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Category Archives: Energy and Resources

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

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 … Continue reading

28 June, 2008 · 7 Comments

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

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 … Continue reading

21 January, 2008 · 4 Comments

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

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 … Continue reading

12 October, 2007 · 6 Comments

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

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 … Continue reading

8 July, 2007 · 18 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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