Oriental Review

Libyan Oil Infrastrusture Assets Seized By the US Special Operations Forces?

The unexpectedly quick EU consent to take immediate sanctions against Iran “coincided” with seizure of Libyan oil terminals. To certain extent the negative affect of expected oil shortage for European economy could be minimized in case the utmost is done to boost the Brega and Ras-Lanuf production capacities till the complete cessation of contacts with [...]

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US-Led Commodity Boom: Fake Prices, Global Crises

When I first entered the floor and learned about oil pricing, it was clear that the cash market, where real barrels of oil were bought and sold, was where pricing was decided. Later, it became increasingly clear that the source of prices was coming from the futures markets that I engaged in, with the cash [...]

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US Planing to Grab Venezuela’s Oil

There is a growing impression that Venezuela with its oil riches is the next country on the US hit list. One would have to be a hopeless idealist to believe that – after US crusades swept across Asian and African oil-producing countries – the Venezuelan oil deposits so far remaining beyond the US control would [...]

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Managing the Breakdown of the World Order

Have you ever heard of tempered glass? When you break it, it crumbles into small chunks. Or imagine a ball lying in a pit: it looks as if perfectly fixed inside the pit but once you touch it slightly, it runs down- nobody can predict where exactly. There is also another example from if you [...]

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Episode 7. Britain and France Planned to Assault Soviet Union in 1940

On March 23, 1940, a twin-engine civilian Lockheed-12A, registration code G-AGAR, took off from an airfield in the London suburb of Heston. British pilot Haig McLane was at the controls. The aircraft set course for Malta; then after an intermediate stop in Cairo, it flew on to the British military base in Baghdad. From there, [...]

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Russia And The Oil-Gas Diplomacy In Arctics (I)

By Vadim Truhachev (Russia) Dem. Edward Markey — Chair Deputy of the House Committee for the Natural Resources — claimed that agreement between Rosneft and BP may threaten American national security. According to his opinion, stock exchange may complicate the procedure of fee recovery from the Englishmen. However, I doubt that anxiety for nature is [...]

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“The War is Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas

Michel CHOSSUDOVSKY (Canada) The 2001 bombing and invasion of Afghanistan has been presented to World public opinion as a “Just War”, a war directed against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a war to eliminate “Islamic terrorism” and instate Western style democracy. The economic dimensions of the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) are rarely mentioned. The [...]

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As Tehran and Jerusalem Exchange Pleasantries…

We are posting a piece of ‘political fiction’ published today by the ‘Strategic Culture Foundation‘ Rafe MAIR (Canada) It’s Tuesday November 8, 2016, election night in the United States. Hillary Clinton, candidate for the Democratic Party and, unbelievably, Sarah Palin for the Republicans, if elected, face huge problems in the Middle East and in the [...]

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Terror, Petrodollar Warfare and Plan “B” for Iraq

Anatoly ALIFEROV (Russia) The death toll in Iraq is surging after more than 7 years of international occupation. The ballots cast during the March 7 parliamentary elections still have not been completely counted, and the tide of terror of some obscure origin in the country is raising as we watch. Blasts took over 70 lives [...]

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