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• Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera

  Jumpin' Jack Verdi, it's a gas, gas, gas 0

  Posted 1 month, 3 weeks agoOil and natural gas prices may be relatively low right now, but don't be fooled. The new great game of the twenty-first century is always over energy and it's taking place on an immense chessboard called Eurasia. Its squares are defined by the networks of pipelines being laid across the oil heartlands of the planet. Call it Pipelineistan.

• Postcard from Pipelineistan

  The battle for control of Eurasia will shape the new world order 0

  Posted 8 months, 1 week ago

  What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentric world order, also known as the New Great Game.

  Our good ol' friend the nonsensical "Global War on Terror," which the Pentagon has slyly rebranded "the Long War," sports a far more important, if half-hidden, twin -- a global energy war. I like to think of it as the Liquid War, because its bloodstream is the pipelines that crisscross the potential imperial battlefields of the planet. Put another way, if its crucial embattled frontier these… Read More

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