Sunday, October 18, 2026

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From the Middle East to Venezuela – the 2025-26 rewiring of global petroleum markets

From the Middle East to Venezuela – the 2025-26 rewiring of global petroleum markets
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(Editor’s note: this is the second article in a two-part series, following The oil system that worked – until February 2022 (Part 1 of 2). By the beginning of 2025, the global petroleum system was already strained from the disruptions of the previous three years....
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BIG Wrap

‘Hybrid warfare’: Taiwan drives away 16 Chinese ships

(Al Jazeera Media Network) Taiwan has confronted and driven away 16 Chinese coastguard, research and fishing vessels that it said were involved in simultaneous...

Headquarters of Saudi Aramco hit as Houthis and Riyadh trade strikes

(CNN) Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis traded fresh strikes Wednesday, with the Iran-backed group targeting the Saudi capital and claiming responsibility for an attack...

BIG Exclusives

AI hysteria: is the latest ‘crisis’ artificial?

AI hysteria: is the latest ‘crisis’ artificial?

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Artificial Intelligence is being promoted as the latest crisis in a world seemingly hungry for a continuous diet of crises (to which I alluded...
Resource and force in the final frontier – examining the rules governing exploration and weapons in space

Resource and force in the final frontier – examining the rules...

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In my first article in this three-part series, I explored the legality behind the United States government’s announcement last month that it possessed controlled,...
The dehumanization engine – it’s getting personal

The dehumanization engine – it’s getting personal

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Once individual cognition begins to atrophy, the cultural effects expand outward. What starts as the personal offloading of thought morphs into a societal conversion...

BIG Chuckle

The most sincere and gratitude-laden article you will ever read

Celebrating Thanksgiving Day in my home country of Canada, I present a message veiled as gratitude that is actually a self-serving sales pitch intended...

It is time to rise up against the BGs

I don't always include 15 song titles in a column, but when I do it is on a sunny autumn Tuesday ... In case you...

BIG Mouth (Opinion)
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News media faith in experts continues to lead us astray

Don't blame Anthony Fauci and other medical officials for all of the lies. Don't blame Al Gore and the other climate alarmists for being wrong...

From cribbage board to battlefield, AI-generated content is not to be trusted blindly

Once again today, I find myself defending the work of my editorial team because an armchair quarterback has had an AI chatbot provide analysis...

The Dunning-Kruger effect – why you are often wrong when it feels so right

In 2021 and 2022, as a fledgling platform offering an elevated form of news journalism, it was difficult to educate the masses because the...

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