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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 puts 40bn barrels of recoverable reserves up for offer in London. BP, Shell
Read More »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 prosecute the managers of an oil- and gas-royalty program that’s been tainted by allegations of illicit sex,
Read More »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 an email campaign that links our tool to your recipients, telling them exactly
Read More »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 journals like SchNEWS), there’s been more and more interest in ‘Peak Oil’. Perhaps it’s got
Read More »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 Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton Corp., on a secret deal that would give
Read More »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 for the firm said the oil and gas pipelines, which run from the
Read More »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 budget surplus of up to $80 billion, U.S. auditors reported Tuesday. Leading members of
Read More »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 belly. Amid growing signs of famine and outrage, the entire chain of
Read More »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 and promised to fight to defend its interests there. Soaring oil and gas prices helped
Read More »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 heart of the world’s major energy reserves. The deal just taking shape
Read More »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 Depression. Following is a list of recessions since 1950: 1953 —
Read More »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 questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq — questions
Read More »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” raising oil prices and dismissing as “a funny joke” fears that his country could come under attack.
Read More »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 too besotted with ourselves — might we also for once
Read More »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 up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil
Read More »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 in the negotiations for a new global energy order that is emerging under the
Read More »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 to protect Iraqi oil reserves. Kucinich, who has introduced measures
Read More »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 one. But the culpability of the energy firms the
Read More »“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 that – as Dubya admits – the United States is addicted
Read More »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 offshore oil drilling is being framed primarily in environmental terms. The drilling, which would do
Read More »An alternative to oil?
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 as fast. Lee Waters, of sustainable transport charity
Read More »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 we struggle to cope with the $200 barrel? Geoffrey Lean
Read More »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 or face legal proceedings where the multinational’s links to gross human rights violations in
Read More »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. Not anymore. As climate change did over the past few years, peak oil seems
Read More »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. The blast, near the town of Iskandiriya, caused a large fire and
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