🖊🗞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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🖊🗞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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📝 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.
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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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Duterte congratulates Ressa on Nobel Prize
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte congratulates journalist Maria Ressa on Nobel Prize.
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Russia, Philippines journalists win Nobel Peace Prize
Two journalists whose work has angered authorities in Russia and the Philippines, Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa, have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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🔈PODCAST | No Peaceful Activist: María Corina Machado's Long and Violent History of Regime Change in Venezuela
From taking part in coup attempts to outright calling for a foreign intervention against Venezuela, María Corina Machado's track record screams everything but "peace."
In the latest VA podcast episode, host José Luis Granados Ceja is joined by fellow staff member Andreína Chávez Alava to discuss the role played by the recent Nobel laureate amidst growing US military threats against Caracas.
Follow the link for early access to this episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141610226
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