Oil
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The Sino-Russian Gas Deal: Psychological Warfare in Financial Markets By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
A natural gas deal between Russia and China was in the works for a long time, so why all the fuss over its unveiling? One has to look beyond the headlines when considering world events. The ballyhoo that is made of many of these events is either newspeak or grossly disjointed by narrow-sighted interpretations. The… Continue reading
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The future visible in St Petersburg By Pepe Escobar
In more ways than one, last week heralded the birth of a Eurasian century. Of course, the US$400 billion Russia-China gas deal was clinched only at the last minute in Shanghai, on Wednesday (a complement to the June 2013, 25-year, $270 billion oil deal between Rosneft and China’s CNPC.) Continue reading
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Video: The Geopolitics of the Russia-China Energy Deal By Eric Draitser
Draitser explains that the global shift to a multi-polar world is happening more rapidly than anyone imagined, precisely due to the arrogance and hubris of Washington and the West. Continue reading
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Iraq: the Biggest Petroleum Heist in History? By Mike Whitney
Hooray. Big oil wins again, and all it cost was a million or so Iraqis who got blown to bits in air raids or shot up at checkpoints, or beaten to death with a rubber hose at Abu Ghraib or any of the other democracy reeducation centers that dot the countryside. But, hey, look at… Continue reading
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Washington‘s Shale Boom Going Bust By William Engdahl
To read the headlines, it seems that the USA has emerged out of the blue to the point of becoming the world’s oil and gas production giant. All thanks to the Shale Revolution. Recently President Obama made various noises that the US could solve the Ukraine gas dependency on Russian gas because of the spectacular… Continue reading
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Why Obama paid a visit to Riyadh? By Alexander Orlov
The deterioration of the situation in Ukraine made substantial changes in the agenda of talks of U.S. President Obama with Saudi leadership in Riyadh on March 28 this year. The main subject of the discussion included the situation around Ukraine, possible joint steps to decrease energy prices, in order to weaken Russia’s economy, promotion of… Continue reading
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Iraq Nation Destroyed, Oil Riches Confiscated. Surviving Iraqi Population Impoverished By Asad Ismi
Capitalism has inflicted war on most of humanity for centuries to acquire the world’s resources and markets. The establishment of capitalism as a global economic system by European imperialists has killed more than a billion people, most of them in the Global South. Continue reading
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Sanctions on Russia’s Energy Sector: Shale Gas ‘Fracking’ Will Invade Europe? By Timothy Alexander Guzman
Fracking will be “good for our country,” was a statement made by British Prime Minister David Cameron at a recent Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague according to the UK based news agency The Guardian. Cameron believes that the fracking industry will have the public’s support since reliance on Russia’s energy sources will be halted… Continue reading
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U.S. Prepares to Gas Russia Into Submission By Glen Ford
The U.S., now number one in oil and gas, is preparing to destroy Russia’s economy. “Washington will move to crush, or at least seriously disrupt, Russia under its ‘sanctions as war by other means’ machine, by targeting its energy exports, while simultaneously boosting the foreign markets for U.S. natural gas.” Continue reading
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From the Archives: Cold War crisis in Ukraine Control of oil, key Grand Chessboard ‘pivot’ at stake By Larry Chin
Why does Ukraine merit such furious and violent scrambling by the various parties? Whichever powers manage to prevail will hold the key to the control of Eurasian oil and energy, the political control of the Eurasian corridor itself, and the survival of Russia as a nation. Continue reading
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Mapping Africa By T. Mayheart Dardar
In February the World Bank announced an ambitious plan to initiate a $1 billion fund to finance an effort to map the mineral resources of the African continent. Their plan is to use advanced satellite and surveillance technology to, in the words of a World Bank senior manager, “identify the areas with more profitability.” Continue reading
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Russia, Europe, and the Geopolitics of Energy By Eric Draitser
Russia’s dominant position in the European energy market solidifies Moscow as an integral part of the West’s future, forcing Washington and its allies to engage with their eastern rival. Moreover, it is this precisely this necessary engagement that grows Russia’s influence both in Europe and around the world – influence which necessitates the continued Russophobic… Continue reading
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Basra: Profiting from their Destruction, the British are Back By Felicity Arbuthnot
In December 2007, Major General Graham Binns, Commander of British Forces in Basra, handed illegally occupied Basra Province back to the Iraqis, with Basra city centre “festooned with flags, lights and banners to mark the occasion.” In fact, the whole nonsense was window dressing. British soldiers had been under siege in their bases between February… Continue reading
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The Plundering of South Sudan By Tony Cartalucci
US AFRICOM, Israel, and Uganda’s Dictator-for-Life Yoweri Museveni set up in South Sudan, inflame conflict, push out China and prepare to take over oil. Continue reading
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US and UK pursuing a ‘massive land grab’ in South Sudan
Salva Kiir government in South Sudan is effectively “a terrorist government put in power by the West” to tap into country’s vast resources, war correspondent Keith Harmon Snow, told RT. Continue reading
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The Post-colonial Imperial Agenda: America and France Join Hands in the Destabilization of the African Continent By Abayomi Azikiwe
Prior to the partition of Sudan, the country represented the largest geographic nation-state in Africa. Sudan was emerging as a significant oil-producing state with some 500,000 barrels-per-day being extracted for export and internal usage. It was the U.S. and the state of Israel that pushed strongly for the South of the country to breakaway and… Continue reading
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Oil Found by Israel Should Belong to Palestine: 3.5 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves on the “Border between Israel and Palestine”
While Israel is now facing a bright future as an oil producer, there is one problem: Meged 5 is located on the Green Line, the official border between Israel and Palestine. Lying a few dozen meters inside Palestinian territory, according to international law and the Oslo Accords, the well should belong to Palestine. Continue reading
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The Art of Collaborating with the Nazi’s: Hollywood & America Reek of Nazi Influence
Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013) is a disturbing, unsettling and must-read. That Hollywood’s studio heavyweights like Jack Warner and Carl Laemmle would cut scenes and dialog offensive to the ideology of National Socialism is a tough fact to digest. But aggressive capitalists, whether operating… Continue reading
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The International Justice System and the Hunt for Africans By Alexander MEZYAEV
The summer of 2013 was a hot one for Nigeria, and not just in terms of the weather. On the one hand, the country’s populace and government have been subjected to new and increasingly violent attacks from terrorist groups, first and foremost from Boko Haram. On the other hand, Nigeria is experiencing massive pressure from… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 