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Peace in the Cross-Hairs: NATO expansion collides with Russian security
Peace in the Cross-Hairs: NATO expansion collides with Russian security." Posted: Group of 78, Ottawa, Feb 22, 2022. With the mainstream media offering only the US/NATO perspective, attention focusses on the Russian ‘threat’ and dismisses Russia's legitimate security...
US wants some of Europe’s gas market: ex-World Bank official
US wants some of Europe’s gas market: ex-World Bank official. Posted: IRNA News Agency, Tehran, Feb 21, 2022. Tehran, IRNA – A former World Bank official mentioned Washington’s aspiration to grasp a share of Europe's gas market as factor behind the Ukraine-Russia...
Pipeline Politics and the Ukrainian Crisis: Why Nord Stream 2 is a key part of the Impasse
Pipeline politics and the Ukraine crisis. Posted: Canadian Dimension, Feb 6, 2022. “Canada is supporting Ukraine ... because we have a clear and urgent national interest in the situation there.” Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (Jan 26). Amid...
Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis
Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis. Posted: CounterPunch, Feb 3, 2022. Amid escalating tensions between US/NATO and Russia, all eyes are on Ukraine, but Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas under the...
Belarus: Freedom and sanctions in a pipeline country
Belarus: Freedom and sanctions in a pipeline country. Posted: Canadian Dimension, June 4, 2021. Western outrage against Belarus flared again on May 23 when a Ryanair flight destined for Lithuania was diverted to Minsk by an alleged bomb threat. Onboard and detained...
Nord Stream 2: Last ditch opposition to nearly-completed pipeline intensifies
Caption: Inspectors analyze components of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Photo courtesy Nord Stream 2 Corp. Nord Stream: Last-ditch opposition to nearly-completed pipeline intensifies. Posted: Canadian Dimension, April 14, 2021. In March and early April, when Polish...
Nord Stream 2 pipeline—a saga of intrusion. Though nearly completed, the US is thwarting the project. Canada is also against it. Why?
Nord Stream 2 pipeline—a saga of intrusion. Posted: Canadian Dimension, February 2, 2021. The saga of US actions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project reads like a John le Carré novel. In spite of the desire of Germany and other European allies to have it built...
Should the U.S. and Canada shore up an industry whose future is questionable? What about the banks saddled with bad loans?
Caption: A U.S. sailor stands watch on a Mark VI patrol boat before a weapons sustainment exercise in the Arabian Gulf, April 16, 2020 (U.S. Navy) Canada, black swans and oil Fossil fuels can be produced much more cheaply outside North America. But war and sanctions...
Venezuela Shows Courage in Challenging US power
Venezuela Shows Courage in Challenging US power When Iranian tankers were delivering gasoline to Venezuela in May, the situation was tense. With United States sanctions against both countries and the United States naval fleet hovering in the Caribbean, President Trump...
The geopolitics of Trump’s “Freedom Gas”
The geopolitics of Trump's ‘Freedom Gas.’ Posted: CCPA Monitor, Nov/Dec 2019 issue. Retitled, Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda Bolsters his Ambitions for ‘Freedom Gas’. Reprinted : Juan Cole’s Informed Comment, 17 Nov 2019. By John Foster | – (Monitor) – When Washington...