Demolishing American Imperial Propaganda on Venezuela

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I want to take the opportunity to counter the deluge of lies being spread about Venezuela by the loyal scribes of the American Empire. The agents of empire are a tricky bunch, right now they're even trying to put the Shah back into power in Iran, but we're going to set the record straight. Venezuela is an independent, sovereign socialist republic and continues to defy the empire's attempts at theft and intimidation. 

Sources:

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy Report, "USA Admits it lied about Venezuela drug trafficking." 

Chris Gilbert and Ollie Vargas, The Katie Halper Show, "Armed Venezuelan civilians shock Trump." 

Washington's War on Venezuela

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New year. New war. In the early morning hours of January 3 2026, the U.S. landed its soldiers in the capital of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and kidnapped its elected president Nicolas Maduro. At least 40 people were murdered in airstrikes as the Empire bombed both civilian and military targets in Caracas. This is blatant aggression. Blatant terrorism. Blatant imperialism. 

SOURCES:

Geopolitical Economy Report "The real reason why Trump bombed Venezuela and kidnapped President Maduro", January 3 2026

Refaat Alareer Tribute

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Welcome to Back in the USSR, I am Siegfried. And tonight I’m paying tribute to the martyred Palestinian poet and educator Refaat Alareer. Two years ago, on December 6 2023, the forces of the Zionist occupation murdered Refaat in an attempt to steal his voice. As if a missile could silence a poet and erase his words. Two years on, that voice is as strong as ever. Immortal. Me and my comrades at Guelph Spoken Word never let a month pass by over the course of the past two years without performing “If I Must Die, Let It Be A Tale”, perhaps his most famous poem.

But he was so much more than just one poem. He was a fighter. He resisted occupation through his pen. Refaat even told Ali Abunimah once that the toughest thing he had at home was an Expo marker but if Israeli troops knocked down his door to kill him and his family he would “use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the last thing that I do.” It turns out they didn’t have the courage to try, which is why the cowardly occupation forces used missiles to assassinate this poet.

Refaat was a voice of resistance and he empowered others to use their voices to fight back. When I attended the Guelph People’s Conference on Palestine, which the cowardly trustees of the University of Guelph tried to shut down last minute, I was struck when visiting a book vendor – almost all the books were by Refaat’s former students at the University of Gaza or the man himself. Gaza Writes Back is a compilation of short fiction by his students that is now world famous. He used stories to break the blockade that Israel was trying to impose on the minds and souls of Palestinians as well as their bodies.

While I paid tribute to Refaat two years ago, tonight I want to give you a full picture of the man and his poetry. I’ll be reading an article he wrote years ago called “Narrating Palestine” and I’m also going to be performing some of his poems.

We stand against empire on this show and Refaat was a hero in the fight against imperialism. He stood for human dignity against all odds. That is why you do not have to be Palestinian to honor him. His spirit is international and people struggling against empire and exploitation all over the world understand his message: “Let’s first survive together and then build together.”

Refaat Alareer presente.

  

We Can Be Heroes: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla

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The Gaza Freedom Flotilla had over fifty ships and a heroic international crew of over 1000. They put their lives on the line for the Palestinian people and tied up the entire Israeli Navy in the process. The Apartheid state's credibility is entirely gone and popular momentum only grows stronger for an end to genocide and freedom for Palestine.

 Links:

The Empire Files - "Final message from Gaza flotilla before Israel attack" 

 

 

Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough

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The decision by certain Western governments to formally recognize Palestine as a state while continuing to trade and arm the genocidal entity that is actively slaughtering Palestinians from Gaza to Jenin can only be described as a grotesque whitewash of an ongoing crime against humanity.

Links:

Geopolitical Economy Report - "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN says, as USA blocks peace" 

 

Canada and the Apartheid State

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Western suburbanites might hide from the truth in their insulated little bubbles but the world is moving on without them. And the multi-polar world has no place for Apartheid States like Israel or for the western imperial states that back its genocidal regime to the hilt. Resistance is growing and history is on the side of the people. 

Links:

The Electronic Intifada - "At this rate, Gaza City will be destroyed in 60 days" 

The Electronic Intifada - "Gaza's fighters shattered Israel's fantasy of easy victory" 

Dimitri Lascaris - "We have a moral duty to defend the victims of our government's crimes" 

 

Iranian Retaliation and Apartheid Exhaustion

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Apartheid Israel overextended itself with its brutal aggression against Iran and was forced to back down after massive retaliation. While it continues with the brutal genocide in Gaza, the Apartheid state is militarily exhausting itself and its American backers at the same time. 

References

Dimitri Lascaris - The Endless US-Israel Kabuki Theatre 

The Electronic Intifada - Gaza out of baby formula