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.
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What’s Really Going on with Oil? By F. William Engdahl, January 24, 2016
9/11, Follow the Money; How Big Oil Conquered the World: Crossroads of Corruption and Criminality By James Corbett and Bonnie Faulkner, January 23, 2016
Planet of Fear By Pepe Escobar, January 20, 2016
Goldman Sachs Makes Oil Prices Drop By Mikhail Leontyev, January 20, 2016
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How Big Oil Conquered The World By James Corbett, January 17, 2016
Swiss Court Orders Israel to Pay Iran $1.1 Billion in Oil Pipeline Dispute By Aluf Benn, January 15, 2016
Revoke ExxonMobil’s Corporate Charter for Climate Destruction and Cover-Up By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, January 14, 2016
The South China Sea Crisis and the “Battle for Oil” By Brian Kalman, January 13, 2016
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Saudi-Iranian Spat: Another Skirmish in the Oil War By Pepe Escobar, January 08, 2016
TransCanada’s $15 Billion Lawsuit Against U.S. on Keystone XL Presents Strong Case By Eric Zuesse, January 08, 2016
The Middle East Energy War Heats Up: Israeli-Turkish Normalization, Turkey’s Military Base in Qatar By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, January 05, 2016
Ankara’s Dirty Game: ISIS Oil Trucks Cross into Turkey Every Day, Testimony of Captured Terrorist By RT, January 04, 2016
Captured ISIS Terrorist Admits Stolen Oil Arrives in Turkey Daily By Stephen Lendman, January 04, 2016
Turkish-ISIL Oil Smuggling Operation: The US and NATO Are Also Involved By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, January 04, 2016
Prior to Paris Climate Summit, Obama Signed Exxon- Koch Backed Bill Expediting Pipeline Permits By Steve Horn, January 04, 2016
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Russia Counts 12,000 Turkey-Bound ISIS Oil Trucks from Iraq and Syria… By Eric Zuesse, December 26, 2015
Erdoğan’s Turkey, King Salman’s Saudi Arabia and the Coming “Sunni” War for Oil By F. William Engdahl, December 23, 2015
Russia’s Oil Production Hits Record As Saudi Gambit Fails By Zero Hedge, December 22, 2015
People talk as they stand next to oil barrels at a makeshift oil refinery site in al-Mansoura village in Raqqa's countryside © Hamid Khatib / Reuters
Most Smuggled ISIS Oil Goes to Turkey, Sold at Low Prices – Norwegian Report By RT, December 20, 2015
Turkish-ISIL Oil Trade: The Role of Britain, Israel, and the Kurdistan Regional Government By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, December 20, 2015
Turkish-ISIL Oil Trade: Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Russia All Accuse Turkey of Smuggling Oil By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, December 17, 2015
In Midst of ExxonMobil Climate Denial Scandal, Company Hiring Climate Change Researcher By Steve Horn, December 15, 2015
Syria: Ultimate Pipelineistan War By Pepe Escobar, December 10, 2015
Presidents Sisi and Putin seal the deal. (Photo Credit: Russian Presidential Office)
Iran 2.0? Russia to Loan Egypt $25 Billion to Build NUCLEAR Power Plant By 21st Century Wire, December 09, 2015
Israeli-ISIS Oil Interests: No Brake and No Disclosure on Media Owners’ Interests By Craig Murray, December 08, 2015
Israel is the Main Purchaser of ISIS Oil By Enrico Braun, December 05, 2015
ExxonMobil Funding of “Climate Change Denial” By Steve Horn, December 04, 2015
Video: Russian Military Reveals Details of ISIS Funding, with the Support of Turkey By RT, December 02, 2015
Vladimir Putin: According to Russian Intelligence, ISIS is Delivering “Stolen Oil” to Turkey “On an Industrial Scale” By Stephen Lendman, December 01, 2015
The Corporate Scramble for Europe: Big Oil and the Transatlantic Trade Deal (TTIP) By Colin Todhunter, December 01, 2015
‘Oxygen for Jihadists’: ISIS-smuggled Oil Flows through Turkey to International Markets – Iraqi MP By RT, November 30, 2015
ISIL oil, © AP Photo/ Kevin Fraye
Turns Out, Russia Was Right: ISIL Oil is Going to Turkey – German Media By Sputnik, November 28, 2015
The “ISIS Rockefellers”: How Islamic State Oil Flows to Israel By Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, November 27, 2015
Impacts of Turkey’s Aggression against Russia. The “Turkish Stream” is Dead. Disruption of Gas Pipeline Routes to the EU. Russia’s Economy in Crisis? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 27, 2015
The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking: How ISIS Uses Oil Wealth to Finance Its Terror Operations By Zero Hedge, November 20, 2015
Israel Stakes Claim to Golan After Oil Find By Jonathan Cook, November 14, 2015
Why is America Protecting the Islamic State (ISIS)? “Why Isn’t the US Bombing ISIS’ Oil Fields”: Turkish Journalist By Sputnik, November 13, 2015
