Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine, Greenland, and the U.S. Heist of the World's Oil and Gas Supply
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley, Richard Medhurst
05 Jun 2026
🖨️ Print Article

Richard Medhurst discusses his latest investigative reporting, “The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War," an analysis of the latest iteration of U.S. hegemony. The U.S. is waging wars in order to control the world's supply of energy and to defeat multipolarity.

Iran
natural gas
Petro-gas dollar
West Asia
Middle East
energy
Multipolarity

Related Podcasts

BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Report June 26, 2026
26 June 2026
In this week’s segment, we discuss the status of talks between Iran and the U.S.
Strait of Hormuz
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Can Iran Have Real Peace with an Imperialist U.S.?
26 June 2026
Navid Zarrinnal is an Iranian journalist.
BAR Radio Logo
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Report June 5, 2026
05 June 2026
In this week’s segment, we discuss the US effort to control the world’s oil and gas supplies in Venezuela, Iran, and other nations, and to disrupt

More Stories


  • BAR Book Forum: Catie Coe’s Book, “The New American Servitude”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Catie Coe’s Book, “The New American Servitude”
    31 Mar 2021
    Senior care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. 
  • BAR Book Forum: Jayna Brown’s “Black Utopias”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Jayna Brown’s “Black Utopias”
    31 Mar 2021
    I am hoping my call will provoke/inspire us to practice forms of life and liveliness differently.
  • We Say Quite Clearly: 'U.S. Out of Haiti!'  
    BAP Haiti Committee
    We Say Quite Clearly: 'U.S. Out of Haiti!'  
    31 Mar 2021
    While Biden is telling Haitians “Don’t come over,” Haiti and its allies have been saying “U.S. Out of Haiti.”
  • The author unpacks the tired trope of “poor rich Haiti,” highlighting the role of foreign capital and local elites in the destruction of life in the countryside.
    Lautaro Rivara
    “Poor Rich Haiti” or How Imperialists and Local Oligarchy Have Sought to Destroy Agriculture in Haiti
    31 Mar 2021
    The author unpacks the tired trope of “poor rich Haiti,” highlighting the role of foreign capital and local elites in the destruction of life in the countryside.
  • Oil Fuels Guyana’s Internecine Conflict 
    Arif Bulkan and Alissa Trotz
    Oil Fuels Guyana’s Internecine Conflict 
    31 Mar 2021
    Guyana’s historically oppressed peoples direct their hostility at each other while neo-imperial powers hide in plain sight and reap the country’s wealth.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us