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Jan 12, 2026 - World

Police ask Paramjeet Singh Pamma to install security cameras and reinforce door locks at his homePolice have advised a high-profile Sikh activist in the UK to install security cameras at his home and reinforce door locks because of threats from Hindu nationalist elements.Paramjeet Singh Pamma, 52, said he had been visited by police and received verbal advice to increase his security due to intelligence suggesting threats to his safety. Continue reading...

Jan 11, 2026 - World

A Democratic congressman put U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on notice on Sunday, noting a Fox News report that showed "armed militias" in Venezuela after the U.S. mission that took out the nation's leader.In an article called "US warns Americans to leave Venezuela immediately as armed militias set up roadblocks," the conservative outlet reported that "Armed militias known as colectivos" are "reportedly setting up roadblocks to search vehicles for evidence of US citizenship.""As international flights have resumed, U.S. citizens in Venezuela should leave the country immediately," the embassy said, according to the Fox report.Dem rep. Ted Lieu seized on that report and used it against Rubio and even Trump, saying, "Dear [White House] and [Rubio]: You are doing such a great job running Venezuela that you are now warning Americans to leave Venezuela to escape armed militias.""And you want U.S. companies to go to Venezuela? No way they will do that," the lawmaker wrote. "Your Venezuela operation is a disaster."Read the Fox report here.Dear @WhiteHouse and @SecRubio: You are doing such a great job running Venezuela that you are now warning Americans to leave Venezuela to escape armed militias.And you want U.S. companies to go to Venezuela? No way they will do that.Your Venezuela operation is a disaster. https://t.co/nggMSCXaR5— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 11, 2026

Jan 11, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump issued an ominous threat Sunday to Cuba, warning that if they don’t “make a deal” favorable to the United States – and soon – it will be “too late” for the Caribbean nation.“Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided ‘Security Services’ for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “Most of those Cubans are DEAD from last weeks U.S.A. attack, and Venezuela doesn’t need protection anymore from the thugs and extortionists who held them hostage for so many years. Venezuela now has the United States of America, the most powerful military in the World (by far!), to protect them, and protect them we will. THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”Trump’s threat comes in the wake of the U.S. attack and takeover of Venezuela, and amid growing cheers from Republicans for the Cuban government to be toppled.While increasing in intensity the past few weeks, calls from American lawmakers and leaders for the toppling of the Cuban government are not new, with the United States having sought to cripple the Caribbean nation since 1959 after Cuban revolutionaries ousted the Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed dictator who transformed the Caribbean nation into what experts have called a “virtual slave state at the behest of American companies.The United States has attempted to assassinate Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro countless times, and has maintained a decades-long embargo on the nation in the hopes of toppling its government. To date, however, all efforts to enact regime change in Cuba have failed.

Jan 11, 2026 - World

Donald Trump early on Sunday morning shared numerous images indicating a new military target on his mind, other than Greenland and Iran.The president took to Truth Social first thing to share half a dozen posts from other people and graphics, but they all had a theme: Trump pondering taking Cuba.The first post was a share from conservative Marc Thiessen, who wrote, "The Cuban regime has survived every president since Eisenhower. Wouldn’t it be something if that streak ended with Donald Trump?"Trump also shared an AI photo of himself smoking a Cuban cigar, and he shared a post from someone encouraging Trump to make Marco Rubio the president of Cuba."Sounds good to me!" Trump wrote in response to the particular message.See more at his page here.