TransCanada’s Next Move After Keystone XL: Flood Mexico with Fracked Gas with Support of US State Department By Steve Horn, November 12, 2015
Why Isn’t the US Bombing The Islamic State’s (ISIS) Oil Fields? Allies Protect Illegal Oil Smuggling to Turkey By Sputnik, November 02, 2015
ISIS Oil Exports Worth $500 Million a Year ‘Conducted through Turkey’ By RT, November 01, 2015
IMF Pegs Canada’s Fossil Fuel Subsidies at $34 Billion By Mitchell Anderson, October 30, 2015
China’s Nuclear Energy Boom Threatens Global Catastrophe. Coastal Array of 300 Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable to Earthquakes and Tsunamis By Oliver Tickell, October 29, 2015
Another “Conspiracy Theory” Becomes Fact: The Great Oil Market Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria By Zero Hedge, October 18, 2015
The Saudi Dynasty, Key U.S. Ally, Tops the World in Barbarism By Eric Zuesse, October 18, 2015
America’s Dwindling Power. Your Trip Through the American Empire By Tony Cartalucci, October 10, 2015
“The New Middle East”: Russian Style. The Resistance Arc is Reborn By Andrew Korybko, October 10, 2015
The Oil Coup By Mike Whitney, October 09, 2015
Japan’s Bid to Become a World Leader in Renewable Energy By Andrew Dewit, October 07, 2015
Gas and Oil Onshore Fracking in Britain. But Not in David Cameron’s Witney Constituency By David Smythe, September 22, 2015
Nuclear Power Kills! The Real Reason the NRC Cancelled Its Nuclear Site Cancer Study By Chris Busby, September 22, 2015
How the US and the WTO Crushed India’s Subsidies for Solar Energy By Charles Pierson, September 06, 2015
“Peace Maker” and War Criminal Tony Blair: Gaza and All That Offshore Gas By David Hearst, September 03, 2015
US Health Professionals Call for Moratorium on Fossil Fuel Infrastructure to Protect Public Health By Margaret Flowers, September 03, 2015
US Imperialism and the New Race to the Arctic By Clara Weiss, September 02, 2015
Western Sanctions on Russia, Russia-China Cooperation: A Tectonic Shift of the Global Economy? By Peter Koenig and The Saker, September 01, 2015
Climate Change and Nuclear Power: You Don’t Cure the Plague by Spreading Cholera. Nuclear Radiation is not the Solution to Global Warming By Jean-Marie Matagne, August 29, 2015
A ‘Great Reversal’ in China? Coal Continues to Decline with Enforcement of Environmental Laws By Hao Tan and John A. Mathews, August 26, 2015
The Militarization of Strategic Waterways and China’s Crude Oil Maritime Routes By South Front, August 25, 2015
A Network of Geopolitical Power: Gas Pipelines of the European Continent By South Front, August 22, 2015
US Government Acts as “Mediator” in Mexico’s Lucrative Oil and Gas Privatization By Steve Horn, August 21, 2015
Fukushima 2.0: Japan Re-Starts Nuclear Plant Near Active Volcano By Washington's Blog, August 18, 2015
Polar Reorientation In the Middle East. The Russia-Saudi Relationship By Andrew Korybko, August 17, 2015
US-Russia Confrontation in the Arctic and the Battle for Oil. Russia’s Territorial Claims of the Arctic Shelf By South Front, August 08, 2015
The US-Saudi Oil Deal: From “Win-Win” to “Mega-Loose” By F. William Engdahl, August 08, 2015
The Eurasian Corridor: Pipeline Geopolitics and the New Cold War By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 07, 2015
Turkey Invades Syria and Iraq: Erdogan’s ‘Erratic’ Behavior By Andrew Korybko, August 06, 2015
Obama Sells Out Human Health and the Environment By Making Nuclear Energy a Centerpiece of Climate Policy By Washington's Blog, August 04, 2015
How Solar Energy Saved A School in Iowa. “A Model for how Renewable Energy Can Alleviate Budget Cuts” By Cristina Maza, August 04, 2015
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Obama’s “Climate Fascism”: Another Nail in the Coffin For the U.S. Economy By Michael Snyder, August 03, 2015
Understanding “Oil Qaeda”. Using “Terrorism” as a Pretext to Wage War on Oil Rich Countries By Kevin Ryan, August 02, 2015
Just Listen to What Western Officials Are Saying About Russia By Conn Hallinan, August 02, 2015
ISIL and its So-Called Caliphate: Israeli-US Tools to Divide Iraq By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, August 02, 2015
Shell Oil Rig to begin Fossil Fuel Extraction in the Arctic? By Robert Barsocchini, July 31, 2015
People Living Near Fracking Sites Suffer Severe Health Problems: Study By Julie Fidler, July 27, 2015
Fracking Goes on Trial By Julie Wassmer, July 27, 2015
The Drive to Replace Russian Gas Supplies to EU Intensifies By Steven MacMillan, July 25, 2015
Senegal Land Grab on the Verge of Implosion By Grain, July 24, 2015
Israel Exploits Syrian Chaos to Plan Looting of Golan Oil By Paul Fallon, July 23, 2015
More Israeli War Crimes: Sole Electricity Plant in Gaza Shuts Down As Fuel Runs Out By Middle East Monitor, July 22, 2015
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk
US Firm to Construct Liquefied Gas Terminal in Ukraine – Yatsenyuk By RT, July 22, 2015