"The recent escalation against Venezuela is essentially the implementation of a strategy that views Latin America as nothing more than a theater for Great Power Competition against China and Russia, as well as a collection of resources needed for that very “competition”. We find the blueprint in the 2023 report "Great Power Competition and Conflict in Latin America," produced by RAND Project AIR FORCE for the US Air Force and Space Force."
Substack
Nel (@nelbonilla)
Venezuela as a Battlefield for US Hegemony The recent escalation against Venezuela is essentially the implementation of a strategy that views Lati...
 https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA969-4.html
“If this is a war on drug trafficking organizations and oligarchs, as Rubio says, then it is automatically a war on the global banking system because you can’t separate the two. The target isn’t just jungle labs and drug boats. It’s the City of London. … The Caribbean area is the home of the infamous system of offshore banking established directly by the British. Back in 1960, the largest banking houses in London, working in partnership with the government and the exchequer established 14 completely secretive jurisdictions. These are the banking centers that now hold between $50 and $75 trillion dollars with all 50 of the world’s largest banks operating within them. These offshore centers exist outside of the control of sovereign governments. They’re secret, they’re unregulated and they facilitate illegal activity. There, legitimate banking has been transformed to criminal enterprise.”
Is Venezuela's fate a warning to Canada?
As bizarre as that sounds, Canada's Globe and Mail editorial board thought so. And with reason.
"Peropesis is a lightweight, minimalist, command-line-based Linux operating system. It is a free operating system built from free software, mostly distributed under the GNU GPL or BSD licenses. The Peropesis project includes the operating system itself and this website, which provides basic information about the operating system."
Peropesis - Linux operating system
Peropesis is a small-scale minimal operating system.
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🔭💫 On this day, January 7, 1610 Galileo looked at Jupiter with a newly improved ~20× homemade telescope and noticed three nearby points of light—then followed their motion across nights and concluded they were moons orbiting Jupiter.
"Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation."
Ars Technica
News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.
OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.
"Yesterday, the Justice Department dropped its claim that Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” is a real organisation. This strongly suggests that the original allegation, that President Maduro led a terrorist cartel, was likely fabricated to justify potential U.S. military action against him and his wife without congressional approval."
21st Century Wire
Maduro’s Defense Could Expose CIA Drug Operations - 21st Century Wire
Freddie Ponton | How U.S. Intelligence secrets could collapse the Maduro prosecution.
US Walks Back Maduro Cartel Claim, Witkoff: Progress Made on Ukraine Security Guarantees, More
"I’m delighted that the Administrative Court of the Canton of Zurich ruled on 19 December 2025 that my arrest and detention by Zurich police last year was unlawful and violated the Swiss constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights." https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/swiss-court-rules-ali-abunimah-detention-was-illegal
Christmas Greetings I wish Orthodox Christians and all those who celebrate Christmas good health, success and all the very best.
The impeccable Anya Parampil on how the CIA turned Venezuela into a narco-state scapegoat...👇
Anya Parampil: How the CIA Turned Venezuela Into a Narco-State Scapegoat
Anya Parampil joins Judge Napolitano to dismantle Washington’s “narco-state” fairy tale about Venezuela—a projection that obscures decades ...