Errors have infiltrated reports of Russian-Turkish gas negotiations. Correcting them reveals that Russia is trying to take advantage of the deterioration of EU-Turkey relations, but Turkey is not taking the bait.
Continue reading →Interview on John Batchelor Show, WABC-AM 770 (New York City), 22 January 2015. … Continue reading →
Russia continues to play hardball with natural gas for the European Union, trying to get Brussels to sacrifice Ukraine in return for the promise of better relations with Moscow. This geo-economic and power-political jousting is conditioned by the fact that EU sanctions against Russia will begin to expire in three phases between March and July unless there is an EU consensus to keep them in place.
Continue reading →Interview on John Batchelor Show, WABC-AM 770 (New York City), 23 December 2014. … Continue reading →
Islamic State has made Iraqi-Kurdish energy cooperation more likely, helping to guarantee lower world oil prices for the medium-term future. Under threat of their common enemy, the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in the north … Continue reading →
U.S. President Barack Obama’s appearance on The Colbert Report this week confirmed that he has no qualms about leaving Canada in the lurch in current global energy glut. In the interview, Colbert observed that the Republican-controlled Congress would approve the … Continue reading →
Interview on John Batchelor Show, WABC-AM 770 (New York City), 10 December 2014. … Continue reading →
Helicopter-carriers for Russia embargoed by France match Canada’s coastal fleet modernization needs French president François Hollande’s several weeks ago to Canada opens the way to resolving at least one thorny problem created by the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea. … Continue reading →
As if another nail in the coffin is needed, the Financial Times reports that “Italy’s Renzi pivots to Africa for alternatives to Russian gas” while Putin was signing a meaningless MoU with Erdogan that the latter then said had no signficance. The … Continue reading →
Greenwald condescends to terrorists and dehumanizes them by denying them their human agency. He seems under the sway of the Enlightenment myth of the “noble savage” corrupted by Western civilization. This approach denies terrorists the individual responsibility that they in fact claim.
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