The final results are in and the winner of the Iran War is...The oil companies.

[spud@mastodon.ie]

@petergleick not the same oil companies that profited from Venezuela and both Gulf Wars?

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@petergleick

Koch Network paid $550 million to get this kind of oil war & profiteering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

We don't know what Putin & #PrinceBonesaw paid.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/how-the-iran-oil-shock-left-vladimir-putin-a-winner/106547558

Saudi Pushes White House to Prolong Iran War as Brent Tops $100 | OilPrice.com

Saudi Arabia is publicly calling for regional stability. Peace, even. But privately, the Kingdom is pushing the White House to press on with its campaign against Iran, with oil prices comfortably above $100

OilPrice.com (oilprice.com)

All the Pretty Koch Suckers

There's a moment in Season 1 of Landman that crystallizes everything. The oil company’s shareholders gather in their boardroom, high above the West Texas

CounterPunch.org (www.counterpunch.org)

Trump administration moves to block Minnesota climate change lawsuit against oil companies - myMotherLode.com

President Donald Trump's administration moved Monday to block a lawsuit Minnesota officials filed almost six years ago alleging oil companies and a petroleum trade group deceived state residents about climate change. The U.S. Department of Justice, the administration's law enforcement arm, filed an action in federal court in Minneapolis arguing that the federal government has

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The Reputation Launderers

Talking with monsters like they’re not monsters isn’t journalism- it’s cowardice.

(www.currentaffairs.org)

The Koch Brothers' $50 Million Political Research Firm Knows What Type Of Car You Drive

The most important nonparty political players in the US today.

Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

DeSmog (www.desmog.com)

Billionaires know that mass unemployment feeds fascism.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

Lol. What a set of hypocrites. Principles!?!
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/05/06/becoming-a-principle-driven-leader-chase-koch-on-top-principles-for-human-progress.html

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@Npars01 @petergleick I like your referencing. Without any at hand, I wonder, does a price increase of fossils bear any positive effect? Where is the long-term profit?

[gvs@rebelbase.site]

@petergleick Not sure where you live, but in Belgium and The Netherlands, fuel prices are mostly made up of taxes (Belgium 70%). Big winner is the government.

[ezpen@mastodon.social]

@leeolds @petergleick

As long as Trump provides, Putin will keep his part of the deal... making sure his private Epstein files stays... «private»!

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@petergleick Yes.. Where's the windfall tax?

[ezpen@mastodon.social]

@xerge @petergleick

I wouldn't say he's a genius. More like a monster, ready to «activate» situations killing thousands of people and the use of tons of American taxpayer money... all to hide his «exotic» interest for little girls and boys!

[mokhtarstork@zirk.us]

@petergleick They should pay more taxes?

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@petergleick The ‘campaign contributions’ of #BigOil to #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump have paid off *bigly*. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131

Stop the #FelonsCrusade in #Iran.

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@petergleick Republican Party donors and VVP ftw

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@xerge @petergleick You ever seen that dude, usually in a giant truck, who drives on the shoulder to get to the front of a slow line of traffic and get to an exit sooner? That guy?

He thinks we'd do it too if we were as smart as him--we'd all do it if we were as smart as him. He gets to go to the front of the line because he's smarter than the rest of us waiting in traffic. That's what he thinks.

But really, it's just because no one has ever punched him in the face for being a total asshole.

[shwell@mastodon.au]

@petergleick Fundraising for the war on Russia.

[shwell@mastodon.au]

@leeolds @petergleick Besides a target for european colonialism, what has Putin got to do with it?

[shwell@mastodon.au]

@Ezpen @leeolds @petergleick Who ran Epstein? Hint... Epstein's ethnicity gives it away. Nothing to do with Russia.

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@petergleick And they're making a killing from insider trading: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil-futures

These people aren't complex. They want all the money. They make soldiers die to get more money. They spend billions of our tax dollars to juice up their investments in military industrial companies. They put thousands of us in private prisons that they have significant investments in. They give huge contracts to AI companies (the type of contracts that make up 50% of their revenue) they've invested in.

[shwell@mastodon.au]

@clickhere @petergleick ?

[ezpen@mastodon.social]

@shwell @leeolds @petergleick

Jeffrey Epstein had plenty to do with Russia... among others he was a spy as well... the double kind

[shwell@mastodon.au]

@Ezpen @leeolds @petergleick "I'm Jeffrey Epstein and as you know, I represent the Rothschilds".

[xerge@mastodon.nl]

@clonedhuman @petergleick perhaps the US justice system will one day be able to punch Don the Con in the face, but I'm not holding my breath.

[cynaq@beige.party]

@xerge @clonedhuman @petergleick better odds on cold fusion