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Crazed Washington Drives the World to the Final War
Crazed Washington Drives the World to the Final War John Pilger is the kind of well-informed, hard-hitting journalist with gobs of integrity that no longer exists in the Western mainstream media. He has the most distinguished career of all in the business. In the article below he brings stunning information to one of my own […]
Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Israel, Gaza, and Energy Wars in the Middle East
Tomgram: Michael Schwartz, Israel, Gaza, and Energy Wars in the Middle East Talk of an oil glut and a potential further price drop seems to be growing. The cost of a barrel of crude now sits at just under $60, only a little more than half what it was at its most recent peak in June 2014. Meanwhile, […]
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand?
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand? In the grand poker game of geopolitics, energy is often the wild card. That’s why the Middle East is such a mess: Great Powers (first Britain, more recently the United States) have been installing, propping up, toppling, threatening, or bribing regimes in that region — almost always to […]
Welcome to World War Three
Welcome to World War Three In case anyone didn’t get ISIL’s message from their latest video in which 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians have their heads sawn off, here it is: “We’re executioners, not warriors.” Those gouts of blood spilled on a Libyan beach amount to ISIL’s welcome mat to the mass execution of the Euro-American […]
Great War of the American Empire or Great War II
Great War of the American Empire or Great War II Looking at a map of current American military engagements overseas, one cannot help but notice their wide geographical spread and their seemingly interminable nature. Battles have raged in Europe (Yugoslavia and Ukraine), in Africa, in the Middle East, and in central Asia. The American Empire […]
Obama’s Force Authorization is a Blank Check for War Worldwide
Obama’s Force Authorization is a Blank Check for War Worldwide The president is requesting Congress to pass an authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) resolution against ISIS. Congress has not issued a similar resolution since 2002, when President Bush was given the authority to wage war against Iraq. The purpose of this resolution […]
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: The Entire Oil Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: The Entire Oil Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria While the markets are still debating whether the price of oil is more impacted by the excess pumping of crude here, or the lack of demand there, or if it is all just a mechanical squeeze by momentum-chasing […]
The Next War In The Middle East Has Begun And Israel Vows ‘To Act Powerfully On All Fronts’
The Next War In The Middle East Has Begun And Israel Vows ‘To Act Powerfully On All Fronts’ Israel and Hezbollah are at war. On top of everything else that is going on in the world, now we have a new war in the Middle East, and nobody is quite certain what is going to […]
For Sale to the Highest Bidder – How Middle Eastern Governments Are Buying Off the U.S. Political Process
For Sale to the Highest Bidder – How Middle Eastern Governments Are Buying Off the U.S. Political Process The quaint notion that the U.S. political system remotely resembles either a Republic or a Democracy should have been abandoned long ago. Any lingering illusions were surely extinguished last year, when an academic study empirically proved that the USA […]
Vast reserves of fossil fuels should be left untapped
Vast reserves of fossil fuels should be left untapped Researchers have identified the major producers of coal, gas and oil that stand to lose most financially if agreement is reached on radical cuts needed to avoid dangerous climate change. LONDON, 8 January, 2015 − The sheer scale of the fossil fuel reserves that will need to […]
Egypt And The Double-Edged Sword Of Cheap Oil
Egypt And The Double-Edged Sword Of Cheap Oil. The good news for Egypt: Inexpensive oil means the government needs to spend less on its fuel subsidies for its energy-hungry population of 86 million people, the third largest in the Middle East. The bad news: Rich oil-producing countries in the region are making less money on their […]
Iran stages massive military display to ‘send message of peace’ to neighbors — RT News
Iran stages massive military display to ‘send message of peace’ to neighbors — RT News. Iran has launched a six-day exercise involving all branches of its military. The large-scale, armed forces display is meant as a demonstration of defense capabilities and a test of new weapons, Iranian officials said. Codenamed Mohammad Rasoulallah (Mohammad, the Messenger […]
A Pessimist’s Guide To The World In 2015 | Zero Hedge
A Pessimist’s Guide To The World In 2015 | Zero Hedge. Skirmishes in the South China Sea lead to full-scale naval confrontation. Israel bombs Iran, setting off an escalation of violence across the Middle East. Nigeria crumbles as oil prices fall and radicals gain strength. Bloomberg News asked foreign policy analysts, military experts, economists and investors to […]
The Middle East in 2015 and Beyond: Trends and Drivers (Page 1)
The Middle East in 2015 and Beyond: Trends and Drivers (Page 1). Four years after the uprisings that broke the mold of the old Middle East, 2015 promises to be another year of tumultuous change. The eruptions of 2011 unleashed decades of pent-up tensions and dysfunction in the political, socioeconomic, and cultural spheres; these dynamics […]
ISIL and Iran to dominate Gulf Arab summit – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
ISIL and Iran to dominate Gulf Arab summit – Middle East – Al Jazeera English. Gulf Arab leaders have arrived in the Qatari capital for a summit expected to push forward plans for a unified military command and an Interpol-like agency to counter regional foe Iran and self-declared jihadist groups. Foreign ministers from the six-member […]
