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US Pursuing Third Tanker Near Venezuela As Trump Escalates Blockade

December 22, 2025 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. Educate! Oil Tankers, Sanctions, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

US forces tried to board a third oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as the Trump administration continues to escalate its declared blockade of the country, an action traditionally considered an act of war under international law. Sources told Bloomberg that the US was still in pursuit of the Bella 1 tanker, which was en route to Venezuela to be loaded with oil before it was boarded by US forces. The outlet initially reported that US forces had boarded the tanker. US officials told The New York Times that the Bella 1 refused to be boarded by the US and has fled to the northeast, into the Atlantic Ocean.

US Blockades Venezuela In War Still Searching For An Official Rationale

December 20, 2025 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Blockade, Trump Administration, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over a 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more recent “kinetic strikes.” Yet the officially stated justification for the US empire’s escalating offensive remains elusive. The empire once spun its domination as “democracy promotion.” Accordingly, State Department stenographers such as The Washington Post framed the US-backed coup in Venezuela – which temporarily overthrew President Hugo Chávez – as an attempt to “restore a legitimate democracy.”

Trump Admits He Wants To Take Venezuela’s Oil

December 19, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Oil, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Donald Trump has openly admitted that he wants to take Venezuela’s oil. Top US officials have made it clear that this is a key reason for their war on the South American nation. Trump declared an illegal naval blockade of Venezuela on December 16. The US government aims to prevent Venezuela from selling oil to China, to starve Caracas of export revenue. The Trump administration is also illegally blocking Venezuela from importing crucial goods, including the light crude and chemicals needed to process and refine its own heavy crude.

Trump Administration Approves More Than $11 Billion In Arms For Taiwan

December 19, 2025 Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com. Educate! China, Taiwan, Trump Administration, Weapons Sales

The State Department on Wednesday approved a series of arms deals for Taiwan worth more than $11 billion, including multiple types of missile systems and munitions, an announcement that China has strongly condemned. If the sales aren’t blocked by Congress, which is unlikely to happen since there’s virtually no opposition to arming Taiwan in Washington, they would exceed the $8.4 billion in arms sold to Taiwan during the Biden administration, according to The New York Times. According to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the arms deals include a total of eight sales.

Trump’s Cuts To Infrastructure Projects Harm Working People

December 18, 2025 The Stand, Portside. Educate! Austerity, Infrastructure, Jobs, Trump Administration, Worker Rights

You’re going to have the American dream back,” promised then-candidate Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2024. But nearly a year into the President’s second term, his administration is failing to live up to campaign promises. In fact, the Trump administration’s actions are pushing the dream of economic security and dignity even farther out of reach for working families across the U.S. Countless headlines have rightfully covered executive orders stripping a million federal workers of union rights. They’ve detailed legislation that defunds healthcare and nutrition programs while funneling money to massive corporations and billionaires.

US Racist Immigration Policy Toward Haiti Reinforces Imperialism

December 17, 2025 Black Alliance for Peace, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Haiti, Immigrant Rights, Migration, Sovereignty, Trump Administration, US Imperialism

On November 26th 2025, the Trump administration terminated Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti using nearly identical language to the TPS cancellations earlier this year for displaced Venezuelans and affecting upward of 353,000 Haitian migrants. In both cases, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that continued protections were “not in the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States,” affirming U.S. policy abuses redefine their “interests” at a whim. While the U.S. has long politicized displacement from leftist states like Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, casting migrants as evidence of socialism’s failure and selectively offering protections when it aligns with Washington’s broader regime-change goals, Haitian migration has been structurally and historically precarious.

US Prison Horror Show Plays On

December 17, 2025 John Kiriakou, Consortium News. Educate! Prisoner rights, Prisons, Trump Administration, United States

Hopes for a major restructuring of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) a year into President Donald Trump’s second term in office have come to naught. Trump in June named former federal prisoner Josh Smith as the BOP’s deputy director. It was a bold and, in my view, progressive move. While greeted with hostility from the union representing federal corrections officers, it inspired hope among the tens of thousands of prisoners in federal custody. Many of us thought that the next step would be something equally bold — perhaps to turn away from private prisons, which have cost the government millions of dollars in lawsuits because of wrongful deaths in custody, or perhaps to institute programming that would better prepare prisoners for release and for reintegration into society.

