The genocide in Gaza and the ‘new world order’
Before dawn on January 3, the United States launched a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela during which its President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were kidnapped and flown out of the country. They were subsequently arraigned in a New York court on drug and weapons charges. Though there were no American deaths, at least 100 people were killed in the assault, including Venezuelan civilians and 32 Cubans.
Four days later, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, Jonathan E. Ross, fatally shot a 37-year-old American woman, Renée Nicole Good, three times in the face at point-blank range. Video analysis by the New York Times of “bystander footage, filmed from different angles, appears to show the agent was not in the path of the victim’s SUV when he fired.” Contrary to the claims put out by the Department of Homeland Security within two hours, this was a brutal murder—not self-defence.
What has any of this to do with Gaza? The short answer is: everything. For it was above all in Gaza that the new world order of which these are symptoms was forged.
Later on January 3, Donald Trump told journalists that “We’re going to run the country [Venezuela] until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.”
With a nod to the Monroe Doctrine (which he has modestly renamed the “Donroe Doctrine”) of 1823, Trump warned that “Under our new National Security Strategy, American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
“I understand the anxiety over the use of military force,” Vice President J.D. Vance posted on X, “But are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing? Great powers don’t act like that. The United States, thanks to President Trump’s leadership, is a great power again. Everyone should take note.”
By “steal our stuff” he meant Venezuela’s nationalization of foreign oil companies in 2007 under Hugo Chávez. (more...)
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