Having been to both apartheid and post-apartheid Suid-Afrika and pre- and post- Oslo Accords Israel several times, the Palestinians have it much rougher than the Xhosas and Zulus did. The Afrikaaners were not ethnic cleansers, but racial and tribal dividers, exploiting cheap Bantu labor and playing one tribe off of another. They were like a modern day Confederacy, with plantations, mines, and factories.

The Israelis under the nefarious Likud regime are ethnic cleansers, as we have seen over the decades.

Years ago there were mixed Israeli and Arab neighborhoods like in Haifa; I don't know know how many such neighborhoods exist today.

There are many Israelis who believe in co-existence with Palestinians, like many in the Labor Party, but they are the minority now.

Other Israelis are fighting injustice besides the human rights lawyers of B'Tselem, like the Israeli Communist Party (AKA the Makis).

And the Maduro government is intact and in power. I'm wondering what's really changed.
No American oil company is going to Venezuela any time soon. What a stupid god-damned idea.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-05 07:47 AM | Reply | Flag

Weeks before JFK's assassination, CIA orchestrated the overthrow of unpopular Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem on 2 Nov 1963.

The ARVN installed their CIA-backed generals and continued the same brutal policies.

With Venezuela, the USG removed Maduro but the government is still intact, as you said.

What was the Trumpf junta thinking with their plan, that things would fall neatly into place for them after arresting Maduro?

This overthrow scheme was concocted by Empty Suit Marco Rubio, so here we are.

At Mar-a-Lago last June, Dummkopf Trumpf watched US munitions explode on the Houthis in utter fascination, calling them "animals" and "savages."

The USIC knew that Nicolas Maduro's bodyguards included Cubans and when Trumpf must have been advised of that fact and the possible repercussions, he didn't care.

There are reportedly 200 Russian military advisors in Venezuela. None of them were reported killed or wounded.

This report comes amid continued Israeli threats of military escalation against Iran, repeated warnings of large-scale attacks in Lebanon, and growing incitement by Israeli Likudniks to resume ethnic cleansing in Gaza, alongside an ongoing escalation in the occupied West Bank.

The report noted that, even prior to the mass protests in Iran, Israel had spent weeks signaling its intention to initiate a new war with Iran and to carry out what it described as "large-scale attacks" on sites it claims belong to Lebanese Hezbollah in Lebanon, should Beirut fail to disarm the group by the end of 2025.

The ominous looking cover of The Economist magazine "Look Ahead to 2026" issue was correct.

Now we know why Israel recently shut off the power, water, as well as the communication and banking links, for UNRWA in the Gaza Strip

Sources:

Dummkopf Trumpf said Gustavo Petro's days running Colombia are numbered while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One.
He said Venezuela is a "sick" country that was led by narco-terrorist dictator Nicolas Maduro until he was captured by the US. Trumpf then said Colombia, which borders Venezuela, could face the same treatment.

"Colombia is very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States," Trumpf bleated. "And he's not going to be doing it for very long, let me tell ya."

A female reporter then asked the geriatric bloodthirsty Dotard-in-Chief: "So there will be an operation by the US in Colombia?"

"Sounds good to me," Trumpf responded.

Colombia President Petro refers to Dummkopf Trumpf as "Donald Duck." The warmongering dotard had already revoked President Petro's visa to come to the US earlier this year. The Trumpf junta wants rightwing regimes friendly to US business interests running Latin America, but in their way are Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico.

Like the George Bush junta pushing Islamophobia and WMDs as the casus belli for invading Muslim countries in the failed "GWOT," the nefarious Trumpf junta is pushing the "War on Drugs" as their rationale for invading or interfering in Latin American countries.

Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republican Party doesn't care how many people get killed, how much American taxpayer dollars will be wasted, how many US servicemembers will get killed or wounded, or how much of the environment will be destroyed.

Simply put, the Trumpf junta is composed of selfish rapacious racist jingoistic imperialistic psychopaths.

EOM.

*** President Nicolas Maduro's Dance Moves Were Last Straw for Dotard Trumpf ***

"Mr Maduro's regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some of the Trumpf junta that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff. So the White House decided to follow through on its military threats."

While Dummkopf Trumpf is terrorizing the people of Latin America, Nigeria, Yemen, and Somalia, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu keep immiserating the Ukrainian and Palestinian people this winter.

And millions of Americans will now have trouble paying for their health insurance premiums without the ACA subsidies which were allowed to expire in Congress.

But we got Nicolas Maduro!

"Vladimir Netanyahu Trumpf, at your service."

Kill a billionaire near you.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 04:39 PM | Reply | Flag: 924 billionaires in the US to choose from

The UN's top counterterrorism and human rights expert condemned US strikes on Venezuela, calling them an "illegal aggression."

"I condemn the US' illegal aggression against Venezuela and the illegal abduction of its leader and his wife," Ben Saul stated.

"Every Venezuelan life lost is a violation of the right to life. President Dummkopf Trumpf should be impeached and investigated for the alleged killings," Ben Saul declared.

It's right pocket red Hankey, no? Yes?

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 04:42 PM | Reply | Flag: "You got it, Handsome!"

