Global Times – January 6, 2026
The US’ sudden military operation against Venezuela and the forcible seizure of the country’s president has dominated headlines worldwide since Saturday. The operation is viewed by global media and observers as a real-life example of the Monroe Doctrine in action, under which the Trump Administration claims that the Western Hemisphere is its sphere of influence.
Focus on the Monroe Doctrine intensified further after US President Donald Trump invoked the doctrine to defend the strike on Venezuela at a press conference on Saturday amid mounting international condemnation. “All the way back, it dates back to the Monroe Doctrine,” Trump stated at the press conference, according to a Sunday report by ABC News. “The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve surpassed it by a long shot. They’re calling it the ‘Don-roe Doctrine’ now,” he added.
Trump’s version of Monroe Doctrine, centered on “America First,” is a geopolitical strategy for the US to impose hegemonic control over the Western Hemisphere. Its core objective is to reconsolidate Latin America as America’s “backyard” through exclusive cooperation, extract regional resources, and ultimately serve US economic interests and consolidate its global hegemony, Xu Yanran, an associate professor at the School of International Relations, Renmin University of China, told the Global Times.
At a press conference on Monday, when asked for response to the sphere of influence concept – the Monroe Doctrine, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian reiterated China’s stance to “oppose hegemony and power politics.”
What exactly is the Monroe Doctrine? What role has it played in shaping US-Latin America relations over the past 200 years? And what does the doctrine’s resurgence mean for the region and the world? To answer these questions, the Global Times has launched a two-part series to decode the doctrine – a scourge that has haunted Latin America for 200 years – and to expose the US’ long-standing interventionist schemes in various fields across the region. In the first installment, we examine the doctrine’s historical evolution, draw comparisons between the Trump and original versions, and explore its potential implications for both the region and the wider world. … continue
During an address to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), Benoni Belli, Brazil’s ambassador to the organization, described the United States’ military action against Venezuela as “a very serious attack against Venezuela’s sovereignty and a threat to the entire international community.”
The Brazilian diplomat warned that the bombings of Venezuelan territory and the kidnapping of its president represent an unacceptable violation of international law. “The current situation is grave and evokes times we thought were behind us, which are once again devastating Latin America and the Caribbean,” Belli stated.
Belli rejected the logic that “the ends justify the means,” arguing that such reasoning lacks legitimacy and allows the strongest powers to impose their will on sovereign nations. “These acts open the possibility that the strongest will define what is just or unjust, disregarding national sovereignty,” he emphasized.
The ambassador’s statement highlights the geopolitical implications of a unilateral military intervention, and warned that it undermines multilateralism and fosters a global order based on the law of the strongest.
Global Times – January 6, 2026
On Monday local time, a highly anticipated international meeting and an equally high-profile so-called “trial” unfolded on the same day in New York, the US. Inside the UN headquarters in Manhattan, the Security Council convened an emergency meeting to discuss the heightened tensions triggered by US military actions against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The UN secretary-general, multiple Security Council members, and representatives from many countries all stressed the imperative of adhering to the UN Charter and opposing the use of force to resolve international disputes. This cross-regional, cross-alignment consensus underscores a fundamental point: defending international law is not an “interest choice” of any single country, but a basic consensus of the international community.
If Washington seeks to intimidate and deter others through the public spectacle of humiliating a foreign head of state, it has clearly underestimated both the shared consensus and the bottom lines of the international community. From any perspective, US actions lack both legitimacy and legality. … continue
By GABRIEL MILLARD-CLOTHIER | The Mail on Sunday | December 28, 2025
Road safety experts were calling for an inquiry on Saturday night as it was revealed motorists are three times more likely to die in hybrids than in petrol cars.
A total of 122 people died in hybrid car crashes last year, compared with 777 in accidents involving petrol cars, according to Department for Transport figures analysed by The Mail on Sunday.
But as hybrids are outnumbered by almost 20 to 1 on Britain’s roads by petrol models, that means hybrids are three times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash.
Experts believe the higher death rates could be explained by hybrids’ combination of petrol engines and batteries and electric motors, which can be harder to control and more prone to fires. […]
The cars’ batteries may also be to blame. They can be damaged by the heat of the engine, which burns at extremely hot temperatures, making them more liable to set ablaze. […]
Hybrids were found by a leading insurer of company cars, Tusker, to burst into flames at higher rates than others. Among their fleet of 30,000 cars, hybrid vehicles had an almost three times’ higher risk with 3,475 fires per 100,000…. Full article
By Jo Nova | January 2, 2026
In the renewable frenzy of the early 2020s Ÿnsect raised €600 million to “Reinvent the food chain” and pioneer alternative foods that “respect the planet’s boundaries”.
Some $200 million of their funding came from hapless taxpayers somewhere. But in record time, seemingly before it began, it has already gone. Bankrupted. And not because people don’t want to eat mealworms (which they don’t) but because there wasn’t much market in making animal feed either.
It turns out that farm owners didn’t want to spend 2 to 10 times as much on “sustainable” cattle fodder. So the company shifted focus to high end pet food, where besotted owners have money to spare, but that crashed too. … continue
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | January 5, 2026
The federal government will stop paying physicians based on the number of patients they vaccinate, and is urging state health agencies to stop using similar financial incentives.
In a Dec. 30, 2025, memo to state health officials, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said it “does not tie payment to performance on immunization quality measures in Medicaid and CHIP [Childhood Health Insurance Program] at the federal level.”
Under the new policies, CMS will no longer require states to report how many children are vaccinated, but states may continue to voluntarily provide the data.
CMS stated it will explore options to more strongly encourage informed consent before vaccination and “will also explore how religious exemptions for vaccinations can be accounted for in the data and the subsequent measures.” … continue
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH | FOCAL POINTS | January 5, 2026
Today, the CDC formally adopted a revised childhood and adolescent immunization schedule, following a Presidential Memorandum directing alignment with international best practices.
This marks the largest rollback of routine childhood vaccination in U.S. history.
After reviewing peer-country schedules and the scientific evidence underlying them, federal health leadership acknowledged that we are hyper-vaccinating our children.
The result is a dramatically smaller routine childhood vaccine schedule, cutting approximately 55 routine doses.
This is a major victory — even as serious safety concerns remain for the vaccines that continue to be recommended. … continue
By Rick Jaffe, Esq. | The Defender | January 6, 2026
Federal health officials on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, reducing the number of vaccines universally recommended for all children from 17 to 11.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) emphasized that all currently recommended vaccines will remain available and fully covered by insurance.
However, health officials moved six vaccines from the universally recommended category into a category designed to emphasize shared decision-making between families and clinicians.
What does it mean when a vaccine shifts from the mandatory universal recommendation category to “shared clinical decision-making” (SCDM)? What changes? And why is the vaccine establishment so terrified of the change? … continue
IMEMC | January 6, 2026
Israeli forces conducted new attacks across the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing five Palestinians and injuring others in strikes that targeted displacement areas, residential zones, and the vicinity of medical facilities, despite the “ceasefire” agreement that took effect on 11 October 2025.
Four Palestinians were killed on Monday evening when Israeli forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced families in the Al‑Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Earlier in the day, Naji Suleiman Ibrahim Qdeih died from wounds sustained in a previous Israeli strike on the same coastal displacement zone.
A fourteen‑year‑old boy was moderately wounded after being targeted by an Israeli “quadcopter” drone near the Bani Suheila roundabout east of Khan Younis. Witnesses said the drone fired directly at the child while he was in a public area.
In addition, Israeli occupation forces detonated and bombarded multiple residential buildings east of Khan Younis.
