December 17, 2025

LIST of Articles 1/7/26 DWF NEWS

Subject line: US attacks Venezuela but colonialism a world crime

From undemocratic UN to Earth Federation World Parliament

Press Release: Letter to President of Venezuela

Presidium, Provisional World Parliament

Has the U.S. government become a psychopathic bully?

Statecraft's Principled STATEMENT Against US Attack on Venezuela

Lora Lumpe     Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft

Should the US have to pay reparations for its colonialism crimes against Venezuela and other victim countries?

The Bill Is Due: Africa Demands Colonial Justice Now

Mustafa Fetouri     The Intel Drop

The EU's war on truth: Question NATO in Ukraine (or Israeli genocide) and they will freeze your bank account, make it a crime to buy groceries, or even send you to prison!

 Free Speech & Its Enemies

Patrick Lawrence       Consortium News

 The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable

David Suzuki and Ian Hanington    Common Dreams

Euphemisms, euphemisms to cover up US world crimes

The Media Coverage of Trump's War Is Utter Bullshit

The Intercept     theintercept.com

WORLD PUBLIC INTEREST JOURNALISM

Editor: I watch with dismay as the U.S. government continues its behavior as a psychopathic Bully. What goes through my mind is that the U.S. has been taken over by a strongman dictator, President Trump. Trump and his henchmen and henchwomen have thrown the American Constitution out the window and the Biblical 10 Commandments along with it -- by supporting mass murder (Israel's genocide), theft (Venezuela's oil), compulsive lying (Dictator Trump), and sadistic bigotry (ICE abuse against nonwhite immigrants).

It is clear that the United Nations is limited in what it can do. The Security Council veto gives power and authority to 5 political leaders who routinely ignore and mock international law and order. The undemocratic UN Charter is at fault. It must be replaced. The Earth Constitution offers a democratic World Parliament to replace the failed P-5 UN Security Council, and also outlines a well-designed World Judiciary and Enforcement System. ~ R. Kotila, PhD

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From undemocratic UN to Earth Federation World Parliament

Press Release: Letter to President of Venezuela

Presidium Provisional World Parliament

FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE

Earth Federation Condemns US Kidnapping of Venezuela President Maduro

Provisional World Parliament's Presidium for Earth Federation government supports Venezuela's right to independence and to freedom from coercion by the US government. 

 Venezuela January 5, 2026 - Letter to Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros and to Delcy Rodriguez, in charge of the Presidency by order of the Supreme Court of Justice 

The Earth Federation stands in solidarity with the Venezuelan people's struggle for independence, under your constitutional leadership. We reject, repudiate, and denounce before the international community the grave military aggression perpetuated by the current government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and people, which constitutes a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations, enshrining respect for sovereignty, the legal equality of states, and the prohibition of the use of force.

We demand the immediate release of President Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores as they have been illegally kidnapped in violation of international law.  

Please accept our solidarity from the Provisional World Parliament.

Only a global systemic change will allow peoples and nations to be free.

Let us take the decisive step: Let us leave the UN behind and move to the Earth Federation, ratify the World Constitution for the Earth Federation, establishing a Federated, democratic World Parliament, without vetoes, that puts an end to unipolarity and multipolarity, transitioning to a planetary democracy.

The UN is a failed institution.

We propose, Mr. Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Delcy Rodriguez, in charge, that you call a UN General Assembly under Article 109 of the UN Charter to convene a General Conference of UN Members for the purpose of replacing the Charter with a World Constitution. The UN cannot be revised; it is an illegitimate and neocolonial instrument.

Contact: Leopoldo Alberto Cook Antonorsi

Member of the Presidium

Provisional World Parliament

+58 424 273 8997N

leopoldocook@gmail.com

Other members of the Presidium: Glen T. Martin, Alicia de los Angles Roda, Roger Kotila, Jose Maria Tejederas

Has the U.S. government become a psychopathic bully?  

Quincy Institute Statement on US Military Action in Venezuela 

Lora Lumpe    Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Washington, DC —  The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft released the following statement on President Trump’s attack on Venezuela:

The Quincy Institute was founded in 2019 in response to the waste and enduring harm created by America’s foreign policy of dominance and empire, particularly following the end of the Cold War. The Iraq regime change invasion in 2003-2011, the 20-year war in Afghanistan, and the ongoing chaos wrought by the 2012 overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya all made long-festering human rights and governance problems worse, not better. These policies resulted in untold deaths, swathes of regional instability that persist to this day, and a loss of American soft power, as well as acute crisis for US troops and their communities. At our founding, we laid out clear principles that guide our effort to move Washington away from this failed approach in its relations with the world. 

The Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela runs counter to everything that we seek to achieve. 

