"It’s a reminder — one we didn’t really need — that while the abundance of oil and gas has produced amazing riches and unprecedented global economic growth and development for more than a century, it has come at an enormous price."

#Trump #oil #gas #environment #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Iran #Venezuela
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"It’s no coincidence that Trump’s two decapitation strikes — Venezuela and Iran — involve countries whose geopolitical significance results almost exclusively from their status as petro-states. Trump wanted to go back to the ways of the old economy, and he got exactly what he bargained for, whether he likes it or not."

#Trump #oil #gas #environment #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Iran #Venezuela
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Fmr #Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro returns to a NY courtroom Thursday as he seeks to have his #DrugTrafficking indictment thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees.

It’s the first time that #Maduro & his wife, #CiliaFlores, will be in court since a January arraignment at which he protested their #abduction by #US #military forces & declared: “I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the constitutional president of my country.”

#law #geopolitics #sovereignty
https://apnews.com/live/nicolas-maduro-venezuela-court-03-26-2026

The International Congress of Mathematicians ( #ICM) decided not to meet in #Russia in 2022, for a list of reasons including Russa's "war of aggression in #Ukraine and the potential dangers…in regards to freedom of political expression and the safety of #LGBTQ participants." Now some ICM members have launched a petition asking it not to meet in the US in 2026, for a list of reasons including US aggression in #Gaza, #Greenland, #Iran, and #Venezuela, and "serious concern that academics (or anyone) traveling to the US may be denied entry."
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHJhc8X83b8oL6rH2KDX0I730eraum5I8_IlWY23F82mHuag/viewform?fbzx=7063048079651794343

#Mathematics #USPol #USPolitics

The International Congress of Mathematicians ( #ICM) decided not to meet in #Russia in 2022, for a list of reasons including Russa's "war of aggression in #Ukraine and the potential dangers…in regards to freedom of political expression and the safety of #LGBTQ participants." Now some ICM members have launched a petition asking it not to meet in the US in 2026, for a list of reasons including US aggression in #Gaza, #Greenland, #Iran, and #Venezuela, and "serious concern that academics (or anyone) traveling to the US may be denied entry."
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHJhc8X83b8oL6rH2KDX0I730eraum5I8_IlWY23F82mHuag/viewform?fbzx=7063048079651794343

#Mathematics #USPol #USPolitics