Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

My full AJ Forum speech last week: the common enemy of humanity is THE SYSTEM that has enabled the genocide in Palestine, including the financial capital that funds it, the algorithms that obscure it and the weapons that enable it.

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@rezabesharati @Bannons_WarRoom @MarkJCarney fcuk off f.a.s.c.i.s.t. clearly, ur into dictators. maybe try saudi arabia or stay/ move to the usa. iran will always stay a democracy and vile dictators like the shah or his son will never again set foot in that courageous country. palestina liberation chai!!

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@Bannons_WarRoom @MarkJCarney fcuk off f.a.s.c.i.s.t. that's all ur about. this is not 1938 austria. we'll be fighting f.a.s.c.i.s.m., not embracing it! 🖕🏻🤡!

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@astraiaintel fcuk off, 🤡!

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@Nervana_1 more z.i.o.n.a.z.i. toxic a.s.s. vomit! nice try, g.e.n.o.c.i.d.a.l. baby k.i.l.l.i.n.g. n.a.z.i. s.o.c.i.o.p.a.t.h.i.c. 🤡! how's the weather outside ur h.a.s.b.a.r.a. farm in negev desert? m.a.v.e.t. le yisrael! m.a.v.e.t. le i.o.f! m.a.v.e.t. le z.i.o.n.i.s.m! palestina chai!

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@teameffujoe ur a sick nihilistic fuck. u and people like u r the reason the usa is in moral decline. fuck off, sociopathic human scum. 🖕🏻🖕🏻

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Hello friends. I am Yanis Varoufakis stealing a few of your moments to tear up, in front of you, the invitation to appear in the 2026 Adelaide Writers’ Week to present my new book RAISE YOUR SOUL. I was looking forward to returning to Adelaide for what has been for decades a brilliant festival of books, ideas and debate. No longer. The Zionist Lobby destroyed it. By forcing the Board to disinvite fellow author Randa Abdel-Fattah. By identifying even Bob Carr, the former Premier of NSW and Australia’s former foreign minister, an individual “of concern”. By forcing the Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, my marvellous, Jewish friend Louise Adler, to resign, they left me with no option other than to tear up my coveted invitation in public. As Louise says, friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future. They are coming for you.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Likely raped to death.
A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics.
Likely raped to death.

The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and allegations of rape and other forms of mistreatment and torture that Palestinians have suffered in Israeli jails, is absolutely sickening.

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@ButchWare @AbbyMartin as did general smedley butler in his 1935 book 'war is a racket' characterizing american forces as a more efficient Al Capone: "Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was 2 operate his racket in 3 districts. I operated on 3 continents."

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

Today an armed terror group assassinated an opponent of their assaults against migrants. Incredibly Canada still treats US as place where migrants & refugees receive fair treatment. Our NDP leadership platform calls to "Withdraw from Safe Third Country Agreement" & place "moratorium on deportations and detentions." Read: https://t.co/nkdJaohDxf

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

@1stAntifederal https://t.co/z4Voh1sz7B

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

Geopolitics Prime decodes the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ in my 'Barbaria' column.

Let's cut to the chase. The hit on Venezuela had three core goals beyond seizing oil collateral for a bankrupt empire:

1️⃣ Bellum Judaica: Caracas's support for Palestine and condemnation of the "Zionist plague" made it a target. This operation is the "Zionroe Doctrine"—a Forever War warning to the Global South. Oppose us, be branded 'amalek.' Delcy Rodríguez identified the raid's "Zionist tinge" immediately.

2️⃣ Heavy Metal Thunder: Within 24 hours, an $8 billion deal was struck to process $1 trillion of Venezuelan gold & silver from the Arco Minero. J.P.Morgan financed it, desperate to cover a massive physical silver short. This is pure resource looting.

3️⃣ The Petrodollar: The real target is monetary sovereignty. The Empire cannot allow Venezuelan oil to be sold in yuan, ruble, or a BRICS gold-backed mechanism. Venezuela joining China's CIPS system was the ultimate red line.

🏴‍☠️ The failed coup reveals the new rule: "My Might is Right." International law is dead. The plunder is explicit. The Global South must see this and unite, or be picked off one by one.

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

Canada has spent decades undermining Venezuelan democracy
As part of justifying Trump’s crass imperial aggression in Venezuela Canadian officials have taken up the mantra of “democracy”.

In one post on the weekend Mark Carney opined about “the democratic will of the Venezuelan people” while in a follow-up statement the prime minister boasted that “Canada has not recognised the illegitimate regime of Maduro since it stole the 2018 election.” But Canadian hostility to the independent, socialist minded government dates to a time when no credible observer questioned the government’s electoral legitimacy.