Jan 11, 2026 - World

Under international law, all nations own the natural resources found within their borders. Not just rich nations, not just powerful ones; all nations possess the inherent right to consume, extract, preserve or even waste their own natural resources according to their own self-determined needs. This basic premise, a foundational pillar of global stability, is reinforced throughout the United Nations Charter supporting state sovereignty and self-determination in Articles 1 and 55, and is spelled out in the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States granting every State “full permanent sovereignty ... over all its wealth, natural resources and economic activities.”Under Article 2(4) of the UN charter, a nation cannot use force on the sovereign territory of another country without its consent, or without the authorization of the UN Security Council, unless the use of force is in self-defense. Following the horrors of the trenches, Hitler, and 90 million deaths in two world wars, the UN Charter was designed to stop nations from doing exactly what Trump just did in Venezuela. On Jan. 3, under Trump’s direction and without congressional authority, U.S. forces captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a nighttime raid, all while U.S. forces continued seizing Venezuela’s oil and struck military bases, killing at least 80 people who posed no prior threat to the U.S. Overnight, the international order of sovereignty and the rule of law marched backward into Trump’s Neanderthal world of brute force, while Big Oil-aligned Fox News cheered.Dispensing with democracy to serve the oil industryMaduro ruled through repression, corruption, media control, and singular brutality. Human Rights Watch reported that Maduro’s regime had systematically “killed, tortured, detained, and forcefully disappeared people” for the crime of seeking democratic change. Although, like Trump, Maduro still had the support of 30 percent of his citizens, he will not be missed.Yet despite toppling him, Trump left Maduro’s brutality machine in place, grievously disappointing Venezuelans who danced in the streets. Trump told reporters Maduro’s own Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, would remain in power, but only so long as she “does what we want,” to which Ms. Rodríguez responded, “What is being done to Venezuela is a barbarity” — before later softening her tone. Trump apparently chose Rodríguez for her management expertise in the Venezuelan oil industry as well as Venezuela’s murderous intelligence apparatus. She also enjoys strong ties with U.S. Republicans in the oil industry. After tapping Rodríguez, Trump threatened her, saying, “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”A petty man gets his petty revengeFollowing the attack, Trump announced that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela with oil-wealth aspirations more conceptual than concrete. Like his oft-alluded to “concept of a plan” for health care that has still not materialized, Trump said he would provide the “vision for how Venezuela should be run,” and commanded his hand-picked leader to carry out his vision under threat of force. In Rodríguez, Trump named a leader of the same government he just labeled illegitimate, while dismissing political heir apparent María Corina Machado. Machado, a national political hero, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for leading Venezuela’s struggle for democracy in the face of Maduro’s cruel and ever-expanding authoritarianism. After Maduro “banned” her candidacy, her political movement still defeated him in the 2024 presidential election by a 37-point margin. Despite her electoral victory, chops, and 65 percent support among Venezuelans, Trump claims Machado “lacks the respect” needed to run Venezuela. Inside sources say Machado offended Trump’s ego when she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize he covets. Put a pin in the absurdity of a peace prize for a man who deploys the military against his own country, murders people in fishing boats, and now threatens violent expansion against peaceful neighbors.All for the love of oilVenezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, to which an unscrupulous and dangerous U.S. president has now laid claim, on behalf of private oil investors. It is also being led by a close ally of Maduro hand-picked by Trump, who apparently intends to be puppet master and intervenor to an already corrupt and brutal regime. Trump told reporters administration officials would designate “various people” to “run” Venezuela, “and we’re gonna let you know who those people are,” but the lack of detail has led many to question why there was no detailed plan in place before Maduro was toppled. It’s like Trump wrecking healthcare for 20 million Americans without first putting an alternative in place, and will similarly lead to loss of life.Even though Maduro will not be missed, the end cannot justify the means where the end includes regional instability, economic collapse, and losses still unknowable. As Trump flirts with boots on the ground in Venezuela, licking his Cro-Magnon lips at the taste of raw brute power, he has begun threatening Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland in earnest.“Just war’” theory, on which the post-World War II democratic world order is built, depends on and expects restraint from the powerful. Trump has again acted without restraint, without congressional authority, and without the concept of a plan for what comes next. By eschewing any notion of restoring democracy to the Venezuelan people, Trump has revealed his imperialist Big Oil mission as unadorned thuggery.Sabrina Haake is a columnist and 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.