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.
Those of You From Fukushima… The Next Step: Despair and Truth By Norma Field, September 06, 2016
Protest against This Fracked North Dakota Oil Pipeline Just Keeps Getting Bigger By Alejandro Davila Fragoso, September 04, 2016
Texas Ranch Owner Battles TransCanada to Restore Her Pipeline-Scarred Land By Julie Dermansky, September 04, 2016
Senator Promoting Dakota Access Pipeline Invests In Bakken Oil Wells Named After Indian Tribe By Steve Horn, September 04, 2016
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Obama Administration Moves Onshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions Online To Stymie ‘Keep It In The Ground’ Protests By Steve Horn, September 03, 2016
Dakota Access Pipeline Tribal Liaison Formerly Worked For Agency Issuing Permit To Cross Tribal Land By Steve Horn, September 01, 2016
Historic Decision: First Australian State to Ban Fracking for Onshore Gas By Jax Jacobsen, August 31, 2016
Big Energy Pays US State Governments to Ban the Protest Movement From Banning Fracking By Susanne Posel, August 31, 2016
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against Dakota Access Pipeline. National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Statement of Solidarity By National Lawyers Guild International, August 30, 2016
Seismic Blasting From Oil Drilling: Impacts on Marine Life, Whales, Dolphins By Andrea Germanos, August 26, 2016
Strategic Energy: Could a Lithium Shortage De-Rail the Electric Car Boom? By James Stafford, August 26, 2016
Oil, Military and Intelligence Ops in the Arabian Gulf: Britain’s Dangerous and Ignored Special Relationship With Oman By Mark Curtis, August 13, 2016
Towards A Dramatic Oil Price Spike? By Nick Cunningham, August 04, 2016
The TTIP Trade Deal: The Most Dangerous Weapon in the Hands of the Fossil Fuel Industry By Andreas Sieber and Pavlos Georgiadis, July 29, 2016
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)
Hooked: The Unyielding Grip of Fossil Fuels on Global Life By Michael T. Klare, July 17, 2016
“Regime Reboot” and the Macedonia Protest Movement. Balkan Megaprojects Pave Way for Grand Eurasian Free Trade Area By Andrew Korybko, July 12, 2016
Chilcot’s Blind Spot: Iraq War Report Buries Oil Evidence, Fails to Address Motive. Why did the UK go to War? By David Whyte and Greg Muttitt, July 09, 2016
Russia’s “China Dreams” Are Less of a Fantasy Than Skeptics Say: Moscow Becomes Top Oil Supplier to China? By Alexander Gabuev, July 03, 2016
Fracked Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Exports Were Centerpiece in Panama Canal Expansion By Steve Horn, June 30, 2016
Obama Administration Approved Gulf of Mexico Offshore Hydraulic Fracking During 2014 Deepwater Horizon Disaster By Mike Ludwig, June 29, 2016
The Saudis Have Lost the Oil War By F. William Engdahl, June 29, 2016
The Renewable Energy Future Emerges? Integration of Solar Energy, Battery Storage and Electric Vehicles By Roy Morrison, June 29, 2016
High Levels of Toxins Found in Bodies of People Living Near Fracking Sites By Maureen Nandini Mitra, June 28, 2016
Permits granted by the State of Israel to Afek Oil and Gas, a subsidiary of New Jersey-based Genie Energy, Ltd. By Claire Bernish, June 25, 2016
After Keystone XL: TransCanada Building North American Fracked Gas Pipeline Empire By Steve Horn, June 10, 2016
Donald Trump Says the U.S. Should Have Stolen Iraqis’ Oil After Destroying Their Country By Eric Zuesse, June 07, 2016
Fukushima and Nuclear Power: Does the Advertising Giant Dentsu Pull the Strings of Japan’s Media? By Mathieu Gaulène, June 05, 2016
How the Petrodollar Was Born and Lived in Secrecy for over 40 Years By Zero Hedge, June 01, 2016
The Feigned and Future Demise of Big-Oil By Tony Cartalucci, May 27, 2016
World War “O” : Strike Syria and Ignite Iraq By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, May 24, 2016
“End the Circus”: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude US Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting By Steve Horn, May 18, 2016
Every Belgian Gets Anti-Radiation Pills in Case of Nuclear Emergencies By WhoWhatWhy, May 16, 2016
Client Alert: Law Firms Tell Fossil Fuel Companies They Could Be Next in “Exxon Knew” Probe By Steve Horn, May 16, 2016
Shell Oil Spill Dumps Nearly 90,000 Gallons of Crude into Gulf of Mexico By Lorraine Chow, May 15, 2016
“Legacy of Radioactivity,” Contamination from Thousands of Fracking Wastewater Spills By Sharon Kelly, May 12, 2016
Competition for Libya’s Oil By South Front, May 11, 2016
Is This the 4th Recent Nuclear Disaster to Strike the U.S.? By Brandon Turbeville, May 09, 2016
Israeli Rape of Golan Heights Is Also Netanyahu’s Settlement Plan for the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza By Anthony Bellchambers, May 09, 2016
Putin Plays “Energy Chess” with Netanyahu By F. William Engdahl, May 05, 2016
