Rachel Maddow's feature piece Friday night is quite long, but worth watching end-to-end. If you don't have time for the whole thing, leap to around 16 minutes in and watch from there. She begins by discussing the International Space Station payments the US still has to make to Russia -- at least, for the mission that's underway right now -- and ends by revealing the wanton ways of oil companies. Long story short: While President Obama was crafting a new set of sanctions for Russia if Putin fails to keep his end of the Geneva agreement, Shell Oil's CEO was sitting in Putin's house, cutting a deal for expanded activity in Russia.
Are Oil Companies Cutting Deals With Putin To Undermine Us Sanctions?
karoli, The Daily Dot
Sat, 04/19/2014 - 11:55am
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