Donald Trump imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela and admitted that he wants to take the country's oil and give it to US corporations: "They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out, and we want it back". Ben Norton explains how Washington's colonial war seeks regime change. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXjnaqfzO-Y Topics 0:00 Intro 0:36 Venezuela nationalized huge oil reserves 1:36 Trump claims US owns Venezuela's oil 2:32 (CLIP) Trump on Venezuela's oil 3:19 Trump's 1st coup attempt in Venezuela 4:32 (CLIP) Trump wanted to "take it over" 4:44 ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson 6:04 Stephen Miller: USA owns Venezuela's oil 7:23 Marco Rubio, warmonger 7:52 Naval blockade of Venezuela 8:33 Piracy: USA seizes oil tankers 9:14 Chevron allowed to pass siege 9:46 USA chokes off exports & imports 11:26 "Make the economy scream" 12:33 US coup attempts 13:00 US sanctions on Venezuela 14:24 Corporate media propaganda 16:49 UN experts: US sanctions are illegal 19:05 Imperial war of aggression 20:29 Outro