US committed to the Battle of Midway during World War II, an invasion is a distinct possibility, if not a foregone conclusion. 

People Are Going Missing Living Homeless In America

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For years I’ve been saying that eventually America would have enough of the homeless causing problems and that they’d start to disappear, never to be seen again. That is happening right now as you will see/hear in this video interview of a homeless man named Jeremy in Austin TX.

Cities, states and even the Federal Government in DC have essentially made being homeless illegal without actually wording the laws that way. Some of them are snatched off the street in unmarked vans or SUVs and their friends never see or hear from them again. According to Jeremy “There’s, there’s certain situations you don’t want to go to sleep in. Uh, right now with everything going on, dude, (1:16) there’s like people that we talk to that say or do the wrong thing the next day. And then you don’t (1:23) see them again.”

The City of Austin is having a re-gentrification plan going on and now they want all of the homeless OUT of the downtown areas after herding them there in the first place. All of the resources the homeless need have been placed downtown, so now where are they supposed to go? According to Jeremy “then they told us their resources are full while they stood there and made a stand (3:55) beside our stuff and took our stuff and put it in a trash compactor. And then when we asked, (3:59) well, what the hell are we supposed to do? Where the hell are we supposed to go? (4:02) They told us they don’t care. They changed the law into the first time you’re caught (4:07) sleeping or resting or sitting for more than four hours in a city spot in a public place.(4:13) It’s a warning. The second time’s a ticket. The third time they’re taking you to county jail.(4:18) So, I mean, they’ve made it illegal to be homeless without saying it’s illegal to be (4:23) when they do. When did they do that? This started two days ago. So that’s the big transition.”

The food and water that the city of Austin has been giving out to the homeless is POISONED as well, just as the Lord told me (back in 2012) it would be during this time. Jeremy also talks about the drugs downtown being tainted, made extra toxic or something which is something he’s never seen before. They give us food and (5:10) a lot of people get sick from the food and shit. They’re saying there’s stuff in it. (5:15) And you see Republic Square’s all got that, all that construction right there.(5:19) And now, like, it’s weird. All, they took all the drug dealers out of Republic Square, (5:25) but you can tell there’s certain dudes they allowed to be there to peddle certain drugs. (5:31) And the people that are getting them drugs are way fucked up.(5:36) Like bad, like out of their fucking mind, fucked up, hurting themselves, fucking trying to hurt (5:42) other people, uh, laying down here underneath the bridge, dying, disappearing. So some drugs that (5:49) are trying to get rid of people. And this is wow.

As you can see the governments on every level are out to get rid of the homeless problem via extermination. I wouldn’t doubt that they’re being taken to FEMA camps while being told they’ll be taken care of with food, water, medical care etc. Who wouldn’t go for that when you’ve been on the streets for a long time? As you can see above those who won’t go and want to continue to use drugs are being poisoned with many probably dying from them. I see it here in Spokane WA everyday with drug addicts being given Narcan to revive them. Somedays it’s dozens per day.

I highly recommend watching the entire video. For those who would rather read it I’ve put the transcript below the video.

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Venezuela: Cartel of the Suns a Fictitious Excuse for Regime Change. Kurt Nimmo

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By Kurt Nimmo Reposted with permission by Globalresearch.ca.

The seven US warships and a nuclear submarine sent to the waters off Venezuela have nothing to do with drugs or so-called “narcoterrorism.” The Cartel of the Suns, like Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, is a cynical ruse designed as a pretext to invade Venezuela, assassinate its elected leader, destroy the Bolivarian revolution, and steal the largest reserve of oil in the world. 

On August 25, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said the Cartel of the Suns does not exist and “denounced that this narrative, used by imperialism to criminalize Venezuela and carry out a military intervention to control its resources, is a fiction used by the far right to overthrow governments that do not obey Washington’s whims,” reports the Orinoco Tribune. 

Petro “pointed out that the flow of Colombian cocaine through Venezuela is controlled by what he calls the ‘drug-trafficking junta,’ whose bosses live in Europe and the Middle East.” The Colombian president added the “one who controls cocaine trafficking through Venezuela is not the ‘Cartel of the Suns,’ that is a lie like Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and it only serves to invade countries.”

The United Nations notes that a mere 5% of the illegal narcotics produced in Colombia pass through Venezuela. 87% of the drugs headed for US and European markets are produced in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The UN reports that 60% to 70% of narcotics that traffickers attempt to move through Venezuela en route to the US and Europe is currently seized by Venezuelan law enforcement agencies. Moreover, the Drug Enforcement Agency in the US did not mention Venezuela in its 2024 and 2025 reports on drug trafficking. 

Fernando Casado, a Spanish journalist and international analyst, writing for El Perro y la Rana Publishing Foundation, also argues the Cartel of the Suns does not exist. The cartel is “a construction whose objective was and still is to portray Venezuela as a narco-State, that is, a rogue State with which nothing can or should be negotiated,” Casado writes. The objective is to demonize President Nicolás Maduro and portray him as a drug kingpin.

“Maduro would no longer be considered a dictator but rather a criminal who together with his gang of thugs is getting rich with the drug business. As a result, any intervention to overthrow a ruler turned drug-trafficker and put an end to the illegal organization ruling Venezuela would be justified.” 

