Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado
Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review Oct 17, 2025
It is particularly difficult to pick out the most idiotic comments made by President Donald Trump over the past week as there is so much to choose from. There were the memorable doodle-headed speeches before the Israeli Knesset and the so-called Peace gathering in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt and the threats against Hamas over the failure to come up with the bodies of Israeli hostages that were killed by American government provided bombs dropped by Israel and are now buried beneath piles of rubble. And then there is the Insurrection Act, cited nearly every day by Trump or one of his cabinet, which, if it is successfully called for and passes through judicial review, will truly turn the United States into a police state ruled by a leader that clearly is mentally incompetent as well as providing all the signs that he is a narcissistic psychopath whose goal in holding the presidency is to be surrounded by folks who tell him constantly how great he is! And let’s not forget the bloviation regarding the “Triumphal” Arch being planned for the Arlington National Cemetery end of Memorial Bridge leading to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
What the often-garrulous if incoherent Trump never said in the context of conflict in the Middle East was that a “GENOCIDE conducted by Israel is taking place in Gaza” as that is a word that is strictly verboten in the circle that surrounds him even though nearly all of the rest of the world sees it otherwise. He nevertheless frequently expressed his pain at the thought of 20 Israeli “hostages” with little to spare for an estimated 20,000 dead Palestinian children. To mention Gazan suffering would presumably would cut off the $100 million plus loose change that comes his way from donors like Israeli Las Vegas casino multi-billionaire Miriam Adelson, who flew with Trump on Air Force One and grinned when he announced publicly how she was worth $60 billion and posited how she is more loyal to Israel than she is to the United States. It was what some might regard as a genuine national security issue that did not seem to bother the president in the least. The Knesset audience cheered however, particularly when Trump related how Israeli annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights had been secured through a bribe he had received from the Adelsons during his first term in office.
Beyond all that entertainment, however, as a former intelligence officer, my favorite Trump bit of chatter last week was his somewhat odd revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is now operating in Venezuela. That is in addition to the deployment of eight warships, a nuclear-powered submarine, B-52 bombers and fighter jets to the region as part of what the Administration has described as an operation to combat drug smuggling and illegal migration into the United States. There are reportedly a total of about 10,000 US military personnel, as a possible sea-air-and ground invasion force, assembled in the Caribbean area either on ships or in US territory on Puerto Rico. The recent resignation of the SOUTHCOM commanding Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey, who may have had reservations about the legality of what was afoot, is not expected to slow the troop build- up.
On Tuesday, Trump said that the Navy had struck another small boat off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people. It was the fifth such strike in the Caribbean, where the Trump administration has asserted its presumed authority to treat alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who may be attacked with military force. At least 27 people have been killed in the five strikes, according to figures released by the administration, and a sixth strike on Thursday reportedly was the first to result in “survivors” who apparently have been picked up by a US warship. There are also reports about a “drug submarine” which was intercepted and destroyed by the US Navy.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday alongside FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump was questioned about the reported Justice Department opinion which forms the basis of the administration’s ramped up campaign against Latin American drug cartels. It includes expanded authorities for the CIA to conduct lethal targeting and carry out covert action in the region. President Donald Trump reportedly had updated CIA’s authorities when he also signed a secret directive ordering the military to begin hitting Latin American drug cartels earlier in the summer.
Before that, in April, the CIA had begun reviewing its existing authorities to use lethal force against Latin American drug cartels, as the Trump administration made confronting the cartels a major priority for the intelligence agency. At that time, the CIA was already flying surveillance drones that are capable of being armed over Mexico to begin to take out the Mexican cartels if ordered to do so by the White House.
Interestingly, there already exists a presidential directive, known as a “finding,” for CIA covert action related to the counternarcotics mission that dated back to the 1980s. The Trump administration has been working to update that finding to provide further clarity to CIA on the specific actions the agency is allowed to take in the Latin American region. The basic problem is that Latin America is in America’s backyard. The expansion of CIA’s authorities has included lethal targeting against cartel actors, an authority that is fraught with risk as in Latin America, there are, comparatively, many US-born citizens and green card holders — people who might have the legal standing to sue the US government if they are somehow targeted or harmed.
