Global Scale Politics
While peak oil enjoyed a break out in 04, and even though most Americans know in their heart of hearts that Iraq was about oil, Americans, this election, have yet to really make the connection.
Geopolitics & Military
Global-Scale Problems
Increasingly, sharing natural resources will require close international cooperation, peace, and security. This is not the 21st century path we are choosing.
Book Review: Crossing The Rubicon
Ruppert masterfully presents the genesis of September 11th and moves the reader through the early years regarding high expectations for massive oil sources, exposing what’s known as “peak oil” production and into the future.
G8 nations to consider sanctions against Iran
The U.S. administration will take up strategy for United Nations sanctions against Iran at a meeting tomorrow of senior officials from eight nations.
Kerry’s “Energy Plan” (A leftist analysis of energy and the environment)
If we want to know the logically simple but socially very difficult solution, it is conservation. Conservation is not conservative, but something that can only be accomplished through a revolutionary change in society. Whether we can accomplish the social transformation necessary is one issue, but the fact is that an energy soft-landing will require us to dramatically conserve dwindling fossil fuel stocks, by as much as 75%, and begin to think seriously about how to de-link from the growth economy… forever.
China to build four major oil reserve bases
China will formally launch its strategic petroleum reserve program next year, as learned from related departments. An oil reserve base in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province is now under construction, which will be able to hold more than 5 million cubic meters oil when its first-stage project is completed next year.
Growing militarization of our oil dependence
While there is no doubt that global oil output will attain peak levels, the current rise in prices reflects a more worrisome phenomenon: America’s growing dependence on imported petroleum from unstable and unfriendly countries.
Venezuela raises oil drilling tax
Venezuela has announced that it is increasing the royalties paid by foreign oil companies from 1% to 16.6%.
Oil and Empire in the Middle East
Henry Kissinger’s famous declaration that, “Oil is too important to be left to the Arabs” best expresses the experience of the Middle East over the last century.
Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a Global Oil-Protection Service
This, then, is the future of U.S. military involvement abroad. While anti-terrorism and traditional national security rhetoric will be employed to explain risky deployments abroad, a growing number of American soldiers and sailors will be committed to the protection of overseas oil fields, pipeline, refineries, and tanker routes.
Michael Klare on oil wars and the American military
Despite official administration dreams of drastically raising Iraq’s oil output and then using it to float our occupation, we’ve essentially “lost” Iraqi oil — as has the rest of the planet.
African oil fields: Rewards and risks
West African oil holds great promise for companies in search of diverse sources. But it’s giving U.S. national security planners a new Gulf to worry about: the Gulf of Guinea.
