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Pentagon Silent on Current Use of DU in Iraq
Pentagon Silent on Current Use of DU in Iraq Back in October, I reported that, “A type of airplane, the A-10, deployed this month to the Middle East by the U.S. Air National Guard’s 122nd Fighter Wing, is responsible for more Depleted Uranium (DU) contamination than any other platform, according to the International Coalition to Ban Uranium […]
Iraq Oil Surge to Fan OPEC Rivalry That Triggered Slump
Iraq Oil Surge to Fan OPEC Rivalry That Triggered Slump (Bloomberg) — The battle for customers among OPEC members that helped trigger oil’s collapse is about to escalate. Iraqi crude production is climbing from a 35-year high as it adds growing Kurdish supplies to its exports, while southern oilfields remain unscathed by Islamic State militants. […]
Iraq Shrugs Off Low Prices, Boosts Output To Record Levels
Iraq Shrugs Off Low Prices, Boosts Output To Record Levels Despite oil prices at their lowest levels in five years, Iraq is producing at record levels. For the month of December, Iraq produced nearly 4 million barrels per day, according to Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, an all-time high for the war-torn country. That is critical for […]
Saudi border guards killed in attack
Saudi border guards killed in attack Attackers have killed two Saudi Arabian border guards and injured another near the country’s border with Iraq in a shooting and suicide assault, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. The attackers opened fire on a border patrol near the city of Arar on early on Monday, the ministry said. […]
Iraq Could Be Oil Market Linchpin
Iraq Could Be Oil Market Linchpin. As hard as it may be to imagine, given today’s rock bottom oil prices and abundant supplies, the world may still struggle to bring enough oil online over the next few decades to meet long-term demand. Global economic growth over the next several decades is predicated on continued growth […]
As U.S. troops return to Iraq, more private contractors follow | Reuters
As U.S. troops return to Iraq, more private contractors follow | Reuters. (Reuters) – The U.S. government is preparing to boost the number of private contractors in Iraq as part of President Barack Obama’s growing effort to beat back Islamic State militants threatening the Baghdad government, a senior U.S. official said. How many contractors will deploy to Iraq – beyond the […]
There Are 300,000 Iraqi Barrels Signaling Oil Glut Will Deepen – Bloomberg
There Are 300,000 Iraqi Barrels Signaling Oil Glut Will Deepen – Bloomberg. Not only is OPEC refraining from cutting oil output to stem the five-month plunge in prices, it’s adding to the supply glut. Just five days after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided to maintain production levels, Iraq, the group’s second-biggest member, inked […]
Marked for deportation, Iraq war resisters fight to stay in Canada | Al Jazeera America
Marked for deportation, Iraq war resisters fight to stay in Canada | Al Jazeera America. VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For more than five years, former U.S. soldier Rodney Watson has lived as a prisoner, confined to a church that serves a poor neighborhood here. Wanted on charges of desertion in the United States and marked […]
Obama to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq as campaign expands | Reuters
Obama to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq as campaign expands | Reuters. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq, roughly doubling the number of U.S. forces on the ground to advise and retrain Iraqis in their battle against the militant group Islamic State, U.S. officials said […]
Three International Water Conflicts to Watch – Geopoliticalmonitor.com
Three International Water Conflicts to Watch – Geopoliticalmonitor.com. China-India: The Brahmaputra River The Brahmaputra River is a 2,900 km river that originates in Tibet and flows through India’s Arunachal Pradesh state before merging with the Ganges and draining into the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. It is considered an important resource in all three countries […]
ISIL fighters make gains in northern Iraq – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
ISIL fighters make gains in northern Iraq – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has continued to gain ground in northern Iraq despite weeks of US-led air strikes, and are now moving closer to the Iraq-Kurdish city of Erbil. ISIL fighters are battling Kurdish volunteer troops in the town […]
Saudi Arabia’s Two-Fronted “War” | Zero Hedge
Saudi Arabia’s Two-Fronted “War” | Zero Hedge. Saudi Arabia is the middle of two ‘wars” – religious (from The Kingdom’s perspective, Iran is a large Persian country sitting at the easternmost edge of the Middle East, from where it projects power across the Arab world by manipulating and exploiting the region’s Shiite communities and other minorities) Via Stratfor, […]
Andrew Nikiforuk Breaks Down the Global Oil Price Slump | The Tyee
Andrew Nikiforuk Breaks Down the Global Oil Price Slump | The Tyee. The dramatic slump in global oil prices has, as usual, caught governments, industry and markets off guard. In fact, Brent oil prices, a global standard, have dropped by 25 per cent since last June. Given the chaos in Iraq, Syria, Libya and the […]
The Daily Bell – Are We Ready for the Fall of Baghdad?
The Daily Bell – Are We Ready for the Fall of Baghdad?. I recently was in Vietnam and spent some time in prosperous, capitalist Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City, and toured the American War Museum. I believe there are a number of parallels between the Vietnam and Iraq War and that history could […]
