Oil Pipeline

Oil Pipelines Are The 'New Great Game': Pepe Escobar

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...

Mount Redoubt Eruptions Threaten Oil Pipeline

AP | MARY PEMBERTON | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska volcano continued to rumble Tuesday amid new concerns that eruptions and mud flows will damage a nearby oil termin...

Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home


Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

Lessons of Ossetia

Giles Slade | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics


Giles Slade

Russia is a military power again proud of its independence from world opinion able to take decisive actions. The balance of power in the world has moved away from America which has no cards left to play.