Oil and Energy

There is an unspoken "Big Money Agenda". Netanyahu's objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in confiscating Palestine's multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves
Let’s place 1 trillion barrels of oil in context. Global oil consumption is currently 35 billion barrels a year. Thus, the Orinoco Belt alone could satisfy 100% of global demand for almost 30 years! As for the Orinoco field’s dollar value. World oil prices are currently hovering near $60 …do the math.
Yemen is a strategically key geopolitical stretch of land at the connecting point of the Red Sea which links to the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean. It’s the site of one of the world’s most strategic shipping choke points, the Bab el Mandab, a narrow passage a mere 18 miles distance from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.
Is It Time for “Food Diplomacy” in Venezuela? By Andrew Korybko, October 18, 2017
Iraqi Seizure of Oil-rich Kirkuk from Kurds Risks Broader War By Jordan Shilton, October 18, 2017
War in Iraqi Kurdistan By Stephen Lendman, October 18, 2017
Get Ready for a New Chernobyl in Ukraine By Oriental Review, October 17, 2017
Washington Is Destroying American Power By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, October 17, 2017
US Regime Change in Venezuela: The Truth Is Easy if You Follow the Money Trail. The Opposition is Pro-Washington, Not “Pro-Democracy” By Tony Cartalucci, October 15, 2017
Dollar Blow: China Launches New ‘Yuan-Ruble’ Payment Mechanism By 21st Century Wire, October 13, 2017
Big Batteries and Tesla’s Lithium Strategic Gambit By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 13, 2017
The Transforming China-Pakistan Economic Corridor By F. William Engdahl, October 11, 2017
White House Puts Ideology Over Science and Law in Repealing Clean Power Plan By Ken Kimmell, October 10, 2017
Big Surprise: Energy Industry Has a Best Friend in the Oval Office By Alison Grass, October 09, 2017
Challenging the Dollar: China and Russia’s Plan from Petroyuan to Gold By Federico Pieraccini, October 08, 2017
Huge ‘People Over Pipeline’ Victory as TransCanada Forced to Kill Energy East By Jake Johnson, October 07, 2017
The Big ISIS and SDF Lies of the US: ‘Kurdistan’ and New Gas Wars By F. William Engdahl, October 05, 2017
Climate Disruption Could Pose “Existential Threat” by 2050 By Dahr Jamail, October 04, 2017
Biofuels and Biofools By Molly Scott Cato MEP, October 03, 2017
By the Grace of Israel – The Barzani Clan and Kurdish “Independence” By Moon of Alabama, September 30, 2017
Behind the Saudi-led Blockade of Qatar By Asad Ismi, September 29, 2017
U.S. and Gulf States Hinder Libyan Crisis Settlement By Adel Karim, September 29, 2017
An Emerging Multi-polar World: Polarized, Unstable and Dangerous By Greg Guma, September 29, 2017
Revolutionising Energy Resources: From Fossil Fuels to Black and Fusion Energy By Ylli Përmeti, September 27, 2017
Oil, Gas and Geopolitics: US Hand in Playing the Rohingya Crisis against China By Whitney Webb, September 25, 2017
Trump Keeps Eyes on Afghan Mineral Prize in Meeting with President Ghani By RT News, September 25, 2017
Nuclear Plants Plus Hurricanes: Disasters Waiting to Happen By Harvey Wasserman, September 25, 2017
US to Plunder Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches By Stephen Lendman, September 24, 2017
Unknown Oil and Gas Deal Just Changed the Global Energy Balance. Russia’s Rosneft Buys India’s Essor Oil By Dave Forest, September 24, 2017
Petrodollar System Under Attack By Darius Shahtahmasebi, September 22, 2017
UK Unions Call for Energy to be Returned to Public Ownership By Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, September 21, 2017
China’s Electric Power: Continuing Green Shift. Water, Wind and Sun (WWS) By John A. Mathews, September 19, 2017
Russia’s Interesting New Oil Geopolitics By F. William Engdahl, September 19, 2017
“The More You Watch, The Less You Know”. Preferred Conclusions – The BBC, Syria and Venezuela By Media Lens, September 17, 2017
The Infowar Attack Against Azerbaijan Is Because of Geopolitics, Energy, and “Israel” By Andrew Korybko, September 17, 2017
Gold, Oil and De-Dollarization? Russia and China’s Extensive Gold Reserves, China Yuan Oil Market By F. William Engdahl, September 14, 2017
De-Dollarization Spikes – Venezuela Stops Accepting Dollars for Oil Payments By Zero Hedge, September 14, 2017
Macedonia’s Geostrategic Role in Multipolarity By Andrew Korybko, September 13, 2017
Energy Chaos in Australia: Closing the Liddell Power Station By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 13, 2017
Is Venezuela About to Ditch the Dollar in Major Blow to US? Here’s Why It Matters By Darius Shahtahmasebi, September 10, 2017
Trading Oil for Gold: China’s Gold-Backed Petro-Yuan Market, Threatens the US Dollar? By Bill Holter, September 08, 2017
