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31.01.26 - 11:36
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Filmmaker Laura Poitras on US Actions in Venezuela (Bloomberg)
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"The US doesn't have the right to steal resources."
BAFTA nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras tells Mishal Husain that US action in Venezuela amounts to regime change in pursuit of oil.
Subscribe to The Mishal Husain Show wherever you get your podcasts. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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31.01.26 - 11:12
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Will corporate America finally stand up to the Trump administration? (The Guardian)
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The brutal handling of immigration raids and the killing of Alex Pretti have tested the reticence of the corporate classDuring Donald Trump's first term, the US's corporate titans were prepared to literally turn their backs on the president when they disagreed with them. Weeks of growing national anger over deadly immigration crackdowns in the US have highlighted how much has changed.Publicly, the US's top CEOs have stayed – mostly – quiet during Trump's second term, even as his administration has undermined free trade policies, cracked down on the immigration that many businesses relied on, and attacked the Federal Reserve – a pillar of the US's financial hegemony. Continue reading......
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31.01.26 - 10:03
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Largest Power Project In US Approved For West Texas Amid Gas Plant And Data Center Buildout (ZeroHedge)
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Largest Power Project In US Approved For West Texas Amid Gas Plant And Data Center Buildout
Authored by Dylan Baddour via Inside Climate News (emphasis ours),
Texas' environmental regulator this week issued the largest air pollution permit in the country to an enormous planned complex of gas power plants and data centers near the oilfields of the Permian Basin, according to an announcement from the project's developers.
Pacifico Energy, a global, investor-owned infrastructure company, called its 7.65 gigawatt GW Ranch in Pecos County “the largest power project in the United States” in a press release this week.
It's among a handful of similarly colossal ventures announced during 2025 that have made Texas the global epicenter of a gas power buildout, according to data released Thursday by Global Energy Monitor (GEM).
“Massive fossil fuel infrastructure is being developed, often directly at the source of gas supply, in order to feed speculative AI demand,” said Jenny Martos, pr...
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31.01.26 - 10:03
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Trump Sues US Treasury For $10 Billion Over Tax-Returns Leak (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Sues US Treasury For $10 Billion Over Tax-Returns Leak
In the latest sign that we're living in unusual times, the sitting president of the United States is suing the US Treasury and Internal Revenue Service -- both housed in his executive branch -- and asking to be paid at least $10 billion in compensation for "reputational and financial harm," according to a complaint first publicized Thursday.
We're printing money willy-nilly -- so what's another $10 billion for Trump & Sons?
The suit springs from the IRS's failure to maintain the confidentiality of President Trump's tax returns. Between 2018 and 2020, then-IRS consultant Charles E. Littlejohn stole Trump's tax files and handed them over to The New York Times and ProPublica, which reported extensively on them. In 2024, Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing not only Trump's files, but also those of thousands more wealthy Americans, and giving them to the two news outlets. Prosecutors sai...
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