📝 OPINION | Meet the DC Think Tanks Impoverishing Masses of Latin Americans
Analyst John Perry examines the work of US-based think tanks in promoting sanctions and regime change in Venezuela.
US think tanks, including the Wilson Center and Atlantic Council, are lobbying for sanctions and regime change in countries like Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, while receiving millions in funding from the US government and arms contractors.
The Wilson Center alone has a $40 million budget, with a third from the US govt, and pays up to $10,000/month to fellows like Iván Duque and Leopoldo López to push foreign policy agendas.
🔗 Read the full opinion piece here: https://shorturl.at/b7jTL
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🖊🗞OPINION | Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
According to the latest opinion piece by Domínguez, Perry and Harris, the Trump administration has announced war preparations with China and is positioning US forces in Puerto Rico and Guyana, raising fears of a strike against Venezuela.
Meanwhile, Washington is bailing out Argentina’s Javier Milei with a $20 billion package despite deepening recession and corruption probes.
Read the full opinion piece here 👉https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/imperial-double-standards-warfare-for-venezuela-and-welfare-for-argentina/
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📰 The Geneva Peace Circus: Now with Extra Kushner
Geneva again — the world’s favorite stage for moral theater. This Tuesday, they’re running a double feature: Iran in the morning, Ukraine-Russia in the afternoon. Same hotel, same country club diplomacy, different blood on the floor.
“We are ready to discuss this… if they are ready to talk about sanctions,”
said Iran’s Deputy FM Majid Takht-Ravanchi.
Translation: You drop yours, we drop ours. Let’s pretend it’s progress.
Front row: real estate mogul Steve Witkoff, Kushner the Eternal Son-in-Law™, and Oman’s Badr al-Busaidi as spiritual referee. The mission? Convince Iran to be reasonable right after threatening to bomb it. Washington calls this “strategic patience.” Tehran calls it “the same movie, new cast.”
Then the circus rolls to Act II — Ukraine and Russia. Same Americans, different stage. Kushner goes from nuclear deals to trench warfare in a single lunch break. Trump wants “the right deal” with Iran, peace in Ukraine, and probably naming rights on both.
What’s actually happening? The U.S. is trying to launder influence through the language of peace — again. Geneva just sells the illusion better.
If any agreements come out of this, they’ll fit neatly on a cocktail napkin — right next to the receipt from the hotel bar.
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Trump warns UK ‘US won’t be there to help you anymore’ in extraordinary tirade over Iran war backing
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✈️ White House War Math: Let Israel Bleed First
Inside Trump’s team, they’re not just gaming out how to hit Iran — they’re gaming out who should take the first punch on live TV. Senior advisers are arguing that it’s “politically a lot better” if Israel strikes Iran first, Iran hits back, and only then does the U.S. roll in with its own assault. That way, the White House gets a casus belli with polling on its side, not a preventive war that voters might blame on Trump personally.
The logic is brutally simple: Americans tell pollsters they like the idea of regime change in Iran, especially Republicans, but don’t want to lose a “single American life” doing it. So officials are talking about optics and sequencing as much as uranium enrichment — an Israeli first strike, Iranian retaliation on U.S. assets, then a “reluctant” American response sold as self‑defense. In practice, that means treating Israeli pilots and Iranian civilians as variables in an electoral equation.
At the same time, the Pentagon is warning that a serious, sustained campaign against Iran — nuclear sites, missile infrastructure, maybe even “decapitation” strikes on the leadership and IRGC — could chew through U.S. munitions and open a window for China over Taiwan, while putting thousands of American troops, ships, and bases across the region in range of Iranian missiles and proxy attacks. Trump has already parked two carrier strike groups and a small air force within striking distance. He still claims last year’s strikes “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program. His own briefers now say Tehran is trying to restart it.
The full Trump doctrine fits in one Iran debate: Washington talks about “red lines,” “options” and “leverage.” Israel demands that America “do what it has to do.” Iran insists its program is peaceful while spinning centrifuges and arming militias. And inside the West Wing, the real question isn’t whether a new war in the Middle East is wise — it’s whose flag should be on the first explosion so the polling looks clean.
