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Railway Politics: India Gets Lost Along the New Silk Roads

July 19, 2020

The ground is quickly shifting in Asia and India is quickly finding itself in a difficult position. For years India has dithered and played games over central Asian development. Since the rise of Nare…

Will China Forming Oil Buying Cartel End the Petrodollar?

July 2, 2020

Opinion

China is building a buyer’s group (or cartel) comprised of its major state oil companies. I’m frankly surprised that this wasn’t already the case, since everything else is tightly controlled in China.…

Trump Adapts US Energy Strategy

April 15, 2020

Opinion

For the past three years, President Trump and his CIA director and then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have been trying to abandon their country’s imperialism and replace it with an economic strategy.…

No One Knows What Comes After the Dollar Exit, Only That It’s Inevitable

November 11, 2019

Opinion

Irrespective of where you reside in the world, chances are you feel some sense of unease, a nagging concern for the future and a deep instinctual understanding that an era you knew and navigated your …

Petrodollar Warfare: The Common Thread Linking Venezuela and Iran

February 26, 2019

Opinion

Last Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a disturbing interview to Fox Business Network in which he divulged his plans to form a NATO-type alliance against Iran. The U.S. has long accu…

The US is at War with Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Russia, All to Protect the Petrodollar

January 3, 2019

Opinion

The US dollar currently makes up 2/3rds of the worlds global reserve currency. This is because nearly every oil-exporting country in the world exclusively sells their oil in US dollars (the Petrodolla…

The Currency War Will Escalate as China’s ‘Petro-Yuan’ Challenges the U.S. Military-Backed ‘Petro-Dollar’

September 17, 2018

Opinion

One quote that always crosses my mind regarding the decline of the U.S. dollar and the state of geopolitics associated with it, is by Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute who said …

Will Oil End the American Century?

May 21, 2018

Opinion

The American Century, so triumphantly proclaimed in a 1941 Life magazine editorial by US establishment insider Henry Luce, was built on the control of oil and on an endless succession of wars for that…