Venezuela launches “Independence Plan 200” to defend borders, ports, airports, oil sites, and critical infrastructure amid concerns over potential US military action. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López emphasizes readiness for any scenario.

US Senate Rejects Effort to Stop ‘Unauthorized War’ Against Venezuela US officials told congressional lawmakers that the US currently lacks a legal justification for striking land targets inside Venezuela. https://t.co/IycIhK2Vlj

“The civic-military union is one of brotherhood,” says Armando Urgelles, explaining that the Bolivarian Militia integrates with Venezuela’s armed forces to ensure territorial defence. Full interview:

More provocation sorties. US B-52s again flew very close to Venezuelan shores this afternoon

Analyst Gary Wilson examines Washington’s growing military buildup near Venezuela. Reports indicate the Pentagon has discussed “decapitation strikes,” while the USS Gerald R. Ford spearheads a 10,000-person deployment across the Caribbean. https://t.co/R1UEXAd6JA

Officials have tried to claim that the intelligence is good, but there are plenty of reports that the US has no idea of who it's killing out there. One recent example: https://t.co/Gtd7BT71MS

This is the key part (see screenshot). But if the arguments for lethal strikes on small boats are already thin, w/ UN experts classifying them as extrajudicial executions, justifying attacks on land would be even more absurd. Perhaps the US will try to manufacture an excuse

De-escalation or diversion maneuver? Trump admin officials told lawmakers that there are no plans to attack Venezuela because there is no legal justification for it right now. The present "legal" justification for high seas murder does not extend to land https://t.co/YNhGFR4E4I

Following a decade of economic sanctions on Venezuela, the current wave of boat strikes isn't actually aimed at stopping drug trafficking. Article by VA columnist @JessiDosSantos for @Truthdig https://t.co/hmFxwteZED

US Senate Rejects Effort to Stop ‘Unauthorized War’ Against Venezuela US officials told congressional lawmakers that the US currently lacks a legal justification for striking land targets inside Venezuela. https://t.co/IycIhK2Vlj

Ahead of today's vote on the Venezuela war powers resolution in the Senate, this is how Senators are defending their support for Trump's oil war: 1. Fighting "narco-terrorists" 2. Denying it's a war 3. Saying it's business as usual 4. Avoiding comment 5. Pretending it's legal

“The civic-military union is one of brotherhood,” says Armando Urgelles, explaining that the Bolivarian Militia integrates with Venezuela’s armed forces to ensure territorial defence. Full interview:

More provocation sorties. US B-52s again flew very close to Venezuelan shores this afternoon

Analyst Gary Wilson examines Washington’s growing military buildup near Venezuela. Reports indicate the Pentagon has discussed “decapitation strikes,” while the USS Gerald R. Ford spearheads a 10,000-person deployment across the Caribbean. https://t.co/R1UEXAd6JA

Officials have tried to claim that the intelligence is good, but there are plenty of reports that the US has no idea of who it's killing out there. One recent example: https://t.co/Gtd7BT71MS

This is the key part (see screenshot). But if the arguments for lethal strikes on small boats are already thin, w/ UN experts classifying them as extrajudicial executions, justifying attacks on land would be even more absurd. Perhaps the US will try to manufacture an excuse

De-escalation or diversion maneuver? Trump admin officials told lawmakers that there are no plans to attack Venezuela because there is no legal justification for it right now. The present "legal" justification for high seas murder does not extend to land https://t.co/YNhGFR4E4I

Attempt #2. The US Senate is voting again on a war powers resolution, this time with a narrower scope of blocking the administration from strikes inside Venezuela. The previous effort was narrowly defeated https://t.co/q8BYG7ZnIR

THE UN DOESN'T BELONG IN NEW YORK At the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Palestine was at the top of the agenda with a record number of states set to recognise it diplomatically. Yet even such a hollow symbolic gesture, two years into the Zionist

Twenty years after “ALCA, ALCA… to hell!”, the fight for sovereignty and integration goes on. Not nostalgia, continuity. Click here to learn more: https://t.co/MgAEvHY0bN

Bolivarian Militia member Armando Urgelles discusses the body's ideology and preparations in the face of US military threats. Read the full interview here: https://t.co/pjDByAUYnz