Oil
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Brought to You by…Big Oil?
The Washington Post had a two-page spread in its September 11 edition devoted to a “debate” on energy policy. But industry critics were missing from the picture. Why? Perhaps because the oil industry, undisclosed to Post readers, was sponsoring the discussion. Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 23 August 2012: Oil. Religion. Occupation: A Combustible Mix
23 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Zahhar Denies Connection To Facebook Page That Carries His NameIMEMC – Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, denied any relation to a Facebook page that carries his name and places statements allegedly made by him. … Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 12-17 March 2012: Ugandan Oil, Wall Street Criminality and Al Qaeda in Syria
17 March, 2012 — Global Research GLOBAL RESEARCH’S NEW ONLINE STORE: Request for Readers’ Feedback – 2012-04-15 Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: March 16, 2012: Argentina To Sue Over British Oil Exploration Near Falklands
16 March 2012 — Stop NATO NATO Arctic War Games: Norwegian Military Aircraft Goes Missing NATO Attack Kills Pakistani Civilian; Four Others Arrested NATO Enhances Interceptor Missile System From One End Of Europe To The Other Georgia: U.S. Marines Lead Two-Week War Games Afghanistan: Pentagon Chief Inspects Georgian Cohorts Georgian Fatalities In Afghan War: NATO Cannon Continue reading
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Responsibility to Protect or Justifying the Right to Project Power? By William Bowles
Whether we like it or not, the issue is not the Assad regime no matter what we think of it, but of course this is entirely the point of the massive propaganda campaign that has been unleashed on the Western public. As long as we are led to focus on a “medieval” Syria and its… Continue reading
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The New Mediterranean Oil & Gas Bonanza: Part II By William Engdahl
The discovery in late 2010 of the huge natural gas bonanza off Israel’s Mediterranean shores triggered other neighboring countries to look more closely at their own waters. The results revealed that the entire eastern Mediterranean is swimming in huge untapped oil and gas reserves. That discovery is having enormous political, geopolitical as well as economic… Continue reading
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The U.S. Strategy to Control Middle Eastern Oil By Andrew Gavin Marshall
In the midst of World War II, Saudi Arabia secured a position of enormous significance to the rising world power, America. With its oil reserves essentially untapped, the House of Saud became a strategic ally of immense importance, “a matter of national security, nourishing U.S. military might and enhancing the potentiality of postwar American hegemony.” Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 25-26 February 2012: US Intelligence agencies don't believe Iran is trying to build a nuke
26 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israel`s Sole `Responsible Adult,` Publicly Opposes Iran Attackoccupation magazine – articles Today at 23:59The titular head of the leading Mizrahi political party, Shas, has publicly stated his opposition to an Iran attack (Hebrew). Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is not just the spiritual leader of Orthodox Mizrahi Jews, he’s Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 5-11 February 2012: Kosovo / US / UK / Syria / Maldives / Falklands
11 February 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Truly Disgusting – the West in Kosovo 11.02.2012 | 00:00 | Aleksandar PAVIC In the tantrums thrown by the Western powers in the wake of the Russo-Chinese veto of their UN Security Council resolution on Syria, the US’s UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, expressed «disgust» at these two states’ Continue reading
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BAR February 8 2012: Black Politics Atrophies / Super Pac Obama / Nigeria Oil Scourge / No To Drones and more…
8 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left ‘By far the best left publication, never mind ‘black left’, on the Web. WB’ Black Politics Atrophies Under Obama by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Traditional Black progressive and movement politics has been replaced by fear and sycophantism, as Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 29 January – 4 February 2012
4 February 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Iran against West: Air Defense Chance of Success 04.02.2012 | 00:00 | Dmitri TYMCHUK There are two possible options on the table in case Israel and the West attack Iran. One envisages a missile strike launched by Tel Aviv followed by an adequate Iranian response. Then Nato steps Continue reading
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Iran 'Definitely' Closing Strait of Hormuz Over EU Oil Embargo
Tensions in the Gulf could reach a breaking point as a senior Iranian official said Iran would “definitely” close the Strait of Hormuz if an EU oil embargo disrupted the export of crude oil. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 January 2012: Former "Dumbest Member of Congress" Scorches Romney
3 January 2012 — Information Clearing House Marching Towards War EU Reaches Agreement to Ban Imports of Iranian Oil By Reuters “The US talks about sanctioning our oil but they should know that if Iran’s oil exports from the Persian Gulf are sanctioned, then no one will have the right to export oil through the Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books – Events Newsletter January 2012
28 December 2011 — Housmans NEWS 1. January sale, with an additional 10% discount to all supporters 2. Announcing Housmans Virtual Book Club – moderators needed IN-STORE EVENTS 3. Peace News present: ‘From Hastings To Kabul – A voyage of peace and nonviolence’ with Maya Evans 4. Art Not Oil, Liberate Tate, Platform present: ‘Culture Continue reading
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The Top Ten Revolutionary Videos of 2011
Rarely do we see the BBC and their ilk reminding us of the startlingly powerful images of resistance and revolution. So, in honour of those who were maimed or killed in 2011 in service of a better world, here are ten of the most memorable moments of revolt in 2011 Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 27 December 2011: The Man Who Prevented World War III
27 December 2011 — williambowles.info Justifying War with Iran By Russ Baker A growing body of evidence points to a concerted campaign to prepare Americans and the world for war against Iran. This is not idle speculation. It fits a pattern that repeatedly preceded previous hostilities. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30084.htm Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 23, 2011
23 December 2011 — Stop NATO Video And Text: U.S. Targeting Russian Nuclear Capability: Analyst U.S. Doubles Aid For Israeli Missile Shield Pakistani Army Rejects NATO’s Self-Exonerating Report Philippines Wants U.S. Fighter Jets, Ships Deployed Against China Azerbaijan: Oil For War Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 5-8 December 2011
8 December 2011 — williambowles.info 8 December 2011 Iran displays captured US droneBBC News Today at 16:09Iranian TV shows the first video footage of an advanced unmanned US drone aircraft that Tehran says it shot down near the Afghan border. Continue reading
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Russia's High Stakes Energy Geopolitics BY F. William Engdahl
Nord Stream was not cheap. It cost a total of more than $12 billion for the complex 760 mile long undersea pipeline through the Baltic Sea from Vyborg near Russia’s St Petersburg to north eastern Germany. It was laid in remarkable time and with extraordinary environmental precautions to insure protection of sea life, a precondition… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 10-11 November 2-011
11 November 2011 — williambowles.info Nato offers ‘internal review’ of Libya bombing Morning Star Today at 17:11 Nato chiefs are offering to conduct an ‘internal legal review’ of its bombing campaign in Libya after an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor pledged to ‘impartially and independently’ probe alleged war crimes committed by the military alliance. Continue reading
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