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Germany’s solar generation increased more than 20% from the previous year.

Coal generation has fallen to levels last seen in the 1950s and 1960s.

Net total electricity generation in Germany has declined about 20% since 2002 despite population growth and the increase in electric vehicles and electric appliances. Even more significant has been the nearly 70% decline in generation from fossil fuels and nuclear power in the past two decades. In fact, renewables have been generating more electricity than fossil fuels in Germany since 2019.

Authority is moving away from observable, precinct-level processes and into centralized, data-driven systems that citizens are not permitted to see, audit, or independently verify in most states.

Part 1 explores how voter databases and election administration are being centralized.

Part 2 explains how modern power operates through data, algorithms, and technofeudal systems.

January 2026. You're in Caracas. It's just after midnight on a cold night, and the entire block has gone black. It's quiet, almost too quiet. The TV has gone black and silent, the rattling from the heater is gone, and even the buzz from the overhead lights is gone. It's so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

But you're not focused on that, no, you're just trying your best to keep warm through the night, with hopes the power comes back on before morning. You find yourself dozing off to sleep under a mountain of blankets when the entire building begins to vibrate and shake with the sound of thunder booming through the air. You look at the window, there must be a bad storm, but the ground is dry.

Instead, you see the entire sky light up with what almost looks like a shooting star. It's getting closer, and closer, and closer, until you hear a loud explosion in the city, you look away for just a second, and then everything goes black.

As it turns out, it wasn't a storm, or a shooting star, it was an air strike. A bomb the U.S. military hand delivered straight to you.

Enas Ikhlawi is a young Palestinian journalist committed to documenting and reporting about settlers' attacks against Palestinian villagers. Her goal is to inform the public, hold settlers and IDF attacks to account, and ensure that underrepresented voices of Palestinian villagers are heard. She also led a women's program in Hebron.

Sadly, that came abruptly to an end yesterday Monday January 5, when heavily armed IDF soldiers stormed her home in the town of Idana, west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. According to her brother Raafat Ikhlawi, "After breaking down the doors and arresting my sister Enas in a brutal manner, she was dragged away violently without a hijab or warm clothing. After significant pressure, we were allowed to give her a coat. So far, we do not know her whereabouts or the reason for her arrest."

While activists link it to efforts silencing coverage of settler attacks, the arrest fits a pattern of over 21,000 detentions since October 2023 in Gaza and the West Bank, many without trial amid rising tensions and no immediate comment from Israeli forces.

The elements behind Trump’s war on Venezuela are fourfold.

They center on the theft of Venezuela’s oil; the removal of Cuba’s primary lifeline; the protection of the dollar-based petrodollar; and Trump’s desperate need to deflect attention from the deepening quagmire that is the Epstein scandal.

And the ultimate question they raise is: will his blatantly illegal violation of U.S. and international law finally result in the impeachment and removal of Trump from the White House or the 2026 mid-term elections lead to an end of his destructive control of the U.S. government.

The lethal litany of reasons for Trump’s invasion is led by the U.S. seeking Venezuela’s huge reserves of oil—it supposedly has 303 billion barrels compared to the U.S. with but 45. After Venezuela is Saudi Arabia with 267 and Iran with 208 and then the list drops by 100.

This Administration, elected with a promise to end forever wars, has since taken America to war against Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Somalia and Nigeria, while funding genocide against Gazans.

It has invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its President, Nicholas Moduro, and his wife; pledged to “run” the county, and to appropriate (steal) Venezuela’s extensive oil reserves. Venezuela spent approximately $ ZERO for its defense in 2024.

This is not Pax Americana. It is Pox Americana from War-a-Iago.

As a Member of House of Representatives, I challenged in court and in Congress President Clinton over Serbia, President Bush over Iraq and President Obama over Libya, each time working with members of both political parties to take action to insist on Congress’ co-equality, and its constitutional responsibility to decide when America should offer the treasure of our youth and our precious financial resources to be taken from peace to war.

Even a remote possibility of U.S. ground troops being sent to invade and occupy Venezuela ought to shock America’s moribund peace movement into action.

Lolwah Al-Khater is a prominent Qatari diplomat and the current Minister of Education who is known for her significant contributions to Qatar's foreign relations and education sector. Al- Khater is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford in the area of Oriental Studies. Al-Khater is a female rising star in the Arab world. The name Lolwah translates to "pearl" in Arabic.

The Arab world is witnessing a new wave of young women rising to prominence and shaping the future with their bold vision, creativity, and influence. Lolowah Al-Khater the Qatari diplomat is one among those women.

This woman speaks the truth, a quality that is rare among kings and presidents in the Arab and Muslim world and only those whom God has blessed can utter it. She is truly an honor to all Muslim women. Al-Khater supported the Palestinian cause through the media and showed the world that the Palestinian issue is the most important issue in the world. May God reward her immensely.