Resource Theft Disguised as Diplomacy - 1.7.2026

I read President Trump’s claim that Venezuela will hand over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States with disbelief and alarm. Framed as a deal, it sounds far more like a shakedown. When a powerful country uses pressure, force, or regime change and then announces control over another nation’s primary resource, the language of “agreement” rings hollow.

I have watched this pattern before. We saw it in Iraq, where talk of liberation masked a war driven by oil, chaos, and lies that cost millions of lives. We saw it in Iran in 1953, when the CIA and MI6 overthrew a democratically elected leader for nationalizing oil—an act that helped set the stage for decades of hostility and a theocracy that still brutalizes Iranian women today.

Now Venezuela appears to be next. Oil presented as payment, controlled by Washington, is not partnership; it is coercion. It undermines international law, fuels resentment, and confirms the worst fears many nations hold about U.S. intentions.

America should stand for sovereignty, fairness, and diplomacy—not extraction at gunpoint. History shows where this road leads, and it is never to peace.

Oil and the Ghosts of History - 1.6.2026

Watching the U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president, I feel a grim sense of déjà vu. As Mehdi Hasan has warned, this is not about democracy or justice. It is about oil — and about America’s refusal to learn from its own history.

In 1953, the CIA and Britain’s MI6 overthrew Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, because he dared to nationalize his country’s oil. That coup shattered Iranian democracy, installed decades of dictatorship, and ultimately ushered in a theocracy whose repression — especially of women — continues to this day. The result was not stability or gratitude, but generations of anger, mistrust, and resistance toward the United States.

We repeated the same crime in Iraq. That invasion, justified by lies, devastated a nation, fueled extremism, and stained America’s moral standing — all in pursuit of oil and power.

Now Venezuela risks becoming the next chapter in this tragic pattern. When the United States treats sovereignty as disposable and resources as prizes of war, it plants the seeds of long-term hostility and human suffering.

History is warning us. Again. We should listen this time. 

The Deliberate Starvation of Children - 1.4.2026

I write as a human being shaken by the story of Hoda Abu al-Naja, the Gazan child whose fragile body succumbed to extreme hunger. No amount of political language can soften what this is: a child starved in full view of the world.

Hoda did not die from a natural disaster. She died because the Israeli government has imposed policies that restrict food, medicine, and humanitarian access to Gaza, while simultaneously banning or expelling dozens of international aid charities whose sole mission is to keep civilians alive. When charities are barred and borders sealed, hunger is no accident—it is a foreseeable outcome.

Children do not choose wars. They do not draft policies or control checkpoints. Yet they are paying the highest price. To watch a child waste away because gluten-free food, protein, or medical care cannot enter Gaza is to witness suffering engineered by human decisions.

I ask readers, and those in power, to confront this reality honestly. If governments deliberately block aid and ban life-saving organizations, they bear responsibility for the consequences. Silence in the face of such suffering is not neutrality—it is complicity.

Hoda’s name should haunt us. And it should demand change.

Criticizing Israel’s War Crimes Is Not Antisemitism - 1.4.2026

“Criticism of Israel’s policies of mass starvation and mass killing is not antisemitism; it is profoundly Jewish”

Attempts to smear Zohran Mamdani as antisemitic for opposing Israel’s mass killing and starvation of Palestinians is both dishonest and dangerous. Criticizing state violence, genocide, and collective punishment is not antisemitism. It is a moral obligation.

Judaism itself demands this clarity. The Torah commands, “Justice, justice shall you pursue” (Deuteronomy 16:20). The prophets repeatedly condemned rulers who abused power, seized land, and crushed the vulnerable. Isaiah warned that ritual and identity mean nothing when society is built on bloodshed and injustice. To speak against mass murder and forced starvation is not anti-Jewish—it is profoundly Jewish.

The deliberate conflation of Israel’s policies with Jewish identity weaponizes antisemitism to silence accountability. This cheapens real antisemitism while shielding policies that violate international law and basic human decency. Judaism does not sanctify siege warfare, collective punishment, or the killing of children. It does not bless the confiscation of land or the slow suffocation of an occupied people.

Even more appalling is Israel’s decision to bar some of the world’s most respected humanitarian charities—organizations devoted to feeding the hungry and healing the wounded. Blocking aid while civilians starve is not self-defense; it is cruelty. Jewish ethics teach pikuach nefesh—the saving of life above all else. These actions mock that sacred principle.

Americans should be outraged that our government continues to arm and finance this campaign of destruction. Sending weapons while civilians are starved and bombed makes the United States complicit in crimes that will stain our moral standing for generations.

Zohran Mamdani’s stance is not antisemitic. It is ethical, lawful, and deeply human. The real obscenity is the ongoing attempt to silence truth by falsely invoking antisemitism to excuse mass killing and dispossession.

History will judge who spoke up—and who looked away.

YOU BREAK IT, YOU OWN IT — A WARNING AMERICA IGNORED - 1.4.2026

U.S. policy toward Venezuela has repeated one of the gravest errors of modern American foreign policy. Before the invasion of Iraq, General Colin Powell warned President George W. Bush with chilling clarity: “You break it, you own it.” That warning was ignored then—and it has been ignored again.

Through sweeping sanctions, open calls for regime change, and the casual threat of force, the United States helped destabilize Venezuela’s economy without assuming responsibility for the human consequences. The result has not been democracy or stability, but deeper poverty, shortages, migration, and suffering borne almost entirely by ordinary Venezuelans—not by political elites.

Powell understood that power creates obligation. When a nation uses its economic and political might to fracture another country’s institutions, it inherits moral responsibility for the aftermath. Coercion without accountability is not strength; it is abandonment.

Foreign policy is not ideology, and it is not punishment for its own sake. Venezuela’s crisis demands diplomacy, humanitarian engagement, and respect for sovereignty—not blunt-force pressure detached from human cost.

America was warned once. Repeating the same mistake is not resolve—it is refusal to learn.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must resign - 1.4.2026

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must resign. He has no medical, scientific, or public-health credentials, yet he has been placed in a position of enormous influence over America’s health policy. From that platform, he has spread vaccine misinformation that puts lives at risk—especially children, the elderly, and people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.

Measles is a stark example. Before vaccination, measles killed 1 to 3 children per 1,000 infections and caused severe complications including pneumonia and brain damage. Thanks to vaccines, measles was eliminated in the United States. Today, fueled by anti-vaccine rhetoric, it is returning—endangering the most vulnerable Americans who depend on community protection.

This is not an abstract debate. Public trust in science saves lives; misinformation kills. When someone without medical training undermines decades of evidence from a position of power, preventable deaths follow.

The nation’s health cannot be entrusted to conspiracy and ideology. Mr. Kennedy should step down—before more Americans pay with their lives.

A war criminal honored by President Trump - 1.2.2026

A war criminal honored by President Trump

It is an affront to human dignity and justice. inflicted immense suffering upon the Palestinian people, was honored at Mar-a-Lago. Benjamin Netanyahu, whose policies have led to the devastation in Gaza and the West Bank, stands as a symbol of the grave injustices faced by Palestinians. The celebration of such a figure only deepens the wound of injustice and compounds the suffering of countless innocent lives.

Furthermore, the recent actions to ban humanitarian aid agencies from Gaza only serve to intensify the humanitarian crisis, leaving countless families in desperate conditions. It is imperative that we stand for justice, compassion, and the protection of human rights.

We must not be silent in the face of such moral failures.