An Activist Guide To Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025

December 17, 2025 John Price, Rabble.ca. Educate! National Security Strategy, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

“We’re not just waiting around to see what happens,” said Mich González of the Southeast Dignity Not Detention coalition in New Orleans as they prepare to challenge ICE deportation raids in their communities. “We’re talking to our brothers and sisters that organized in Los Angeles, that organized in Chicago, that are organizing and continuing to protect each other in North Carolina, and we’re taking all their lessons,” said González Thousands of miles away, Chief Marilyn Slett of the Haíɫzaqv Nation and secretary-treasurer of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs declares: “We will not stand by while the Carney government and Alberta attempt to bulldoze our rights and disregard the catastrophic risks of a spill in the corporate profit interests of the global fossil fuel industry.”

Proposed EPA Cuts Further Imperil Environmental Protections In Cash-Strapped States

December 17, 2025 Joe Fassler, DeSmog. Educate! Environmental Protection Agency, Fossil Fuels, Liquefied Gas, Trump Administration

Massive cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have hampered state-level regulators’ ability to rein in pollution, according to a new report. And now, with the Trump administration pushing for even deeper cuts at the agency in 2026, many states across the country may be in a dire position. “If EPA’s capacity to do its job is further diminished, how prepared are our states to shoulder more responsibility for protecting us from these threats? Unfortunately, not well,” Jen Duggan, executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), the nonprofit behind the report, said in a Wednesday press conference on the findings.

Cost-Of-Living Crisis Persists For US Workers

December 13, 2025 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. Educate! Inflation, Trump Administration, US Economy, Working Class

“I’m drowning in debt,” says Samuel De La Cruz, a 34-year-old aspiring software engineer (once a highly stable, almost foolproof career) struggling to make ends meet. Stories like his are increasingly common for millions of US households. Yet, on December 9, the White House released a self-congratulating statement claiming that the cost-of-living crisis in the United States is being reversed under the Trump Administration. The president’s cartoonish claims of an “A++++” economy are starkly at odds with the day-to-day experience of the vast majority of the population.

DOJ Pressured Lawyers To ‘Find’ Evidence UCLA Tolerated Antisemitism

December 13, 2025 Peter Elkind and Katharine Mangan, Pro Publica. Educate! Anti-Semitism, California, Department of Justice, Higher Education, Trump Administration

On the morning of Thursday, July 31, James B. Milliken was enjoying a round of golf at the remote Sand Hills club in Western Nebraska when his cellphone buzzed. Milliken was still days away from taking the helm of the sprawling University of California system, but his new office was on the line with disturbing news: The Trump administration was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars of research funding at the University of California, Los Angeles, UC’s biggest campus. Milliken quickly packed up and made the five-hour drive to Denver to catch the next flight to California. He landed on the front lines of one of the most confounding cultural battles waged by the Trump administration.

CHOP Defends Rights Of Transgender Patients

December 11, 2025 Marie Kelly, Workers' World. Resist! CHOP, Health Care, Philadelphia, Transgender Rights, Trump Administration, Youth

A federal court in Philadelphia ruled in favor of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia blocking the Trump administration’s demand for the renowned hospital’s Gender and Sexuality Development Program to turn over confidential information about clinic patients. CHOP runs one of the largest clinics in the U.S. which provides medical care and mental health support for transgender and gender-nonbinary children and teens and their families. Each year since 2014, hundreds of new families seek care through the program.

House And Senate Agree To Make Draft Registration ‘Automatic’

December 10, 2025 Edward Hasbrouck, AntiWar.com. Educate! Military Draft, NDAA, Selective Service, Trump Administration

An amendment to the Military Selective Service Act to direct the Selective Service System (SSS) to try to register all potential draftees in the USA automatically has been included in the version of this year’s military authorization bill agreed to by a House-Senate conference committee and likely to be enacted into law within the next few weeks. This doesn’t mean that a draft is being activated right away, or that any or all of those “automatically” registered will be sent induction orders – although preparing to do so is the sole purpose of registration with or by the SSS.

Europe In Panic Over US Strategy For Stability With Russia

December 9, 2025 Alastair Crooke, Consortium News. Educate! European Union (EU), NATO, Trump Administration, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

A National Security Strategy (NSS) is produced periodically by U.S. administrations (President Donald Trump authored one during his first term). Mostly these documents lay out an idealised version of an administration’s foreign and security policy, and do not have great practical import — because of what is left out — i.e. entrenched U.S. political and economic interests; the deep foreign policy consensus overseen by the curator class of the deep security state; and the policies espoused by the mega donor collective. Nonetheless, this recently-released NSS reads rather differently by putting a distinctive “America First” gloss to U.S. foreign policy

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