China To Impose Mining Controls On Strategic Minerals

U.S.-Iran Deal Doesn't Mean A Swift Return Of Oil And Gas Flows Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, A U.S.-Iran agreement could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping and production will not immediately return to normal. More than 10 million bpd of Middle Eastern oil production has been shut in, and some fields may take months to restart fully. Iraq faces a slower recovery than Saudi Arabia or the UAE because its southern exports depend heavily on access through Basrah. The U.S.-Iran deal and the potentially imminent reopening of the Strait of Hormuz...

US Southern Command announced that its forces blew up another alleged drug-running boat in the waters of Latin America on Friday, killing at least three people. SOUTHCOM said the boat was targeted in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and, as usual, the command offered no evidence to back up its claim that the small vessel was […]

Rabobank: "More War Seems Inevitable" By Michael Every of Rabobank Summit... then 'summit' worse? “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,” was President Trump’s response to Iran’s belated reply to his peace proposal, which they have rejected as a “surrender.” Tehran thinks the US must do so instead: rather than handing over enriched uranium, pledging to never build a nuke, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and dropping ballistic missiles and support for regional terror proxies, Iran wants a permanent US retreat, reparations paid to it, and control of Hormuz. More war, where the US takes control of the...