President Donald Trump entered office backed by fossil-fuel executives, hedge-fund financiers, and the AI-military industrial complex, then used sanctions, military pressure, and trade coercion against Venezuela to dismantle national control over its oil

Following overnight U.S. airstrikes on Caracas, the seizure of President Nicols Maduro, and President Donald Trumps declaration that Washington will take control of Venezuelas oil and effectively run the country, analysts Steve Ellner and Ricardo Vaz w

Paul Jay rejects the false choice between "Putin as a new Hitler" and the anti-NATO Left's defense of Russia. Under the UN Charter and Nuremberg principles, Russia's invasion is a war of aggression there was no imminent threat and no "sphere of influen

Paul Jay breaks down whats really driving Trumps aggressive moves against Venezuela in 2025. Spoiler: its not about drugs or democracyits about pushing China out of Latin America. In this conversation with Barry Stevens, Paul explains how China has

In Part Two, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson confronts the U.S. attacks on civilian boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacifickillings now broadcast openly on televisionand says they violate not only international law but the military code he lived by as an Arm

In Part One, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson explores how Trumps new National Security Strategy revives the Monroe Doctrine in a sweeping attempt to reassert U.S. dominance across the Americas. Pushing China out of Latin America, he argues, will not prevent a sh

Opposition figure Mara Corina Machado dedicates her Nobel Prize to Trump, even as analysts argue her path to power has relied on destabilization rather than peace, according to Venezuelanalysis Ricardo Vaz.

In part two of his conversation withBarry Stevens, nuclear weapons expert Hans Kristensen warns of mounting tensions with China, driven by exaggerated fears of its nuclear buildup and the growing risk of a Taiwan conflict. The U.S. response including T

In this powerful and timely conversation, Dr. John Izzo and Alain Gauthier sit down with award-winning filmmaker and journalist Paul Jay, whose upcoming documentary How to Stop a Nuclear War dives deep into the existential risks humanity continues to igno

As Trump vows to resume nuclear explosive testing, Hans Kristensen Director of the Nuclear Information Project at FAS, the worlds most authoritative source on global nuclear arsenals joins host Barry Stevens for an urgent conversation. Kristensen cal