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The Madness Gripping Washington
The Madness Gripping Washington The United States and Israel have been threatening Iran for something like twenty years, using the pretext that it was developing a nuclear weapon initially, but also more recently declaring that Tehran has become a threat to the entire Middle East. Both contentions are essentially lies, concocted by an Israel and […]
How to navigate the white water of these turbulent times
How to navigate the white water of these turbulent times The latest lurch in global statecraft — Trump’s dissing NATO allies then playing footsie with Vladimir Putin — leaves many scrambling to maintain some balance. Republicans for whom the enemy status of Russia is an article of faith are beside themselves. Democrats are running out […]
Tight Oil Markets Are Ignoring Supply Risk
Tight Oil Markets Are Ignoring Supply Risk The global oil market is once again in flux as geopolitics and regional conflicts take an increasingly heavy toll on oil supplies. Since the OPEC meeting in Vienna, warning signs that oil markets are heading for a shortage in supply, due to low spare production capacity and growing […]
The 4 Key Chokepoints For Oil
The 4 Key Chokepoints For Oil While everyone has been watching the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tension between the U.S. and Iran, a chokepoint on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula is now at the center of the action. Saudi Arabia temporarily halted all oil shipments through the Bab al-Mandeb strait after Saudi […]
The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power
The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power Photo by DAVID HOLT | CC BY 2.0 All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but those dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they act their […]
US Preparing To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report
US Preparing To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities As Soon As Next Month: Report As the White House convenes a policy meeting on Iran Thursday involving senior Pentagon officials and cabinet advisers under national security adviser John Bolton, and after a week of intense saber-rattling by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, a new […]
The Most Important Waterway In The Oil World
The Most Important Waterway In The Oil World Tensions between the United States and Iran continue to rise, with U.S. President Donald S. Trump issuing a threatening tweet against Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani amidst preparations to re-impose sanctions on Iran’s economy following the U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. The increasingly tense situation has […]
Are Oil Markets Underestimating Iran’s Threats?
Are Oil Markets Underestimating Iran’s Threats? Iranian officials have suggested that they could shut the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. moved to completely disrupt Iranian oil exports, a dire scenario that would present a supply shock to the oil market. The prospect of an outage at the Strait of Hormuz repeatedly crops up when […]
When Worse is the Enemy of Bad
When Worse is the Enemy of Bad Photo source davitydave | CC BY 2.0 There comes a time in the decline of an empire when–in its hubris, its arrogance–it decouples from reason and blindly blunders toward its fate in a ludicrous ugly trance of stupidity. To paraphrase Walter Cronkite–we are there. Trump makes his one positive, […]
Saudi oil shipment halt: A potential watershed in the Yemen war
Saudi oil shipment halt: A potential watershed in the Yemen war A spike in oil prices as a result of a temporary halt in shipments through the strategic Bab el Mandeb strait may be short-lived, but the impact on Yemen’s three-year-old forgotten war is likely to put the devastating conflict on the front burner. The […]
Is Putin’s Russia an ‘Evil Empire’?
Is Putin’s Russia an ‘Evil Empire’? “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce,” a saying attributed to Karl Marx, comes to mind in this time of Trump. To those of us raised in the Truman era, when the Red Army was imposing its bloody Bolshevik rule on half of Europe, and NATO was […]
Nord Stream 2’s Confusing Endgame
Nord Stream 2’s Confusing Endgame The summer of 2018 will go into history as the moment when a US president fundamentally and decisively changed the international world order which its predecessors worked hard on during the past decades. Within approximately a week from 11 July until 16 July, President Donald Trump achieved to insult its […]
America’s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace
America’s Derangement Syndrome a Danger to World Peace It is significant that Presidents Putin and Trump have both spoken out against “haters” among America’s political establishment who would rather see conflict between Russia and the United States instead of a normalization of bilateral relations. Following their landmark, successful summit this week in Helsinki, Putin and […]
