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.
Conservation Groups Argue in Federal Court That Trump’s Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Was Illegal By Center For Biological Diversity, March 09, 2020
Ancestral Lands and Canada’s First Nations: Whose Ways Must Take Precedence to Heal Mother Earth By Jerome Irwin, March 03, 2020
Brazil on the Brink of Environmental Collapse By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, March 03, 2020
Trudeau Enables Corporate Canada to Exploit Ethiopia’s Minerals By Yves Engler, March 02, 2020
Oregon’s Jordan Cove Backers Double Down on Efforts to Push Project Following Federal Permit Delay By Sharon Kelly, February 28, 2020
Canada’s First Nations: Ottawa Lays Bare the Lie It Calls “Reconciliation” By Corvin Russell, February 28, 2020
In Defense of Mother Earth: Indigenous Rights Are Human Rights! RCMP Out of Wet’suwet’en! By Alison Bodine, February 28, 2020
The Movement to Protect Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining.Threat to People, Land, Water and Wildlife By Center For Biological Diversity, February 26, 2020
Trump’s $1.5 Billion Uranium Stockpile: A Solution in Search of a Problem By John Krzyzaniak, February 25, 2020
Constitution Pipeline Project Scrapped By Earth Justice, February 24, 2020
Corporations as Private Sovereign Powers: The Case of Total By Alain Deneault, February 24, 2020
Nord Stream 2: Why Ukraine and Poland Are Against It By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, February 18, 2020
Global Mining Corporations Have a Friend in the New Guatemalan Government By Ellen Moore and Jen Moore, February 17, 2020
2.5M Pounds of Radioactive Waste Illegally Dumped in Oregon Landfill By Monica Samayoa, February 17, 2020
The Metal Trump Wants More than Gold. China’s Control Over Strategic Metals By Charles Kennedy, February 14, 2020
Traditional Indigenous and White Man’s Conflicting Rules of Law: A Coming to Terms that Hasn’t Been Resolved Since “First Contact” By Jerome Irwin, February 14, 2020
Invisible Mega Oil Spill Beyond the Deepwater Horizon Oil Slick Satellite Footprint By Igal Berenshtein, Claire B. Paris, Natalie Perlin, and et al., February 14, 2020
Is Oil Behind Washington’s Venezuela Coup Madness? By F. William Engdahl, February 13, 2020
Wall Street Invading Wet’suwet’en First Nation Territory. Uprising Across Canada By Joyce Nelson, February 12, 2020
Energy Company Drops Lake Huron Nuclear Waste Plan Following Saugeen Ojibway Nation Vote By Native News Online, February 12, 2020
The Russia-India Oil Deal Is an ‘Unpleasant Surprise’ for Iran, Not the US By Andrew Korybko, February 12, 2020
Warfare Tools
Venezuela: From Oil Proxy to the Bolivarian Movement and Sabotage. Abysmal Poverty under US Proxy Rule (1918-1998) By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner, February 12, 2020
US Regime Change in Venezuela: The Documented Evidence By Tony Cartalucci, February 12, 2020
West Virginia Legislation: The Criminalization of Peaceful Protests against Oil and Gas “Critical Infrastructure”. Anti-protest Bills By Connor Gibson, February 10, 2020
The American Empire Mistakenly Believes the Shale Oil-Gas Revolution Will Continue Until 2050 and Beyond By Dr. Leon Tressell, February 10, 2020
Gas Wars in the Mediterranean By Mike Whitney, February 10, 2020
No New Nuclear By Radiation Free Lakeland, February 09, 2020
Iraq Is on the Brink of an Energy Crisis By Simon Watkins, February 07, 2020
Victory for Canada’s First Nations: Saugeen Ojibway Nation Has Saved Lake Huron from a Nuclear Waste Dump By Joyce Nelson, February 03, 2020
US Sanctions Bar Iran from Accessing $5B Energy Export Revenue By Tsvetana Paraskova, January 30, 2020
The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians By Joyce Nelson, January 29, 2020
US Government Represents Lawless Billionaires By Mark Taliano and Press TV, January 29, 2020
The Struggle to End Imperialist Militarism in the 21st Century By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 28, 2020
EPA’s New Water Rule a Mockery of Science and the Clean Water Act By Derrick Z. Jackson, January 27, 2020
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E): Monopoly Power and Disasters by the Rich 1% By Peter Phillips and Tim Ogburn, January 23, 2020
The Mad Geopolitics of Israel’s EastMed Gas Pipeline By F. William Engdahl, January 20, 2020
The Cannabis Industry’s Dirty Energy Secret By James Burgess, January 16, 2020
Middle Eastern Wars Have Always Been About Oil By Washington's Blog, January 15, 2020
Persian Peril: The Assassination of Qasem Soleimani and the Prospect of War with Iran By Michael Welch, Glenn Michalchuk, and Pepe Escobar, January 15, 2020
