This is America

We take what we want and we decide who lives and who dies.

The United States seized the cargo of four tankers for transporting Iranian fuel to Venezuela as it steps up its campaign of maximum pressure against the two heavily sanctioned allies, news reports said.

A senior American official told The Associated Press news agency no military force was used in the seizures and the ships were not physically confiscated. Rather, US officials threatened ship owners, insurers and captains with sanctions to force them to hand over their cargo, which now becomes US property.

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It is not clear where the vessels - the Bella, Bering, Pandi and Luna - or their cargoes currently are, but the ship captains weeks ago turned off their tracking devices to hide their location.

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Despite sitting atop the world's largest crude reserves, Venezuela doesn't produce enough domestically refined gasoline and has seen its overall crude production plunge to the lowest in over seven decades amid its economic crisis and fallout from US sanctions.

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As commercial traders increasingly shun Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro's socialist government has been increasingly turning to Iran.

  alJazeera

Should he just let his country starve?

Not to worry. We're going to destroy the whole planet. And on the way, we're going to make the uberwealthy even richer.

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has rolled back regulations aimed at reducing emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas operations, its latest move to unwind environmental rules ahead of November's presidential election.

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The rules will "fulfill President Trump’s promise to cut burdensome and ineffective regulations for our domestic energy industry," [US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) Administrator Andrew Wheeler].

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In addition to the rollbacks, the EPA also set up hurdles for a future administration to regulate methane by requiring the agency to make a finding that the gas contributes significantly to air pollution before proposing new requirements.

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The rollbacks will be challenged in court, environmental groups and some state attorneys general have said.