(2025-09-12). Venezuela Activates Defensive Military Deployment Amid Threats From US Empire. orinocotribune.com 
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has launched the "Independence Plan 200" (Active Resistance and Permanent Offensive Deployment), deploying a total of 284 battle-ready positions. | Early this Thursday, September 11, from Ciudad Caribia, La Guaira state, President Maduro stated that this activation is part of a comprehensive plan for national defense, and constitutes permanent proaction by the people to ensure peace with the nation's sovereignty. | "We are currently activating from north to south, from east to west, from all coasts of the Venezuelan Caribbean," he explained, "from the border with Colombia, from…
(2025-09-12). US military fired on Venezuelan boat as it headed back to shore: sources. scmp.com The US military strike on what the Trump administration says was a drug-carrying speedboat from Venezuela came after the vessel had turned around and was heading back to shore, raising fresh questions as members of Congress are demanding more information about the provocative attack. | National security officials acknowledged during a closed briefing this week on Capitol Hill that the boat carrying 11 people, described by the Trump administration as Tren de Aragua gang members, was fired on…
(2025-09-12). Top Venezuelan Official Confirms Veracity of U.S. Boat Strike Days After Suggesting it was Fake News. latintimes.com Cabello also stated on Thursday that those killed in the September 2 operation were not drug traffickers or members of the Tren de Aragua criminal group, as the U.S. government has alleged…
(2025-09-12). Roaming Charges: The Broken Jaws of Our Lost Kingdom. counterpunch.org 
Many of those righteously condemning the rise of "political violence" have supported two years of genocidal violence in Gaza and recently celebrated when the President of the US released a snuff film of a US Navy drone strike that killed 11 people in a small boat off the coast of Venezuela in violation of international and US law, as well as that most mysterious of all laws, the Law of the Sea. Our society, already among the most violent in the world, has been saturated in official violence done in our name since 9/11. In the last quarter-century of the forever wars, hundreds of thousands have been killed and mai…
(2025-09-12). There Was a Boat. That Was the Only True Part. dissidentvoice.org 
This was what the President of the United States initially lied: "Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug …
(2025-09-12). Trinidad Tobago Fishermen Fear Being Targeted by US Empire's Strikes in the Caribbean; 10 Not 11 Victims From Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( The recent attack on a small boat allegedly carrying drugs has generated fear among coastal communities. Fishermen now worry that future operations could mistake them for criminals, creating an atmosphere of fear and mistrust. They are demanding clear responses and safety guarantees. | President of the All Toba…
(2025-09-12). Alex Main on Venezuelan Boat Assault. fair.org 
(2025-09-12). Mehdi Hasan on Death of Two-State Solution, Possible U.S. War with Venezuela & More. democracynow.org 
Democracy Now! speaks with Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, about Israel's recent move to expand settlements in the West Bank in an effort to erase the possibility of a Palestinian state. "They are doing everything in their power to make sure that a two-state solution can never happen," says Hasan. | Hasan also comments on the deadly U.S. attack on a boat off the coast of Venezuela. "There's no scenario in which you can say it was an imminent threat to the U.S.," he says.
(2025-09-12). Venezuela sotto assedio in base ad accuse mai dimostrate. strategic-culture.su Il Governo statunitense ha indirizzato accuse formali contro il presidente venezuelano Nicolás Maduro, indicato come colluso con il narcotraffico | Segue nostro All'inizio di agosto 2025, il quadro delle relazioni tra Washington e Caracas sembrava conoscere un inatteso miglioramento. La Casa Bianca aveva infatti prorogato la licenza a Chevron, consentendo alla compagnia nordamericana di continuare ad operare nel settore petrolifero vene…
(2025-09-12). The Strike in the Caribbean and Pressure on Venezuela. globalresearch.ca Donald Trump said that on the morning of September 2, on his Orders, the US Military Forces in the in the SOUTHCOM (Southern Command) area of responsibility launched a kinetic strike against the Narcoterrorists, who were "positively identified" as Tren …