Posts Tagged ‘oil’
The demise of the dollar
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading. In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with [...]
Francis Boyle: Iran Should Sue to Stop US Attack Pt 1
Project For The New American Century – deconstructed
Project for the New American Century web page.
The Neo Conservative Manifesto, The Project for the New American Century PNAC
Project for the New American Century is Robbing Us Blind
The Project for a New American Empire – [...]
A jury in Kentucky sentenced a 24-year-old former soldier to life in prison without parole on Thursday for raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her, her parents and a younger sister in Iraq.
Former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green was escorted to the courthouse during his trial in Paducah, Ky., in April.
The verdict [...]
September 2008. As Russian tanks rolled into South Ossetia, the worlds eyes turned East. In the West the message was clear: Georgia falls victim to Russian aggression. But is our media telling us the whole story?
This tool is a visual demonstration of the network of funding relationships between oil companies and politicians.
The Relationship View and Table Views are two alternate presentations of the campaign contributions from company executives (and company Political Action Committees) to the candidate’s campaign committee.
Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska who has shot to prominence as John McCain’s choice as running-mate, is best known as a passionate believer in new oil and gas exploration, including in Alaska’s National Widelife Reserve – something McCain himself rejects.
But campaigners say she has a mixed record on her dealings with the oil corporations [...]
It’s hard to grasp the immensity of ExxonMobil’s profits for the second quarter of this year.
More money made in three months than the U.S. government spent on its food stamps program. More money in three months than nearly 400,000 U.S. workers getting average pay will earn in all of this year. More money made each [...]
Addicted to Oil is the first book to undertake an in-depth analysis of the motorisation of US society which explicitly links it to America’s foreign policy adventures, past and present.
America’s love affair with the car is leading to a relentless drive for energy security, at any cost – even war.
The Carter Doctrine, established 28 years ago, put the US military in service of assuring the nation’s regular supplies of imported oil. This has near-bankrupted the US and corrupted the military, yet left the US insecure in energy sources and globally loathed. The time has come to demote petroleum and stand down the troops.
American policymakers [...]
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Occupied lands of Palestine
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