John Daly

Biography

Dr. John C.K. Daly is the chief analyst for Oilprice.com, Dr. Daly received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. While at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, where he is currently a non-resident scholar, in 199 he founded The Cyber-Caravan, which continues today under the title, The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst. He subsequently served as Director of Programs at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC before joining UPI as International Correspondent.
 
Dr. Daly’s work has appeared in appeared in Jamestown's Spotlight on Terror, Eurasia Daily Monitor, China Brief and Terrorism Monitor, along with Jane's Defense Group's Intelligence Watch Report, Jane's Intelligence Review, Terrorism Watch Report, Jane's Terrorism & Security Monitor and Islamic Affairs Analyst, Caspian Crossroads, ISN and the Christian Science Monitor. During 2003=-2006 Dr. Daly was a contributing editor for Vanity Fair on terrorism.  Dr. Daly has been a commentator on current events for CNN, the Hudson Institute, the Middle East Institute, National Public Radio, Al-Arabiya, Press TV and Radio Free Asia, among others.
 
Dr. Daly is currently President and CEO of U.S.-Central Asia Biofuels Ltd.”

Latest articles from John

• Polish Shale Gas Hopes Hit Major Roadblock

  Published 20 May 2013 | viewed 658 times

  Since the December 1991 fragmentation of the Soviet Union, no issue has divided the post-Soviet states and its former Eastern and Central European colonies than…

• “Hard sell?” Canada Doubles PR Budget to Promote Tar Sands in U.S.

  Published 19 May 2013 | viewed 1,337 times

  Canada is, according to the U.S. Energy Administration, the leading source of United States crude oil imports, which average 9.033 million barrels per day (mbpd),…

• Brazil’s Petrobras Sells $11 Billion in Debt Bonds

  Published 15 May 2013 | viewed 1,103 times

  In 2001 Jim O'Neill, then Goldman Sachs head of global economic research and commodities and strategy research, coined an acronym that has increasingly come to…

• Two Years After Being Destroyed, Fukushima Hold Anti-Terrorism Drill

  Published 13 May 2013 | viewed 1,563 times

  A little more than two years ago, only nuclear energy specialists had ever heard of Tokyo Electric Company’s six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex.Then,…

• Ireland Protests New British Nuclear Plant

  Published 10 May 2013 | viewed 1,073 times

  To say that British-Irish relations over the past few centuries have been strained would be an understatement.Now Ireland’s An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland,…

• Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam, Bad Idea?

  Published 08 May 2013 | viewed 2,043 times

  Of the four BRIC nations, so beloved of Wall St. as the world’s economic future, only one, the Russian Federation, is a major energy exporter.India…

• New Mexican County Fracking Ban Sets Stage for National Challenge

  Published 06 May 2013 | viewed 1,845 times

  Hydraulic fracturing, more familiarly now referred to as “fracking,” is a mining process to release previously unobtainable volumes of natural gas that has drawn deep…

• Nevada Renewable Energy – Good or Bad?

  Published 05 May 2013 | viewed 2,403 times

  Say what you will, the energy matrix driving the U.S. economy is in flux, if for no other reason than the increasing volumes of natural…

• Nuclear Fusion – Possible at Last?

  Published 02 May 2013 | viewed 5,670 times

  On 26 April, the world largely yawned as a nuclear anniversary came and went.Twenty-seven years ago, the Ukrainian SSR nuclear power plant at Chernobyl exploded,…

• New Wyoming Lithium Deposit could Meet all U.S. Demand

  Published 29 April 2013 | viewed 6,326 times

  The U.S. currently imports more than 80% of the lithium it uses, with the silvery metal winding up in batteries from cell phones to electric…

• UK Ministry of Defense Deems Wind Towers a National Security Threat

  Published 28 April 2013 | viewed 3,596 times

  Twenty-plus years on, the collapse of the USSR in 1991 threatened massive Western defense budgets, bereft of a major enemy like the “Evil Empire.”Western militaries…

• How will China React to Gazprom Prospecting in Vietnamese Waters?

  Published 24 April 2013 | viewed 2,599 times

  It is hardly a secret that Beijing’s claims to nearly all of the South China Sea’s waters have elicited concern from Southeast Asian nations.Now Russia’s…

• Boston Marathon Attacks, Chechnya and Oil – the Hidden U.S. Connection

  Published 22 April 2013 | viewed 8,165 times

  As Boston and U.S. security agencies congratulate themselves over the apparent neutralization of a pair of Chechens that bombed the Boston Marathon, troubling questions are…

• Colombian Insurgencies Continue to Target Foreign Energy, Mining Companies

  Published 21 April 2013 | viewed 2,226 times

  Nowhere else in the world is the disparity between rich and poor so extreme as in Latin America.Beginning in the late 1950s with the triumph…

• Rosneft and ExxonMobil Consider $15 Billion Pacific LNG Plant

  Published 17 April 2013 | viewed 2,042 times

  Russia's state oil company Rosneft and ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) are considering investing $15 billion in a liquefied natural gas plant. Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom…

• Iraq-Jordanian $18 billion pipeline – Reality or Fantasy?

  Published 15 April 2013 | viewed 2,508 times

  The Middle East is not renowned for thinking small, especially in terms of energy projects.The Jordanian and Iraqi media are announcing, amidst great fanfare, an…

• Ghana to build black Africa’s first Nuclear Power Plant?

  Published 12 April 2013 | viewed 1,930 times

  Say what you will about the 11 March earthquake and subsequent tsunami that destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six reactor Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…

• Australia Looks to Raise LNG Production by Nearly 30 Percent

  Published 10 April 2013 | viewed 2,032 times

  The international energy trade in hydrocarbons is the world’s largest fungible commodity, worth trillions of dollars. While the global oil trade still dominates world markets,…

• Chinese Energy Firms Invade U.S. Neighbors Mexico and Canada

  Published 08 April 2013 | viewed 2,850 times

  In 1946, with the U.S.-USSR-British military alliance that had defeated Germany and Japan in World War Two unraveling, U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan cabled a…

• Have Canadian Researchers Cracked How to Store Renewable Energy?

  Published 05 April 2013 | viewed 7,180 times

  Renewable energy sources suffer from three major problems.The first is the effective hammerlock monopoly that traditional hydrocarbon and coal industries have in many countries.The second…