00:01Current affairs with an Islamic perspective, an alternative to the mainstream narrative.
00:09Establishing the truth. This is News Right Now.
00:18Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. And welcome to this week's segment of News Right Now, a shared threat.
00:25U.S. President Donald Trump has made public jabs at Venezuela and Colombia. He claimed these countries were trafficking drugs into the U.S.
00:35Quote, Colombia is producing a lot of drugs, Trump said, so he better wise up or he'll be next. He'll be next soon. I hope he's listening. He's going to be next. End quote.
00:45These accusations led the U.S. to strike alleged quote unquote drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean since September, killing over 80 individuals.
00:56Then the U.S. launched a massive military buildup on the coast of Venezuela, pressuring the Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro.
01:03Maduro has denied any link to the crimes he and Colombia have been accused of, saying this was the U.S. trying to enforce a regime change in order to take control over Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
01:17The U.S. has also targeted ships that carry Venezuelan oil, transporting it to other countries such as Iran and China, off the coast of Venezuela.
01:26This comes after the U.S. has been monitoring oil tankers at sea, along with some vessels in the Venezuelan ports.
01:34They watched these vessels being loaded or repaired, waiting for them to set sail into international waters to strike.
01:41Trump claimed that the tanker the U.S. seized was the quote unquote largest one ever seized.
01:47This comes after a history of continuous U.S. exploitation.
01:52Back in 2019, the U.S. sanctioned Venezuela's oil and resumed in 2023, after most of its oil is now exported to China.
02:02Eric Sterling, who is part of an advocacy group which is critical of the mainstream Washington foreign policy, said, quote,
02:10The Trump administration's indiscriminate sanctions have increased hunger across the population but have failed to topple the government.
02:19It appears they are now aiming to further tighten the economic noose, regardless of its impact on civilians, in pursuit of their regime change goal, end quote.
02:28Ever since the greedy U.S. discovered that Venezuela has one of the world's largest proven oil reserves, with an estimated 303 billion barrels,
02:40the U.S. has been planning on taking control over these natural minerals, including gas and oil.
02:47For decades, the U.S. had controlled the oil industry, but things took a hard turn for the U.S.
02:53when the Venezuelan government nationalized it in 1976.
02:58Then, in 1998, Hugo Chavez came into power and forged closer ties with Russia, China, and Iran.
03:06Nicolas Maduro then came into power after Chavez's death in 2013, continuing his policy.
03:13Yet, since the U.S. decided to place sanctions, Venezuela became isolated and suffered economically.
03:21Now, the U.S. has assembled a target list of several more sanctioned tankers for possible seizure.
03:30The action of the U.S. and their criminality towards Latin America is no surprise.
03:36For the actions of the U.S., their theft and thuggery is the same throughout Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
03:43When an oil reserve, gold mine, or any land with natural resources is found, that becomes a target.
03:51They attack, steal, and colonize any land they can in order to take all the benefits.
03:57This is not just one place or the other.
04:00This is the world order America has been committed to implement,
04:05where they are the only ones who benefit, even if it costs the lives of millions.
04:10This is the result when the world is left in the hands of those who dictate according to their whims and desires.
04:19The only way out of living under the greedy capitalist world order
04:23is by establishing the only alternative system that can save humanity, the Khilafah, Caliphate.
04:30The Khilafah does not lead by the benefit of the Caliph.
04:35It leads by the commandments of Allah SWT, the Creator of the worlds.
04:41The Caliph would implement a plan where the natural resources would be for the whole of humanity,
04:48not for the ones in power.
04:50For the Prophet Muhammad SAW said,
04:52Three things cannot be denied to anyone.
05:00Water, pasture, and fire.
05:03Therefore, all of the oil and natural resources will be given to the people.
05:08It is their right from Allah SWT,
05:11the one who placed these natural resources in the world in order for all of humanity to benefit.
05:18It is not to be owned by one person and have companies sell it.
05:23It is not to be used against one else.
05:27The Khilafah is the only system that would ensure that it would be distributed correctly.
05:33It is the only system that would save humanity.
05:38Jazakum Allahu Khayrun for listening.
05:40Wassalamu Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
