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BLACK HOODS CAN’T COVER THE ISRAELI ARMY’S WAR CRIMES IN GAZA

Israel Is Covering Its Face: Out Of Shame, Perhaps, Or Guilt, Or Fear, And Presumably Out Of All Three. The New Trend Is For Officers Being Interviewed To Cover Their Faces With Black Hoods.

Lt. Col. T., a battalion commander in the Reserve Corps, says the rate for reservists reporting for duty is “impressive”; Maj. S., a Reserve Corps deputy battalion commander, says: “I left a fearless wife alone at home with three children who have returned to their routines and a business that has been put on hold. Nevertheless, we understand that we are on an important mission.” Both interviewees wear black hoods. They look like two bank robbers preparing for a heist; only their eyes are visible. Military-issued hoods have replaced the burglars’ classic nylon stocking. Presumably there is someone, and something, that needs to be concealed.

The first, as always, were the air force pilots. In every interview they wore the impressive helmet as well as dark sunglasses, lest someone recognize them. At first, the fear was that if a pilot were to fall from a plane in the middle of the night, his captors would recognize him from the TV interview. Thanks to the helmet and dark glasses, he’ll be able to claim that he’s a desk sergeant, or that he’s opposed to payments in the military. But with the rise in crimes committed by the pilots in Gaza, the disguise took on an additional important purpose: to keep our boys with “the right stuff” from being identified in The Hague, where they know what the pilots are up to.

Members of the security details of the prime minister and of a few cabinet members have recently joined the charade of mystery, concealment and self-aggrandizement. They wear black surgical masks, adding another dimension to what was already a grotesque spectacle of dozens of bodyguards aggressively fawning over a single individual, with great seriousness. Now the bodyguards, and not only their protectees, are sensitive targets. Add the masked guards to the wailing sirens and the endless motorcades and they have a certified banana republic. The black medical masks are the cherry on top. If the bodyguards once seemed like their finest, in the black masks they, too, have become mafia enforcers. Maybe that’s the goal.

But the new military hoods and bodyguard costumes are not only a caricature of self-importance; they also reflect a broader reality. At least some reservist officers who are going into Gaza this week are doing so knowing that they are supposed to commit horrific war crimes. They report for duty nevertheless. The hood is supposed to make it easier for them. It says that they have something to hide and something to fear.

The armed robber who sets out on his biggest heist knows that what he is doing is illegal, immoral and dangerous; that’s why he wears a nylon stocking. It’s the same for the officers going into the Gaza Strip. Perhaps a few of them are ashamed of their actions. It’s highly doubtful – the robbers, likewise, are not ashamed; most are afraid of getting caught. The fear of The Hague has fallen upon the military, as it should.

Not that this terror is justified. The wheels of justice in The Hague turn unbearably slowly. By the time they determine if genocide is taking place in Gaza, no one will be left there. Nor will Benjamin Netanyahu be extradited, despite the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant. Still, the fact that the officers are wearing hoods suggests that there is an understanding within the military that something is not right and caution is needed. Not caution regarding actions, but rather caution so as not to be caught as a result of them.

An army that cloaks its officers in black hoods is an army that understands that they are committing crimes, even if it does not admit to any of them. Eventually, even the people watching the officers who disguise themselves may come to recognize this fact.

A POLL INDICATES A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT RECOGNITION OF PALESTINE

As The Genocide In Gaza Approaches Its Second Anniversary, Israel’s Image Among Its Closest Allies Continues To Degrade Very Rapidly For Good Reason.

The poll found that 58 percent of American citizens believe all UN member states should recognize Palestine as a nation, while 33 percent opposed the idea, and nine percent did not answer.

Reuters/Ipsos said the six-day survey, which closed on Monday, followed announcements by Canada, Britain, and France that they intend to formally recognize Palestine.

The same poll found that 65 percent of respondents believe the American regime should take action in Gaza to aid the people being subject to starvation by Israel, while 28 percent disagreed.

The survey also noted that 41 percent of those who opposed American intervention were Republicans aligned with President Donald Trump, who, together with many in his party, have pushed an “America First” approach favoring cuts to international food and medical aid.

