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New Approach to Energy Game
Opinion

New Approach to Energy Game

By Heather Douglas It started with the brown-eyed sheiks’ anger at the United States. The blue-eyed sheiks retaliated and the battle for energy superpower status was on. In 1959, America, led by the 34th President Dwight Eisenhower (1890 – 1969), imposed a quota on imports of oil and refined products from the Mideast and gave…

Opinion

Tectonic Shift in Middle East Energy Politics?

By Heather Douglas “If anything offers a litmus test for trends in hard-nosed realpolitik, it’s the cutting of strategic international energy deals.  While the Western media persists in warning of apocalyptic consequences should Iran’s nuclear ambitions lead to outright conflict with Israel – a conflict drawing in Russia et al – an entirely different scenario…