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Nation-States Are a Lie. Here’s Who Really Rules: With Vanessa Beeley & Fiorella Isabel

Editorial Comment: Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality… – Brihadaranyaka Upanishad A few years ago, when Hugo Turner and I were producing a series of interviews together (our next topic was to be Zionism), I concluded from my research as well as personal experience, that…

A Second War With Iran Will Probably End Us All

BettBeat Media I have spent my life observing the pathologies of Empire. Many of us did. Involuntarily. I have watched American power grind human beings into dust in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya, in Syria. I have seen the rubble of Gaza, and what remains when a military force unbound by law or conscience exercises…

Iran Calm. Israel’s Genocide Continues During “Ceasefire”.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran about the rioting in Iran, the likelihood of another U.S. attack on the country, and the newly appointed members of Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace”. In Reason2Resist’s weekly livestream, Dimitri Lascaris and Rami Yahia discuss the countless ways…

“Biker Gang Members are Abusing Palestinians for 2K Dollars a Day”

BettBeat Media We talk to retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel and Special Forces officer Anthony Aguilar about the horrors he witnessed in Gaza and how it drove him toward anti-imperialist activism. Anthony Aguilar is a retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel and Special Forces officer who served for 25 years. In 2025, he became known…

Laith Marouf: The Imperialist Plan in Iran

ATTRITION Podcast and Free Palestine TV In this episode of ATTRITION, Ammar Kazmi speaks with Lebanon-based journalist Laith Marouf of Free Palestine TV about the foreign-backed riots in Iran, delving into hybrid warfare, betrayal by Western leftists, Zionist influence over the US, and predictions for Iran’s future. Chapters: 0:00 – Preview 1:02 – Introduction 2:04…

The Greeks & the Mountains that Defeated the Nazis

Free Palestine TV Laith Marouf joins Evan Katsounis as they travel to Lamia and Gorgopotamos north of Greece, to discover what the Nazis called the “Mountain Stronghold” of the resistance. Lamia is the home town of the most revered Greek resistance fighter against Nazi and then British occupation in the 1930s and 40s, Aris Velouchiotis;…

No Somos Colonia de Nadie: Venezuela Under Fire and the Meaning of Sovereignty

Cira Pascual Marquina Shaking the World: Reports from Revolutionary Venezuela is a new biweekly column by Cira Pascual Marquina for MR Online, offering frontline analysis of imperialism, popular power, and revolutionary struggle in Venezuela. There are moments when geopolitics stops being an abstraction and becomes something you feel in your body. In Caracas, January 3…

Against Fascism: Truth, Sovereignty and Bolivarian Resistance

Freddy Ñáñez, Venezuelan Minister of Communication The following is a statement delivered by the poet Freddy Ñáñez , Minister of Communication of Venezuela, to the World Poetry Movement, on January 11, 2026, published in Spanish here. Translation by UWI. Venezuela is not, and never will be, a protectorate of the United States or any other…

What China Will and Will Not Do Regarding Venezuela and Iran

Orçun Göktürk Interests, possibilities and limits to Beijing’s actions. In recent times, some texts spreading rapidly on social media claim that China is waging a “silent but devastating” economic and geopolitical war against the US through Venezuela and Iran. In these narratives, China is presented as an actor that paralyzes global finance within a few…

Fire, and the Ghost of a Deferred Ambition in Argentina

Razane Abou Hassan Argentine authorities are investigating an Israeli tourist accused of deliberately setting a blaze inside the protected reserve of Los Glaciares National Park in Patagonia. The suspect was reportedly detained after being found in a restricted zone, just a few kilometers from active burn areas. A local citizen filmed the encounter, and the footage quickly…

Why Renee Good’s Killing Reminds Me of Martin Niemoeller’s ‘First They Came’ Poem

Timo Al-Farooq The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent exposes how state violence, long ignored when targeting racialised communities, inevitably turns on the privileged, echoing Martin Niemoeller’s warning about silence in the face of injustice. In 1976, German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoeller, whose (albeit late) opposition to the Nazi regime landed him in…

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

Gary Wilson Homeland Security and ICE agents carry Aliya Rahman after detaining her at East 34th Street and Park Avenue in Minneapolis on Jan. 13, 2026, amid a massive federal operation that community members and city leaders have condemned as an unlawful occupation of the neighborhood. Photo: Chris Juhn/Sahan Journal The intensified bombardment of Somalia…

To Resist the Upcoming US Campaign

Ibrahim Al-Amine Washington and Tel Aviv are laying the ground for a new campaign, with European participation and regional backing. The plan targets Iran’s political system, seeks to eliminate resistance forces across Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, and presses ahead with the war of uprooting in Gaza and the West Bank. Thus, this is not a…

Maduro’s Abduction and the Future of Global Order

Aleksandar Matković Official White House Photo by Molly Riley (Public Domain). President Donald Trump addresses the press at Mar-a-Lago following Operation Absolute Resolve, staging the official narrative of a unilateral military action whose legality and geopolitical implications remain deeply contested. The United States has often stretched international law, but the seizure of Nicolás Maduro crosses…

Iran on the Brink of a US Strike? Inside the Regime-Change Machine: With Max Blumenthal