President Donald Trump explained on Wednesday that he had indeed authorized the CIA to operate inside Venezuela to clamp down on illegal flows of migrants and drugs from the South American nation, but stopped short of saying it would have authority to remove current Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro which clearly is also a major policy objective. Trump explained how “We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela, and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea, so you get to see that, but we’re going to stop them by land also. I think Venezuela is feeling heat. But I think a lot of other countries are feeling heat too. We’re not going to let this country, our country, be ruined because other people want to drop, as you say, their worst,” he also said, referring to his questionable claim that countries emptied their prisons and mental institutions to dump such illegal and marginal people in the United States.
Trump’s statement was remarkable because presidents don’t normally acknowledge directives, the “findings,” that allow spies to accomplish a secret mission. The whole idea of having a CIA is to allow the United States to operate in the shadows and conduct “deniable” operations, which is the key feature of “covert action,” i.e. that it should remain covert. Trump, always capable of acting impulsively, might, on the contrary, have been sending a message to the Venezuelan government about his seriousness over the drug and migrant issues. Phony warnings about boats allegedly filled with “narcoterrorists” might be considered psychological warfare, with Trump hoping to scare Maduro into resigning office and going into exile. The fact is that Venezuela plays a relatively minor role in the region’s drug trade, with Colombia and Ecuador being the prime suppliers. The president would not respond to questions regarding whether the CIA’s goal was to topple Maduro, for whom the US has offered a $50 million bounty. “Wouldn’t it be a ridiculous question for me to answer?” he said.
Another issue raised by Trump’s exposure of what should not have been exposed is the endangering of CIA officers operating in Venezuela. What have they been doing there? Well, this is just speculation, but they might have been funding and advising anti-government politicians like the woman who just won the Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado. She is reportedly a great fan of Trump and MAGA and also of the Israeli government, both of which she has called on to bring about regime change in her own country!
Real vulnerability for running such operations comes because CIA officers generally have two types of “cover” when they operate overseas. One is official, which would be working out of a US Embassy or Military Assistance office, but, thanks to Trump’s interference in the Venezuelan election in 2019 which preceded the breaking off of diplomatic and other relations, “official” does not exist in Venezuela which means there is no official or diplomatic protection. That means that officers must operate under “non official cover” (NOCs) which is normally as a businessman or student, or even using a forged passport, as an unalarming national of a country friendly to Caracas. In none of those cases will the officer have any protection if he or she is caught and you can bet that due to Trump’s overt and one might say lethal pressure the Venezuelan counterintelligence and police services are now looking very hard for American spies. Which contributes to the raising of the obvious question of whether what is being proposed for Venezuela is in any way due to an actual threat or desirable relative to what might be gained. Based on the evidence provided by the White House up until now, the answer would have to be “No!”
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.
New Prince Andrew Poll Spells Fresh Trouble for King Charles and the Monarchy
Story by Abha Anindita •
Trigger Warning: This article contains themes of sexual abuse and child sexual abuse that some readers may find distressing.
If King Charles believed that maintaining silence would eventually have people forget Prince Andrew’s controversial past, or that just taking away his HRH status would restore calm, a new wave of public sentiment has upended that assumption. A recent Daily Mail poll suggests that the Brits want Andrew to be reduced to a regular citizen, with his Order of the Garter stripped. With nearly 22,000 participants at the time of reporting, the poll suggests that the Duke of York’s tarnished reputation continues to cast a long shadow over the Crown’s credibility. The numbers speak volumes. When asked whether Andrew should be stripped of his membership in the prestigious Order of the Garter, 61%, i.e., 13,465 people voted yes. Only 3% said no. Another 36%, or roughly 7,900 voters, went a step further, calling for the Duke to also lose his position as Counsellor of State. The verdict was clear: the public wants to see the disgraced Duke of York out. The results couldn’t come at a worse time for the King, as he has been accused of having an emotional soft spot for his brother and not using a tough hand on him. The Duke’s image, meanwhile, remains deeply tarnished. Now, with the upcoming release of the posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, the numbers are only expected to plummet further.
Simon Cohen said on radio. Mossad wanted a firm grip on the Royals and Andrew fell into the trap for blackmail, Mossad had Virginia killed
as a warning to others not to speak out.
