Doug Henwood welcomes historian Alejandro Velasco to talk about #Trump's #oil grab in #Venezuela
https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-september-3-2026/
#imperialism #petropolitics #petroimperialism #USpol #PDVSA #imperialBullying #neocolonialism
#imperialbullying — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #imperialbullying, aggregated by home.social.
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"Like so many of the activities of the second #Trump Administration, the State Department’s latest report on #Cuba is both moronic and sinister. Although its main purpose is to justify further pressure on the island, it will also be used to clamp down on domestic dissent, in particular from the left."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/tony-wood/maximum-pressure
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The #LRB pod talks with historian #GregGrandin about the US attack on #Venezuela -- "what the intervention reveals about #Trump’s intentions in the region and his wider foreign policy, and why, as in the past, such adventures will ultimately expose the limits of US power."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-politics-venezuela-and-the-trump-doctrine
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#TheDigRadio | Trump's attack on Venezuela
"Featuring Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland, and Yoletty Bracho on the US attack on #Venezuela and kidnapping of President #NicolásMaduro. An expansive conversation analyzing #Trump’s imperialist project and assessing #Chavismo and its oppositions from #Chávez through #Maduro."
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/venezuela-w-alejandro-velasco-gabriel-hetland-yoletty-bracho/
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"The #Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine effectively extends the Central American and Caribbean realm to South America. #Venezuela’s oil, gas, gold, iron and rare earth minerals make it a singular prize: nowhere else in South America comes close. Stephen Miller apparently came up with the idea, which Trump echoes, that by nationalising its oil under Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1976, Venezuela ‘stole it’ from the US."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/january/murder-inc
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"Democracy Now! discusses the attack on #Venezuela with two Venezuelan American scholars: Alejandro Velasco, an associate history professor at New York University, and Miguel Tinker Salas, emeritus professor of history at Pomona College."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/5/maduro_abduction_impact_on_latin_america
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"Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking #Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás #Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/3/special_report_on_venezuela_us_kidnaps
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"[A]s with so many Trumpian things, it’s important to remember that he wouldn’t be able to do what he does if it weren’t for policies and institutions put in place by all too many of his predecessors. His horrors have long backstories. In fact, Donald #Trump isn’t so much escalating the #warOnDrugs as escalating its escalation."
#GregGrandin, A Murder Incorporated Tale of the #DrugWars
https://tomdispatch.com/escalating-the-escalation/
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"It's importing the logic of Gaza into the Caribbean, using overwhelming predominant force [...] they're just wiped off the face of the earth - 27 people who were convicted of absolutely nothing"
Historian #GregGrandin, author of "America América," talks about #Trump's designs on #LatinAmerica
His piece in The Nation, "Trump's Caribbean Killing Spree": https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-venezuela-pentagon/
#USpol #USpolitics #Venezuela #USforeignPolicy #imperialism #imperialBullying #stateCrime