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Khamenei Assassination, Strait Of Hormuz Closure And Betrayal Of Arab Nations

March 5, 2026 Mnar Adley, Mintpress News. , , ,
It’s being called a war between good vs evil. The epstein class vs a nation that dares to stand up against US-Israeli imperialism: Iran. The US and Israel launched a full scale war on Iran on Saturday, destroying schools, residential buildings, and assassinating political and military leaders.  Iran’s supreme leader and marjaa’ Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, killed in a joint CIA/Israeli operation. The planet appears on the brink of World War Three.  What can we expect? How will Iran strike back? And what do Iranians think about the situation?  In this special edition of the MintCast, MintPress director Mnar Adley is joined from Tehran by returning guest, Seyeed Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran. 

While Bombing Iran, US And Israel Attack Even More Countries

March 5, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , ,
The war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran is expanding. Washington and Tel Aviv are attacking more and more countries. The CIA is arming Kurdish proxy forces in northern Iraq, with plans to launch an invasion of Iran. Meanwhile, Israel has invaded Lebanon, and has reimposed its siege of Gaza. Donald Trump is now even threatening to impose an economic embargo on Spain, because it refuses to support his illegal war of aggression against Iran. In response to the US-Israeli attacks, Iran has retaliated in self-defense, which it is allowed to do under international law. Tehran has hit US military bases in the countries surrounding it in West Asia.

Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba

February 26, 2026 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. , , , ,
In accordance with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s long-standing vendetta against Cuba, Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck. Trump’s order preposterously declared Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat,” without providing a shred of evidence, and warned that he would impose punitive tariffs on states that deliver fuel to Cuba. His intention is to suffocate the Cuban people, who rely on oil for 80 percent of their electricity. UN human rights experts called Trump’s order “a serious violation of international law” and “an extreme form of unilateral economic coercion with extraterritorial effects."

Brazil: Workers, Social Movements Organize ‘Oil For Cuba’ Campaign

February 15, 2026 The Brazilian Federation of Oil Workers, Resumen English. , , , ,
On Friday, February 13, the FUP sent a letter to Petrobras’ Executive Board of Logistics, Marketing, and Markets, requesting a meeting to discuss the possibility of sending emergency fuel to Cuba. Social organizations, popular movements, and oil workers are coordinating the Petróleo para Cuba (Oil for Cuba) campaign to pressure the Brazilian government and Petrobras to send emergency fuel to the Caribbean country, which is being suffocated by additional sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. With the support of the two national oil workers’ federations (FUP and FNP), the initiative brings together the Brazilian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba and Just Causes, the José Martí Cultural Association, popular entities, trade unions, and political parties.

Venezuela’s Acting President Calls For Breaking Oil Dependency

February 9, 2026 Olys Guárate, Orinoco Tribune. , , , , ,
During a community outreach activity in the Almirante Lino de Clemente commune, Miranda state, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez emphasized the strategic need to break with the oil rentier economic model and highlighted the importance of strengthening of the Venezuelan participatory and protagonistic socialist model in this regard. During the activity, held on Saturday, february 7, Rodríguez highlighted that oil revenue will be reserved exclusively for social welfare and the improvement of public services, while production must originate from the territory in the communes.

Iraq’s Coordination Framework Reaffirms Support For Maliki As PM

February 2, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Iraq's Shia political bloc reiterated its support on 1 February for nominating Nouri al-Maliki as the next prime minister, following threats from US President Donald Trump warning against Maliki's return to power. The Coordination Framework issued a statement on Saturday affirming "its support for its nominee, Nouri Kamel al-Maliki, for the premiership." "Choosing the prime minister is an exclusively Iraqi constitutional matter … free from foreign interference," the statement added. Maliki served as prime minister from 2006 to 2014, when US president Barack Obama insisted he step down amid a US-backed ISIS invasion of the country.

Trump Administration Encourages Alberta Separatism

January 30, 2026 C. J. Atkins, People's World. , , , , ,
Union leaders in Alberta and across Canada are sounding the alarm over what they see as an unprecedented foreign interference campaign: the Trump administration’s covert collaboration with Alberta separatists. Washington is openly embracing a secession effort in the oil-rich province that aims to fracture the Canadian federation and undermine workers’ rights. Officials from the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Treasury have held at least three secret meetings with far-right fringe separatists who want Alberta to declare its independence and likely become a part of the United States, according to reporting from the Financial Times on Jan. 29.