Military force is justified only in response to a clear, credible, and imminent threat to the security of the United States or its treaty allies. Venezuela, whatever its internal dysfunctions or connections to the international drug trade, does not pose such a threat. Using force absent that standard is not defense; it is aggression. It substitutes coercion for diplomacy and power for principle.

Regime change as a policy tool is wrong in principle and disastrous in practice. The notion that Washington can engineer another nation’s political future through force reflects an arrogance that history has thoroughly debunked. Any attempt by the United States to forcibly determine the political leadership of another sovereign nation represents a grave departure from responsible statecraft and a return to the most discredited habits of American foreign policy. 

Donald Trump ran on a platform that rejected regime change and interventionism. The idea of the United States “running” or administering Venezuela, even temporarily, should set off every alarm bell in Washington. It bears an unsettling resemblance to the occupation of Iraq, where promises of liberation quickly gave way to years of insurgency, civilian suffering, and regional destabilization. Like President Trump, the Bush administration also promised that Iraqi oil would pay for the occupation. The United States is neither equipped nor entitled to run another country, particularly in a region with a long and painful history of US intervention. While the US invasion of Iraq looked like an initial success, it is now understood, including by President Trump, to be a colossal failure. 

Such actions also constitute a clear violation of international law. The UN Charter prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state except in cases of self-defense or with explicit Security Council authorization. A unilateral regime change operation fails both tests. Disregarding these rules does not make America and the world safer; it erodes the very legal framework that constrains violence among states.

Precedents matter. Great powers may ultimately not adhere to international law and norms, but they do have a shared interest in keeping basic guardrails in place. Even the most powerful of nations does not find advantage in a world governed by the law of the jungle. 

American security is best served not by reckless interventions, but by diplomacy with clearly stated aims, military restraint, and respect for international law. Saturday’s action was a blow to all three of these protective principles.  READ MORE

https://quincyinst.org/2026/01/04/quincy-institute-statement-on-us-military-action-in-venezuela/

Will US have to pay reparations for its colonialism crimes against Venezuela and other victim countries?

The Bill Is Due: Africa Demands Colonial Justice Now

Mustafa Fetouri     The Intel Drop

Algiers Declaration demands the codification of colonialism as a crime against humanity in international law

For decades, the demand for colonial reparations in Africa was treated by Western capitals as a rhetorical exercise—a radical plea from the fringes that could be safely ignored or pacified with vague “expressions of regret.” By the end of 2025 the era of Western comfort officially ended in Algiers.

With the adoption of the Algiers Declaration, the African Union (AU) has moved from moral grievance to a structured legal offensive. The declaration, born from the International Conference on the Crimes of Colonialism (Nov 30 – Dec 1), provides the first concrete roadmap for the AU’s 2025 theme: Justice through reparations. It demands the codification of colonialism as a crime against humanity in international law, the restitution of plundered wealth, and an audit of the “ecological debt”.

By turning the spirit of the Algiers Declaration into domestic law, Algiers is signaling to Brussels and Paris that the “Decade of Reparations” is not a suggestion—it is an ultimatum. As Africa increasingly leverages its role in a shifting global order, the question is no longer whether Europe owes a debt, but how much longer it can afford the cost of denial.

The true significance of the Algiers gathering lies in its transition toward institutionalizing justice. For decades, the Western-dominated legal order has treated colonial atrocities as “unfortunate historical episodes” falling outside modern jurisdiction. The Algiers Declaration systematically dismantles this defense. By positioning the AU as a unified legal front, the conference has reclassified colonialism as a continuous, “structured crime against humanity”, with no statute of limitations. READ MORE

Mustafa Fetouri is a Libyan academic, award winning journalist and analyst

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2026/01/02/the-bill-is-due-africa-demands-colonial-justice-now/?

The EU's war on truth: Question NATO in Ukraine (or Israeli genocide) and they will freeze your bank account, make it a crime to buy groceries, or even send you to prison.

Free Speech & Its Enemies

Patrick Lawrence       Consortium News

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 You may especially wonder about cases and consequences if you are an American reliant on corporate media: Europe is convulsing as the “centrist” authoritarians who purport to lead it impose what looks to me like an historically unprecedented regime of censorship and the suppression of speech, but none of the mainstream dailies or broadcasters in America have had a word to say about it — a point to which I will shortly return.

To net this out, Jacques Baud has written thoughtfully and extensively on the war in Ukraine and its bearing on relations between Russia and the West. This includes a sound analysis of NATO’s advances to the Russian Federation’s borders, the U.S.–orchestrated coup in Kiev in 2014, the West’s subsequent betrayal of the Minsk Protocols, and the Biden regime’s purposeful provocation of the military intervention Russia began not quite four years ago.

