by Sharon Zhang | Jan 3, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Donald Trump, Military, News, Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela
President Donald Trump announced early January 3 that the U.S. has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro after a series of late night airstrikes on Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, carried out by the U.S. military. In a post on Truth Social, Trump boasted that the U.S. has “successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela” and said that Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores…
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by Christine Ahn | Dec 22, 2025 | Hawaii, Indigenous Sovereignty, Militarism, Military, Native Hawaiians, News Analysis, Sustainability
Since 1964, the U.S. military has leased roughly 47,000 acres of land from the State of Hawai‘i — for a token $1. The leases, which account for 18 percent of military lands in Hawai‘i, are set to expire in 2029, offering Hawai‘i a rare opportunity to reclaim land from the war machine. As the expiration date looms, Hawai‘i residents are at a crossroads: remain a staging ground for U.S.
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by Kelly Hayes | Nov 27, 2025 | Abolition, Fascism, ICE, immigration, Interview, Militarism, Military, Organizing, Podcast, Policing
“We’re very aware that things are awful … That means that we’re alive, and that we want something different. That’s a really important starting point, is just to even have that kind of repulsion and to have that awful feeling about things,” says Tamara Nopper. “So, I want more of that energy, but I want more of that energy to be connected to some more skills.” In this episode of “Movement Memos,”…
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by Marjorie Cohn | Nov 25, 2025 | Antiwar, Boat Strikes, Department of Defense, Donald Trump, Mark Kelly, Military, National Guard, News Analysis, Resistance, US Military, War Crimes
The courageous action of six Democratic members of Congress has thrust into the national discourse the duty of military and CIA personnel to disobey Donald Trump’s illegal orders. As the Trump administration continues to unlawfully murder people in small vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, deploy the National Guard to U.S. cities, and ignore court orders, the six lawmakers were moved to…
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by Stephen Prager | Nov 21, 2025 | Chicago, Courts, Donald Trump, Military, National Guard, News, Pentagon, Trump Administration, Washington D.C.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump’s deployment of more than 2,000 National Guard troops to police Washington, DC, is illegal and must come to an end. Over objections from city officials, Trump ordered the troops to flood the nation’s capital in August to deter what he claimed was an unstoppable crime wave, even though crime was falling precipitously and was at a 30…
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by Stavroula Pabst | Nov 15, 2025 | Arms Industry, Boat Strikes, Boeing, Caribbean, Donald Trump, Lockheed Martin, Militarism, Military, News, Pentagon, Raytheon, RTX, Venezuela, weapons contractors
As fears mount that U.S. strikes against so-called “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean could escalate into full-scale war with Venezuela, weapons makers are well positioned to benefit from the unprecedented U.S. military build-up in the region, not seen on such a scale in decades, and continues unabated. Currently, key naval vessels such as guided-missile destroyers equipped with the Aegis…
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