Saturday, December 20, 2025

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

House To Vote This Week on Bill To Block Trump From Launching a War With Venezuela

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House is expected to vote on Thursday on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution aimed at blocking President Donald Trump from launching an attack on Venezuela amid a major US military buildup in the Caribbean and threats of a regime change war to oust Venezuelan President...

Report: US Forces Raided Ship Headed From China To Iran Last Month

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com)The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that US special operations forces raided a ship last month, several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, that had departed China and was bound for Iran. The report, which cited unnamed US officials, said that US special operators who boarded...

Syrian Who Killed American Troops Was Member of U.S.-Backed Security Forces

(Headline USA) A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier and was recently reassigned amid suspicions that he might be affiliated with the Islamic State group, according to The Associated...

Hero Disarms Terrorist During Anti-Jewish Shooting in Australia

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Two terrorists reportedly killed at least 11 people on Sunday in Australia during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach—the country’s worst mass shooting in some three decades. The attack may have been even worse if not for the heroic actions of a 43-year-old man identified...

Thomas Massie Introduces Bill to Withdraw from NATO

(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) Representative Thomas Massie has introduced legislation that will end US membership in the North Atlantic Alliance. “NATO is a Cold War relic. The United States should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our country, not socialist countries,” the Republican Congressman wrote. “Today, I...

Two US Soldiers and One US Civilian Killed in ISIS Attack in Syria’s Palmyra

(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) An apparently insider attack in the ancient Syrian city of Palmya has left a number of US casualties, after an apparent ISIS infiltrator to the local security forces attacked a joint US-Syrian patrol that was conducting a “field tour” of the area. The gunmen opened fire on the...

Report: Trump To Appoint US General To Lead Gaza ‘International Stabilization Force’

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump is planning to appoint a two-star US general to lead the international force that may be deployed to Gaza under the US ceasefire deal, Axios reported on Thursday, a step that would mark a significant escalation of US involvement in the Palestinian territory, which has...

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who Wants the US To Attack Venezuela Says US Helped Her Escape

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who wants the US to attack her country to oust President Nicolas Maduro, has traveled to Norway to receive her Nobel Peace Prize and said that she had help from the US to flee Venezuela. “Yes, we did get support...

US Sanctions Six Companies Accused of Transporting Venezuelan Oil as It Prepares More Seizures

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions targeting six companies it accused of transporting Venezuelan oil, as Reuters reported that the Trump administration is gearing up to seize more oil tankers. The US seizure of a tanker off the coast of Venezuela that was bound for...

Crypto Mogul Do Kwon to be Sentenced for Misleading Investors who Lost Billions in Stablecoin Crash

(Headline USA) Cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for misleading investors who lost billions when his company’s crypto ecosystem collapsed in 2022. Kwon, known by some as “the cryptocurrency king,” pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court in August to fraud charges stemming from Terraform Labs’ $40...

Ukraine Sends Response to Trump on Peace Proposal

(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) Ukraine has sent the White House a point-by-point response to President Donald Trump’s peace plan. On Wednesday, A Ukrainian official told Axios that the revisions to Trump’s peace plan are “to make the whole thing doable.” The revisions include changes to the points on territorial exchanges...

New Book: Palantir Helped Israel Carry Out Its Pager Attack in Lebanon

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Technology developed by the US firm Palantir was deployed by the Israeli military during its attacks on Lebanon in 2024, including the infamous pager attack, which Israel has nicknamed “Operation Grim Beeper,” according to a new book. The book, a biography of Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp,...
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