Why engage in proxy war? A state’s perspective

Author Daniel L. Byman Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy Editor’s Note:States use proxies for many reasons, writes […]

By Aidualc | 12 Jun 18 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Eastern Europe, North America, Western Europe | Comments (0)

The Oil Market is Bigger Than All Metal Markets Combined

By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist,   Ever since the invention of the internal combustion engine, oil has been one of […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Nov 17 | Posted in Commodities, Food for Thought, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

And the world’s laziest countries are …

Many Americans are downright lazy. And it’s making us fat. That’s among the findings of a study by Stanford University […]

By Aidualc | 29 Sep 17 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Food for Thought, Latin America, Statistics | Comments (0)

No Peak Oil For America Or The World

James Conca ,   I write about nuclear, energy and the environment Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. […]

By MarketAngel | 10 Apr 17 | Posted in Commodities, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

What’s Saudi Arabia playing at over oil?

After Saudi Arabia’s sudden insistence that Iran be part of a meeting in Doha last weekend to discuss an oil […]

By Aidualc | 26 May 16 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities | Comments (0)

Lonely Planet’s favourite final frontiers

By Joe Bindloss, Lonely Planet, Fifty years ago, the Starship Enterprise set out ‘to explore strange new worlds, to seek […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 09 May 16 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Fortune Cookie Wisdom, Latin America, Tools and Resources | Comments (0)

Why Shiite Expansion Will Be Short-Lived

Analysis Forecast That a bloc of Shiite states has coalesced in the Middle East is a significant geopolitical development; that […]

By Aidualc | 05 Jun 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

2015: Why’s the Oil Price Collapsing? Answer: $8+ Trillion Carry Trade

By: DK_Matai   Most in the media are utterly clueless about what’s coming in 2015. It is incumbent upon ATCA 5000 […]

By Aidualc | 26 Feb 15 | Posted in Commodities, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Oil Prices Continue to Define Geopolitics

From Stratfor, Geopolitical diary, Editor’s Note: Oil prices dropped steeply Oct. 14, with crude oil futures falling 4.6 percent to […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 18 Oct 14 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Iraq and Syria Follow Lebanon’s Precedent

By George Friedman, Stratfor, Lebanon was created out of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. This agreement between Britain and France reshaped the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 27 Aug 14 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)