BIN | Here comes Venezuela and shows the banana republics of the developed world what lobbing a nuclear bomb into a currency war knife fight looks like.
First Nuke In Currency Wars: Venezuela Launches Devalues Currency By 46%
February 9, 2013 By 8 Comments
ENERGY PRICE: ‘OIL AND THE NEW RENTIERS’
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Andrew McKillop | Question: why are oil prices so high?
25 People killed, scores injured as blast rocks Mexican state oil company’s HQ
February 1, 2013 By 24 Comments
RT News | Bizarre incident in Mexico has wider implications.
TRENDS: THE NEXT OIL WAR WILL BE DIFFERENT
January 21, 2013 By 1 Comment
Andrew McKillop | By 2014, the US will be rivaling Saudi and Russian oil output, or even exceeding their output, as Asian demands for energy increase.
US Attempt to Apply New Sanction Rules To Collectively Punish Iranians
January 20, 2013 By 3,540 Comments
Washington Post | Moves are already afoot to keep the Iranian economy down for the foreseeable future.
An Inconvenient Truth? Al Gore Sells Out to Big Oil
January 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The television network Current TV was recently purchased by the international news outlet Al Jazeera. The transaction will leave $125 million in former vice-president Al Gore’s pocket. Gore, who is a green living advocate, ironically sold the company to a news outlet owned by Qatar – an oil rich country.
BP settles criminal charges for $4 billion in spill; supervisors indicted on manslaughter
November 16, 2012 By 5 Comments
Washington Post Stephen Mufson BP has agreed to plead guilty to 14 criminal counts, including manslaughter, and will pay $4 billion over five years in a settlement with the Justice Department over the April 20, 2010, drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and unleashed the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. […]
WARMONGERS WILL BE PUSHING FOR IRAN SOON
October 26, 2012 By 4 Comments
21st Century Wire’s Patrick Henningsen explains why the current war plan being decided in Washington and Whitehall is half-baked and not in the public interest at all, and why it will cause many meaningless deaths, and also trigger a global economic depression:
BLIND LEADING THE BLIND: ‘False Flag Energy’ and Syrian Regime Change
October 14, 2012 By 73 Comments
Andrew McKillop | The need for any kind of energy transported across Syria’s frontiers – either oil or gas – is zero in Europe.
AFRICOM A-GO-GO: Obama Tries for Intervention in Mali Using Somalia as His Model
October 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
Patrick Henningsen | Washington’s new tact: “We want to make sure that it is an African-led international response, and also be very clear that whatever is done out there should in fact be well planned, well organized and well financed”.
‘Black Gold’ backs Chavez vision vilified by West
October 9, 2012 By 2 Comments
RT | Hugo is facing some serious external pressure from the US – designed to hurt him at home.
Hugo Chavez Defeats Henrique Capriles in Venezuela Election
October 8, 2012 By 124 Comments
Juan Forero Washington Post CARACAS, Venezuela — Fighting for his political life, President Hugo Chavez overcame a vigorous challenge by Henrique Capriles in Sunday’s presidential election, receiving another six-year term that will give the populist firebrand the opportunity to complete the consolidation of what he calls 21st century socialism in one of the world’s great […]
Our “Independent” Dependence: Why Romney’s Energy Plan Doesn’t Add Up
September 29, 2012 By 3,831 Comments
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The Beginning of the End for the U.S. Dollar as ‘World Reserve Currency’
September 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Michael Payne | It’s certainly no surprise that China, widely considered to be the premier economic power of the future, is wasting no time exerting its growing power
Why Attacking Iran Will NOT Work in 2012
January 5, 2012 By 6,751 Comments
Patrick Henningsen | Any nuclear conflagration by the US or Israel would most certainly result in a global backlash against the West – at its worst acting as a procession into the hot stages of World War III – but it won’t happen this year.
WORLD FOOD: A TRANSITION NEEDS TO BEGIN NOW
August 18, 2011 By 5,072 Comments
Andrew McKillop | Treating food and energy together is more productive than treating them apart, making it urgent these two themes are given the same political acknowledgement and treatment.
GREEN INDUSTRIES? WHAT A JOKE. JUST LISTEN TO THE SAD BALLAD OF STAN OVSHINSKY
June 20, 2011 By 8,890 Comments
Patrick Henningsen | Who killed the electric car? Look who’s killing it now…
The “Rape in Libya” Story – Our Military’s Latest Fairytale
June 17, 2011 By 16 Comments
By Peter Dale Scott June 17, 2011 It is a troubled time for NATO’s campaign against Libya. President Obama has seen a near-revolt in Congress against the costly war, while Defense Secretary Gates in Brussels has warned his European allies that their tepid response “is putting the Libya mission and the alliance’s very future at […]
