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.
Fracking Boom Accompanied by Rise of Silent, Deadly Carcinogen in Homes: Study By Jon Queally, April 10, 2015
As Oil Money Flowed, Clinton Turned Back on Rights Abuses in Colombia: Report By Deirdre Fulton, April 10, 2015
TEPCO Under Fire after Hiding Massive Radioactive Waste Leak at Fukushima for a Full Year By Jonathan Benson, April 03, 2015
Germany’s Merkel Now Comes Out as Basically a U.S. Proxy By Eric Zuesse, April 03, 2015
Thailand, International Oil, and the Future of Energy By Tony Cartalucci, April 01, 2015
The Development of Biofuel Disrupts Agriculture, Results in “Reductions in Food Consumption” By Global Research News, March 31, 2015
The “Greening” of China’s Black Electric Power System By John A. Mathews and Hao Tan, March 30, 2015
Rolling Bombs: Crude-Oil Rail Tankers Threaten U.S. Canada Populations, Environment By Mary Papenfuss, March 29, 2015
Armed Volunteer Battalions Heading for Kiev By ITAR-TASS, March 26, 2015
Refinery Turns off Emergency Alert System Instead of Improving Safety Conditions By Remington Alessi, March 24, 2015
Resurrection of the South Stream: Russia and the Trans-Balkans Pipeline By Andrew Korybko and Umberto Pascali, March 21, 2015
Oil Geopolitics: The South Stream Pipeline Has Been Replaced by “The Balkan Stream” By Andrew Korybko, March 15, 2015
Fukushima: A Journey through an Ongoing Disaster By William Johnston and Eiko Otake, March 12, 2015
Ukraine Energy Minister: EU Should Share Transit Risks, Help Pay for Gas Storage By RT, March 06, 2015
Shock: Fracking Used to Inject Nuclear Waste Underground for Decades By Aaron Dykes and Melissa Dykes, March 06, 2015
Gas Deal with Israel Is “Knife at Jordan’s Throat,” Say Campaigners By Patrick Strickland, March 06, 2015
The Paris Climate Talks and the Failure of the World’s Largest States By Gabriel Levy, March 04, 2015
India’s Tata Strikes a Deal with Russia’s Biggest Coal Producer By Elena Krovvidi, March 03, 2015
Shrouded in Secrecy and Lies, Dominion Resources Builds Dangerous Liquefied Gas Facility in Cove Point, Maryland By Margaret Flowers, February 23, 2015
Syriza Can Show ‘Another Energy is Possible’ By Socialist Project, February 22, 2015
Activists vs Resource Companies as Threats to “National Security” in Canada By William Ray, February 19, 2015
The New Home Battery: Is Off Grid Living About to Become Mainstream? By Christina Sarich, February 19, 2015
In “Tragic” Decision, Top Ohio Court Takes Away Local Power to Ban Fracking By Deirdre Fulton, February 18, 2015
Mystery Behind Dropping Oil Prices Solved: Concerted Market Manipulation By Ulson Gunnar, February 08, 2015
Pipeline Politics: Former Texas Governor Rick Perry Joins Board of Energy Transfer Partners, Owner of Proposed Oil Pipeline Across Iowa By David Goodner, February 08, 2015
Shell Pays Niger Delta Community $84 Million To Settle Pollution Claims By Fatima Hansia, February 08, 2015
The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine: The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow By Mike Whitney, February 06, 2015
Atmospheric Dispersion of Radioactivity from Nuclear Power Plant Accidents: Study By Global Research News, January 30, 2015
Saudi Oil and U.S. Hypocrisy By Sara Flounders, January 30, 2015
Enbridge Gets Another Federal Tar Sands Crude Pipeline Permit As Senate Debates Keystone XL By Steve Horn, January 29, 2015
Obama’s Climate Irony: The Administration Just Announced Plans to Open the Atlantic to Oil Drilling By Lindsay Abrams, January 28, 2015
Saudi King’s Death Threatens to Deepen US Crisis in Middle East By Bill Van Auken, January 24, 2015
Are Plunging Petrodollar Revenues Behind the Fed’s Projected Rate Hikes? By Mike Whitney, January 21, 2015
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