Venezuela’s Strategic Oil Reorientation: Defying The Blockade, Securing Sovereignty

January 24, 2026 Mision Verdad, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
During last week’s Annual Message to the Nation, the acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, presented relevant data on the country’s oil sector performance in 2025. She highlighted milestones, such as reaching the production target of 1.2 million barrels of oil per day (BPD). Rodríguez reported that oil production experienced a 12.9% increase over the past 12 months. Consequently, oil activity in the country grew by 16% in its gross domestic product (GDP). According to her, a large part of those results was possible because of the Productive Participation Contracts (CPP) model, which is part of the Anti-Blockade Law for National Development and the Guarantee of Human Rights, in effect since 2020.

Who’s Really Running Venezuela?

January 17, 2026 Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Counter Punch. , , ,
As the Senate voted to advance a War Powers Resolution on Venezuela on January 8th, Republican Senator Susan Collins declared that she did not agree with “a sustained engagement “running” Venezuela.” The world was mystified when President Trump first said that the United States would “run” Venezuela. He has since made it clear that he wants to control Venezuela by imposing a U.S. monopoly on selling its oil to the rest of the world, to trap the Venezuelan government in a subservient relationship with the United States.

Trump’s Oil War Backfires

January 11, 2026 Mnar Adley, Mintpress News. , , ,
It is a monumental act of war. After being kidnapped and flown to the United States, President Nicolás Maduro has pled not guilty to spurious drugs charges in New York – even as U.S. government documents admit that Venezuela is not a major drugs producer, and prosecutors concede that Maduro’s supposed Cartel of the Suns never existed. Moreover, Trump’s star key witness, former Venezuelan Gen. Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal, is a deeply compromised figure. Once a senior official in military intelligence, Carvajal has long been frozen out of power in Venezuela, and became a vocal supporter of U.S.-backed, self-proclaimed president, Juan Guaidó.

Oil Executives Rebuff Trump’s Demands For Investment In Venezuela

January 11, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
At a meeting at the White House on 9 January, the CEOs of major US energy firms expressed skepticism about participating in President Donald Trump’s scheme to invest $100 billion to “revive” Venezuela’s sanctions-battered oil sector. The meeting took place one week after US Special Forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and transferred them to New York to stand trial on trumped-up “narco-terrorism” charges. After abducting Maduro, Trump said the US would “take over” Venezuela’s oil reserves, which are considered the largest in the world.

Trump Admits He Wants To Take Venezuela’s Oil

December 19, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , ,
Donald Trump has openly admitted that he wants to take Venezuela’s oil. Top US officials have made it clear that this is a key reason for their war on the South American nation. Trump declared an illegal naval blockade of Venezuela on December 16. The US government aims to prevent Venezuela from selling oil to China, to starve Caracas of export revenue. The Trump administration is also illegally blocking Venezuela from importing crucial goods, including the light crude and chemicals needed to process and refine its own heavy crude.

President Maduro Calls US Seizure Of Oil Tanker Act Of Piracy

December 13, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. , , , , , , ,
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described the detention of an oil tanker seized by US military personnel in the Caribbean Sea on Wednesday as an act of piracy. On Thursday night, he reported that the crew was abducted and is missing, a circumstance referred to in human rights terms as a forced disappearance. “Yesterday, they committed an absolutely criminal and illegal act when they carried out a military assault, kidnapping, and robbery—like pirates of the Caribbean—of a merchant, commercial, civilian, private vessel. A vessel of peace, which was attacked as it was about to enter the Atlantic, not off the coast of Venezuela.

Machado Offers To Sell $1.7 Trillion Of Venezuela’s Assets To US Corporations

November 13, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , , , ,
María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup leader who has been funded by the US government since at least 2003. The Donald Trump administration is waging war on Venezuela, and if it can succeed in overthrowing the leftist government of President Nicolás Maduro, Machado would help to lead the new pro-US regime in Caracas. Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, despite the fact that she openly supports Trump’s war on her country. She has for years called for a US military intervention to violently topple President Maduro.

Trump Orders CIA To Attack Venezuela

October 20, 2025 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , , , , , , , , ,
The United States is waging war on Venezuela. This is not a hypothetical; it is happening. The Donald Trump administration is using extreme violence to try to overthrow Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro. The US military has killed dozens of Venezuelans in strikes on boats in international waters without charge or trial. UN experts have publicly condemned these attacks as “extrajudicial executions” that violate international law. It is not only Venezuelans who have been executed by the US military. Among the victims of these illegal US attacks have been fishermen who were citizens of Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago.
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