Venezuela in Washington Crosshairs: Breaking the Information Blockade Just World Ed and the Task Force on the Americas presented this timely three-part webinar series in early January 2026, in the immediate aftermath of the very violent operation Pres. Trump launched that kidnapped Venezuela’s President and First Lady. These conversations, co-moderated by TFA’s Roger Harris and JWE’s Helena Cobban, brought … Read More
Wow, what a year it has been! Much more bad news than good for Latin America – and for Latinos living in the U.S. The Trump administration has taken the gloves off with its aggressive intervention in Latin America, coinciding with active U.S. complicity with ongoing genocide in Palestine and racist attacks on immigrants in the … Read More
https://peaceandplanetnews.org/a-tale-of-two-peace-prizes/ Note: Both Roger Harris and Gerry Condon are TFA board members. The Nobel legitimizes the Empire’s war on Venezuela while the US Peace Prize honors resistance. The Nobel Peace Prize was established in 1901. In the decades that followed, Mahatma Gandhi emerged as the international symbol of world peace for resistance to the dominant imperialism of … Read More
Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK CODEPINK Nov 26, 2025 Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece of furniture in Washington’s living room. His new proposal is drenched in the same Cold War fever and colonial mindset that … Read More
By Roger D. Harris on October 6, 2025 Washington’s escalating regime-change offensive against Venezuela uses drug interdiction conflated with combating “terrorism” as a pretext for the expansion of imperial militarism. Donald Trump boasted striking small boats off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to “blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water.” Claiming destruction of enough drugs to … Read More