In An Attempt to Offset Rising Oil Prices, Biden Administration Makes Nice with Brutal Saudis—But Spurns Socialist Venezuela
Daniel Kovalik - 3
Right-wing lobbies and ideological zealotry continue to prevent initiation of rational policy toward Venezuela
On June 2, Saudi-led OPEC and its allies announced it will accelerate oil production in July and August, as the cartel’s key player, Saudi Arabia, agreed to U.S. pleadings that it take action to cool crude...
Picking Up Where Bush, Obama, and Trump Left Off, Biden Extends U.S. Campaign to Crush Venezuela
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 11
On October 13th, Venezuela’s representative to the UN Samuel Moncada denounced plotting by the United States and Colombia against Venezuela’s democratically elected government at the UN Security Council.
In an eight-page letter to Security Council President Martin Kimani, Moncada detailed “bellicose” statements by Colombian President Iván Duque and by U.S. Navy Admiral...
CovertAction Bulletin – Trump Calls For Land War: U.S. Hands Off Venezuela
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
At the final Cabinet meeting of 2025, Donald Trump said that the strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean would continue, and that “We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too”—signaling that a ground invasion of Venezuela and possibly other countries may be imminent...
CovertAction Bulletin: U.S. Targets Venezuela on Behalf of ExxonMobil
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
The United States government is inserting itself into a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana on behalf of ExxonMobil. The oil-rich Essequibo region has the world’s biggest reserves per capita of crude oil and in May of this year, a “significant discovery” by ExxonMobil was announced in the area’s 6.6-million acre Staborek Block oil field...
Sanctions are a misnomer when it comes to Venezuela. Here, the U.S. isn’t “just” illegally punishing a nation-state to effect regime change by withholding necessary resources and key inputs that cause food shortages, grave illness, death and economic instability.
In Venezuela, the United States is also committing racketeer-level crimes against...
On The Ground in Caracas: Venezuelans Rally to Support Government in Face of Illegal Kidnapping of President
Jesús Velásquez - 0
Caracas: Saturday, January 3rd: The situation in Venezuela is certainly not easy; we are under attack. And this is a higher stage of that war. The Venezuelan government was warned and prepared for this—that is, there was an awareness that this would happen at some point. What was not...
The financial elite the CIA serves is now salivating over the prospects of U.S. corporations retaking control of Venezuela’s oil industry
The Trump administration welcomed the New Year by ordering a brazen Special Forces raid into Venezuela that resulted in the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was...
Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “Suffer Like Julian Assange,” according to UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur
Ed Rampell - 6
New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela
The U.S. imperialists “want Alex Saab like they want Julian Assange to suffer,” charges human rights and international law expert Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, who the...
CovertAction Bulletin: Nobel Peace Prize Paves Way for War With Venezuela
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he boasted he should for supposedly being the “peace President”—a claim we’ve debunked numerous times on this show...
They ask if our own nation was not using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without...










