Source – mintpressnews.com – With the world on the brink of another world war over a fire lit in the Middle East, oil and gas — not ideology, religion or even nationalism — are at the very core of the equation of power and greed. Russia and the United States’ hegemonic ambitions were laid bare…
Source – geopoliticalmonitor.com – In Yemen there is no longer a government or a president. On January 22, after the Houthi, (Zaydi Shiites) militiamen in the north besieged the presidential palace in Sana’a, both interim President (since 2012) Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah (of a caretaker government which secured parliamentary confidence…
Source – original.antiwar.com – Nearly four years after NATO-backed rebels toppled the former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the North Africa country has plunged into chaotic unrest. The failure of last year’s election to achieve political unity in Libya was most evident when Fajr Libya, or “Libya Dawn” – a diverse coalition of armed groups that…
Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – The Iranian framework agreement is an astonishingly good deal, and has the potential to become a historic game-changer. As Robert Parry astutely observed, its about much more than sheaving the threat that Iran will get the bomb: The April 2 framework agreement with Iran represents more than just a diplomatic deal…
Source – theguardian.com – Opium poppy cultivation is up in Afghanistan despite the infamous mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater being paid $569m by the Pentagon to stop it In a war full of failures, the US counternarcotics mission in Afghanistan stands out: opiate production has climbed steadily over recent years to reach record-high levels…
Source – journal-neo.org – The revolutionary government of Venezuela is facing great challenges. In 1999, the Bolivarian government began the process of transforming the country into one that serves the people, and in 2002 successfully defeated a US-backed coup against it. The Venezuelan government has won clear majorities in each election, and the results of…
Source – journal-neo.org – In 2014 there was the western Africa Ebola hoax where US President Barack Obama, the first black man to be President, announced his “War on Ebola” in September last year, ordering 3,000 US military troops to the region, though reportedly none had experience in public health and no one had produced…
Source – brussellstribunal.org – The U.S.-led Multinational Force (MNA) in Iraq, the NATO International Securi-ty Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and the U.S. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF-A), also in Afghanistan, have carefully kept a running total of fatalities they have suffered. However, the military’s only interest has been in counting “their” bodies: 4,804 MNA soldiers…
Source – rt.com – Julian Assange has given an interview to an Argentinian paper from his Ecuadorian embassy asylum where he spent more than 1,000 days. He spoke about why US meddling in Ukraine led to civil war, how the West helped ISIS and Israel supported Hamas. US has long wanted to bring Ukraine to…
Source – theecologist.org – The explosive growth of Afghanistan’s heroin production after the Taliban brought the trade to a halt should be no surprise, writes Mike Whitney. It’s all part of a lucrative plan whose real objective is to create global instability, disrupt social movements, facilitate resource colonialism, and justify the US’s perpetual military presence…
Source – commondreams.org, By Deirdre Fulton – Despite public opposition that has so far blocked the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, the fossil fuels industry has successfully—and quietly—expanded the nation’s domestic oil network by installing thousands of miles of pipeline across the country, according to new reporting by the Associated Press. “Overall, the network…
Source – counterpunch.org, By MATEO PIMENTEL – “U.S. support for the Government of Colombia (GOC) is designed to attack every element of the drug trade and to assist the GOC to re-establish government control and the rule of law in areas threatened by drug-related violence.” – Fact Sheet, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement…
Source – howtoexitthematrix.com – The use of gasoline or petrol is a necessary evil in order for most us to operate in our daily lives at this time. As consciousness rises, humanity will find that the government has had technology that can operate cars and heat homes but has kept such technology hidden. Not only…
Source – yournewswire.com – Here are the three links, with a snip from each, and the video. CIA Contractor: We Fabricated ISIS “Former CIA contractor Steven Kelley has said on record that ISIS/ISIL are a fabricated terrorist group made and funded by the CIA in the United States. ““If you want to get to the…
Source – deepjournal.com – “Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It’s the oil. And it’s the Koch Brothers – and it’s the ketchup” – Greg Palast -Reverend Pat Robertson said, “Hugo Chavez thinks we’re trying to assassinate him. I think that we really ought…
Source – lisaleaks.com – WHITE HOUSE HANKY PANKY Never had Richard Nixon’s White House staff been so preoccupied with narcotics matters as in the summer of 1971. They were obsessed with two projects: a new White House intelligence and enforcement unit as envisioned by the Huston Plan, and a comprehensive narcotics control apparatus, similarly under…
Source – theguardian.com – As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored. On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad…
