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Trump’s Military Escalation Against Venezuela Repeats the Iraq War Blueprint

By Manolo De Los Santos October 15, 2025

A US Army soldier watching a burning oil well at Rumaila oil field in Iraq in April 2003. Photo: US Navy

The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the “war on drugs,” the United States is actively executing a blueprint for military intervention in Venezuela, employing lethal force and projecting power in a manner that legal institutions and regional leaders have condemned as a profound threat to international order. This aggression is not a law enforcement operation; it is the negation of law, a neocolonial revival of the Monroe Doctrine, designed to shatter the sovereignty of Venezuela, seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves, and install a compliant regime. (more…)

Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina

By Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and John Perry on October 14, 2025

image: Depositphotos

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” (more…)

A Revolutionary in Politics and Photography

By David Bacon on October 1, 2025

Tina Modotti [publicity still as “Rosa Carilla” in “Riding with Death”, 1921, photographer unknown]

Jeannette Ferrary, a fine photographer whose work has a rare and brilliant sense of humor, drew my attention to the obituary for Tina Modotti in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/obituaries/tina-modotti-overlooked.html).  I’m glad that the NYT series of obits on women who were ignored when they died chose to do one for Modotti.  The author, Grace Linden, deserves credit for getting acknowledgement in the Times for this radical hero, 83 years after her death.  Linden gives a good account of the work she did as a photographer in Mexico in the 1920s, where she is regarded as a founder of Mexican socially radical photojournalism and documentary work. (more…)

Open Letter from Pérez Esquivel to María Corina Machado – from Nobel to Nobel

By Adolfo Pérez Esquivel on October 14, 2025

Adolfo  Esquivel, foto: Bill Hackwell

I send you greetings of peace and goodwill, which humanity and the peoples living in poverty, conflict, war, and hunger so desperately need. This open letter is to express and share some thoughts with you. (more…)

Fidel, the Art of Words: “Enough Words! We Need Action!”

October 12, 2025 from Havana

Fidel speaking at the UN for the second time, October 12, 1979

On October 12, 1979, in the “20th Year of Victory” for the Cuban people, Fidel returned to the same United Nations chamber where two decades earlier he had delivered his legendary four-hour speech, the longest in the history of this international organization. On this occasion, he addressed the audience as president of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to present the results of its Sixth Summit, which had just been held in Havana. Would the Cuban leader be able to deliver a speech as significant as the first time? (more…)

The US:  Deciphering Trump’s “Indecision” on Venezuela

By William Serafino October 13, 2025

Resumen is running this article to give a different angle of the possible direction that the imperial intentions of the Trump Administration might go in its aggression against Venezuela. While tensions remain high and no matter what comes next it must be remembered that the end goal for the empire is to end the Bolivarian Revolution of Chavez that has continued under the leadership of Maduro. – editor (more…)

Migration, the Essence of Humanity

By Ivan Restrepo on October 13, 2025

Migration is neither a recent phenomenon nor unique to a particular part of the world. foto: AFP

In February 1947, Eleanor Roosevelt, writer and activist, and wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945); Peng Chun Chang, Chinese scholar, philosopher, human rights activist, and diplomat; and Charles Habib Malik, Lebanese scholar, diplomat, and philosopher, began drafting what would become known a year later as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was adopted by the countries that were part of the nascent United Nations (UN). It was a response to the “acts of barbarism outrageous to the conscience of mankind” committed during World War II. The declaration was signed at the Chaillot Palace in Paris. (more…)

When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, ‘Peace’ Has Lost Its Meaning

Far from a symbol of peace, the article exposes Machado’s history of supporting coups, sanctions, and calls for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

By Michelle Ellner on October 11, 2025

Machado, known for her incendiary speeches

When I saw the headline Maria Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize, I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering. Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics. (more…)

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