Racist Terrorcrat Trump Launches Unprovoked Attack on Venezuela, Kidnaps President to Steal Oil, Resources from Non-White Country on Behalf of Elites; Now Seeks to Control US Minds w/False Narratives

From [HERE] US President Donald Trump said American forces had “captured” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday during what he described as large-scale strikes in the country.

The US president did not receive congressional authorization for any of the strikes, and he said Saturday’s operation was carried out in collaboration with American law enforcement. [MORE]

Trump said Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, had been flown out of Venezuela.

Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who is next in line to succeed the president, said the whereabouts of Maduro and his wife were unknown and called on Trump to provide proof that he was alive.

The Venezuelan government in a statement said it "rejects, condemns and denounces the extremely serious military aggression" of the US on its territory and population. 

"The objective of this attack is nothing other than the seizure of Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, through an attempt to forcibly break the nation’s political independence," the statement said.

"The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican system of government and force a 'regime change', in alliance with a fascist oligarchy, will fail like all previous attempt," it added. 

Trump announced the operation on his Truth Social platform hours after explosions were reported near civilian and military facilities in the capital, Caracas, as well as in the states of La Guaira, Aragua and Miranda.

Venezuelan officials said several people were killed and wounded in the US attacks but did not provide a death toll. US authorities said there were no American casualties.

US officials told CBS that the operation to “capture” Maduro was carried out by the elite Delta Force unit. Trump later described the mission as “brilliant” in a phone call with The New York Times.

Sky News reported that senior Venezuelan opposition sources said Maduro’s exit had been “negotiated” with the United States.

Russia, one of Venezuela's closest allies, condemned the US strikes, calling it an "act of armed aggression" that is "deeply concerning and condemnable". 

Iran, also an ally of Venezuela, also slammed the US for "the flagrant violation of [Venezuela's] national sovereignty and territorial integrity".

"When a person realises the enemy is arrogantly trying to impose something on the country, on the officials, on the government, and on the nation, one must stand firmly against the enemy and bare one’s chest in resistance. We will not yield to the enemy."

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who was previously threatened by Trump as the next target after Venezuela, said his country "rejects the aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela and of Latin America" and called for the UN and the Organization of American States to convene immediately.

The European Union's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stopped short of condemning the US, saying that "Maduro lacks legitimacy". [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

territorial gangsters – individuals (masquerading as “the State” so-called) who skillfully use fraud, coercion, and terror to claim “jurisdiction” (so-called) over their victims who happen to be in some geographic territory. Territorial gangsters brainwash their victims (the pixelated populace) so that they will work for them not only like slaves but actually as slaves. (See: Stationary Bandits, Statutory Oppression, Jurisdiction, Allegiance, Involuntary Servitude, Slave & Tyrant-Paradigm)

terrorism – the implementation of the principle/concept of limited liability. 2) “A system of government that seeks to rule by intimidation.” ~Funk & Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary, 1946. All acts of terrorism, even those carried out by those outside of the fold of the machinations of Corporate State and its minions (territorial gangsters), are either political or religious expressions. One’s man’s ideology is another man’s religion and vice-versa. Terrorism is never sudden, it emerges when marginalized or powerless people feel profoundly aggrieved. When and where they are precluded from participating in the central functioning of voluntary society or the involuntary Corporate State, they communicate with religious fanaticism, indiscriminate secular violence and hate. Terrorism and the terrorists who carry it out is a kind of psycho-economic Thug-of-War—leaving countless shattered lives of innocents in its horrid wake. (See: Statism, Authority, Violence, Genocide, War, Corporate State, Territorial Gangsters, Patriot Act, Mononright, Wargasm, Racism White Supremacy, Cryptocracy, Sovereignty, CrimethInc., Coercion, Oppression, BOP & Gangbanking)

terrorist – a name or label for anyone that the over-rulers (ruling elite families) of these United (against us) States have declared war on. 2) anyone who challenges America’s hegemonic self-appointed right to rule the world. The distinction between a so-called freedom fighter and a terrorist is in the hands of those who have the power to define and propagandize their own subjective reality to make it an objective truth of others. A freedom-fighter typically is fighting an invader or occupier of his native land that has been stolen, whereas as terrorist is typically the one who has invaded or carried out acts of violence to take the land from an indigenous people. (See: War On Terrorism & Wargasm)

