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.
Did Fracking Cause the Hawaii Volcanic Eruption? By Jon Rappoport, June 07, 2018
Video: Syrian Government, SDF Reach Agreement on Omar Oil Field By South Front, June 05, 2018
Failures of the Petro-Dollar? Africa Speculates Joining Russia, China, India and EU in the “De-Dollarisation” of Oil Trades By True Publica, June 04, 2018
China’s Petro-yuan “Becomes Real”: India Joins International Group Dumping US Dollars in Oil Trades to Bypass US Sanctions By True Publica, June 03, 2018
Pipeline Geopolitics: The US is Against Russia’s Nord Stream II Because of the “Three Seas Initiative” By Andrew Korybko, June 03, 2018
Big Oil and the Arctic: Chevron Pressured to Stay Away from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge By Sierra Club, June 02, 2018
Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival By Charlie Smith, June 01, 2018
Pipeline Geopolitics: Why is Russia Maintaining Its Gas Transit Pipelines Through Ukraine Open? By Andrew Korybko, May 31, 2018
Trudeau’s Reckless Support for Kinder-Morgan. Billions of Tax Dollars to Buy an Unbuildable, Financially Doomed Pipeline By Adam Scott, May 30, 2018
Canada’s Deal to Purchase Kinder Morgan Assets By Adam Scott, May 30, 2018
Not for Sale: Congo’s Forests Must be Protected from the Fossil Fuels Industry By Global Witness, May 30, 2018
Trump Set to Recognize Israel’s Claim to Occupied Golan Heights and Its Sizable Oil Reserves By Whitney Webb, May 28, 2018
Will Russia’s “Energy Diplomacy” Help Vietnam and China Make a Deal? By Andrew Korybko, May 26, 2018
Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline, Civil Society to Justin Trudeau: “The Time for Investment in New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Is Over” By Andy Rowell, May 25, 2018
Bulgarian Government Thinks that Reviving the South Stream Pipeline Will Make It More Strategic By Andrew Korybko, May 21, 2018
Is Russia About to Abandon the OPEC Deal? By Irina Slav, May 20, 2018
The Dispossession of Canada’s First Nations and the Kinder Morgan Pipeline By Kim Petersen, May 20, 2018
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Back to the Future with Empire Oil By Mike Small, May 18, 2018
EU to Switch from US Dollar to Euro on Oil Trades from Iran By True Publica, May 17, 2018
EU to Buy Iranian Oil in Euros? Weakening Dollar Dominance? By Stephen Lendman, May 17, 2018
Why is Venezuela’s Buying Foreign Oil for Latin American Allies? By Andrew Korybko, May 16, 2018
Empire Oil: London’s Dirty Secret By Chloe Farand, May 15, 2018
Trump Is a Disaster for the Environment, for Wildlife, and for Human Life By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, May 12, 2018
Climate Change
The Solution to the Climate Crisis Is to Put Power in the Hands of Those Hit Hardest By Asad Rehman, May 11, 2018
Costa Rica’s New President Promises 100% Green Energy, Aims to be First Such Nation By Prof. Juan Cole, May 11, 2018
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)
When You Are in a Hole… Fossil Fuel and the Climate Crisis By Hannah McKinnon, May 10, 2018
Actors Allegedly Paid to Support New Orleans Power Plant By Tsvetana Paraskova, May 09, 2018
Aboriginal Rights and the Proposed Pipeline Corridor: Why Are Canadian Governments Doing the Kinder Morgan Kowtow? By David Orchard, May 03, 2018
Liberia: The Promise of “Sustainable Palm Oil” Sows Anger and Doubt By Gaurav Madan, May 02, 2018
Trump Administration’s Rollback of Offshore-drilling Safety Regulations Enacted after the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster By Center For Biological Diversity, April 30, 2018
America’s 1.2 Trillion Dollar Nuclear Weapons Project. Are Nuclear Weapons Immoral? By Matt Brown, April 28, 2018
Macron’s Mission to Washington: Protect French Business Interests With Iran? Trump’s Intent to Jeopardize the Iran Nuclear Deal? By Adam Garrie, April 26, 2018
Hydraulic Failures from the Uncontrolled Flow of Water: A Few Examples of Earthen Dam Failures By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, April 24, 2018
Earth Day: Conflict over the Future of the Planet By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, April 23, 2018
‘Incredible’ News as Banking Giant HSBC Ditches New Coal, Tar Sands, and Offshore Arctic Drilling Projects By Andrea Germanos, April 22, 2018
Washington Using Currency War to Destabilize Iran By F. William Engdahl, April 22, 2018
Dolphins or LNG Tankers in the Shannon Estuary? The Processing of U.S. Fracked Hydrocarbons in the Republic of Ireland By True Publica, April 21, 2018
Achieving 100% Renewable Energy. Conversion to Clean Energy: Wind, Water and Sun By Bill McKibben, April 21, 2018
How the US Has Illegally Occupied 30% of Syria Containing Most of Its Oil, Water and Gas By Whitney Webb, April 17, 2018
