(2025-12-20). UN: Dec. 19] Peacekeepers Killed in Sudan So. Sudan, Congo Mission Renewed Lots More. passblue.com 
This Week @UN: UN person/envoy of the year; Slovenia is exhausted; UN's AI use. Plus: Sudan; Congo; US/Venezuela; US/ICC; Houthis/UN; Gaza. Follow us daily on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Blue Sky • Our #1 story: An Eastern European Woman Should Lead the UN, op-ed by Vesna Pusic • A short holiday note to thank our …
(2025-12-20). US Blockades Venezuela in a War Still Searching for an Official Rationale. dissidentvoice.org In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real — over a 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more recent "kinetic strikes." Yet the officially stated justification for the US empire's escalating offensive remains elusive. The …
(2025-12-20). Nobel Foundation sued over Peace Prize to Venezuela's Opposition Leader. ummid.com WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation for awarding the 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuela's Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado.
(2025-12-20). Trump doesn't rule out war with Venezuela. newarab.com 
(2025-12-19). Venezuela Strongly Condemns US Threat Of Blockade. popularresistance.org In an escalation of the US empire's ongoing illegal sanctions on Venezuela, US President Donald Trump has announced a "full blockade" of the sovereign nation and its oil tanker fleet. He claimed the measure would remain in place until Venezuela "returns all the oil, land, and other assets" he alleged were previously stolen from the US. The announcement ignited an immediate response from the Venezuelan government, followed by all state institutions and international allies. | "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America," Trump wrote on social media this…
(2025-12-19). Thursday 12/18: Webinar: Venezuela Under Threat: Eyewitness Reportbacks. indybay.org Zoom | www.codepink.org/vz121825…
(2025-12-19). Venezuela Defense Minister Vows To Defend the 'Homeland at Any Cost' After Trump's Blockade Threat. news.antiwar.com Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez has said Venezuela would defend the "homeland at any cost" in response to President Trump's declaration that he's imposing a blockade on all "sanctioned" tankers entering and leaving Venezuelan ports. "We say to the US government and its president that we are not intimidated by their crude and arrogant …
(2025-12-19). Demonstration in Mexico in Solidarity with Venezuela / Acción de Solidaridad con Venezuela desde México. worldbeyondwar.org En este video el Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos de México, organización aliada a WBW, junto a otras organizaciones desarrollaron una acción de solidaridad con Venezuela, pidiendo detener la guerra. #WorldBEYONDWar…
(2025-12-19). In Venezuela, We Have Not Been Invaded. counterpunch.org 
I am writing these words from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on December 12, 2025, one day after María Corina Machado, the newly appointed Nobel Peace Prize winner, said at a press conference in Oslo, Norway, in response to a journalist's question about whether she would accept a military invasion of Venezuela, that: Venezuela has
(2025-12-19). What a U.S. invasion of Venezuela would mean. strategic-culture.su BARRING a sudden change of heart by US President Donald Trump, the world will soon witness US imperialism's bullying of a hapless Third World country: Venezuela. The US' real motive for this blatant aggression is not as Trump claims America's need to defend itself from the invasion of illegal drugs. Its inarguable purpose is the same as that for invading Iraq in 2023, which threw the Middle East into the chaos we see today.
(2025-12-19). President Maduro Says Trump's Actions Reveal True Intentions for Venezuela, Calls for Great Colombia Unity Amid More Killings at Sea (+Petro). orinocotribune.com Caracas ( "The truth has been revealed," Maduro said. These recent US actions and statements serve to demonstr…
(2025-12-19). Bill To Block Trump From Launching War With Venezuela Fails. popularresistance.org The House on Wednesday voted down a War Powers Resolution meant to block President Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization, as required by the Constitution. | The bill failed in a vote of 211-213, with nine representatives not voting. Just three Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the bill: Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Don Bacon (NE). One Democrat, Henry Cuellar (TX), voted against the legislation. | The legislation would have directed the president to remove "United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that h…
(2025-12-19). 5 killed in US strikes on 2 boats in eastern Pacific. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (MNA) — The US military said on Thursday that it had conducted two more strikes against boats it said were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people.