tehrantimes (2025-10-31). U.S. readies attacks on Venezuelan bases, ports, and airstrips, reports say. tehrantimes.com New reporting in the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald says the Trump administration "has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs," and that Washington "has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela" — strikes that, the Herald wrote Friday, "could come at any moment."

Rania Khalek (2025-10-31). Playing with Fire: Trump Escalates Towards Direct War with Venezuela. thealtworld.com The Trump administration is escalating toward full-scale war with Venezuela, with warships, B-52 bombers, and promises of land strikes, after already killing at least 57 fishermen in "extrajudicial assassinations," says José Luis Granados Ceja, a Mexican journalist with Venezuela Analysis. | He calls the U.S. a "rogue government acting with impunity" and stresses that a military invasion "will not be easy — they will not be welcomed as liberators as they tried to tell us with the same lies as they did with the invasion of Iraq." Ceja discusses Venezuela's mobilization of armed forces and the Bolivarian Mili…