Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In Venezuela, one might say President Trump said “You’re fired!” to Maduro without any firm plan of succession and without any authority to fire Maduro in the first place other than the authority of guns....
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 6 January 2025, I spoke at length with Glenn Diesen on his popular podcast about ongoing events in Venezuela coupled with the US threat to conquer Greenland. We spent considerable time talking about how US policy on these two issues...
A president is kidnapped, the government remains, and we’re told it isn’t regime change. We pull back the curtain on what our guest calls “regime changeover,” a strategy that uses spectacle and lawfare to force leverage without admitting occupation. From sanctions...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The US Coast Guard has boarded and seized a Russian-flagged tanker in the north Atlantic, claiming the right to interdict any shipping contrary to US sanctions. Will Russia respond? Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace...
As leaders in Europe respond to once-unimaginable threats by the United States to take territory from a NATO ally, one US senator on Monday proposed legislation banning funding for any Trump administration military action against Greenland. Sen. Ruben Gallego...
On January 5th Gunmen have attacked the Kasuwan-Daji village in Niger State, Nigeria, killing at least thirty people. The attack took place in central Nigeria, a region long plagued by militias, bandit raids, and kidnappings. The massacre was not a singular event but...
In the early days of January 2026, as the world looked forward to a move toward stability after years of friction, the roar of more than 150 warplanes and bombers over Caracas and the images of Nicolás Maduro’s arrest by U.S. Special Forces sent a massive shockwave...
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The case against Nicolas Maduro hinged on the Trump Administration's designation of Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist drug organization with Maduro in charge. The Administration has now admitted there is no such cartel. The...
A pre-dawn post, a capital in darkness, and a president in cuffs aboard a U.S. ship—what started as a “one-night raid” is already morphing into something far bigger. We unpack how the strike on Venezuela unfolded, why the official story leaves key gaps, and what it...
Reprinted from John's Substack: On 4 January 2026, John Bolton and I appeared on Tom Switzer’s new show — “Switzerland” — to talk about the US kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. Although we were interviewed sequentially, the issues Bolton and I...
