Brief Scoop

@karanjaxan It's time!

I'm doing it! twitch.tv/karanjasan

Doing it!

@HillaryGondi I would love for us to ask a bit more from our so-called experts.. We celebrate mediocrity a little too easily…

Attempted murder surely…

It’s time…

Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, the methods applied today provided results with very small expenditure and literally no one in the world pushing back.. This represents genuine bipartisan U.S. foreign policy… That’s scary because this means the regime will try this in other countries that could include Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, maybe even Brazil and Colombia.. Scary..

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years. And Venezuela just threatened to end it. Here's what really just happened: Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. The largest on Earth. More than Saudi Arabia. 20% of the entire world's oil. But here's the part that matters: Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars. In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar." They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil. They were petitioning to join BRICS. They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely. And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades. Why does this matter? Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing: The petrodollar. In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia: All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars. In exchange, America provides military protection. This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide. Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil. This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it. It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending. The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers. And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it: 2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars. 2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched. The WMDs were never found because they never existed. 2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade. Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention. Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar." 2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets. "We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera. The gold dinar died with him. And now Maduro. With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined. Actively selling in yuan. Building payment systems outside dollar control. Petitioning to join BRICS. Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran. The three countries leading global de-dollarization. This isn't coincidence. Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed. Every. Single. Time. Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago: "American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property." He's not hiding it. They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago. By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft." But here's the DEEPER problem: The petrodollar is already dying. Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine. Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements. Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years. China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries. BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely. The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies. Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially. That's what this invasion is really about. Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine. Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization." Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections. This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it. And the consequences are terrifying: Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression." China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions. BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar. Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message: Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you. But here's the problem... That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it. Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony. And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER. The timing is insane too: January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured. January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured. 36 years apart. Almost to the day. Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse. Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes. History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes. What happens next: Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative. US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela." The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again. Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya. But here's what nobody's asking: What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance? When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate? When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"? When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence? America just showed its hand. The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff. Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits. When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying. Venezuela isn't the beginning. It's the desperate end. What do you think?

The “stand your ground/castle doctrine/personal privacy/private property rights” crowd…

First mission accomplished. Momentum activated. Happy New Year, Panthers Here’s to a Pantastic 2026 ahead.

The only people on this planet who fail to appreciate just how fascinating, how exciting and how very attractive and enviable Africa and Africans are is… sadly.. It’s Africans… If we only recognized it, we would push forward without looking back, sideways or at anyone else…

@Tasetireloaded2 Wow wow wow!! Africa is poor because we lack free markets?!!! Lmao!! Africa is the only place currently in the world where pure free market capitalism is practiced in its purest form… and we see the results… Yes, these are definitely paid agents…

Once again, I'm convinced that the US government is paying Nigerian bloggers to post anti-Pan-African content on social media.

If prosperous Libya could have turned around to become this, not to mention Iraq which was a fully developed 1st world economy in 1991, Syria also well developed and prosperous.. know that no one in the global south is automatically exempt from the ravages of imperialist destruction… Nothing is sacred to vulture capitalist imperialist colonialism & slavery…

@peter_memusi @zoomafrika1 The revisionism by the Ogingas continues!! 😂🤣😅

@zoomafrika1 Then left out to a conman

The Mau Mau weren't savages' or 'terrorists' like Britain claimed, They were Kenyans pushed to the edge by land theft, forced labor, and colonia violence. When people have nothing left ta lose, resistance gets labeled as madness instead of survival. That lie stuck longer than the truth ever did.

My family are Mau Mau. This idea that the lies about Mau Mau persisted may have been true in the west but in Kenya and Africa everyone knows that Mau Mau were our heroes and our freedom fighters.. In fact I’ve never known Mau Mau as anything but.. I grew up with my grandmother telling me stories of their bravery, wit and cunning and how they outsmarted the terrorist colonizers.. This explains a helluva lot about my trajectory..

@anthonyuzum @morarakebaso This is precisely exactly the case in Africa… These same global corporations get to exploit slave labor, tax breaks, no regulations and still exploit the markets at premium prices… facebook.com/share/r/1BLPEp…

@BriefScoop @morarakebaso Agreed, but a living wage can’t materialise just because we declare it. Only economic growth leads to wage growth. We need infrastructure and education spending, along with supply-side policies that encourage GDP growth, then people will earn more naturally.

I crossed Bungoma to Kakamega across the 18feet deep Nzoia River using this bridge made and mantained by locals

@anthonyuzum @morarakebaso Actually you can just declare it.. That was exactly what the labor movement did in the U.S. at the height of the Great Depression… The lie western economics education tells is that if you pass laws demanding living wages, then businesses will collapse.. Its the exact opposite..

This is the situation they want to create in Kenya GMO is a real danger

It’s not just a Lusaka problem.. It’s a global African problem and the reason it’s important to connect the dots is that’s the only way we can get to the bottom of why we as Africans are universally where we are.. It’s by design.. These prices are set by the same multinationals represented by the @IMFNews, @WorldBank etc who insist that we mustn’t have living wages while staying mum about the prices we are charged by the same corporations they protect from paying living wages..

I thought Dubai was expensive; Lusaka is, in fact, a crime scene. There is rampant, unjustified overpricing of basic items. I bought a vitamin supplement from Link Pharmacy for twelve times what I pay in Dubai or South Africa for a far better brand. This is profiteering and it is unacceptable. For goodness’ sake, where is consumer protection? With such unbridled milking of citizens, I can begin to understand why illicit money and behavior might be tempting for otherwise good people who are just trying to get by.