In the north, Israeli warplanes launched several airstrikes around the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, triggering panic among displaced families sheltering nearby and among medical teams working inside the facility.
No casualties were immediately reported, but residents described scenes of fear and chaos as explosions shook the area.
In a separate attack, Israeli soldiers shot a child in the head in Beit Lahia, inflicting life-threatening wounds. … Full article
MEMO | January 6, 2026
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Monday that its teams have been unable to visit Palestinian detainees held in Israeli detention centres since October 2023.
In a statement, the committee said it had not received approval to access the detainees during this period. It stressed the importance of being informed about the status and location of all detainees and being allowed to carry out its humanitarian work in accordance with international humanitarian law.
The ICRC underlined the need to ensure humane treatment for detainees, provide decent detention conditions, and allow them to communicate with their families.
The statement added that many Palestinian families are living in deep anxiety while waiting for any information about their detained relatives.
The committee said it continues to hold talks with Israeli authorities to resume visits to all Palestinian detainees, without giving a specific timeline.
MEMO | January 6, 2026
Eleven Palestinians were wounded Tuesday when Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to medical and local sources.
The Health Ministry said in a statement that 11 people arrived at the Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah following an Israeli assault on the university. It said three were injured by live fire, three by shrapnel and five treated for tear gas inhalation.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said three students were shot in the legs and hospitalized for treatment.
Local sources said Israeli forces raided the Birzeit University campus, broke into facilities after smashing doors and using live fire, sound grenades and tear gas inside the grounds, triggering panic among students and staff.
The raid followed a student event held in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and coincided with preparations to screen a film titled “Hind Rajab,” which documents the killing of a five-year-old child during the Gaza war, the sources told Anadolu. … Full article
IMEMC | January 6, 2026
Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks, land seizures, home takeovers, and agricultural destruction across the occupied West Bank on Monday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Salfit in the central West Bank, Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Jordan Valley in the northeastern West Bank, Hebron in the southern West Bank, and Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Home Seized in Silwan in Occupied Jerusalem
Before dawn, colonizers seized a Palestinian home in Silwan, south of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources said the property, belonging to the Basbous family in the Baten al‑Hawa neighborhood, consists of two apartments housing thirteen residents. Colonizers took control of the building under heavy military and police protection.
Colonizers Invade Khallet as‑Sidra Near Jerusalem
Armed colonizer militias invaded the Khallet as‑Sidra area near Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, releasing livestock into Palestinian agricultural land in an apparent attempt to damage crops and pressure residents.
Livestock Theft and Provocations in Salfit
Colonizers gathered near the northern outskirts of Bruqin, west of Salfit in the central West Bank, while another group stole ten sheep from the “Al‑Naqoos” area. The livestock belonged to resident Mohannad Farouq Mohammad Barakat.
Residents reported colonizers moving near homes and gathering around neighborhoods, raising fears of further attacks.
Agricultural Roads Blocked in Nablus
In Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, colonizers used bulldozers to close agricultural roads with dirt barriers.
These roads are essential for farmers accessing their fields and have been repeatedly targeted in systematic efforts to restrict Palestinian land use.
Assault in the Northern Jordan Valley
A group of colonizers assaulted Palestinian shepherd Anwar Jamil Sawafta while he was grazing his livestock west of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley.
Israeli forces intervened on behalf of the colonizers and detained the injured shepherd instead of the attackers.
Olive Saplings Destroyed in Masafer Yatta in the Southern West Bank
Colonizers uprooted and destroyed around 150 olive saplings in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank. … Full article
The Cradle | January 6, 2026
Head of Palestine’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC), Minister Muayyad Shaaban, said in a new report that over 23,000 attacks have been carried out on Palestinians by settlers and the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank this year.
According to the CWRC report, 2025 saw Israeli troops and illegal settlers commit 23,827 attacks across the territory.
“The attacks were categorized as follows: 1,382 targeted land and trees, 16,664 attacks targeted individuals, while 5,398 attacks targeted property,” the report reads.
“The Israeli army was responsible for 18,384 attacks, while colonizers carried out 4,723 attacks, and both parties together were involved in an additional 720 attacks,” Shaaban is quoted as saying during a press conference at CWRC headquarters in Ramallah. … continue
Palestinian Information Center – January 6, 2026
BEIRUT – Two people were killed on Tuesday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting the town of Khirbet Selm in southern Lebanon, marking a new violation of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah.
According to the Lebanese National News Agency, the Israeli army launched an airstrike on a house in the town, resulting in the killing of two individuals.
In a statement, the Israeli military claimed it had targeted Hezbollah members in Khirbet Selm.
In a related incident, the Lebanese News Agency reported that an Israeli drone carried out a strike near a home in the town of Kfardounine, causing material damage. Another drone dropped a stun grenade toward Lebanese civilians inspecting their destroyed homes in the western neighborhood of Aitaroun. … Full article
MEMO | January 6, 2026
The American news network CNN on Monday reported that Saudi Arabia has levelled unprecedented accusations against the United Arab Emirates amid rising tensions between the two Gulf states, centred on concerns over the UAE’s role in Syria.
According to the network, Riyadh believes that Abu Dhabi has “cultivated ties with elements of the Druze community, some of whose leaders have openly discussed secession”. Saudi Arabia sees this as a direct threat to Syria’s unity and its national security.
CNN said Saudi concerns over UAE policies in Syria are part of a broader view that supporting non-state actors in the region or engaging in sensitive local arrangements could lead to regional instability and set dangerous precedents affecting neighbouring countries, especially Saudi Arabia. … continue
By Junaid S. Ahmad | MEMO | January 6, 2026
Geopolitics is most dangerous not when it erupts, but when it reorganises quietly — when the ground shifts beneath familiar alliances while elites continue to speak the language of yesterday. The Gulf today is in precisely such a moment. What once masqueraded as a coherent bloc has fractured into rival power models, incompatible strategic visions, and diverging relationships to empire, Israel, and popular legitimacy. And Pakistan, true to form, is responding not with strategic intelligence but with institutional reflex — confusing obedience with balance and habit with foresight.
The rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates is no longer a matter of speculation or diplomatic gossip. It is an open contradiction — political, military, and infrastructural. Yemen has exposed it. Israel has radicalised it. The United States, particularly under Trumpism, has weaponised it. And Pakistan’s ruling elite — military and civilian alike — has chosen to drift toward the most toxic pole of this fracture while reassuring itself that it is merely being “pragmatic.” It is not. It is being complicit. … continue
The Cradle | January 6, 2026
The EU has diverted millions in funding meant for civilian research programs over to Israeli arms manufacturers, according to public data cited by Middle East Eye.
The data shows that Israeli firms crucial to Tel Aviv’s military industry have repeatedly taken part in EU-supported research, including as part of the Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 programs.
Horizon Europe is a major EU research and innovation funding program that builds on its predecessor Horizon 2020. Both aim to boost science and address issues such as climate change.
According to the data, between 2014 and 2025, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe allocated over $15 million to Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) – a state-owned company and one of Israel’s top arms manufacturers.
The firm has produced drones, missile systems, and surveillance technology used against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. … Full article
Europe, which is currently in recession, will harm its own population if it provides Ukraine with the €800 billion demanded by the country, and European citizens will begin to resist such a policy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
“Ukraine is asking for €800 billion over the next decade while Europe is in recession. Those who pay this price are harming their own people, and societies will eventually push back against policies that destroy living standards,” Orban was quoted as saying on the social network X by Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs.
