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.
Amidst Ukraine Crisis, Canada Is Quietly Trying to Boost Gas Exports to EU, Documents Show By Geoff Dembicki, March 11, 2022
Ukraine: Price of Oil and Gas Skyrockets: “Massive Economic Collapse of Europe, the US and the World” By Stewart Brennan, March 09, 2022
U.S. Sanctions Can’t Keep China from Buying Russian Oil By Simon Watkins, March 09, 2022
Saudis, UAE Refuse to Take Biden’s Calls to Discuss Ukraine Situation, Talk to Putin Instead By Zero Hedge, March 09, 2022
Biden Bans Russian Oil and Gas Imports, Devastating Impacts By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, March 09, 2022
Russia Crisis Sends U.S. Officials to Venezuela to Meet with Maduro By Michael Wilner, March 07, 2022
‘Brace for Rationing’ — Food Crisis Escalates. EU Farmers Furious. By Alexandra Bruce, March 07, 2022
About Those 600,000 Barrels… By Eric Peters, March 06, 2022
Ukraine Update: Oil Hits 10-year High and Closes In on $120 a Barrel By Countercurrents.org, March 04, 2022
US Gas Exporters Set to Benefit After Germany Halts Russian Pipeline By Kenny Stancil, March 04, 2022
Who Gains from a War in Europe? U.S. Targets Supply of Russian Gas to Europe By Manuel Raposo, March 02, 2022
Pipeline Ploy: How U.S. Natural Gas Interests Are Fueling the Ukraine Crisis By C.J. Atkins, February 25, 2022
U.S.-funded Groups in Europe Lobby to Kill Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline By Steve Sweeney, February 25, 2022
Russia Warns of “Brave New World” of Higher Gas Prices After Germany Halts Nord Stream 2 By Zero Hedge, February 23, 2022
China-Russia Cooperation and Competition in the Arctic By Nicholas Meyers, February 23, 2022
How Is Restoring Iran Nuclear Pact Vital for Global Energy Security? By Nauman Sadiq, February 21, 2022
Fears of Oil Spills as ExxonMobil Seeks to Drill at the Mouth of a Brazil River By Mariama Correia, February 11, 2022
Video: The True Causes of The Environmental Crisis. Why and How Do Corporations Keep You Addicted to Fossil Fuels? By Emanuel Pastreich, February 09, 2022
Algeria to Central Europe: NATO Plans Gas Pipeline from Spain to Germany – Reports By Rick Rozoff and Tasnim News Agency, February 08, 2022
Turkey’s Energy Shortage Poses Threat to Post-COVID Economic Recovery By Paul Antonopoulos, February 08, 2022
21st Century War Trajectory: List of Participants in Southern Gas Corridor Meeting By Rick Rozoff, February 07, 2022
US-Qatar Rise in Cooperation May be Related to Washington’s Energy Strategy By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, February 01, 2022
Court: Massive Offshore Oil Lease Sale in Gulf Based on Faulty Legal Analysis By Center For Biological Diversity, February 01, 2022
Russia’s ‘Asymmetrical’ War over Ukraine By M. K. Bhadrakumar, January 29, 2022
Stolen Syrian Oil Makes Its Way to US Bases in Iraq By The Cradle, January 28, 2022
Serbia Stomps on Rio Tinto’s Lithium Mining Project By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 27, 2022
Why Do NATO States Commit “Energy Hara Kiri”? Green Zero Carbon Madness. Industrial Collapse? By F. William Engdahl, January 19, 2022
Ecological Civilization
California Court Rules Lawsuit Against State Oil Regulator. Thousands of Wells Didn’t Get Proper Environmental Reviews, Suit Says By Center For Biological Diversity, January 03, 2022
The EU’s Energy Crisis Exacerbated by “Radical Green Policies”and Anti-Russian Propaganda By Andrew Korybko, December 29, 2021
Merger of Major Companies Ensures Chinese Dominance over the Rare Earth Industry By Paul Antonopoulos, December 27, 2021
Nord Stream 2 Is a Double-edged Geopolitical Tool By M. K. Bhadrakumar, December 23, 2021
The Green Agenda and the Plan to Collapse the Industrial World Economy By F. William Engdahl, December 19, 2021
Major Energy Crisis is Haunting Europe By Uriel Araujo, December 07, 2021
Where There Are Tailings, No Grass Grows: Serbians Protest Against Rio Tinto By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 02, 2021
Frozen Deutschland. Suspending Nord Stream 2? “A Perfect Storm of Russian Aggression” By Pepe Escobar, November 18, 2021
Biden Administration to Lease Out 80 Million Acres in Gulf of Mexico for Oil, Days after Climate Summit By Center For Biological Diversity, November 18, 2021
Lukashenko’s Threats to Cut Gas Supplies to Europe, Goes Also Against Russian Interests By Paul Antonopoulos, November 15, 2021
Jellyfish Attack Nuclear Power Plants. Again and Again. By Susan D’Agostino, November 15, 2021
