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Half A Million Bpd At Risk From Geopolitical Firestorm
Half A Million Bpd At Risk From Geopolitical Firestorm It’s been a long time since geopolitical developments caused major movements in the oil price, but the escalating tension between the U.S. and Iran, combined with the sudden military clashes in Iraq, has pushed geopolitical risk back on to the agenda for the oil market. “Geopolitical […]
The Deep State’s Bogus ‘Iranian Threat’
The Deep State’s Bogus ‘Iranian Threat’ Yesterday we identified a permanent fiscal crisis as one of the quadruple witching forces arising in October 2017 which will shatter the global financial bubble. Today the Donald is on the cusp of making the crisis dramatically worse by decertifying the Iranian nuke deal, thereby reinforcing another false narrative that enables the $1 […]
Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran
Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran With his Iran speech U.S. President Trump has taken a huge step into uncharted territories. One that implies a 60-75% risk of leading to a US attack on Iran. Behind him stands the hardline militarists whom he has himself appointed. Secondly, neo-conservative individuals and think tanks who have […]
Iran’s Top General Meets With Kurdish President Barzani As U.S. Neocons Push For War
Iran’s Top General Meets With Kurdish President Barzani As U.S. Neocons Push For War In an unexpected diplomatic turn of events which underscores the seriousness of escalating tensions between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard (which last week were designated by the US as a terrorist […]
War with Iran Was Planned Decades Ago
War with Iran Was Planned Decades Ago Last night, as I reflected on my recent three-part series filled with bold predictions, I began to question whether or not I was being too negative. Upon hearing Trump’s Iran speech today, I became convinced that everything I wrote had merit. The speech was downright terrifying, serving to […]
Trump Invites “Crushing” Response After Designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard As Terrorist Organization
Trump Invites “Crushing” Response After Designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard As Terrorist Organization While Trump’s just announced decision to decertify the Iranian nuclear deal, giving Congress 60 days to decide whether to unwind Obama’s landmark deal, was widely leaked previously even though few can point to what terms of the agreement Iran has violated, one aspect […]
Trump’s Scary Nuclear Doctrine
Trump’s Scary Nuclear Doctrine Pleasing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and terrifying almost everybody else, President Trump is threatening nuclear war against North Korea and, by implication, war with Iran, as ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke explains. There are acres of print analyzing “will he, or won’t he” in respect to President Trump taking military action in […]
The Geopolitical Consequences Of U.S. Oil Exports
The Geopolitical Consequences Of U.S. Oil Exports Two crucial things happened yesterday. The first you may have noticed – oil prices moved back up. As for the second, most so-called “experts” seemed to have missed. See, the environment we’re seeing in energy markets is very different from what we saw only a week ago, when […]
Donald Trump: Warmonger-in-Chief!
Donald Trump: Warmonger-in-Chief! If a world conflagration, God forbid, should break out during the Trump Administration, its genesis will not be too hard to discover: the thin-skinned, immature, shallow, doofus which currently resides in the Oval Office! This past week, the Donald has continued his bellicose talk with both veiled and explicit threats against purported […]
Iran Threatens America: If New Sanctions Pass, US Military “Would Be At Risk”
Iran Threatens America: If New Sanctions Pass, US Military “Would Be At Risk” In the coming days, president Trump is expected to announce that he will decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal, a step that potentially could cause the historic Obama-era accord to unravel. Under the 2015 deal, Iran agreed to limit its disputed nuclear program […]
Is This The Geopolitical Shift Of The Century?
Is This The Geopolitical Shift Of The Century? The geopolitical reality in the Middle East is changing dramatically. The impact of the Arab Spring, the retraction of the U.S. military, and diminishing economic influence on the Arab world—as displayed during the Obama Administration—are facts. The emergence of a Russian-Iranian-Turkish triangle is the new reality. The […]
Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports
Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports Iraq, Iran, and Turkey are taking a unified stance against Kurdistan’s oil sector after the region elected to seek independence from Baghdad in a referendum in September, according to a new report by Rudaw. “In the case of northern Iraq, Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form […]
Iran Deploys Tanks To Border With Iraqi Kurdistan
Iran Deploys Tanks To Border With Iraqi Kurdistan Days before last week’s Kurdistan referendum, Iran took steps to isolate and punish the Iraqi Kurdistan region and the government in Erbil (KRG). This included closing Iranian airspace to northern Iraq’s two international airports and sending Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard forces to conduct drills along the northwest […]
