The US Attacks Venezuela
January 3, 2026 THE U.S. ATTACKS VENEZUELA VIJAY PRASHAD & TAROA ZUNIGA SILVA Kidnapping Maduro is a war crime. THE DEATH OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IBRAHAMI QURAISHI Trump has put the death of international law in plain site. TRUMP’S VENEZUELA COUP RON JACOBS The criminal empire. TRUMP’S CONTEMPT FOR THE CONSTITUTION BERNIE SANDERS This is NOT “America first”. CounterPunch+ Exclusive CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY BY PETE DOLACK Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh evidence rather than ideology that slavery was a crucial prop to the Industrial Revolution, there has been a continual pushback. There is no surprise in that. The fiction that capitalism is a “natural” manifestation of “human nature” that dispassionately provides economic growth can’t be sustained if we look under the hood at all the violence that brought it about and sustains it. READ MORE Copyright © CounterPunch. Published since 19...