Martin Jay
Does anyone, even in his own circle of fools, believe the Venezuela stunt is really about drug trafficking?
Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Trump's lair marks their sixth one-on-one meeting since Trump took office - a telling detail on several levels. The main point is that Bibi is struggling to convince Trump that the U.S. and Israel need to go to war with Iran, a move Trump is resisting.
Alastair Crooke
At the 30 December meeting with Netanyahu and his team, President Trump publicly committed to attacking Iran.
At the 30 December meeting with Netanyahu and his team, President Trump publicly committed to attacking Iran: If they continue with their ballistic missile program, 'Yes'. And for their nuclear: 'Immediate'. "We'll knock the hell out of them", Trump said.
Davide Rossi
Cantava Lucio Dalla: "l'anno vecchio è finito, ormai, ma qualcosa ancora qui non va", in effetti nella vecchia Europa qualche problema ancora c'è, anzi forse molti.
Autoproclamatasi ombelico etico e democratico del mondo, sta scoprendo la verità, ovvero l'umanità intera, fuori dall'Occidente, la considera perfidamente e vergognosamente neocolonialista, la biasima come un coacervo non dei valori di libertà, democrazia e pluralismo politico, blaterati ogni giorno con preconfezionate cantilene dai soliti strimpellatori mediatici, cantori del pensiero unico occidentale, ma come una mefitica cloaca di furti, ruberie, ingiustizie, violenze e morti perpetrate ai danni del Sud Globale, l'esempio ricorrente, ricordato recentemente dalla stampa non solo africana, è quello del presidente francese François Mitterrand, in combutta con Washington, infatti ha fatto ammazzare Thomas Sankara, presidente del Burkina Faso nel 1987, uno tra i mille casi di distruzione di un'altra nazione per depredarne le ricchezze e soffocarne l'esempio politico.
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
January 5, 2026
Everybody knows we need sound money; but what exactly is sound money ? A good way to answer this question is to consult the works of the two greatest economists of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. I am proud of the fact that Mises's widow, the unforgettable Margit von Mises, warmly approved of the Mises Institute when I founded it in 1982, and proud that Murray was our Academic Vice-President and spoke at our conferences and events until his death in 1995.
By Karen Kwiatkowski
January 5, 2026
After the 2024 Israeli program to booby trap commercial pagers, sell them to Hezbollah, and conduct a set of denotations that killed and maimed over 3,280 people, 60 Minutes interviewed a supposed Mossad agent who explained how the world works. "We write the screenplay, we are the main actors, and the world is our stage."
Many were impressed by the pager attack scenario.
By George F. Smith
January 5, 2026
There's a scene in the Clint Eastwood movie Absolute Power that illustrates an important point. Eastwood, as legendary jewel thief Luther Whitney, witnesses the murder of a young woman during one of his heists.
The U.S. president (Gene Hackman) and his secret service agents are the murderers. The victim is the wife of the president's biggest supporter, an octogenarian billionaire (E.
The common side effects of SSRIs, the nightmare of quitting them and the safe natural alternatives for treating depression.
By A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine
January 5, 2026
Previously, I discussed the dirty secret of the SSRI antidepressants-they trigger psychotic violence which typically results in suicide and sometimes in horrific homicide (e.g., mass shootings or violent stabbings of a loved one).
By Allan Stevo
January 5, 2026
There was a time I witnessed something strange. It kept happening, too.
For a period, I spent much of each year in Europe. I traveled by train, in that era before low-cost airlines. Long-distance train travel unites strangers in a way puddle-jumpers do not.
From 2000ish to 2010ish, I noticed something the German people were convinced to do.
Each individual I spoke to under a certain age, maybe sixty years old, apologized to me for World War Two as long as the conversation went on long enough.
By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
January 5, 2026
Peter Haenseler (whom I normally don't even mention because he doesn't link to or otherwise cite any sources) presented a fascinating hypothesis to explain why Trump stole Venezuela:
The world is selling US bonds and America is running out of money - it's as simple as that. With the oil that the Americans want to steal, they will once again have assets with which to refinance ailing America.
