Category Archives: Oil

ISIS Shakes The World! (Russia, China And The Oily Arabs, Not So Much … Yet)

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Jack Curtis

News we receive seems fixed upon ISIS to the exclusion of much else, now that Ebola has evidently been fought to a standstill. We hear little of Russia’s de facto invasion of Ukrarine and essentially nothing of China’s current invasion … Continue reading →

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The Middle East Is A Hole … (Why Not Stop Digging?)

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Jack Curtis

Things are never simple in the Middle East. For example, consider the current struggle for a Kurdisn Syrian town on the Turkish border, presently attacked by ISIL and defended by a smaller and more lightly armed group of Syrian Kurds, … Continue reading →

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Israel Pays The Price For Having Been Chosen …

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Jack Curtis

Jews were kicked around by (in no particular order) Egyptians, Assyrians, Hittites, Persians, Greeks and finally, by Romans who expelled them from their homeland. After that, they have been expelled from some 109 different places. (And counting.) After six million … Continue reading →

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Iraq Over High Heat, Approaches A Rolling Boil …

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Jack Curtis

Iraq has never been a country on its own and has only acted as one since WWI when it was patched together by the British to deprive Turkey of oil fields. Saddam Hussein and his minority Sunni Moslems fell; the … Continue reading →

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