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The Caspian region is a hub of tensions

May 23, 2013

Source: vestnikkavkaza Russia fears the establishment of NATO military bases in the Caspian Region after the withdrawal of the coalition from Afghanistan in 2014 under the pretence of providing regional security. This view was voiced by the head of the Caspian Cooperation Institute Sergey Mikheyev. “Threats to security (in the Caspian region) can be described in [...]

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Syria’s jihadists have edge, control oil

May 22, 2013

Source: UPI The seizure of Syrian oil fields by the al-Nusra Front could accelerate the breakup of Syria amid a reshaping of the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape. The seizure of Syrian oil fields by jihadist rebels of the al-Nusra Front could accelerate the breakup of Syria amid a conflict-driven reshaping of the Middle East’s geopolitical [...]

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Battle to secure oil, rare minerals and the water – Libya’s Vast Borders Still a No-Man’s Land for Most:

May 21, 2013

Source: Think Africa Press On the outskirts of Ubari, a remote outpost in Libya’s southwest near the Algerian border, armed militia from the Tebu tribe speed across the desert in Toyota trucks towards the sprawling Sharara oil fields. They, along fighters from the town of Zintan further north, are spearheading efforts – under the auspices of [...]

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China, Tajikistan establish strategic partnership: mineral, and oil and gas resources

May 20, 2013

Source: xinhua China and Tajikistan established a strategic partnership on Monday, pledging to boost bilateral cooperation. The announcement was made during talks held between President Xi Jinping and his visiting Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon, who is visiting China from May 19 to 20. China and Tajikistan share the need to consolidate cooperation, safeguard common interests and [...]

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Expert: Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan may become pretext for U.S. to establish bases in Caspian region

May 18, 2013

Source: Trends.AZ Withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan could become the pretext for the Americans to establish long-term bases in the Caspian region, Director General of the Caspian Cooperation Institute, Sergei Mikheev believes. “Per se, the withdrawal of troops could become the pretext for the Americans create long-term bases, and for consolidation in the region [...]

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After Fighting Over Mountains, India and China Lock Horns in the Indian Ocean

May 17, 2013

Editor’s Note: China and India strategic positioning in eastern Ladakh is over mineral resources. The next strategic battle for raw materials and hydrocarbons whether it be diplomacy or conflict will be West/ East Africa, Horn of Africa, Bay of Bengal, south china sea. The powers[Government-Corporations] at play who control the Indo-Pacific sea lines of communication and chokepoints through [...]

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Orchestrated destabilization of Libya: Killer militias hike security crisis

May 14, 2013

Source: UPI Eighteen months after the downfall of Moammar Gadhafi, Libya remains a powder keg with a government unable to control dozens of armed groups whose lawless marauding has created a security crisis that’s driving off desperately needed foreign investment. The energy-rich North African state is in a constant state of uproar and anxiety, riven by [...]

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Energy security, power and technology

May 14, 2013

Editor’s Note: Major U.S. military operations/actions to protect oil Source: Fuel Fix A team of journalism graduate students has published a detailed project on energy security, geopolitics and technology that debunks several national myths about oil. The team of nine graduate students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism spent three months investigating “vulnerabilities in U.S. [...]

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Somalia: Oil thrown on the fire

May 13, 2013

Source: FT After an absence of more than 30 years, Abdirizak Omar Mohamed has returned to Somalia, the country of his birth. Last year he gave up his job as a civil servant in the housing sector in Canada to take up a position as one of only 10 ministers in Mogadishu’s new, slimline cabinet. [...]

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Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict

May 13, 2013

Source: Guardian [...] Yet the conflict is fast taking on international dimensions, with unconfirmed allegations that rebel forces might have used chemical weapons following hot on the heels of US-backed Israeli air strikes on Syrian military targets last weekend. But the US, Israel and other external powers are hardly honest brokers. Behind the facade of humanitarian concern, familiar interests are [...]

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China’s Strategic Energy Security Pivot : Myanmar Pipelines to Benefit China

May 12, 2013

Source: WSJ Two pipelines in the highlands of northeast Myanmar will soon begin pumping oil and gas into China, representing a major step in Beijing’s quest for energy security. At the end of a bumpy road here, a 45-minute ride from the nearest town, Cheng Chong Zhen, a 40-year-old Chinese electrician working for state-owned energy [...]

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The Iran route for India to access Central Asia, Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea mineral and energy resources

May 10, 2013

Editor’s Note: Or a strategic pivot against China-Pakistan ? Source: FC India has been looking for an access route to Afghanistan through Iran for long; more so after it began constructing the Delaram-Zeranj road in Afghanistan. Upgrading of the Chabahar port on Iran’s eastern-most point and building a road connection to Zahedan city and then [...]

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In eastern Syria oil smugglers benefit from chaos

May 10, 2013

Editors Notes: The military community, historians and media have not and will not call for what the war for Syria is. Chaotic and brutal war-fighting using guerrilla warfare tactics to kill the enemy/people.The war result will never be final, only more chaos and despair will come to those on both sides of the line. Source: TZ In Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zor, [...]

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Total re-conquest of Mali:Western powers are circling their wagons

May 9, 2013

Source: AT Russia, China grapple with Mali’s future [...] Indeed, the western powers are circling their wagons. The Pentagon disclosed that its C-17 military aircraft have been transferring French troops and equipment and it is considering deploying aerial refueling tankers. The US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the US is providing intelligence. Italy is sending [...]

