• Iraqi government fuels ‘war for oil’ theories by putting reserves up for biggest ever sale

  Terry Macalister and Nicholas Watt | The biggest ever sale of oil assets will take place today, when the Iraqi government...

   

• Why weren’t managers charged in oil-sex scandal?

  By Marisa Taylor | The Interior Department’s watchdog criticized the Justice Department on Thursday for declining to...

   

• Tools to Expose Big Oil’s Influence on Our Political System

  You can use Oil Change USA‘s tools to educate, activate and engage people coming to your website and blog by: launching...

   

• SchNEWS DRILLS FOR THE TRUTH IN PEAK OIL THEORY

  SchNEWS | From Transition Town workshops to the city slickers at the Financial Times (to over-excited pieces in ill-researched...

   

• The Secret Deal For Iraq’s Oil

  The Public Record | Four months before the United States invaded Iraq, the Department of Defense was secretly working with...

   

• BP shuts down Georgia pipelines

  Energy giant BP says it has shut two of three pipelines that run through Georgia as a precautionary measure. A spokeswoman...

   

• Iraq’s oil-fueled surplus could hit $80 billion, report says

  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iraq is raking in more money from oil exports than it is spending, amassing a projected four-year...

   

• Crisis Looms as Corporations Seize Control of Commodities

  By Barbara L. Minton | The global food crisis won’t go away any time soon. Capitalism has the average consumer by the...

   

• BP hits a record but warns of Russia risk

  BP reported the biggest-ever quarterly profit for a British company but warned of the risks of doing business in Russia...

   

• Chomsky: Bush & Cheney Always Saw Iraq as a Sweetheart Oil Deal

  By Noam Chomsky | U.S. war planners want an obedient client state that will house major U.S. military bases, right at the...

   

• War, oil caused most U.S recessions since 1950

  Reuters | Wars and sharp spikes in oil prices were behind most of the seven recessions in the United States since the Great...

   

• It’s the Oil, stupid!

  By Noam Chomsky | The deal just taking shape between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical...

   

• Iran blames West for ‘artificially’ raising oil prices, says war threat is a ‘joke’

  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia | Iran’s president again took aim at the West, blaming the U.S. and Europe for “artificially”...

   

• Happy Oil Dependence Day

  By Robert Scheer | As we head into the Fourth of July weekend of patriotic bluster and beer swilling — but before we are...

   

• U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals

  By ANDREW E. KRAMER | A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing...

   

• New Global Energy Order Emerging

  IPS | By bringing together the world’s major oil producers and consumers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia marked a turning point...

   

• Kucinich: We went to Iraq for oil

  Press TV | Rep. Dennis Kucinich has accused the US of forcing Iraq to privatize its oil fields and keeping US troops at war...

   

• Big Oil’s Big Lie

  By George Monbiot | Of course, it’s not a crime, and it’s hard to see how, in a free society, it could or should become...

   

• “Blood and Oil” an Important Film to See and Share

  ADS | “Blood and Oil” is a very, very well made film that will show you something new even if you already know...

   

• Republicans’ Offshore Drilling Plan Would Expand Dysfunctional System

  By Phil Mattera | The response to the politically opportunistic call by the Bush Administration and John McCain to expand...

   

• An alternative to oil?

  

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  By Lee Waters | Oil prices could reach $200 a barrel by the end of the year, and the cost of filling up is rising nearly...

   

• Oil: A global crisis

  The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should, says a leading expert. How are our lives going to change as...

   

• US Oil Major Complicit in Abuses – Rights Lobby

  By Marwaan Macan-Markar - IPS | An environmental group is warning U.S. energy giant Chevron to clean up its act in Burma...

   

• We Must Imagine a Life Without Oil

  By Mark Hertsgaard - The Nation | It used to be that only environmentalists and paranoids warned about running out of oil....

   

• Iraqi oil pipeline blown up again

  BBC News | An oil pipeline south of Baghdad has been blown up, wounding at least eight security guards, Iraqi police say....