Flock Camera and the Rise of the Safety State

Dr. Denis Rancourt: 'There Was No COVID Pandemic. You Cannot Fake Death Data. Practically all the deaths associated with the CV19 pandemic were caused by the hospital treatment protocols'

This is an EXCELLENT interview from the Fall of 2023. Denis Rancourt being interviewed by "Dr Drew" and Dr Kelly Victory about his conclusions upon an exhaustive study of all-cause mortality. Although it's 2 years old, I found it terrifically instructive to hear Rancourt’s results from analysis of patterns of all-cause mortality, his main points being:
1. There was no increase in “all-cause mortality” anywhere in the world that coincided with the CV19 pandemic;
2. There was no “viral pandemic” (CV19) that swept the world starting in 2019;
3. Practically all the deaths associated with the CV19 pandemic were caused by the hospital treatment protocols handed down from above in conjunction with other non-viral, known causes of death;
4. There is no epidemiological evidence consistent with there having been a deadly, contagious pathogen.

They cover other topics as well, like the sorry state of "science" in our current world and the corruption of science and medical journals by Big Money. [MORE]

Teen’s Lawsuit Claims Baltimore Police Have a Policy of Intentionally Running Over Black People who Flee on Foot. Video Shows Cruiser Strike Him from Behind- White Liberal Media Ignores Story

From [HERE] Baltimore Police have long used department vehicles to inflict serious injuries on suspects, a recently filed lawsuit alleges. The suit attributes the “pattern and practice” to “a lack of supervision, oversight and the tacit condonation of the use of excessive force by the BPD and its supervising officers.”

The allegation is included in an excessive force complaint filed by Devonte Jett, a Baltimore man who was fleeing from officers responding to a reported carjacking in June 2021 when he was run over by a Baltimore Police officer driving a Ford Explorer SUV.

Video of the incident captured by a police helicopter shows Jett, then 16, running through an open grassy area in the Harlem Park neighborhood from an officer on foot who is pointing his weapon at him.

As Jett runs, another Baltimore Police officer, whom the lawsuit identifies as Steven Reed, drives his SUV directly at the suspect and runs him over, knocking him unconscious and causing a “likely” concussion as well as injuries to his lungs and pelvis, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court on Monday.

The lawsuit says Reed “either maliciously, intentionally grossly negligently or negligently accelerated and steered the SUV directly toward Mr. Jett, running him over from behind.” It adds that Jett was running in a straight line and “at no point turned toward the SUV or otherwise caused contact with the SUV to occur — it was all Defendant Reed’s doing."

“Mr. Jett described his head as feeling like it was ‘swimming’ once he regained consciousness at Shock Trauma,” the lawsuit says. “For several months after the incident, Mr. Jett experienced severe pain in his lower extremities and had to attend physical therapy, and he continues to experience lasting mental and emotional distress.”

To support the claim that what happened to Jett was part of a larger pattern of Baltimore Police officers using their vehicles to inflict excessive force, attorneys representing Jett cited a litany of examples dating back many years, drawing from a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the Police Department.

The attorneys also pointed to a recent incident that went viral in October thanks to footage that shows Officer Robert A. Parks driving his vehicle at a young man and nearly striking him with it. That incident prompted city prosecutors to file attempted murder charges against Parks the following month. [MORE]

Suit Says Anaheim Cops Fatally Shot Alberto Arzola Multiple Times in the Back During an Arrest for Graffiti; Video Also Shows Cops Shoot an Unarmed 18 Yr Old in the Back While His Hands Were Up

From [HERE] Three legal claims filed against the city of Anaheim accuse police officers of using unjustified and excessive force during a Dec. 6 encounter that ended with the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Alberto Arzola on the front steps of his home, as well as serious injuries to another teenager and lasting trauma to a child who witnessed the shooting.

James DeSimone, a Los Angeles civil rights attorney representing the families said “there is no excuse for Anaheim police to shoot an unarmed man in the head with a so-called ‘less lethal projectile’ while he’s complying with police.”

The claims stem from a police response to what officers were reportedly investigating as a graffiti misdemeanor in the 800 block of South Philadelphia Street, an offense the filings state Arzola did not commit. According to the claims, officers arrived at approximately 9:30 p.m. in an unmarked vehicle with tinted windows and immediately approached with their guns drawn.

