Washington’s Venezuela play isn’t about stealing oil—it’s about strangling supply to maintain scarcity pricing for US producers. From pre-Castro Havana’s Mob bordello to today’s sanctions garrotte, the pattern is clear: control beats plunder, and workers foot the imperial bill.
In February 2019, millions watched as Venezuelan forces supposedly torched aid trucks. The story was false, but it had already done its work: manufacturing consent for economic warfare that would kill tens of thousands. Here’s how media made US sanctions disappear, and why Australia was complicit.
Venezuelan strongman Maduro seized in daring US operation.” That’s how our ABC led the coverage. But what we witnessed was an illegal military invasion of a sovereign nation dressed up as law enforcement. This is the anatomy of an imperial project: demonisation, sanctions, crisis, military intervention. We’ve seen it in Iraq, Libya, Syria. Now Venezuela. The pattern is identical. The oil is the prize. The “narcoterrorism” is just marketing. And Australian media are selling it with a straight face while we’re complicit through intelligence sharing and lockstep UN votes. Part One of an investigation into how empires manufacture consent—and why we keep falling for it.
In the early hours of January 3, 2026, the United States bombed Venezuela. Seven explosions tore through Caracas as American aircraft targeted military installations, a suspected cocaine refinery, and reportedly captured Nicolás Maduro himself. This report sketches the attack’s anatomy: the midnight chaos, the neoliberal machinery driving it, and the human fallout from what looks disturbingly like the Iraq template transplanted to South America.
After the Bondi Beach massacre, Australia reached again for its familiar sedatives: the “lone wolf” narrative and a distant foreign setting to absorb the blame. But behind the rhetoric lies a deeper pattern — local radicalisation, institutional triage, and a political culture addicted to comfort over accountability.
Sussan Ley’s Coalition promises regression on climate, housing, welfare, and integrity—while struggling to control its own fractured ranks and win back lost voters. In a volatile world, the risks of her untested leadership could not be higher. Why 2025 demands better.
Is Anthony Albanese finished — or simply governing inside a system designed to grind Labor down? From dark-money campaigning and media asymmetry to climate compromises, welfare cruelty, and the AUKUS mirage, this essay examines how a cautious government is bleeding by a thousand cuts in a political ecosystem rigged against it.
We excised Brenton Tarrant from our consciousness because examining him would require examining the political culture that helped produce him. Meanwhile, elite networks use “combating antisemitism” to advance right-wing agendas funded by the same corporate interests that profit from inequality. Part 2 reveals how institutional power operates through selective attention to religious violence.
n the wake of Bondi, grief is being channelled into a dangerous misdiagnosis: that Jewish safety requires conflation, censorship, and punitive power. This essay argues for a public health approach to violent extremism, warns against collapsing Judaism into Israeli state policy, and shows how selective vigilance and entrenched Islamophobia undermine prevention and make everyone less safe.
The Bondi massacre was not caused by a Prime Minister. It was enabled by institutional failure and exploited for political gain. In two parts, this essay examines how grief was weaponised, why antisemitism is being dangerously misdiagnosed, and what would actually make Australians safer.
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