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Senators speak out for LNG exports, bring in big bucks from oil and gas industry

by Rob Galbraith
March 28, 2014

As the west scrambles for a geopolitical response to Russia’s play for the Crimean peninsula, advocates for the oil and gas industry have used the situation to redouble the push to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). Framing the issue as a matter of protecting a fledgling democracy and ensuring security for United States allies, oil- …

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Former NM Governor Bill Richardson’s conflicted promotion of LNG exports

by Gin Armstrong
March 19, 2014

On Tuesday TIME published an opinion piece by former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. In “Our Best Response to Russia is Energy Security,” Richardson argued in favor of using LNG exports to respond to the situation in Ukraine and send “a strong signal” to Moscow: Strongly supporting projects, such as the Trans-Adriatic and Anatolian Pipelines …

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Another military-industrial pundit comments on Ukraine, fails to disclose defense ties

by Gin Armstrong
March 12, 2014

As we suspected, the same conflicted experts who called for US military strikes in Syria last year have taken to the airwaves to comment on Ukraine. Last week, I looked at Stephen Hadley, whose ties to Raytheon and RiceHadleyGates have not been disclosed in multiple media appearances. Another military-industrial pundit who is back for another …

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Stephen Hadley weighs in on Ukraine, forgets to disclose his defense industry ties…again (Updated 3/7)

by Gin Armstrong
March 5, 2014

Stephen Hadley is making the media rounds again. The former National Security Advisor to George W Bush served in the White House when Russia moved into parts of Georgia in 2008 and oversaw the administration’s response. In the past two days Hadley appeared on the Charlie Rose Show, and CNN’s Situation Room and Anderson Cooper 360, …

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Will lack of disclosure continue in expert analysis of Ukraine?

by Gin Armstrong
March 3, 2014

Last fall we issued a report on conflicts on interest in the Syria debate, wherein we tracked the defense industry ties of 22 expert commentators and 7 think tanks who commented on military intervention in Syria. With the uptick in expert analysis on how/if/when the US should respond to the situation in Ukraine we will …

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