Source – russia-insider.com – “For the first time, too, we see the end of the petro-dollar as a system for recirculating oil revenues to Wall Street.” “The fall in the price of oil has suddenly created huge financial turbulence, which is endangering the global financial system.” is a former MI6 official, the director and founder…
Source – spyinggame.me – The book falls into four main parts. Following a preface that illuminates the fascinating story behind the story and a brief introduction on the history of heroin, the first part deals with the cross-Atlantic heroin trade from the 1940s through 1970s, with special emphasis on the Mafia and Marseille based Corsican…
Source – rt.com – An official government document revealing the true extent of this ‘special relationship’ is now available for the world to see. It surely would not have been possible for the Israelis to acquire the H-Bomb without American help, and now we know for sure that the US did indeed help – allegedly…
Source – globalresearch.ca – Part I Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US NATO Attempted Coup d’Etat in Libya? The geopolitical and economic implications of a US-NATO led military intervention directed against Libya are far-reaching. Libya is among the World’s largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the…
Source – latino.foxnews.com – On Valentine’s Day 2013, the heads of the Chicago Crime Commission and the Chicago office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration named infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as the city’s Public Enemy No. 1. The timely label, occurring 84 years after gangster Al Capone first earned it following…
Source – emergingequity.org – Cutting-edge research from British universities has confirmed a belief long held by conspiracy theorists, realists and hawkish neoconservatives alike: oil drives foreign intervention and war. Foreign governments are 100 times more likely to intervene in civil wars if the troubled state is home to hydrocarbon reserves, according to a new report…
Source – .theepochtimes.com – The former head of security for Diosdado Cabello, president of Venezuela’s national assembly and vice-president of the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV), is claiming Cabello is also head of a leading drug trafficking gang, the Cártel de los Soles (“The Suns’ Cartel”). The security officer is, Leamsy Salazar, that fled to…
Source strategic-culture.org, by Wayne Madsen – The new king of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, the half-brother of King Abdullah, who died in his early 90s from complications from pneumonia, is expected to rule with a more Wahhabist-oriented religious bent and concentrate on limiting cautious political reforms started by Abdullah. Salman is also…
Source – middleeasteye.net – The Islamic State (IS) and Saudi Arabia prescribe near-identical punishments for a host of crimes, according to documents circulated by the militant group. IS published a list of crimes and their punishments on 16 December 2014 to serve “as an explanation and as a warning” to those living in territory under…
Source – earth-heal.com – With everything that’s happening in the world today, from Iraq to Syria to Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Iran, this has to be the most exciting and volatile period in the history of mankind. In a significant political and economic development, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Jan. 23 with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting…
Source – voltairenet.org – According to the UN, world heroin production stands at 430-450 tons, of which only 340 tons actually reach the market, the rest being seized or destroyed [1]. Top heroin producing countries are: Afghanistan (at least 380 tonnes), Myanmar and Laos (at least 50 tonnes). According to John F. Sopko, the US government’s…
Source – zerohedge.com – Back in November, before most grasped just how serious the collapse in crude was (and would become, as well as its massive implications), we wrote “How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed“, because for the first time in almost two decades, energy-exporting countries would pull their “petrodollars” out of world…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – The U.S. Deep State is in favor of Saudi Arabia’s strategy of forcing production cuts on its rivals and marginal producers for two profound reasons. It is widely presumed that if the U.S. government isn’t actively concerned about the financial carnage being visited upon the domestic oil/gas sector, it should be…
Source – .thefiscaltimes.com – It’s getting serious now: On Wednesday, West Texas Intermediate futures tested a low of $46.83 a barrel before rebounding. That’s down nearly 57 percent from the summertime high of $107.68 and pushing toward the depths last seen during the 2008 financial crisis and recession that followed. Wholesale gasoline futures tested a…
Source – presstv.ir – With Saudi Arabia’s 90-year-old King Abdullah breathing from a tube in a hospital bed after being diagnosed with pneumonia, questions over what the succession process will look like in the world’s largest oil producer loom large over energy markets across the globe. Earlier in the week, Crown Prince Salman, the next…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – Let’s consider some examples of potential asymmetric-warfare tactics as they relate to the price of oil. The world has habituated to the never-ending undeclared war over ownership and access to hydrocarbons. Now we are entering a new phase of asymmetric war being waged not over oil but the price of oil.…
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