OK, you aren’t buying the story that Obama is a “terrorists’ pal” or a “elections riggers’ pal”. You don’t even seem to care that his middle name is Hussein and that “Obama” rhymes with...
Energy geopolitics in the Middle East took a dramatic turn last Friday as Russia's energy giant Gazprom dealt US interests a major blow in the strategic Caspian Basin. Two deals between the Government of...
It gave me no pleasure to read an article in the Gulf News this morning by former German foreign minister Joschka Fisher warning Iran that the US and Israel appear to be gearing up for a strike on its nuclear facilities before the change of US President.
Forget peak oil for a little while. Are oil prices set to drop in the mid term?"The difficulty with the bubble moniker is determining exactly how much of the price is being driven by purely speculative factors. With Crude, a variety of forces are driving prices: A...
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Why would the US be topping up their strategic oil reserves at at time when prices are at all time highs? "A few weeks ago, I highlighted the fact that the US Government was topping off the strategic...
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The geopolitics of India and China has helped immensely to sustain the Burmese dictatorial government. The international sanctions have been rendered useless due to the growing economic strength of the Asian rivals....
"Oil prices have quadrupled in five years, propelled by geopolitical tensions, surging demand from Asia and new buying interest from investment funds, analysts say.
The weakening US dollar, which fell again on the foreign exchange market on Wednesday, is also to blame because...
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Darfur: Forget genocide, there's oil
By F William Engdahl
To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-president George Herbert Walker Bush, "It's the economy, stupid," the present...
This is an excellent reference article."Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or, what happens when Cowboys don’t shoot straight like they used to…
by F. William Engdahl
Global Research, February 20, 2007
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All right, no more excuses, people. After four years in Iraq, it’s time to get serious. We’ve spent too long goofing off, waiting to be saved by the bell, praying that we won’t get asked a stumper like, “What’s the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite?” Okay,...