Villains often have the best tunes. In some cases, they also have the best evidence. The tendency in the latter is to suppress or distort that evidence if it is contrary to their interests. Exxon, now ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil and gas company, has revealed, much like tobacco companies […]
Tag: Oil
Sharper’s Victims In The Energy Poker
The long-suffering negotiations on enforcing price caps for Russian oil have stalled. The EU, in conjunction with the G7, is discussing a price cap of $65-70 per barrel, which is even higher than the current quotations of the Russian Urals crude. But the greed of European states has traditionally played […]
OPEC’s Body Blow To Biden Presidency
The Biden Administration is swiftly establishing a narrative that the recent OPEC decision to cut oil production by two million tonnes is a geopolitical “aligning” by Saudi Arabia and Russia. It taps into the Russophobia in the Beltway and deflects attention from the humiliating defeat of President Biden’s personal diplomacy […]
Saudi Arabia’s OPEC+ Decision Didn’t Surprise Objective Observers
Everyone should have seen this coming, and those who didn’t don’t deserve to be described as “experts”. Palpable panic has spread across the Western expert community as previously presumed gurus scramble to explain why Saudi Arabia agreed to cut oil production alongside Russia during Wednesday’s OPEC+ Summit in Vienna. The […]
Americans Find Gangsters Suitable To Lead The Country
On 13 November 2019, the U.S. President said, regarding Syria, “We’re keeping the oil, we have the oil, the oil is secure, we left troops behind only for the oil.” That was at a press conference, and none of the reporters asked him any question about that statement. They certainly […]
Japan’s Kishida Steps On Russian Oil Slick
The simmering tensions between Moscow and Japan during the past 4-month period of the war in Ukraine surged when the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev sounded the warning at a meeting on national security in Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East on Tuesday that Japan is ramping […]
The Economic Miracle Of Germany Ended In Ukraine
In just 200 days as chancellor Olaf Scholz has broken what his predecessors Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel had been building for thirty years. The German economy has collapsed like a card tower. Terrifying statistics on the reduction of the GDP, industrial production, a drop in real incomes and a […]
Reports Of OPEC+ Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
The fact that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states held a joint ministerial meeting with their Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Saudi capital of Riyadh at this point in time in global politics conveys a powerful message in itself. To drive home the message in no […]
How U.S. Government Steals From Other Countries
The American Government explains its thefts from other countries as being justifiable because the U.S. Government has slapped sanctions upon those countries, and because these sanctions authorize the U.S. Government to steal whatever it wants to steal, from them, that it can grab. Here are just a few such examples: […]
EU Stumbles Over Russian Oil Slick
The European Union officials are insisting that oil sanctions against Russia are coming. On Sunday, France’s Ecological Transition Minister Barbara Pompili was certain that “we will reach (an agreement) by the end of the week.” But the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has warned EU that it would be […]
The US’ Russian Oil Imports Since 24 February Expose Its Hegemonic Hypocrisy Towards India
Indian policymakers and civil society alike have now seen the US’ hegemonic hypocrisy on full display. Their skepticism of America’s intentions towards their country was vindicated and those who lobbied for India to comply with the US’ demands on the false basis that doing so would bolster its credibility in […]
Oil Price Stalks Another Superpower
In the geopolitical folklore, Afghanistan is supposed to have caused the end of the Soviet Union but in reality, the war wouldn’t have been a “bleeding wound” by 1989 had it not been for the precipitous fall in the Soviet income from oil exports. The expert opinion is today that […]
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