Source – bloomberg.com “…IMF also calculates implicit fossil fuel subsidies, which include the cost of things such as undercharging for environmental costs and failing to levy taxes on consumption. Adding those in and the total subsidies ballooned to US$7 trillion in 2022. That’s an increase of US$2 trillion compared to 2020” Fossil fuel subsidies hit…
Source – new.thecradle.co “…According to Damascus, Syria’s energy sector as a whole was robbed by an astonishing $107 billion between 2011 and 2022 by a toxic mix of US occupation, “coalition” bombing, and theft or looting by terrorist and separatist gangs” Syria: a tale of plunder and resurrection While the wholesale theft of Syria’s natural…
Source – globalresearch.ca “…In January 2020 Fink letter was a declaration of war by big finance against the conventional energy industry…With that fateful January 2020 CEO letter, Larry Fink set in motion a colossal disinvestment in the trillion-dollar global oil and gas sector. Notably, that same year BlackRock’s Fink was named to the Board of Trustees of…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…Have Muslims finally learned the historical lessons from the decades of colonial and neo-colonial rule, and the terrible suffering they have endured since the beginning of the 1990s until today? The Gulf War, the “War on Terror,”, the Iraqi wars, the Arab spring, the Western military interventions in Libya and Syria, and…
Source – covertactionmagazine.com “…After he came to power, Gaddafi very rapidly removed the massive U.S. military base at Wheelus along with a British military base and took measures to nationalize Libya’s oil industry so that oil revenues could be used to develop Libya’s economy….Because of his independent policies, resistance to foreign colonialism, and the threat…
Source – https://journal-neo.org “…Back in 2017, he predicted that the world would eventually transit to alternate energy sources everywhere, rendering gas and oil obsolete. In these conditions, it is critical for Saudi Arabia to have time to “shift ground,” as oil sales account for 80% of its budget. The young monarch set out to keep…
Source – constantinereport.com “…Former NATO supreme chief General Wesley Clark, in an October 2007 speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco described the aspirations of a “coup” being plotted by Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and what he said were “a half dozen other collaborators from the Project for the New American Century” in…
Source – voltairenet.org “…Since the 19th century, the Arab world was first dominated by the United Kingdom and France on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, then by the United States. These powers brought both freedom and oppression. The United Kingdom excelled in dividing the actors in the region and manipulating them against each other…
Source – gospanews.net “…Three identical scenarios in which, with the excuse of exporting Western democracy, gas from Donbas is hunted down as well as oil from Venezuela and Syria, where the US and Turkey continue to steal crude oil with the help of jihadists ….We just have to wait when perhaps some American president will desecrate the…
Source – seymourhersh.substack.com “…Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning” How America Took Out the…
Source – zerohedge.com “…Biden in February of last year: “There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2, we will bring an end to it“…”The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022,” it continues. As momentum gained to…
Source – eurasiareview.com “…How large of a shift is this? With the increasingly frequent Saudi comments about trading in nondollar currencies, we’ve also seen an increasing number of pundits announcing the “collapse” of the dollar or the imminent implosion of the dollar’s currently outsized global power. Will a shift away from the dollar in the global…
Source – alt-market.us “…In 2017 I noted that: “I believe the next phase of the global economic reset will begin in part with the breaking of petrodollar dominance. An important element of my analysis on the strategic shift away from the petrodollar has been the symbiosis between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has…
Source – quoththeraven.substack.com “The dollar hegemony is right about ready to break when you realize that Saudi Arabia is about to join the BRIC nations. Do you think Biden is going to fly there to ask for more oil? He went there to beg them not to join BRIC.”…it appears Saudi Arabia has just issued…
Source – thecradle.co “…Xi Jinping has made an offer difficult for the Arabian Peninsula to ignore: China will be guaranteed buyers of your oil and gas, but we will pay in yuan…It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as…
Source – globalresearch.ca “…The January 2020 Fink letter was a declaration of war by big finance against the conventional energy industry…Another BlackRock officer told a recent energy conference, “where BlackRock goes, others will follow.” In just two years, by 2022 an estimated $1 trillion has exited investment in oil and gas exploration and development globally.…
Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com – “…When Falcon was arrested in 1975 he said he was working for the CIA and that part of his drug proceeds went to fund Latin American counter-revolutionary groups. FBI documents revealed that the CIA had been trying to destabilize the government of Mexican President Luis Echevarria due to his nationalistic stance…