By Andrew Wallace
January 5, 2026
Reality has demonstrated that most of our people are ignorant, apathetic and indolent when it comes to government. I contend that most of our people will support freedom and not Communalism, when faced with the facts.
It is impossible to have a Constitutional Government unless the Enumerated Powers effectively limit the powers of government, which is not now the case.
By Boyd D. Cathey
January 5, 2026
There is an old saying that "Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make [go] mad." In its original form the phrase appears to date back more than two millennia, to at least the Greek playwright Sophocles. But it was the Eighteenth Century English essayist and notable Latinist Samuel Johnson (Life of Samuel Johnson) who gave it more modern currency, rendering the phrase as "Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat" [Whom God would destroy, he first makes mad"].
By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
January 5, 2026
Western media, especially those outlets firmly aligned with the neoconservative view, are quick to jump on reports of protests in Iran as a sign that the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to implode. Events today in Iran provided another spurt of arousal among neocons longing to bring back the Shah and eliminate the mullahs. Here's a summary of the various news reports:
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
January 5, 2026
The White House says that the trump administration has kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife and has brought them to the US where they will be put on trial for narco-terrorism. The narcotics charge is a cover for renewed looting of Venezuela's national resources, just as Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction and Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons were excuses to justify American military aggression against Iraq and Syria in order to serve Israel's agenda of a Greater Israel.
In the dire civilization-ending circumstances we are in, it's tempting to grasp onto anything or anyone that would promise a way out, but Catholics should remember: Christ is the only way.
By Joseph Pearce
Crisis Magazine
January 5, 2026
Inspired by Donald Trump's rallying cry to "make America great again" there are calls across Europe to "make Europe great again." The "MEGA" battle cry has been taken up by populists who seek to liberate Europe from the catastrophic clutches of the European Union.
By Glenn Diesen
January 5, 2026
lewrockwell.com
Une version plus complète, publiée par Defense One, décrit les plans de l'administration Trump visant à rompre ses anciennes relations et à en créer de nouvelles.
Source : Defense One, Meghann Myers
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Avec ses appels en faveur de « familles fortes et traditionnelles » et du « renouveau de la santé spirituelle et culturelle américaine », la dernière National Security Strategy [stratégie de sécurité nationale] marque une rupture majeure non seulement avec celle qui l'a immédiatement précédée, mais aussi avec celle de la première administration Trump.
par Alain Marshal
Le 3 janvier 2025, les États-Unis ont commis le crime suprême d'agression contre le Venezuela et kidnappé son président, Nicolas Maduro, ainsi que son épouse. Voici le discours intégral prononcé par la vice-présidente Delcy Rodriguez. Ce point de vue ne sera pas mis en avant sur Mediapart : si le soutien à Zelensky y est revendiqué, celui à l'impérialisme américain, bien que tacite, n'en est pas moins marqué.
Voici le texte intégral de la déclaration de Medvedev concernant la possibilité d'une répétition de l'opération américaine menée au Venezuela :
«L'enlèvement d'un chef d'État élu constitue une violation flagrante du droit international. Il n'est pas question de «transition pacifique et démocratique» du pouvoir au Venezuela, et il est totalement vain que la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, et ces vieilles dames odieuses comme Shapoklyak tentent une fois de plus de faire passer le noir pour du blanc.
par Neutrality Studies
Comment démanteler un régime du jour au lendemain ? La CIA a-t-elle littéralement acheté la loyauté des généraux du Venezuela pour ouvrir la voie à une extraction ? Et si le récit de la «saisie de drogue» n'était qu'un écran de fumée, s'agit-il en réalité d'une tentative désespérée, à plusieurs milliards de dollars, pour sauver le pétrodollar ?
par Mounir Kilani
Bombarder un pays souverain, enlever son président élu, l'exfiltrer comme un criminel : voilà ce que Washington a fait au Venezuela ce 3 janvier 2026.
Sans masque.
Sans hypocrisie feinte.
L'ordre international «fondé sur des règles» vient de tomber le dernier voile.
Ce qui reste ?
Une vérité nue : la force impose, le récit absout, le droit se tait.