Category Archives: Energy and Resources

Who’s To Blame For The Price Of Oil? Speculators, not Saudis

Posted on 28 June, 2008 by

Revised with additions Two short news report video clips from Al Jazeera and the Real News Network cast some light on why the price of oil is so high at the moment, and how it is affecting ordinary Saudis even … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy and Resources, News, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Video | Tagged , , | 7 Comments

Gaza, Gaza: Yossi Wolfson On Israel’s Warfare Against the Palestinians

Posted on 21 January, 2008 by

Yossi Wolfson’s clear-eyed description of the hafrada regime’s policies in the siege of Gaza and the too-little mentioned exploitation of Gaza’s gas reserves: recommended read. Boldface emphasis is editorial. This article appears in the very worthwhile Challenge magazine, Issue 107, … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy and Resources, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Israel Watch, Palestine, Politics, War crimes | Tagged | 4 Comments

Having your yellowcake and dumping it too: Australia’s nuclear geopolitics and the US alliance

Posted on 12 October, 2007 by

Will central Australia be the new site for world nuclear waste storage, mostly from the US, and serve to displace Aboriginal Australian communities in the Northern Territory outback? An interesting piece from my teaching colleague Alison Broinowski, published in NewMatilda … Continue reading →

Posted in Australia, Corp-watch, Energy and Resources, Indigenous peoples, Nuclear Politics, Politics, US Foreign Policy, USA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

In Somalia, It’s The Blood Money, Stupid! by Amina Mire

Posted on 8 July, 2007 by

Another valuable and urgent piece on Somalia with thanks to Amina Mire for sending it. She writes about the underexamined role of China’s scramble for Africa’s natural resources, in addition to African Union (AU) troops in Somalia serving as a … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Blogosphere, China, Colonialism, Corruption, Development, Empire, War and Terror, Energy and Resources, Ethiopia, Europe, Genocide, Geopolitics, International Relations, Italy, Military-Industrial Complex, Neocons, Neoliberalism, Propaganda and psy-ops, Race, Somalia, UK, US Foreign Policy | 18 Comments