Regarding Israel’s military actions, the poll reported that 59 percent of respondents describe Israel’s response in Gaza as excessive, compared with 33 percent who disagree, up from the previous year’s numbers, showing 53 percent calling it excessive and 42 percent disagreeing.

These results highlight a sharp decline in Israel’s standing among American citizens, a trend reflected across several other major polls.

A poll in April 2025 found that 53 percent now view Israel unfavorably, up from 42 percent in March 2022.

A Gallup poll in July reported that only 32 percent support Israel’s military action in Gaza, while 60 percent disapprove.

A Brookings survey showed that 45 percent of voters believe Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, compared with 31 percent who disagreed.

The findings across polls attribute a number of factors to this shift in perception, including the mounting civilian death toll in Gaza, the prolonged nature of Israel’s assault, and generational divides that predate social media but have been amplified by it.

Research shows pro-Palestinian content dominates social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and X, amplifying earlier survey trends and exposing younger generations to uncensored images of Gaza’s destruction and starvation, making them increasingly unwilling to accept Washington’s continued backing of Israel’s war.

DID YOU NOTICE THAT THE FAKE CHARGE OF “ANTI-SEMITISM” IS LOSING ITS STING?

Much In The Same Way That The Great Awokening Sowed The Seeds Of Its Own Destruction, Israel Supporters Have Overplayed Their Hand.

In a viral interview in May, Piers Morgan spoke with Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom. In a highly revealing exchange, Morgan asked Hotovely if she knew how many children Israel had killed over the course of its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip:

Morgan: “Do you know how many Hamas terrorists you’ve killed and how many children you’ve killed? Do you know those two numbers?”

Hotovely: “I know the numbers that came from the IDF. I know the numbers that came from a very, very established think tank…We killed 30,000 terrorists in phase one of the war. Since the war is back, I don’t have the numbers, but let me tell you one thing. We never target civilians, so this question is irrelevant.”

Morgan: “How many children have you killed?”

Hotevely: “Piers, Israel is not killing children. Israel is not killing children. Hamas is using them as human shields.”

Morgan: Israel is killing children every single day. Why pretend otherwise?”

Hotevely: “Piers, this is a blood libel you’re putting on Israel.”

Let’s go ahead and assume, for the sake of argument, that Hotovely is telling the truth. Even if every single child killed in Gaza had been used as a human shield, would that absolve Israel of responsibility for killing them? Of course not.

Back in March 2024, a former ranking IDF officer told Haaretz that the Israeli military was engaged in a form of combat that was “unusually wasteful.” He accused the IDF of “attacking innumerable targets, without asking whether it’s worth attacking them,” using artillery “in places where it’s not really obligatory,” and “demolishing everything before entering.” What’s more, the officer argued that, by causing less destruction, ground forces would have ended up spending less time in Gaza, thereby exposing themselves to fewer casualties.

Israel is a developed country with a high-tech weapons industry. In the year following the October 7^th attack, it received $17.9 billion in security assistance from the United States. Israel has the ability to minimize civilian casualties; it chooses not to. In the minds of Israeli officials, the civilian population of Gaza is expendable. As a result, it’s justifiable to kill tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, especially when their lives are deemed less valuable than those of IDF service members. According to people like Tzipi Hotovely, the blame for such casualties always rests with Hamas, even when it’s Israel that carries out the death blow. And anybody who disagrees is motivated by anti-semitism.

By insisting that Israel is driven exclusively by a sense of benevolence, she can whitewash her government’s annihilation of the Gaza Strip. But the numbers don’t lie. According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, over 53,655 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. Of that number, 15,613 have been children. Is it anti-semitic to notice?

According to Hotovely, it is. By claiming that Morgan invoked the blood libel, she thinks she can obscure the awful truth and deny the destructive consequences of her preferred policies. Like all demagogues, she pins the blame on others while accusing her critics of rank bigotry and impure motives. Unfortunately for Hotovely, even Piers Morgan, who has tried to argue that intentionally killing civilians isn’t inherently evil, is wise to her act.

The claim that anti-semitism is ubiquitous has itself become a canard. Much in the same way that the Great Awokening sowed the seeds of its own destruction, Israel supporters have overplayed their hand. The anti-semitism card has lost its sting, and fewer and fewer members of the media class are willing to accept its premises.

