1. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-05-17   3 hours ago Yellen Says Ukraine Conflict Shows Why West Should End Reliance on China and Russia By Andrew Duehren   What I have been saying for years now....


  2. According to the Islamic Republic's ministry of intelligence, two large caches of bombs, explosives and ammunition have been found in eastern and western Iran....
      


  3. Very interested to see how the likely Iraq election win by Shi'ite Al-Sadr pans our for all the external players on this field, and...
      


  4. Wow, news of Trump withdrawal from Syria is good news for peace, but it sounds more like a desperate call that a coup is underway...
      


  5. Saw this news from official Iranian press.  Note that I am about as skeptical of Iran's Mehr News as I am with USA's CNN...
      


  6. https://www.zerohedge.com/health/smoking-gun-chinese-scientist-finds-killer-coronavirus-probably-originated-laboratory-wuhan The paper was supported by China's National Natural Science Foundation, which means that the paper would likely never see the light of day if...


  7. SWIFT, a Belgian cooperative founded in 1973, is nothing less than the backbone of the entire global financial system. Its lifeblood is U.S. dollar...


  8. Which Countries Trust Their Government, and Which Ones Don’t? In many countries around the world, vast portions of the population do not trust their own...


  9. Anyone remember Woody Allen's saying about taking a "Flying f**k at a rolling donut"?
      


  10. https://www.platts.com/latest-news/oil/caracas-venezuela/feature-venezuela-girds-for-further-deterioration-10400558
      


  11. PETROCARIBE, a mechanism created during Chavez's heydays and which seemed to be a geopolitical tool leveraging on the use of oil to the Caribbean...
      


  12. There appears to be a curious symmetry connecting both the blocking of Brexit, and the continued attempts to bring down a free and fair...
      


  13. RSVP now-> http://www.nmt.edu/research/research_helium_conference.php Helium-Non-Government Source Conference: Albuquerque NM December 1Helium is essential to Space in NASA and Private Exploration/Development. But there will be no Government Source (Stockpile...
      


  14. So now that Russia has total control of Syrian oil, what can we expect? There's not a significant amount of onshore here. I think...
      


  15. Saudis will be keeping a very wary eye on protests in Bahrain to mark the 7th anniversary of the uprising (Arab Spring). While Bahrain...
      


  16. With respect to Venezuela, my country, like José, I have to say about it. As a Philosopher, the center of all human activity, it is...


  17. Deutsche Bank's head office and other locations in Frankfurt were raided by 170 police officers and tax investigators on Thursday as part of a...
      


  18. Beijing saw a threat in New Delhi’s steady improvement of borderland infrastructure and renewed Indian claims on disputed territory.Tensions between Indian and Chinese troops...
      


  19. I won't bother commenting, I'll just leave this here. 
      


  20. Many times political and geopolitical risks premiums have been overlooked by the investors, CEO's and the different players and actors in the global energy...
      


  21. Russia of gangster capitalism of the 90s, or why the Russians support Putin collectively. Quote   Paul Klebnikov (Russian: Павел Юрьевич Хлебников; August 6, 1964 – July 9, 2004) was...


  22. https://www.ft.com/content/71849166-e02d-11e9-b112-9624ec9edc59 Preferably in simple language.  Credit to Zerohedge to pique my interest in this topic.   As I see it: banks don't want to do repo.  So...


  23. https://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/04/11/sprj.irq.pentagon/ "And while no one condones looting, on the other hand one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and...
      


  24. "Deutsche Bank will pay a $150 million fine from a New York regulator for allowing disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to make payments to Russian...


  25. For the Trump haters. You're welcome. The moral seems to be ''if something's hard, don't bother.'' (like every other President I guess?) One day after Trump...
      


  26. An American civilian and his family were the victims of a home invasion in Germany by at least 2 invaders. Thank God he fought...
      


  27. GOLD: A safe bet to mitigate Coronavirus generated Geopolitical & Macro-economic fallout? Posted by: Iain Fraser - Consultant Editor GEOPoliticalMatters.com Malaga City (Remote) I have been monitoring...
      


  28. This week's top global oil and gas news intersected with political risks worldwide: 1.) President Donald Trump announced U.S. decission to reimpose sanctions on...
      


  29. Source: Jun 06, 2020 - Universal I have to preface this column with a disclaimer: I don’t know if this actually came from a cop...