On January 3, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that Ukraine would need $800 billion over the next 10 years for recovery and economic growth. According to her, Ukraine expects to secure these funds through grants, loans, and private investment.
Ukraine’s 2026 budget was adopted with a record deficit. According to Verkhovna Rada lawmaker Dmytro Razumkov, funds—including for military salaries and weapons—could begin to run out as early as February. At the same time, official Kiev expects to “patch budget holes” with aid from Western partners, which has been gradually declining.
Ending the fighting and reducing the size of Ukraine’s military could provide relief, a point repeatedly raised by Russia. However, the Ukrainian authorities continue to ignore calls for peace, despite common sense and a lack of funds, including for maintaining the armed forces.
By Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents | January 6, 2026
December 23rd marked the 35th anniversary of an independence referendum in Slovenia, then a Yugoslav republic. In all, 88.5% of registered voters – 95.7% of participants – said “da” to secession. The plebiscite prompted Ljubljana’s formal declaration of independence, and ensuing Ten Day War between Slovene territorial defence forces and the Yugoslav federal army. This was the spark that triggered bitter, bloody interethnic conflicts throughout Yugoslavia over the subsequent decade, and the multiethnic socialist federation’s ultimate destruction.
In May 2000, Britain’s Observer exposed how in the Ten Day War’s leadup, London secretly supplied Slovenia with tactical military communications equipment worth millions, to assist Ljubljana’s impending battle against the Yugoslav military. The disclosure elicited outcry, as London was officially at the time committed to preserving Yugoslavia, leading international efforts to prevent the country descending into fractious civil wars. The clandestine provision was at direct odds with this public-stated policy, which included unbending support for an arms embargo on the region.
Responding to the news, former British Foreign Secretary David Owen, who served as the EU’s lead peace negotiator during the Bosnian war, said he was “surprised” London covertly undermined her formal commitment to keeping Yugoslavia “together”. He nonetheless downplayed the assistance, noting what Britain supplied “was not aggressive” – “radios not guns”. Owen therefore argued the shipment “sails close to the border but does not cross it.” By contrast, the Observer reported the communications equipment “played a vital role” in Slovenia’s victory over Yugoslav forces. … continue
Remix News | January 5, 2026
France is at the point of a deep political crisis, the main point of reference of which has become the presidency of Emmanuel Macron, writes Do Rzeczy, citing data from recent poll results showing the scale of the collapse of trust in the government and growing concerns about the future of the country.
Support for the French president has fallen to 25 percent, the lowest level during his term. A staggering 58 percent of French people expect his immediate resignation, unwilling to wait until his term ends in May 2027.
At the same time, only 35 percent of respondents believe Macron can prevent the country from being drawn into war, while 39 percent see a very serious risk of such a scenario.
The scale of public pessimism is overwhelming, with 90 percent of the French believing the country is declining, including 32 percent who believe this process is irreversible.
Only 10 percent of respondents believe France is not collapsing. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | January 6, 2026
A member of Venezuela’s National Assembly, lawmaker Juan Romero, has described recent US actions as a “blatant act of aggression,” stressing that the Venezuelan people are fully prepared to defend their sovereignty against any external threat.
In an interview for Al Mayadeen, Romero said Venezuela was on the highest level of alert and ready to reaffirm its historical stance in confronting foreign aggression, particularly in the aftermath of the US attack on January 3.
Romero invoked the legacy of Venezuela’s liberator, Simón Bolívar, emphasizing that free peoples have historically succeeded in breaking the dominance of major empires and affirming that Venezuelan society would remain united and resilient in the face of any potential challenges.
He also compared the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro to the abduction of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, describing such actions as part of the interventionist mechanisms employed by major powers.
Romero told Al Mayadeen that these practices constitute a flagrant violation of the principle of sovereign equality enshrined by the United Nations and amount to an unjustified and illegal act of aggression against a sovereign state.
Concluding his remarks, he recalled President Maduro’s previous statements that, in the event of an attack on the country, Venezuela would resort to a strategy of prolonged popular war involving all segments of society, stressing that the country remains ready to confront any threat and safeguard its independence by all available means. … Full article
The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader is a political rant that relies on coerced testimony from an unreliable witness
By Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone | January 5, 2026
The January 3 US military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores was followed by the Department of Justice’s release of its superseding indictment of the two abductees as well as their son, Nicolasito Maduro, and two close political allies: former Minister of Justice Ramon Chacin and ex-Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello. The DOJ has also thrown Tren De Aragua (TDA) cartel leader Hector “Niño” Guerrero into the mix of defendants, situating him at the heart of its narrative.
The indictment amounts to a 25 page rant accusing Maduro and Flores of a conspiracy to traffic “thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States,” relying heavily on testimony from coerced witnesses about alleged shipments that largely took place outside US jurisdiction. It accuses Maduro of “having partnered with narco-terrorists” like TDA, ignoring a recent US intelligence assessment that concluded he had no control over the Venezuelan gang. Finally, the prosecutors stacked the indictment by charging Maduro with “possession of machine guns,” a laughable offense which could easily be applied to hundreds of thousands of gun-loving Americans under an antiquated 1934 law. … continue
RT | January 6, 2026
The BBC has instructed staff to avoid describing the US abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a “kidnapping” and to use less loaded alternatives such as “seized,” according to a leaked internal memo shared online by British journalist and Guardian columnist Owen Jones. […]
In his post, Jones called ‘seized’ “at best, a euphemism,” branding the policy “Orwellian stuff” and recalling that US President Donald Trump himself has acknowledged that ‘kidnapped’ is “not a bad term.” … Full article
teleSUR | January 6, 2026
Former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene strongly criticized actions taken by U.S. President Donald Trump following the Jan. 3 raid in Venezuela, during which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores were kidnapped.
“From an America First standpoint, Venezuela belongs to the Venezuelan people. They should elect their own government leaders. We have our own government leaders, the Trump administration, and we’ve elected them to run America, not to be globalists, not to run other countries, not to pursue regime change,” she said in an interview with CNN.
In a separate interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Greene said the Trump administration’s actions against the South American nation followed “the same Washington playbook” and argued they ultimately “harm citizens.”
Greene called the military incursion a betrayal of Trump’s promise to keep the U.S. out of foreign military entanglements – a central tenet of the Make America Great Again movement. … Full article
Sputnik – 06.01.2026
On January 3, the US launched a massive attack on Venezuela, capturing Maduro and his wife and taking them to New York. US President Donald Trump announced that Maduro and Flores would face trial for allegedly being involved in “narco-terrorism” and posing a threat, including to the US.
The Global Majority in Latin America, Africa, and Asia should hold the United States to account by stopping purchases of US weapons, including F-16s, F-35s, and halting collaboration with companies like Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and Raytheon, former UN independent expert Alfred de Zayas told Sputnik.
“US businesses are vulnerable,” he explained. … continue
By Ron Unz • Unz Review • January 5, 2026
… Legal precedents obviously count for little in an era of total international lawlessness, but if they did, Trump should have carefully considered the potential implications of some of his recent actions.
Over the last few weeks, he had steadily escalated his pressure on Venezuela by declaring a unilateral naval blockade and seizing some of its oil tankers in international waters, taking these actions with no legal justification other than the superior military force that he deployed.
Oil exports were the source of that country’s income and by cutting those off, he demonstrated the terrible economic damage he could inflict. This added to the leverage he apparently applied as he somehow managed to have the local military air defenses stand down when he launched his raid to capture Maduro. But two can play at that same blockade game.
