Oil price manipulation, an unrecognized stratagem and an unhinged plan
Oil price manipulation is taking many forms after the closure of one of the world’s major choke points for oil transport sent oil prices higher.
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Iran war: What we’re in for and why logic is your friend
A lot of nonsense is being communicated about the war with Iran.
Wars and rumors of wars: Iran edition
An attack on Iran appears imminent. Here’s why I think it’s unlikely that we’ll see President Trump “TACO” this time.
Wars and rumors of wars: America, Europe, Russia and China
Can preparing for war really keep the peace?
The miniaturization of death: How technology has tipped the balance away from state power
Violence is coming in smaller and smaller packages these days.
Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War
With Donald Trump’s decision to shred the Iran nuclear agreement, announced last Tuesday, it’s time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean. The answer, based on the last 16 years of American experience in the Greater Middle East, is that it won’t be pretty.
Are resource wars our future?
Why the Paris Climate Summit will be a peace conference – averting a world of failed states and resource wars.
A Landscape of Dreams
One of the core themes of the Retrotopia narrative I’ve been developing here over the last month or so is the yawning gap between the abstract notion of progress that we all have in our heads and the rather less pleasant realities to which this notion has been assigned.
Syria peak oil weakened government’s finances ahead of Arab Spring in 2011
While the attention of the world is on the refugee crisis we need to look at the causes of this mass exodus.
Are We Already In Abrupt Climate Change?
In this week’s Radio Ecoshock, we cover global climate news, from the Syrian refugees to signs of an abrupt climate shift, with scientist Paul Beckwith.
Reading I.F. Stone on Earth Day: Why we still won’t get anywhere unless we connect the dots
It is in this joyous and self-congratulatory atmosphere [of the first Earth Day] that a curmudgeonly I.F. Stone, by now a full-fledged icon on the left, takes the stage. And he unapologetically rains on the parade, accusing Earth Day of providing cover for escalating war and calling for a movement willing to demand “enormous changes—psychological, military, and bureaucratic—to end the existing world system, a system of hatred, of anarchy, of murder, of war and pollution.”
Obama’s new oil wars
Washington is now the key country brandishing the oil weapon, using trade sanctions and other means to curb the exports of energy-producing states it categorizes as hostile. The Obama administration has taken this aggressive path even at the risk of curtailing global energy supplies.
