Thirsty Invaders, Chasing Heat [excerpt]
The impending end-of-life of oil and Boomer Babies is the next big challenge to the Green movement in America.
Politics
US: Bringing healthy produce to poor neighborhoods
Food activists and small farmers lead project for inner city food security in San Francisco.
‘Independence from oil’ declared
“Americans are paying the ultimate price for the oil on Ford’s hands, and today’s protest marks a tipping point in the grassroots movement for an automotive energy revolution.”
The Venezuelan Referendum, Beware Jimmy Carter!
On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela’s urban and rural poor.
Pressures at home bedevil Opec ministers
Behind the debate among Opec members on a reasonable price for their oil lies the urgent need among many of these oil-dependent nations to finance growing government expenditure in the face of rising unemployment and population growth.
Total shuts down oil, gas production in Nigeria in face of strike threats
Energy giant Total has shut down oil and gas production in Nigeria in the face of a threatened labor strike that raised management fears that there could be violence, the company said Tuesday.
US: A project for energy independence
The Apollo Alliance, a powerful cabal of unlikely allies, are quietly pushing the Kerry campaign to adopt what may be the best, most timely Big Idea to hit a presidential campaign in decades. The Alliance proposes what it calls a New Apollo Project, which would strive for American energy-independence within a decade.
Oil Edges Up as Norway Situation Escalates
Oil prices edged up on Thursday as Norwegian employers said they would lock out striking workers next week, threatening to shut off almost all oil and gas output from the world’s number three crude exporter.
Peak Oil is Here
The biggest news in the world at the moment however is also the most suppressed, and it is actually quite frightening. It’s suppressed because it completely obliterates all the ludicrous reasons we’ve been fed about why we’re in Iraq and Afghanistan, and because once it becomes self-evident the global stock markets will panic and crash.
Norway Oil Workers Begin Strike, Cutting Output
Norwegian oil workers are going on strike from today, cutting output from the world’s third- largest oil exporter, after two unions failed to reach a pension accord with employers.
Crude Talk: US and Venezuela Dance
After several failed efforts to unseat Venezuela’s popular President Hugo Chavez, the fuel sector of corporate America is getting nervous. Venezuela is growing in prosperity, relying on its own mineral resources and technological patents to build new wealth. Chavez is exactly the kind of indigenous national leader whom American power can’t tolerate.
The Gift of War
It is an unfortunate truth about human history that social systems, no matter how unjust, tend to reproduce themselves and that change emerges only from crises.