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Yves here. Medea Benjamin provides a vivid and distressing report of the intensifying distress in Cuba produced by the US oil blockage. It’s hit the point…

Two Chinese-flagged very large crude carriers are proceeding toward Venezuelan waters despite a U.S.-imposed blockade on sanctioned oil tankers, raising the prospect of heightened tensions between…

With a two-month “quarantine” placed on Venezuelan oil by the Trump administration in a foreign policy move called “gunboat diplomacy,” new data estimate that roughly $900…

U.S. forces on Saturday stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela for the second time in less than two weeks as President Donald Trump continues to ramp up…

Nucor Stock Drops as Steelmaker Issues Soft Q4 Profit Outlook 13 minutes ago Nucor (NUE) is “optimistic” about 2026 business conditions. Its fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter outlook,…

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás…