Venezuelan Oil Brought to US Would Be Refined in Black Gulf Coast Communities
Residents say US control of Venezuela’s heavy crude will worsen environmental racism along the Gulf.
Residents say US control of Venezuela’s heavy crude will worsen environmental racism along the Gulf.
Drop Site Daily: January 7th, 2026
The US military seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker accused of evading a naval blockade around Venezuela, a move that is sure to rankle Moscow.
“Cover-Up,” directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, takes Hersh’s work over the last half century and examines what Poitras describes as the “long history of cycles of impunity, of mass atrocities that are committed and nobody is held accountable.”
The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony from an unreliable witness. Despite DOJ edits, it could expose more Americans to the CIA’s own history of drug trafficking.
Following the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the Trump administration has renewed its campaign to take over Greenland, which has been controlled by Denmark for more than 300 years. The White House says it’s considering “a range of options,” including the use of military force. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that if the U.S. were to attack Greenland, it would spell the end of NATO. “Greenland is not up for sale,” says Aaju Peter, a Greenlandic Inuit activist and attorney, who says Indigenous Greenlanders want their independence from both the U.S. and Denmark. We also speak with analyst Pavel Devyatkin, who says the U.S. is “acting like a rogue state” and enacting a policy of “pure imperialism.”
Nearly 40,000 expatriates were deported from Kuwait in 2025, and 69 citizens and their dependents were stripped of their nationality, Arab Times reported.
It’s the judge who first tips off Daniela that something is wrong. “I am pretty certain that you won’t be coming back to my court,” he tells her and another asylum seeker from Colombia—let’s call her Isabella. (All of the immigrants in this story are identified by pseudonyms, for obvious reasons.)  They’d come to San […]