One claim, filed on behalf of Arzola’s family, alleges that as Arzola attempted to enter his residence through the front door, an officer “grabbed him by the hood of his sweatshirt and aggressively pulled him backwards down the stairs” before firing multiple shots into his back. The filing states that Arzola pleaded “Don’t shoot” several times and that he did not threaten officers or anyone else.

“The use of lethal force against Mr. Arzola was excessive, unnecessary, shocking to the conscience,” the claim states, adding that it violated both state and federal law as well as Anaheim Police Department policies.

The filing further alleges that after Arzola was shot, officers failed to render immediate medical aid. According to the claim, officers did not provide CPR or basic wound care despite knowing he had suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds. The failure to act, the filing states, delayed critical medical intervention and contributed to his death.

A second claim focuses on Emmanuel Cordova, 18, who was present during the encounter. According to that filing, Cordova had his back to officers, with his hands raised and while complying with commands, when he was struck in the head by a police-fired “less lethal” projectile.

The claim states that the projectile can travel at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour and alleges that Cordova suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result. The filing asserts that Cordova was unarmed, posed no threat to officers and was complying at the time he was shot.

“There is no excuse for Anaheim police to shoot an unarmed man in the head with a so-called ‘less lethal projectile’ while he’s complying with police,” DeSimone said, describing the use of force as both unnecessary and dangerous.

The third claim has been filed on behalf of Arzola’s 14-year-old cousin, identified in court records as a minor, who witnessed the shooting at close range. According to the filing, the child saw officers pull Arzola down the steps and shoot him multiple times in the back as he fell to the ground.

After the shooting, the claim states, officers pointed their weapons at the child, ordered him inside the home and threatened to shoot him. The filing alleges that the minor “posed no threat whatsoever” and had his hands raised while officers trained their firearms on him.

Since the incident, the claim states, the child has suffered severe psychological trauma, including nightmares, flashbacks, fear of going outside and fear of police officers, and is receiving mental health treatment.

“One young man is dead, one has a traumatic brain injury and a 14-year-old is forever traumatized as he was forced to watch his cousin die while having guns pointed at his own head,” DeSimone said.

The claims allege violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, provisions of the California Constitution and several state civil rights statutes. They also accuse the Anaheim Police Department and the city of negligent hiring, training and supervision, and of maintaining policies or practices that tolerate excessive force and failures to provide medical aid after police shootings.

Epstein and the Clintons: As Hillary Launched Presidential Campaign, Epstein Feared Exposure

From [HERE] Since Jeffrey Epstein’s second arrest in 2019, the Clintons have spent considerable effort distancing themselves from the enigmatic financier, and they are currently fending off House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, who threatened contempt proceedings after the political power couple refused to testify this week regarding their relationship to Epstein.

Epstein first came into public view after accompanying former President Bill Clinton on a 2002 tour of Africa, aboard Epstein’s infamous Boeing 727 plane, later dubbed “Lolita Express.” Abundant photos from that Africa trip—with Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker—have just been released by the Justice Department.

Through a spokesperson, Bill Clinton has acknowledged traveling on Epstein’s jet during a humanitarian tour of Africa in 2002, but has said he knew nothing of Epstein’s crimes, never visited Epstein’s properties, and ended contact in 2005. In a Justice Department interview in July 2025, Ghislaine Maxwell downplayed Epstein’s connection to the former president, telling Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, “President Clinton was my friend, not Epstein’s friend.” [MORE]

Promised Aid to Gaza Blocked by Barbaric Israeli's - US Ambassador Lied about Trucks Arriving Daily

From [HERE] The Government Media Office in Gaza has firmly rejected recent claims by US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz regarding the volume of humanitarian aid entering Gaza. In a statement released Thursday, the office described Waltz’s remarks as "misleading and detached from reality."

"The ambassador’s comments represent a transparent attempt to absolve the Israeli occupation of responsibility for the blockade and the deliberate starvation of civilians," the office said.

According to recent data by Gaza authorities, the daily average of incoming aid trucks since the start of the ceasefire stands at just 234. This is far below the 600 trucks claimed by Waltz and represents only 39% of the pledged daily aid delivery.

Two days ago, the Gaza Media Office reported that over a 60-day period, only 13,511 trucks had entered Gaza out of the 36,000 expected, averaging 226 trucks per day.

