The tag 'Oil' is associated with 137 posts.

FTR #680 Interview [#2] with Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

U.S. Cold War pol­icy pro­duces slaugh­ter of mod­er­ates in Afghanistan; Pri­vate cor­po­ra­tions drive U.S. pol­icy in that coun­try and led to U.S. sup­port of Tal­iban; Tal­iban cre­ated by U.S. “ally” Pakistan.

Repost: FTR #248 Bushed — The Political Heritage of George W.

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A prophetic rebroad­cast: the polit­i­cal her­itage to which George W. is heir. The Bush fam­ily has a long, exten­sive, influ­en­tial, and largely sin­is­ter history.

FTR #659 Heatin’ It Up for Obama

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 18, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Mul­ti­ple and esca­lat­ing crises with which the incom­ing U.S. Pres­i­dent must deal.

Russia-Ukraine gas dispute ripples westward

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ January 4, 2009 ⋅ One comment

by Megan K. Stack
Los Ange­les Times
Fuel deliv­ery to four Euro­pean coun­tries fell below nor­mal Sat­ur­day as Russia’s state gas monop­oly with­held nat­ural gas from neigh­bor­ing Ukraine for the third con­sec­u­tive day.
Ukraine warned that its gas pipeline sys­tem could expe­ri­ence “seri­ous dis­rup­tions” if a wors­en­ing price dis­pute isn’t set­tled in 10 to 15 days, threat­en­ing shortfalls [...]

Repost: FTR #602 The Plot to Seize the White House — Interview with Jules Archer

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 30, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Lib­erty League, indus­tri­al­ists, financiers orches­trated the 1934 coup plot; Gen­eral Smed­ley But­ler betrayed the plot; media sup­pressed accu­rate reportage.

FTR #646 Georgia on Everybody’s Mind

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

” . . . McCain adviser (and for­mer Geor­gian lob­by­ist) Randy Scheunemann’s efforts on behalf of the Project for a New Amer­i­can Cen­tury and the Iraq war . . . ”

Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Posted by FTR ⋅ September 23, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Insur­ance giant AIG’s pro­lific use of off­shore scams, cap­tive rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions, aided by high-level gov’t offi­cials and legislators.

FTR #643 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ September 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Long-standing effort by neo-fascists to acquire “spe­cial­ized knowl­edge and abil­i­ties,” mil­i­tary, law-enforcement and espi­onage pro­fi­ciency; UFO devices devel­oped by humans, not space aliens.

Oil jumps $5 on US-Russia tensions, sliding dollar

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ August 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by STEVENSON JACOBS
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices shot up more than $5 a bar­rel Thurs­day, ris­ing to the high­est level in over two weeks as esca­lat­ing ten­sions with Rus­sia stoked fears of sup­ply dis­rup­tions to the West.
Crude’s rally mim­ic­ked the wild price swings seen last month and have at least tem­porar­ily halted oil’s slide back [...]

Follow the pipeline

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ August 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

On Con­flict in Geor­gia
by Mark David Iden­San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle
The war in Geor­gia and the inad­e­quacy of the West’s response points again to the power of the Russ­ian energy monop­oly.
Europe fears protest­ing too much, as this might induce Rus­sia to reduce the flow of nat­ural gas to the con­ti­nent this com­ing win­ter (Rus­sia presently sup­plies 50 [...]

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