Jedaal English Western Media Whitewashes Deadly Riots in Iran

Laith Marouf: Trump Aims to Destroy Iran, Not Democratize It

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris As recent protests in Iran turned violent, U.S. and Israeli officials boasted publicly about the Mossad’s involvement in the protests. Meanwhile, some ‘anti-imperialists’ in the West condemned Iran’s government for its harsh response and expressed hope for a transition to a more democratic government. In this episode, Dimitri Lascaris speaks with…

The West’s Great Defeat in Iran

Fernando Esteche The crisis shaking Iran since the end of 2025 is not the spontaneous uprising that Western media portray. It is a new battle in a continuing war that the United States and Israel have been waging against the Islamic Republic for 46 years, now in new forms but with the permanent objectives of…

Africa: In Foreign Hands

Robin Jaspert Drawing on original empirical data from eight African countries, Robin Jaspert argues that the profits reaped out of Africa flow into the hands of foreign capitalists mostly located in the global North. This is because, Jaspert contends, foreign financial capital owns the continent’s companies – and these own the means of production. –…

Palestine: Ethnicity, Religion, Language, Indigeneity

Feroze Mithiborwala Deconstructing the Weaponisation of the Terms ‘Semitism’, and ‘Antisemitism’ by Jewish Zionists Part I: What Matters and What Doesn’t The politics of identity in the Middle East/West Asia are deep, layered, and often deliberately misunderstood. Nowhere is this more evident than in debates over Palestine, where three distinct concepts—ethnicity, religion, and language—are routinely…

Western Media Whitewashes Deadly Riots in Iran

Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed As deadly riots burn Iranian cities, Western media ignores the shocking wave of violence, turning instead to US government-funded NGOs for data. The one-sided portrayal has helped push Trump to the brink of authorizing renewed US attacks. Western media has ignored a growing trove of video evidence showing terrorist tactics deployed across…

Posting Empire: Trump 2.0 and the Open Turn to Colonial Rule

Prince Kapone How Trump’s Social Media Declarations Signal the Geopolitical, Economic, and Strategic Architecture of Fortress America and the American Pole When empire posts, it is not merely speaking—it is staking a claim on the future and daring the world to contest it. When Empire Posts Its Intentions There are moments when the empire speaks…

From Greenland to Canada: Trump’s Annexation Fever

Aidan J. Simardone Washington’s ambitions to control the Western Hemisphere are escalating. Canadians should not underestimate what this means for their future. When US President Donald Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland in 2019, it was widely dismissed as a bizarre imperial throwback. But today, as the US president once again signals ambitions for…

ICE is Harassing Native Americans

Zoltan Grossman ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly detaining Native American citizens, and ignoring or refusing to treat Tribal ID cards as proof of citizenship. Just north of where ICE killed Minneapolis rights monitor Renee Nicole Good, agents have detained tribal citizens in the clearly Native neighborhood around Franklin Avenue, where the American Indian Movement was itself…

The US ‘Regime Change’ Operation Fails in Venezuela

Jose Biomorgi, Venezuela’s Ambassador to Lebanon and Syria Social media campaign started by the Chavistas in Venezuela, to bring back President Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. In complex times, where pain and confusion spread everywhere, silence, discretion, and prudence are the best way to understand any situation and take the best decision. However, understanding…

Venezuela’s Acting President Rodríguez Dismisses US Narrative of Control, Vows to Rescue President Maduro

Orinoco Tribune Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—“Who leads the Venezuelan people? The people’s power. Who governs Venezuela? The people’s power and its constitutional government,” declared Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez. “So there is no doubt here, no uncertainty here … The Venezuelan people rule here, and there is a government, the government of President…

When Push Comes to Shove…Who Will Finally – and Together – Shove Back?

Nora Hoppe The pretence has been shed – the “clothing” of constitution, diplomacy, propriety, and law. Even the veneer of humanity is discarded. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab el-Hajj) The dawn of this new year was pierced by brutal lucidity. The lid has been lifted from the Deep State of the Barbarian Empire, revealing…

Air Supremacy or War: Iran and the US in West Asia’s Final Countdown

Abutalib Albohaya The battle for control of West Asia’s skies has moved from contingency to reality. Tehran and Washington have activated the final pieces of their war architecture, fully weaponizing the airspace. While the media flirts with fleeting scenes of unfolding events, military navigation radars over West Asia are drawing an entirely different map –…

Kashmir: India’s Secret Genocide & The Zionist Connection

Deep Dive Perspective This is the hidden genocide the world has ignored. In this explosive deep dive, we expose the shocking truth about India’s brutal occupation of Kashmir, revealing a disturbing connection to Zionist tactics and the Hindutva ideology fueling the violence. This is India’s secret genocide, laid bare. Joined by a panel of experts,…

No, Cuba Wasn’t “Propping Up” Maduro

Ed Augustin and Reed Lindsay Cubans observed two official days of mourning earlier this week after a contingent of its security forces were massacred guarding Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro. Flags were flown at half-mast, and concerts were canceled. “No country has the right to invade another,” one woman told us on the streets of Havana….

Fortress America and the Oil Ultimatum: Venezuela, Hyper-Imperialism, and the Open Consolidation of the American Pole

Prince Kapone This essay argues that Trump 2.0 marks the open phase of U.S. hyper-imperialism, where coercion replaces consent and hemispheric dominance is enforced without disguise. Using Venezuela as the central case, it traces how leader abduction, naval encirclement, oil custodianship, and legal warfare form a consolidated strategy to subordinate sovereign states to the American…