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.
What Game is the House of Saud Playing? By Pepe Escobar, January 20, 2015
Russia Just Pulled Itself Out Of The Petrodollar By Zero Hedge, January 16, 2015
Kazakh Oil Consortium Accused of “Mass Poisoning” of Village School Children By Fatima Hansia, January 16, 2015
Gazprom to Use Turkish Pipeline Route to EU, to Substitute Europe-bound Gas Pipeline through Ukraine By ITAR-TASS, January 15, 2015
EU Energy Crisis: Russia Cuts Off Gas Supplies through Ukraine To Six European Countries By Zero Hedge, January 15, 2015
Oil Prices and African Economies By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 07, 2015
Oil Price Blowback: Is Putin Creating a New World Order? By Mike Whitney, January 06, 2015
Russia and Turkey’s Gas Pipeline Deal: Implications for the European Union By Joaquin Flores, January 03, 2015
Who Is Behind the Oil War and How Low Will the Price of Crude Go in 2015? By Michael Snyder, January 02, 2015
Financial Warfare: Big Banks Conspire with Giant Oil Companies to Manipulate Currency Markets By Washington's Blog, January 01, 2015
Did the U.S. and the Saudis Conspire to Push Down Oil Prices? By Mike Whitney, December 29, 2014
President Putin Decides to Donate 50,000 Tons of Russia’s Coal Daily to Ukraine for Heat By Eric Zuesse, December 28, 2014
Russia and Turkey’s South Stream Gas Deal can Save Europe and the World By Joaquin Flores, December 28, 2014
Grandmaster Putin’s Trap: Russia is Selling Oil and Gas in Exchange for Physical Gold By Dmitry Kalinichenko, December 26, 2014
Russian Roulette: Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for Trillions in Oil Derivatives By Ellen Brown, December 20, 2014
Movement against Fracking Wins as New York Bans Hydraulic Fracturing By Kevin Zeese, December 19, 2014
Global Systemic Financial Crisis 2015: Geopolitics, Oil and Currency Markets By Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB), December 19, 2014
Empire of Chaos By Jim Miles, December 19, 2014
Ukraine’s Two Big Gas Deals Are Now Both Dry By Eric Zuesse, December 18, 2014
Plummeting Oil Prices By Stephen Lendman, December 17, 2014
Israel Proposes Natural Gas Pipeline to Southern Europe By Steven MacMillan, December 17, 2014
How Big Oil Lobbies Got Permission for Fracking on Public Lands Included in the US Defense Authorization Act By Steve Horn, December 15, 2014
Cancelling the South Stream Project: The Woes of Energy Insecurity By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 13, 2014
U.S. Attorneys General Form Secret Alliance to Help Energy Companies By Pratap Chatterjee, December 13, 2014
Russia and Turkey’s Gas Deal Can Save Europe and the World? By Joaquin Flores, December 12, 2014
U.S. “New Cold War” Policy Has Backfired – And Created Its Worst Nightmare. Shift in Trade Patterns and Military Alliances By Prof Michael Hudson, December 12, 2014
Will Falling Oil Prices Crash the Markets? By Mike Whitney, December 12, 2014
Frack the European Union! Washington’s Frozen War Against Russia By Diana Johnstone, December 11, 2014
Loss of Control: The Current Financial Bubble is Busting? By Bill Holter, December 10, 2014
Leaked Photos Show UK Nuclear Plant Poses Public Safety Threat By Trevor Johnson, December 10, 2014
Putin Pipeline Moves and EU Stupidity By F. William Engdahl, December 08, 2014
The Engineered Decline in Oil Prices: Economic Warfare is the West’s Main Weapon By Takis Fotopoulos, December 08, 2014
“Talking Turkey” and Gas Pipelines: Putin’s Groundbreaking Deal with Turkish President Erdogan By Mike Whitney, December 07, 2014
No Guarantee of EU Cooperation if South Stream Pipeline Project is Revived: Gazprom CEO By Global Research News, December 06, 2014
From South Stream to “Turk Stream” Pipeline: Huge Win for Turkey, Big Win For Russia, Historic Loss for EU By Pepe Escobar, December 06, 2014
In Defense of Denton, Texas Ban on Shale Gas Fracking: Environmental Groups File Legal Motion By Steve Horn, December 05, 2014
Oil Prices and Energy Wars: The US Empire of “Frack” versus Russia By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, December 05, 2014
Geopolitical Shift in European-Russian Relations? Cancellation Of South Stream Pipeline Project By Alexander Mercouris, December 04, 2014
Oil Price Crashes, Who Really Wins? By Bill Holter, December 02, 2014
Oil Price Slide Rocks World Economy By Nick Beams, December 02, 2014
Shale Gas increasing Threat to Climate, Environment, Communities Worldwide By Friends of the Earth, December 01, 2014
Five Earthquakes in Four Days: Is Spate of Texas Earthquakes Connected to Nearby Fracking Operations? By Deirdre Fulton, November 27, 2014
