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For many years the United States has been the de facto guarantor of world oil supplies. Someone has to do it, but does that "someone" always have to be the United States?
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy
Not content to wait for "This Week In Cheating," recently a single newspaper page held enough cheating for a whole seven days.
New York Times | TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Posted 10.14.2009 | World
BAGHDAD -- In its drive to expand and modernize Iraq's oil sector, the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is stumbling over the competi...
Adele Israel | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver
After listening to seven speakers and a panel discussion at Mesa State, I may not know everything about the local fossil fuel industry, but I sure know a lot more acronyms.
Bob Dinneen | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
It is inconceivable that an honest and transparent accounting of the carbon emissions of petroleum when compared to those of ethanol would somehow be lower. It defies logic, reason, and most of all, facts.
Pepe Escobar | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Whatever Washington thinks, the Europeans know that energy independence from Russia is, in reality, inconceivable. Bottom line when it comes to natural gas: Europe needs everything.
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
Oil giant BP says it has made a "giant" new oil discovery in its fields in the Gulf of Mexico....
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
At last, one of the great misnomers of public disinformation bordering closer to brainwashing has been brought to heel.
ThinkProgress.org | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
The American oil industry, working with a coalition of business interests, plans to manufacture rallies in opposition to clean energy reform, an inter...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 09.13.2009 | New York
Iran Inside Out offers a veritable platter of provocative work that begs for discussion, debate and perhaps most importantly, an open mind.
Sarah Dotlich | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
Electoral integrity and the ability for all citizens of Nigeria's democracy to participate meaningfully should be high on Secretary Clinton's agenda.
Lance Simmens | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
It is all too easy to fall into the trap of reciting dire and dour statistics to illuminate just how serious this crisis is. It is far more difficult to illustrate the interconnectivity of issues and events.
New York Times | JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 05.08.2009 | Green
The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious tr...
Financial Times | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
Gulf countries are extending a deadline to introduce a single currency for the oil-rich region owing to difficulties in thrashing out a common regulat...
TomDispatch | Pepe Escobar | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentr...
Reuters | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's budget outline calls for eliminating substantial tax breaks and increasing fees for the oil and natural gas industry....
Sarah Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
Environmentalists are heralding Obama's decision to review the request by California and 13 other states to establish strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
Michael T. Klare | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
Keep your eye on the politics of oil and you'll always know a lot about what's actually happening on this planet.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
Deepak Chopra went on CNN Wednesday night to give his take on the Mumbai attacks and how to prevent similar attacks in the future, but producers cut Chopra off when he started to get too controversial.
Scott Gilmore | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Why do police negotiators generally refuse to pay ransom for hostages? To do so would actually encourage more kidnappings by providing an incentive to would-be kidnappers.
Darrell Hartman | Posted 12.14.2008 | Entertainment
This second Craig installment in the refreshed franchise couldn't care less about weapons of mass destruction. The movie's main plot twist is that water is the new oil.
Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green
The fact that we hold only 3% of the world's oil reserves, and yet consume 25% of it, makes it clear that we cannot drill our way out of our current energy dependence.
Think Progress | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
In recent days, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), has begun referring to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as "Barack the Wealth Spreader," referring to his proposed ta...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business
Against the interests of the nation this administration has permitted, even encouraged the dramatic transfer of wealth to oil interests in dimensions beyond the fondest dreams of Croesus.
The Guardian | Rory Carroll | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business
Friends and foes have called Cuba many things - a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny - but no one has called it lucky, unt...
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Gary Hart | Posted 10.26.2009 | World