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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
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
Yemen foils attacks on oil plants
Sinopec set for 51% stake in Yadavaran
Putin declines EU’s energy charter
Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
G8 ‘Energy Security’ Plan Opposed over Climate, Nuclear Concerns /
G8 Leaders Play Russian Roulette with Climate Chaos /
Whole catalogue of failures leaves G8 looking increasingly irrelevant /
Worldwide Protests Slam G8 Support of Nuclear, Coal, Oil
Bush wrongfooted as Iran steps up international charm offensive /
Saudis to Supply Oil to China Strategic Reserves /
Shanghai surprise /
Venezuela, Colombia to Build Pipeline /
Mexico’s energy future hinges on elections
In a dramatic turn-around from last year’s meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, G8 leaders have set their sights
on expanding access to fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Last year, G8 leaders focused on mitigating the
impacts of climate change and canceling debt.
US energy bill OKd in raucous vote /
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group /
Gas row between China and Japan escalates /
Boom times await new BRIC powers /
Fool shortage? Not in Georgia /
US revs up the China threat /
Chavez interview – has ‘strong oil card’ /
High oil prices met with anger worldwide /
Pombo proposes offshore drilling
In 1876, Marx’s collaborator, Frederich Engels, offered a prophetic caveat: “Let us not… flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human conquest over nature. For each such conquest takes its revenge on us.”
International oil companies have advertising campaigns warning that the world is running out of oil and calling on the public to help the industry do something about it.
Most of the executives ofThe world’s five largest energy groups generally maintain that oil projects are viable with the price at which they test a project’s viability is within the around $20 a barrel. range. But their advertising and some of their companies’ own statistics appear to tell a different story.
Dick Cheney, a long-time beneficiary of World Bank largess, has moved to take ownership of the world’s development coffers through his man, Wolfowitz. For his part, Wolfowitz will have a chance to extend his Iraq reconstruction theories to the global level. These concepts mostly involve U.S. control over energy resources.
The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq’s oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC’s Newsnight has revealed.
Concentration on fluctuations in oil prices has detracted attention from the fundamental geopolitical changes occurring in world oil and gas markets.
