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.
“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
Haiti: Gas Price Hike Fuels Misery and Anger – Cost of Living Has Quintupled Since the 2004 US-Backed Coup d’État By Thomas Péralte, October 15, 2014
Tar Sands Trade: Kuwait Buys Stake in Alberta As It Opens Own Heavy Oil Spigot By Steve Horn, October 15, 2014
Mongolia as the Key to a Russian-South Korean Strategic Partnership By Andrew Korybko, October 11, 2014
Destabilization – US Weapon in a Energy War in Ukraine and the Middle East By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, October 09, 2014
Did the New York Governor’s Office Edit “Politically Inconvenient” Findings of Fracking Study? By Lauren McCauley, October 07, 2014
Obama’s “War on Ebola” or War for Oil? Sending 3000 Troops to African “Ebola” Areas that Happen to Export Oil to China By F. William Engdahl, October 03, 2014
Profit-Driven US and British Oil Companies Set to Violate International Law in Western Sahara By Tom Stevenson, September 30, 2014
The Misunderstood Global Financial Crisis. “It’s the Energy Stupid” The Matterhorn Interview: with Economist Maarten van Mourik: The financial crisis is only partly financial but mainly an energy problem” By Lars Schall, September 28, 2014
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Turns Down Call for Control of Israel’s Nuclear Program By Dr. Christof Lehmann, September 27, 2014
The PetroYuan Cometh: China Docks Navy Destroyer In Iran’s Strait Of Hormuz Port By Zero Hedge, September 22, 2014
The Global Crisis: Food, Water and Fuel. Three Fundamental Necessities of Life in Jeopardy By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 20, 2014
The Geopolitics of Gas and the Syrian Crisis: Syrian “Opposition” Armed to Thwart Construction of Iran-Iraq-Syria Gas Pipeline By Dmitry Minin, September 19, 2014
Shale Fracking is a “Ponzi Scheme” … “This Decade’s Version of the Dotcom Bubble” By Washington's Blog, September 19, 2014
The US-EU-Russia Sanctions Puzzle By Pepe Escobar, September 18, 2014
The U.S. Has Already Completed Regime Change In Syria (1949), Iran (1953), Iraq (Twice), Afghanistan (Twice), Turkey, Libya and Other Oil-Rich Countries By Washington's Blog, September 18, 2014
The Real Reason Russia is Demonized and Sanctioned: the American Petrodollar By Alexander Clackson, September 18, 2014
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The REAL Reason Britain is Freaking Out About Scottish Independence. Scotland’s North Sea Oil Reserves By Washington's Blog, September 17, 2014
Senior Employees “Screwed” by BP By Dahr Jamail, September 17, 2014
The Battle for Oil By Eric Waddell, September 17, 2014
Brazil: Money Laundering Operation “Car Wash” Uncovers Alleged Political Bribery by Petrobras By Richard Smallteacher, September 16, 2014
Somalia Facing Famine Despite U.S. Role and Oil Wealth Failure to reach political settlement hinders development and relief By Abayomi Azikiwe, September 16, 2014
Research Shows Frightening Correlation Between Fracking and Rates of Illness By Lauren McCauley, September 12, 2014
Iran-Russia-China Axis to Fight Western Sanctions By Fars News Agency, September 09, 2014
Can Russia–EU–Ukraine Negotiations on Gas Be Saved? By Global Research News, September 06, 2014
US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Grants Enbridge Permit for “Tar Sands by Rail Facility” By Steve Horn, September 03, 2014
Tar Sands: US State Department Assists Enbridge Pipeline Giant Bypass Environmental Review By Steve Horn, August 28, 2014
After Oregon Rejects Coal Export Plan, Long Beach Votes to Export Coal and PetKoch By Steve Horn, August 22, 2014
Big Rail Cites Bin Laden, Al Qaeda to Fend Off Oil-by-Rail Route Transparency By Justin Mikulka and Steve Horn, August 20, 2014
Hemp-Based Batteries Could Change the Way We Store Energy Forever By Marco Torres, August 19, 2014
Kiev Fights in Ukraine’s Southeast for Shale Gas Deposits to Be Controlled by US By Global Research News, August 18, 2014
Investor Call: Enbridge’s Keystone XL Clone Opens in October, Rail Facility to Follow By Steve Horn, August 18, 2014
Disaster on the Horizon: High Stakes, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well Blowout By Christine H. Kroll, August 13, 2014
The Roots of the Iraq and Syria Wars Go Back More than 60 Years By Washington's Blog, August 13, 2014
The Reason for New U.S. and French Military Involvement In Iraq: Protecting Oil or Minorities? By Washington's Blog, August 12, 2014
War, Big Oil and the Inconvenient Truths About Military Air Shows By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, August 12, 2014
Environmentalists Blamed for Bursting Fracking Bubble By Richard Heinberg, August 11, 2014
Bombing Iraq for U.S. Oil Companies By Brandon Turbeville, August 11, 2014
“Washington’s Determination to Drive the World to War”: Will Putin Realize That Russia Holds The Cards? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, August 06, 2014
Fracking’ in the Dark: Biological Fallout of Shale-gas Production still largely Unknown By Morgan Kelly, August 03, 2014
Khodorkovsky and the Yukos Oil Saga: The Investor-to-State Arbitration is Rigged. Why Russia Should Not Honour Tribunal Award of $51 billion By Kavaljit Singh, July 29, 2014
Greenpeace Report: Obama Administration “Exporting Climate Change” by Exporting Coal By Steve Horn, July 29, 2014
Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas and Natural Gas: Obama Supports Massive Expansion of Hydraulic Fracturing By Jack A. Smith, July 26, 2014
“Gas Pipeline Diplomacy”: How Ukraine Opened the Door to A New U.S.- Russia Energy War By Sylvia Todorova, July 25, 2014
Not Just the Atlantic: Obama Leasing Millions of Gulf of Mexico Acres for Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling By Steve Horn, July 24, 2014
Is Israel’s Operation Protective Edge Really About Natural Gas? By Tascha Shahriari-Parsa, July 24, 2014
Canada’s Tar Sands and the National Economy By Michal Rozworski, July 20, 2014
In the Wake of Fukushima: Stigmatized Nuclear Workers Quit TEPCO By Yuri Kageyama, July 16, 2014