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All eyes are on OPEC and other major oil producers to determine whether they are complying with production cut agreements that were to take effect on January 1. According to the IEA, they are for the most part complying- at least judging by available...

by Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors, Russian President Vladimir Putin created a stir recently when he shared his thoughts with Americans in an op-ed printed in The New York Times. According to The Times, very few pieces written by heads of state...

A departure from recent themes. Some time ago, I republished, with Tom’s permission, essays that were being published on the TomDispatch blogsite. While those essays had nothing at all to do with dogs, they had much to do with integrity; the underlying...

Obama’s New Oil Wars: Washington Takes on ISIS, Iran, and Russia by Michael T. Klare  - TomDispatch It was heinous. It was underhanded. It was beyond the bounds of international morality. It was an attack on the American way of life. It was what you...

Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Three and a half years ago, the International Energy Agency (IEA) triggered headlines around the world by predicting that the United States would overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s leading oil producer...