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Dan Crenshaw Schooled by His Own Voters as Town Hall Collapses Under Accountability

February 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

Dan Crenshaw Schooled by His Own Voters as Town Hall Collapses Under Accountability

Dan Crenshaw faces informed voters who dismantle his talking points on immigration, Venezuela, and accountability in a town hall that exposes performative politics.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Accountability, Corporate Media, Dan Crenshaw, democracy, Foreign policy, healthcare, immigration, independent journalism, Progressive media, texas politics, town hall, venezuela, voters rights

The Hidden Link Between EV, Tariffs, Wind Energy, Greenland, Venezuela, and Oil Imperialism

December 27, 2025 By Egberto Willies

The debate around electric vehicles, windmills, Greenland, Venezuela, oil, and tariffs often appears fragmented, as if each issue exists in its own policy silo. That illusion serves power well. When examined together, these issues reveal a coherent and troubling strategy rooted in protecting entrenched corporate interests—particularly fossil fuels—through coercion, misinformation, and state intervention. The common thread between EVs, … Tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles offer the first clue. Classical capitalism argues for efficiency: if another country produces a superior product at lower cost, markets should reward that efficiency. Instead, punitive tariffs block affordable EVs while U.S. automakers scale back production. This is not market correction; it is market distortion. The private sector failed to invest aggressively in EVs when it had the chance, and now the state shields that failure rather than confronting it. That choice delays climate progress and leaves working families paying more for fewer options. The same logic explains the hostility toward wind energy. Offshore wind projects—many led by Danish firms like Ørsted—represent large-scale threats to oil’s dominance. Claims that turbines threaten national security collapse under basic physics and radar science. Modern militaries already distinguish complex signal environments. What truly alarms fossil interests is that wind power reduces dependence on oil, shrinking profits and geopolitical leverage. That fear also clarifies renewed fixation on Greenland. Greenland holds vast reserves of rare earth minerals essential for renewable energy and advanced electronics. Though self-governing under Denmark, Greenland faces external pressure framed as “strategic interest.” This echoes earlier imperial patterns: identify resources, question sovereignty, insert influence. The outrage from Danish and Greenlandic leaders reflects a fundamental truth—resource desire, not defense, drives this attention. Venezuela fits squarely into the same pattern. The country sits atop some of the world’s largest oil reserves and significant mineral wealth. For decades, U.S. policy has punished Venezuela through sanctions, asset seizures, and maritime enforcement, all while claiming humanitarian concern. Yet countries like Norway demonstrate that public stewardship of resources can fund social welfare without economic collapse. Venezuela’s crime, in Washington’s eyes, was asserting sovereignty over its wealth rather than surrendering it to multinational corporations. Oil companies themselves expose the contradiction. Firms like BP once rebranded as forward-looking energy leaders, promising transition. Those campaigns vanished once profits surged. Instead of reinvesting excess earnings into renewables, corporations doubled down on extraction, lobbying governments to block competitors like wind and EVs. This is not capitalism evolving—it is capitalism captured. At the center of these choices stands political leadership that embraces spectacle over strategy. Under Donald Trump, renewable projects halted on whim, tariffs replaced planning, and foreign policy blurred into open resource intimidation. Such instability undermines even the business community, which relies on regulatory certainty to invest and innovate. When policy shifts with personal bias, economies stagnate. The common thread, then, is imperial protectionism: using state power to preserve corporate dominance while denying both citizens and other nations the benefits of technological and economic progress. Tariffs replace industrial policy. Sabotage replaces transition. Coercion replaces diplomacy. Democracy becomes collateral damage. Progressive policy offers a different path—one rooted in public investment, energy democracy, international cooperation, and respect for sovereignty. Markets can function, but only when they serve people rather than empires. The future economy—clean, distributed, and equitable—will not emerge from fear-driven policy. It will emerge when voters demand leadership willing to break from extraction and embrace transition.

The fight over EVs and renewables exposes how resource extraction still drives U.S. economic and foreign policy.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: clean energy, Climate Justice, corporate power, energy policy, EV tariffs, fossil fuels, geopolitics, Greenland, imperialism, oil politics, progressive economics, renewable energy, venezuela, Wind Power

Young column: ‘Riots!’ in Portland and fake news on Fox

December 1, 2025 By John Young

I saw the president call the ABC reporter “fake news.” That’s a laugh. The reporter was asking about his obsequiousness with murderous Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman while Don and Eric, aka the Crypto Sibs, do business with his government.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Cartel de los Soles, disinformation, Fact Checking, fake news, False Narratives, Fox News Critique, Historical Parallels, Information Warfare, Jeffrey Epstein, John Young, Journalism Standards, media accountability, media manipulation, misinformation, Mohammed bin Salman, National Guard Deployment, News Ethics, Political Commentary, Political Propaganda, Portland Protests, Truth in Journalism, USS Maine, venezuela, War Pretext, Yellow Journalism

Senator Calls Trump’s Military Strikes “Murder” in Blistering Condemnation

October 26, 2025 By Egberto Willies

Senator Calls Trump’s Military Strikes “Murder” in Blistering Condemnation

When asked by MSNBC about Trump blowing up boats off Venezuela and Colombia, Senator Ruben Gallego did not equivocate. He said it was definitely murder.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Colombia, murder, Ruben Gallego, venezuela

Why gasoline prices are a fraud on us all, and here is the solution that will re-empower us all.

March 12, 2022 By Egberto Willies

Reputable and unreputable outlets are instilling the notion that oil shortages justifying gasoline price hikes are justified. The hikes are a fraud.

While all reputable and unreputable outlets are instilling the notion of oil shortages in the minds of Americans, not that it is a fraud.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: corporatocracy, gasoline, inflation, venezuela

How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela

January 22, 2020 By FAIR

How Western Left Media Helped Legitimate US Regime Change in Venezuela

It’s been a year since Juan Guaidó began his US-anointed mandate as “interim president” of Venezuela. A darker legacy is ignored by corporate media.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bolivarian Revolution, Lucas Koerner, Regime Change, venezuela

Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried by Reuters for Over a Month

June 14, 2019 By FAIR

Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried by Reuters for Over a Month

Even worse than being the “resistance” to Maduro is that Reuters has often made itself the “assistance” to politicians like Rubio.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Joe Emersberger, Nicolas Maduro, Reuters, venezuela

There’s Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press

May 24, 2019 By FAIR

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Although Venezuela is hardly immune from state censorship, it is a gross distortion to claim the country is “now subject to frequent information blackouts.”

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: diversity, Media, venezuela

NYT Parrots US Propaganda on Hezbollah in Venezuela

May 24, 2019 By FAIR

NYT Parrots US Propaganda on Hezbollah in Venezuela

Is the New York Times repeating the Iraq reporting fiasco perpetrated by their star reporter Judith Miller on Venezuela? You be the judge.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Hezbollah, Lucas Koerner, New York Times, NYT, Propaganda, Ricardo Vaz, venezuela

Traditional Maintream Media Erase Years of Gains by Chavismo

March 24, 2019 By Egberto Willies

Chavismo Venezuela

Chavismo: The FAO said that Venezuela reduced the number of people suffering from malnutrition from 13.5 percent to 5 percent & credited government-run supermarkets & nutrition programs created by Chávez.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bolivarian Revolution, Chavismo, Gregory Shupak, hugo chavez, Nicolas Maduro, venezuela

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