Source – scheerpost.com “…Imagine there’s a lawyer who won a $9.5 Billion settlement against a Big Oil company & rather than pay it, the company went after the lawyer, got him disbarred & arrested. Now imagine the US gov did nothing to prevent it & instead supported it. His name is Steven Donziger….The US gov…
Source – moderndiplomacy.eu “…Hence, Russia, West Asia and the West are engaged in an energy war that could decide the fate of the world economy in the coming years. The energy crisis has reinforced the gulf’s importance in the global market, and nations want Saudi Arabia onboard. The prime interest of oil-rich countries except Russia…
Source – mises.org “…Why has Iran, then, incurred such wrath from the American military-industrial complex establishment? The regime’s Sturm und Drang regarding Iran—and, for that matter, any state that even intimates that it will conduct trade in oil without the dollar, cf. Russia—is all about the petrodollar system” The Petrodollar-Saudi Axis Is Why Washington Hates…
Source – thecradle.co “…Now imagine this triad – Riyadh, Tehran, Ankara – closely joined with Russia, India, China (the actual core of the BRICS), and eventually in the SCO, where Iran is as yet the only West Asian nation to be inducted as a full member. The strategic blow to the Empire will go off…
Source – strategic-culture.org “…Which bring us to the clincher: the Straussian/neo-con psychos controlling Washington’s foreign policy eventually might – and the operative word is “might” – stop weaponizing Kiev and start negotiations with Moscow only after their main industrial competitors in Europe go bankrupt” The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and…
Source – https://www.voltairenet.org/article218167.html “…While the international press treats the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines as a news item, we analyze it as an act of war against Germany and the European Union. Indeed, the three gas supply routes to Western Europe have been cut off simultaneously, while at the same time a new…
Source – mintpressnews.com ‘…A comprehensive study of 191 nations, published by the International Monetary Fund in September 2021, found that globally the fossil fuel industry receives subsidies of $11 million per minute, … fossil fuel companies received $5.9 trillion in subsidies in 2020, with support projected to rise to $6.4 trillion by 2025, according to…
Source – kurtnimmo.substack.com “…In 2015, the annual routine underwater survey of the Nord Stream 1 pipelines came across a remote operated vehicle rigged with explosives right next to one of the lines in Swedish waters. The umbilical cable had been cut. The drone’s national origin was never disclosed“ More Evidence Points to US-NATO Sabotage of…
Source – thecradle.co “…Diplomatic sources confirm that Berlin and Moscow were involved in a secret negotiation to solve both the NS and NS2 issues…Geopolitically, the entity that had the motive to halt a deal holds anathema a possible alliance in the horizon between Germany, Russia, and China …Secret talks between Russia and Germany to resolve…
Source – globalresearch.ca “…Nord Stream which originates in Russia passes through the territorial waters of four EU member states including Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Permission was provided and approved by the parliaments of those countries prior to construction. Moreover, the Nord Stream pipelines also required the approval of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, which were part of the consultative…
Source – thesaker.is “…The sabotage of the Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipelines in the Baltic Sea has ominously propelled ‘Disaster Capitalism’ to a whole new, toxic level…This episode of Hybrid Industrial/Commercial War, in the form of a terror attack against energy infrastructure in international waters signals the absolute collapse of international law,…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com “…Given this background, is it any wonder that polls continue to show that the threat to American democracy is foremost in the minds of voters in the coming midterm elections. On August 31, Quinnipiac University released a poll which asked the question: “Do you think the nation’s democracy is in danger of collapse, or…
Source – multipolarista.com ‘…Basically for hundreds of years, and still in many, many countries, Germany to China, education is free, because you want the population to be education…Basically, if education should be free, students shouldn’t have to run into debt to get it. And in fact, I think in Germany, not only is education free,…
Source – zerohedge.com ‘…Another one bites the dust…Less than two weeks since Ravil Maganov, the vice president and chair of the board of directors of Russian oil giant Lukoil, died after falling out of a sixth floor hospital window in Moscow, another Russian energy executive has been found dead in mysterious circumstances” SM:…Now, now, let’s…
Source – ericmargolis.com – “…Few talk or think about Iraq these days; the media ignores this important but demolished nation. Iraq, let’s recall, was the target of a major western aggression concocted by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Britain’s Tony Blair, financed and encouraged by the Gulf oil sheikdoms and Saudi Arabia. Most people…
Source – thesaker.is “…Engdahl has summarized how, “by systematically sanctioning or closing gas deliveries from long-term, low cost pipelines to the EU, gas speculators via the Dutch TTP have been able to use every hiccup or energy shock in the world, whether a record drought in China or the conflict in Ukraine, to export restrictions in…
