Is Breaking Things the Best Way Forward for Climate Activists?
From SUVs to gas pipelines, sabotage is on the rise as the climate crisis deepens – but does it work?
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Experts: U.S. LNG Growth Could Slow Next Year
Too many are putting their eggs in the LNG basket.
Read more...EU Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Russian Steel in Eighth Sanctions Package. Is Türkiye the Target?
the EU using an obscure steel secondary sanction to whack Türkiye?
Read more...Russian Army Turning Out the Lights: US Losing Electricity War in Ukraine
The dire and worsening state of Urkraine’s electricity supply has gone curiously unnoticed by Western commentators.
Read more...The U.S. Is Preparing Its Response to the “Short-Sighted” Strategy of OPEC+
The US is having a hissy over the OPEC+ production cut. Not a good look.
Read more...Is the Energy Transition Taking Off—or Hitting a Wall?
Why, as they say in Maine, you can’t get get there from here as far as our green energy plans are concerned.
Read more...Washington, Brussels Set Sights on TurkStream Pipeline Amid Crackdown on Ankara-Moscow Cooperation
By Conor Gallagher At the beginning of this year there were four pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Europe, and a fifth (Nord Stream 2) was about to come online. Now Nord Stream 1 and 2 are dead, the Yamal Pipeline is closed, and the amount of gas flowing through Ukraine is greatly diminished. […]
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Financial Party Is Coming to an Abrupt End
There seems to be no escape from looming economic and financial problems, but the officialdom will do it best to delay the reckoning.
Read more...Nobody Cares About The Labour Files
A recent Al Jazeera documentary shows how British Labour Party officials worked alongside the media against the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. With Starmer’s Labour Party now leading in the polls, the British media have little appetite to cover their own role in undoing the Corbyn leadership.
Read more...Oil Traders Are Cashing In on Volatile Markets
Oil traders, including the trading desks of the big oil companies, continue to trade in Russian hydrocarbons and are making extraordinary profits.
Read more...The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Read more...More Fallout From the Nord Stream Pipeline Attacks
By Conor Gallagher Yves wrote yesterday about what the Russian response might be to the Nord Stream attacks. I wanted to touch on a few other potential consequences I’ve come across, and as there are no doubt more, hope to see them in comments. Economic Catastophre in Europe Now Certain There were questions in Washington […]
Read more...Michael Hudson on The Euro Without Germany
Conor: Germany’s swift demise reminds me of the German intelligence agent Bachmann in “A Most Wanted Man.” He’s led to believe he’s operating on an equal level with CIA and British intelligence only to realize too late he was being played the whole time. Hudson gets to the bottom of what Germany’s downfall will mean […]
Read more...Russia Seeking UN Security Council Meeting Over Nord Stream “Act of International Terrorism.” What Else Might Russia Do?
Russia is almost required, if nothing else for domestic political reasons, to Do Something about the Nord Stream attacks. But what exactly?
Read more...The Bornholm Blow-Up Repeats the Bornholm Bash — Poland Attacks Germany and Blames Russia
The military operation on Monday night which fired munitions to blow holes in the Nord Stream I and Nord Stream II pipelines on the Baltic Sea floor, near Bornholm Island, was executed by….
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