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US senators introduce bipartisan sanctions bill targeting Russian oil profits: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/us-senators-introduce-bipartisan-sanctions.html

Trump Sanctions Chief Poised to Leave After Bessent Tension (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/trump-sanctions-chief-poised-to-leave-after-tension-with-bessent
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p27#a260215p27

Sources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/binance-investigators-fired-iran-sanctions-potentia…

Exclusive: Binance fires top investigators who claim to have uncovered evidence of Iranian sanctions violations
Internal findings by the fired investigators reviewed by Fortune pointed to over $1 billion in Tether flowing through Binance to Iran-linked wallets.

Осужденный преступник — российский агент.
https://mas.to/@fsinn/116238992826879478

Zelensky, Merz speak out against US easing Russia oil sanctions
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5783339-zelensky-merz-speak-out-against-us-easing-russia-oil-sanctions/

A review of a book from the Venezuelan left.
The debacle due to,
1) US imperial sanctions and blockade,
2) Vz leadership failure, despite rhetoric, to challenge & replace capitalist relations,
3) Continued dominance of oil and dependency on primary exports.
Venezuela: the end game – Michael Roberts Blog

Venezuela: the end game
The kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Maduro and his wife by US military forces, the subsequent takeover by the Vice President Rodriguez and her agreement to allow the US to control Venezuela’s o…

Suspended U.S. Sanctions Add a Political Win to Russia's Economic Gains (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/world/europe/russia-oil-suspended-sanctions-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S1A.Y2FE.FRGSiMtetT5e&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p28#a260314p28

A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd202eb4-c06a-4932-8328-2ddd3cc0c175

Ukraine’s Military Intelligence lists dozens of foreign machine tools powering Russia’s defense industry despite sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/ukraines-military-intelligence-lists-dozens.html

EU weighs sanctions on Rosatom, Lukoil and Gazprom, Hungary says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/eu-weighs-sanctions-on-rosatom.html