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Shale Pioneer: Fracking Is An “Unmitigated Disaster”
Shale Pioneer: Fracking Is An “Unmitigated Disaster” Fracking has been an “unmitigated disaster” for shale companies themselves, according to a prominent former shale executive. “The shale gas revolution has frankly been an unmitigated disaster for any buy-and-hold investor in the shale gas industry with very few limited exceptions,” Steve Schlotterbeck, former chief executive of EQT, […]
JOHN KIRIAKOU: CIA Seeking More Impunity
JOHN KIRIAKOU: CIA Seeking More Impunity The agency is trying to get a pass on crimes even before they’re committed and it represents a threat to press freedom. The CIA has quietly asked the Senate Intelligence Committee to include a provision in its next authorization bill that would vastly expand the definition of a “covert agent” whose identity […]
The New Tanker War – Trump Pampers the US Shale Oil Industry
The New Tanker War – Trump Pampers the US Shale Oil Industry The situation in the Gulf of Oman is getting worse. After the attacks on two tankers, Khamenei said that he would never sit at the negotiating table with the US again.1)So Iran will continue its nuclear program till the Israeli strategists interpret its […]
Ten Minutes to War
Ten Minutes to War Donald Trump pulled back from igniting a potentially disastrous war in the Persian Gulf on Thursday night with just 10 minutes to spare, but the super-hawks he surrounded himself with will probably try again, writes Joe Lauria. The commander-in-chief acted like one, if only briefly, on Thursday night when he said […]
Starvation Sanctions Are Worse Than Overt Warfare
Starvation Sanctions Are Worse Than Overt Warfare “We are putting major additional Sanctions on Iran on Monday,” President Trump tweeted today. “I look forward to the day that Sanctions come off Iran, and they become a productive and prosperous nation again – The sooner the better!” Iran’s economy is already floundering due to the steadily mounting sanctions that the Trump administration has been […]
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange LONDON—On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly trimmed, slipped on […]
The Coming Sino-American Bust-Up
The Coming Sino-American Bust-Up Whether or not US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agree to another truce at the upcoming G20 summit in Osaka, the Sino-American conflict has already entered a dangerous new phase. Though a negotiated settlement or a managed continuation of the status quo are possible, a sharp escalation […]
Who Survives the Iran Counter-Offensive?
Who Survives the Iran Counter-Offensive? Iran has had enough. I think it’s fair to say that after 60+ years of U.S. aggression towards Iran that the decision to shoot down a U.S. drone represents an inflection point in world politics. In the first few hours after the incident the fog of war was thick. But […]
The New Tanker War – Trump Pampers the US Shale Oil Industry
The New Tanker War – Trump Pampers the US Shale Oil Industry The situation in the Gulf of Oman is getting worse. After the attacks on two tankers, Khamenei said that he would never sit at the negotiating table with the US again.1)So Iran will continue its nuclear program till the Israeli strategists interpret its […]
Persian Gulf oil export peak after tanker attacks?
Persian Gulf oil export peak after tanker attacks? Tankers holed and burning in the Gulf of Oman are not a good sign for future oil exports from the Persian Gulf. Oil exports from the Persian Gulf have been peaking in the last 3 years 2016-2018 at around 22.3 mb/d. That was before the US sanctions […]
Trump Messaged Iran With Last Second Opening For Talks Just Before Calling Off Strikes: Report
Trump Messaged Iran With Last Second Opening For Talks Just Before Calling Off Strikes: Report More dramatic details have trickled out this morning surrounding last night’s US military strike operations on Iran, which were reportedly called off at the last moment by President Trump even as American ships and missile batteries were in position, even including planes in the […]
What About Venezuela’s Hacked Power Grid?
What About Venezuela’s Hacked Power Grid? Russia and the US are engaging in tit-for-tat hacking of each others’ power grid, the New York Times is reporting, in what is really a kind of cyber “cold war” where the hackers from each country’s military and intelligence services load electronic “explosives” in the computer systems of critical […]
The Ugly View of Western Democracy
The Ugly View of Western Democracy From flimsy false flags in the Gulf to the signing of Assange’s extradition warrant, Craig Murray reviews the abuses of power made obvious in the past two weeks. Standing back a little and surveying the events of the last couple of weeks, gives a bleak view of the current […]