Gasbagging in Glasgow: COP26 and Phasing Down Coal By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 15, 2021
Belarus Could Cut Key Gas Transit Pipeline to Western Europe: “We Deliver Heat & They Threaten Us?” By Zero Hedge, November 12, 2021
Is the Oil Shortage Already Endemic? By Germán Gorraiz López, November 09, 2021
Biden Makes Climate Pledge at Glasgow While Pushing Oil, Gas Leasing in U.S. By Center For Biological Diversity, November 05, 2021
China and the New Maritime Cartography By Germán Gorraiz López, November 04, 2021
Stealing a Nation — The Secret SAS Mission to Capture the Middle East’s Oil Artery By Phil Miller, November 04, 2021
Polluting the Process: Fossil Fuel Investors and Industries Sponsoring Glasgow’s COP26 By Andrew Simms, October 29, 2021
Biden’s Forest Service Poised to Facilitate Quadrupling of Crude Oil Production in Utah’s Uinta Basin Days Before Glasgow Climate Summit By Center For Biological Diversity, October 26, 2021
How ‘Green’ Are Lithium Batteries? Rio Tinto Driving Ecological Destruction in Serbia’s Jadar Valley By Corporate Watch, October 23, 2021
Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival: A Conversation with Richard Heinberg By Michael Welch and Richard Heinberg, October 23, 2021
US Trying to Boycott Energy Cooperation Between Moscow and Europe By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, October 14, 2021
Prices Explode in the Gas Battle By Manlio Dinucci, October 12, 2021
European Energy Crisis — And Is that Gas You Think You’re Burning? By Tom Luongo, October 08, 2021
Russia-Nigeria Relations. Cooperation in Oil Exploration and Military Affairs By Kester Kenn Klomegah, October 06, 2021
Organised Crime Goes Nuclear By Jim Green, October 06, 2021
The Iran-Azerbaijan Standoff Is a Contest for the Region’s Transportation Corridors By Pepe Escobar, October 06, 2021
The 2021 World Nuclear Industry. Status Report By Dawn Stover, October 05, 2021
“Big Money” and the “Water Barons”: A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past By Ellen Brown, October 03, 2021
The European Energy Crisis Is About to Go Global By Irina Slav, September 24, 2021
Indigenous Resistance Instrumental in Stopping High-Profile Fossil Fuel Projects, Says Report By Nick Cunningham, September 15, 2021
Energy Geopolitics: Electricity for Syria and Lebanon Depends on the US By Steven Sahiounie, September 10, 2021
Gazprom Neft Switches to Yuan Payments in China By Tsvetana Paraskova, September 07, 2021
Russia to Build Nuclear Power Plants in Africa By Kester Kenn Klomegah, September 06, 2021
Russia-Egypt Relations: Nuclear Energy Plant Construction By Kester Kenn Klomegah, September 01, 2021
Lawsuit Filed after Biden Opens 79 Million Acres of Gulf of Mexico for Oil By Center For Biological Diversity, September 01, 2021
Kiev Attempts to Cut Water to Crimea By Paul Antonopoulos, August 25, 2021
Fukushima: A Lasting Tragedy By H. Patricia Hynes, August 23, 2021
Data Contradicts Ukrainian Claims that Russia Is Cheating Europe Out of Paid for Gas By Paul Antonopoulos, August 21, 2021
US Expansionism in Eurasia, Control over Afghanistan By Shane Quinn, August 19, 2021
Santa Barbara County Releases ExxonMobil’s Revised Plan to Restart Offshore Platforms, Truck Oil in California By Center For Biological Diversity, August 18, 2021
False Solutions: To Achieve Net Zero, Carbon Offsetting Would Use Up All Global Farmland By Andy Rowell, August 09, 2021
Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure By Ellen Brown, August 01, 2021
Canadian Imperialism and the Underdevelopment of Burkina Faso By Owen Schalk, July 30, 2021
Unmasked: The 138 ‘Polluters’ at Key Climate Talks By Rob Edwards, July 28, 2021
Why Germany Has Won and Italy Has Lost By Manlio Dinucci, July 28, 2021
Will Canada Remain a Credible Nuclear Non-Proliferation Partner? By Susan O’Donnell and Gordon Edwards, July 26, 2021
Greenland Ditches Oil Exploration Efforts After 50 Years of Failure By Tsvetana Paraskova, July 21, 2021
Physicians Group Uncovers Evidence that ‘Forever Chemicals’ (PFAS) Have Been Used Extensively in Fracking Unbeknownst to Public By Physicians for Social Responsibility, July 13, 2021
Canada Funneled $23 Billion in Subsidies to Three Pipelines Since 2018 By Nick Cunningham, July 12, 2021
Offshore Fracking Report Finds Toxic Pollution in Gulf of Mexico By Center For Biological Diversity, July 09, 2021
Is Alternative Energy Truly the Best Solution to Climate Catastrophe? By Don Fitz, July 08, 2021
Nazi Germany Set to Invade Russia, Analysing Hitler’s Access to Oil Sources By Shane Quinn, June 18, 2021