China was a leading importer of Venezuelan oil and one of the tankers Trump seized was carrying crude that it had already purchased. Around that same time he announced that he would be selling an additional $11 billion of advanced weaponry to Taiwan, including missiles able to hit Chinese cities. Adding insult to injury, Trump’s abduction of President Maduro came just hours after the latter had held extensive meetings with a high-level visiting Chinese delegation, and this must have surely been a major embarrassment to the Chinese government.
I doubt that China will appreciate the prospect of having their cities placed within missile range of the new weapons systems that Trump will be delivering to Taiwan, so perhaps they might decide that now is the time to finally take decisive action.
An actual invasion of Taiwan would be out of the question, but if Trump can declare a blockade of the independent country of Venezuela with no justification, China can certainly claim it has an equal right to do the same towards an island that the U.S. government and almost the entire world has long recognized as an integrable part of a single, unified China. Indeed, at the end of December, China engaged in some extremely serious saber-rattling, threatening to impose a “chokehold” against what it has always considered a rebellious, breakaway province.
Not only would such a blockade put severe pressure on the Taiwanese government, but it would do the same to America and the rest of the West. Taiwanese foundries produce a majority of the world’s microchips, including up to 90% of the most advanced ones. Although Venezuela is an important oil producer, its exports accounted for merely a small slice of that fungible global commodity. Meanwhile, without Taiwanese microchips, much of Western industrial production would soon grind to a halt, and it’s not obvious to me what America or any of its allies could do in response.
Although for generations, we have boasted that our unequaled navy controls the waters of that region, dramatic changes in military technology over the last couple of decades have radically transformed that balance of power.
If our forces tried to break such a Chinese naval blockade and war erupted, the results seem likely to be extremely one-sided. China has amassed an enormous arsenal of both conventional and hypersonic missiles, while our own air-defense systems are rather ineffective. I’m no military expert, but I really don’t see anything that would prevent the Chinese from using waves of their missiles to immediately sink every American aircraft carrier and other warship in the region, as well as destroying all our airbases within a thousand miles or so, thereby winning the war within the first 24 hours.
Indeed, the notion that America would be decisively defeated after just a day or so of combat might even be an overly cautious conclusion. Last month, a leaked Pentagon report indicated that the Chinese could destroy our biggest aircraft carriers “within minutes.” So perhaps America would suffer a crushing military defeat within the first hour or two.
I think that the only plausible factor restraining Chinese’s cautious leaders from taking such actions would be their concern that faced with such a dismal and embarrassing outcome, our only possible military response would be to go nuclear, and they would fear that our totally irrational leaders might do exactly that. … Read full article
By Cindy Harper | Reclaim The Net | January 5, 2026
Shlomo Kramer, head of the cybersecurity company Cato Networks and a well-known figure in the tech sector, triggered widespread backlash after suggesting that the United States should consider “limiting the First Amendment” as a way to protect democracy in an age of artificial intelligence and information warfare.
Kramer, who co-founded both Check Point Software, a World Economic Forum partner, and Imperva, told CNBC that democratic societies are now at a disadvantage because their commitment to open expression makes them more vulnerable to manipulation.
He argued that authoritarian regimes have an “unfair advantage” since they can control the information their citizens see, while democracies are constrained by free speech protections.
“I know it’s difficult to hear, but it’s time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it,” he said.
He claimed that unrestricted speech online has become a tool for division and that foreign adversaries are exploiting it to weaken public trust and democratic stability.
During the interview, Kramer said governments and major technology companies should directly manage online platforms, determining who may speak and how much influence each voice should have.
“We need to control the platforms, all the social platforms,” he said.
He described a structure that would “stack, rank, the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online,” with speech privileges assigned according to that ranking.
Based on this model, he added that authorities should “take control over what they are saying.”
Kramer framed the proposal as an emergency measure, claiming that AI systems are generating fake content faster than governments can respond.
“The technology is moving much faster than the political system typically can respond,” he said, arguing that stronger technological oversight is needed to “stabilize the political system.” … Full article
By Timo Al-Farooq | Al Mayadeen | January 5, 2026
Since “Israel’s” German-backed genocidal war on Gaza began over two years ago, the excessive and violent police actions against members of the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany, particularly in the capital Berlin, have done irreparable damage to the country’s global reputation.
Multiple human rights watchdogs have denounced the pattern of violence committed by the platoons of police officers routinely deployed at peaceful, anti-genocide rallies.
But the Berliner Polizei, drunk on power and a lack of accountability, seems to wear these repeated condemnations as badges of honour, rather than treat them as clarion calls for desperately needed self-examination and self-improvement.
Legalising breaking and entering
Under controversial mayor Kai Wegner and his Christian Democratic-led coalition government, the city-state of Berlin is expanding police powers in an unprecedented manner.
On December 4, Berlin’s state parliament passed a new police law which is truly the stuff of Orwellian nightmares and is bound to exacerbate post-October 7 Germany’s glaring democratic deficit.
Among other things, this reform of the existing “General Security and Public Order Act” (ASOG) allows the police to secretly break into and enter the residences of persons of interest and install spyware on their laptops and phones. It also legalises shoot-to-kill, meaning that officers can now make lethal use of their firearms without fear of prosecution.
In a statement following the successful passage of the law, Wegner framed it as a necessity to fight terrorism, protect women from domestic violence and as a load off the shoulders of police officers who “work hard every day” and now have “clearer powers, better tools and more backing.”
At a time when the Zionist German state treats the liberation slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as support for terrorism, it is not hard to see who the primary targets of this audaciously authoritarian law will be. … continue
The Cradle | January 5, 2026
Palestinian journalist Enas Ikhlawi and 15-year-old Yazan al-Aloul were among dozens of Palestinians detained during an Israeli arrest campaign across the occupied West Bank on 5 January.
Ikhlawi was detained after Israeli forces raided her home in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, while Aloul was arrested during a separate raid in Nour Shams Refugee Camp near Tulkarem.
The arrest campaign extended across multiple cities and refugee camps.
In Bethlehem, Israeli forces detained more than 25 Palestinians during a large-scale operation in Aida Refugee Camp, north of the city. Local residents said homes were searched extensively and families were subjected to intimidation.
Additional arrests were reported in Qalqilya, Ramallah, Tubas, Nablus, and surrounding towns and villages. … continue
Press TV – January 5, 2026
The Israeli regime carried out 99 violations against Palestinian journalists in December 2025, including killings, physical assaults, abductions, and bans on media coverage, according to a Palestinian journalists’ advocacy group.
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, in its monthly report on the state of media freedoms in the Palestinian territories published on Sunday, revealed that Israeli forces “continued in December 2025 a policy of systematic targeting of Palestinian journalism through a wide wave of serious violations.”
The freedoms committee of the syndicate said that the violations reflect “a high level of repression and restrictions” on journalistic work.
The organization said a journalist lost their life while carrying out field responsibilities, two journalists sustained serious injuries due to shelling and direct targeting, and two relatives of journalists were killed – all incidents occurred in the Gaza Strip.
In the occupied West Bank, the syndicate recorded 48 instances of abduction and obstruction from media coverage, along with 15 assaults that involved the use of tear gas and stun grenades while journalists were on duty.
