Meet The Palestinian Cola Brands Taking On Coke
July 29th, 2025
Via Atmos, a report on the Palestinian cola brands taking on Coke: Coca-Cola is among the top global plastic polluters, with a water-intensive supply chain and ties to occupied land. Palestinian sodas claim to offer a more just, sustainable future—and they’re selling fast. In a video that circulated on social media last month, a British Airways flight […]
Read more »Recognized Palestinian State Could Develop Disputed Gas Resources
July 20th, 2025
Via The Guardian, commentary on how the Palestinian Authority’s ability to use the Gaza Marine field could leave them less dependent on aid: Recognition of Palestine as a state would put beyond doubt that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is entitled to develop the natural gas resources of the Gaza Marine field, according to one of the experts […]
Read more »Gaza 2035: Free Trade Zone or Geoeconomic Imaginary?
July 9th, 2025
Via Chartbook, commentary on what the author terms is the surreal geoeconomic imaginary of Netanyahu’s “economic peace” in the Middle East: I have to admit, when I first saw the image, I thought it must be a hoax. Source: Archpaper & PM Office of Israel Skyscrapers, solar power plants, container ships, oil rigs off shore – […]
Read more »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 »The Economics of Famine
June 8th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on soaring prices for goods in the Gaza Strip: Prices for basic goods in the Gaza Strip have spiralled after the closure of its border crossing with Egypt worsened wartime scarcity, sending the cost of a single cigarette as high as $20 and forcing families to sell jewellery […]
Read more »Even With Gaza Under Siege, Some Are Imagining Its Reconstruction
May 7th, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how international development agencies have been meeting with Middle East business interests and urban planners to map out an economic future for the territory: On a December morning in central London, more than two dozen people drawn from influential institutions across the Middle East, Europe and […]
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.