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AP: Trump’s vague claims of the US running Venezuela raise questions about planning for what comes next
AP (1/6/26 ([link removed]) )
This week on CounterSpin: For millions of people around the globe, the US under the administration of convicted felon Donald Trump has acted—it’s beyond “illegal”; it’s sort of “a-legal,” as if laws meant nothing—they’ve kidnapped the leader ([link removed]) of a sovereign nation, and declared that Trump will henceforth “run” that nation.
If you think flagrant bullying, Mafioso, might-makes-right behavior is what international law is created to combat, and basic human decency is designed to reject—you would be supported by the majority of the world’s people.
But alas, you live in the US and rely for your world view on US media, and thus you are fed authoritarian apologies disguised as disinterested analysis, like that from AP’s headline ([link removed]) on January 6: “Trump’s Vague Claims of the US Running Venezuela Raise Questions About Planning for What Comes Next.”
Because, you see, the problem about Trump’s claim that his weirdo government will now run the country of Venezuela isn’t that that is crazy with a capital K, but that Trump “has offered almost no details about how it will do so.”
Nation of Change: “We will never again be a colony”: Venezuela defies Trump as global protests erupt over US intervention
Nation of Change (1/5/26 ([link removed]) )
Our conversation and understanding of our political power is so warped that even a thoughtful piece ([link removed]) from Nation of Change says: “The White House has not explained how it intends to legally justify the detention of a foreign head of state, the reported civilian deaths, or the long-term scope of a military “quarantine” designed to coerce a sovereign nation.”
When we really need to accept that they will just not justify it, and will simply declare that anyone who asks for justification is a terrorist. And news media will report that as one side of a two-sided argument.
As a CounterSpin guest said recently ([link removed]) : “The cavalry is not coming. You’re it.”
We’ll talk about the Venezuela invasion, as neither a beginning nor an end, with Michelle Ellner, Latin America campaign coordinator of CODEPINK ([link removed]) .
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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at media coverage ([link removed]) of ICE's murder of Renee Good.
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Featured Image: January 4 rally in Caracas protesting the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (photo by Rome Arrieche via Venezuelanalysis—1/5/26 ([link removed]) ).
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