In the last eight years implementing the plans for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) designed "to promote American global leadership" has backfired.
To accomplish PNAC’s goals, all threats needed to be eliminated. From the onset, the United Sates earmarked two countries as mortal enemies: Venezuela and Iran. With Venezuela, it is well documented that the CIA attempted to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chavez. And with Iran, the United States continues to (…)
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The collapse of the United States is accelerating : Oil in Euros vs. US dollars
4 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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America, Fight Back : Nationalize the Oil Industry!
25 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.” - Ambrose Bierce
Are you sick and tired of being at the mercy of the grasping plutocrats who run Big Oil? Gasoline is now selling at $3.50 a gallon, as the price of a barrel of oil nears $120, with no end in sight to further increases. Meanwhile, the American economy is sinking faster than the Titanic. The dollar, too, is in sharp decline. Mortgage foreclosures are at depression era highs. Over three (…) -
Ralph Nader on Nuclear, Solar and Alternative Energy (March 20 2008)
13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Venezuela requires Euros for some oil contracts
15 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentVenezuela requires Euros for some oil contracts
Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:30pm EDT
CARACAS, March 14 (Reuters) - Venezuela is requiring payments in euros on some contracts for crude, oil product and spot sales, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told Reuters on Friday.
The move to have some of its contracts in euros is a sign OPEC-member Venezuela could be easing away from the plummeting dollar — the standard currency for the oil industry.
The South American producer had no set target for the (…) -
Venezuela : The Spectre of Big Oil, by Paul Kellogg
6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentGlobal Research March 4, 2008 The Bullet, Socialist Project e-bulletin
"Never again will they rob us -the ExxonMobil bandits. They are imperial, American bandits, white-collared thieves. They turn governments corrupt, they oust governments. They supported the invasion of Iraq."
This was the response from Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to the successful lawsuit by the world’s biggest corporation (ExxonMobil), freezing $12 billion in assets of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, (…) -
Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Says Protests Will Shut Nation
25 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Says Protests Will Shut Nation
By Andres R. Martinez
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Former Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked supporters to shut airports, oil facilities and highways next month when President Felipe Calderon introduces a plan to open the state oil industry to investment.
The country’s oil belongs to the people, even the most humble,’’ Lopez Obrador told protesters outside state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos headquarters in (…) -
Fuel-Free Oceanic Shipping
20 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
2 comments"DHL Completes More Eco-Friendly Ship Voyage as Industry Comes Under Fire
A cargo vessel that uses a towing kite system to achieve better shipping fuel economy completed its first shipment this week as the industry found itself under fire from U.S. and international regulators."
This story is out of today’s "Green Buzz," the newsletter post from Green Biz today. While it’s an amazing achievement to use a kite to cut fuel use by 20% on a cargo ship, the sad part is that most cargo (…) -
Something Had to Give
3 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
How Oil Burst the American Bubble By Michael T. Klare
The economic bubble that lifted the stock market to dizzying heights was sustained as much by cheap oil as by cheap (often fraudulent) mortgages. Likewise, the collapse of the bubble was caused as much by costly (often imported) oil as by record defaults on those improvident mortgages. Oil, in fact, has played a critical, if little commented upon, role in America’s current economic enfeeblement — and it will continue to drain the (…) -
Oil for Iraqi citizens, by Hana Al-Bayaty* (3iii.org)
26 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Some 4.7 million Iraqi citizens — one fifth of the population — have been forcibly displaced, within and outside their country, by the US occupation and the policies of the sectarian governments it installed since the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. It is a human catastrophe, a national tragedy, and a destabilising factor for the region. This exodus has been labelled "the fastest growing humanitarian crisis on the planet", unprecedented (…) -
In a snow-covered China, entire regions are without electricity and gas
24 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
In a snow-covered China, entire regions are without electricity and gas
The energy shortfall has reached 70 gigawatts, equal to the production of all of Great Britain. There is a shortage of coal because of the closure of many non-compliant mines and the imposition of price caps. The snow is blocking the roads and preventing fuel delivery. The cold is also impacting water and gas suppliers.
01/23/2008 14:40
Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - China is facing its worst energy shortage in many (…)