Massie is no stranger to spurious accusations of anti-semitism. Back in 2023, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanded that Massie take down a meme he characterized as anti-semitic. Earlier this year, the Israel lobby declared preemptive war on his since-abandoned Senate ambitions. And Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Massie are no doubt motivated in part by the former’s subservience to AIPAC and pro-Israel donors like Miriam Adelson.

Massie’s willingness to continue opposing the American regime’s backing for Israel’s actions signify an undeniable sea change. At no other time have baseless allegations of anti-semitism been less effective. The more such accusations annoy and alienate people, the harder it will become for Israel to deny the fact that it is responsible for the mass murder of thousands of children.

NO JUSTIFICATION IS REQUIRED TO OPPOSE AN ONGOING GENOCIDE

Make No Mistake About Where The Moral Authority Stands Here. This Isn’t Something We Need To Be On The Defense About. It’s Something We Need To Be On The Attack About.

Opposing an ongoing genocide requires no explanation or justification.

You don’t have to justify why you care about stopping an ongoing genocide.

You don’t have to reassure anyone that your opposition to the ongoing genocide isn’t driven by hatred of Jews.

You don’t have to defend your prioritizing stopping an active genocide above all other issues.

You don’t have to explain why you’re paying more attention to this genocide than the other bad things that are happening in the world.

You don’t have to explain why a group of people shouldn’t be genocided just because some of them did a violent thing.

You don’t have to address all the arguments about why this time genocide is fine that are being made by the people who are committing the genocide.

You don’t have to take seriously those who deny the conclusions of all major human rights institutions and the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars who say that this is a genocide.

This isn’t something you ever need to be in a defensive posture about. This is the easiest, most straightforward moral issue of the 21st century. If you oppose this genocide, you are right, and anyone who disagrees with you is wrong. It really is that simple.

If someone tries to put you on the back foot about your passion regarding the Gaza holocaust, it is entirely legitimate to say “Opposing an active genocide requires no justification,” or “I refuse to defend my opposition to an ongoing live-streamed holocaust that’s backed by my own government.”

They’re the ones who are wrong. Make THEM defend their position. Put THEM on the back foot. Interrogate THEIR agendas. Cast suspicion on THEIR motives. Call THEM crazy and evil. Accuse THEM of racism and religious bigotry. Shout THEM down. Shut THEM up. They’re the ones doing something freakish and nefarious, not you.

The only reason anyone is expected to defend their opposition to the Gaza holocaust is because our own western governments support said holocaust. If this was being perpetrated by a government like Russia, China or Iran, the default expectation would be that we would oppose it, and anyone supporting it would be aggressively interrogated. It’s only because of blind, bootlicking subservience to our ruling power structure that our compatriots look at us askance when we say Israel is committing genocide with the support of its western allies.

Make no mistake about where the moral authority stands here. This isn’t something we need to be on the defense about. It’s something we need to be on the attack about.

They’re the ones who have no moral, factual or logical standing. They’re the ones who have to lie all the time to justify their position. Put them against the ropes and keep them there.

Take not one step backward.

THREE ILLEGAL FEDEX WEAPONS FLIGHTS FLEW THOUGH IRISH AIRSPACE TO ISRAEL LAST MONTH

Irish State Authorities Last Month Assisted Three FedEx Flights Through Irish Territory As They Illegally Carried F-35 Combat Jet Parts To An Israel Airbase.

State air navigation service AirNav Ireland helped the three flights on their journeys through Irish sovereign airspace despite taoiseach Micheál Martin last month calling for an end to the “killing of children” in Gaza.

The Ditch, Palestinian doctor Ahmed El Mokhallalati and Uplift launched legal proceedings against the government in July this year over its failure to prevent airlines, including FedEx, from illegally using Irish territory to transport munitions of war to Israel.

On August 11, 13, and 14, three FedEx flights from Memphis to Cologne were given clearance to fly through Irish sovereign airspace over Donegal – even though each was carrying multiple F-35 components to Nevatim IDF base in Israel.

The carriage of munitions of war through Irish airspace without permission from transport minister Darragh O’Brien is a criminal offence punishable by up to three years’ imprisonment.

