The author advises the Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities by immediately affirming a series of actions in response to the U.S. attacks on Venezuela.
The following remarks, as prepared for presentation, were made by Jeffrey D. Sachs, president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, during an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Mondayin New York City.
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Andreína Chávez discusses what just happened in Venezuela
Venezuelan, International Popular Movements Condemn US Bombings, Maduro Kidnapping
Trump claimed that his administration will “run Venezuela” with the acquiescence from Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.
By Ricardo Vaz
January 3, 2026 – venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, January 3, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan popular movements and international solidarity organizations have taken to the streets to condemn a US military attack against the country and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro.
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US Claims Maduro Captured During Military Operation Against Venezuela
Venezuelanalysis.com
January 3, 2026
Caracas, January 3, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – US President Donald Trump has claimed that US Special Forces have captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a miltary operation against Venezuela in the early hours of Saturday.
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Battering the Christ Child
By Raffique Shah
December 20, 2025
It’s perhaps because those were earlier days and easier times when the population could make do with simple things that gave us pleasure and joy to own. Or it could be that most of the population decades ago were relatively poor. But whatever the reason why we did not enjoy the most expensive fruits, foods and things that cost plenty in general did not matter anyway.
One hundred years after the abolition of slavery, when the Africans who came in bondage had settled among their one-time captor in ways that were inconceivable when the British Lion still roared, and now among the world the beast no longer sported the fearsome jaws that made lesser mortals tremble with fear…those people, along with Indians and other orientals—Chinese…they were pursuing their full freedom, nothing less.
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BrinkSmanship on our Shores
By Raffique Shah
December 13, 2025
As we move on past the first quarter of the 21st century, I follow with keen interest man’s search for power and control of our section of the universe in which we dwell.
We do this at a dizzying pace. Consider this: man first ignited fire over 400,000 years ago. Later on that same fire would help him soften and bend hard materials like iron to form weapons, tools, and it even paved the way for the development of the manufacturing industry, science and medicine. From the malleable iron we would get steel which is used in construction and other projects.
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Cost of dying, high
By Raffique Shah
December 06, 2025
If you are a robust 50-something-year-old with no known affliction, which signals that you are a healthy specimen, then you may well be concerned mostly with the cost of living.
You will have noted the runaway prices that affect the average householder by way of increased prices for basic goods and services. You’ll wonder how people who earn less than $10K a month, who are breadwinners to their families, fare in this jungle where the hunt is for lower prices. Not only does every dollar count, but a man or woman will walk the proverbial mile and a half to save $5 on one basic food item such as rice, flour, corned beef, etc. If, however, you are stricken by diseases that are all too familiar-some might say rampant-you will have noted the leap in prices of pharmaceuticals which will have quadrupled over the past year.
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BrinkSmanship on our Shores
By Raffique Shah
December 13, 2025
As we move on past the first quarter of the 21st century, I follow with keen interest man’s search for power and control of our section of the universe in which we dwell.
We do this at a dizzying pace. Consider this: man first ignited fire over 400,000 years ago. Later on that same fire would help him soften and bend hard materials like iron to form weapons, tools, and it even paved the way for the development of the manufacturing industry, science and medicine. From the malleable iron we would get steel which is used in construction and other projects.
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Government boots
By Raffique Shah
November 23, 2025
It would later be branded “The Summer of Discontent”, a period during which the temperature and humidity of the island-state rose to intolerable levels, where natives and tourists alike walked around saturated in sweat. Tensions in the society rose to threatening heights. It was as if the population would implode with a fierceness that had never been seen before. Yet, nothing like that happened. Seething in sweat-driven fury, the natives wore their discontent with stoic harmony, leaving a façade of happiness that belied the building hate that will consume this country, someday, someday.
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No mandate for war
By Raffique Shah
November 15, 2025
When criminologist Daurius Figueira speaks to us citizens on drug trafficking, murder and other crimes related to them, we’d better listen.
You see, much unlike Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America, who sees the narcotics trade in the world as nothing more than a board game, Daurius knows and has studied the innards of the drug trade. He has witnessed the savagery of the wars by overlords for control of the cocaine market internationally. The Pablo Escobars of Latin America, in the relatively short time that they controlled their base in Central and South America, reduced large Latin American nations to nothing more than a gangster’s paradise—which they fought Washington and the American government with to stamp their control over crime and politics.
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