If Ottawa Rams Through Trans Mountain Pipeline, It Could Trigger an Oka-like Crisis By Stewart Phillip and Serge Simon, April 17, 2018
Canada’s First Nations Leaders Pledge to Block Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion By Richard Fidler, April 17, 2018
Strategy of U.S. Anti-Russia Sanctions Becomes Clearer: Serving American Billionaires By Eric Zuesse, April 12, 2018
U.S. Destabilization Plans? Why Is EuroMaidan’s Mastermind Geoffrey Pyatt Warning About Greek-Turkish Tensions? By Andrew Korybko, April 07, 2018
Oil Firms’ Multimillion-dollar Bribery Racket Bringing Death to the Streets of Iraq’s Basra By Suadad al-Salhy, April 05, 2018
An Oil Price Rally Is Likely? By Nick Cunningham, April 03, 2018
Russian Tensions Risk European Energy Crisis By The Energy Advocate, March 29, 2018
China’s Gold Backed Petro-Yuan Challenges US Dollar Hegemony By Stephen Lendman, March 29, 2018
Mozambique Forced to Restructure After Debt Default. By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 21, 2018
Video: US Establishing Military Facility in Oil-Rich Area in Deir Ezzor Province – Reports By South Front, March 20, 2018
Keeping Power with the People: Puerto Rico’s Energy Future By Sean Sweeney, March 19, 2018
Congo Mining Code: Kabila vs. Cobalt Companies By Andrew Korybko, March 13, 2018
Coast Guard Responders Harmed by Chemicals Used to Clean Up BP Deepwater Oil Spill, Research Shows By Tristan Baurick, March 08, 2018
Foreign “Meddling” in Elections—Yankee Imperialist Style By Bill Van Auken, March 07, 2018
The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War By F. William Engdahl, March 02, 2018
Ecuador Headwater Ecosystems and Biodiversity Endangered By John Seed, February 28, 2018
Venezuela: Petro Sales Exceed $1 Billion in Just Two Days By Telesur, February 25, 2018
The Venezuelan “Petro” – Towards a New World Reserve Currency? By Peter Koenig, February 23, 2018
Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests. Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill By Steve Horn, February 22, 2018
British Columbia’s Mount Polley Copper Mining Disaster of 2014 By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, February 22, 2018
There Is No Justice in Our World By Eric Margolis, February 18, 2018
How the £1.3 Billion EIB Loan Uses Public Money to Muddy Democracy, the Environment and Climate Change Targets By Katie Hodgetts, February 11, 2018
The Demolition of U.S. Global Power. The Accelerated Collapse of American Global Hegemony By Prof Alfred McCoy, February 11, 2018
Toxic Copper Mine Tailings Ponds to be Located Upstream from the St Louis River and Lake Superior By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, January 31, 2018
Fifteen Years After the Invasion of Iraq: The Anglo-American Oil Giants Start to Flaunt the Spoils of Imperial Conquest By Rory, January 27, 2018
Anniversary of the Trump Presidency Part One: Peak Oil and the Deep State By Michael Welch, David Hughes, and Mark Robinowitz, January 20, 2018
Alberta’s XL Bailout a Desperate Attempt to Save TransCanada’s Doomed Keystone XL By Oil Change International, January 19, 2018
Libya Update: What’s Really Behind the Airport Firefight? By Richard Galustian, January 18, 2018
Fukushima Darkness: Radiation of Triple Meltdowns Felt Worldwide By Robert Hunziker, January 12, 2018
Corporate Mining in Latin America is the Source of Social Conflict: “The Andes now Resembles a War Zone” By Mario Pérez-Rincón and Nick Meynen, January 10, 2018
Week in Review: Marijuana Politics, Offshore Drilling, Regime Change in Iran By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, January 08, 2018
Trump Administration Releases Plan to Recklessly Expand Drilling off America’s Coasts By Sierra Club, January 05, 2018
Mexico’s Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Pipeline Face Indigenous Resistance South of Border By Steve Horn, January 03, 2018
Africa in Review 2017: AFRICOM, Finance Capital and the Elusive Independent Policy By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 01, 2018
Trump Administration Repeals Obama Rule Designed to Make Fracking Safer By Lorraine Chow, December 31, 2017
Deep Sea Mining. Environmental Impacts on the Sea Floor By Elaine Maslin, December 27, 2017
The Saudi Palace Coup, the Oil Market, China and the US By Dr. Ali Kadri, December 27, 2017
In Bid to Save Big Oil $900M, Trump Moves to Scrap Offshore Drilling Safety Rules By Julia Conley, December 27, 2017
China Plans to Break Petrodollar Stranglehold By Pepe Escobar, December 27, 2017
South Africa’s ANC’s “Internal Presidential Elections”: Ramaphosa Rises as Lonmin Expires; Workers, Women and Communities Prepare to Fight, Not Mourn By Prof. Patrick Bond, December 20, 2017
Further Problems with the European Pressurised Nuclear Reactor By Nuclear Industries, December 18, 2017