China Grabs More Canadian Oil as Dirty Crude Supplies Dwindle

(Bloomberg) -- China is snapping up more Canadian crude as global heavy oil supplies dwindle amid Iran sanctions and a political crisis in Venezuela.

Ambelos is the second tanker to leave Vancouver’s Westridge terminal this year bound for China, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It’s carrying more than half a million barrels of heavy Canadian crude, according to IHS Markit. It follows the Erik Spirit, which sailed to China’s Nanhai district from Westridge last month. The shipments happened even as Canadian heavy crude has sold at an average discount to West Texas Intermediate futures of less than $11 a barrel so far this year.  READ ON

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It is hard to overstate just how in the tank the corporate media is for the U.S. government overthrowing another government. It's as though they never read a history book. But it's worse than that, because you know they have read history books and continue to back this insanity anyway.

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Zero Percent of Elite Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela

That elite media didn’t find a single person to vouch for Maduro or Chavismo, and that almost all the opinions explicitly or implicitly expressed support for the ouster of Venezuela’s elected president, demonstrates a firm editorial line, eerily obedient to the US government’s regime change po...

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"Modern society’s systemic problem is capitalism, not this or that kind of capitalism."

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Yes, We Can do Better Than Capitalism

By democratizing our workplaces, we can supplant the dominant ecomomic system which cannot escape its intrinsic exploitation of labor.. As capitalism drives itself into ever-greater inequality, instability and injustice, its critics multiply. Worried defenders react in two ways. Many dismiss the cri...

You'd think the public would have the right to see some metrics on how the war we've been waging for 18 years is going.

Pentagon: American Public Doesn't Need to Know How Much Territory We've Lost in Afghanistan

"The only people who don't know what's going on are the people who are paying for all of this, and that's the American taxpayer."

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WWII veteran gives a dire warning after neo-Nazis disrupt Holocaust Remembrance Walk in Arkansas

A neo-Nazi group interrupted a Holocaust Remembrance Walk in Russellville, Arkansas, according to local news outlet KFSM.

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Trump tweeting and bypassing the press 'is anti-democratic': Ken Auletta

For several years, U.S. presidents have tried to bypass the media and communicate directly to the people, Ken Auletta, media critic at The New Yorker, told Yahoo Finance’s On the Move.

“Trump has perfected it to an art with Twitter— he basically has millions of followers and he just tweets to them,” Auletta said. “They don’t have any press briefings anymore so our news comes from his short tweets and that’s not news. We don’t have the ability to question it.”

President Donald Trump just sent the stock market sliding these past two days with tweets threatening to increase tariffs on imported goods from China. The tweets came just days ahead of scheduled meetings in Washington between top negotiators for the U.S. and China. The outburst was the latest example of the president making major announcements on the social media platform.

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