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[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

They should teach this rebrand in marketing programs. Unparalleled success.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

In September 2022, Von der Leyen argued that Russia is taking semiconductors from dishwashers to keep its military going. Our media consistently repeats these lies about a collapsing Russia and a victorious Ukraine, which are intended to sound like supportive and pro-Ukrainian statements. It is the exact opposite. By exaggerating Russian weakness and Ukrainian strength, these people are selling a long war that will predictably destroy Ukraine. These people smear anyone arguing that Russia has legitimate security concerns that can be resolved by ending NATO expansionism, which is also intended to sound like support for Ukraine. It is the exact opposite. By claiming that recognition of Russian security concerns is an effort to "legitimise" the invasion or claiming that diplomacy "rewards" Putin, these people make a diplomatic solution impossible and thus sell a long war that destroys Ukraine. These people demand that all comments and analyses about the war must solely condemn Russia, which sounds supportive. Yet, the simplistic portrayal of a struggle between an aggressor and a victim is then used to argue that the aggressor cannot be rewarded in any settlement. These manipulative warmongers may dress up in the colours of Ukraine and Europe, but they are destroying both.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Even the drains are on fire in Tehran following attacks on its fuel depots. The US has unleashed an ecological disaster that will produce cancer and other diseases for decades. Yet, our shameless political-media establishment continue to sell the war as a humanitarian project

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Rubio: “Iran is run by religious fanatics.”

The White House right now:

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Putin: "We do not accept the new sanctions against Cuba. We have always supported Cuba's right to live by its own rules... This year is the centenary of Fidel Castro and we will celebrate it together."

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Canada's PM Mark Carney admits that the "rules-based international order" was a fraud. The rules-based international order has been a hegemonic system to promote sovereign inequality. The US and its allies had the sole prerogative to refer to liberal democracy and human rights to exempt themselves from international law, which was used selectively to maintain hegemony. Canada and the Europeans now find themselves on the outside of this system as the US can do to them what NATO has done to the world over the past 30 years.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The US will "de-colonize" Denmark by annexing Greenland. Stephen Miller will not rule out military force, and points out the weak Europeans will not fight back. After decades of enthusiastic support for US imperialism, Europe now finds itself on the receiving end.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The war started in 2014 when NATO countries toppled the government in Ukraine. On the first day after coup, the US and UK began rebuilding the new Ukrainian intelligence services from scratch as a proxy of the CIA and MI6. Recognising the root causes of the war is not "pro-Russian", but a necessity to resolve the conflict and save Ukraine.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Incredible new cartoon from @mluckovichajc. 🇻🇪🇺🇸

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

María Corina Machado, the far-right US-backed Venezuelan coup leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, promised a “massive privatization” if Trump can put her in power.

She vowed to sell off $1.7 TRILLION of Venezuela's oil, gas, gold, infrastructure, etc. to US corporations.

[Emme @GreenEmme]

@lesstenny Not at all

[Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers]

If the quote: “environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening” has ever resonated with you, I encourage you to listen to this chat from Jason Hickel: “why a liberated Palestine threatens global capitalism”

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

This 'charity' promoting the Land Forces weapons fair is more lucrative than you'd think. This is a serious rort
#auspol #vicpol

https://t.co/oZVGRiJRZt

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Many Israeli citizens were killed by Israeli forces on October 7.

28 Apache helicopters used all their ammunition and had to be reloaded.

Mainstream media is finally catching up to this mass Hannibal Directive.

Here’s our report with @pularjs on what really happened on Oct 7:

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

"Our Venezuela policy over the last year and a half has been an unmitigated disaster and if we aren't honest about that then we can't self-correct...

All we did was play all our cards on day one and it didn't work and it's just been an embarrassing mistake after mistake. First, we thought that getting Guaido to declare himself president would be enough to topple the regime. Then, we thought putting aid on the border would be enough. Then, we tried to sort of construct a kind of coup in April of last year and it blew up in our face when all the generals that were supposed to break with maduro decided to stick with him in the end."

- Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn), August 2020

[Emme @GreenEmme]

@elonmusk Fuck you are such a a cunt

[Emme @GreenEmme]

@mjrowland68 Bye 👋 she won’t be missed

[Greg Jericho @GrogsGamut]

When deciding to let the private sector deliver essential services to vulnerable people every govt should include in their planning the date for the Royal Commission that will be held into the abuses in the system.