According to a report released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Venezuela spent 15 years eradicating coca leaf cultivation and marijuana and cocaine processing. As previously noted, the vast majority of production is attributed to Colombia (67% of the world’s coca leaf cultivation) with the remainder produced in the Andean countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. 

Beginning in 1999, when Hugo Chávez came to power, the US worked overtime to discredit and overthrow his popular socialist government. The late leader was insidiously linked to Colombian guerrillas, ETA, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas. US propaganda claimed the Chávez government was providing Iran with uranium for a nuclear weapon, in addition to “every fabrication brewed by right-wing media and intelligence laboratories,” writes Clodovaldo Hernández. The same treatment was applied to Maduro, who was Chávez’s foreign minister for six years. When Maduro was elected president, the Cartel of the Suns ruse was added to the mix. 

“As US officials did before with Chávez and continue to do with Maduro, what they aim to achieve is the political objective of legitimizing an assassination, an invasion, or any other violent means to overthrow Venezuela’s government. With their recycled accusations, they seek to manipulate international public opinion so that any such action against the Caribbean nation will be accepted as legitimate.”

Venezuela and Colombia announced they have deployed 25,000 troops to the border region of the two countries to combat drug trafficking. The Venezuelan troops patrol Zulia and Tachira, two states on the Venezuelan side of the border.

Image:  President Daniel Noboa (Public Domain)

“The military operations are part of a bilateral strategy to combat organized crime and stimulate the legal economy in the border region, which has historically suffered from state neglect and violence caused by illegal armed groups,” according to Colombia Reports. 

Headshot of Daniel Noboa. He is a clean-shaven, Latino man with very short hair, wearing a suit with a tie.

“Marco Rubio is warmongering against Venezuela while having friendly meetings with Ecuador President Daniel Noboa, the man who actually traffics 60% of Colombian cocaine into the United States and Europe,” Maduro tweeted on September 1.

Ecuadorian police documents reveal how a banana company, owned by Noboa’s family, has been involved in exporting over half a ton of cocaine to a number of European countries since 2020. Ecuadorian journalist Andrés Durán, who revealed the existence of the documents, left the country after death threats and legal harassment by the Ecuadorian ruling party Movimiento Acción Democrática Nacional (ADN).

“The Noboa family controls the entire chain of the banana export business, from planting and harvesting to transportation and private ports. There is no doubt that the death threats are closely linked to this investigation,” Durán said. 

Juan Pablo Escobar, the son of Pablo Escobar, the former leader of the now defunct Medellín Cartel, argues that his father worked for the CIA.

“My father worked for the CIA selling cocaine to finance the fight against Communism in Central America,” Escobar writes in his book, Pablo Escobar In Fraganti. “He did not make the money alone,” Escobar said during an interview, “but with US agencies that allowed him access to this money. He had direct relations with the CIA.”

Image: Pablo Escobar

The CIA, under the cover of Plan Colombia, eliminated the Medellín and other cartels and took over the cocaine business. The CIA convinced Congress to fund Plan Colombia, a supposed aid project for the Colombian poor, but in reality, it allowed CIA front companies to profit from counter-narcotics schemes. The CIA eventually took control of the cocaine trade by eliminating drug cartel leaders. Colombian politicians and government officials were bribed to overlook the CIA’s involvement.

The DEA was also involved in cocaine trafficking. US attorney Damian Williams published evidence that agents from the agency conspired to smuggle cocaine into the United States in 2017. Evidence “suggests that the DEA coordinated the export of cocaine it allegedly received from Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office,”  writes Adriaan Alsema for Colombia Reports. “DEA agent Brian Witek testified under oath that he coordinated the conspiracy to traffic the drugs” to allegedly frame FARC guerrilla leader Jesús Santrich, who was later assassinated. Moreover, according to the New York Times, DEA officials helped a Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian suppliers launder and smuggle money as part of an alleged scheme to infiltrate Mexican drug cartels. 

Banks in the US were prosecuted for laundering drug money.

“In March 2010, Wachovia settled the biggest action brought under the US bank secrecy act, through the US district court in Miami,” The Guardian reported. Wachovia “paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine.” 

In 2020, BuzzFeed News reported a

“huge trove of secret government documents reveals for the first time how the giants of Western banking move trillions of dollars in suspicious transactions, enriching themselves and their shareholders while facilitating the work of terrorists, kleptocrats, and drug kingpins.”

UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in 2009 illegal drug money in banks helped save the US during the financial crisis.

“In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital,” Costa explained. “In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system’s main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor.” 

The Trump administration is flooding the media space with lies about Maduro and the Cartel of the Suns as part of a psychological operation to deflect from the real reason for confronting Venezuela—the removal of a socialist government and the seizure of Venezuela’s bounty of petroleum. If Trump was sincerely interested in ending the flow of drugs into the United States, he would dismantle the CIA, the DEA, throw bank presidents in prison, and end the disastrous war on drugs, in this case used as a cover to overthrow a democratically elected government and allow transnational corporations to pillage the country and further impoverish the Venezuelan people. 

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