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Louisiana Light • 1 day | 86.60 | -0.08 | -0.09% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.73 | -1.64 | -1.81% | ||
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Opec Basket • 1 day | 87.35 | -2.29 | -2.55% | ||
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Mars US • 168 days | 77.67 | -1.57 | -1.98% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.728 | +0.014 | +0.53% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.73 | -1.64 | -1.81% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 89.30 | -1.63 | -1.79% | ||
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Opec Basket • 1 day | 87.35 | -2.29 | -2.55% |
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Peace Sour • 1 hour | 75.30 | -0.05 | -0.07% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 1 hour | 78.35 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 1 hour | 85.30 | -0.05 | -0.06% | ||
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Central Alberta • 1 hour | 75.70 | -0.05 | -0.07% |
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Eagle Ford • 1 day | 79.21 | +0.04 | +0.05% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 1 day | 79.25 | +0.00 | +0.00% | ||
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Kansas Common • 2 days | 73.00 | -2.50 | -3.31% | ||
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Buena Vista • 2 days | 86.86 | -2.40 | -2.69% |
Gregory R. Copley
Historian, author, and strategic analyst — and onetime industrialist — Gregory R. Copley, who was born in 1946, has for almost five decades worked at the highest levels with various governments around the world, advising on national security, intelligence, and national management issues. He has authored or co-authored more than 35 books, including "The Art of Victory" (2006), "UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos" (2012), and "Sovereignty in the 21st Century and the Crisis for Identity, Cultures, Nation-States, and Civilizations" (2018). An Australian, he is President of the International Strategic Studies Association, based in Washington, DC, and Editor-in-Chief of the "Defense & Foreign Affairs" group of publications, including the government-only intelligence service, the Global Information System. Among his international recognitions, he was, in 2007, made a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours. www.StrategicStudies.org.
Gregory Copley, AM, GCHT*, FRCGS, FSS, FRSN
Latest articles from Gregory
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Energy and Security Issues in the Red Sea Transforming as the Age of Gas Begins in Earnest
Major new energy issues are about to transform still further the strategic balance of the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, with foreseeable consequences…
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Australian Defense Programs Delayed by Political Impasse; New Elections Possible in Near Future
Australia’s August 21, 2010, Federal Parliamentary elections for the lower house (the House of Representatives) and upper house (Senate) led to a hung parliament, with…
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The Strategic Ramifications of a US-Led Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The United States and the NATO allies are preparing to disengage and soon withdraw from Afghanistan and even the most vocal advocates of the "long-term…
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The Prospect of an Israeli Military Strike Against Iran
Western media “analysts” and Western military pundits have, for the past two years, been forecasting the imminent military strike by Israel — sometimes by Israel…
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Horn, Red Sea Braces for Instability as Somaliland Moves Toward Islamist Reunification With Somalia
The Election Commission of the Republic of Somaliland on July 1, 2010 — as noted, the highly-iconic 50th anniversary date of the original union of…
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The New Civil Wars Within the West
Internecine civil wars are underway almost everywhere within the West, and most virulently in the United States of America. They are not yet kinetic wars,…
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Did Turkey Declare War on Israel...and the West?
Few could dispute that the Turkish Government has consciously, with great forethought through 2009 and 2010, chosen to push its relationships with Israel, the US,…
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The ROC Navy Faces a Critical Watershed as the East Asian Strategic Balance Changes
New strategic brinkmanship by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK); a now-clear determination by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to “more aggressively assert…
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The Search for a Reserve Currency
Currency, like all forms of abstract value, is based on trust. And trust itself is based - except among the most naïve - on experience,…
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Moscow Ascending: How Turkey's New Axis With Russia Affects US Interests
We have, in the past year, entered an entirely new dynamic in Eastern Mediterranean and South-East European strategic affairs. We are in a period and…
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Acting Nigerian President Moves Quickly Decisively to Get Country Back on Track
Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has moved decisively and rapidly to unify the Government under him, dismissing — on March 17, 2010 — the entire…
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10 Geopolitical Predictions for 2010 & Short Term Strategic Outlook
A great - and still growing - divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. The politicized, romanticized theater of…
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Changing the Balance of Power: 16 Geopolitical Megatrends Affecting Every Aspect of your Life
Substantial and unmistakable signs of profound change in the global strategic framework have become concrete in the past year. The stress in the structure has…
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Media and Political Hysteria Over Yemen Hides a Deeper Strategic Matrix of Long-Term Importance
US and Western European political leaders have begun to focus on Yemen as a source of projected instability and as a haven for jihadist terrorism…
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Nigeria's Constitutional Dilemma Coming to an Unpredictable Head
Nigerian Pres. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, 59, through failing health, is clearly no longer in control of the Government. Some are proclaiming that the "post-Yar'Adua era"…
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The US Finds its Superpower Structure and Capital are Insufficient to Cope with a Transformed World
The United States of America, in global strategic terms, is tumbling down a series of misadventures, declining in a “step of sighs” through frustrating economic…
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Growing Power of Iraqi Kurdistan Could Backfire on Tehran
Iran's strategy to break Iraq into three component territories, and to dominate those territories in order to reduce regional opposition and to gain unfettered access…
