OILIGARCHY: ‘The American Love Affair with the Automobile’, The Unspoken History of the Electric Car – By Larry Romanoff

Source – globalresearch.ca – “…American mythology revolves around what is called “America’s Love Affair With the Automobile”, presented as an exciting if a bit quirky personal expression of independent and freedom-loving America, where inexpensive mass transportation failed to evolve due to Americans’ individuality and desire for freedom. But this historical narrative is wrong. Today’s US…

OILIGARCHY: Governments Need to Face Reality — The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Collapsing

Source – thetyee.ca – “…Former CIA director David Petraeus noted ominously, “It’s a fact that Saudi Arabia is gradually running out of money”…Even though Aramco is the most profitable company on the planet, with proven reserves of 270 billion barrels of the world’s cheapest oil, private equity investors so far have taken a pass on…

DAS KAPITAL: ‘Welcome to Dystopia’, Crypto, Oil & Systemic Crisis

Source – goldmoney.com – “…The global monetary system, global energy markets face enormous change with both the EU and supranational organisations…pushing a policy of dropping carbon fuels for green alternatives. Furthermore, the original agreement whereby Saudi Arabia agreed to sell its oil for dollars, giving US banks control over monetary surpluses from all OPEC’s oil…

CROSSROADS: Peace or the Fight Against CO2, You Have to Choose your Priority – By Thierry Meyssan

Source – voltairenet.org – “…Although CO2 is one of the gases among others that can have an impact on the climate. Climate exchanges were opened in Chicago, then London, Montreal, Tianjin and Sydney. As it happens, Climate Exchange Plc was founded by a former director of Goldman Sachs Bank and US Vice President Albert Gore.…

OILIGARCHY: Just 100 Companies Will Sign Humanity’s Death Warrant – By Lee Camp

Source – mintpressnews.com – “…The Guardian reported that just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global greenhouse gas emissions. These include Exxon Mobil, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Chinese and Russian coal, Chevron, BP, CNPC, ConocoPhillips, Gazprom, Lukoil, Total, Petrobas and many others. One hundred incredibly rich yet morally bankrupt companies. That’s it” SM: …Which speaks…

OILIGARCHY: The Oil Companies Knew All Along – By Rex Weyler

Source – greenpeace.org – “…After 200 years of robust science and 40 years of global conferences based on that science, we’ve seen zero progress in reducing or even stabilizing human carbon emissions. The history shows us that our challenge with global heating is not the science, but the deceits of industry, failures of governments, cowardliness…

OILIGARCHY: ‘The Twin Pillars’, ARAMCO Strike Represents a Shot Through the Heart of Rothschild/Rockefeller Global Oil Monopoly

Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…ARAMCO represents the heart of the Crown’s Rothschild/Rockefeller global oil monopoly. In 2017 Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced that he would take the company public, but the IPO (initial public offering) has yet to happen. The reality is that the Saudis are already junior partners in the ARAMCO hall of…

CROSSROADS: America Has Pursued Two Contradictory & Incompatible Foreign Policy Strategies

Source – voltairenet.org – “…It will be easy for pseudo-intellectuals to explain that the United States has led all these destabilizations and wars only for oil. But this theory does not account for what has happened for eighteen years. The Pentagon’s mission was to destroy the state structures of these regions. It did it in…

CORPRO-FASCISM: ‘Unholy Alliance’, Oil & Chemical Companies Found a Way to Curtail Anti-Pipeline Activism….They Made it a Crime

Source – commondreams.org – “…The lobbying campaign, documented in state disclosures and other records reviewed by Bloomberg News, has raised concerns about corporate influence muzzling free speech. “Oil refiners, especially Koch Industries and Marathon Petroleum, orchestrated this unholy alliance of oil, gas, chemical, and electric utility companies to crush resistance to polluting industries,” said Connor…

REALPOLITIK: Long Range Attack On Saudi Oil Field Ends War On Yemen

Source – moonofalabama.org – “…The attack conclusively demonstrates that the most important assets of the Saudis are now under threat. This economic threat comes on top of a seven percent budget deficit the IMF predicts for Saudi Arabia. Further Saudi bombing against the Houthi will now have very significant additional cost that might even endanger…

