The New American by William F. Jasper “Canada’s tar sands need to stay in the ground, the oil beneath the … More
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Putin And The Mideast’s Middleman
Oriental Review By Andrew KORYBKO The Russian President’s visit last week to Egypt signified that both countries are eager to … More
Peak Nothing: Goldman Sachs Advisor Says “Too Much Physical Oil” Could Send Prices Plummetting
SHTFplan by Mac Slavo Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn says we could see so much oil, there would be no … More
How Russia Plans To Retaliate To The Saudi-Driven Collapse In Oil
Zero Hedge A week ago we explained that yet another conspiracy theory, one involving virtually every geopolitical hotzone, from Saudi … More
Is the Arctic home to the “New Great Game”?
New Eastern Outlook by Steven MacMillan As a resource-rich region which is home to copious amounts of oil, gas, gold, … More
Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: The Entire Oil Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria
Zero Hedge While the markets are still debating whether the price of oil is more impacted by the excess pumping … More
Saudi Oil and U.S. Hypocrisy
Global Research By Sara Flounders Few events expose the utter hypocrisy of U.S. politicians’ grand words about democracy so starkly … More
U.S. Shale Boom May Come To Abrupt End
OilPrice.com By Arthur Berman U.S tight oil production from shale plays will fall more quickly than most assume. Why? High … More
Oil Dinosaurs Face Extinction: State Oil Companies and the Meteor-Strike of Low Oil Prices
Washington’s Blog State-owned oil companies that don’t slash expenses to align with revenues and boost critical investment in the infrastructure … More
What Game is the House of Saud Playing?
Global Research By Pepe Escobar The House of Saud now finds itself in times of extreme trouble. Their risky oil … More
Contours of the “Oil War”
New Eastern Outlook by Salman Rafi Sheikh Saudi Arabia’s oil minister Ali al-Naimi is reported to have said that the … More
The Age Of Cheap Oil Is Over
OilPrice.com By Dan Steffens The longer I look at what is going on today with oil prices the less it … More
ISIS and its riches
New Eastern Outlook by Natalia Rogozhina ISIS’s ability to control a large territory in Syria and Iraq, to recruit new … More
Oil Projects Cancelled, ‘Rippling’ Layoffs and Defaults: “Money to Fund the Drilling Boom is Drying Up”
SHTFplan by Mac Slavo Falling oil prices have been hammering the energy sector and crimping the one part of the … More
Oil, Power, And Psychopaths
The Automatic Earth by Raul Ilargi Meijer Iran has a – very – long running dispute with the US about … More
Collapse in Oil and Natural Gas Prices Hitting OPEC the Hardest
The New American by Bob Adelmann As prices for crude oil and natural gas continued their precipitous fall over the … More
Chinese Troops in Africa: Protecting Civilians and Oil
CFR.org by Micah Zenko The national flags of South Sudan and China are displayed in front of South Sudan’s President … More
Global Systemic Financial Crisis 2015: Geopolitics, Oil and Currency Markets
Global Research By Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin (GEAB) For almost two years, by combining various points of view (speculative, geopolitical, … More
What Is the Gold-Oil Ratio Telling Us?
Washington’s Blog by Charles Hugh Smith Based on historical gold-oil ratios, oil appears extraordinarily cheap right now. One way to … More
The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 3: Multiple Risks, Multiple Unknowns
Washington’s Blog by Charles Hugh Smith It is these unforeseeable and uncontrollable consequences that are poised to wreak havoc on … More
