Donald Trump just announced that he had this oil deal with Venezuela. He struck that deal. So in his mind, he's thinking, okay, we secured oil from Venezuela, so now we can go back to bombing Iran. Here's why that is going to be a problem. The oil that is coming from Venezuela is not the same type of oil that comes from the straighter form. That oil from Venezuela, that is the heavy crude oil. What that means is that in order for us to utilize it, that oil has to be refined. That takes time. It takes process. Uh there are multiple academics that have commented on this and they have said that this could take quite a long time. So it's not like you're going to have this oil from Venezuela right away. That's what the Trump administration isn't telling you. So that part is important to note. The oil that is coming from the straighter form, this oil is light to medium grade. So it's easier to process. He keeps trying to find a way uh to get around Hormuz trying to I guess circumvent this in some way type shape or form, but you can't get around this issue. And ultimately, he's going to have to make a decision. He's going to have to decide, okay, we're going to back away and we're going to be able to renegotiate with Iran. We're not going to bomb them anymore and use the oil. or he's going to continue the strategy which is ultimate ultimately is going to impact us here at home as well. That's why the gas prices are not going down. Do you guys get it? So the oil from Venezuela is not the same type of oil that is in the straighter form. Share that with your friends. Something else I need to tell you. I was talking about this on um transition protocol just the other day. All this stuff that's happening right now with Iran, I took a good look at project 2025. Again, all of this is in 2025.
Ibrahim Traoré delivers a powerful and emotional message to Black Americans that is now going viral worldwide. In this breaking news moment, the Burkina Faso leader speaks on Black unity, African identity, global politics, and resistance against Western domination, sparking intense debate across the U.S. and Africa. Watch this exclusive speech that is shaking social media and global news as Traoré’s bold words inspire millions and challenge the status quo.
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In Nov. 2024, Chad terminated its defense agreement with France & ordered 1,000 French troops out ending about 65 years of continuous French military presence & closing Paris's last foothold in the Sahel. The world called it France's final defeat in Africa. 14 months later, President Mahamat Idriss Déby was at the Élysée Palace agreeing to a "revitalized partnership" with Emmanuel Macron. By April 2026, French officers were quietly back in Chad for training & intelligence work.
In Black History In Two Minutes or So, Henry Louis Gates Jr., with commentary from Peniel Joseph of Univ. of TX & Hasan Jeffries of OH State Univ., look at Garvey’s legacy & his contribution to the largest Black political movement ever. Marcus Garvey, born in Jamaica experienced the impacts of colonization by the British. He developed a passion for improving race relations & launched a Black Nationalism movement that seeked to elevate Black people throughout the world. Created UNIA in 1914.
In 1944, captured German soldiers described fighting Black American troops in interrogation transcripts the US War Dept quietly buried for decades. What they wrote directly contradicted 20 yrs of official Army policy & Army knew it. This is what Germany's own soldiers recorded in their diaries, letters home & POW interrogations about Black American combat troops testimony that called the US Army's own 1925 racial policy wrong, in writing; you'll know exactly which documents exist.
VALOR UNTOLD
Ghana Joins AES & Russia Against What You Didn't Expect, The PACT that is changing the game Forever Ghana just signed a historic pact with Russia — and it's bigger than anyone expected. From doubled scholarships and nuclear energy cooperation to a new security partnership supporting Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, this is the moment reshaping Ghana-Russia relations after almost 70 years of diplomatic ties. We break down the visa waiver deal, the 700MW nuclear energy plan, and what Ghana's growing ties to the AES states really mean for West African security.
ARISON AES
"Nearly six months into the U.S.’ war with Iran & a year into the Pentagon’s decision to launch deadly strikes to kill alleged drug traffickers, the number of service members seeking a formal discharge from the military as conscientious objectors has skyrocketed, according to 2 groups that help them file their applications." Jacob Soboroff – in for Nicolle Wallace – is joined by Priya Sridhar, who authored this story, Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, & Paul Rieckhoff for analysis on Deadline White House.
The Secretary of Losing Wars, Pete Kegbreth, is a racist. He's a bigot. He's a drunk; he just got exactly what he deserves. Humiliated to his face by the exact type of service mbr who he has been trying to undermine thru his entire tenure at the Pentagon. It is well documented the way that Hegseth has treated anyone who is not the exact type of white Evangelical that he likes, so he was humiliated. Pete Hegseth was very pissed off by just having to be near a Black service mbr.
