Will Trump Buy “Ports for Peace”?
March 31st, 2025
Via The Middle East-Told Slant, commentary on the potential for a transformational port-and-logistics project in Gaza: As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enters yet another bloody phase, and Trump seeks to block China’s access to parts of the global supply chain, could a transformational port-and-logistics project end the war in Gaza? The outline of this basic idea […]
Read more »Guyana: A Tiny Rainforest Country Growing Into a Petrostate
March 29th, 2025
Via CNN, a report on Guyana, a tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate: Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the deep water off the coast of this tiny, rainforested country. It was one of the most spectacular oil discoveries of recent […]
Read more »Building Critical Minerals Cooperation Between the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
March 29th, 2025
Via CSIS, a new report on potential critical minerals cooperation between the U.S. and DRC: The Issue The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries, and in 2024, it attracted the largest volume of mineral exploration investment in Africa. Enhancing U.S.-DRC cooperation is critical to counterbalance China’s dominance. […]
Read more »How a New Axis Called CRINK Is Working Against America
March 29th, 2025
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at how China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have united to defy Western sanctions and undermine U.S. interests: An axis uniting China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—dubbed CRINK by some Western officials—has emerged from the war in Ukraine, a loose alliance united by a mutual disdain for the […]
Read more »In War-Torn Sudan, a Gold Mining Boom Takes a Human Toll
March 28th, 2025
Via Yale e360, a look at how – as civil war rages in Sudan – a surge in gold production is helping finance and arm the warring factions: Amid Sudan’s brutal civil war, where famine threatens millions of displaced people, many have turned to small-scale gold mining, risking their lives by using toxic chemicals to […]
Read more »Somalia Offers U.S. ‘Control’ Over Strategic Ports
March 28th, 2025
Via Semafor, a report on Somalia’s outreach to the U.S. over port access: Somalia’s government has offered the US “exclusive operational control” over strategic ports on the Gulf of Aden in a bid to derail any recognition by Washington of breakaway regions in the troubled Horn of Africa nation. It made the offer despite not […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.