by Adam Mahoney | Sep 19, 2026 | California, Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism, extractive industries, Los Angeles, News, Oil Drilling, oil industry, Pollution, Public Health, Racial Justice, Reparations
As a child in the 1950s and ’60s, Regina Martin became so used to the oil pumpjacks near her home that she assumed every child lived beside them. Everyone was made “sick to [their] tummy” by the sulfurous, rotten-egg smell that never seemed to leave, she thought. Only until she was grown did she begin to see a possible connection between growing up on top of the nation’s largest urban oil…
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by Rodrigo Acuña | Mar 1, 2026 | Delcy Rodríguez, Imperialism, News Analysis, oil industry, Privatization, Regime Change, Venezuela
Venezuela has lost its sovereignty as an independent nation-state. In late January — just a few weeks after the Trump administration bombed the country, reportedly killing between 100 and 120 people, damaging 463 homes, and kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores — Venezuela’s National Assembly, which is dominated by pro-Maduro lawmakers, approved reforms to the Organic…
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