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 Steven Donziger & Lee Camp: Big Oil Owns The US Justice System 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…
Source – moderndiplomacy.eu The Geostrategic implications of crude oil In the 33rd Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC, a group often referred to as OPEC+, ministerial meetings in Vienna decided to reduce oil production by two million barrels per day from November. Despite calls from the United States to pump more oil…
Source – mises.org The Petrodollar-Saudi Axis Is Why Washington Hates Iran Authored by Gary Richard Kish, since you are wondering, is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf famed for its tourist and shopping attractions. It is becoming a serious rival to other nearby vacation hubs in Doha and Dubai. Along with pristine beaches and…
Source – thecradle.co Everybody Wants To Hop On The BRICS Express Authored by Pepe Escobar Eurasia is about to get a whole lot larger as countries line up to join the Chinese and Russian-led BRICS and SCO, to the detriment of the west… Let’s start with what is in fact a tale of Global South…
Source – strategic-culture.org The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev By Pepe Escobar Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership. Let’s start with Pipelineistan. Nearly seven years ago, I showed how Syria was the…
Source – https://www.voltairenet.org/article218167.html The United States declares war on Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and France by Thierry Meyssan 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…
Source – mintpressnews.com Fossil Fuels Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million per Minute A study by none other than the IMF found that the planet collectively spends $11 million per minute on subsidies for fossil fuels, all while the world barrels towards an impending climate catastrophe. By Lee Camp / MintPress News Eleven million dollars…
Source – kurtnimmo.substack.com More Evidence Points to US-NATO Sabotage of Nordstream If you live in Germany, you may want to begin scouting out firewood before winter. Kurt Nimmo Increasingly, there is little doubt who is behind the Nordstream pipeline leaks, now numbering four. The corporate media is lamely attempting to blame Russia for blowing up…
Source – thecradle.co Who profits from Pipeline Terror? Secret talks between Russia and Germany to resolve their Nord Stream 1 and 2 issues had to be averted at any cost The War of Economic Corridors has entered incandescent, uncharted territory: Pipeline Terror. A sophisticated military operation – that required exhaustive planning, possibly involving several actors…
Source – globalresearch.ca SM:…Just waiting for the moment our newly “Awoke’ & fighting mad Those/They/Them’s get to kick some royal Russkie ass…. U.S. Act of War against the European Union: Did President Biden Order the Terror Attack against Nord Stream? By James Corbett and Prof Michel Chossudovsky “Sabotage is the most likely cause of leaks…
Source – thesaker.is Germany and EU have been handed over a declaration of war by Pepe Escobar 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…
Source – wallstreetonparade.com SM:..All this lame talk about ‘Democracy’, that relics long dead & buried – what we’re left with are two degenerate fascist camps in a fight to their…& our – collective deaths… A Fossil Fuels Giant Has Been Raising the Election Chances of Extreme-Right Candidates — Using a Dangerous High-Tech Weapon By Pam Martens…
Source – multipolarista.com Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis Economist Michael Hudson joins Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar. Transcript BEN NORTON: Hey everyone, this is Ben Norton…
Source – zerohedge.com SM:…Now, now, let’s not jump to conclusions here – odds are Maganov was just attempting to locate the body of Robert Maxwell… Another Russian Energy Exec Found Dead, ‘Fell Overboard’ Boat At Full Speed Another one bites the dust… Less than two weeks since Ravil Maganov, the vice president and chair of…
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 Escobar: Germany’s Energy Suicide – An Autopsy When Green fanatic Robert Habeck, posing as Germany’s Economy Minister, said earlier this week “we should expect the worst” in terms of energy security, he conveniently forgot to spell out how the whole farce is a Made in Germany cum Made in Brussels crisis. Flickers…
Source – moderndiplomacy.eu Reason U.S. Stays in Syria Revealed: To Steal Its Oil By Eric Zuesse (Also Read: American Shame in Syria: US Persecutes Population with the Sanctions but Steals 66,000 Oil Barrels Every Day @ https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/08/10/american-shame-in-syria-us-persecute-population-with-the-sanctions-but-steal-66000-oil-barrels-every-day/) Steven Sahiounie is an exceptionally reliable journalist on the Middle East, and is also the Editor-in-Chief of Mideast…
