Venezuela and its people are the first direct victims of the “Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.” This war, which has already been declared, is not against drug trafficking or the Maduro regime, but rather for oil and rare earth minerals, military bases, information, and misgovernment. All democratic, progressive, popular, and leftist forces must denounce and confront the US offensive against Venezuela, which in no way means defending the Maduro government.
“America First” is the (…)

- Venezuela / USA (Eng), TRUMP Donald, MADURO Nicolás, Oil & gas / Fossil fuel, Rare Earth, Military Bases, Imperialism (Eng), Hegemony (great powers), Blockade / Siege, MACHADO María Corina, GONZALES URRUTIA Edmundo, Colonial / Colonialism / Settlers, Cuba (Eng), Regime change politics, Madurismo, Labor / Labour movement, Social Movements, Political Prisoner, Amnesty (legal), Anti-imperialism / Anti-colonialism, Social inequality

On Thursday, December 18, 2025, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was repealed and replaced with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) — the VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025. The Modi government, through deliberate and calculated dissimulation, tabled the bill for discussion in Parliament without any prior consultation, allocated inadequate time for debate and finally passed the bill through a voice vote despite widespread dissent from (…)

- Rural & fisherfolk (India) / Right to work, MGNREGA (India), MODI Narendra, Wages / salary, VB-G RAM G Bill (India)

The move effectively legalizes the repopulation of four northern West Bank settlements that Israel evacuated in 2005 under the Oslo Accords . Far-right Minister Smotrich, who spearheaded the initiative, said Israel has authorized 69 new outposts over the past three years
Photo: The ruins of the former settlement of Ganim in the northern West Bank, in 2017. Credit: Emil Salman
The Israeli government has finalized the legalization of 19 previously unauthorized settler outposts in the West (…)

- Palestine & Israel / West Bank, Colonial / Colonialism / Settlers, Land grabbing, 2005

In August 2025, the Vice Chairman of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) delivered an extraordinary public statement. Zhao Guoan declared that his organisation—the most powerful ethnic armed group in Southeast Asia, commanding an estimated 30,000 troops equipped with tanks, helicopters, and surface-to-air missiles—faced “the worst survival crisis in 40 years.” The source of this existential pressure was not the Myanmar military. It was China.
Under what Zhao termed “unprecedented” coercion, (…)

- Burma / Myanmar