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Guerres, coups d’État, dictatures : quand les intérêts des pétroliers dirigent la politique étrangère britannique

Le Foreign Office est en grande partie sous l’emprise du pollueur climatique mondial BP. De l’Iran à l’Azerbaïdjan, de l’Irak au Nigeria, de la Russie au Venezuela, le Royaume-Uni privilégie les profits de l’entreprise au détriment d’une politique étrangère digne de ce nom. Source :Declassified UK, Mark CurtisTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Declassified […]

Big Oil’s Price Gouging

As I pulled into the gas station to fill up, my car radio car told me that on January 31st Exxon-Mobile announced record-breaking profits of over fifty-five billion dollars. With the price of gas again approaching four bucks a gallon, I was certainly making my contribution to Big Oil’s profiteering. The big oil companies justify […]
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The Sword of Damocles Over Western Europe: Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil

In Part 1, we left off in our story at the SIS-CIA overthrow of Iran’s Nationalist leader Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. At this point the Shah was able to return to Iran from Rome and British-backed Fazlollah Zahedi, who played a leading role in the coup, replaced Mosaddegh as Prime Minister of Iran.
Here we will resume our story.
An Introduction to the ‘Shah of Shahs’, ‘King of Kings’

Trump Appoints BP Oil Spill Lawyer As DOJ Environmental Attorney

Fire boat response crews spray water on the burning remnants of BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 21, 2010. (AP/US Coast Guard)
United States President Donald Trump appointed Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a lawyer who has previously represented British Petroleum (BP), to a top environmental and natural resource law position in the Department of Justice, the White House announced earlier this week.