Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
US loans Angola $500M for major railroad
The loan is part of White House efforts to counter China’s influence on the continent, while gaining access to Africa’s vast mineral resources.
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Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
US passes $900B defense bill as West ramps up military spending
Germany also passed a major bill agreeing €50 billion in defense spending, while the UK is set to unveil its military outlays in the new year.
Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
Putin vows to take ‘historic lands’ from Ukraine
The Russian president added that the European “swine” backing Ukraine would eventually give up.
Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
Venezuela’s navy to escort oil tankers through US blockade
The move risks a confrontation with US forces that have been ordered to blockade the South American nation.
Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
Brazil’s Lula threatens to suspend planned EU-LatAm trade deal
France and Italy backed away from the long-negotiated trade deal in recent days, under pressure from their agriculture sectors.
Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
European leaders gather for high-stakes summit
Analysts say the summit in Brussels will determine whether the bloc builds its position as a geopolitical power or fades to second-tier status.
Scheer Post • Dec 18, 2025
‘Absolute Dereliction of Duty’: House Republicans Kill Venezuela War Powers Resolutions
By Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams House Republicans on Wednesday defeated a pair of war powers resolutions aimed at reining in US President Donald Trump’s airstrikes on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and his increasingly aggressive provocations that critics fear are leading to a war on Venezuela. The first resolution, introduced by Rep. […]
Scheer Post • Dec 18, 2025
Operation Condor: Transnational Murder Syndicate
By Kit Klarenberg for his Substack On November 25th 1975, the 60th birthday of Chile’s CIA-installed dictator General Augusto Pinochet, high-ranking representatives of the repressive secret police forces of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay gathered in Santiago for a covert three-day summit. There, the quintet of US-sponsored Latin American fascist juntas forged an incendiary agreement. Dubbed ‘Operation Condor’ after […]
Semafor • Dec 17, 2025
EU to decide on unlocking frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine
The bloc holds $246 billion in Russian assets, but it has been divided over whether to use the funds as a loan to Kyiv.
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