Additionally, there were two attempted deliberate car ramming incidents targeting journalists, nine occurrences of weapons being displayed with threats directed at journalists, and six instances of direct verbal threats. … Full article
By Fereshteh Sadeghi | The Cradle | January 5, 2026
… Pezeshkian is pushing ahead with plans to phase out subsidies for essential imports – a move he dubs an “economic surgery” that will be offset by targeted vouchers for lower-income citizens. But austerity in the midst of currency collapse, inflation, and a credibility crisis is a combustible formula. … Read full article
By W.M. Peterson | Truth Blitzkrieg |January 5, 2026
“The question is: who’s really in charge? I know President Trump appears to be. I’m not convinced that’s the case because remember… you had this giant Israeli flag suddenly appear in the middle of the Republican convention. And certainly in my lifetime… I don’t know of a single instance where either the Democratic or Republican parties held a convention and hoisted a giant foreign flag… I’ve never heard of that before.” — Col. Douglas Macgregor on the Judging Freedom podcast with Judge Andrew Napolitano (Jan. 3, 2026)
Just four days after Benjamin Netanyahu appeared as a guest on Newsmax’s The Record with Greta van Sustern and informed the insufferable newscaster that Iran is “exporting terrorism… to Venezuela. They’re in cahoots with the Maduro regime… this has got to change,” it was announced that U.S. military forces had carried out a large scale operation against Venezuela, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, who will both “face the full wrath of American justice” after being indicted on drugs and weapons charges in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The capture of Maduro occurred exactly 36 years to the day after US Delta Forces captured Panamanian President/CIA informant Manuel Noriega, and it’s unlikely that Netanyahu’s recent visit to the U.S.– the fifth in 2025 by the international fugitive — and the American operation are unrelated. While talk of ‘stolen oil’ and ‘narco-terrorism’ currently dominates the mainstream discourse, the fact that Israel has been seeking regime change in Venezuela since the days of Hugo Chavez has gone virtually unreported. … continue
Sputnik – 05.01.2026
BEIJING – The United States must stop using the so-called “China threat” narrative to justify its personal interests, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Monday, commenting on US President Donald Trump’s claims to Greenland.
On Sunday, Trump told The Atlantic that the United States “absolutely” needed Greenland, claiming the island was “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen urged Trump to stop threatening Greenland, an autonomous part of Denmark, with annexation.
“We urge the US to stop using the so-called ‘China threat’ as a pretext for itself to seek selfish gains,” Lin told the briefing. … continue
By Simon Chege Ndiritu – New Eastern Outlook – January 5, 2026
Algeria has taken a legal step that may one day resolve many of the challenges experienced by formerly colonized peoples.
On December 24, 2025, the Algerian parliament passed a law declaring France’s colonization of the country between 1830 and 1962 illegal. The law lists France’s colonial-era atrocities against Algerians, including mass extrajudicial killings, torture and enforced disappearances, displacement and confinement, use of banned weapons, plunder of resources, and sexual violence, among others, and demands an apology and reparation. The unanimous adoption of anti-France law on the continent where association with Western Europeans gave credibility to elitist African politicians in previous decades signifies a profound shift. Both the timing and the law mark the erosion of social and legal engineering that justified colonial-era crimes, even by some independent African governments. Passing the law on Christmas Eve, when many Africans were celebrating an event spread alongside Western colonialism, sent an unmistakable message, while the legislation signified the defeat of France’s legal engineering in Algeria, which justified all aspects of colonialism and guided the Algerian government to reason in a similar way, as is the case in formerly colonized countries. This paper looks into how Algeria’s criminalization of France’s colonialism represents a crucial milestone in defeating vestiges of Western colonialism across Africa. … continue
By Kyle Anzalone | The Libertarian Institute | January 5, 2026
US military officials said the US does not currently have any personnel on the ground in Venezuela. The statement was made the day after President Donald Trump said the US was running the country.
On Tuesday, the Pentagon claimed that no troops were on the ground in Venezuela, raising questions about Trump’s assertion that the US was controlling Caracas. … continue
Sputnik – 05.01.2026
Glowing MSM reports on the operation to capture Maduro attribute success to the US military’s super-duper high-tech weapons, advanced tactics and painstaking planning. But there are other, potentially far more plausible explanations, says Egor Lidovskoy, director of St. Petersburg’s Hugo Chavez Latin American Cultural Center. … continue
RT | January 5, 2026
The US administration is making enemies around the world by taking harsh steps such as seizing the leaders of sovereign nations, American journalist and political analyst Bradley Blankenship has told RT.
The comments come a day after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was kidnapped along with his wife, Cilia Flores, during a US raid on Caracas. Washington accuses the Venezuelan leader of narco-trafficking and weapons offences, allegations he has denied.
“When you humiliate a sovereign head of state live on television, you create the conditions for the population to resist you,” Blankenship told RT on Monday. “That is what we are seeing in Caracas. When you drag a sovereign leader through New York in an open white van, you only create enemies. That is what the United States is doing.”
He said such actions risk galvanizing resistance inside Venezuela and beyond. “This is how you lose,” Blankenship said. “You do not break people’s will. You harden it.” … continue
Through centuries, the region has seen leaders who stood for independence, but also traitors willing to sell out to colonial powers
By Nadezhda Romanenko | RT | January 5, 2026
Latin America’s history is not simply a chronicle of poverty or instability, as it is so often portrayed in Western discourse. It is, more fundamentally, a record of resistance – resistance to colonial domination, to foreign exploitation, and to local elites willing to trade their nations’ futures for personal power and external approval.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, kidnapped by US forces and about to be put on trial on nebulous and transparently politically-motivated charges, joins a very particular lineup of Latin American leaders. Across different centuries, ideologies, and political systems, the region has produced leaders who, despite their flaws, shared one defining trait: they placed national sovereignty and popular interests above obedience to empire. … continue
The Mainstream Media Freaks Out Over The One Thing Trump Got Right
The Dissident | January 5, 2026
While the mainstream media has largely cheered on Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and regime change bombing in Venezuela, it has attacked him for his comments calming that the U.S. puppet opposition politician María Corina Machado has no popular support in the country.
For context, Trump said he will not install María Corina Machado as president of Venezuela because she “doesn’t have the support”.
This comment from Trump has caused the most backlash out of anything he has done or said in the mainstream media, with CNN’s Jim Sciutto, interviewing María Corina Machado’s advisor, who claimed she has “got the support from almost every Venezuelan,” and the Washington Post’s editorial board writing that Trump’s claim was “foolish”.
But in reality, poll after poll shows that Maria Corina Machado is despised by people in Venezuela. … continue
Sputnik – 05.01.2026
CARACAS – A Venezuelan family living in a Caracas suburb has told Sputnik that they have been left homeless and without means of subsistence after US airstrikes.
“We have nowhere to live. We need to bury my aunt, but we also have no money for that — we are a poor family,” the 62-year-old man said.
The US attack partially destroyed the family’s home in the coastal state of La Guaira, north of Caracas, killing the 80-year-old woman.
Another Venezuelan, from the city of Catia La Mar near Caracas, told Sputnik that his elderly neighbor had been killed by a rocket fragment. The attack also destroyed the apartment building that was home to 17 families. He said Venezuelans were struggling to get over the shock caused by US strikes. … continue
The Cradle | January 5, 2026
About a dozen tankers loaded with Venezuelan oil and fuel departed the country in recent days, despite a blockade imposed by US President Donald Trump as part of the pressure campaign to depose Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, TankerTrackers.com reported on 5 January.
The US military launched an operation on Friday to abduct Maduro and his wife, bringing them to the US to face trumped-up drug trafficking charges in a New York court.
Four of the departed tankers recently left Venezuelan waters through a route north of Margarita Island, TankerTrackers.com revealed, after identifying the vessels in satellite images.
At least four of the tankers had been cleared by Caracas authorities in recent days to leave Venezuelan waters, a source with knowledge of the departures’ paperwork told Reuters. The tankers traveled in “dark mode” after switching off their transponders.
