Category Archives: energy/dependence on foreign oil

John Kiriakou on diplomatic handling of Saudi’s oil. read

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich on Iran, Nigeria, and Yemen. “The United States has not abandoned its aspirations of becoming a global hegemon. The US has never sought peace. Peace and expansion/domination are incompatible.” read

Amy Liberman and Susan Rust: How Big Oil braced for global warming even as it fought regulations. read

Pepe Escobar: The “oil war” — Saudi/Iran. read

Piketty’s new theory on role of oil in inequality: Jim Tankersley. read

Golnar Motevalli, Anthony Dipaola, Hashem Kalantari:Big oil plans $30B business with Iran. read

Enrico Braun: Israel is main purchaser of ISIS oil. read

Why US has not attacked ISIL’s oil infrastructure. read

FPIF: from Hillary’s emails: French intelligence plot to overthrow Gaddafi to get to Libyan oil. Bernard Henri-Levy as intermediary.. read

Bob Reiss on the new Cold War in the Arctic. read

Nadia Prupis on record of corporation involved in Santa Barbara spill. read

Michael Klare on the responses of carbon-producing industries. read

Lawrence Wilkerson says real targets of low oil prices are Russia and Iran. read

Carl Gibson on fluctuations in oil prices. read

Pepe Escobar on the complex Saudi plot against Syria – and Russian involvement. read

Pepe Escobar on the complex Saudi plot against Syria – and Russian involvement. read