China’s Cutback in Coal Mining: 2.3 Million New Jobs Required by 2020 By Feng Hao and Stam Lee, September 08, 2017
Hurricane Harvey: 650 Energy and Industrial Facilities May Have Been Exposed to Floodwaters By Kristy Dahl, September 08, 2017
The Conflict in Syria Was Always Israel’s War By Whitney Webb, September 07, 2017
Gold Trade Between Russia and China – A Step Closer Towards De-Dollarization? By Peter Koenig and Sputnik, September 07, 2017
Video: China’s New World Order: Gold-backed Oil Benchmark on the Way By James Corbett, September 07, 2017
Endless Regional Chaos: American Presence in Afghanistan By Federico Pieraccini, September 05, 2017
Iran, Israel and the Big Mess in Washington By Giulietto Chiesa, September 05, 2017
Thermochemical Gas Fracturing: Russia Claims to Have Invented Alternative to Hydraulic Fracking By Tsvetana Paraskova, September 03, 2017
Arkema Texas Plant Explodes, Again. Major Public Health Emergency By Stephen Lendman, September 03, 2017
Analysis: Harvey Triggered Release of Nearly a Million Pounds of Toxic Air Pollutants By Jessica Corbett, September 02, 2017
Arkema CEO: “No Way to Prevent Imminent Explosion” at Texas Chemical Plant By Zero Hedge, September 01, 2017
Death Toll Expected to Rise as Chemical Explosions Add to Devastation Caused by Hurricane Harvey By Niles Niemuth, September 01, 2017
Regulatory Laxness Exacerbated Hurricane Harvey’s Environmental Nightmare By Stephen Lendman, September 01, 2017
China and Russia, Beijing’s “Belt and Road” Initiative, Towards an Economy of Peace? By Peter Koenig, August 31, 2017
As Historic Flooding Grips Texas, Groups Demand Nuclear Plant Be Shut Down By Jon Queally, August 31, 2017
Venezuela: “You Have the Overwhelming Support of the Peoples of the World”. Open Letter to President Nicolas Maduro By Peter Koenig, August 28, 2017
Trump: Afghanistan First By Tony Cartalucci, August 27, 2017
Tough New Illegal US Sanctions on Venezuela. Economic Warfare By Stephen Lendman, August 27, 2017
Countdown to War on Venezuela – Step II: Trump Imposes More Sanctions By Moon of Alabama, August 26, 2017
Venezuelan Collapse? Wishful Thinking? Caracas Oil Deals with Russia and China By Marwan Salamah, August 26, 2017
‘Poison’ PR Campaign Has Biased Jury Pool, Say Dakota Access Protester’s Lawyers By Steve Horn, August 25, 2017
Appalachian Communities: Trump Kills Study on Health Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mines By Andrea Germanos, August 23, 2017
Trump Attorney Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access Pipeline in $300 Million Racketeering Case By Steve Horn, August 23, 2017
Exxon's own research in the 1980s indicated that without major reductions in fossil fuel combustion, "[t]here are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered." (Photo: Luc B / Flickr)
ExxonMobil, Kochs, Israel Pushing Washington to Partition Iraq and Syria By Whitney Webb, August 22, 2017
Five Major Flaws in Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy that He Does Not Want You to Know About By Ken Klippenstein, August 22, 2017
The Battle for Venezuela and Its Oil By Eva Golinger and Jeremy Scahill, August 22, 2017
The Saudi-Israeli Alliance By Eric Zuesse, August 21, 2017
The World Remembers the 64th Anniversary of the West-sponsored Coup in Iran By Andre Vltchek, August 20, 2017
South Korean Unions Call for a Just Energy Transition. The Phasing out of Nuclear Energy By Socialist Project, August 16, 2017
Why Did Ecuador Terminate All Its Bilateral Investment Treaties? By Cecilia Olivet, August 16, 2017
Electoral Politics and the Crises of Governance in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, August 13, 2017
Pentagon Escalates Military Presence in Yemen: Genocidal Cholera Epidemic, U.S. Seeks to Seize Control of Yemen’s Strategic Resources By Abayomi Azikiwe, August 08, 2017
Mosul Massacre Latest in Iraqi Genocide – US Alliance War Crimes By Gideon Polya, August 06, 2017
Venezuela: RExxon Tillerson’s Petro-Imperially Perfect Regime Change Threat, “By Direct Military Force”? By Paul Street, August 04, 2017
Venezuela Regime Change Project Revealed By David William Pear, August 04, 2017
Turkey, Russia and Interesting New Balkan Geopolitics By F. William Engdahl, August 01, 2017
Montana Eased Regulations for Keystone XL After Lobbying by TransCanada By Steve Horn, August 01, 2017
America Declares Economic War Against Europe By Eric Zuesse, July 31, 2017
Sabotaging Russia-US Relations for Good By Federico Pieraccini, July 31, 2017
Fukushima, Tell the Japanese Government: Don’t Dump Radioactive Nuclear Waste into the Ocean! By Sum Of Us, July 30, 2017
The Middle East Oil Producing Countries, Collapse of Crude Oil Price, Selling the Family Heirlooms? By Marwan Salamah, July 30, 2017
Collateral Damage: U.S. Sanctions Aimed at Russia Strike Western European Allies By Diana Johnstone, July 30, 2017