Earlier figures, gathered before November 5, paint a similar picture. At that time, only 4,453 aid trucks had entered Gaza out of the 15,600 that were required under the ceasefire terms, a compliance rate of just 28%. [MORE]

With Israel controlling all of Gaza’s major landfill areas, 900,000 tons of solid waste have been dumped across the enclave, exacerbating a public health crisis

From [HERE] Amin Sabri’s battered tent was among several sitting at the foot of a hillside of rotting garbage towering some 25 feet in the middle of Gaza City. Barefoot children, their clothes caked in grime, scampered nearby. Flies were everywhere, and the stench of fetid waste blanketed the air.

"This is my tent and this is the garbage dump I’m living across from,” Sabri told Drop Site. “We don’t sleep—not at night, nor during the day—because of the garbage. The smell comes at us constantly, and our children are ill. They suffer from severe headaches. We’re dealing with an infestation of germs and insects.”

Over the past two years, Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been systematically destroyed by the Israeli military, including waste management services. Massive piles of garbage have accumulated across the enclave. Once busy markets and tree-shaded streets have turned into endless mountains of trash, severely exacerbating Gaza’s environmental and public health crisis.

Before the war, waste collection in Gaza City was coordinated through the Yarmouk waste transfer site, located near the city stadium, and would be transported to the Johr El-Deek landfill. With Johr El Deek inaccessible—lying east of the “yellow line” with occupying Israeli military forces—the Yarmouk facility has now been transformed into a massive dumping site.

The few landfill vehicles still operating in Gaza climb to the top of the Yarmouk site and dump more untreated garbage every day. Some communities resort to burning waste, sending toxic fumes into the air. Children run across the hills of rotting waste looking to scavenge what they can. [MORE]

Massa Media Concealing Atrocities for its IsrAlien Masters: Soldiers are Systematically Beheading Children, Raping Prisoners, Murdering with Impunity and US Approval

First it was Israel's Right to Defend Itself (based on a False Flag) Then it was "a War" (against Civilians who have No Military) and Now its a "Ceasefire" (or Ongoing Slaughter of Human Beings)

From [HERE] First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself.

Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own military intelligence database, 83 percent of the casualties were civilians.

The 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, living under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade, have no army, air force, no mechanized units, no tanks, no navy, no missiles, no heavy artillery, no fleets of killer drones, no sophisticated tracking systems to map all movements, or an ally like the United States, which has given Israel at least $21.7 billion in military aid since Oct. 7, 2023.

Now, it is a “ceasefire.”

Except of course, as usual, Israel only abided by the first of the 20 stipulations. It freed around 2,000 Palestinian captives held in Israeli prisons — 1,700 of whom were detained after Oct. 7 — as well as around 300 bodies of Palestinians, in exchange for the return of the 20 remaining Israeli captives.

Israel has violated every other condition. It has tossed the agreement — brokered by the Trump administration without Palestinian participation — into the bonfire with all the other agreements and peace accords concerning Palestinians.

Israel’s extensive and blatant flouting of international agreements and international law — Israel and its allies refuse to abide by three sets of legally binding orders by the International Cout of Justice (ICJ) and two ICJ advisory opinions, as well as the Genocide Convention and international humanitarian law — presage a world where the law is whatever the most militarily advanced countries say it is.

The sham peace plan — “President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” — in an act of stunning betrayal of the Palestinian people, was endorsed by most of the U.N. Security Council in November, with China and Russia abstaining. Member states washed their hands of Gaza and turned their backs on the genocide.

The adoption of resolution 2803 (2025), as the Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein writes,

“… was simultaneously a revelation of moral insolvency and a declaration of war against Gaza. By proclaiming international law null and void, the Security Council proclaimed itself null and void. Vis-à-vis Gaza, the Council transmuted into a criminal conspiracy.”

The next phase is supposed to see Hamas surrender its weapons and Israel withdraw from Gaza. But these two steps will never happen.

Hamas — along with other Palestinian factions — reject the Security Council resolution. They say they will disarm only when the occupation ends and a Palestinian state is created. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that if Hamas does not disarm, it will be done “the hard way.”

The “Board of Peace,” headed by Trump, will ostensibly govern Gaza along with armed mercenaries from the Israel-allied International Stabilization Force, although no country seems anxious to commit their troops.

Trump promises a Gaza Riviera that will function as a “special economic zone” — a territory operating outside of state law governed entirely by private investors, such as the Peter Thiel-backed charter city in Honduras. [MORE]

Vast majority of illnesses in Gaza may be unreported, WHO cautions amid limited access

The World Health Organization warned on Thursday that disease outbreaks in Gaza may be spreading largely undetected due to the near-total collapse of surveillance and laboratory systems.

