Peak oil and geopolitics – Jan 22
Klare: Geopolitical consequences of peak oil
Kissinger: The new Iraq strategy
The draining of Africa’s wealth
TOD: Trade, transportation and the Chinese finger trap
Geopolitics & Military
Where Is the energy for freedom?
The future is coming fast, and we’ll choose it through our actions as citizens, consumers and voters. The question remains: Do we have the energy for freedom?
5 minutes to midnight
The dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons. The effects may be less dramatic in the short term than the destruction that could be wrought by nuclear explosions, but over the next three to four decades climate change could cause drastic harm to the habitats upon which human societies depend for survival.
U.S. – Jan 17
NYT: Energy time
Senate hearing: Changing energy world
Democrats drying up oil industry tax breaks
Latin America – Jan 17
Bolivia gambles on energy and wins – for now
Oil firms face woe in Venezuela and Honduras
The peak oil crisis: Congressional hearings – round #2
The heart of the hearings focused on the idea that 75 percent of the world’s oil reserves are now in the hands of national state-controlled oil companies and this percentage is expected to keep growing.
Geopolitics – Jan 17
Klare: Emerging energo-fascism (part 2)
Rep Ron Paul: escalation in the Middle East
Iraq cultivating ties with Iran
Oil’s vital new power
Iran and Venezuela plan anti-U.S. fund
Iraq’s billions & the White House connection
Oil, the elites, and the commons
USA lends oil-helping hand to former Soviet republics
Is energo-fascism in your future?
Energo-fascism will, in time, affect nearly every person on the planet. Either we will be compelled to participate in or finance foreign wars to secure vital supplies of energy…; or we will be at the mercy of those who control the energy spigot… ; or sooner or later we may find ourselves under constant state surveillance, lest we consume more than our allotted share of fuel or engage in illicit energy transactions. [excerpts]
U.S. – Jan 15
Saudi Arabia’s oil? Responsibility trumps sovereign rights!
Officials covered up oil lease problems, IG says
Euro displaces dollar in bond markets
Has globalization passed its peak?
Deluded
Understanding the delusions under which America’s leaders and media suffer allows us to see why the most obvious solution to America’s predicament in Iraq goes unmentioned, namely, a vast crash program to free America from fossil fuels, especially oil, in favor of renewable, low-carbon sources of energy.
Oil money – Jan 13
Why Iran is next (challenging the U.S. dollar)
Iran oil exchange to have short-term trial
The false promise of liberalisation
Geopolitics – Jan 13
AlterNet article on Iraq’s Oil mentioned in House
Oil’s vital new power (Azerbaijan pipeline)
Resource wars
Chavez promises Nicaragua 200-year oil supply
Putin unlikely saviour of endangered grey whales
