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How Saudi/Gulf Money Fuels Terror
How Saudi/Gulf Money Fuels Terror Exclusive: With the death toll in the Paris terror attacks still rising, French President Hollande is condemning an “act of war” by the Islamic State, but the underlying reality is that France’s rich friends in the Persian Gulf are key accomplices in the mayhem, writes Daniel Lazare. In the wake of […]
2-Mile Long Stretch Of Iraqi Oil Tankers Bound For U.S. Shores
2-Mile Long Stretch Of Iraqi Oil Tankers Bound For U.S. Shores After some initial excitement, November has seen crude oil prices collapse back towards cycle lows amid demand doubts (e.g. slumping China oil imports, overflowing Chinese oil capacity, plunging China Industrial Production) and supply concerns (e.g. inventories soaring). However, an even bigger problem looms that […]
The Biggest Threat To Oil Prices: 2-Mile Long Stretch Of Iraq Oil Tankers Headed For The U.S.
The Biggest Threat To Oil Prices: 2-Mile Long Stretch Of Iraq Oil Tankers Headed For The U.S. After some initial excitement, November has seen crude oil prices collapse back towards cycle lows amid demand doubts (e.g. sllumping China oil imports, overflowing Chinese oil capacity, plunging China Industrial Production) and supply concerns (e.g. inventories soaring). However, […]
The Middle East Could Face A Historic Crisis By Century’s End
The Middle East Could Face A Historic Crisis By Century’s End Regarding the Middle East and its oil, the late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saed Al Maktoum, longtime Emir of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, once famously remarked: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my […]
Europe Will Never Be The Same. Neither Will The World.
Europe Will Never Be The Same. Neither Will The World. RLOppenheimer New flag for EU 2015To reiterate: People are genetically biased against change, because change means potential danger. People are also genetically biased against acknowledging this bias, because they wish to see themselves as being able to cope with both change and danger. Put together, this means […]
NATO Looks To Station Thousands Of Troops On Border With Russia
NATO Looks To Station Thousands Of Troops On Border With Russia Russia’s dramatic intervention in Syria has served to push the conflict in Ukraine (a country that is now partially governedby Star Wars characters) to the back of the world’s collective mind. After all, separatists exchanging fire with government forces and/or far-right “volunteer” battalions every couple […]
US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences”
US Ground Troops In Syria Is “Illegal, Big Mistake”, Russia Warns Obama Of “Unpredictable Consequences” On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US would no longer hesitate to engage in “direct action on the ground” in Iraq and Syria. The change in rhetoric (and apparent shift in strategy) comes just days after […]
Deal defies global call for arms embargo over mounting evidence of the Saudi dictatorship’s war crimes in Yemen.
Deal defies global call for arms embargo over mounting evidence of the Saudi dictatorship’s war crimes in Yemen. Defying the international call for an arms embargo over war crimes concerns, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced Tuesday it has approved an $11.25 billion deal to sell combat ships to Saudi Arabia, which has been […]
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart “Things fall apart”is an apt sub-title for historians to apply to the first half of the 21st century. The phrase properly describes the collapse of the domestic and foreign policy of the United States. Further, it also is appropriate to describe the happenings in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Things fall apart describes the economy […]
Lockheed Martin, Boeing Rally Around Saudi Arabia, Wave Off Humanitarian Concerns
Lockheed Martin, Boeing Rally Around Saudi Arabia, Wave Off Humanitarian Concerns Representatives from two major defense contractors whose advanced weaponry is being used in the Saudi Arabia-led bombing campaign that has killed scores of civilians in Yemen were quick to defend the human rights record of the Persian Gulf kingdom in a panel discussion held […]
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Great War in the Middle East
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Great War in the Middle East Sometimes I imagine the last 14 years of American war policy in the Greater Middle East as a set of dismal Mad Libs. An example might be: The United States has spent [your choice of multiple billions of dollars] building up [fill in name […]
Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here’s Why
Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here’s Why Vladimir Putin is basking in Russia’s triumphant return to the world stage. What began with a land grab in Crimea and escalated with support for the separatists at Donetsk, culminated in Moscow’s dramatic entry into Syria’s protracted civil war. To be sure, the deplorable […]
The Syrian terror trap
The Syrian terror trap The US, Russia and Iran are fracturing the Levant Leaked US diplomatic cables show that the US sought to undermine the Assad regime nearly a decade ago. But that’s not the whole story. In 2011, as peaceful protestors rallied across Syria, Assad was courted by the Obama administration as a potential […]
Will The Crazed Neocons Bring Us Nuclear Winter?
Will The Crazed Neocons Bring Us Nuclear Winter? As readers know, I have emphasized that the declared neoconservative intention of achieving global hegemony has resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon as Russia and China are most definitely not going to submit, as every European country, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Columbia, and Japan have […]
Saudis Poke The Russian Bear, Start Oil War In Eastern Europe
Saudis Poke The Russian Bear, Start Oil War In Eastern Europe Any weakening of Russian support for Mr. Assad could be one of the first signs that the recent tumult in the oil market is having an impact on global statecraft. Saudi officials have said publicly that the price of oil reflects only global supply […]
