(2025-12-05). Tidbits-Dec. 4-Reader Comments: No War on Venezuela; Hegseth Murder in the Caribbean; Mass Deportation Is NOT Deportation; Everyone Is Talking About Affordability; Peace in Ukraine & Peace in Europe; New Unreleased Song by John Lennon; Lots More… portside.org Tidbits-Dec. 4-Reader Comments: No War on Venezuela; Hegseth Murder in the Caribbean; Mass Deportation Is NOT Deportation; Everyone Is Talking About Affordability; Peace in Ukraine & Peace in Europe; New Unreleased Song by John Lennon; Lots More… |
(2025-12-05). Italian workers' general strike backs Palestine, Venezuela. workers.org 
On Nov. 28 following a call by the grassroots union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), Italian workers held a 24-hour general strike that limited airline flights and train travel within Italy and disrupted work. The next day many strikers joined the mass demonstration in Rome for the International Day of . . . |
(2025-12-05). Cubanos rinden tributo a Fidel en noveno aniversario de su sepelio. radiohc.cu Miles de cubanos acudieron este jueves hasta el monolito que atesora las cenizas del líder histórico de la Revolución cubana, Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016), para rendirle tributo, a nueve años de su sepelio en el cementerio Santa Ifigenia, de Santiago de Cuba. | Desde la Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Antonio Maceo Grajales, transitaron por la Avenida Patria y llegaron hasta el camposanto, como reedición de la peregrinación popular que el 4 de Diciembre de 2016, acompañó las exequias del Comandante en su último trayecto. | Jóvenes, estudiantes, militares y civiles, combatientes de la Revolución cubana y el p…
(2025-12-05). "Kill Everybody" : War Crimes and Pete Hegseth's Lust for Blood. globalresearch.ca Pete Hegseth, the soap opera-styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-traffickers making passage on the sea from Venezuela to a watery grave …
(2025-12-05). Venezuela, Wars of Aggression, and Nuremberg Law. counterpunch.org 
"To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." These words, spoken by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson at the opening of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal of Nazi war criminals,
(2025-12-05). Venezuela leads UN meeting against sanctions and denounces their use as weapons of war. radiohc.cu More than a third of humanity, encompassing more than 76 countries, has its right to development "strangled" by illegal policies that can only be described as part of a "calculated campaign of maximum cruelty," denounced Venezuela's representative to the UN, Samuel Moncada, this Thursday, December 4. | On the occasion of the first commemoration of the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, and on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, Moncada described these practices as "weapons of economic warfare" and a "systematic attack on the right to development."
(2025-12-05). Trump's War on 'Narcoterrorism' Is a Smokescreen. progressive.org The Trump Administration's recent bombings off the coast of Venezuela signal a return to Cold War-era military aggression.
(2025-12-05). Operation 'Just Cause' Redux? Trump's Attempt at Regime Change in Venezuela. counterpunch.org 
The similarities between what is happening now in Venezuela and what happened in the lead-up to Operation Just Cause are noteworthy. But the differences in outcomes between the attack on Panama and any actual assault on Venezuela could be even more striking—and dangerous.
(2025-12-05). US Lawmakers File Resolution To Block Trump's War In Venezuela. popularresistance.org US lawmakers filed a resolution on 3 December that would block a US military attack on Venezuela unless it can win congressional approval. | The move, initiated by a group of Democratic and Republican Senators, came in response to repeated statements by US President Donald Trump in recent days claiming that a land invasion of the Latin American nation to combat drug traffickers would begin "very soon." | The president claims, without evidence, that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro heads a criminal cartel trafficking drugs by boat to the US.
(2025-12-05). Resistance builds within the United States against Trump's drive to war with Venezuela. peoplesdispatch.org The US government has continued to accelerate its drive to war with Venezuela. While rumors circulate about phone calls and possible talks between US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in tandem, the US head of state has continued to launch bizarre and illegal threats and accusations against the South American nation. On Saturday, November 29, Trump
(2025-12-05). Venezuela, History, and the Futile Quest for Regime Change. counterpunch.org Philosophers from Immanuel Kant to George Santayana warned that history repeats itself because we fail to heed its lessons. So it is with the Trump administration and its plan for regime change in Venezuela. Even if it succeeds in ousting Nicolás Maduro, the result will almost certainly mirror the failures of Afghanistan and Iraq under the Bush and Biden administrations.
(2025-12-05). Experts say US boat strikes are illegal killings. Can they be stopped? aljazeera.com At least 86 people have been killed in strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats that experts call illegal killings.
(2025-12-05). Trump's Illegal Boat Strikes Recall Duterte's "Drug War" Mass Killings. truthout.org Public outrage is mounting over the Trump administration's September 2 "double tap" strike, in which the U.S. military bombed a small boat for a second time to kill the survivors of a first strike. This particular strike has garnered significant attention due to its clear violation of U.S. and international law because shipwrecked sailors should never be targeted. But it is crucial to note that… |
(2025-12-05). Parlamento cubano llama a preservar la paz de América Latina y el Caribe. radiohc.cu La Comisión de Relaciones Internacionales de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de Cuba (Parlamento) llamó este jueves a los ciudadanos de América Latina y el Caribe, y de los Estados Unidos, a actuar de forma oportuna y decididamente en favor de preservar la región como Zona de Paz. | El reclamo toma en cuenta el actual despliegue militar estadounidense en el mar Caribe, donde ya son decenas las personas muertas por ataques perpetrados por las fuerzas norteamericanas contra embarcaciones en el área, hechos que califican como ejecuciones extrajudiciales que violan el Derecho Internacional. | A continuación, e…
(2025-12-05). Inside the Hidden Wonders of the Shrinking Arctic. whyy.org Over the course of 20 years, writer Neil Shea explored the awe-inspiring landscape of the Arctic. He saw narwhals poking their tusks above the water, herds of caribou moving across the tundra, and majestic white wolves raising their young. He documents this fragile beauty in his new book, "
(2025-12-05). Images of Epstein's private Caribbean island released. ecns.cn U.S. House Democrats on the Oversight Committee on Wednesday released photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein's home on the private Caribbean island, where the billionaire was accused of trafficking underage girls for sex.
(2025-12-05). Video of September 2 killing showed US massacred "shipwrecked" people, House committee leaders say. wsws.org U.S. Representatives Jim Himes and Adam Smith said Thursday that the full video of the September 2 missile strike that killed 11 people in the Caribbean showed that two "shipwrecked individuals" were "killed by the United States military."