Oil
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Battle of Balcombe: Opposition to Cuadrilla Resources UK Fracking Plans By Pratap Chatterjee
82 percent of the village voted firmly against plans by Cuadrilla Resources, headed by Lord John Browne, the former CEO of British Petroleum, to conduct hydraulic fracturing in their community. Over two dozen protestors have been arrested in the last few days for attempting to block company equipment – including Natalie Hynde and Simon Medhurst,… Continue reading
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Saudis’ Unprecedented Break with Washington over Egypt By F. William Engdahl
One of the least commented aspects of ousting Egypt’s Morsi is the defiant act of the Saudi Royal House in backing the ouster of the Brotherhood and supporting the military restoration. The Saudi move is unprecedented in its open defiance of White House declared backing for the Muslim Brotherhood. The implications of the split are… Continue reading
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ICH 11 July 2013: Arab Oil Cash to Kill Democracy in Egypt
11 July 2013 — Information Clearing House How Egypt’s ‘Revolution’ Betrayed Itself By Ramzy Baroud These very forces were openly involved in toppling the democratically-elected president and his party, as they happily celebrated the return to oppression as a glorious day of freedom. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35518.htm Continue reading
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BA Report 29 May 2013: Obama's Perpetual Con, Chickens Home To Roost
29 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama’s perpetual scam machine is in high gear – which signals another expansion of war and war-powers accumulation. The president played the reluctant warrior who doesn’t really Continue reading
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ICH 2 May 2013: Boston Bomb Suspects Had CIA Connection
2 May 2013 –– Information Clearing House Obama Moving Toward Sending Lethal Arms to Syrian ‘Rebels”, Officials Say By Karen DeYoung The officials did not specify what U.S. equipment is under consideration, although the rebels have specifically requested ?antitank weapons and surface-to-air missiles. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34805.htm Continue reading
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Venezuelan Government Foils Destabilisation Plans By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim
Venezuelan security forces have foiled a plot to violently destabilise the country, Vice-president Jorge Arreaza announced this afternoon…The plot involved Salvadorian mercenaries who “wanted, but could not, intervene to disrupt the peace of the republic at the last minute”. Continue reading
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How George Bush won the war in Iraq – really! By Greg Palast
The invasion was not about “blood for oil”, but something far more sinister: blood for no oil. War to keep supply tight and send prices skyward. Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (III) By Dmitry MININ
The dissociation of the United States from a number of international problems by shifting these problems onto allies and delegating authority to them, a result of the United States’ «imperial overheating», is based on the currently popular concept of «smart power», the very emergence of which suggests that America’s former sources of power have been… Continue reading
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15 February 2003: Reconsidering the March that Failed By Ian Sinclair, Alex Doherty
Ten years on from the largest public demonstration in British history NLP’s Alex Doherty spoke to Ian Sinclair, author of the new book The march that shook Blair: An oral history of 15 February 2003. Continue reading
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I want my fair share–and that's ALL OF IT. The Kochs & the XL Pipeline By Greg Palast
According to the transcript of the secretly recorded tape, Charles Koch was chuckling like a six-year old. Koch was having a hell of a laugh over pilfering a few hundred dollars’ worth of oil from a couple of dirt-poor Indians on the Osage Reservation. Why did Koch, worth about $3 billion at the time (now… Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez Told Me He Won't Sell Oil to the Kochs By Greg Palast
Greg Palast: I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2,000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path. Continue reading
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Video: Koch Brothers Driving Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada to Cut Out Venezuelan Oil
Greg Palast: Koch brothers could save two billion dollars a year if they can replace Venezuelan heavy crude crude with Canadian tar sands – one of the dirtiest sources of carbon emissions on the planet Continue reading
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Video: Fractured Land- Confronting Big Oil the Ravages of Neocolonialism By grtv
19 January 2013 — GRtv Caleb Behn is a young, Indigenous warrior fighting to save his people’s land and culture. Deep in the exquisite wilderness of northeastern British Columbia, the ancestral home of Caleb’s Dene people, the multi-billion-dollar oil and gas industry emits chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, the killing of brain and blood Continue reading
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Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of Hugo Chavez By Greg Palast
Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It’s the oil. And it’s the Koch Brothers – and it’s the ketchup. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 21-27 Oct. 2012: Bolivia-USA / Oil-Uranium / USA / Nobel Prize / EU / China / Nicaragua
27 October 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Bolivian President Bluntly Describes US Diplomacy 27.10.2012 | 00:00 | Nil NIKANDROV Bolivian leader Evo Morales tends to speak in a carefully chosen language, in part as a precaution natural for someone who is permanently under fire from his opponents. It long became a staple of the US propaganda Continue reading
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ICH 15 October 2012: Blood, Oil, and “The American Dream”
15 October 2012 — Information Clearing House Blood, Oil, and “The American Dream” By William Manson In our times, in a media-saturated culture in which well-packaged and comforting lies are explicitly preferred to unsettling truths, those who reveal sordid realities are often dismissed if not reviled. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32752.htm Continue reading
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Syria, Turkey, Israel and a Greater Middle East Energy War By William Engdahl
The battle for the future control of Syria is at the heart of this enormous geopolitical war and tug of war. Its resolution will have enormous consequences for either world peace or endless war and conflict and slaughter. NATO member Turkey is playing with fire as is Qatar’s Emir, along with Israel s Netanyahu and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 3, 2012 — Occupy the Debates, Int'l Criminal Court on Trial, How Mass Incarceration Changes Everthing
3 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I’ll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV, Continue reading
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Libya: How Many Dirty Western Hands? By Felicity Arbuthnot
This weekend a detailed article (i) suggested that a: “French secret serviceman, acting on the express orders of the then President Sarkozy, is suspected of ”the murder of Colonel Quaddafi”, on 20th October last year. Continue reading
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