by David Goeßmann | Jan 11, 2026 | China, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Donald Trump, EU, Fossil Fuels, Germany, greenhouse gases, Interview, Renewable Energy
Since Donald Trump took office, the U.S. government has been more aggressively boosting fossil fuels to exert geopolitical dominance. President Donald Trump stated unequivocally that the military assault on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife are aimed at gaining control of the country’s oil reserves. Meanwhile, oil company shares are soaring, a dividend on the…
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by Derek Seidman | Jan 9, 2026 | Chevron, China, Donald Trump, ExxonMobil, Fossil Fuels, Halliburton, Latin America, Monroe Doctrine, News Analysis, Nicolás Maduro, Oil, Oil Companies, Trump Administration, Venezuela
For months, U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed that his pressure campaign against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, backed by dozens of illegal killings through drone strikes, was about fighting drugs and cartels. But at his press conference after the U.S. abduction of Maduro, Trump couldn’t stop talking about oil. “We’re gonna take back the oil,” Trump brazenly said.
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by Michael T. Klare | Jan 8, 2026 | Arms Race, China, New START Treaty, News Analysis, nuclear arms race, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Nukes, Russia, Vladimir Putin
For most of us, Friday, February 6, 2026, is likely to feel no different than Thursday, February 5th. It will be a work or school day for many of us. It might involve shopping for the weekend or an evening get-together with friends, or any of the other mundane tasks of life. But from a world-historical perspective, that day will represent a dramatic turning point, with far-reaching and potentially…
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by Rodrigo Acuña | Dec 16, 2025 | China, Colombia, Donald Trump, Latin America, News, Nicolás Maduro, Trump Administration, US foreign policy, Venezuela, War
President Donald Trump has escalated threats against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in recent weeks, and reports now say the Trump administration is preparing for the days after a potential Maduro overthrow. What might happen in such a scenario? In November, Michael Crowley at The New York Times pursued this question by reminding readers that, during Trump’s first term, U.S.
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by C.J. Polychroniou | Dec 11, 2025 | China, Donald Trump, Europe, far right, Fascism, Foreign Policy, immigration, Imperialism, National Security Strategy, Op-Ed, Trump Administration, US foreign policy
Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, which formalizes the ideological shift that U.S. foreign policy has taken under Trump 2.0, has won praise in Moscow but stunned European allies. Indeed, the strategy document, which was published on December 4, 2025, sent political shock waves through the whole of Europe as European leaders and political analysts grasped how Trump’s radical…
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by Rob Larson | Nov 15, 2025 | China, Donald Trump, Economy, Inflation, Op-Ed, Tariffs, Trade, Trump Administration
workers as a whole have endured a lot of losses in the class war. Globally-mobile companies have deserted communities with unionized workforces, successive administrations raised up oligarchs by slashing taxes on the rich, a major epidemic put the country on edge, and landlords are using technology to collude on raising rents more rapidly. But all this conventional class war is now…
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