Israeli Oil Project in West Bank: Oil Field Near Dead Sea Found to Contain Reserves of Millions of Oil Barrels By The Palestinian Information Center, May 03, 2016
“Terrorism is Good for Business”: RT Documentary Exposes Dirty Oil Secrets, ISIS Ties with Turkey By RT, April 30, 2016
From Chernobyl to Fukushima: Nuclear Emergencies and the Masters of Improvisation By Sonja Schmid, April 27, 2016
Impacts of Oil and Gas Fracking on Animal Health? Horses Born without the Ability to Swallow By Lorraine Berry, April 25, 2016
Long-Term Health Impacts of 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster By Dahr Jamail, April 25, 2016
Catastrophic Radioactive Leak at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Waste Storage Facility By U.S.Reporter, April 21, 2016
Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion: What You Need to Know Six Years After BP’s Gulf Oil Disaster By Farron Cousins, April 21, 2016
Endless War is on the Drawing Board: Hillary Clinton Throws Women “Under Bus” for Corporate Cronies By Robert Barsocchini, April 16, 2016
The Implosion of the House of Saud By Pepe Escobar, April 15, 2016
Hybrid Wars and “Color Revolutions” in the Central Asian Heartland: Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan By Andrew Korybko, April 11, 2016
Canada: New Oil Pipelines Will Not Solve Alberta’s Economic Woes or Support a Clean Energy Transition By Hannah McKinnon, April 08, 2016
Oil Pipeline and Environmental Disasters in the US, Canada and Brazil. Triggered by Oil and Mining Conglomerates By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, April 06, 2016
For the First Time Ever, A Majority of Americans Oppose Fracking and Nuclear Power By Washington's Blog, April 02, 2016
Fracking, Not Just Fracking Wastewater Injection, Causing Earthquakes in Western Canada. Study By Steve Horn, March 31, 2016
Israel Grants Illegal Oil Rights inside Syria to Murdoch and Rothschild By Craig Murray, March 30, 2016
Donald Trump Foreign Policy Team Member Connected to Offshore Gas Drilling in Israel By Steve Horn, March 30, 2016
The “Money Trail” of the Turkey-Daesh Oil Trade By Sputnik, March 30, 2016
Al Qaeda Militants Threaten Oil and Gas Infrastructure in Algeria. Who is Behind Them? By South Front, March 24, 2016
Boom Town: Iraq’s Kurdish Region Flourishes Amidst Warfare By Randy Johnson, March 13, 2016
Why Is Canada Keeping the New “Secret” Continental Climate Deal with Obama under Wraps? By Gordon Laxer, March 13, 2016
In Alliance with Al-Qaida, Israel Is Stealing Syria’s Oil By Uprooted Palestinians, March 13, 2016
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Hillary Clinton and the Ex-Im Bank Financing of the World’s Largest Coal Plants in South Africa By Itai Vardi, March 10, 2016
A Small Country Goes Big With Renewables: Denmark’s Goal to be Fossil Fuel Free By Laurie Guevara-Stone, March 09, 2016
Nuclear Alternatives and ‘North American Security’ – False Canadian Solutions to the Climate Crisis Global Research News Hour Episode 133 By Michael Welch, March 06, 2016
Fragility of Fracking: Underground Coal Gasification Company Collapse By Frack Off, March 04, 2016
US, China and Ultra-Low Oil Prices By Dr. Dan Steinbock, March 01, 2016
Afghanistan, Mineral Resources and the TAPI Natural Gas Pipeline: The Driving Force Behind the War? By Bill Distler, February 29, 2016
TransCanada Wants to Sue US for $15 Billion for Rejecting Keystone XL Oil Pipeline By Corporate Europe Observatory, February 24, 2016
Turkey Refines and Sells Stolen Syrian and Iraqi Oil for ISIS By Stephen Lendman, February 19, 2016
The Geopolitics of Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Middle East By South Front, February 16, 2016
The Fukushima Disaster and Nuclear Power in Japan: ‘If You Love Your Country, Let Nuclear Go!’ By Linda Pentz Gunter, February 13, 2016
Ivorian Oil Workers Strike as ICC Trial of Former Leaders Continues By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 09, 2016
Currency War Escalation: Iran Wants Euros Instead of US Dollars for Oil Payments By Timothy Alexander Guzman, February 07, 2016
Oil Price Fall Brings Significant Losses for Big Producers By Nick Beams, February 05, 2016
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Oil Price Treachery: Are the Saudis Blackmailing Putin for Concessions on Syria? By Mike Whitney, February 03, 2016
US Vice-President Biden’s Son Continues to Buy Gas Assets in Ukraine By Ollie Richardson, February 03, 2016
Video: ISIS Oil Smuggling in Syria and Iraq. Can it be Prevented? By South Front, February 02, 2016
Cameron Desperate to Stop Scandal as Secret Plans to Sell the National Health Service are Discovered By James Wright, January 29, 2016
Israel, US and Turkey Profit from Stolen ISIS Stolen Oil By Stephen Lendman, January 28, 2016
Nigeria and Beyond: Revolutionary Change is the Way Out By Kola Ibrahim, January 28, 2016
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What’s Really Going on with Oil? By F. William Engdahl, January 24, 2016