United States has crossed into open barbarism, torture, kidnapping, piracy.

[Ibrahim Rasheed]

The United States has crossed into open barbarism — torture, kidnapping, and high sea piracy as state policy.

This is not law enforcement. This is a poisonous cocktail of imperial violence that threatens humanity itself. From Vietnam to Venezuela and into Iran. 

Maduro’s wife was dragged before a U.S. court bruised, battered, with a blackened eye — the physical marks of abuse carried into a courtroom as if they were normal. Maduro himself appeared limping, visibly injured, showing clear signs of coercion and mistreatment.

This is what “justice” looks like when empire abandons law. A sovereign leader abducted. A spouse brutalized. Bodies used as evidence of power.  The US Jew Power. 

There is no legal cover for this. No moral excuse. No ethical defense. Kidnapping a head of state to impose control and plunder resources is not democracy — it is state-sanctioned criminality.  War on Humanity.  

When the U.S. boasts about such acts, it is no longer pretending to uphold international law. It is openly mocking it. The world is no longer safe from this monster. This is not strength. It is fear wrapped in violence.

History will remember it not as leadership — but as imperial thuggery laid bare over barbarism, human misery. 

[Essentials123]

Wow, I had no idea she was bruised up this bad in the capture. How horrible. 

[Eddie Mecca]

[notme]

8 hours ago, Ibrahim Rasheed said:

The United States has crossed into open barbarism — torture, kidnapping, and high sea piracy as state policy.

The acts are not new. The openness about them is. Portions of the population excusing, even celebrating them is new. The United States government has been a tyrant since the beginning, but has kept the people ignorant and idealistic. I did like it better when we pretended we were the good guys. 

I was unable to find this photo from a news source accessible from the United States. I know search engines "curate" results based on demographic data.  Can you provide a news-based link to this image? I can only find it on social media.  I want to share it with my conservative relatives on social media, but without the appearance of legitimacy of a news agency, they will call it "fake news". 

[Northwest]

2 hours ago, notme said:

I was unable to find this photo from a news source accessible from the United States. I know search engines "curate" results based on demographic data. Can you provide a news-based link to this image? I can only find it on social media.  I want to share it with my conservative relatives on social media, but without the appearance of legitimacy of a news agency, they will call it "fake news". 

Until I see the original source, I’m calling it AI, Photoshop, or out-of-context. There should be a digital ‘chain of custody’ somewhere. Given the situation, I do not see any excuse for not providing Exif data or at least some information about the image itself.

[Essentials123]

4 hours ago, Northwest said:

Until I see the original source, I’m calling it AI, Photoshop, or out-of-context. There should be a digital ‘chain of custody’ somewhere. Given the situation, I do not see any excuse for not providing Exif data or at least some information about the image itself.

I haven't seen any photos but press from CNN to Al Jezeera are covering the injuries she sustained in the capture. For example: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/politics/maduro-wife-hit-heads-lawmaker-briefing

[notme]

2 hours ago, Essentials123 said:

I haven't seen any photos but press from CNN to Al Jezeera are covering the injuries she sustained in the capture. For example: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/politics/maduro-wife-hit-heads-lawmaker-briefing

Hit their heads on a low door frame? They couldn't come up with a more feasible lie? 

[Ibrahim Rasheed]

16 hours ago, Northwest said:

Until I see the original source, I’m calling it AI, Photoshop, or out-of-context. There should be a digital ‘chain of custody’ somewhere. Given the situation, I do not see any excuse for not providing Exif data or at least some information about the image itself.

Ofcourse we  know that some will try to distort the reality into zionist style hasbara reverse psychology antics.  It is not even worthwhile to appease Zionists.  I do not mean you are one.   

Here is your "god revealed fox news" so that you may believe at least she was beaten up.  The main issue here is kidnapping and beating up Maduro and his wife. 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maduros-wife-suffered-significant-injuries-dramatic-capture-attorney-alleges?

[Ibrahim Rasheed]

On 1/8/2026 at 9:51 AM, Essentials123 said:

Wow, I had no idea she was bruised up this bad in the capture. How horrible. 

here is another photo.  

You can see her forehead.  The lump is still visible heavily.