The IDF uses F-35 fighter jets to drop 900-kilogramme bombs on Gaza.

The Irish government has been repeatedly warned since October 2024 that FedEx uses the Memphis-to-Cologne route to transport munitions of war to Israel.

The Department of Transport has been contacted for comment but no response was received.

THE “FOREVER” WAR DEPARTMENT

President Trump Made It Known Early Last Week That He Plans To Change The Pentagon’s Name From The Department Of Defense To The Department Of War.

This would not be the first time the Pentagon has held the more aggressive moniker. After World War II, the Truman administration reorganized the Department of War and renamed it the Department of Defense. This was meant to help centralize power over the different branches of the military.

Trump and his Fox News host-turned-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claim the change aims to reclaim and restore a “warrior ethos.” The true intention behind the change, however, is more dubious.

“The comments from the Administration and its supporters imply that the change from ‘Department of War’ to ‘Department of Defense’ in 1949 signaled a loss of resolve to use violence to achieve national objectives,” said senior fellow Matthew Hoh. “Of course, the body counts from American wars, all lost since that name change, tell otherwise.”

“Renaming a bully doesn’t change the bully’s nature,” said associate director Christian Sorensen. “Beholden to corporate interests, DOD will continue to bully independent nations and peoples until the American public unites and changes the profit-over-people economic system, whose will DOD implements.”

While Trump claims the name change is imminent, it will likely need Congressional approval. Since we have some time, other people have some new name suggestions.

They should be even more honest and call it: The Department of Threat Inflation and Forever War.

Or, like the Star Trek “Mirror, Mirror” episode, we should admit America has entered a parallel universe where our military is nakedly imperialistic and bent on total domination,” said senior fellow Bill Astore. “Here’s another possible name: The Department of Imperial War and Genocidal Domination. Motto: Respect Our Authority!”

“It clearly became the ‘Department of Imperial War and Genocidal Domination’ some time ago,” said senior fellow Coleen Rowley. “But before Trump came along, our insidious war propagandists must have still been a little worried about the old ‘Nuremberg Principle’ making wars of aggression the supreme crime. Trump’s just the little boy blurting out the truth of the Empire’s naked aggression.”

Senior fellow Karen Kwiatkowski pulled no punches in summarizing the harm that the Department of Defense inflicts around the world when she suggested it be renamed the “Department of Foreign Intervention, Genocide, Hubris, Threats, Nefarious ‘War Heroes’ and Over-Rated Equipment Sales.”

A grim status quo, indeed.

Finally, put most succinctly by senior fellow Ray McGovern: “I suggest: DOMA. The Department of Macho Assholes.”

Whatever the name is, the administration can’t erase the truth: the American regime’s policy of infinite, forever war is killing us all. It does so in a few main ways: direct and indirect deaths, including but not limited to civilians, American troops, and American contractors; underfunding public programs at home, such as infrastructure, transportation, healthcare, and education, in order to overfund the massive military budget; and polluting the soil, air, and water upon which all people rely.

“THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM” HAS BEEN REPLACED BY “THE ARABS HATE US BECAUSE OF OUR RELIGION”

In Both Cases The Answer Is No, They Hate You Because Of The Horrific Things Done To Them.

Israelis who say “the Arabs hate us because of our religion” are as self-evidently moronic as the Americans who said “they hate us for our freedom”. In both cases the answer is no, loony, they hate you because of the horrific things you do to them.

Western leaders who say they’ll recognize a Palestinian state while feebly calling on Both Sides to reach a ceasefire deal are just cuter, more photogenic versions of Netanyahu. They’re making empty noises to appear as though they’re doing something while refusing to actually lift a finger to stop the genocide.

They know Israel’s not going to make a permanent ceasefire deal because Netanyahu has explicitly stated that the slaughter won’t end until the ethnic cleansing of Gaza is complete. That’s why Tel Aviv is just ignoring the fact that Hamas agreed to a ceasefire a week and a half ago; there is absolutely nothing Hamas could agree to which would stop Israel from doing everything it needs to do to steal a Palestinian territory from the Palestinians who live there. The assault on Gaza has never been about removing Hamas; it has always been about removing the Palestinians.