According to Reuters, Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA had accumulated a very large inventory of floating storage amid the US blockade imposed by Trump last month, which had brought the country’s oil exports to a standstill.
The ability of the tankers, all of which are under US sanctions, to depart the country loaded with oil will provide relief for PDVSA, which was running out of storage capacity. … continue
teleSUR | January 4, 2026
The Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodriguez called the US government to move toward a “a balanced and respectful international relationship” and between Venezuela and the countries of the Region, based on sovereign equality and non-interference.
Rodriguez highlighted that sovereign equality and non-interference are the principles that guide the Venezuelan diplomacy with the rest of the world.
The interim president “Venezuela reaffirms its vocation for peace and peaceful coexistence. Our country aspires to live without external threats, in an environment of respect and international cooperation. We believe that global peace is built by first ensuring the peace of each nation.”
Rodriguez extends the invitation to the US government to work together on a cooperative agenda, “oriented towards shared development, within the framework of international legality and strengthen lasting community coexistence.” … continue
Al Mayadeen | January 5, 2026
Colombian President Gustavo Petro issued on Monday a series of sharply worded statements rejecting accusations that seek to link him or Venezuelan leaders to drug trafficking, while forcefully condemning US military aggression, political intimidation, and renewed assertion of imperial control over Latin America.
In several posts published on X, Petro responded to remarks attributed to US President Donald Trump and to broader narratives circulating in Washington in the aftermath of the US aggression on Venezuela. He argued that Colombia’s judicial archives, after decades spent confronting the world’s largest cocaine cartels, contain no evidence linking Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or First Lady Cilia Flores to drug trafficking. According to Petro, such allegations originate primarily from figures aligned with the Venezuelan opposition rather than from any verifiable judicial findings. … continue
Press TV – January 5, 2026
China’s foreign minister has strongly condemned the US military aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, warning that Beijing will not accept Washington positioning itself as the arbiter of global affairs.
“China always opposes the use or threat of force, as well as any imposition of one country’s will on another,” Wang Yi said on Sunday, referring to Saturday’s US aggression against Venezuela.
Wang made the remarks during a meeting with Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar in Beijing, where he addressed the broader international fallout of the attack.
He said the global situation has “become increasingly volatile and complex, with unilateral bullying on the rise,” adding that the “sudden change of situation in Venezuela has drawn high attention from the international community.”
Beijing had earlier released two separate statements responding to the US raid, expressing “shock” and “condemnation,” and calling on Washington to release Maduro and Flores immediately.
“We never believe that any country can play the role of world policeman, nor do we agree that any country can claim itself to be the world’s judge,” Wang said, stressing that the sovereignty and security of all nations must be respected and protected. … Full article
By Liu Xuanzun and Liang Rui | Global Times | January 4, 2026
… After analyzing the information now available to the public, Zhang Junshe, a Chinese military affairs expert, told the Global Times on Sunday that the US operation is characterized by the close coordination among its forces as well as tactical elements. He noted that the US military first dispatched more than 150 military aircraft to conduct air strikes on key targets in Venezuela, including air defense systems, which distracted the Venezuelan forces and provided cover for the infiltration operations by the US special forces into the Venezuelan president’s residence. The key to the success of the mission was that the US forces held the absolute superiority in terms of military might.
In the meantime, the US forces also likely deployed electronic warfare assets that paralyzed the Venezuelan capital’s power grid and command systems, so the Venezuelan military could not organize effective resistance, Zhang said.
Compared with previous US military operations, such as the Gulf War 35 years ago, Zhang noted some new tactical adjustments. He said that the US deployed more advanced weaponry and equipment, including the F-35 stealth fighter jets that likely suppressed the Venezuelan S-300 air defense systems. The second new change is the reported application of stealth drones, which conducted aerial surveillance over Venezuela and gathered intelligence on Maduro’s whereabouts. Another highlight is the bigger role of the mole planted by the CIA, who allegedly provided intelligence about Maduro. “This further demonstrated that the biggest weakness of a fortress often lies within it,” Zhang said.
But Zhang stressed that, “While we analyze the US military’s tactics, we must not ignore its operation’s unlawfulness and injustice.” He said that the US military operation to capture Maduro is an entirely illegal act of war. … Full article
Sputnik – 05.01.2026
With Maduro out, Washington is looking to establish “four kinds of control” in Venezuela. Independent Peru-based geopolitical and economic analyst Nicolas Takayama Constantini outlines the mechanics of these measures for Sputnik. … continue
Al Mayadeen | January 5, 2026
Venezuela’s state-run oil company, PDVSA, began cutting crude output on Sunday as storage facilities reached critical capacity, a direct consequence of the comprehensive US oil embargo that has reduced exports to nearly zero.
The move adds further strain on an interim government grappling with mounting economic and political pressure.
PDVSA is shutting down oilfields and well clusters after storage facilities near capacity, with stocks of extra-heavy crude piling up. The company is also facing a shortage of diluents, essential for blending Venezuela’s heavy oil for export.
These constraints have forced the company to reduce PDVSA crude output.
Sources confirmed to Reuters that output cuts were requested at joint ventures such as CNPC’s Petrolera Sinovensa, Chevron’s Petropiar and Petroboscan, and Petromonagas. The latter, once operated jointly with Russian state-run Roszarubezhneft, is now under sole PDVSA control. … continue
By Adam Dick | Peace and Prosperity Blog | January 4, 2026
On Saturday, United States President Donald Trump held a press conference to boast about his sending the US military hours earlier to bring destruction in Venezuela and drag off the leader of the nation’s government to America for incarceration and prosecution. It was all done in the name of fighting the war on drugs, though few people give much credit to the Trump administration’s repeated assertion that Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro was a drug kingpin responsible for a major share of fentanyl or cocaine shipments into America.
The US government, Trump declared, will “run” Venezuela for an undefined “period of time” that Trump declined to rule out, in answer to a question, could be measured in years. While the US is doing that, be prepared for Trump also to potentially direct the US military to invade at least two additional countries in the Western Hemisphere. … continue
José Niño Unfiltered | January 4, 2026
The recent capture of Nicolás Maduro served as a stark reminder that the true center of gravity in Western power politics is not the White House or the Pentagon, but the interests of a globally dispersed Zionist network that views nation-states as mere instruments in their quest to make the world safe for Jewish supremacy.
Israeli officials across the political spectrum rallied behind President Donald Trump’s successful operation to extract Maduro, with government ministers and opposition figures in the Israeli political establishment celebrating the move as a devastating blow to Iran’s global influence operations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led the praise, posting congratulations on social media that saluted Trump’s “decisive resolve and the brilliant action of your brave soldiers.” Netanyahu’s statement referenced “bold and historic leadership on behalf of freedom and justice” without explicitly naming the Venezuela operation, though the timing left little doubt about his message.
In another press conference, Netanyahu continued to praise the United States’ operation in Venezuela. … continue
The Israel Connection To Regime Change In South America
The Dissident | January 4, 2026
… Since Javier Milei announced the “Issac Accords”, the Co-Founder of the pro-Israel, Genesis Prize Foundation, Stan Polovets- which gave it’s annual prize to Javier Milei in 2025- and the former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, S. Fitzerald Haney- who later worked “as a senior associate at Israel Seed Partners, then the largest seed-stage venture capital firm in Israel”-, launched the, “American Friends of Isaac Accords” non profit, which raked in funding from a number of Israel lobby groups, including the Israel Innovation Network, Israel Allies Foundation, StandWithUs, Yalla Israel and The Philos Project.
