Russian Invasion

When you corrode and corrupt democracy, it has consequences
How an axis of awful is blocking the oil we need from Venezuela to replace Russian oil and stop Putin

by Greg Palast
for FlashPoints
March 24, 2022March 24, 2022

Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil on the planet. If you look at OPEC, they put Saudi Arabia as number two. Venezuela’s producing very little oil, not even enough for its own needs at this moment, when it was producing 3.2 million barrels of oil a day. If we unleash oil from Venezuela, then Putin’s profit … READ MORE

How Billionaires Picked Putin as “Russia’s Pinochet”

by Greg Palast
for BuzzFlash
March 15, 2022March 16, 2022

Vladimir Putin did not arrive from outer space on an abalone shell. He went from the virtually unknown Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg to Russia’s President and potentate by winning a weird competition organized by Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky who sought a “Russian Pinochet” to succeed … READ MORE

How to Stop Putin’s War Windfall by Ending Our Embargo of Venezuelan Oil

by Aldous Tyler and Greg Palast
for TMI.
March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

The mayhem in Ukraine is a profit center for Putin. 43% of the federal Russian budget was provided by oil and gas revenues and royalties. Russia lives and dies, literally, on its oil revenues, and this … READ MORE

Venezuela Can Bring Putin to his Knees

by Greg Palast
February 24, 2022February 25, 2022

I’m sure Putin is laughing when he hears Biden list his new so-called “sanctions” which are as serious as canceling Putin‘s Walmart discount card. Want to stop Putin‘s tanks?

Lift the cruel, crazy, unjustified embargo of Venezuela. That nation is capable of pumping… READ MORE

7 Facts about Ukraine
Deadly Men in Funny Hats

by Greg Palast
with update contributed by Yuriy Kushnir in Lviv, Ukraine. Photos by Zach D. Roberts in Kyiv
February 15, 2022February 20, 2022

Like most conflicts over the past 2000 years, this is, at heart, a religious war.

Most of the people who live in the tiny eastern province of Donbas and surrounds, including the Crimea, are followers of… READ MORE