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Resistance builds within the United States against Trump’s drive to war with Venezuela

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Original article by Devin B. Martinez republished from peoples dispatch under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license.

Billboard up in New York City against the US threats against Venezuela. Photo: The People’s Forum

As Trump continues to lodge threats against the Bolivarian Republic, US Congress and grassroots movements mobilize to stop a new war.

The US government has continued to accelerate its drive to war with Venezuela. While rumors circulate about phone calls and possible talks between US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in tandem, the US head of state has continued to launch bizarre and illegal threats and accusations against the South American nation. On Saturday, November 29, Trump unilaterally declared that Venezuelan airspace was closed, despite international law stipulating that only Venezuela has authority over the airspace above its territory and that air traffic above Venezuela has since continued.

While Trump, his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have claimed land strikes and “action” against Venezuela could begin imminently and that the country should be on alert, as of now, only the aerial attacks on vessels in the Caribbean have continued. To date, the US missile strikes on boats in the Caribbean have killed at least 83 people. Washington claims they were trafficking drugs, without providing evidence.

The unprecedented military buildup in the region now consists of aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), F-35 fighter jets, at least eight war ships, and 15,000 US troops, as well as coordinated US military activity in Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic.

Despite Trump’s brazen appetite for war, it appears that public opinion in the United States is against Trump’s escalation against Venezuela. A recent poll conducted by CBS News/YouGOV found that 70% of people in the US would oppose the US taking military action in Venezuela. At the same time, some, albeit limited, bipartisan initiatives have been taken in Congress to attempt to use congressional authority to block Trump from taking military action. From the legislature down to the grassroots movements, opposition to a US war on the Caribbean nation is growing.

Pressure mounts in Congress against Trump’s threats of war

As the Trump cabinet prepares for fresh international law violations, they are already feeling the backlash of ones already committed. Committees in US Congress have reportedly launched investigations into US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for crimes related to missile strikes on boats in the Caribbean, in which the order was reportedly to “kill everybody”.

“These are serious charges, and that’s the reason we’re going to have special oversight,” said Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as reported by PBS.

The mounting scrutiny follows a Washington Post report that details Hegseth’s direction to strike a bombed boat a second time, called a “double tap” strike, even as survivors clung to the edge of the burning vessel. In addition to the investigation, several congressional democrats are calling for Hegseth’s resignation.

When questioned about the targeting of boat strike survivors in an interview with The Hill on December 2, Trump distanced himself from the order and Hegseth blamed Admiral Mitch Bradley for the second strike.

“I moved on to my next meeting. A couple hours later I learned that that commander had made the … correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat,” said Hegseth.

Adding to the pressure on Hegseth in particular, the Pentagon’s inspector general released a report on Thursday, December 4, concluding that the defense secretary violated department rules and put US forces at risk when he used a signal chat to share details of airstrikes on Yemen back in April.

The renewed scrutiny comes after a bipartisan coalition in both the Senate and the House attempted to check the US president’s ability to carry out deadly strikes in the Caribbean through the War Powers Act.

As opposition continues to build in the legislature, grassroots movements are also mobilizing against the US war drive on Venezuela.

As threat of war grows, so does the people’s resistance

In the same CBS/YouGov poll, 75% of people in the US said that the government needs to show evidence that the boats it is bombing are carrying drugs. Only 13% of Americans believe that Venezuela is a “major threat” to US national security.

“The Trump administration is wildly out of step with public opinion as he threatens to initiate a new forever war with the aim of looting Venezuela’s vast oil resources,” said Brian Becker, National Director of the ANSWER coalition.

After Trump declared Venezuelan airspace to be “closed”, claiming that land strikes would begin “very soon”, a coalition of organizations, including the ANSWER coalition, The Peoples Forum, the Palestinian Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and others, announced a national day of action on December 6. According to a press release by the coalition, over 50 cities will host protest actions under the slogan “No war on Venezuela – Stop the war before it starts”.

“The Trump Administration’s repeated strikes in the Caribbean have shocked the world as brazen violations of international law,” the coalition asserts.

