Climate – Apr 24
Carbon dioxide levels ‘off the chart’
Military think tank: Climate change ‘may put world at war’
Peak water: Aquifers and rivers running dry
Geopolitics & Military
United States – Apr 24
Pentagon worried about spiking oil prices
Bartlett and 8 GOP colleagues: how to alleviate high gas prices
Barack Obama still takes in oil money
Food & agriculture – Apr 21
Lester R. Brown: World facing huge new challenge on food front
Food price rises are “mass murder” – UN envoy
How hunger could topple regimes
We know secret of Joseph’s biblical pest control
Paraguay and Mexico – Apr 21
Leftist ex-bishop ends Colorado Party rule in Paraguay
Lugo plans to re-negotiate electricity deals
Calderon pushes plan to reform Pemex
Oil bill protest shuts Mexican Congress
A tempest in an oil barrel
Mexico’s unfinished reform
Cynthia McKinney on Mexican oil protest
Geopolitics – Apr 21
The US, China, peak oil, and the demise of neoliberalism
What power looks like: meet the superclass
Energy industry – Apr 21
Abundant clean energy in your backyard: natural gas discoveries in US
Eni: Oil majors must rethink business
Oil majors forced to accept tough terms
Shell, Exxon face higher costs on carbon limits
Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008)
ON A HOT DAY in July 1942 Joseph Stalin summoned before him a young mining engineer named Nikolai Baibakov. The supreme leader of the Soviet Union pointed out an obvious fact to his visitor. German armies were advancing into the Caucasus towards the strategic oil fields near Baku. Then came the dramatic gesture.
Stalin pointed two fingers at Baibakov’s head and said, “If you fail to stop the Germans getting our oil, you will be shot.” Then Stalin added “And when we have thrown the invader out, if we cannot restart oil production, we will shoot you again.”
Energy geopolitics – Apr 16
Klare: The end of the world as you know it
Iraq opens door to foreign contracts at major oil fields
Paraguay hopeful eyes energy export prices
A conversation with Michael Klare, author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
The United States remains the world’s sole military superpower, but it is unclear what advantage this offers in a world of shrinking energy supplies and intense competition for what remains of them. … there is an ever-growing danger that the major consuming nations will provoke regional arms races and get drawn into local resource disputes, thus increasing the risk of unintended Great Power-conflicts.
Geopolitics – Apr 15
The coming war with Iran: It’s about the oil, stupid
Oil and the ‘new international energy order’ (Klare interview)
ADL attacks Swiss-Iranian gas deal
Iraq: What Hillary and Barack don’t want you to know
Project Update (PNAC’s success in Iraq)
Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet – excerpt from Klare’s new book
Surveying the energy-driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape, Michael Klare, the preeminent expert on resource geopolitics, forecasts a future of surprising new alliances and explosive danger. (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
Geopolitics – Apr 8
New book from Michael Klare: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
China’s shopping spree for resources
Battle for Basra timeline: footsteps to US war in Iran?