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Major U.S. military operations/actions to protect oil

May 8, 2013

Source: By Kevin Wang and David Kashi -Oil Change America’s role in protecting oil: The U.S. military has used force or the threat of force to protect its energy interests around the world, primarily in the Middle East, for more than five decades, safeguarding foreign oil sources and the sea lanes through which they pass. According to Roger Stern, [...]

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U.S. Security Strategy in South Sudan – an Anti-China Strategy?

May 3, 2013

Source: All Africa The cornerstone of an academic debate which took shape over the last twelve years among Marxist scholars – since the publication of Empire (2000) – focuses on what can be considered the mother of all questions for scientists of international politics: what is the structure of the current geopolitical world order we [...]

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Western forces deployed in the energy-rich Gulf

April 29, 2013

Source: Reuters The United States and some Western allies deploy weaponry and other military equipment in the energy-rich Gulf to provide security to Gulf Arab states at short notice. Here is a list of equipment currently deployed, according to research institutions, mostly at bases shared with host states. KUWAIT USA CENTCOM: 23,000 personnel. One Heavy [...]

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Yemen – Saudi Arabia Oil conflict

April 24, 2013

Source: Yemen Post Egyptian newspaper, al-Masry al-Yom reported this week on what it is foreseeing will become Yemen – Saudi Arabia new Oil conflict. Until 2012, Yemeni officials’ rhetoric revolve around the accepted belief that the poorest country of the Arabian Peninsula was running out of oil and gas. It is important to note that [...]

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EU Lifts Syria Oil Embargo to Bolster Rebels

April 23, 2013

Editor’s Note: Is any of this rhetoric familiar ? NATO/AFRICOM/EU playbook strategy to destabilize Libya is now being used to bring Syria’s dismal economy to it’s knees. Related: “Libyan Rebels” Create Central Bank, Oil Company , U.S. says Libyan rebels may sell oil and US to buy oil from Libyan rebels Source: Energy Tribune The European Union on Monday lifted its [...]

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Resource Wars: The Coming Global Explosion

April 22, 2013

Source: TomDispatch Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced. Two nightmare scenarios — [...]

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MALI: “WAR IS THE CONTINUATION OF POLICY BY OTHER MEANS”

April 20, 2013

Editor’s Note: The terrorism angle for military intervention into Mali is highly suspicious. The NATO military mission to destabilize Libya was a strategic catalyst for mass amounts of weapon caches to be smuggled/trafficked throughout North Africa to Syria. As I have stated before, the U.S. AFRICOM/NATO backed French military intervention into Mali/West Africa is to establish a containment defense policy. A strategic [...]

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War in Mali: Geopolitics, France, China, Economic Conflicts,Terrorism, Energy Security, Elites and Sea Lines of Communication

April 16, 2013

Source: JTW The Republic of Mali witnessed a number of military and security developments, with the onset of 2013. French Army launched military operations into Northern Mali, where the fundamentalist groups took ground, so that it could render help to the African forces. In fact, social unrest in this region has historical roots in the demands [...]

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China cozies up to Iceland in race for Arctic resources

April 15, 2013

Source: CSM It is clear why Iceland is interested in China: the Arctic nation’s prime minister is currently inBeijing to sign a free trade agreement that will boost Icelandic fish exports more than somewhat. But why is China so interested in Iceland? Perhaps because the Arctic is shaping up to be one of the world’s future hotspots, as the [...]

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China’s new stealth wars

April 14, 2013

Source:Livemint In the way China made land grabs across the Himalayas in the 1950s by launching furtive encroachments, it is now waging separate stealth wars—without firing a single shot—to change the status quo in the South and East China Seas, on the line of control with India, and on international river flows. Although China has [...]

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The Great Game Over Burma

April 11, 2013

Source: irrawaddy The recent political opening in Burma surprised many neighboring countries, including China. The government’s reforms have no doubt received welcome applause, but for Burma’s traditional friends and foes, they have also created room for new competition in the country. The rules of the game have changed quickly in Burma, and the world is watching [...]

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Korea is the focus, but this crisis is all about disputed islands and the security of oil supplies

April 10, 2013

Source: Guardian The “crisis” on the 38th parallel has little to do with the two Koreas: it’s about oil and gas for China, the prelude to an energy grab that will safeguard the expansion of the Chinese economy for decades to come. Six months ago Taiwanese and Japanese coastguard cutters were drenching each other in spray from water cannon, [...]

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North Africa Instability Affects European Energy Security

April 9, 2013

Source: Worldpress The North African region has played a decisive role over the past few years in shaping global political agendas. It is the birthplace of the Arab Spring (Tunisia) and the region often most affected by Islamist terrorist groups in the wider MENA area. Terrorism impacts the energy security of the European Union, and [...]

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Russia’s Strategic Pivot to Asia Pacific

April 8, 2013

Source: SAAG Russia’s strategic pivot to the Asia Pacific indicated in his address at the APEC Meet in September 2012 at Vladivostok has all the ingredients of emerging as a strategic game-changer in the highly militarised region dominated by any number of conflictual flashpoints from North Korea down to the South China Sea disputes. Russia’s [...]

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Asia’s scramble for resources

April 4, 2013

Source: KH Competition for strategic natural resources ― including water, mineral ores, and fossil fuels ― has always played a significant role in shaping the terms of the international economic and political order. But now that competition has intensified, as it encompasses virtually all of Asia, where growing populations and rapid economic development over the [...]

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