“Now, Trump is openly threatening to escalate his aggression to land strikes on Venezuelan territory – an unmistakable act of war. This could easily spiral into a ‘boots on the ground’ invasion, and lead to catastrophic death and destruction.”

Organizers expect the day of action to be a “powerful display of the mass opposition” to the US war drive against the Bolivarian nation.

In the wake of decades-long US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the growing resistance in Congress and the streets shows that the people of the United States refuse to be dragged into yet another imperialist disaster.

Original article by Devin B. Martinez republished from peoples dispatch under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license.

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US maintains “Christian genocide” narrative at UN special event

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Original article by Nicholas Mwangi republished from peoples dispatch under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license.

Nicki Minaj repeats US media narrative of Christian genocide in Nigeria at UN event in NY. Photo: screenshot

Analysts argue that framing the conflict as religious persecution masks a deeper geopolitical struggle over Nigeria’s enormous mineral wealth.

The United States intensified its claims that Nigeria is facing a “genocide against Christians” during a special event at the United Nations held in November called “Combating Christian Violence and the Killing of Christians in Nigeria”. The session, led by US Ambassador Mike Waltz, featured American rapper Nicki Minaj as one of the keynote speakers, and further amplified a narrative that Nigerian officials and regional analysts have repeatedly dismissed as misleading and politically motivated.

The UN event follows a recent wave of rhetoric by US President Donald Trump, who alleged widespread, systematic killings of Christians in the West African nation. Nigeria has rejected the accusations, insisting they are based on distorted reports and selective data that ignore the complex security realities in the country. Officials acknowledge the ongoing threat of Boko Haram and other armed groups but argue that the situation cannot be reduced to a one-sided religious persecution narrative.

Media organizations, including the BBC, have also noted that several of the claims circulating in US political circles cannot be independently verified.

Nicki Minaj repeats Trump’s narrative at UN stage

Nicki Minaj, whose earlier social media statements echoed Trump’s message, reiterated her comments at the UN event. She stated:

“In Nigeria, Christians are being targeted, driven from their homes and killed. Churches have been burned, families torn apart, and entire communities live in fear constantly, simply because of how they pray.”

Her remarks closely mirrored the religious persecution framing popularized in US conservative media, which African analysts argue oversimplifies a multidimensional conflict involving poverty, state fragility, armed groups, climate pressures, and competition over land and mineral resources.

African analysts push back

Journalist David Hundeyin, speaking to BreakThrough News, challenged the US framing, saying the violence in northern and central Nigeria cannot be understood simply as a religious conflict. He stressed that:

Boko Haram and affiliated groups have killed between 50,000 and 150,000 people, though the exact numbers remain unclear. The majority of victims have been Muslims, not Christians, since most violence occurs in predominantly Muslim regions of the north and middle belt.

Armed groups attack both Christians and Muslims, and “everyone is dying in numbers … they’re all poor people and powerless.”

According to Hundeyin, framing the conflict as religious persecution masks a deeper geopolitical struggle over Nigeria’s enormous mineral wealth, including rare earth elements crucial for global technology industries. He argues: Presenting the conflict as “Islamists killing Christians” provides a moral pretext for deeper US involvement in a region with strategic resources.

A key part of Hundeyin’s critique is the near-total absence of Muslim deaths in Western coverage. Although Muslims make up the majority of victims, their deaths rarely appear in narratives circulated in US conservative politics, which instead portray Nigeria as the world’s “epicenter of Christian persecution”.

Read more: Trump threatens war on Africa’s most populous country to “save” “our CHERISHED Christians”

As Pavan Kulkarni wrote in a Peoples Dispatch report last month, “The majority of people killed by the Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province are Muslims, simply because they make up the majority in the northern region these Islamist insurgencies are ravaging. For the same demographic reasons, Muslims are also the majority victims of bandits who kill, loot, and kidnap in the northwest region, where the state is struggling to enforce the rule of law. In the central region, Christian victims of violence are in the majority, not because of their religious identity but because of their occupation: farming. Amid intensifying competition over depleting land and water due to climate change, raids on farmlands by mobile herders, groups of whom are armed, are a serious problem in several African countries suffering desertification.”

The Nigerian government maintains that while terrorism remains a serious challenge, portraying the crisis as a Christian genocide is inaccurate and dangerous. Officials argue that such language obscures the socio-economic drivers of violence, including state collapse in rural areas, the proliferation of weapons, land-use conflicts, and climate-related displacement across the Sahel.

Read More: World Bank acknowledges poverty increase in Nigeria, but doubles down on the reforms causing it

African Union issues statement

The African Union Commission (AUC), released a statement,  reaffirming its commitment to sovereignty, non-interference, religious freedom, and the rule of law as outlined in the AU Constitutive Act, and expressed concern over US allegations accusing Nigeria of targeting Christians and threatening military action, emphasizing that Nigeria is a longstanding and vital AU Member State whose sovereign right to manage its internal affairs, particularly regarding security, human rights, and religious freedom, must be fully respected by all external partners.

Nigeria’s struggles with insecurity demand nuanced understanding rather than a blanket accusation of Christians being targeted in the country.

Original article by Nicholas Mwangi republished from peoples dispatch under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA) license.

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UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record

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Spring barley is harvested. The ECIU said the evidence suggests climate impacts were driving issues of profitability in the arable sector. Photograph: Diane Randell/Alamy

Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

Record heat and drought cost Britain’s arable farmers more than £800m in lost production in 2025 in one of the worst harvests recorded, analysis has estimated.

Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops. Farmers are already facing heavy financial pressure as the costs of fertilisers and other inputs have risen faster than prices.

This year Britain had the hottest and driest spring on record, and the hottest summer, with drought conditions widespread. As a result, the production of the five staple arable crops – wheat, oats, spring and winter barley, and oilseed rape – fell by 20% compared with the 10-year average, according to the analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). The harvest in England was the second-worst in records going back to 1984.

Supercharged by global heating, extreme rainfall in the winters of 2019-20 and 2023-24 also led to very poor harvests, as farmers were unable to access waterlogged and flooded fields to drill their crops.

“This has been another torrid year for many farmers in the UK, with the pendulum swinging from too wet to too hot and dry,” said Tom Lancaster at the ECIU. “British farmers have once again been left counting the costs of climate change, with four-fifths now concerned about their ability to make a living due to the fast-changing climate.”

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Israel’s Secret Plot EXPOSED

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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it

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CLAMPDOWN: People take part in a demonstration at Parliament Square

THE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”

So far, seven prisoners have refused food — some for as long as four weeks — with more expected to join.

They are among 33 prisoners who are locked away without trial, over alleged involvement in non-violent actions aimed at blockading arms supply to Israel.

The hunger strikers’ demands are clear. They want Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems, to cease operating in Britain for good.

They want the ban on Palestine Action, currently designated a terror group, to be lifted. And they are demanding immediate bail and a fair trial — basic democratic rights that should already be guaranteed.

Francesca Nadin, a spokesperson for Prisoners for Palestine, spoke to the Morning Star about their struggle.

Nadin herself was in prison on remand last year, over actions at a Teledyne weapons factory and a Barclays branch in Leeds.

“The fact is that for the charges that they have, which is property damage, people are never usually kept on remand,” she says.

“It’s clear to me that the process is the punishment.”

Four of the strikers — Qesser Zuhrah, Heba Muraisi, Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed — have been held on remand since last November, far exceeding the six-month pre-trial custody limit.

They are part of the “Filton 24” — inmates held in connection to an action in which activists reportedly drove a repurposed prison van into an Elbit manufacturing hub and dismantled equipment inside.

Qesser, who hasn’t eaten for over four weeks, now feels close to collapse, campaigners report, while Heba, who has also gone more than a month without food is severely fatigued and is finding it increasingly difficult to hold water down.

Teuta and Kamran, who haven’t eaten for 26 and 25 days, were both recently hospitalised.

“As you can imagine now, they’re all very weak”, Nadin says.

“It’s getting to the point of serious deterioration. We are just prepared for something very serious to happen any moment now.”

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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
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