Links to a report from the Associated Press and to two articles of commentary: from Peoples Dispatch and the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (Scroll down for VENEZUELA 2-14-26 and 9/11 TRUTH, UKRAINE and MEDIA.) — MCM

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U.S. military boards another oil tanker in Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean, by Ben Finley | AP  WASHINGTON — U.S. military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said today. READ MORE . . .

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FROM FEB. 14  The war on drugs or the war on the poor? by Laura Capote | Peoples Dispatch  The so-called “War on Drugs” seeks to achieve a facade for the development of various mechanisms of imperialist intervention that since the 1970s have involved a combination of methods ranging from military financing to countries in the region, installation of military bases, and explicit support for certain candidates in electoral contests. READ MORE . . .

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FROM FEB. 12  This newsletter will make you angry. From the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Cauca, Colombia, is home to coca-growing campesino (peasant) communities, where families do not plant coca out of choice but because dispossession and state abandonment have closed off dignified livelihoods for them. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same article in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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