Last week, Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia stood up to the Russian Federation over disputes in which Russian troops occupy parts of each of their countries. Russian troops are massing on Ukraine’s border, raising the possibility of a war. Russia is trying to gain approval to begin operating the NORD STREAM…
According to stolen/hacked/leaked emails, Hillary Clinton claimed in 2014 that anti-fracking groups were being funded by Russia (Putin). The emails came from John Podesta’s email account, and are transcripts of a private speech she gave on June 18, 2014, sponsored by tinePublic, a Canadian promotional group. According to the leaked email,…
Yesterday, after spending months building up its forces stationed in Syria, Russia suddenly began air strikes in Syria. While Russia claims they’re hitting ISIS targets, everyone else says Russia is instead hitting targets related to rebel groups fighting against the Syrian government. Additionally, Russia has had success at intelligence sharing…
The US and Russia have restarted the Cold War – probably to the delight of the Military-Industrial complex, because the Cold War means increased military spending which is good for business when your business makes guns or bullets or bombs. That leaves the rest of us to groan about the…
About a year ago I penned some blog posts about the shale gas fracking deals which were made by Ukraine during 2013, prior to the revolution which ousted then-President Yanukovych. There are large shale deposits in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine, Romania, Poland and the Baltic Countries, which are believed to be frackable.…
A year ago I made several posts about Chevron’s plans to begin fracking operations in Romania’s portion of Moldova. News surfaced on Friday that Chevron has relinquished interests in drilling frackable shale fields in Romania (and other countries), completely ending all of Chevron’s work on shale gas fracking in Eastern…
Allegations have resurfaced that Anti-Fracking activists in Europe are on Russia’s payroll, according to a NY Times news article. That article focuses on the anti-fracking protest focused on Pungesti Romania, which I’ve covered in-depth last winter. The claim is that if the anti-frackers are successful in banning fracking, they’re…
On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine to jumpstart plans frack that country. The aid package offered to Ukraine is $50 million split over several forms of assistance to restructure Ukraine’s government. Some of which is, of course, development of shale gas resources, or in other words fracking.…
President Obama made a speech in Brussels on Wednesday that rewrites both his personal history, and the history around the Iraq War – BTW, the Shock & Awe invasion of Iraq occurred exactly 11 years ago today – so that he could bash Russia over it’s unilateral invasion and take-over…
Thanks to the political situation in Ukraine, American politics is discussing using America’s “glut” of natural gas as a political weapon. The idea is to undermine Russia’s strength in natural gas supplies, by selling America’s natural gas into the world market, especially to critical countries most vulnerable to Russia, in…
The crisis in Ukraine is getting truly scary, as in US-Russia are now almost directly in conflict. Stock markets are sliding, Russia is flexing its military might with an invasion of Crimea and military “exercises” on Ukraine’s borders, while the US and other countries have condemned Russia’s actions, threatened to…