While apologists said as least with Andrew it was normals ex, not the gay stuff seen so much recently, thats not the point
these were just kids caught up in israels net.
Trump needs to concentrate on his own country where today it is said there will be 2,600 demos across all fifty states in their ‘No Kings’ protests. Labour unions will be protesting the government shutdown in which people are working unpaid and who might never receive back pay, as well as people protesting the ICE raids–John Whitehead calls ICE the secret police–and which some older folk say are like the Jim Crow laws of the Deep South. Trump’s actions have united more real people in protest than the idiot Biden ever did. (Not to be confused with agent provocateur groups like Antifa organised by the state.)
‘The real threat to this country isn’t peaceful protesters. It’s politicians shutting down our government to protect billionaires.’ Jaime Contreras, a teaching union organiser.
Trump and the Republicans call the protests ‘Hate America’ rallies.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/biggest-us-labor-unions-fuel-090042176.html
It’s odd that this woman, coming from literally nowhere gets a Nobbled Piss Prize…a prize that Donald Caligula so obviously covets. Nevermind, install a proxy sycophant…. beautiful!
Odd too that she advocates an Amerikan invasion of her country and the use of extreme force to do this, very pissful. But then, she certainly plays her kosher kards right by wanting to restore ‘diplomatic’ relations with a far off settler society which Hugo Chavez broke off all relations with. Many know that Chavez was poisoned by the CIA (H.Cunton) as a warning to Venezuela to come to heel, only they haven’t.
The main reason Donald Caligula is so afire with War Is Peace for Venezuela is that it has enormous oil/natural gas reserves badly needed by Amerika’s Death Dept. Plus Venezuela probably can’t put up much conventional resistance but could be an insurgency nightmare or? But it settles a score and Amerika always wins via chaos.
The excuse that it’s a drug smuggling operation is risible. Why not then invade Mexico that’s the prime mover?? Answer, the drug cartels there control many key Amerikan politicians via bribery, lobbying and intimidation, lots of cash at stake. Much the same way EU top dogs are connected to people smuggling gangs and those masters of forgery, Albanian gangs, Golden Geese. Word out there is that some of the top Mexican cartels have been on a shopping trip to Ukie courtesy of Z to buy some of the lovely new weapons sent by NEUTRO. These weapons could be fearsome in Latino hands for assassinating politicians, judges and other top skunks or for directly confronting the DEA or ICE who much prefer withered, barely armed junkies as their prey.
Larry Johnson says on his sonar21 site ‘the current commander of US Southern Command (aka, US SOUTHCOM) has resigned reportedly in part because he objected to Donald Trump’s orders authorizing the US military to kill suspected drug traffickers who were not carrying crew-served weapons nor were they firing weapons at US personnel or ships.’ I did scroll past a youtube video thumbnail which showed a black US officer who had resigned though I never watched the video. I assume this will be the same man.
Oh good, send the CIA’s theatric dept over to some country south of us, any country will do, when all T2 has to do is curtail a much more massive drug distribution activity in Minnesota, or casper, or Little Rock, and any of the major cities on any fed interstate..like i40.
Dear Dear..
Phil’s like the old drunken retired CiA operative in the corner of the bar, astutely avoided by all the customers as he bitterly condemns the whirled over his quadruple scotch..screaming about how he could have saved JFK the gay commie drug addicted bum..
..by putting a blank in the rifle…
CIA = Commie Israel Agency
It is the same US scenario for Canada – “Either be another vassal state for our exploitation or we will destroy you.” We only have to look at what they have done in Libya, Iraq, and Syria.
In the province of British Columbia news came out a few days ago that another major lumber mill closed down due to the US tariffs. This has been going on unabated through US tariffs now for over 10 years. They keep increasing them until the mills cannot afford to operate then the US entrepreneur carpetbaggers arrive and buy out the machinery and set up their own mills in the states of Washington and Oregon, but keep on importing BC logs to supply their mills. If in retaliation the government put exportation taxes on the logs that to the Americans would be considered an act of war. The US entitlement complex is thus very ZOG and Jewish.
It is the same with any successful business Canadians get off of the ground. As soon as it is profitable and worth over $15 million they are buying it out and then in a few years they shut down production and move the machinery and jobs to the US.