Ottawa has been hostile to the Venezuelan government for over two decades. The Jean Chretien government wasn’t overly concerned about democracy in April 2002 when the military took President Hugo Chavez prisoner and imposed an unelected government. Ottawa passively supported a coup, which lasted only 48 hours before popular demonstrations, a split within the army and international condemnation returned Chavez. While most Latin American leaders condemned the coup, Canadian diplomats were silent. “In the Venezuelan coup in 2002, Canada maintained a low profile, probably because it was sensitive to the United States ambivalence towards Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez,” writes Flavie Major in Promoting Democracy in the Americas.

Taking up his post three months after the coup, Canada’s ambassador to Venezuela, Allan Culham was hostile to Chávez. According to a WikiLeaks publication of US diplomatic messages, “Canadian Ambassador Culham expressed surprise at the tone of Chavez’s statements during his weekly television and radio show ‘Hello President’ on February 15 [2004]. Culham observed that Chavez’s rhetoric was as tough as he had ever heard him. ‘He sounded like a bully,’ said Culham, more intransigent and more aggressive.”

The US cable quoted Culham criticizing the national electoral council and speaking positively about the group overseeing a presidential recall referendum targeting Chavez. “Culham added that Súmate is impressive, transparent, and run entirely by volunteers,” it noted. The name of then head of Súmate, Maria Corina Machado, was on a list of people who endorsed the coup against Chavez, for which she faced charges of treason. Machado signed the now-infamous Carmona Decree that dissolved the National Assembly and Supreme Court and suspended the elected government, the attorney general, comptroller general, and governors as well as mayors elected during Chavez’s administration. It also annulled land reforms and reversed increases in royalties paid by oil companies.

In January 2005, Global Affairs invited Machado to Ottawa. Machado oversaw Súmate, an organization at the forefront of efforts to remove Chavez as president. Just prior to this invitation, Súmate led an unsuccessful campaign to recall Chavez through a referendum in August 2004.
Canada also financed Súmate. According to disclosures made in response to a question by NDP foreign affairs critic Alexa McDonough, Canada gave Súmate $22,000 in 2005. Minister of International Cooperation José Verner explained that “Canada considered Súmate to be an experienced NGO with the capability to promote respect for democracy, particularly a free and fair electoral process in Venezuela.”

In fact, alongside large sums from Washington, Canada has provided millions of dollars to groups opposed to the Venezuelan government over the past two decades. According to a 2010 report from Spanish NGO Fride, “Canada is the third most important provider of democracy assistance” to Venezuela after the U.S. and Spain. In a 2011 International Journal article Neil A. Burron describes an interview with a Canadian “official [who] repeatedly expressed concerns about the quality of democracy in Venezuela, noting that the [federal government’s] Glyn Berry program provided funds to a ‘get out the vote’ campaign in the last round of elections in that country.” You can bet it wasn’t designed to get Chavez supporters to the polls.

The Stephen Harper government didn’t hide its hostility to Chavez. When Chavez was re-elected president with 63 per cent of the vote in December 2006, 32 members of the Organization of American States — which monitored the election — supported a resolution to congratulate him. Canada was the only member to join the U.S. in opposing the message.

Just after Chavez’s re-election, Harper toured South America to help stunt the region’s rejection of neoliberalism and U.S. dependence or as a Global Affairs official told Le Devoir “to show [the region] that Canada functions and that it can be a better model than Venezuela.” During the trip, Harper and his entourage made several comments critical of the Chavez government. Afterwards the prime minister continued to demonize a government that had massively expanded the population’s access to health and education services. In April 2009 Harper responded to a question regarding Venezuela by saying, “I don’t take any of these rogue states lightly.” A month earlier, the prime minister referred to the far-right Colombian government as a valuable “ally” in a hemisphere full of “serious enemies and opponents.”

After meeting opposition figures in January 2010, Minister for the Americas Peter Kent told the media, “Democratic space within Venezuela has been shrinking and in this election year, Canada is very concerned about the rights of all Venezuelans to participate in the democratic process.”
The head of Canada’s military joined the onslaught of condemnation. After a tour of South America in early 2010, Walter Natynczyk wrote: “Regrettably, some countries, such as Venezuela, are experiencing the politicization of their armed forces.” (A Canadian general criticizing another country’s military is, of course, not political.)

After Chavez died in 2013 Harper declared that Venezuelans “can now build for themselves a better, brighter future based on the principles of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights.” But when Maduro won the presidential election later that year Ottawa called for a recount, refusing at first to recognize the results.

In response to Venezuela’s economic troubles, the rightward shift in the region and Donald Trump’s hawkishness, Canada ramped up its bid to oust Venezuela’s elected president in 2017. Under Chrystia Freeland’s direction Canada helped create the Lima Group, imposed sanctions, broke off diplomatic relations, took Venezuela to the International Criminal Court and recognized a marginal opposition figure as president in January 2019.

