Introduction: The Problem Goes Beyond Electoral Defeat The recurrent rise and fall of left-wing governments across Latin America and Central America—from Venezuela and Bolivia to Brazil, Chile, Honduras, and Nicaragua—is often portrayed in dominant political and media narratives as a mere electoral pendulum or as evidence of “popular fatigue with the left.” Such interpretations, whether [...]
Once again, the U.S.-Israel Axis has launched an unnecessary, unprovoked, and deeply immoral attack against the sovereign nation of Iran.  But what is largely missing from Western corporate media coverage of the attack is that it is also an entirely unlawful, indeed criminal act.  And that the armed Iranian response, as a matter of international law, is both justified [...]
President Trump wants to use his kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as a template for his current plan for regime change in Iran.Fox News’s Brett Baier reported this development after speaking with the president on Monday morning.“He said there is a plan. He points to Venezuela as a template,” Baier said. “Which means to me that, going in, they had some sense on the ground of what was coming next.”Bret Baier says President Trump told him the plan for Iran is to use Venezuela as a template, pic.twitter.com/APyM2f2Xqi— Acyn (@Acyn) March 2, 2026These situations are already quite different, with the U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign in Iran having continued for more than 48 hours. And Venezuela didn’t strike back. Moreover, the only semblance of a plan in Venezuela has been a plug-and-play regime change, the success of which has yet to be determined. And what happened to “freeing” Iranians? “This makes no sense. It is actually insane. Did we bomb Venezuela for days? Weeks? What parts of the Iranian dictatorship does he plan on keeping in control of Iran—as per the Venezuela template??? Let me repeat: Insane,” one X user commented. Another massive difference here is that Maduro’s government was left largely intact in Venezuela, in the hands of second-in-command Delcy Rodríguez.“So the plan is: Regime change, by keeping regime in place. Admin told Trump this won’t work in Iran given 3 pronged regime: religious, military & administrative. Killing Supreme Leader to just replace him with tougher hardliner won’t work,” wrote another X user. “One size fits all isn’t a policy. It leads to quagmires.”“Begs the question: Who is the Delcy Rodríguez of Iran and are they still alive?” MSNOW’s Jesse Rodriguez posited. Probably not.“The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates,” Trump said to ABC News’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead.”
“People around Trump are profiting off war and death," one lawmaker said.