[Diaz]

Trump and his supporters are real terrorists and they are a cult. I really hate it when they start talking in the name of Jesus (عليه السلام), they destroyed Christianity and sold their religion to the Zionists. 

[Northwest]

On 1/9/2026 at 7:31 AM, Ibrahim Rasheed said:

Ofcourse we  know that some will try to distort the reality into zionist style hasbara reverse psychology antics.

@Ibrahim Rasheed You hardly, to put it mildly, seem like a disinterested party, given that you bring up Zionism where no one even alluded to it. (And you have accused me of using Zionist arguments elsewhere, so your mea culpa here is a bit tardy.) In this case I do not even believe Zionism is relevant, unless one can show that either a) Israel had something to do with the treatment of Maduro and/or his wife and/or b) the Venezuela–Iran vector has deeper dimensions than has been admitted to date.

I concede that Israel, or Israeli interests, likely would have preferred a Venezuela without Chavistas, but apart from Maduro’s removal its U.S. patron has shown its usual incompetence, such as agreeing to a ‘deal’ that does not oblige Venezuela to certify the number and identities of prisoners it will release within set time-frames (Trump and his followers, perhaps due to the influence of Venezuelan spies, mistook Venezuela’s promises, made under duress, for ‘commitments’). One might have thought that Trump would have demanded that Venezuela provide more information and release the prisoners first (Venezuela did release a token minority) to ensure U.S. acceptance of any terms as part of an agreement. One may sympathize with Venezuela yet acknowledge that the U.S. Empire, for the most part, is showing more clumsiness and ineffectiveness than its fearsome reputation allows.

On 1/9/2026 at 7:31 AM, Ibrahim Rasheed said:

"god revealed fox news"

And your point is...?

The various sources mentioned show that she was injured. So the injury happened, but there must be some proof that it was caused by abuse rather than an accident. Even if the authorities are untrustworthy, we need evidence to believe that a specific claim is trustworthy. However wrong the U.S. or Israel (or anyone else) is, I cannot simply assume abuse happened without fact. Sometimes even the truth can come from unreliable sources like the U.S. government, if one looks carefully. So one’s credibility can be used to distrust his claims, but it cannot be used to believe an entirely new allegation.

On 1/9/2026 at 7:31 AM, Ibrahim Rasheed said:

so that you may believe at least she was beaten up.

We do not have hard evidence as to the cause of the injury (yet). You seem to be making assumptions based on the character of her accusers, i.e., the U.S. government. But then we introduce a case of apples and oranges: ‘you are guilty of rape (a crime) because you lied about larceny (another crime)’. These are separate crimes. I cannot assume a man is guilty of one because he admitted or tried to conceal another (in which circumstances would be entirely unlike). In this case the formula would run as: ‘The U.S. is guilty of genocide (or other crimes), therefore it is guilty of beating Maduro’s wife’. These are also unrelated matters that say nothing about what happened in this case.

Could U.S. agents have been responsible for the injury? Certainly. Is the evidence there yet? I have my doubts, but am willing to change my mind, as I did in acknowledging the injury.

Edited January 12 by Northwest

[hasanhh]

On 1/7/2026 at 11:51 PM, Essentials123 said:

Wow, I had no idea she was bruised up this bad in the capture. How horrible. 

I saw her on foreign TV going to court. l didn't see any bandages or bruising.

[hasanhh]

On 1/9/2026 at 1:48 AM, Ibrahim Rasheed said:

You can see her forehead.  The lump is still visible heavily.

That looks like smeared face cream to me. Maduro had a bag over his head at one time. Maybe his wife did too.

[hasanhh]

On 1/8/2026 at 6:06 AM, notme said:

The United States government has been a tyrant since the beginning, but has kept the people ignorant and idealistic. I did like it better when we pretended we were the good guys. 

I believe we should update our terminology for militarized intimidation.

ln the old days it was called gunboat diplomacy.

Now we should call it bomber diplomacy.

After over a century, l think it is about time.

[notme]

17 minutes ago, hasanhh said:

I believe we should update our terminology for militarized intimidation.

I think we should just stop.  No need for terminology for something that doesn't exist.