Explaining the motive behind the Issac Accords, S. Fitzerald Haney told The Jerusalem Post, “Our goals are ambitious but clear: create frameworks for trade, tourism, education, and technology that connect Israel and Latin America’s leading democracies in practical, mutually beneficial ways.”
Haney said that through the Isaac Accords, they have begun to expand into “Panama and Costa Rica” with Stan Polovets adding, “Both nations want closer ties with Washington, and aligning more closely with Israel helps achieve that.” … Read full article
Al-Manar | January 4, 2026
BEIRUT – Two people were killed on Sunday evening after an Israeli drone targeted a car in southern Lebanon, in yet another violation of the ceasefire agreement.
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the Israeli occupation launched a drone strike on a vehicle traveling on the Ain al-Mazrab road, between the towns of Khirbet Selm and Al-Jumayjmeh in the Bint Jbeil district.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health confirmed the attack resulted in two victims.
Despite the ceasefire with Hezbollah having been in place for several months, Israeli forces continue to carry out near-daily airstrikes and targeted assassinations in Lebanon.
Al Mayadeen | January 4, 2026
Israeli occupation forces shot and wounded an 18-year-old and a 14-year-old near Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian medical sources.
A Palestinian youth and a child were wounded by live fire from the Israeli occupation forces on Sunday evening, east of Qalqilya, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Local sources said Israeli forces opened fire on a civilian Palestinian vehicle near the Ma’ale Shomron junction east of the town of Azzun, resulting in injuries to two civilians.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medical teams treated two people wounded by live ammunition in Azzun. An 18-year-old was shot in the foot, while a 14-year-old girl sustained a gunshot wound to the hand. Both received initial treatment at the scene before being transferred to the hospital to complete medical care.
In a related development, Palestinian media outlets reported that Israeli occupation forces also stormed the vicinity of al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, in the northern West Bank. … Full article
IMEMC | January 4, 2026
Israeli forces shot two Palestinian young men on Saturday while they were near the Apartheid wall in Ar-Ram town north of occupied Jerusalem.
Media sources reported that occupation forces shot two Palestinian citizens with live ammunition while they were near the Apartheid wall in Ar-Ram town.
The sources added that the young men were transported to the hospital for treatment; their conditions were not known at the time of this report.
Meanwhile, in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces detained and assaulted a young man in the town of Odala, south of Nablus.
Quds Press reported that soldiers detained Muhammad Fathi Shtewi for several hours and assaulted him, wounding him in the face; his condition was not known at the time of this report.
Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian from the Bedouin village of Al-Tarabin in the Negev early Sunday, local media reported.
Al-Tarabin is an unrecognized Palestinian Bedouin village located in the Negev Desert in southern Israel.
According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, a special police unit and soldiers from the “National Guard” raided the village to arrest Mohammed Hussein Tarabin for his alleged involvement in acts of vandalism against property in nearby Israeli settlements.
The National Guard is a security force formed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and is viewed by the Israeli opposition as a militia under his direct authority.
The newspaper quoted Tarabin’s family as saying that police shot their son “without cause.”
“He is an ordinary man with seven children. There was no need to kill him,” the family said.
“For them (the police), this is a great achievement to please Ben-Gvir, who dances on Arab blood. The situation is dangerous, the behavior of the police is unacceptable, and they must leave the area or they will bear responsibility for anything that happens.”
Ben-Gvir, for his part, said on the US social media company X that he supported the police’s conduct in Al-Tarabin village, claiming that “Mohammed Tarabin” was a “dangerous criminal.”
The Negev Bedouin Leadership condemned the killing and called for Ben-Gvir’s dismissal.
It called for an investigation into the circumstances of the killing and bringing those responsible to justice.
MEMO | January 4, 2026
The Israeli army killed three Palestinians on Sunday and carried out a series of airstrikes across various parts of the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports.
One Palestinian was killed after an Israeli drone opened fire in an area from which the army had withdrawn under the ceasefire agreement northwest of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, a medical source told Anadolu.
The Israeli army also killed a fisherman, another medical source said.
According to local sources, Israeli naval forces fired gunshots off the coasts of Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza earlier Sunday.
On the northwestern outskirts of Rafah, a medical source said another Palestinian was shot in the head by Israeli forces, describing his condition as “critical.”
Local sources said that the area where the Palestinian was injured is among those from which the Israeli army withdrew under the ceasefire agreement.
A 15-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Joura Al-Lout area, south of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, from which the army had withdrawn under the agreement, a medical source told Anadolu.
Another Palestinian sustained a gunshot wound to the thigh after the Israeli naval opened fire off the coast of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, medical sources and eyewitnesses told Anadolu.
Israeli warplanes also carried out a series of airstrikes on various areas north and west of Rafah.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army carried out demolitions of residential buildings in eastern Khan Younis, accompanied by artillery shelling of areas that are under its control under the agreement.
Separately, Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes on different areas in northern Gaza and east of Gaza City.
In central Gaza, Israeli military vehicles opened indiscriminate fire toward the eastern areas of the Bureij refugee camp. … Full article
By Muhammad Hamid ad-Din – New Eastern Outlook – January 4, 2026
… Project Nimbus turned out to be not just a tool of repression but also a strategic Trojan horse.
The discovery by cyber groups supporting Palestinian resistance of backdoors and vulnerabilities in these centralized cloud systems showed the West’s multibillion-dollar investments in Israeli “security” are not just immoral—they are strategically flawed. They fund not a stable technological leader, but a fragile, militarized regime whose digital walls, built by American engineers, are crumbling under the pressure of determined resistance.
Thus, Silicon Valley and the Pentagon have become not just accomplices, but architects and suppliers of the infrastructure for crimes, turning Palestinian territories into a testing ground for their most inhumane software and hardware. … Read full article
By Robert Inlakeesh | The Last American Vagabond | January 2, 2026
… When it came to the Israeli attack on Iran, most reports do not mention that the majority of Tel Aviv’s actions were carried out by Iranian agents on the ground. Even the initial wave of Israeli airstrikes—which were overall the most effective portion of its offensive and resulted in the killing of dozens of Iranian generals and nuclear scientists, and damage to nuclear facilities—had a large component carried out on the ground.
According to Israel’s Channel 13 News, at the start of the 12-Day War in June 2025, the Mossad deployed approximately 100 foreign operatives into Iran. These agents installed and operated heavy missile systems that had been smuggled into the country. Their mission was to target Iranian ballistic missile launchers and air defense batteries. This highly-coordinated operation—described as the largest ever conducted by the Mossad in Iran—was critical to neutralizing Tehran’s air defenses during the initial strikes. … Read full article
By Robert Inlakeesh | Palestine Chronicle | January 4, 2026
… The Israelis are clearly attempting now to use their agents to inflict instability. If they see any success, they will only accelerate their plot. At their disposal are al-Qaeda-linked terrorist groups that act in areas like Sistan and Baluchistan; they also have Kurdish armed separatist movements that they work with and can trigger to act, in addition to various armed cells that undoubtedly still exist throughout the country.
Although Iran may have managed to uncover some Mossad networks, it has to be assumed that they have not succeeded in rooting out this issue entirely. If anything, the Israelis would have surely been working to ensure that they secure as many assets there as possible. … Read full article
Al Mayadeen | January 4, 2026
Iran’s Police Chief Ahmad Reza Radan said on Sunday that recent protests in the country initially began as “legitimate economic demonstrations by bazaar merchants,” but later “turned into acts of rioting.”
In remarks broadcast on Iranian state television, Radan said security forces have been arresting those involved in stirring unrest over the past two days, adding that some detainees have admitted to receiving payments in US dollars.
