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Top 5 Oil Producing Countries Could See Production Peak This Year
Top 5 Oil Producing Countries Could See Production Peak This Year The EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook came out a few days ago. That is where they try to guess the future production and price for oil, for the USA as well as the world. As of late they seem to be getting a little timid with their […]
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising There’s been a virtual blackout of news from this year’s seventh annual BRICS summit in Ufa, Russia. None of the mainstream media organizations are covering the meetings or making any attempt to explain what’s going on. As a result, the American people remain largely in the dark about a powerful coalition […]
Mapping The World’s “Grey Swans”
Mapping The World’s “Grey Swans” As H2 2015 begins, Goldman looks at so-called “grey swans” – known market risks that could prove particularly disruptive. From China credit risks to Russia and from rate volatility to Russia with Middle East tensions, cyber threats, and illiquidity-induced ‘flash-crashes’, the known-but-not-priced-in risks are rising… because – simply put – central bank omnipotence […]
MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog
MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog Exclusive: Almost a year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine killing 298 people. Yet, instead of a transparent investigation seeking justice, the case became a propaganda game of finger-pointing, with the CIA withholding key evidence all the better to blame Russia, reports Robert Parry. The Dutch […]
President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal
President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal So that U.S. President Barack Obama can end a roadblock and win the agreement of other nations for his proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, he has decided to remove one of the nations, Malaysia, from the U.S. State Department’s official list of countries that allow […]
Maintaining the Illusion of Stability Now Requires Ever-Greater Extremes
Maintaining the Illusion of Stability Now Requires Ever-Greater Extremes This much-needed re-set to an economy that serves the many rather than the few is what the Powers That Be are so fearful of. On the surface, everything still looks remarkably stable in the core industrial economies. The stock markets in Japan, Germany and the U.S. are […]
Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Hegemony
Russia, Ukraine and U.S. Hegemony The following is an edited version of a talk by the author as part of a panel at a public forum in Toronto on June 12, 2015. The forum was sponsored by the Centre for Social Justice and Socialist Project. You can view the talk here on ‘Left Streamed’. The Ukraine/Russia […]
The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war
The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war The control of resources remains a core factor in US considerations for sustaining global US hegemony in the face of rising geopolitical influence of its major rivals Last week, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff released the new National Military Strategy of the United States of America, 2015. The […]
SoT #41 – Wolf Richter: How Will The Global Asset Bubbles Unfold?
SoT #41 – Wolf Richter: How Will The Global Asset Bubbles Unfold? Stock bubble, credit market bubbles and housing market bubbles. Unfettered money printing by Central Banks globally have created massive bubbles of unprecedented proportions across all asset classes. Once Government and the Central Banks lose the power to stop markets from going down, you’ll […]
US Still Won’t Confirm Israeli Nukes
US Still Won’t Confirm Israeli Nukes Among the more absurd aspects of U.S. foreign policy is the persistent refusal to confirm that Israel has a nuclear arsenal, even as U.S. officials threaten and even attack other countries for allegedly harboring the intent to build a single bomb, hypocrisy that Sam Husseini dissects. Retired Gen. (and […]
A Fine Balance: China’s Need for Resources and Stability in the South China Sea
A Fine Balance: China’s Need for Resources and Stability in the South China Sea The shift in demographic and economic weight from Europe to East Asia has intensified over the past 20 years, which makes East Asia and its coastal areas increasingly important – a critical shift in current and future international relations dynamics underscored […]
Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation
Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation “Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government. When terrorists attacked the country, and government […]
The Pope’s Letter: Neoliberalism and Fukushima
The Pope’s Letter: Neoliberalism and Fukushima Japan’s Social Disintegration Japanese sociologist and Tokyo Metropolitan University professor, Shinji Miyadai argues that European nations progressed from the communal self-governance of food to the communal self-governance of energy after World War II. Miyadai compares Europe’s post-war developments with those of post-war Japan in his article entitled ‘Pitfalls of […]
Is Saudi Arabia Leaving The U.S. Behind For Russia?
Is Saudi Arabia Leaving The U.S. Behind For Russia? The news from the recent St. Petersburg Economic Forum, which took place from June 18 to 20, inspired a torrent of speculation on the future direction of energy prices. But the real buzz at the conference was the unexpected but much publicized visit of the Saudi […]
Asia depends on Middle East for 66 % of its oil imports
Asia depends on Middle East for 66 % of its oil imports This post uses data from the inter area oil movement section of the BP Statistical Review published in June 2015. It is a continuation of an earlier post on Asian oil consumption and production Global trade and Asia’s share Total global oil trade […]