Western leaders are pretending not to know this and promoting the false notion that Israel is basically acting in good faith in these negotiations, and that the only obstacle is Israel and Hamas being unable to successfully agree to terms. Participating in this mass deception while refusing to take any concrete actions to end the genocide is participating in the genocide. They’re not dropping the bombs or firing the bullets, but they’re helping to make sure they keep raining death and destruction on Palestinians.

They are Netanyahu with a nice guy smile. They are good cop Netanyahu.

After the Australian government announced its ASIO-sourced conclusion that Iran had directed multiple antisemitic attacks in Australia in order to “undermine social cohesion and sow discord,” a list of questions was published regarding the matter which included the following:

“7. What foreign intelligence agencies were involved in helping ASIO gather the information it used to make its assessment about the Iranian involvement in these incidents?”

Shortly thereafter, Sky News Australia ran a report titled “Sources reveal Israeli intelligence assisted ASIO investigation into Iran in major tip-off”.

So I guess we can consider that question answered.

One of the reasons socialists don’t focus on conspiracy analysis and the deep state as much as the right is because it’s not their only argument. It’s not that conspiracies and parapolitical power structures don’t exist, they absolutely do, but because you are not ideologically compelled to make excuses for the unavoidable abuses of capitalism we don’t need to act like any specific cabal of machiavellian elites is the source and summit of all our problems.

The rightist suffers from the delusion that capitalism would be working perfectly fine if a few nefarious individuals weren’t scheming behind the scenes ruining the capitalism for everyone. The leftist recognizes that corruption, corporatism, inequality and domination are the inevitable products of a profit-driven system under which the capitalist class are able to exploit the working class who have nothing to sell but their labor. We therefore often find it less important to focus on the specifics of the way those abuses are playing out, because we understand that even if you eliminated all the current oligarchs and their secret plans and the strings they pull to manipulate the official government, if you didn’t also replace our entire system with something radically different they’d be replaced by new oligarchic manipulators in short order.

The genocide in Gaza. Our dying biosphere. The fact that people struggle to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table while others fly private jets to private islands paid for by the exploitation of thousands of impoverished workers. The fact that the most powerful country on earth doesn’t have a real healthcare system. The fact that an empire-like alliance of western governments and their proxies keeps expanding its warmongering, militarism and nuclear brinkmanship around the world with the goal of complete planetary domination.

It is an indisputable fact that rich and powerful individuals conspire with each other to the detriment of ordinary people, and at times it can be useful to highlight who those individuals are and the things that they are doing. But the leftist sees people opening their eyes to these abuses as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. When the rightist spotlights those abuses it’s to say “Look what these individuals are doing! If we just removed these individuals from power everything would be working fine!” When the leftist does so, it’s to say “See these are the kinds of people who rise to the top under a system where human behavior is driven by the pursuit of profit, and profit is most readily obtained through exploitation, injustice and ecocide. These kinds of people will always rule over us until we have replaced that system with a different one.”

VENEZUELA HAS THE MOST OIL IN THE WORLD: THAT’S WHY THE AMERICAN REGIME WANTS TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY

Venezuela Holds The World’s Largest Proven Oil Reserves, More Than Five Times More Than The United States.

The Trump administration has announced plans for continued military operations against Latin American drug cartels, following an American strike on a Venezuelan vessel that killed 11 people on September 2^nd.

The United States has had a complex relationship with Venezuela, a country of roughly 30 million people, shaped by disputes over oil, politics and security concerns.

Nowhere is that tension more evident than in Venezuela’s oil economy: the country holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, yet today earns only a fraction of the revenue it once did from exporting crude.

HOW MUCH OIL DOES VENEZUELA HAVE?

Estimated at 303 billion barrels as of 2023, Venezuela is home to the largest known reserves of oil.

Saudi Arabia ranks second with 267.2 billion barrels, followed by Iran at 208.6 billion barrels and Canada at 163.6 billion barrels. Together, these four countries account for more than half of global oil reserves.

The United States, by comparison, holds about 55 billion barrels, placing it ninth globally. This means that Venezuela’s reserves are more than five times larger than those in America.