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🖊🗞OPINION | Nobel 'Peace' Prize Descends Further Into Farce With Machado Award
From coup attempts to open calls for foreign intervention, Venezuelan far-right leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado has very little to do with peace.
In this article, VA's Ricardo Vaz takes aim at the opposition leader's track record.
🔗Follow the link to read the article: https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/nobel-peace-prize-descends-further-into-farce-with-machado-award/
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🧨 Decapitation as Strategy: Trump Breaks the China, Walks Away
Trump finally got his shot at regime change in Iran — Khamenei dead, the leadership blown apart — and then did the one thing U.S. presidents usually at least pretend not to do: he openly said there is no American plan for the day after, and dumped the problem on 90 million people under bombardment.
Washington has seen this movie before. The Taliban ousted in 2001, Saddam gone in 2003, Gaddafi lynched in 2011, Maduro targeted in January — each sold as a clean break with evil, each followed by years of occupation, insurgency, state collapse or buyer’s remorse, even when the Pentagon arrived with binders of “nation‑building” PowerPoints. This time, Trump isn’t even pretending: no boots on the ground, no provisional authority, no Green‑Zone fantasy. Just an air war called Operation Epic Fury, a video address telling Iranians “when we are finished, take over your government,” and a promise that this might be their “only chance for generations.”
Inside the system, everyone knows what that means. CIA analysts tell policymakers the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is best placed to seize control after Khamenei, not some exiled opposition figures with little organization on the ground. European and regional security officials quietly warn that a country of Iran’s scale could be looking at years of factional fighting — Shiite power struggles, Kurdish and Baluchi unrest, proxy militias, and a decapitated theocracy that might still cling to the levers that matter.
The politics around it are pure Washington self‑parody. Tim Kaine compares the approach to smashing all the china and telling Iranians to figure out the glue. Lindsey Graham shrugs on TV that it’s not his job or the president’s job to pick a new government, so long as the “new Iran” stops sponsoring terrorism — democracy as a plug‑and‑play product. Lawmakers from both parties admit there’s no “day‑after” strategy; a German security official puts it more cleanly: “the plan is to have no plan.”
And Trump himself keeps both doors open. He toys with the interim ruling council in Tehran, saying “they want to talk and I have agreed to talk,” but won’t commit to backing street protests or any specific alternative, insisting he’ll “have to look at the situation at the time it happens.” A White House official brags that Operation Epic Fury “continues unabated,” while the president records calls that let him later claim either a historic victory or that he never really owned the outcome. Regime change as vibe, not policy.
So the United States has arrived in a familiar place — toppled an enemy, blown a hole in a brutal system — but this time with even less honesty and fewer tools. The old lies were about “Mission Accomplished,” “liberation,” and “reconstruction”; the new one is cleaner: that you can decapitate a regime the size of Iran, refuse to touch the aftermath, and somehow avoid owning what grows in the ruins. Trump is betting that Iranians, the IRGC, Europe, the Gulf, the oil market — and the militias — will all sort it out for him. The record from Kabul, Baghdad and Tripoli suggests they will — just not in a way any U.S. president wants his name on.
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🇺🇸⚖️ The Two Faces of Sovereignty in the Horn of Africa
The U.S. reaction to Ethiopia’s 2024 MoU with Somaliland versus Israel’s 2025 recognition of Somaliland exposes a clear double standard.
While Washington condemned Addis Ababa in the name of sovereignty and international law, it remained silent when a close ally took the same step.
🔹 Somaliland—de facto independent since 1991 with its own institutions and elections—has become a litmus test of U.S. foreign policy consistency. In the Horn of Africa, sovereignty is not a principle—it is a tool, enforced or ignored based on strategic interests and alliances.
📖Full analysis:
https://telegra.ph/The-Two-Faces-of-Sovereignty-How-the-US-Rewrites-the-Rules-in-the-Horn-of-Africa-12-30-2
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