The Obama Administration and BP are not working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe.
The US Secretary of Health and Human Services has signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity from lawsuits that may result from a new “Swine Flu” vaccine.
The price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of supply to demand. It’s controlled by an elaborate financial market system as well as by the four major Anglo-American oil companies.
Missile “defense” is not defensive at all. It is offensive. If this missile system is put in place, it will be an integral part of the US nuclear capability.
The new Russia is gaining in influence through a series of strategic moves revolving around its geopolitical assets in energy—most notably its oil and natural gas.
The US Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions.
As a showdown with Iran looms, curiously and quietly the US is being out-flanked in its strategy of controlling major oil and energy sources of the Persian Gulf, Central Asia, Africa and beyond.
The creation by Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld of a geopolitical nightmare, is the backdrop to comprehend the dramatic political shift within the US establishment, away from the Bush Presidency.
Media reports have speculated that Washington is ‘thinking the unthinkable,’ namely, an aggressive, pre-emptive nuclear bombardment of Iran, by either the United States or Israel.
China has inaugurated an oil pipeline running from Kazakhstan to northwest China, which will undercut the geopolitical significance of the Washington-backed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
Despite the admission of absence of a clear and present danger to the American public, the President called on Congress to immediately pass a $7.1 billion in emergency funding
The Secretary of Defense, who allegedly used contrived intelligence to justify the war on Iraq, is now poised to reap huge gains for a flu panic his Administration has done everything to promote.
After a short-term fall in price below the $50 a barrel level, oil is now bounding back towards $60 a barrel and likely far higher. In this situation one might think that the announcement of the opening of a major new oil pipeline to pump Caspian oil to world markets might dampen the relentless rise in prices.
It is increasingly clear that the US occupation of Iraq is about control of global oil resources. Control, however, in a situation where world oil supplies are far more limited than most of the world has been led to believe. If the following is accurate, the Iraq war is but the first in a major battle over global energy resources, a battle which will be more intense than any oil war to date.
In Tokyo March 21 Rice declared that Japan would be the ‘umbrella’ for US policy (read Trojan Horse) in Asia, since both Tokyo and Washington "have already chosen a common set of values and understandings" (sic). She went on to cite the "rise of China as a new factor in global politics."