None of this had anything to do with an equal voice for every Venezuelan. Rather it was about trying to keep a country trying to go its own way in line with the US empire.

Canadian support for the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro has nothing to do with “democracy”.
https://t.co/MszxSsxMVs

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

🎉Victory! Swiss🇨🇭court rules my detention was illegal, violated Constitution and European Convention on Human Rights:

I’m delighted that the Administrative Court of the Canton of Zurich ruled on 19 December 2025 that my arrest and detention by Zurich police last year was unlawful and violated the Swiss constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.

This decision, received on 5 January, totally vindicates my position that there was no legal basis whatsoever for me to be abducted off the street by plainclothes officers on 25 January 2025, while I was on my way to speak at an event focused on the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

I was thrown in a cell for three days, without being allowed to contact my family or communicate with the outside world, and then forcibly deported.

These illegal actions ensured that I was unable to participate in public or media events aimed at informing people in Switzerland about the genocide in Gaza and the complicity of Swiss institutions in these ongoing crimes.

The court confirmed that Zurich police violated Swiss law and fundamental constitutional guarantees as well as Article 5, Paragraph 2, of the European Convention on Human Rights – because there was no lawful basis for my detention, no lawful order was ever issued for my detention and I was never provided with valid reasons for my imprisonment or information on how long it would last.

The court has ordered the Canton of Zurich to pay my legal costs for this appeal, and in line with Swiss procedure, I intend to apply for compensation for my unlawful and unconstitutional detention. I will donate any compensation I receive to the direct benefit of survivors and victims of the Israeli genocide.

This clear legal victory concerns only one of the appeals I have filed seeking accountability for these unlawful acts – whose wider purpose, I believe, is silencing and deterring any public discussion of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.

I currently have two more appeals pending before Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court – one against the entry ban imposed after I arrived in the country legally and another against the expulsion order which was subsequently issued.

I have also filed criminal complaints in connection with this matter.

In November, a Swiss parliamentary committee concluded that there was a series of irregularities surrounding my arrest, and evidence of improper interference by Nicoletta della Valle, a senior federal police official with close ties to Israel.

I thank my lawyers for their diligent pursuit of accountability on my behalf. I thank countless people in Switzerland and all over the world for their support, especially all my colleagues at The Electronic Intifada.

Up to this point, my pursuit of accountability has been supported entirely by donations from the public through a crowdfunding campaign, so I want to thank each and every person who contributed to make this important initial victory possible.

In these days of cowardice and complicity by governments in the face of shocking and monstrous crimes, it is more important than ever that citizens everywhere speak out. It is therefore vital that we fight back fiercely when our right to speak is attacked by government repression.

This statement with relevant links on @intifada:
https://t.co/Y9DUvDczxQ

If you wish, you can contribute to legal expenses for the ongoing cases here. Thank you!
https://t.co/SQHKur3EYA

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@ThomasVLinge fckin i.d.i.o.t! reducing analysis to a popularity contest! maybe u would have more credibility if u criticized someone's work based on the merits of their analysis rather than an ad hominem attack based on how many guests they might or might not have!

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@netanyahu @realDonaldTrump u'll have all the time in the world to s.i.e.g. h.e.i.l. trump from ur hague prison cell. if u don't d.i.e. from ur a.s.s. cancer first! u fcukin white t.r.a.s.h. n.a.z.i. and genociding baby k.i.l.l.i.n.g. sociopathic 💩!

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@MummyisT @netanyahu @DovBiso @realDonaldTrump what was ur area of study? how to g.e.n.o.c.i.d.e. babies and children? how to spread a.s.s. vomit h.a.s.b.a.r.a? or maybe how to be a good little n.a.z.i. 101?

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@iamspritz @netanyahu @realDonaldTrump sure. hitler also thought nazism should spread globally. too bad for baby k.i.l.l.i.n.g. g.e.n.o.c.i.d.e.r.s. like u that ain't going to happen. instead, u'll be h.u.n.t.e.d. d.o.w.n. like the 🪳 that u r until ur finally caught and e.l.i.m.i.n.a.t.e.d. like all n.a.z.i.s!

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@MouinRabbani @HungaryBased the absurdity of beating a dead horse.

[Hans-Peter Kohnke😱🍉🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻🔑 @hanskohnke]

@AnitaAnandMP i guess barrick gold will be very happy now. canada, like the usa, is the best democracy money can buy!! yeah!!!

soon u'll be swinging the doors wide open 4 american corporations 2 waltz right in 2 privatize our public services. kind of what ur doing to venezuela!! yeah again!!