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DAPL Oil Set to Begin Flowing Within Days After Judge Rules Against Tribe

(ANTIMEDIA) Washington D.C. — With oil slated to begin flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) within weeks or even days, another attempt to block the controversial pipeline has been squashed. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Washington D.C. denied a request from the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe to halt the construction of the pipeline based on religious grounds.

Venezuela Cash Reserves Reach New Low Amid U.S.- Led Sabotage

A cleaning woman walks by replicas of Venezuela’s currency bills, hung in a hallway at the Central bank office building in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)
TEMUCO, CHILE — Despite having the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela’s economy has struggled to stay afloat in recent years. The Venezuelan government, led by Nicolás Maduro, has been forced to take out loans from China and Russia to avoid an economic collapse.

Who is the biggest climate change villain?

The radical climate scientists, the ones whose forecasts have been most accurate and have risked professional marginalisation and possible career damage to explain what is really going on, should be the ones who are now championed by liberal media like the Guardian. But they continue to languish largely unheard because their message grates with advertisers and would damage corporate profits.
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Contradicting Trump, Defense Secretary Says US ‘Not In Iraq To Seize Anybody’s Oil’

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, center, is greeted by U.S. Ambassador Douglas Silliman as he arrives at Baghdad International Airport on an unannounced trip Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. (AP/Lolita Baldor)
(REPORT) — The United States is not about to plunder Iraq’s oil, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said as he arrived in Baghdad on Monday and sought to soothe partners rattled by remarks from President Donald Trump.

Shell, Eni Charged With Corruption In Billion Dollar Nigerian Oil Deal

In this Thursday, March 24, 2011 photo, oil is seen on the creek water’s surface near Ogoniland, outside Port Harcourt, in Nigeria’s Delta region. (AP/Sunday Alamba)
(REPORT) — Italian prosecutors have charged oil giants Shell and Eni with international corruption offences, as the companies struggle with the fallout from their controversial 2011 purchase of an oil licence in Nigeria.

In Trump’s World, Money Talks & Saudi Arabia Gets A Free Pass

Donald Trump poses with one of his Saudi business partners, CEO of Hussain Sajwani, and his daughter Ivanka Trump. (DAMAC Group)
President Trump’s Muslim ban is not only mean-spirited and, hopefully, unconstitutional, but it is irrational because it doesn’t even include the country most responsible for spreading terrorism around the world: Saudi Arabia.