As with Bitcoin and other Crypto the US financial class buys into the assets with enough to cause pump and dump cycles, they likely are doing the same with their schizoid on-again and off-again free trade deals, in which they outsource virtually everything to the starving foreign masses who will produce the stuff for their own markets for next to nothing, and then when in their milking operations in those markets, and their nation becomes so jobless and indebted that their own government cannot even afford to pay the interest on its own treasures, all of a sudden they start their radical insourcing operations, in an effort to restore industry, jobs and home-based production.
It is the very same thing with their dairy industry serving their domestic needs. It is all boom and bust with the entrepreneurial middlemen milking the farmers and the people. As for the US stock market, the traders thrive on with the elect investors, where it is entirely Kosher, and “legal”, to cause enough volatility for their pump & dump and insider-trading practices where they make money when they send the stocks up and when they send them crashing down.
That is the kind of world the US has given us, where one day we wake up to be hoaxed with a giant false-flag operation thinking that a WWIII has started and the next day they are prodding Russia and Iran into an actual war. There is never any peace in the US or from the US and never will be, and that is likely the main thing which they have used to fuel the globalist movement in their dialectic for centralized top-down technocratic and totalitarian world order, in which ownership class will control everything, continuing to rule through mass deceptions, fearmongering, blackmail, assassinations, intimidation, economic destabilizations, military takeovers, and all other forms of oppression.
Moral limits and peace anyone? No – the American system is designed on the very false idea of “freedom” to thrive on exploitation, crime and volatility.
The drugs allegedly coming from Venezuela are nothing compared to the toxic sludge being shit out and slung about by Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly, Johnstein & Johnstein, Moderna, Bayer, and the rest of that nefarious industry.
Anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention for the past 5 years knows damn good and well that the REAL “narco-terrorists” have been anyone and everyone involved in the Convid-19(84) full spectrum terror campaign against the citizens, those concocting the “solution” of rat shit and raw sewage to catalyze life altering (always for the worse) changes, and pressuring the cowed imbeciles, up to and including scaring the ever living shit out of them, to allow drooling imbeciles or slobbering psychopaths to inject them with that sludge.
The CIA has been going hog wild in Venezuela for decades, doing everything they can to destabilize the cuntry. Which is one of the reasons Venezuela decided to try to teach the Americunts a little lesson of f*ck around and find out when they emptied some of their worst prisons and insane asylums and slapped one-way tickets in their hands for perpetual holidays in the Jewnited States a couple of years ago.
Now we see the vampire ghouls promoting the ever living shit out of that bloated cum sock for Jewry, Maria Corina Machado. You can safely bet your house, your car, and what’s left of your teeth that Machado will be very bad for the hapless citizens of Venezuela and the whirled as she has a Star of Satania prominently branded on her ass and jewry-promoting venom spewing from her lie hole. If you are a supporter of Jewry, they you are an enemy of humanity. Period. Venezuelans would be well-served to throw her into the street, drag her around Caracas by her cankles, then see how many copies of the Talmud can be forced up her ass before there’s a prominent bulge in her throat.
Then there’s the twist, of course, that Venezuela just happens to be sitting on f*ck tons of oil, and since Shlomo and the Toxic Tribe from Way Down Under and their Americunt cucks keep shitting all over the Muddle East which will eventually cause a major disruption of the oil flowing from the taps there, well….
The Nobel Peace Price has truly shamed itself after giving it to Kissinger and Obama but now it’s a just a parody of itself. This wretched woman who will betray her own country Venezuela said she dedicates her prize to Trump – not the prize money though, eh? – but to simply offer it away takes away the last of its prestige.
It will be like the men who say they are women, then enter women’s competitions and take first prize. In 20 years they’ll look at their cups and medals and see every one was for winning a woman’s competition. That’s shameful to every man who holds one, and soon it will be the same with the Take The Piss Prize.
$38 trillion in debt and $250 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
Poor America believes stealing Venezuela’s oil is going to fix America’s problem. Might be a windfall for Trump and his mates as creates on more misery for his country.
Because of Trump America is probably headed for implosion…
Might be a windfall for Trump and his mates as he creates more misery for his country and all those countries who sail in her…