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Geopolitics & Military

Sudan – The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war

December 15, 2020August 1, 2004 by John Laughland

Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan. Oddly enough, the oil concession in southern Darfur is currently in the hands of the China National Petroleum Company. China is Sudan’s biggest foreign investor.

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Greatest threat to U.S. is economic

December 15, 2020July 31, 2004 by David Rothkopf

Taken together, the US’s economic challenges represent a series of bombs placed at the foundations of our society, and they are capable of exploding in ways that would touch more Americans than anything even the most sophisticated terrorists could devise.

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‘Can’t Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush?

December 15, 2020July 31, 2004 by Robert Fisk

The Prime Minister has accused some journalists of almost wanting a disaster to happen in Iraq. Robert Fisk, who has spent the past five weeks reporting from the deteriorating and devastated country, says the disaster has already happened, over and over again

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Shifting the War to Iran

December 15, 2020July 29, 2004 by Mike Whitney

However crazy a war with Iran may seem at this juncture, (with America’s military stretched to the brink) the plans for such a war are clearly materializing before our eyes.

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Nigeria’s oil crisis

December 15, 2020July 28, 2004 by Tori Foxcroft

Nigeria’s oil industry – Africa’s largest and the fifth-biggest source of US oil imports – is concerned for its future after a yearlong spree of bloodletting that has killed more than 1 000 people in the Niger Delta.

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US: Foreign Oil Dependency: Stuck Between a Rock and Hard Place

December 15, 2020July 27, 2004 by Lee Dye

The United States’ growing dependence on foreign oil is widely recognized as the nation’s Achilles heel, a disaster in the works. But sometimes it seems that every solution to that horrendous problem leads into a box canyon.

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The real reasons Bush went to war

December 15, 2020July 27, 2004 by John Chapman

WMD was the rationale for invading Iraq. But what was really driving the US were fears over oil and the future of the dollar

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Gas and oil rivalry in the East China Sea

December 15, 2020July 26, 2004 by Kosuke Takahashi

Current explorations of an offshore gas field in the East China Sea by both China and Japan have recently strained relations between the two powerful nations.

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US Offers Nigeria Military Aid to Protect Offshore Oil

December 15, 2020July 25, 2004 by Hector Igbikiowubo

THE United States, keen to develop new sources of oil supply outside the Middle East, has offered to help Nigeria protect the flow of oil in the Gulf of Guinea and combat terrorist attacks on the oil industry, officials said.

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9/11 Report Reveals Al Qaeda Ringleader Contemplated a NY-area Nuclear Power Plant as Potential Target

December 15, 2020July 25, 2004 by Kyle Rabin

The report explains that Mohamed Atta, who piloted one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center, “considered targeting a nuclear facility he had seen during familiarization flights near New York.”

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Venezuela May Suspend Oil Shipments to U.S.

December 15, 2020July 21, 2004 by Xinhua

The Venezuelan government said Wednesday it may suspend oil shipments to the United States in case of an eventual conflict with that country.

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The Pakistan Connection

December 15, 2020July 21, 2004 by Michael Meacher

There is Evidence of Foreign Intelligence backing for the 9/11 Hijackers. Why is the US Government so keen to Cover it Up?

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