Antonia Juhasz

Remember that time that George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in May 2003 and then the U.S. remained at war in Iraq for another eight long years???

Afghans stranded for a year by Trump's refugee freeze now caught in new war President Trump’s decision to freeze refugee processing left thousands in limbo. For more than a year, 1,100 Afghan refugees who thought they were bound for the United States have been stranded on a d...

Fantastic reporting From @leilama.bsky.social in Qatar on the 1,100 Afghan refugees, primarily women & children, stranded in Qatar who were headed to the U.S. before the Trump administration froze the refugee program last year, now facing Trump's war of choice in Iran.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Exclusive: Chevron, Shell closing in on first big oil production deals in Venezuela since US captured Maduro, sources say International oil majors Chevron and Shell are closing in on the first big oil production deals with Venezuela since the U.S. capture of President Nicolas Maduro in January, five sources close to the ...

Exclusive: Chevron, Shell closing in on first big oil production deals in Venezuela since US captured Maduro, sources say
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Why are gas prices so high? These obscure traders are partly to blame ‘Nobody with power is looking at what they’re doing,’ but they’re helping to drive searing gas prices despite increased oil production

I reported on the lack of necessary regulation on oil and gas futures markets for @theguardian.com
during a previous radical run-up in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Deleted Tweet From Energy Secretary Sends Oil Markets on Another Wild Ride A now-erased post from Chris Wright whipsawed crude for the second-straight session.

Important to note just how unregulated futures markets for oil and gas really are. “There is a sort of randomness both from a political perspective and then in terms of market reactions to all of this,” said Michael Rosen, chief investment officer at Angeles Investments.
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According to KPLER: Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, most of which is traveling via "shadow fleets" to China. Tankers have loaded a daily average of 2.1 million barrels of oil, higher than the 2 million barrels a day in February.

The situation in these nations, however, seems based not on an actual shortfall in supply, but rather hording by distributors of fuel and a simultaneous fear among consumers that prices would rise even further and/or there would be shortages coming.

Troops guard Bangladesh depots as fuel crunch hits Asia amid Middle East conflict Bangladesh imports 95 per cent of its oil and petrol needs. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The long deadly arm of a war in which fossil fuels are the weapons of choice.
One man killed in the southern Bangladeshi district of Jhenaidah after an altercation over refuelling. Crowds then torched three buses and vandalised a filling station.
www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-a...

“Fossil Fuels as a Weapon of War”: U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Exposes World’s Dangerous Reliance on Oil Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel this week as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran threatens global energy supplies and the broader economy. Iranian officials say no oil will be allowed to leave the ...

20% of the world’s oil and gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz.

“Fossil Fuels as a Weapon of War”: U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Exposes World’s Dangerous Reliance on Oil Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel this week as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran threatens global energy supplies and the broader economy. Iranian officials say no oil will be allowed to leave the ...

I joined @democracynow.org to discuss how fossil fuels are being used as weapons of war by all sides in the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran. "What we're seeing is just one of the clearest depictions yet of the frailty of a global order that is grounded in fossil fuels."
www.democracynow.org/2026/3/10/oi...

Like cancer raining down

Thank you, Lynn. I appreciate it. And I will!

Always such a pleasure to join Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez on @democracynow.org
I've been coming on the show for the better part of two decades discussing wars for oil.
How tragic to be back once again on the same topic, now discussing Trump and Netanyahu's war against Iran.
www.democracynow.org

As the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran threatens global energy supplies and the broader economy, "What we're seeing is just one of the clearest depictions yet of the frailty of a global order that is grounded in fossil fuels," says @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social.

Trump once again hails his relationship with Delcy Rodríguez in Venezuela and the flow of oil from Venezuela to the U.S.

As Trump addressed the GOP policy retreat held at his golf course in Doral, Florida: i24 news reports: The IDF says it has launched a new "broad wave" of strikes in Tehran. Reports in Iran of strikes in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, and Tabriz, coinciding with reports of power outages across the capital.

"Putin was very impressed," - Trump says today of the U.S. and Israel war against Iran.

"It's the beginning of building a new country," Trump says of Iran. Exactly what Trump said the Bush administration did wrong in Iraq, when he pledged to never bring the U.S. into more "forever wars."

"It may be a friendly takeover, it may not be a friendly takeover, it doesn't really matter." - Trump on Cuba.

War against Iran, "it will be ended soon" - says Trump.

Trump - "who knows" we may not need restore sanctions "they'll be so much peace," seeming to imply U.S. sanctions against Russia, some of which are now being alleviated by the Trump administration. "We had a very good talk" he said of his call with Putin today.

Trump threatens attacks on Iran's electricity sector if Iran continues to attack and threaten oil and gas tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

Fossil fuels are fragile. They're easily spooked, vulnerable to weather, stress, and military attack. They're finite, easily manipulated tools of the powerful and bludgeons against the weak.
They're the favorite of autocrats everywhere.
Trump has tied us to their fate.

Sorry to say it, but it's true, X is proving to be the best source of news and valuable information at this time than any other social media platform I am on. The tip is to use the "following" option, which restricts your feed to only those you've chosen to follow, rather than the algorithm feed.

I wrote in my 2008 book, The Tyranny of Oil, that after Iraq, Iran was next on the agenda for the George W. Bush admin and U.S. oil interests. Trump is fulfilling that agenda.
"Iraq is the convergence point for two of the greatest threats to America in this new century—al Qaeda and Iran," Bush 2008.

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war."- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran The president’s private comments have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion of Iran, but rather on the idea of a small contingent of U.S. troops that would be used for specific strategic purpos...

Trump has shown "serious interest" in U.S. ground troops in Iran.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate:

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees who declined to identify former clients.

You know times are tough when you think to yourself, "it's okay to take a break. go ahead and work on your taxes."