Globally, proven oil reserves, which measure the quantities of crude oil that are economically recoverable with current technology, total approximately 1.73 trillion barrels.

WHERE ARE VENEZUELA’S OILFIELDS?

Venezuela’s oil reserves are concentrated primarily in the Orinoco Belt, a vast region in the eastern part of the country stretching across roughly 55,000 square kilometres (21,235sq miles).

The Orinoco Belt holds extra-heavy crude oil, which is highly viscous and dense, making it much harder and more expensive to extract than conventional crude. Producing oil from this region requires advanced techniques, such as steam injection and blending with lighter crudes to make it marketable.

Because of its density and sulphur content, extra-heavy crude usually sells at a discount compared with lighter, sweeter crudes.

The country’s oil production is dominated by PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela, SA), the state-owned oil company, which controls most of the Orinoco Belt operations. PDVSA has historically faced challenges, including ageing infrastructure, underinvestment, mismanagement and the effects of international sanctions, all of which have limited Venezuela’s ability to fully exploit its vast reserves.

Venezuela has some of the cheapest gasoline (petrol) prices in the world, thanks to extensive government subsidies. As of September 2025, the price of 95 octane gasoline is 0.84 Venezuelan bolivars per litre, which is approximately $0.04 per litre or $0.13 per gallon. This is just slightly more expensive than in Libya and Iran, two other major oil-producing nations, where gasoline costs about $0.03 per litre or $0.11 per gallon. For comparison, the average price of gasoline around the world is $1.29 per litre or $4.88 per gallon.

HOW MUCH OIL DOES VENEZUELA EXPORT?

According to data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), Venezuela exported just $4.05bn worth of crude oil in 2023. This is far below other major exporters, including Saudi Arabia ($181bn), the US ($125bn), and Russia ($122bn).

In addition to crude, Venezuela exports smaller volumes of refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel, but these remain limited compared with its potential due to ageing refinery infrastructure, technical challenges and sanctions.

WHY HAVE OIL EXPORTS DWINDLED OVER TIME?

Venezuela was a founding member of OPEC, joining at its creation on September 14, 1960. OPEC is a group of major oil-exporting countries that work together to manage supply and influence global oil prices.

The country was once a major oil exporter, especially after PDVSA was created in 1976 and foreign oil companies were nationalised. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Venezuela supplied roughly 1.5 to 2 million barrels per day to the United States, making it one of America’s largest foreign oil sources.

However, exports began to decline sharply after Hugo Chavez was elected president in 1998, as he reshaped the country’s oil sector, nationalising assets, restructuring PDVSA, and prioritising domestic and political objectives over traditional export markets. Political instability, mismanagement at PDVSA and underinvestment in infrastructure also led to falling production.

The situation worsened under President Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez’s successor, when the Trump administration imposed American sanctions, first in 2017 and then tightened those in 2019. These measures restricted Venezuela’s ability to sell crude to America and limited access to international financial markets, further reducing the country’s oil exports.

As a result, exports to America virtually ceased, and Venezuela shifted much of its oil trade to China, which became its largest buyer, along with other countries such as India and Cuba.

VENEZUELA’S OIL EXPORTS RISE TO NINE-MONTH HIGH

Following more than three years without oil shipments, in November 2022, the American Department of the Treasury granted Chevron, one of the largest American multinational energy corporations, a short-term licence to resume limited oil production and exports from Venezuela. Chevron resumed some oil production and exports, but only at a limited scale, as the licence came with strict restrictions on the revenue generated from these activities.

In 2023, the Biden administration continued to renew Chevron’s licence, allowing it to carry out limited operations in Venezuela. The resumption of operations was part of a broader strategy aimed at increasing global oil supplies and pressuring Venezuela’s government to make political concessions.

While the licence allowed Chevron to resume its partnership with Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, the scope of operations remained limited by American sanctions, ensuring that the Venezuelan government did not directly benefit from the oil revenues.

With the return of the Trump administration in January 2025, after a successful bid for re-election, President Trump issued an executive order in March 2025, imposing a 25 percent tariff on all goods imported into the United States from any country that imports Venezuelan oil, either directly or indirectly. This measure was designed to put additional pressure on nations, such as China, Russia and India, that had been increasing trade with Venezuela despite American sanctions. The tariff aimed to curb the flow of Venezuelan oil into global markets while attempting to isolate the Maduro regime economically.