Teresa Zakaria, WHO's unit head for humanitarian and disaster action, said the living conditions in the enclave are so severe that "we can't even describe it anymore," adding that "all the basis for diseases to develop in a constricted environment with very limited access to prevention, to detection and response are all indicating that outbreaks can really spread out of control and very rapidly."

Her remarks came during an Association of Accredited Correspondents at the United Nations (ACANU) media briefing in Geneva.

Zakaria said humanitarian access and diagnostic capacities remain "very limited," making early detection and response nearly impossible.

"What is very important here to highlight is that we are probably missing the vast majority of diseases that are spreading in the territory at the moment just because we have not been able to detect them," she said. [MORE]

Israeli Soldiers Murder Unarmed 16 Year Old Palestinian by Shooting Him at Close Range in Unprovoked Attack

From [HERE] A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead at point-blank range by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the latest in a string of lethal shootings that bookend a particularly violent year for the enclave.

Ryan Muhammad Abdul Qader Abu Mualla was killed in the northern town of Qabatiya, during a raid by the Israeli military, Palestinian officials said in several statements on Saturday.

The Israeli military said in a statement on the same day that a “terrorist” had thrown a “block” at several soldiers, and they then shot and “eliminated" the block thrower.

But CCTV video appeared to show Mualla was not throwing a block or holding one.

The video, which Reuters obtained from the owner of a security camera, begins six minutes before the shooting and shows relatively empty streets.

Two Israeli soldiers, one crouching and one standing, can be seen on a lit street corner at dark. A third soldier appears to take position in an adjacent street leading to the same corner.

Three seconds before the shooting, a person appears walking down the street, and as he reaches the corner, the crouching soldier opens fire. The person then falls to the ground.

While the incident is partially obscured because of the angle of the camera and the low light, the video does not appear to show the person who was shot throwing a block or holding one. [MORE]

Video Shows Israeli Soldier Run Over a Palestinian Man from Behind and While He was Praying

From [HERE] Israeli police have released a soldier from custody after he was filmed running his vehicle over a Palestinian man who was praying outside the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

A silent video of the incident, which both Israeli and Palestinian outlets reported on Thursday, shows an Israeli settler with a rifle slung over his back driving his all-terrain vehicle (ATV) toward a 23-year-old Palestinian man as he knelt in prayer on the roadside.

Mokho told Agence France-Presse: “The assailant is a known settler. He set up an outpost near the village, and with other settlers he comes to graze his livestock, blocks the road, and provokes the residents.”

He also said the settler blinded him with pepper spray after hitting his son, though this is not shown in the video.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) identified the driver as an Israeli reserve soldier with one of its regional defense units. These battalions have dramatically expanded in recent years with backing from Israel’s right-wing government, which contains many officials at the center of the settler movement. [MORE]

Massa Media Ignores Video Evidence that Barbaric Israeli Soldiers Raped Detained Palestinian Men with Objects and Dogs (in self-defense of course)

From [HERE] Earlier this year, a United Nations inquiry accused Israel of using sexualised torture and rape as "a method of war... to destabilize, dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people".

The Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem has described the Israeli prison system as a "network of torture camps" within which prisoners were subjected to "repeated use of sexual violence" including "gang sexual violence and assault committed by a group of prison guards or soldiers".

Last year, Israel's Channel 12 published a leaked video which appeared to show Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee.

In response to questions from MEE, the Israeli Prison Service said it "categorically rejected" the allegations of abuse described by the prisoners.

‘We want to kill you’

Al-Sai, 44, a father from Tulkarm, has worked for years as a journalist in the occupied West Bank, reporting for Al Jazeera Mubasher and the local broadcaster Al-Fajer TV.

On 23 February 2024, Israeli forces raided his home during an intensive arrest campaign in the West Bank following the October 2023 war on Gaza. He was taken from his home and spent the next 16 months in Israeli custody under administrative detention.

Under the controversial practice, detainees are held without charge or trial based on secret evidence they are not permitted to see.

After an initial 19 days in military custody, al-Sai was transferred to Megiddo Prison. Upon arrival, he said he was handcuffed and blindfolded.

His first stop was the prison clinic. On the way, he could hear screams from other rooms.

“'Say long live the Israeli flag,'” he recalls hearing a guard, speaking fluent Arabic, shout at a prisoner. “'We want to kill you. We want to make you die.'

