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Chevron Corporation, an American petroleum refineries company, recently launched the sale process for a web of its oil and gas assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interestingly, this is not a singular event, but rather a pattern. In the recen...

The Onus Is on Big Oil

Chevron Corporation, an American petroleum refineries company, recently launched the sale process for a web of its oil and gas assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interestingly, this is not a singular event, but rather a pattern. In the recen...

On July 15, 2022, Air Force One landed on the baking tarmac in Jeddah. Despite campaign promises to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” President Biden, spurred by high oil prices, came to the Kingdom on bended knee to plead for a production hike. ...

China’s New Middle East

On July 15, 2022, Air Force One landed on the baking tarmac in Jeddah. Despite campaign promises to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah,” President Biden, spurred by high oil prices, came to the Kingdom on bended knee to plead for a production hike. ...

Today’s energy crisis harkens back to the 1973 oil shock, during which Arab petrostates instituted an oil embargo against Western countries that led to skyrocketing prices and astonishingly long lines at the gas pump. Since then, oil importers have...

Rare Earth Rush

Today’s energy crisis harkens back to the 1973 oil shock, during which Arab petrostates instituted an oil embargo against Western countries that led to skyrocketing prices and astonishingly long lines at the gas pump. Since then, oil importers have...

When hostilities between Russia and Ukraine erupted just a few weeks ago, NATO member states took measures to deter crisis by sending military aid, promising help, and imposing sanctions against Russia. Yet, Germany, a cornerstone of the European Uni...

Ditching Nord Stream for Nuclear

When hostilities between Russia and Ukraine erupted just a few weeks ago, NATO member states took measures to deter crisis by sending military aid, promising help, and imposing sanctions against Russia. Yet, Germany, a cornerstone of the European Uni...

The Last Frontier has given us gas, gold, and glory. It’s time for us to borrow some economic policy, too.  Alaska, a state most Americans know best for its iconography of Denali and a grizzly bear snatching a salmon between its teeth, is an A...

A Marxist Cheer for the Last Frontier

The Last Frontier has given us gas, gold, and glory. It’s time for us to borrow some economic policy, too.  Alaska, a state most Americans know best for its iconography of Denali and a grizzly bear snatching a salmon between its teeth, is an A...

It has taken three years and one pipeline for the Trump administration to respond to Vladimir Putin’s increasingly hostile Russia. Since ascending to the White House, Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his intention to cut the US’s contributio...

Whose Pipeline Is It Anyway?

It has taken three years and one pipeline for the Trump administration to respond to Vladimir Putin’s increasingly hostile Russia. Since ascending to the White House, Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his intention to cut the US’s contributio...

Since Colonial times, oil and connected international corporations have had a major influence over the nations of Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea. Following the discovery of oil in Nigeria in the 1950s by Shell-BP, a British oil company,  the British ...

Neo-colonialism Fuels Your Car

Since Colonial times, oil and connected international corporations have had a major influence over the nations of Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea. Following the discovery of oil in Nigeria in the 1950s by Shell-BP, a British oil company,  the British ...