The tariff achieved limited success: India’s Reliance Industries stopped buying Venezuelan oil, but China continued its imports despite the threat of tariffs.

By September 3^rd, 2025, Venezuela’s oil exports surpassed 900,000 bpd, the highest level since November 2024, marking a nine-month high. However, exports remain significantly lower than their pre-sanction levels.

It should be clear to you that America’s international conflicts are primarily caused by attempts to take the assets of other countries that belong to their people not the American oligarchs.

AMERICAN SENATORS ARE DEMANDING A “MASSIVE SURGE” OF BABY FORMULA AND AID TO BE SENT TO GAZA

A Group Of Five Senators Sent A Letter To Marco Rubio Call On The American Regime To Use Its ‘Full Power’ To Help People Facing Starvation In Gaza.

The letter, led by Democrat Ruben Gallego of Arizona, comes as Gaza City and surrounding areas have been officially classified as experiencing famine by international monitors. More than 300 people, including at least 119 children, have died from hunger in Gaza since October 2023, according to health authorities.

The letter is also signed by senators Peter Welch of Vermont, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

The situation could significantly worsen in the coming days, as Israel announced on Friday that it will no longer pause fighting to allow aid deliveries in Gaza City, as the military prepares for a fresh ground operation.

“We write to you today with urgency about the grave crisis that infants in Gaza face as a result of severe restrictions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid,” the senators wrote in the letter, calling on the American regime to use its “full power and authority” to meet what they describe as a moral obligation.

The Senate letter follows a similar appeal last week from more than 100 House Democrats led by representatives Ayanna Pressley and Brittany Pettersen, who first called for a surge in baby formula deliveries to Gaza.

An August report from Save the Children found that 43% of pregnant and breastfeeding women seeking treatment in Gaza were malnourished. An estimated 65% of registered voters support the American regime taking action to help people facing starvation in Gaza, according to late August Reuters/Ipsos polling.

Israeli authorities blocked all aid from entering the territory for more than two months between March and May and then replaced the UN aid system with the American and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – which delivers a fraction of previous levels and excludes baby formula at four highly militarized sites around which hundreds of Palestinians seeking food have been shot to death. An early August report from the UN’s Human Rights office recorded 859 people killed around GHF’s operations since it launched in May.

While the World Food Program said Thursday that more food trucks were able to enter Gaza over the last few days after a growing global pressure campaign, the increase was still far below the 500-600 the UN says are needed to enter daily to make a dent in the crisis. Friday’s announcement by Israel that it will no longer enable aid deliveries is likely to set any progress back.

The senators said malnourished mothers cannot sustain breastfeeding, making formula “the only option for infant survival in many cases”, according to the letter. Volunteer doctors entering Gaza have reported Israeli authorities confiscating baby formula from their luggage at the border.

Gallego recently returned from paternity leave after welcoming a baby son in June. He has continued to vote in the Senate.

“We appeal to you not only in your capacity as a government official but as a parent,” the senators wrote to Rubio. “No child should face the desperation and suffering we are witnessing in Gaza in real time.”

The letter reflects Gallego and the wider party’s careful evolution on Gaza policy, as polls show overwhelming disapproval among voting Democrats for Israel’s war. The Arizona senator, who has visited Iowa recently amid speculation about a 2028 presidential bid, notably did not vote on either of Bernie Sanders’s joint resolutions to block arms sales to Israel last month. Of 47 Senate Democrats, 27 voted for a resolution to block the sale of assault rifles to Israel, and 24 voted to block bomb sales. Gallego later said he was “re-evaluating” and would look at conditioning aid going forward.

But movement within the party is proceeding slowly. At the Democratic National Committee gathering in Minneapolis this week, progressive calls for an arms embargo on Israel were rejected, while a moderate ceasefire resolution was initially passed but later withdrawn to preserve party unity.

