On the other hand, less efficient and high-cost oil producers and exporters (like Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Malaysia and Iran) and other energy companies are hit, because low-margin shale oil producers (in the US and other countries) sell at $40-50 per barrel. ..…
Within the last two decades Iraq, Iran, Libya and Venezuela have all threatened to sell their oil in other currencies. ... Special Envoy for Venezuela, who has a long and torrid history in Latin America. ..…
Superbowl playoffs, Russiagate, China Intertel, Iran Bomb, Venezuela dictator, immigrants storming the gates What unites all the war games is distraction fromthe truly fatal threat of the pollution and despoliation of the natural and life support systems of the world by the ruling..…
The conjunction of U.S moves on so many fronts, against Venezuela, Iran and Europe looks like this will be year of global fracture.. ..…
They want to lock in a unipolar world order against rising global powers like China, as well as eliminate regional challengers like Iran and Venezuela. ..…
Trump has heeded the in his party, on Yemen, Iran, and perhaps soon Venezuela. ..…
It also had secured increased trade relations with America’s imperial rivals China and Russia, and its Latin American antagonist, Venezuela. . With his imperial project in crisis, Bush retreated to a balance of power strategy to contain Iran and its so-called “Shia Crescent.” ..…
Today, the US Treasury is applying political sanctions against Belarus, Burundi, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Nicaragua, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe, to which we must add the Donetsk People’s Republic..…
A factor too seldom included in the common narrative on Venezuela’s economic crash is the apparently intentional meddling of oil prices by Saudi Arabia and its allies that apparently aimed at hurting Iran (Cooper, 2014) as well as other oil dependent countries such as Venezuela and Russia...…