Interview: "The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela"

Marco Rubio has personal ties to the drug trafficking racket in the 20th century.

His own policy cynically uses drug trafficking as a means to achieving Trump's extrajudicial & imperialist goals in Latin America.

~Maureen Tkacik

Chris Hedges Report 7 Dec

#USPol #Europol #Venezeula #USImperialism #MarcoRubio #Racism #DrugWar .

#Canada 👀

“Vice President JD Vance said in an interview the U.S. can “control” Venezuela’s “purse strings” by dictating where its oil can be sold.

“We control the energy resources, and we tell the regime, you’re allowed to sell the oil so long as you serve America’s national interest,” Vance said in an interview to air on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

The vice president added, “And that’s how we exert incredible pressure on that country without wasting a single American life.””

#Venezuela #CDNPoli #USImperialism #Never51
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/01/08/us-seeks-to-assert-its-control-over-venezuelan-oil-with-tanker-seizures-and-sales-worldwide/

#Canada 👀

“Vice President JD Vance said in an interview the U.S. can “control” Venezuela’s “purse strings” by dictating where its oil can be sold.

“We control the energy resources, and we tell the regime, you’re allowed to sell the oil so long as you serve America’s national interest,” Vance said in an interview to air on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

The vice president added, “And that’s how we exert incredible pressure on that country without wasting a single American life.””

#Venezuela #CDNPoli #USImperialism #Never51
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/01/08/us-seeks-to-assert-its-control-over-venezuelan-oil-with-tanker-seizures-and-sales-worldwide/

Interview: "The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela"

Marco Rubio has personal ties to the drug trafficking racket in the 20th century.

His own policy cynically uses drug trafficking as a means to achieving Trump's extrajudicial & imperialist goals in Latin America.

~Maureen Tkacik

Chris Hedges Report 7 Dec

#USPol #Europol #Venezeula #USImperialism #MarcoRubio #Racism #DrugWar .

Report: Aipac donor "could reap billions of dollars from a reshuffle in Venezuela’s oil assets."

Republican donor Paul Singer "has made a cut-rate offer to buy a string of Venezuelan-owned refineries in US"

Singer can now finalise a deal that would see his investment firm "gain control of a network of US-based oil refineries at a steeply discounted price."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aipac-donor-cusp-reaping-billions-us-abduction-maduro

#USImperialism #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #Press #FossilFuels #Racism .

Report: Aipac donor "could reap billions of dollars from a reshuffle in Venezuela’s oil assets."

Republican donor Paul Singer "has made a cut-rate offer to buy a string of Venezuelan-owned refineries in US"

Singer can now finalise a deal that would see his investment firm "gain control of a network of US-based oil refineries at a steeply discounted price."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aipac-donor-cusp-reaping-billions-us-abduction-maduro

#USImperialism #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #Press #FossilFuels #Racism .

Trump's invasion of Venezuela can be read as "a moment of U.S. weakness":

"They’re basically conceding other parts of the world to peer rivals... they cannot compete frontally with China, eg."

When the U.S. has faced defeat elsewhere in the world, "they come back 'home' to the Western Hemisphere & use Latin America as an imperial laboratory" as they always have done.

~Alexander Aviña

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/alexander_avina

#USPol #europol #monroeDoctrine #Racism #USImperialism #Venezuela .

Interview: "Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to 'Take Back' Venezuela’s Oil"

"Now with Trump’s show of force over Venezuela’s political sovereignty, many investors see the potential for a similar overpowering of the socialist country’s economic independence."

But, to make a profit, Wall St has to "push for more appetite for oil around the world.”

~David Uberti, WSJ

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/venezuela_oil

#USPol #europol #venezuela #Racism #press #USImperialism #FossilFuels .

Interview: "Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to 'Take Back' Venezuela’s Oil"

"Now with Trump’s show of force over Venezuela’s political sovereignty, many investors see the potential for a similar overpowering of the socialist country’s economic independence."

But, to make a profit, Wall St has to "push for more appetite for oil around the world.”

~David Uberti, WSJ

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/venezuela_oil

#USPol #europol #venezuela #Racism #press #USImperialism #FossilFuels .

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“Trump’s former Russia adviser says Russia offered U.S. free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine”

#USPoli #USImperialism #Ukraine #Russia #Venezeula
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trumps-former-russia-adviser-says-russia-offered-us-free-rein-in-venezuela-in-exchange-for-ukraine/

"It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”

"With his claims of U.S. sovereignty over nations in the Western Hemisphere, Trump’s basically saying, 'Well, this is ours, and China, Russia can have their spheres of influence.' And it is very 19th-century-esque. ’Let’s divide up the world between the powers.'"

~Mehdi Hasan

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/maduro_venezuela_mehdi_hasan

#USPol #europol #venezuela #monroeDoctrine #Racism #press #USImperialism #FossilFuels .

"It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”

"With his claims of U.S. sovereignty over nations in the Western Hemisphere, Trump’s basically saying, 'Well, this is ours, and China, Russia can have their spheres of influence.' And it is very 19th-century-esque. ’Let’s divide up the world between the powers.'"

~Mehdi Hasan

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/maduro_venezuela_mehdi_hasan

#USPol #europol #venezuela #monroeDoctrine #Racism #press #USImperialism #FossilFuels .

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“Trump’s former Russia adviser says Russia offered U.S. free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine”

#USPoli #USImperialism #Ukraine #Russia #Venezeula
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/trumps-former-russia-adviser-says-russia-offered-us-free-rein-in-venezuela-in-exchange-for-ukraine/

“Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted.

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper, the CNN host, after being asked repeatedly whether he would rule out using military force.

The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.””

#USFascism #USImperialism #GeoPol #Greenland
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html

“Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted.

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper, the CNN host, after being asked repeatedly whether he would rule out using military force.

The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.””

#USFascism #USImperialism #GeoPol #Greenland
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html

The long history of US regime change

When the United States carries out a regime change, it never ends well.

Tony Karon looks at the many, many times the US has decided who gets to run a country:

https://aje.io/azw7ux?update=4214810

#USPol #Europol #Venezuela #USImperialism #Racism .

The long history of US regime change

When the United States carries out a regime change, it never ends well.

Tony Karon looks at the many, many times the US has decided who gets to run a country:

https://aje.io/azw7ux?update=4214810

#USPol #Europol #Venezuela #USImperialism #Racism .

As in Iraq, so in Venezuela... Dick Cheney's old company still making blood money from illegal invasion:

Report: "Halliburton, hedge funds & Chevron: Big winners from Trump's vow to 'rule' Venezuela"

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/halliburton-hedge-funds-and-chevron-big-warners-trumps-vow-rule-venezuela

Plus 2015 interview of former CIA Latin America chief Duane Clarridge about CIA overthrowing democratically elected govts, eg, Chile, whenever it wanted.

https://youtu.be/ER77vxxGVAY?si=EAXMJIc9gXYtxFqd

#USImperialism #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #Press #MonroeDoctrine #Racism #Halliburton .