The interest of successive US administrations in Venezuela dates back to the early 20th century, following the discovery of vast oil reserves there. For decades, US energy companies controlled the oil industry, but the Venezuelan government nationalized it in 1976.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani won the mayoral election in New York City, the largest city in the United States, held on November 4th. He became the first mayor of America's most important city to belong to the progressive social democratic movement within the Democratic Party,

I will never forget that day when I went to see a Pakistani ophthalmologist to treat a severe eye infection, and he asked me for a sample of my tears to examine them for a more accurate diagnosis.

Amid the bloodshed and intermittent media silence, a joint investigative report by The Washington Post and ICIJ revealed to the world a secret military and security cooperation network linking ‘Israel’ and six Arab states despite these Arab entities' public condemnation of the Gaza aggression in a “security” deal that the Americans called the “Regional Security Construct.” (The Washington Post)