Whether or not one agrees with Baud’s take on this or that question, his is well-supported work. And the E.U. has just comprehensively sanctioned him for it.

Any European now risks the same if, to bring this home with an especially egregious example, he or she states perfectly discernible truths as to what prompted Moscow’s “special military operation” in February 2022. If invited to make this case on a Russian television station, the offender is yet further beyond the pale.

There are other aspects of the Baud case that have paying-attention Europeans in an uproar. Baud has not been charged with any criminal offense. There has been no investigation into his work, no evidence has been presented, there will be no judicial process, and he will have no opportunity to respond to the “case” — quotation marks again — the E.U. makes against him.

Baud’s assets are now frozen in the E.U. and he cannot travel. He cannot access his bank accounts and various sources of income are blocked. As of now it is a criminal offense to transact with him — to sell him a house or groceries, to take in his shirts, to repair his car. “Although the regulation allows minimal subsistence payments,” Lapavitsas writes, “the effect is to paralyse a person economically and professionally.”

Censorship and attacks on free speech are nothing new on either side of the Atlantic, to state the obvious. It is two years this coming spring since Germany refused entry to Yanis Varoufakis, the honorable Greek economist and activist, who was to attend a congress on Palestine in Berlin.

And then the case of Greta Thunberg, who was arrested in a London street just before Christmas for holding a placard that read simply, “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.” Thunberg is now out on bail until March, presumably to face charges under Britain’s preposterously antidemocratic Terrorism Act.  READ MORE

Consortiumnews.com/2025/12/30/patrick-lawrence-free-speech-its-enemies/

The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable

David Suzuki and Ian Hanington    Common Dreams

By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables, and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same fossil-fueled road.

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Even though emissions continue to rise as the world refuses to halt fossil fuel development and forest and wetland destruction, investments in and growth of renewable energy technology are exceeding expectations, now outpacing fossil fuel investments.

DW reports that “in 2024, the world experienced its largest-ever increase in renewable energy generation, which now provides 40% of global electricity.

In the first half of this year solar and wind exceeded all demand growth for electricity, surpassing coal for the first time.” Solar capacity is doubling every three years. Wind power has tripled since 2015. The International Energy Agency reports that global renewable energy investments exceeded US$2 trillion last year, double the amounts committed to coal, oil, and gas.

READ MORE

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/renewable-energy-unstoppable?

Euphemisms, euphemisms to cover up US world crimes

The Media Coverage of Trump's War Is Utter Bullshit

The Intercept     theintercept.com

From THE INTERCEPT:

"Since Saturday’s unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation and kidnapping of its head of state, the U.S. media has described it as a “ratcheted up” (CBS News) “pressure campaign” (Wall Street Journal) and, as was more often the case, some type of limited narcotics police “operation” (CNN).

Bullshit. The Intercept refuses to do pro bono PR for those in power. We refuse to employ the Pentagon’s preferred euphemisms...."

Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela is not a “police operation” against a criminal “fugitive.” It’s not an “escalating pressure campaign” against a hostile regime.

It’s none of the things that the White House and corporate news outlets like the New York Times, CNN, or Washington Post are calling it.

This is a clear-cut act of military aggression, a brazen violation of international law, and a textbook example of unreconstructed 19th-century colonialism.

Donald Trump now says that the U.S. will “run” Venezuela and “take” the country’s vast oil reserves.

We know there will be blowback. The history of U.S. regime change wars and military intervention in Latin America has been disastrous for the United States and catastrophic for the people of Central and South America.

And while the mainstream media whitewashes Trump’s war crimes in euphemistic pseudo-legalese, The Intercept refuses to play court stenographer for MAGA imperialists.

[THE INTERCEPT asks: Will you donate $50 to help support our all-hands-on-deck effort to investigate and expose Trump's illegal war for oil in Venezuela?]

Unlike previous U.S. presidents, Trump isn’t even pretending that this is about anything other than stealing the resources of a weaker, smaller country, bragging that U.S. oil companies will begin “taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground.”

Yet corporate news outlets continue to bend over backward to defend Trump’s military aggression with phony legal justifications.

Since Saturday’s unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation and kidnapping of its head of state, the U.S. media has described it as a “ratcheted up” (CBS News) “pressure campaign” (Wall Street Journal) and, as was more often the case, some type of limited narcotics police “operation” (CNN).

Bullshit. The Intercept refuses to do pro bono PR for those in power. We refuse to employ the Pentagon’s preferred euphemisms. But in this critical moment, we’re counting on you, our readers, to provide an urgent influx of resources to support our reporting. (DWF NEWS THANKS THE INTERCEPT FOR STATING SO BLUNTLY AND CLEARLY A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPAGANDISTIC COVERAGE BY ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA.)