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The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin
The US-Russia gas pipeline war in Syria could destabilise Putin Military solutions are not the answer to the perfect storm of climate, energy, food, economic and geopolitical crises facing Russia For the last few years, the Saudi kingdom’s insistence on pumping oil at high capacity has dramatically depressed oil prices. The result has undermined Saudi’s major oil […]
Einsteinian Insanity: US, Saudi Arabia Pledge To Provide More Guns, Ammo To Syrian Proxy Armies
Einsteinian Insanity: US, Saudi Arabia Pledge To Provide More Guns, Ammo To Syrian Proxy Armies You have to hand it to Washington. When it comes to foreign policy blunders, the US certainly isn’t afraid to double and triple down. As a leaked diplomatic cable from 2006 definitively shows, the US has actively sought to stoke sectarian violence […]
“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers”
“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers” Earlier this week, Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir had the following message for Tehran: “We wish that Iran would change its policies and stop meddling in the affairs of other countries in the region, in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. We will make […]
Russia “Confirms” It Has Plans To Restore Assad Government In Syria
Russia “Confirms” It Has Plans To Restore Assad Government In Syria Watching the US attempt to explain to the public why Washington can’t join the Russians in targeting extremists in Syria has been entertainment gold. The fundamental PR problem revolves around the fact that the West has gone out of its way to hold up […]
Secret Cable Reveals US Plan To Overthrow Assad By Exploiting “Extremist Groups”
Secret Cable Reveals US Plan To Overthrow Assad By Exploiting “Extremist Groups” Now that Europe’s worsening refugee crisis and Russia’s stepped up support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad have (finally) focused the world’s attention on Syria’s four-year, bloody civil war, inquiring minds want to know: how did it happen that the country, which is […]
Migrant Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines
Migrant Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines Don’t let anyone fool you: Sectarian strife in Syria has been engineered to provide cover for a war for access to oil and gas, and the power and money that come along with it. Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect recent Wikileaks […]
In Major Escalation, Washington Demands Greece Blocks Its Airspace For Russian Flights To Syria
In Major Escalation, Washington Demands Greece Blocks Its Airspace For Russian Flights To Syria Last week, when reporting that at least according to the White House,Russian presence in Syria is no longer disputed, we said that regardless if Russian troops are indeed on the Syrian ground, this admission that the current Syrian state of play “effectively ends […]
Fallout From Petrodollar Demise Continues As Qatar Borrows $4 Billion Amid Crude Slump
Fallout From Petrodollar Demise Continues As Qatar Borrows $4 Billion Amid Crude Slump Early last month in “Cash-Strapped Saudi Arabia Hopes To Continue War Against Shale With Fed’s Blessing,” we noted the irony inherent in the fact that Saudi Arabia, whose effort to bankrupt the US shale space has blown a giant hole in the […]
Gulf Markets Melting Down: Saudi Arabia Plunges 7%, Dubai Sold
Gulf Markets Melting Down: Saudi Arabia Plunges 7%, Dubai Sold Following the end of a horrible week for petroleum importers (not to mention shale producers) despite WTI briefly dipping under $40 (wasn’t this supposed to be great news for the US economy?) we have the start of a just as ugly week for the Persian […]
Oil Producers Could See “Regime Change”: Bloomberg
Oil Producers Could See “Regime Change”: Bloomberg As we’ve noted previously, the US-Saudi joint effort to force the Kremlin into cutting Assad loose (the end goal of course being to install a government that will acquiesce to mainlining Qatari natural gas through Syria straight into Europe thus breaking Gazprom’s stranglehold), has resulted in a bit of collateral […]
How Russia Plans To Retaliate To The Saudi-Driven Collapse In Oil
How Russia Plans To Retaliate To The Saudi-Driven Collapse In Oil A week ago we explained that yet another conspiracy theory, one involving virtually every geopolitical hotzone, from Saudi Arabia, to Russia, the United States, Qatar, Syria, ISIS, and Ukraine, has become fact when our speculation from last September, namely that the plunge in oil was an choreographed […]
Petrodollar Panic? China Signs Currency Swap Deal With Qatar & Canada | Zero Hedge
Petrodollar Panic? China Signs Currency Swap Deal With Qatar & Canada | Zero Hedge. The march of global de-dollarization continues. In the last few days, China has signed direct currency agreements with Canada becoming North America’s first offshore RMB hub, which CBC reports analysts suggest “could double maybe even triple the level of Canadian trade between Canada and China,” […]
