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Oil Crashes After Reports OPEC+ Talsk End Without A Deal
Oil Crashes After Reports OPEC+ Talsk End Without A Deal Update (1015ET): Reports, citing a delegate, for the first time in six years, OPEC ends talks in Vienna without a deal. being agreed. Oil prices are extending their collapse… * * * Update (0950ET): Bloomberg reports that OPEC+ talks “are on the verge of collapse” as it becomes clear […]
“No Deal In Sight” – Oil Plunges After Russia Rejects Additional OPEC+ Cut
“No Deal In Sight” – Oil Plunges After Russia Rejects Additional OPEC+ Cut Brent crude futures tumbled by more than 4% on Friday after Reuters reported that Russia had rejected steep production cuts by OPEC to prop up oil prices amid the Covid-19 outbreak triggering demand shocks in China and across the world. A high-level Russian source told Reuters […]
Saudis Urge More Than 1 Million Bpd Oil Cut To Prop Up Prices, Russia Opposes
Saudis Urge More Than 1 Million Bpd Oil Cut To Prop Up Prices, Russia Opposes Update (0800ET): The Wall Street Journal reports that Russia opposes the Saudi plan to deepen OPEC+ cuts by 1.2mm b/d. Developing… * * * As we detailed earlier, Brent crude futures were up 75 cents, or 1.45%, at 52.61 a […]
Are Russia and Turkey on a Collision Course?
Are Russia and Turkey on a Collision Course? The murder of the Iranian hero-martyr General Soleimani created a situation in which a war between Iran and the Axis of Kindness (USA/Israel/KSA) became a real possibility but, at the very last minute, Uncle Shmuel decided that he had no stomach for a full-scale war against Iran. […]
Dozens Of Turkish Soldiers Killed In Russian Airstrike; Erdogan Holds Emergency Meeting
Dozens Of Turkish Soldiers Killed In Russian Airstrike; Erdogan Holds Emergency Meeting Within hours of a meeting between Turkish and Russian diplomats in Ankara ending which saw the Turkish delegation urge its counterparts to immediately establish a cease-fire in Idlib, there are new reports of that dozens of Turkish soldiers have been killed by a new wave of Russian airstrikes. […]
Red Gold: China’s Stealth Plan to Use Gold for World Domination
Red Gold: China’s Stealth Plan to Use Gold for World Domination Gold used to be important. During and after World War II, every major developed country amassed as much physical gold as they could. It stabilized currencies and signaled independence. But with the end of the gold standard in 1971, most countries began to sell […]
Trump Sanctions Rosneft, Russia’s Largest Oil Company, For Helping Maduro In Venezuela
Trump Sanctions Rosneft, Russia’s Largest Oil Company, For Helping Maduro In Venezuela The Trump administration announced significant new sanctions on Tuesday targeting Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company, for helping Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro circumvent U.S. sanctions. Specifically, the sanction targets Rosneft Trading SA, a unit of Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft, as well as company’s […]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, War in the Arctic?
Tomgram: Michael Klare, War in the Arctic? When I first met Michael Klare in the late Neolithic age (it was actually the early 1970s), he was already researching the U.S. military in a way no one else was doing. His first book on the subject, War Without End: American Planning for the Next Vietnams, had just been […]
Are There Really 10,000 Diagnosed Covid-19 Cases In Wuhan That Aren’t Being Counted?
Are There Really 10,000 Diagnosed Covid-19 Cases In Wuhan That Aren’t Being Counted? Summary: UK hospital confirms worker found to be infected treated ‘small number’ of patients Russia releases two Chinese nationals who recovered from virus China Grand Prix likely to be cancelled Couple onboard ‘Diamond Princess’ tell CNBC situation is “frankly terrifying”. AFP publishes […]
Turkey Deploys Hundreds Of Tanks, APCs And Commandos To Idlib; Attacks Syrian Army
Turkey Deploys Hundreds Of Tanks, APCs And Commandos To Idlib; Attacks Syrian Army With the geopolitical situation now firmly on the backburner, we remind readers that the last time we checked into the flurry of recent events in Syria over the weekend, we found that the Syrian Army was making major gains inside Idlib in a […]
The Race For Arctic Oil Is Heating Up
The Race For Arctic Oil Is Heating Up Despite climate concerns and environmentalist backlash against exploration for oil and gas in pristine sensitive regions of the Arctic, companies continue to explore for hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic Circle, in Russia and Norway in particular. The largest Russian energy companies are looking to explore more Arctic […]
US East Coast No Longer “Safe Haven” Due To Russian Submarines, Admiral Warns
US East Coast No Longer “Safe Haven” Due To Russian Submarines, Admiral Warns US Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis, the head of the Navy’s 2nd Fleet, raised eyebrows this week with alarming comments made at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event. He told the think tank audience that a recent uptick of Russian submarine […]
OPEC+ Committee Fails To Agree On Proposed Production Cuts
OPEC+ Committee Fails To Agree On Proposed Production Cuts Oil futures remain in a bear market following the collapse in oil demand from China amid two-thirds of its economy shutdown following the coronavirus outbreak. This forced the OPEC+ technical committee to meet in Vienna, Austria, for a third day this week, to discuss the importance of slashing […]
How the U.S. Regime and Its Allies Enforce Their Smears and Their Other Lies
How the U.S. Regime and Its Allies Enforce Their Smears and Their Other Lies Without enforced suppression of truth, there would be no way that the U.S. and its allied regimes could continue hiding the lies that were behind their invasions of Iraq in 2003, and of Syria since 2012, and their coup against Ukraine in 2014, and […]
What Europe Can Do to Avoid WWIII? Say ‘No!’ Now to Its Start
What Europe Can Do to Avoid WWIII? Say ‘No!’ Now to Its Start The US Government, which had lied its way into invading and destroying Iraq in 2003 (with a little help from UK and Europeans), wants Europeans to pitch-in for more US-run invasions. Europeans find this disturbing, but not repulsive enough to say, flat-out, “No!” to it. However, only that […]
