Archive for the 'Energy' Category
Iran’s Energy Infrastructure Is Now On The Targeting List
March 18th, 2026Via: The War Zone: Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that several facilities in the South Pars gas field near Bushehr were targeted. According to the report, emergency teams were on the scene and trying to extinguish the fire. The extent of the damage is not yet known. There are suggestions that the attack on […]
IRAN THREATENS TO STRIKE GULF ENERGY FACILITIES AFTER SOUTH PARS ATTACK
March 18th, 2026Via: Al Jazeera: Iran has threatened to attack oil and gas facilities in the Gulf region in retaliation for an Israeli strike on its South Pars gasfield as the fallout from the United States-Israeli war on the country continues to escalate. In a statement shared by Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency on Wednesday, Iranian authorities […]
Trump After Other Countries Refuse to Join U.S. and Israel in War Against Iran: ‘WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE’
March 17th, 2026And this was a wildly nuts exchange! “When Pepe has his big sugar ships coming around…” pic.twitter.com/zGbKZHl59x — Heisenzerp ???? (@HeisenZerp_) March 16, 2026 Via: Politico: President Donald Trump on Tuesday fumed at longtime American allies he says aren’t doing enough to help the U.S. and Israel in their war against Iran, now arguing that […]
Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Resigns: “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
March 17th, 2026After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this… pic.twitter.com/prtu86DpEr — Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) March 17, 2026 […]
The Nitrogen Trap
March 16th, 2026Via: Shanaka Anslem Perera: The world spent fifty years and hundreds of billions of dollars building Strategic Petroleum Reserves so that no geopolitical rupture could fully sever modern civilization from energy. The United States alone holds just over 400 million barrels of crude oil in salt caverns beneath the Gulf Coast. On March 11, 2026, […]
Mask Off
March 15th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Hormuz Chokepoint Claims Next Victim: World’s Largest Aluminum Smelter Cuts Capacity
March 15th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge: The world’s largest single-site aluminium smelter in the Middle East cut its output by about 20% on Sunday, marking yet another troubling development for the global economy. The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is no longer just an energy story – it’s now spreading into industrial metals. These second- and third-order effects […]
Secretary Hegseth on the Strait of Hormuz: DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT
March 13th, 2026There’s a disconnect between what U.S. leadership is saying and what’s happening on the ground, or, more accurately, on the water around Iran. U.S. military strategists still aren’t fully comprehending the paradigm changing impact of unmanned systems. They, mistakenly, thought that destroying Iran’s traditional naval capacity would be enough to keep the Strait of Hormuz […]
PENTAGON SENDS U.S. MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNIT TO MIDDLE EAST
March 13th, 2026Amphibious ready group: An amphibious ready group (ARG) of the United States Navy consists of a naval element—a group of warships known as an Amphibious Task Force (ATF)—and a landing force (LF) of U.S. Marines (and occasionally U.S. Army soldiers), in total about 5,000 people. Together, these elements and supporting units are trained, organized, and […]
U.S. Navy Won’t Be Ready To Escort Tankers Through Hormuz For Weeks
March 12th, 2026Via: The War Zone: The U.S. Navy is not yet ready to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, but it will happen. This is the synopsis provided by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright in an interview with CNBC. The development comes as Iran continues to pummel international shipping in and around the critical […]
