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** Experts at oil & weapons-funded think tank: 'Go big' in Venezuela ([link removed])
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By Nick Cleveland-Stout on Dec 22, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image As the U.S. threatens ([link removed]) to take “oil, land and other assets” from Venezuela, staffers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank funded in part by defense contractors and oil companies, are eager to help make the public case for regime change and investment. “The U.S. should go big” in Venezuela, write ([link removed]) CSIS experts Ryan Berg and Kimberly Breier.
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** Ukraine's own pragmatism demands 'armed un-alignment' ([link removed])
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By Jennifer Kavanagh on Dec 22, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Eleven months after returning to the White House, the Trump administration believes it has finally found a way to resolve the four-year old war in Ukraine. Its formula is seemingly simple: land for security guarantees.
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** As expected, Netanyahu back demanding more war with Iran ([link removed])
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By Trita Parsi on Dec 21, 2025 10:52 am
Featured Image NBC News reports that Netanyahu’s key ask in his upcoming Dec 29 meeting with Trump is to convince the US to join Israel in restarting war with Iran ([link removed]) .
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** Marines know we don't kill unarmed survivors for a reason ([link removed])
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By James R. Webb on Dec 18, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image As the Trump Administration continues to kill so-called Venezuelan "narco terrorists" through "non-international armed conflict" (whatever that means), it is clear it is doing so without Congressional authorization and in defiance of international law.
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** House unable to halt Venezuela war march ([link removed])
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By Stavroula Pabst on Dec 17, 2025 07:23 pm
Featured Image Tonight the House of Representatives failed to pass a resolution ([link removed]) to prevent the use of unauthorized military force against Venezuela, amid escalating hostilities against it.
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** Trump's Venezuela oil obsession doesn't make sense ([link removed])
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By Karthik Sankaran on Dec 17, 2025 10:31 am
Featured Image In a post ([link removed]) yesterday evening, President Trump announced not only a complete blockade of Venezuela but also insisted that the country return “oil, land, and other assets they previously stole from us.”
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