Source – thesaker.is SM:…No worries, I sense any day now that Putin will announce Russian oil & gas exports will accept, besides rubles – payment in buttons & rainbows…… Unicorns Are Real By Batiushka for the Saker blog Unicorns Are Real or It Must Be True, the Western Media Told Me So An autumn chill…
Source – scheerpost.com “…The historian Arnold Toynbee, who singled out unchecked militarism as the fatal blow to past empires, argued that civilizations are not murdered, but commit suicide. They fail to adapt to a crisis, ensuring their own obliteration. Our civilization’s collapse will be unique in size, magnified by the destructive force of our fossil fuel-driven industrial society.…
Source – lewrockwell.com “…But so long as he holds the pricing reins for energy, Putin can play with the euro to his heart’s desire. By manipulating his quasi-monopoly on energy, grains, and fertilisers he can increase pressure on the EU’s leaders to reject US hegemony. And to fully appreciate the power in Putin’s hands, it…
Source – geopolitics.co “…Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is profiting immensely, as it is now effectively a middleman, reselling Russian oil to the political West. This also alleviates the strain on the Saudi oil industry, making it possible to work less, while profiting more…The only losing side in this situation is the political West,…
Source – ericmargolis.com “…The so-called ‘Abraham Agreements’ forged by Trump & Co. were a cynical bad joke. They forced despotic Arab regimes to reveal that their under the table dealings with Israel that had been going on for decades. Saudi Arabia just beheaded 81 prisoners last week. The accords openly linked some of the Mideast’s…
Source – covertactionmagazine.com “…The Vietnam War provided further cover for the CIA to import opium from the Golden Triangle that wound up addicting U.S. troops and countless other Americans. Within five to ten years of ending the Vietnam War in the mid-1970s, the CIA transferred this kind of operation to Afghanistan, the site of the…
Source – unz.com “…That neoliberal pro-creditor ethic is the root of today’s New Cold War. When President Biden describes this great world conflict aimed at isolating China, Russia, India, Iran and their Eurasian trading partners, he characterizes this as an existential struggle between “democracy” and “autocracy”…By “democracy” he means oligarchy. And by “autocracy” he means…
Source – mercola.com “…Investment firm BlackRock has more power than most governments on Earth, and it also controls the Federal Reserve, mega-banks like Goldman Sachs and the WEF’s Great Reset, according to F. William Engdahl, a strategic risk consultant and lecturer who holds a degree in politics from Princeton University. BlackRock also has ties to…
Source – thetyee.ca “…We are now trapped in what I have called “the poverty of two narratives” that pits the business-as-usual crowd against the green transitionists. This supposed debate avoids unpleasant realities such as rising global consumption and growing rates of energy use in a finite world. Moreover, both groups believe unlimited economic growth is the only…
Source – greenpeace.org “…The oil industry — Shell, Chevron, and others — were not prepared to actually slow oil production to halt global heating, and since they had no intention of aiming for zero carbon emissions, they invented “net zero.” The “net” requires that we subtract some carbon from total emissions to create the illusion…
Source – capitalremanexchange.com “…To this day no one knows what truly happened. Was he murdered by the Germans, by a competitor, or did he, in the knowledge of his financial state, take his own life. We will never know. What we do know is that he was responsible for inventing an engine that will go…
Source – goldswitzerland.com “…As George Washington observed in a 1770’s moment of Realpolitik candor: “Nations have no permanent friends nor permanent enemies, just permanent interests.”…the backfiring of Western sanctions against Putin (de-dollarization, inflationary tailwinds and increasingly discredited central banks) were not only plain to foresee, but placed the West in an almost comical (yet tragic)…
Source – scheerpost.com “…Trump is too unfocused and mercurial to offer serious policy solutions. He did set a timetable to withdraw from Afghanistan, but he also ratcheted up the economic war against Venezuela and reinstituted crushing sanctions against Cuba and Iran, which the Obama administration had ended. He increased the military budget. He apparently flirted with carrying…
Source – tomdispatch.com “…The war in Ukraine is the last thing on Earth (so to speak) that we need right now. For reasons he explains vividly, it seems to ensure the worst when it comes to climate change on a planet where humanity is already at war with nature and it’s starting to strike back…
Source – tomluongo.me “…Unfortunately, we are living through a time where the most powerful people in the world (at least in their minds) are openly trying to destroy the petroleum market for their own purposes and agenda. They are actively working to make oil and gas prices volatile to the point of destroying investment in…
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