"The strikes are a blatant attempt at provoking a war with #Venezuela or a coup against #NicolasMaduro, who rules over a country that just so happens to possess the world's largest #oil reserves. And then the strikes operate under the invented pretext of combatting narcotrafficking while #Trump plans on pardoning a convicted narcotrafficker"
https://www.forever-wars.com/pete-hegseth-and-adm-mitch-bradley-belong-in-prison/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

#PeteHegseth #Hegseth #DonaldTrump #GOP #Republicans #Hypocrisy #War #WarCrimes #Military #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

Open Humanities Press has published Tom Cohen's #book Ecocide and Inscription vol. 1: Black Ops. Petrolepathy, Escaped Slaves, Cinemacide – A Tele-mnemonics for the After-Times.

Examining works by #Faulkner, #Morrison and #Hitchcock among others, Tom Cohen traces a ‘hyper-blackness’ that exceeds racial binaries and links to the viscous materiality of #oil. He argues that this #blackness before face or figuration offers a way to rupture the ‘Anthropocene’ spell and its attendant anaesthesias. By tracking inscriptions that melt back into a prefigural domain, Cohen outlines a literary structure of #climatechange itself, one that undoes conventional notions of meaning, reference, and #human exceptionalism.

Available #openaccess and in colour print from:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/black-ops/

"While Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, estimated at 303 billion barrels as of 2023, it exported just $4.05bn worth of crude oil in 2023, far below other major-oil producing countries, in part due to US sanctions imposed during the first Trump presidency."

#Venezuela calls on #OPEC to help protect #oil reserves from #US ‘aggression’

Along with Iran, Iraq, Kuwait & Saudi Arabia, VZ was a founding member of OPEC in 1960

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/1/venezuela-calls-on-opec-to-counter-us-threats

Why invade #Venezuela? That sweet, sweet fire muck. We smell the money, we see the money, but no can feel the money :( make sad. Send warship!!!

#politics #geopopitics #petroleum #oil

“But when I look at the Port of Prince Rupert, a lot of those issues don’t exist there because it is right on the ocean.”

Flatlanders...

Dear Premier Smith. Consult a map.

Prince Rupert is not “on the Ocean” any more than Calgary is “in the Rocky Mountains”.

It is around the same distance from Calgary to Banff as it is from Prince Rupert to the northwest tip of Haida Gwaii and you don’t want to do either in a storm.

#geography #haidagwaii #bc #alberta #oil #climateEmergency #oilspill

“Smith wants to work with B.C., still hopes for buy-in on lifting tanker ban”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/smith-wants-to-work-with-bc-still-hopes-for-buy-in-on-lifting-tanker-ban/
P.S. and if you want to get technical, consult an official chart. No “pacific oceans” noted on that chart.