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  • This 12-Step Program Can Break U.S. Oil
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Brune
    Our president almost came clean in his State of the Union speech last week when he finally admitted that "America is addicted to oil." That addiction threatens our national security, our environmental health and our way of life.
    It is true that our leaders are exhibiting the classic signs of an addiction denial, aggression, avoidance, blaming others and as a country we are falling far short of reaching our full potential.
    America’s stubborn dependence on oil erodes our (…)

  • It’s capitalism or a habitable planet - you can’t have both
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change
    by Robert Newman
    There is no meaningful response to climate change without massive social change. A cap on this and a quota on the other won’t do it. Tinker at the edges as we may, we cannot sustain earth’s life-support systems within the present economic system.
    Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding (…)

  • Iran’s Oil Exchange Threatens the Greenback
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration will never allow the Iranian government to open an oil exchange (bourse) that trades petroleum in euros. If that were to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars would come flooding back to the United States crushing the greenback and destroying the economy. This is why Bush and Co. is planning to lead the nation to war against Iran. It is straightforward defense of the current global system and the continuing dominance of the reserve currency, the dollar.
    The claim (…)

  • Iranian official: UN sanctions may lead us to seal off Persian Gulf
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A senior Iranian official threatened that Tehran may forcibly prevent oil export via the Straits of Hormuz if the UN imposed economic sanctions due to Iran’s nuclear program, an Iranian news Web site said on Monday.
    This is the first time an Iranian official makes military threats in a public statement on Tehran’s recent disagreements with the West.
    The news site, affiliated with the radical student movement in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was once a member, quoted Mohammed-Nabi (…)

  • BELAFONTE PRAISES VENEZUELA’S OIL DISCOUNTS
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Country slashes fuel prices to help ease heating costs among U.S. poor.
    *Singer/activist Harry Belafonte has given public props to the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for providing cheap home heating oil to poor families in the United States.
    "This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit," said Belafonte during a visit to the country Wednesday to meet with a delegation of civil rights activists. (…)

  • Peak Oil and the End of Empire
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Charles Sullivan
    Peak oil is most likely a term most readers have not heard before. That is about to change. The concept is slowly making its way onto the mainstream stage. It is intruding into the fringes of the public conscience and soon it may occupy the greater part. When that time comes, as it inevitably will, and probably sooner than you think, the world as we know it will end.
    Oil is the lifeblood not only of the U.S. economy-especially its terrible military capability-it is in (…)

  • The American Imperial Plan and the Iraqi Oil Ministry
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    The American Imperial Plan is proceeding nicely. Ahmad Chalabi is now controlling the Oil Ministry, whilst not a member of the newly elected government:
    "Relations with Washington after falling out with the US administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, officials said on Friday.
    His takeover coincided with long lines forming at petrol stations in Baghdad, as words spread that Iraq’s largest oil refinery had (…)

  • Chad angry at World Bank over oil
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chad has reacted angrily to warnings from the World Bank, after its parliament voted to relax controls on the use of its oil revenues.
    The government has accused the World Bank of acting like a coloniser.
    The body lent Chad more than $39m (£23m) to build a pipeline with an estimated total cost of almost $4bn.
    It was on condition that Chad’s churches, trade unions and non-governmental organisations monitored how oil revenues were spent.
    This was meant to guaranteed that oil money was (…)

  • Chavez Exposes US Gov’t Values: Chicago turns down cheap fuel for the poor
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chicago, Dec 28 - The Chicago Transit Authority is refusing an opportunity to alleviate commuting costs for hundreds of thousands in the Windy City’s low-income neighborhoods. Instead of accepting deeply discounted fuel from the Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum Corporation, the city is instead raising fares to solve budget shortfalls.
    In an October meeting with representatives from the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), the city’s Department of Energy and other city officials, Citgo unveiled (…)

  • Chalabi takes over Iraq oil ministry amid ’crisis’
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi has assumed direct control of the powerful oil ministry as crude exports ground to a halt due to sabotage attacks and logistics problems, officials said on Friday.
    Chalabi, who has been improving his relations with Washington after falling out with the U.S. administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, the officials said.
    Uloum told Reuters he was "intent on (…)