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Saudi Arabia Prepares To Send Special Forces To Syria; Will Fight As Part Of “US-Led Coalition”
Saudi Arabia Prepares To Send Special Forces To Syria; Will Fight As Part Of “US-Led Coalition” As we reported yesterday, in one of the most surprising developments involving the Syrian proxy war, Saudi Arabia and U.S. presence on the ground, the latest twist is that both Turkey and Saudi Arabia are now mulling a full-scale […]
Turkey, Saudi Arabia Mull Syria Ground Invasion As Russia, Hezbollah Decimate Rebels
Turkey, Saudi Arabia Mull Syria Ground Invasion As Russia, Hezbollah Decimate Rebels “What’s going on in Syria can only go on for so long. At some point it has to change,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters on a plane back to Turkey from Latin America over the weekend. As we’ve documented extensively over […]
Venezuela fails to persuade Saudis to cut oil production
Venezuela fails to persuade Saudis to cut oil production Meeting called ‘successful,’ but no word of agreement to help boost prices AFP/Getty ImagesVenezuela’s minister of petroleum and mining, Eulogio Del Pino, seen in December. DUBAI — Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi met with his Venezuelan counterpart on Sunday but didn’t announce any plans for the […]
Risking World War III in Syria
Risking World War III in Syria Exclusive: After Saudi-backed Syrian rebels balked at peace talks and the Russian-backed Syrian army cut off Turkish supply lines to jihadists and other Syrian rebels, the U.S. and its Mideast Sunni “allies” appear poised to invade Syria and force “regime change” even at the risk of fighting Russia, a gamble […]
North Dakota’s Economy Has Been “Completely Devastated” By Oil’s Collapse
North Dakota’s Economy Has Been “Completely Devastated” By Oil’s Collapse Yesterday, on the way to documenting the malaise China’s hard landing has inflicted on Minnesota’s mining country, we discussed the dramatic impact falling crude prices have had on the American and Canadian oil patches. Take Texas, for instance, where a year of crude carnage has wreaked havoc […]
Saudi Arabia “Ready To Send Ground Troops To Syria”
Saudi Arabia “Ready To Send Ground Troops To Syria” Last month, when Saudi Arabia announced it would be heading (that’s heading, not beheading) a 34-nation “anti-terror coalition”, everyone who knows anything at all about the Mid-East and about the sectarian divide laughed hysterically. Why? Because Saudi Arabia is without question the world’s number one state sponsor […]
‘Occupied’ Norway a window into our fossil fuel addiction
‘Occupied’ Norway a window into our fossil fuel addiction Okay, I admit that the premise of Norwegian television’s new political thriller series “Occupied” is far-fetched. But that premise is a window on just how addicted to fossil fuels we are. In “Occupied” Norway’s Green Party wins parliamentary elections and makes good on its (not-altogether-fictional) promise to shut […]
Wahhabism, ISIS, and the Saudi Connection
Wahhabism, ISIS, and the Saudi Connection The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has become somewhat of a revelation to the international community over the last several months. Commencing with the desertion from Al-Qaeda, to the self-proclamation of Caliph by its leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and finally the surge in Iraq […]
Glistening Gold & The Rumble In The Ruble – America’s “Tribute Scam” Is Unraveling Fast
Glistening Gold & The Rumble In The Ruble – America’s “Tribute Scam” Is Unraveling Fast Before we discuss The Empire of Chaos ongoing attacks on “The Assassin Putin” and The Master of the Universe attempts to topple any challenge to Washington’s global hegemony, we thought the following chart may give some much needed context for […]
Do Canadians Want To Stay In The Oil Business?
Do Canadians Want To Stay In The Oil Business? The Canadian oilpatch is facing unprecedented challenges from uncontrollable forces outside our borders where oil prices and the vast majority of supply and demand are determined. There are a variety of variables. A light tight oil boom in the U.S. adding production in volumes not so […]
Saudi Arabia Conducted 119 Airstrikes Against Civilian Targets In Yemen, UN Panel Finds
Saudi Arabia Conducted 119 Airstrikes Against Civilian Targets In Yemen, UN Panel Finds In March, Saudi Arabia’s air campaign in Yemen will enter its second year. Riyadh began flying combat missions last year in an effort to rollback the Iran-backed militiamen who drove Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi into exile. The results of the […]
US Abets Saudi War Crimes in Yemen
US Abets Saudi War Crimes in Yemen U.S. officials are quick to decry “human rights violations” in “enemy” states, but different rules apply to “allies” such as Saudi Arabia, which is committing war crimes in Yemen and executing dissidents at home while the Obama administration aids and abets the atrocities, writes Marjorie Cohn for TeleSUR. […]
Oil Crash Only The Tip Of The Iceberg
Oil Crash Only The Tip Of The Iceberg We may be enjoying amazingly low prices at the gas pump, but as oil prices continueing to slide we must also remember the catastrophic events that have followed almost every drastic oil price slump in the past. At this point, it’s not likely a question of ‘if’, […]
Attention Finally Turns To Saudi Arabia’s “Secret” US Treasury Holdings
Attention Finally Turns To Saudi Arabia’s “Secret” US Treasury Holdings In November of 2014, we announced the quiet death of the petrodollar. The system which underwrote decades of dollar dominance and kept a perpetual bid under USD assets met an untimely demise when the Saudis moved to bankrupt the US shale complex by deliberately suppressing oil prices. […]
The Birth Of The PetroYuan (In 2 Pictures)
The Birth Of The PetroYuan (In 2 Pictures) Give me that!! It belongs to the Chinese now! h/t @FedPorn As we previously detailed, two topics we’ve deemed critically important to a thorough understanding of both global finance and the shifting geopolitical landscape are the death of the petrodollar and the idea of yuan hegemony. In November […]