Voters are much less divided: a survey from late August found that 60% of registered voters oppose providing more military aid to Israel – the highest opposition recorded to date. The same poll revealed that half of American voters – and 77% of Democrats – now believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The world’s foremost global hunger monitor, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, said in an analysis last week that more than half a million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing famine and projected the number would rise. Benjamin Netanyahu called the findings of the report an “outright lie”, with the Israeli government suggesting the IPC report used incomplete data.

The senators are demanding swift action from Rubio, requesting a written response by September 8^th. They call for all crossings into Gaza to reopen immediately for humanitarian aid and for Israel to “vastly scale up” access.

“This moment demands moral clarity and decisive action,” they wrote. “We must use our leverage to ensure the most vulnerable are protected.”

AN AMERICAN COURT HEARING ON CHILD SEX CHARGES WAS SKIPPED BY ISRAELI OFFICIAL ALEXANDROVICH

The Judge Denies The Lawyer’s Claim That An Israeli Official Could Skip Arraignment For Child Sex Crime Charges Filed In Nevada. Does That Surprise You?

A senior Israeli official accused of child sex crimes in the United States has failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing in his case, weeks after he returned to Israel, prompting concerns that he may have fled to avoid facing trial.

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich’s lawyer, David Chesnoff, told the court in Nevada on Wednesday that he told his client not to attend the hearing.

“He was instructed by me that he didn’t have to be here,” Chesnoff said.

However, Judge Barbara Schifalacqua was quick to shut down the suggestion, stressing that suspects released on bond like Alexandrovich have “to make every court appearance”.

“I’m looking at his bond documents that indicate the court appearance that he was ordered to appear at was today,” Schifalacqua told Chesnoff. “And so your oral – I guess – request without anything before the court to waive his appearance here today is hereby denied.”

Alexandrovich’s case has been stirring controversy and making international headlines since his arrest was announced earlier this month.

The Israeli official was arrested on August 6^th, but the incident was not made public until more than a week later, when the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced an undercover operation “targeting child sex predators”.

Alexandrovich was released and allowed to return to Israel after being charged with luring or attempting to lure a child online to engage in sexual conduct.

His release without travel restrictions has led to speculations that he may have received preferential treatment due to the close ties between the American regime and Israel.

But the administration of President Donald Trump has denied intervening in the case, and the local district attorney has argued that Alexandrovich’s release was “standard”.

Earlier this month, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu falsely denied that Alexandrovich was arrested and downplayed the incident.

On Wednesday, Chesnoff suggested that he had a deal with prosecutors relating to Alexandrovich’s court appearances going forward.

“My client is not here. We have an agreement with the state, and I informed your staff earlier that he was not going to be here,” the lawyer told the court.

But Schifalacqua said the district attorney’s office has “no authority to waive appearances” at a felony arraignment.

“Nobody got a waiver from my court,” Schifalacqua said.

Eventually, Chesnoff and the court agreed that Alexandrovich would appear remotely before the court next week, on September 3^rd, for his arraignment – a hearing where he would be formally presented with the charges and enter a plea of guilty or not guilty.

Schifalacqua warned that she may impose conditions on Alexandrovich’s release, including a possible ban on contact with minors and using social media and dating platforms.

As outrage grew over allowing Alexandrovich to leave the country, last week, acting US Attorney for the District of Nevada Sigal Chattah – a Trump appointee – pointed the finger at local prosecutors.

“A liberal district attorney and state court judge in Nevada FAILED TO REQUIRE AN ALLEGED CHILD MOLESTER TO SURRENDER HIS PASSPORT, which allowed him to flee our country,” Chattah wrote on social media.

But Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said that there was nothing unusual about how Alexandrovich’s case was handled.

“The standard bail for this charge was $10,000, so anybody, upon being booked on that charge, can post that bail and get released with no conditions, and that’s what happened in this case,” Wolfson told Las Vegas Review-Journal earlier this month.

However, Richard Davies, a criminal defence lawyer in Nevada, said last week that the apparent lack of conditions on Alexandrovich’s release despite the seriousness of the charges was “fishy”.

“The court should be concerned about protecting children in this community and nationwide. So it’s highly unusual – again – to allow this person to leave,” Davies said.

Of course, if you are a member of the “master race” it not unusual to commit crimes without fear of prosecution. Just take a look at what has been happening in Gaza and see what we mean.