Geopolitics – Oct 25
Foreign Affairs: The new Middle East /
Bush’s petro-cartel almost has Iraq’s Oil #2/
Putin gets mugged in Finland /
TOD comments on Gazprom /
Water wars
Geopolitics & Military
Energy giant Russia – Oct 21
BBC Europe diary: The gas man /
More thoughts about Gazprom /
Israeli PM raises energy issue in Moscow /
The emerging Russian giant plays its cards strategically
Geopolitics – Oct 20
Bush’s Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq’s Oil \
Iraq: US May Have Weeks, Not Months, To Avert Civil War \
Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite? \
Bush signs torture bill; Americans lose essential freedom \
The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas
Long live the Pentagon
The US military oil consumption is generally regarded to be a small amount compared to the country’s gigantic consumption. Since oil is and will remain a strategic vital commodity, the Pentagon does not have a luxury of turning its back to oil.
Peak Oil – Oct 5
It starts to look like a plateau
Yet another ‘inconvenient truth’
HK Kunstler – Making Other Arrangements
David Korten: The Great Turning
Russia – Oct 4
Chief engineer at BP unit in Siberia is slain
Russian oil grab ‘puts western supplies at risk’
Russian giant sweeps into US towns with a $35mn campaign
Environment cop puts the screws to Shell’s Sakhalin
Gazprom starts to build pipelines connecting Russia and China
A hard place
Sooner or later America will lose its ability to influence the people and events in the Middle East, and at the same time we will probably lose access to the oil of the region.
Late empire? – Oct 1
U.S. economy losing its global dominance
America is living beyond its means
US housing bubble: Economy in denial
The diminished dividends of war
Is The Army At The Breaking Point?
Why Bush Will Nuke Iran
America’s Decline Gives Bush Putin-Envy
Late empire? – Oct 1
U.S. economy losing its global dominance
America is living beyond its means
US housing bubble: Economy in denial
The diminished dividends of war
Is The Army At The Breaking Point?
Why Bush Will Nuke Iran
America’s Decline Gives Bush Putin-Envy
Iraq – Sept 29
Iraq, China discuss reviving Saddam-era oil deals
Iraq’s revival of China deal heartens oil majors
Attacks, missteps cost Iraq $16B in oil exports
Iraqi Kurds raise secession threat over oil
Clashes in Iraq as parliament acts to resolve autonomy issue
Geopolitics – Sept 28
Confronting the world’s new petro-powers
Russia may re-direct new gas supplies from US to Europe
Saudi Arabia begins looking east
Russia calls IAEA’s low-enriched uranium reserves plan “interesting but dangerous”
Reading the gas pump numbers
What do falling oil prices tell us about war with Iran, the elections, and peak-oil theory?
