US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker, in challenge to Moscow
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.
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.
“That is a confrontation of Cold War proportions,” warned one observer.
US and international energy firms are set to profit from exploiting Venezuela's oil reserves, which are considered the largest in the world.
“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.”
Semafor today announced it had closed $30 million in new financing as it begins a major expansion of its editorial operations and high-level global convenings.
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.