His comments align with statements made earlier this month by Iran’s leadership, which described the sharp decline in the national currency as “unnatural” and linked it to external interference seeking to exploit legitimate economic grievances. Iranian officials have repeatedly stressed the need to distinguish between peaceful protest and organized acts of unrest.
Separately, Iranian police in Lorestan Province arrested two individuals accused of rioting and carrying out acts of sabotage. Authorities said the suspects were found in possession of weapons and explosive materials. … Full article
RT | January 4, 2026
A group of self-described climate activists has claimed responsibility for a massive power outage that hit five districts in southwestern Berlin, saying the action targeted the fossil fuel industry and “the rich.”
Up to 50,000 households and 2,200 commercial entities were affected by the blackout in the early hours of Saturday, a spokesman for the local electricity provider, Stromnetz Berlin, told the Berliner Zeitung. “Full restoration of power supply” is expected no sooner than January 8, according to the company. The residents of the affected areas would have to remain without power in “freezing temperatures” ranging from -7C to -1C, the paper reported.
Police are treating the incident as a targeted arson attack, according to local media. The blackout was caused by a blaze that hit a power bridge over the Teltow Canal, which goes through the southern part of the city. Several nursing homes and elderly care centers had to be evacuated because of the incident, according to a local fire department. … continue
RT | January 4, 2026
Factory activity in Europe’s 20-nation single currency bloc declined in December as production fell for the first time in ten months, weighed down by sharp drops in new orders, data compiled by S&P Global has revealed.
The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), a key gauge of sector health, dropped to 48.8 in December from 49.6 in November, its lowest reading in nine months and, for the second month running, coming in below the 50 mark separating growth from contraction. Germany, the bloc’s largest economy, posted the weakest performance among eight monitored nations, with PMI at a ten-month low. Italy, Spain, and Austria also slipped into contraction. … Full article
Sputnik – 04.01.2026
The death toll from the US incursion in Venezuela has risen to 80, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing a senior Venezuelan official.
Civilians as well as members of the country’s security forces are among those killed in the attack, the report said. Their number may still go up, the newspaper added.
On Saturday, Trump said that the US had conducted a major strike on Venezuela, capturing Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and removing them from the country. Media outlets reported explosions in Caracas, attributing the raid to US Delta Force units. … Full article
US President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez might have to pay an even higher price than Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro if she did not make the “right” decisions.
Trump said on Saturday that the US would not send troops to Venezuela if Rodriguez did what Washington wanted from her. The US leader claimed that Rodriguez was willing to cooperate with the US.
“If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” Trump said in a telephone interview with the Atlantic magazine.
Trump also said that the US “absolutely” needed Greenland as the Danish island is allegedly surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships.
“We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Trump said.
The island, which is part of Denmark, a NATO ally, is allegedly “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships,” the US president added.
By Raphael Machado | Strategic Culture Foundation | January 4, 2026
… What is evident … is that we have here a significant change in the international panorama. The USA treated the operation as a “police action” – Maduro is being indicted for crimes ranging from drug trafficking to possession of machine guns (!) in violation of U.S. firearms legislation (!!), treating Venezuelan territory, in practice, as if it were U.S. territory.
The mutual recognition between countries as sovereign states and, therefore, legitimate belligerents in case of conflict, implying obedience to certain rules of engagement, constitutes a significant achievement of civilizations. The criminalization of foreign sovereigns opens the door to savagery and to unlimited conflicts devoid of rules of civility. … Read full article
Sputnik – 04.01.2026
While kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, US military personnel killed most of their security guards and some civilian staff, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said on Sunday.
“The Bolivarian national armed forces strongly reject the cowardly kidnapping of citizen Nicolas Maduro Moros, constitutional resident of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and our Commander in Chief, as well as his wife, First Lady, Dr. Cilia Flores de Maduro. The crime was committed yesterday, on Saturday, January 3rd, after a significant part of his security team – military personnel and innocent civilians – was murdered in cold blood,” Padrino Lopez said while addressing the nation. … Full article
By Liu Xuanzun and Liang Rui | Global Times | January 3, 2026
… Wang Yunfei, a Chinese military affairs expert, told the Global Times on Saturday that the seemingly relatively smooth US military operation could be partially because of the initial air strikes and possible electronic warfare attacks that sabotaged and jammed the Venezuelan air force and air defense capabilities, allowing US helicopters carrying Delta Force units to conduct airborne operations and penetrate Maduro’s residence. He added that the Delta Force units involved are experienced elite operators.
Venezuela’s defense capabilities could be vulnerable facing the US, especially when having intelligence about his whereabouts, according to Wang.
Zhang Junshe, another Chinese military affairs expert, also highlighted the potential intelligence advantages of the US side. He noted that the US has a history of using its agencies such as the CIA to gather intelligence, including buying over military commanders or officials with knowledge about the mission objective.
From a military operational point of view, other militaries around the world will likely see the latest US military operation as a case study, Zhang told the Global Times. “The US has repeatedly conducted similar military operations to overthrow regimes. Such operations are not just tactical operations, but they have deep political and strategic implications,” Zhang said. … Full article
Sputnik – 04.01.2026
The United States launched an operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, spearheaded by a cyberattack that caused power outages in many areas of Caracas, a newspaper reported, citing unnamed officials familiar with the mission details.
On Saturday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine said that more than 150 aircraft participated in the Venezuelan president’s capture.
The cyberoperation enabled planes, drones and helicopters to approach undetected, according to the report.
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said that the US had conducted a major strike on Venezuela, capturing Maduro and his wife and removing them from the country.
Media outlets reported explosions in Caracas, attributing the raid to US Delta Force units.
The New York Times reported, citing a senior Venezuelan official, at least 40 deaths, including military and civilians. … Full article
RT | January 4, 2026
Any prolonged US effort to control Venezuela would likely face fierce resistance similar to what Washington encountered during the Vietnam or Iraq wars, Daniel Shaw, a professor of Latin American Studies at City University of New York, has told RT.
In an interview aired on Sunday, the scholar suggested that Venezuelans would not accept foreign rule following the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during an unprecedented US raid on Caracas.
“This is going to spill open into a type of Vietnamese resistance or Iraqi resistance,” Shaw said.
Shaw said that on top of Maduro’s “anti-imperialist leadership,” Venezuela’s policies had been shaped by nearly three decades of what he described as political training in “chavismo,” referring to the socialist policies of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
“The Venezuelan people … are never going to allow for the US to take them over,” he said. … continue
Al Mayadeen | January 4, 2026
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ) has ordered Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to assume the role of acting president, following the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro by US forces. The decision was issued by the Constitutional Chamber and read publicly by its president, Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez, on state broadcaster Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
“In light of the exceptional situation created by the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro Moro, President of the Republic, which constitutes a case of material and temporary impossibility for him to exercise his functions, [we] order that the Executive Vice President of the Republic assume and exercise in an acting capacity all the powers, duties, and functions inherent in the office of President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in order to ensure administrative continuity and the comprehensive defense of the nation,” Caryslia Rodríguez stated.
The court concluded that extraordinary circumstances and force majeure exist—conditions not explicitly outlined in the Constitution but severe enough to threaten the stability of the state, national security, and the continuity of government. In response, the Constitutional Chamber adopted what it described as an “urgent and preventive protective measure” to safeguard the functioning of the Venezuelan state.
Shortly after the announcement, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry released a statement formally recognizing Rodriguez as Venezuela’s acting president.
“We recognize Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as the interim president of Venezuela, in light of the absence of President Nicolás Maduro, who is currently being held in the United States.” … Full article
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