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Trump, Big Oil and China – Three Articles

Ben Lefebvre, Zack Colman, James Bikales (Politico) Guney Yildiz (Forbes) Sarah Rumpf (Yahoo!News)! Politico
Three articles discuss Trump's outreach to Big Oil before and after kidnapping Venezuelan President Maduro, the special place of Venezuelan oil in the world oil market, and the economic and political role of Venezuelan oil trade with China.

King of Cannibal Island

John Lanchester London Review of Books
Today, each of the ten biggest companies in the world is worth more than $1 trillion. Only one of them, the Saudi oil monopoly, Aramco, has nothing to do with the future value of AI. Is it a bubble? Of course it’s a bubble. What happens next?

The Gulf’s Cold War: Saudi-UAE Rivalry Spills Into Africa

Imran Khalid Middle East Monitor
Riyadh and Abu Dhabi appeared to be the twin engines of a new Arab order. That veneer of unity has now, not just cracked; it has been replaced by a series of high-stakes disputes stretching from Southern Yemen to the Horn of Africa.

A Movement-Building Strategy for All Workers

David Bacon and Peter Olney The Reality Check
Workers are bombarded by false ideas about immigration and immigrants, that hold immigrants responsible for poverty, lost jobs and crime. To organize for political change, workers have to be convinced to support the rights of all working people.

Democratic Excellence

Corey Robin The New York Review of Books
Among Zohran Mamdani’s rhetorical innovations has been his declaration of war on mediocrity.

The US Attacks Venezuela and Seizes It President

Vijay Prashad – Taroa Zúñiga Silva CounterPunch
Trump will get his ovation at the US Congress, but the price for that has already been paid by hundreds of dead civilians in Venezuela and millions more who are struggling to survive the long-term hybrid war imposed by the United States on Venezuela.