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-04 09:44 AM

And the massive Inchon landing during the Korean War (15-26 Sep 1950).

Dummkopf Trumpf was four years old at the time of this "Asian D-Day", but the history books covered it at his military prep school.

Puppy killing DHS Director Kristi Noem braying on Faux News:

""We have lost millions of lives due to the drug trafficking committed by these people. It's so interesting to watch people defend these criminals, these dictators.

"[Nicolas] Maduro was not a credible elected leader in Venezuela and to watch people go out and protest and make threats on his behalf is unspeakable.

"This is a time when our country really will find out who loves America, who wants the freedoms and liberties that our country represents, and how they're willing to stand up and defend it like President Dummkopf Trumpf is."

@1 Don't know if it's true, but the ease with which he was grabbed suggested to me a high ranking insider or insiders were involved.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-04 03:37 PM | "It was Barzini"

CIA/DIA/NSA tracked President Nicolas Maduro and established his "pattern of life," but they can't read his mind as to which of the eight locations he will sleep that night. So, somebody close to Nicolas Maduro fingered his location to CIA, possibly to collect the $50m bounty for his abduction.

Venezuelan counterintelligence would be monitoring communications, so something subtle would be necessary.

Along these lines are the possible methods of alerting his/her CIA handler with a pre-arranged code:

Electronic signal to a throwaway cellphone:

Text "One" for Palacio del Presidente
Text "Two" for Ministry of Justice
Text "Three" for Segundo AFB
Text "Four" for....

Physical Signals:

Wear a red scarf or tie for Palacio del Presidente
Wear a yellow scarf or tie for Ministry of Justice
Wear a blue scarf or tie for Segundo AFB
Wear a green scarf or tie for....

or

Carry "War and Peace" for Palacio del Presidente
Carry "Madame Bovary" for Ministry of Justice
Carry "The Sun Also Rises" for Segundo AFB
Carry "Murder on the Orient Express" for....

**** Phony AI Imagery of Happy Venezuelans Fools MAGA Dolts ***

The UN's top counterterrorism and human rights expert condemned US strikes on Venezuela, calling them an "illegal aggression."

"I condemn the US' illegal aggression against Venezuela and the illegal abduction of its leader and his wife," Ben Saul wrote.

"Every Venezuelan life lost is a violation of the right to life. President Dummkopf Trumpf should be impeached and investigated for the alleged killings," Ben Saul declared.

This is an example of "GOGI": Garbage Out and Garbage In to the heads of Republican voters and thus the cycle of stupidity and ignorance continues, corroding our national discourse.

Six South American countries are scheduled to participate in the FIFA World Cup 2026: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia, and Paraguay.

Nine African countries have already qualified to participate: Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cape Verde, and South Africa.

Denmark, which is trying to defend Greenland from Dummkopf Trumpf, has a team competing.

Foreigners will be coming to a warmongering fascist country that deploys masked ICE goons to watch FIFA games at exorbitant prices?

And some of these national leaders have been insulted or disinvited to the US by Dummkopf Trumpf?

How and why this mega-galactic farce, which benefits the Trumpf junta and corporate insiders, hasn't been boycotted, scrubbed, or rubbished yet from top to bottom is bewildering.

Things start to go wrong in Venezuela already.
The first US serviceman to die in Venezuela is known to someone reading this blog.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-04 08:45 AM | Reply | Flag

Hi Zed:

I hope this is just a rumor or unconfirmed story. I haven't seen any public reporting of a US servicemember KIA so far.

If this is true, our Servicemember tragically died for oil and capitalism, not like Ukrainians or Palestinians fighting and dying for their very survival.

BTW: We haven't read anything from CLOWNSHACK in weeks; hope all is well with our Fellow Traveler.

Dummkopf Trumpf described the operation to abduct Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and his wife "an assault like people have not seen since World War Two."

While Dummkopf Trumpf was dodging the draft and ogling underaged girls in the 1960s, the US Army conducted Operation Junction City, one the largest military operations of the war; 575 aircraft sorties were completed on its first day alone (22 Feb 1967 - 15 Apr 1967).

The Dotard-in-Chief also forgot about his favorite POTUS using Seal Team Six to capture Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan (2 May 2011) or the massive bombardment of Baghdad (17 Jan 1991).

Cognitive decline, selective memory, or a combination of both.

"Lies, lies, everywhere a lie...."

*** Oil Companies Publicly Uncommitted on Dummkopf Trumpf's Comments ***

Chevron is the only US oil company operating in Venezuela.

During Dummkopf Trumpf's first Reign of Terror, USSECSTATE Rex Tillerson, the former ExxonMobil magnate, opposed any invasion plan of Venezuela in order to seize their oil.

**** Dummkopf Trumpf Insinuates Gov Tim Walz (D-MN) Had Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) Assassinated ***

"Was Minnesota State Rep Melissa Hortman murdered because she voted against and was exposing a multi-billion dollar money laundering fraud going to illegal immigrants in Minnesota? The fraud that she voted against that heavily implicated illegal aliens, specifically Somalians, who have been racketing this kind of child care, health care rackets and cooperating with our corrupt government?"

*** Wife of Hobgoblin Stephen Miller Posts Americanized Map of Greenland with Word "Soon" ***