REALPOLITIK: How Tehran Fits Into Russia-China Strategy – By Pepe Escobar

Source – asiatimes.com – “…Complex doesn’t even begin to describe the positioning of Iran-Russia in the geopolitical chessboard. What’s clear in our current, volatile moment is that they’re partners, as I previously reported. Although not strategic partners, as in the Russia-China tie-up, Russia-China-Iran remain the crucial triad in the ongoing, multi-layered, long-term Eurasia integration process”…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Declassified’, The Sino-Russian Masterplan To End U.S. Dominance In Middle East – By Yossef Bodansky

Source – oilprice.com – “…The attack on the tankers in the Gulf of Oman cannot be seen in isolation. They were part of a comprehensive policy against Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, but timed in the aftermath of the attacks on the Iranian ports. In early April, a three-phase escalating war plan was drawn…

OILIGARCHY: Will We Overdose on Our Oil Addiction? – By Jeff Clyburn

Source – whowhatwhy.org – ‘…Although one US president after another has vowed to reduce the country’s reliance on hydrocarbon energy, we continue to consume more fossil fuels every year. This, despite advances in renewable-energy production and efficiency, improved vehicle-mileage standards, and much higher prices at the pump compared to 50 years ago” Will We Overdose…

COUP D’ETAT: Big Oil, JFK & America’s Corpro-Fascist Coup D’Etat (Flashback)

Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – ‘…Meetings were held at the Tyndall Compound, built by Sir William Stephenson to serve British intelligence interests in the Caribbean after WWII. Stephenson had launched BRINCO, an energy exploration firm financed by the Oppenheimer family’s Rio Tinto. He moved to Jamaica in 1949 and set up the British-American-Canadian Corporation with financing…

OILIGARCHY: ‘Cars & Capitalism’, On the Road to Economic, Social & Ecological Decay

Source – yvesengler.com – “…Oil was mainly used to fuel the kerosene lamp, a business destroyed by the emergence of gas and electrical illumination. The powerful oil interests of the day, led by the Rockefeller family, were bailed out of this crisis and set up for life with the advent of the automobile….The private automobile…

DEEP GREEN: ‘Recovery of the Sacred’, The Last Battle – By Chris Hedges

Source – truthdig.com – “…The Cree have been under relentless assault since the arrival of the European colonialists in the 1500s. Now the 500 inhabitants of the Cree reserve, where many live in small, boxy prefabricated houses, are victims of a new iteration of colonial exploitation, one centered on the extraction of oil from the…

DEEP GREEN: ‘Industrial Terrorism’, Wiebo Ludwig’s Guerrilla War Against Big Oil

Source – byronchristopher.org – “…The day after controversial eco-activist Wiebo Ludwig died, the RCMP wanted to open his coffin and take his fingerprints one final time.”…Wiebo has entered into the realm of conspiracy theory, along with other notables so honored. The Mounties have once again reminded us all how they so clumsily set him up,…

OILIGARCHY: The Geopolitics of Oil in the Trump Era – By Thierry Meyssan

Source – voltairenet.org – “…The United States have become the leading world producer of hydrocarbons. As from now, they are using their dominant position exclusively to maximise their profits, and do not hesitate to eliminate their major rivals in oil production, plunging their citizens into misery. Although in the past, access to Middle East oil…

COUP D’ETAT: ‘Mad Max’, Putin, Maduro, & Trump’s Last ‘Alamo’ – By Phil Butler

Source – journal-neo.org – “…The United States and the Anglo-European alliance is desperate. The leadership that has allowed America to consume 25% of all the available resources on the planet these last 70 years is in a fix. Venezuela and the rest of Latin America can help postpone what Matt Savinar described as the end…

KILL THE MESSENGER: The US Helped Murder Gaddafi to Stop the Creation of Gold-Backed Currency (Flashback)

Source – thelastamericanvagabond.com – “…In what could best be described a gut-wrenching letter — considering the events to follow — Gaddafi, oblivious to the plot, penned a letter on April 6 to President Obama begging for an end to NATO-led airstrikes on Libya….Addressing the president as “Our son,” referring to Obama’s African heritage”: The US Helped Murder…