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Dec 31, 2025 - First Venezuela (Then China?)

By Atilio A. Boron

The escalation of US aggression against Venezuela seems unstoppable, while extrajudicial executions by US forces accumulate in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Threats are becoming increasingly vocal in Washington, and naval and air blockades are intensifying by the hour. These measures violate the United Nations Charter and international law, but US President Donald Trump and his henchmen seem determined to do whatever it takes to subjugate the South American country. It remains to be seen, however, whether with an invasion they want to create their own Vietnam or Afghanistan; in other words, whether they are stupid enough to start another fire but this time not in distant lands but in the front yard of the United States.

Source: The Bullet No. 3241

Dec 26, 2025 - The American Dream, We Hardly Knew You

By John Miller

If Americans' hopes of getting ahead have dimmed, as the Wall Street Journal reports yet again, it could only be because the lid of the coffin in which the "American Dream" was long ago laid to rest has finally been sealed shut. The promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will get ahead, or if you don't, surely your children will, was broken long ago. And today's economic hardships have left young adults distinctly worse off than their parents, and especially their grandparents.

Source: The Bullet No. 3240

Dec 25, 2025 - The Notwithstanding Clause: A Tool for Authoritarianism in Canada

By William Paul

The "clause" is the "notwithstanding clause," otherwise known as Section 33 of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith has been busy these past couple of months, invoking it to protect legislation affecting schools, labour, and families. Over the past few years, premiers have come to see the "notwithstanding clause" as a handy tool to avoid court challenges to legislation. But it is undermining democracy, and the problem is getting worse.

Source: The Bullet No. 3239

Dec 18, 2025 - Ontario Government is Privatizing Surgeries While Pushing Public Hospitals into Deficit

By Ontario Health Coalition

Ontario's public hospitals have been pushed into deficit and ordered to find cuts, while the government of Doug Ford shunts hundreds of millions of public dollars away from them to for-profit clinics, the Ontario Health Coalition warned on December 11 on the heels of the province's announcement of plans to privatize thousands of orthopedic surgeries.

Source: The Bullet No. 3238

Dec 16, 2025 - COP 30: Entrenching the Crisis of Climate Politics

By Brian Ashley

As the dust settles after COP30 in Belem, Brazil, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in the distant future, but today. The world's political and economic elites arrived in the Amazon to negotiate when the 1.5°C target had already slipped out of reach, and they left with little more than symbolic gestures. No binding emissions cuts. No serious plan to phase out fossil fuels. No meaningful climate finance for adaptation. No accountability for the destruction already unleashed.

Source: The Bullet No. 3237