“At that moment, I knew I was entering a stage I had never experienced before,” said al-Sai, who had been arrested by Israeli forces three times before.

Inside the clinic, guards and medical staff accused him of being a member of Hamas, repeatedly threatening him that they “fuck, fuck, fuck” anyone associated with the group. He denied the accusation. 

After an electrocardiogram and a brief examination, the doctor told the guards he was fit.

Al-Sai said he was blindfolded again and escorted by four to six guards, including a woman, through a series of corridors. Doors opened and closed. He was finally thrown to the ground.

At this point, al-Sai said, his trousers and underwear were pulled down, and he was ordered onto his knees. The beating began, with the guards striking him repeatedly on the head, back and legs.

“I felt close to death,” he said. “The pain was overwhelming. But I still didn’t know what they were going to do. Why did they remove my trousers?”

‘Reception party’

Moments later, he said, a solid object was forced into his rectum.

“I tried to resist. I clenched my body to stop it. That only made the pain worse. Eventually, I surrendered.”

The object was pushed deeper and twisted deliberately, he said. When he began screaming, a guard squeezed his testicles and pulled his penis.

“I screamed so loudly I thought my voice would leave the prison walls,” he said. 

“I wanted to die at that moment. I couldn’t take it. I reached a point where I couldn’t comprehend what was happening.”

Throughout the assault, guards laughed. One addressed him directly.

“You are a journalist,” the guard said, according to al-Sai.

“We will bring all the journalists and do this to them. We will bring your wife, your sisters, your mother, and your son.”

At one point, he heard a guard say: “Bring me a carrot.” Another object was inserted.

Later, he learned from other detainees that vegetables, sticks and other objects were commonly used during such assaults.

A guard stood on his head with full body weight. Al-Sai feared his skull would burst. He also heard one guard tell another to “stop filming”, suggesting the assault may have been recorded.

“They said they were taking revenge for 7 October,” he said. “But I am not from Gaza. I am a journalist.”

The assault lasted about 25 minutes, he estimates. He was held in the room for nearly an hour.

Among prisoners, this assault is called “the reception party” - a violent attack involving sexual violence that many detainees face upon arrival at the prison. [MORE]

Trump Claims the US Conducted a Drone Strike in Venezuela- No Proof that it Occurred, Other than His Statement. Alleged Attack Not Confirmed by Venezuela

From [HERE] President Trump has claimed that the US had “knocked out” a “big facility” as part of the US campaign targeting alleged drug boats in Latin America and against Venezuela.

CNN later reported on Monday that the CIA conducted a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela, which, if true, would mark a major US escalation against the country. So far, the Venezuelan government hasn’t confirmed the claims.

Trump first made the comments in an interview on WABC radio on Friday when discussing the US operations against alleged drug boats in the region. “And we just knocked out, I don’t know if you read or you saw, they have a big plant or a big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out, so we hit them very hard,” he said.

The president was asked by a reporter on Monday about the comments and whether the alleged attack was conducted by the US military. “Well, it doesn’t matter, but there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” he said, describing the target as an “implementation area” that’s no longer around.

Unnamed US officials speaking to The New York Times claimed that in the WABC interview, Trump was referencing a “drug facility in Venezuela” that they said was “eliminated.” Sources speaking to CNN said the facility was allegedly used by the gang Tren de Aragua and that there were no casualties because no one was present at the time of the attack.

Trump claimed the attack occurred on December 24, the same day there was an explosion at a warehouse in Venezuela’s northwestern state of Zulia. The company that owns the warehouse, Primazol, which specializes in chemical supplies for livestock feed and other purposes, said in a statement that it rejected unspecified allegations about the incident that were circulating on social media, though it’s unclear if it was referencing claims that the blast may have been caused by a US attack.

A major part of the US aggression against Venezuela has been a psychological campaign aimed at scaring Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, involving leaks to the media about US plans to bomb the country.

Back in October, Trump said that he authorized covert CIA activity inside Venezuela, and the US spy agency had previously conducted cyberattacks in the country during his first administration.

Any US attack on Venezuela would be illegal under the Constitution, which requires congressional authorization to launch a war. The Trump administration has been clear that its goal in its campaign against Venezuela is the ouster of Maduro, while using false claims that his government is a “cartel” as a pretext.

