At the final Cabinet meeting of 2025, Donald Trump said that the strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean would continue, and that “We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too” - signaling that a ground invasion of Venezuela and possibly other countries may be imminent.

On this episode, we review the lies the U.S. government has been putting forward about where drugs are coming from and why the U.S. has wanted to overthrow the Venezuelan government for decades - for access to its rich oil resources, to open up new markets for U.S. goods, and to send a message to other countries charting their own independent and socialist paths that imperialist hegemony can’t be challenged.

The time for a united movement against this war, which could also spread to Colombia and beyond, is now. And that movement must be independent of both major parties so it doesn’t repeat the mistakes of some in the 2000s by quieting down or compromising itself to appease the Democrats, and so it doesn’t get sidetracked into “America First” isolationism on the right. We also discuss some of the overt - and covert - ways that mouthpieces of imperialism will try to dissuade people from taking part in such a movement.

December 6th will be a national day of action against war in Venezuela. Find a demonstration near you at https://www.answercoalition.org/venezuela, or add yours to the list.

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