The wonderful Jeffrey Sachs leaves nobody in doubt about the absolute hypocrisy and complicity of western governments who condemned #Iran for defending its country against the illegal attack by #USA and #Israel.

“Even George Orwell could not make this up.”

He also points out that any nation with #US bases on its soil are not sovereign countries.

#USPol #UkPol #CdnPol #CdniPol #EUPol #AusPol #NZPol

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“Energy investors are like butterflies. When they are scared, they fly away,” he said at the National Press Club.

So, gas producers would just abandon a highly lucrative situation in a safe country with extensive established infrastructure because of a 25% tax, when about a third of global capacity is offline?

What complete, utter bullshit.

#AusPol
theguardian.com/environment/20…

IEA chief warns Australia against sudden gas export taxes as Albanese says ‘stable, predictable’ world gone

Treasury modelling 25% levy on gas exports, changes to the PRRT and corporate tax tweaks but Fatih Birol says sudden changes could disincentivise investment

^{Tom McIlroy (The Guardian)}

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They're not getting scared away, they're threatening to hold the economy to ransom. We should be threatening to nationalise the gas industry.

#auspol