The US has been enforcing a naval blockade on Venezuela, which so far has involved the seizure of two tankers, a step that’s traditionally considered an act of war and has been strongly denounced by UN experts as illegal aggression.

“There is no right to enforce unilateral sanctions through an armed blockade,” four UN human rights experts said last week. “The illegal use of force, and threats to use further force at sea and on land, gravely endanger the human right to life and other rights in Venezuela and the region.”

With No Evidence other than Trump's Claims and Fake Looking Computer Generated Video, Massa Media Reports that the US Bombed 5 More Alleged Drug Boats - according to Trump

From [HERE] US Southern Command said on Wednesday that its forces bombed three more alleged drug boats that were traveling as a convoy and suggested there may have been survivors. Later in the night, the command announced another attack on two other boats.

SOUTHCOM said the first strikes that targeted three boats killed at least three “narco-terrorists,” a term the Trump administration uses to justify extra-judicial executions for an alleged crime that doesn’t receive the death penalty in the US.

“The remaining narco-terrorists abandoned the other two vessels, jumping overboard and distancing themselves before follow-on engagements sank their respective vessels,” the command wrote on X, adding that it notified the US Coast Guard to “activate the Search and Rescue System.”

In its second announcement, SOUTHCOM said that it killed five people. “A total of five narco-terrorists were killed during these actions – three in the first vessel and two in the second,” the command said.

SOUTHCOM, which oversees US military operations in Central and South America, did not specify the location of either attack. The bombing campaign against small boats started in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela and has expanded into the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Previous US attacks on boats in the region have left survivors, including a Colombian national and an Ecuadorian, who were both sent back to their home countries and released due to the lack of evidence that they committed a crime. According to a report from The New York Times, the Pentagon released the survivors to ensure that they did not end up in the US judicial system, where the Trump administration could be forced to show evidence justifying the bombing campaign. [MORE]

Republocrats Signal End to Its Probe of Trump's Alleged Boat Strikes in Venezuala and Fail to Release So-Called Unedited Video of the 2nd Strike [original videos all look AI generated]

From [HERE] Top Republican lawmakers have signaled they are ending their inquiries into a controversial U.S. military strike on an alleged drug smuggling vessel in the waters off Venezuela.

Sen. Roger Wicker (Mississippi), Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement Thursday that he had seen “no evidence of war crimes” in the Sept. 2 operation that killed two survivors of an initial U.S. attack on their boat. He expressed confidence that the Trump administration’s military campaign around Latin America, responsible to date for the deaths of nearly 100 people, has been conducted “based on sound legal advice.”

His comments come a day after Rep. Mike D. Rogers (R-Alabama), who leads the House Armed Services Committee, said he will shutter a parallel inquiry. Rogers told reporters that he, too, was “satisfied” that members of his panel had been able to directly question the military officials who oversaw the Sept. 2 strike, which killed 11 people in all, and that he had concluded the operation followed a “lawful process.”

Wicker’s statement does not specify that his probe is ending immediately or whether he would seek any additional materials from the Defense Department related to the operation. [MORE]

Trump Signs Bill That Gives Him Over $1 Trillion Military Budget

From [HERE] President Trump on Thursday signed the massive $901 billion 2026 National Defense Authorization Act into law, which will be combined with a supplemental spending bill he signed earlier this year to give him a more than $1 trillion military budget.

While the true cost of US military and national security spending has exceeded $1 trillion for many years, this marks the first time the official military budget is over $1 trillion, though it was done in an unconventional way by combining the NDAA with a $156 billion supplemental that was part of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.”

The NDAA passed through the Senate on Wednesday in a vote of 77-20, with just two Republicans, Senators Rand Paul (KY) and Mike Lee (UT), and 18 Democrats voting against it. Last week, the House approved the bill in a vote of 312-112.

Notable amendments include a provision directing the Selective Service System (SSS) to register all potential draftees in the US automatically. According to Edward Hasbrouk, an expert on the Selective Service, it marks the biggest change to the system since 1980.

The NDAA also includes a new provision to ensure Israel is not impacted by global arms restrictions that have been imposed in response to its genocidal war in Gaza. The amendment requires a review of the arms restrictions and says the US will take steps to “mitigate” any “gaps” it may find.

The NDAA formally lifts the Caesar Act sanctions that were imposed on Syria in 2020 and were designed to prevent the country’s reconstruction until the ousting of former President Bashar al-Assad, which happened last year, when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda, took power in Damascus. [MORE]