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  • How the US uses oil as a geopolitical weapon
    Oil has been at the center of the war on Iran. Ben Norton explains how the United States became the biggest oil producer on Earth, and how the US empire uses petroleum as a geopolitical and economic weapon, pushing for monopolistic Big Oil corporations to dominate the global market. Ben also discusses why Trump pressured the UAE to withdraw from OPEC, and he debunks the myth that the USA is "energy independent".
    VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh-E3q6tGEw
    Check out our related video on the biggest oil crisis in history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUdyPJM_rOw
    Topics
    0:00 Iran war and oil
    0:36 Petrodollar
    1:52 USA is biggest oil producer
    3:39 US oil exports increase
    4:32 Oil price skyrockets
    5:03 Corporate profits rise
    5:37 Strait of Hormuz
    6:30 UAE withdraws from OPEC
    7:31 Abraham Accords
    8:37 OPEC history
    9:14 Seven Sisters: Big Oil
    11:01 OPEC members
    12:13 OPEC+ participants
    13:18 Goal of OPEC
    14:25 State-owned oil companies
    15:12 Why USA dislikes OPEC
    16:56 Oil is political
    17:18 Venezuela economic war
    19:06 Big Oil execs in US govt
    20:55 Cuba oil blockade
    22:29 Energy and food crisis
    23:36 US "energy independence"
    25:06 US oil imports
    26:12 Types of crude oil
    27:26 US oil refineries
    28:47 US imports by country
    30:36 Oil benchmarks
    32:47 Oil futures market
    33:53 Price predictions
    36:04 Economic crisis fears
    37:02 Outro
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  • The News Quiz: Ep2. The art of vetting

    Some hot topics of conversation this week include the ever evolving Peter Mandelson vetting saga, phones being banned in schools and robots who can take over the world... sorry robots who can take over sports. Helping Andy make sense of it all are Daliso Chaponda, Catherine Bohart, Hugo Rifkind and Ria Lina.

    Written by Andy Zaltzman.

    With additional material by: Jade Gebbie, Christina Riggs, Henry Whaley and Angela Channell

    Producer: Georgia Keating
    Executive Producer: Richard Morris
    Production Coordinators: Asha Osborne-Grinter & Caroline Barlow
    Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

    A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

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  • Exposing Canary Mission, and Israel’s 50-Year War on Lebanon

    The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday it will leave OPEC effective May 1, ending its membership in the oil cartel that dates to 1967 and removing the group’s third-largest energy producer.

    Drop Site’s Ryan Grim, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Maysa Mustafa discuss the implications of the move.

    They are also joined by Jacquline Sweet to discuss her latest investigation revealing the highest paid employees of the Israeli group running the infamous doxxing site Canary Mission.

    And as Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue with daily airstrikes, shelling and demolition in the south, NYU journalism professor Mohamad Bazzi joins to discuss Israel’s 50-year war on Lebanon, Hezbollah’s increasing use of fiber optic FPV drones as a tactic of asymmetric warfare, Israel’s campaign of destruction and erasure in southern Lebanon, and more.



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    1 hr 9 min
  • BONUS: The Untouched Power That Could Stop The Iran War

    This week, the Iran War will reach its official 60-day mark. That’s a critical deadline under the War Powers Resolution, a Nixon-era law created to limit presidential war-making.

    Under that law, President Donald Trump can claim a one-time, 30-day extension, so the Iran War will likely continue. But the War Powers Resolution also gives Congress a secret weapon to end this unpopular war — or any war — whenever it wants. So why has Congress never used it? 

    In this special episode, David Sirota tells the wild story of how a Kenyan-born immigrant and a Ralph Nader-aligned lawyer unwittingly expanded the powers of the president — and left Congress believing that it’s powerless to stop unauthorized wars. 

    Note: This bonus episode marks the start of our midseason intermission for Master Plan: The Kingmakers. We’ll be back this summer with the remaining four episodes. Until then, please become a paid subscriber to keep receiving bonus episodes, updates, and more.

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  • 1031 - Holding Out for a Hero feat. Hasan Piker (4/27/26)
    Streamer and international man of controversy Hasan Piker joins us to recap and analyze Saturday’s assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. We talk about the radical-centrist shooter, the diverse cast of assassins we’ve met since that fateful day in Butler, and the cast of Chapo all-stars at the dinner itself. Plus: more talk about the media blitz against Hasan, and reading series from the Wall Street Journal and Dylan Byers.
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  • #709 - Symbols of the Sacred Feminine
    We once again travel back to the dark heart of the Bush era by discussing one of the biggest cultural events of the 2000s. Ron Howard's THE DA VINCI CODE (2006) adapted Dan Brown's turgid bestseller into an even more turgid blockbuster.
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    53 min
  • News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope

    In this News Brief, we talk with A. J. Bauer, assistant professor at the University of Alabama, about his new book," Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press". In our discussion we break down the corporate and ideological forces that shaped the popular idea mainstream media was crawling with fifth columnist agitators hostile to the values of Real America.

    52 min

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