High Oil Prices “Protect Shale Fracking”: Why Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant Wants High Oil Prices for Fracking By Steve Horn, November 26, 2014
Nuclear Proliferation in the Australia-India-Japan-U.S. Nuclear Nexus By Adam Broinowski, November 24, 2014
3 Billion Gallons of Highly-Toxic Fracking Waste Dumped Into California Drinking Water Supply By Washington's Blog, November 23, 2014
Introducing “Natural Gas Exports: Washington’s Revolving Door Fuels Climate Threat” By Steve Horn, November 21, 2014
Company In Which US Vice President Joe Biden’s Son Is Director Prepares To Drill Shale Gas In East Ukraine By Zero Hedge, November 21, 2014
“Tactics as Dirty as Their Oil”: Leaked Docs Reveal TransCanada’s Propaganda Plan By Jon Queally, November 19, 2014
Canada’s Prime Minister Spearheads Attack on Russia at G-20 Summit By Roger Jordan, November 19, 2014
China’s Renewable Energy Revolution: What Is Driving It? By John A. Mathews and Hao Tan, November 17, 2014
Global Capitalism in Crisis: Empty Commitment by G20 to Boost Global Economic Growth By Nick Beams, November 17, 2014
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s Warburg Pincus May Profit from Tar Sands Exports By Steve Horn, November 15, 2014
China’s Silky Road to Glory. Beijing’s Trade Proposal Undermines Obama’s TPP By Pepe Escobar, November 15, 2014
Petrodollar Panic? China Signs Currency Swap Deal With Qatar and Canada By Zero Hedge, November 12, 2014
Tanzania’s Fraudulent Natural Gas Contract with Statoil, BG Group and ExxonMobil. Officials Arrested By Pratap Chatterjee, November 11, 2014
Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE): Mass Resistance to Shale Gas Fracking across America By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, November 10, 2014
The Strategic “Western Route Pipeline”: Russian Natural Gas to China By Ria Novosti, November 10, 2014
Russia, China Sign Second Mega-Gas Deal: Beijing Becomes Largest Buyer Of Russian Gas By Zero Hedge, November 10, 2014
Eroding Democratic Freedoms: Building a New “North American Partnership” for the Future By Dana Gabriel, November 07, 2014
Bush Family Sponsored Lawsuits against Denton,Texas Ban on Shale Gas Fracking By Steve Horn, November 07, 2014
The Collapse of Oil Prices: Has Washington Just Shot Itself in the Oily Foot? By F. William Engdahl, November 06, 2014
Obama’s Secret Deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar. What’s Behind Lower Gas-Prices and the Bombing of Syria and Eastern Ukraine By Eric Zuesse, November 06, 2014
“Electromagnetic Warfare” Training Range to be Established in Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula By Global Research News, November 05, 2014
“Blood in the Water”: The Privatization of California’s Water Spells Disaster By Bryan Maddan, November 05, 2014
Energy Shock: What Happened to Over-Priced Oil? By Andrew McKillop, November 05, 2014
0 % Interest Rates: Federal Reserve Keeps Shale Gas Fracking Bubble Afloat By Steve Horn, November 04, 2014
California Could Suffer a Fukushima-Style Meltdown By Washington's Blog, November 02, 2014
The Uncertain Future of Shale Gas: Report Casts Doubt on US Hydraulic Fracking Production Numbers By Steve Horn, October 31, 2014
Japan Reacts to Worsening Fukushima Disaster By … Reopening Nuclear Plant Next to Active Volcano By Washington's Blog, October 29, 2014
Are Vulture Funds a US Tool Against Argentina in an Energy War With Russia? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, October 28, 2014
The Pentagon and Big Oil: Militarism and Capital Accumulation By Prof. James Petras, October 26, 2014
Russia Starts First-Ever Gas Trading in St. Petersburg By RT, October 25, 2014
Was Total’s Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie Killed for Opposing Petrodollar and Sanctions Against Russia? By Oleg Lurie, October 24, 2014
The European Union’s Sham Democracy: EU Commission Instrument of Powerful Corporate Interests By Colin Todhunter, October 23, 2014
Libya War Continues Three Years After Gaddafi Assassination By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 21, 2014
Contamination of Ecuadorian Rainforest: Canadian Bar Association Withdraws Support to Chevron Due to Protests By Telesur, October 20, 2014
Shadow Facts About Shadow Government By David Swanson, October 19, 2014
The Looting of Ukraine and the US Energy War By Vera Graziadei, October 18, 2014
Ukraine: Emperor Obama’s Old New Clothes and the US Energy War By Vera Graziadei, October 17, 2014
How Putin Became a Central Figure in the First Ever Vote to Ban Fracking in Texas By Steve Horn, October 16, 2014