US is attacking Iran as war spirals out of control. Journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin joins the show for the first time to tell us how her new film investigating the inner workings of the US military and its impact on the planet relates to the restart of the Iran war. She is joined by rapper and journalist Lowkey for a massive discussion on why Trump and the US empire's war is going worse than you think.
Danny Haiphong
What part of you did you have to kill to really escape that mentality? The part of me that like every time something bad happened, I wanted to kill something. That part I didn't want to go to prison for the rest of my life. You just can't do it here, you know? I think that was the hard part of not wanting to, and struggling with that part of life. Sometimes you just want to be you again.
Liz Oyer talks with Bobby Jones, a retired Navy commander and president of Veterans for Responsible Leadership, about the 200-plus consecutive days the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln has spent at sea without a port call — and why service members have almost no legal recourse even when conditions are bad.
Is This Really Legal? and 2 more
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Iran striking back after Donald Trump warned Iran not to respond, as reports emerge of major damage to U.S. bases, medevac helicopters in the region, and Iranian claims of U.S. casualties.
Trump posted, "Open the Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. The Strait still ain't open." Not only is it not open, but we're getting bombed left & right. Scott Bessent, the face you make when Iran starts bombing US bases in the Middle East after you bragged on TV that Iran is obliterated. US Navy destroyer attempting infiltration of Strait made a missile strike impeding the attempt. Marines & Spec. Forces should be grateful for the missile strike, saved their lives.
It's being reported that some soldiers are opting out of this war and refusing to deploy to Iran. Soldiers are filing conscientious objections. This is an objection to participate in war in any form. Every soldier has the right to object and this can be based on religious, ethical, or moral beliefs. It's being said that a lot of soldiers filed their objection after it was found out that it was an American missile that struck an Iranian school killing 150 children. Some soldiers cited they didn't believe that Iran was an imminent threat to the United States when this war was started. Others also cited that they did not want to fight a war for another country. Once a soldier files a conscientious objection, before the investigation even starts, their command is notified and any deployments or assignments must be halted. Now, there is a possibility that their conscientious objection could be rejected and Donald Trump could pass a law where conscientious objections are not allowed during these times. But what would that say about our country if we would force people to fight for something that they don't believe in?
Kachina Speaks
There have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump. It would be an unprecedented move to name an aircraft carrier after a sitting president. Honor Trump? What in the fiddle and fuck are we going to honor Trump for? What military honor should we bestow upon a draft dodger? We've had other draft dodger presidents before. Bill Clinton's a draft dodger, also a vile and reprehensible character. Neither one of these individuals are honorable.
They told us to “get over the past”—but how can we move on from crimes that were never answered for? 150 documented massacres, land thefts, human experiments, unpaid wages, stolen children, and stolen wealth—each one sourced, dated, and named. Not opinion. The historical record.
Black Journals and My DNA IS Black
The US Iran War has become an inescapable trap with devastating global economic consequences. In this in-depth briefing, Col. Douglas Macgregor reveals why the Persian Gulf has turned into a strategic quagmire where military disengagement seems virtually impossible without profound geopolitical humiliation. As regional confrontations accelerate across the Middle East, the illusion of quick & decisive conventional victory has dissolved against rugged geographical realities.
It's really simple what happened. They are trying to lie, They're trying to quote re-tweeting me saying this was an Iranian misfire. We have the photo evidence. The Iranian response started not too long after these strikes took place in Iran's south on their coastal regions and their islands. Before they started, we did see that Iran down another MQ9 Reaper drone. So, what is that? Another $500,000 or million dollars down the gutter in taxpayer funds.
Jackson Hinkle Official
The refusal estimates are in the low thousands, but are growing rapidly represents the most significant military descent since Vietnam. Entire platoons & companies are standing down from pre-employment training. Soldiers citing lack of congressional authorization under article 1 section 8 some invoking Nuremberg principles & the uniform code of military justice which is called UCMJ article 92 lawful orders only viral clips showing troops burning their deployment orders.
We speak to Richard Wolff, a prominent Marxist economist, about the economic fallout from the war on Iran, which recently reached the six-month mark. "Because it's only been going on for a few months, the impact on the prices we pay is about to unload itself," says Wolff. The U.S. national debt, which recently topped $40 trillion, is "one of the many signs of an economy and of an empire that is now in decline," says Wolff. "There is an enormous increase in defense spending.