Lawsuit Challenges Trump Plan to Frack, Drill 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands, Minerals By Center For Biological Diversity, January 15, 2020
Turkish-backed GNA Leader Fayez al-Sarraj Is on the Verge of Losing Tripoli By Paul Antonopoulos, January 13, 2020
Iraq – Why Doesn’t the US Move Out Despite the Iraqi Parliament’s Decision? By Peter Koenig, January 11, 2020
Financial N-Option Will Settle Trump’s Oil War By Pepe Escobar, January 07, 2020
Venezuela: Disturbing Echoes of History – A Presentation by Maria Páez Victor By Michael Welch and Dr. Maria Páez Victor, January 05, 2020
More US Fuel on the Middle East Fire: Trump Orders New Troop Deployment to the Region By Stephen Lendman, January 03, 2020
Video: US Sanctions and the Caesar Act, Oil and Gas, Chemical Weapons, and the Syrian Response By Bouthaina Shaaban and Arabi Souri, January 03, 2020
Donald Trump: “I Will Take the Oil” By Global Research News, January 01, 2020
Syria Considers Suing Washington for Syrian Oil Theft and Violating Syria’s Sovereignty By Sarah Abed, December 30, 2019
2020: The Year of the Oil Bankruptcies By Alex Kimani, December 30, 2019
Trump Wants to Keep the Oil: Syria Mulls Suing US in International Court over ‘Stealing’ Country’s Oil By Tim Korso, December 30, 2019
US Strategy and What the Gas Pipeline War Is Costing Us By Manlio Dinucci, December 30, 2019
The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet By Ellen Brown, December 29, 2019
The Russia-Ukraine Gas Deal Took the World by Surprise. New Detente? By Andrew Korybko, December 26, 2019
Erdoğan’s Adventurism in Syria and Libya Has Left Turkey Weaker and Isolated By Paul Antonopoulos, December 26, 2019
Nord Stream 2, US Sanctions and Trump’s “Economic Suicide”? By Peter Koenig, December 26, 2019
Syria: Trump Administration Builds Military Base in Oil Field By Telesur, December 26, 2019
Syria: Saudi Troops Deployed to Protect Aramco Experts at Oil Field By Middle East Monitor, December 24, 2019
The Russia-Germany Pipeline Nord Stream 2: Washington to “Free” Europe from Freedom to Decide for Itself By Tony Cartalucci, December 23, 2019
#WouldYouShootMeToo Hashtag Trends After Reports Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Asked Snipers to Target Indigenous Protesters By Eoin Higgins, December 23, 2019
Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 23, 2019
Damascus Approved Two Oil Contracts with Russian Companies By Arabi Souri, December 22, 2019
US Sends More Troops to Syria Oil Fields By Middle East Monitor, December 16, 2019
Libya Is Likely to Become a Proxy Battlefront Between Greece and Turkey By Paul Antonopoulos, December 12, 2019
U.S. Efforts to Force Iran Out of European Energy Markets Has Failed By Paul Antonopoulos, December 10, 2019
Power of Siberia: Putin and the ‘Biden Memorial Pipeline’ to China By F. William Engdahl, December 08, 2019
Grand Canyon Under Threat as Trump’s Nuclear Working Group Considers Allowing Uranium Mining By Western Values Project, December 05, 2019
Global Warming and the Ozone Layer: What’s More Dangerous, CO2 or Nuclear War? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 05, 2019
Russia-China Cooperation, The Power of Siberia Project, Strategic Gas Pipelines By Arabi Souri, December 04, 2019
Video: Syrian Military Bombs Oil Smuggling Infrastructure in Turkish-Occupied Areas By South Front, December 01, 2019
Eastern Europe Is Turning into an Energy Battleground By RFE/RL, November 29, 2019
Just One Week After Trump Rolled Back Safety Measures, Chemical Plant Explosion Rocks Texas Town By Andrea Germanos, November 28, 2019
Syrian Army Bombs Kurdish Tankers Smuggling Oil to Turkey, A Message to Trump By Arabi Souri, November 28, 2019
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)
Fossil Fuel Divestment Will Increase Carbon Emissions, Not Lower Them – Here’s Why By Stefan Andreasson, November 27, 2019
A New Pipeline Could Undo America’s Influence in Asia By Simon Watkins, November 27, 2019
Could Russia’s “Floating Nuclear Power Plants” Change the World Economy? By F. William Engdahl, November 26, 2019
While Wisconsin Residents Object to a $700 Million Gas Power Plant, Their Public Officials Submit Supportive Comments Ghostwritten by Industry By Matt Kasper, November 24, 2019
The Worst Is Over for Oil Markets By Nick Cunningham, November 21, 2019
China-Bolivia – A Lithium Deal, No More? By Peter Koenig, November 21, 2019
China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium By F. William Engdahl, November 19, 2019
“Unearthing Justice”: Canada’s Mining Industry, Environmental and Social Impacts By Richard Fidler, November 18, 2019