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Oil Prices in Steep Decline: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Tom Freidman, OPEC President Khelil, Cftc, Saudi Arabia, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, King Abdullah, Treasury Sec.Paulson, Energy Sec.Bodman, President Bush, Gordon Brown, Business News

Something sinister is afoot in the steep decline of oil prices: Our sense of outrage at the oil industry risks being mollified; just when we become serious about alternative fuels, suddenly, magically, the price of oil retreats.

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My Talk with the Saudis, and What I Learned from Them

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spiritual Progressives, Interfaith Dialogue, Judaism, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Modernizing Islam, Saudi Arabia, Islam, Politics News

This didn't sound like the Saudi King I had come to expect from Western media. I can't remember hearing either Bush or Carter speaking like this or, for that matter, any Israeli Prime Minister including Rabin.

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The Saudi Oil Summit: Pipeline to Nowhere

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Speculation, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia, Oil Prices, King Abdullah, Jeddah Summit, Opec, President Bush, Gordon Brown, Saudi Oil, Business News

Given the unwillingness of the Saudis and their assembled OPEC brethren to propose anything meaningful that would alter current price or supply trends, the Jeddah oil "summit" was a dud.

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Gas Prices Unlikely To Change After Modest Saudi Increase

Huffington Post | Posted 06.23.2008 | Business

Read More: High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia Oil Production, High Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia, Business News

Saudi Arabia announced a modest increase in oil production this week. However, gas prices are unlikely to change much as a result. Indeed the price o...

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Saudi Arabia: We Have Increased Oil Production

CNN | Wilf Dinnick | Posted 06.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Saudi Arabia Oil Production, Oil Prices, Gas Prices, Oil Production, Saudi Arabia, Business News

Saudi Arabia has increased its daily oil production to 9.7 million from 9 million barrels in a move to counter the sharp rise in international oil pri...

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"Beyond Politics": Quick-Fix Bush Gives Us Short-Term Hope and Long Term Disaster

Ray Hanania | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil Prices, British Petroleum, President Bush, Halliburton, Saudi Arabia, Reserves, Dick Cheney, Crude Oil Prices, Big Oil, Oil Companies, Politics News

What we need and is what Bush is incapable of offering the American people: a long-term strategy that will shift us from oil-based energy to solar energy and alternative fuels.

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Prince Bandar in $2 Billion PIckle

Michael Conniff | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Bae, Business, Prince Bandar, Weapons, Saudi Arabia, Bush Saudi Arabia, Corruption, Business News

What does the little town of Harper Woods, Michigan, unremarkable in so many ways, have to do with the Prince Bandarof Saudi Arabia, monarch of Aspen with the $135 million manse?

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The New York Times Pipes The Saudi Production Polka

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, New York Times, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, OPEC Production Quotas, Saudi Arabia, Business News

What a gracious gesture from the Saudis to raise production, after having brought the world's economy to the brink of ruin and causing untold damage to the lives of people across the globe.

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Saudis Agree To Boost Oil Production

AP | Posted 06.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Gas Prices, High Gas Prices, Gas, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Business News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia plans to increase its oil production by 200,000 barrels a day next month, the kingdom's oil minister told U....

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Saudi Arabia Plans To Increase Its Oil Output

New York Times | JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil, Oil Production, Saudi Arabia, Business News

Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a day, according to anal...

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The Truth "Gagged" and Treason Hidden

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Treason, Saudi Arabia, Dennis Kucinich, Halliburton, Articles of Impeachment, War Profiteering, No-Bid Contracts, 9/11 Attacks, Corruption, Politics News

My God, we have lost our country completely. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) stood ALONE on the House floor last night for nearly five hours readin...

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Saudi Arabia To Hold Meeting On Soaring Oil Prices

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Saudi Arabia Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia, National Gas Average, Rising Oil Prices, Oil, Business News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia will call for a summit between oil producing countries and consumer states to discuss soaring energy prices,...

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Our Treasury Secretary Pumps For OPEC

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Walter Lukken, Opec, Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, Saudi Arabia, Cftc, Oil, Oil Prices, Business News

Paulson' recent statement gives underpinnings to perhaps the greatest swindle in history: the current price of crude oil on world markets.

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Layalina: Changing Perceptions About America in the Arab World

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

Read More: The Middle East, Iran, Islam, Dubai, The Paley Center, Lebanon., Morocco, Middle East, Terrorism, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Israel, Bin Laden, Sundance Channel, Mbc, Media News

One way to change adversarial attitudes toward us is to reintroduce America to the Arab world through the medium of television, which Layalina does with its responsible, American-style commercial programming.

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Gingrich Mounts Campaign to 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'

David Roberts | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Newt Gingrich, Oil Market, Gas Prices, Oil Drilling, Saudi Arabia, Green, Alaska Oil, Kuwait, Republicans, Anwr, Politics News

The U.S. cannot affect oil or gasoline prices in any significant way by drilling more oil. Full stop. Gingrich is knowingly lying to people (and taking their money).

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Oil -- Congress Finally Takes Charge Yet Must do Much Much More

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business

With a motivated and focused Congress, zeroing in on NOPEC legislation with enough votes to override the president's ever obstructionist veto, much could happen to solve our energy and global warming nightmare swiftly.

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Barber Insults Islam, Receives Saudi Death Sentence

Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Human Rights, Turkey, Death Penalty, Death Sentence, Blogger, Turkish Barber, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, Saudi Arabia, Politics, Barber Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch Barber, Bogday, Home News

The Turkish national working in Saudi Arabia allegedly insulted God in an argument outside his shop. A Saudi blogger who reported the incident received a prison sentence and a fine.

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HBO's Recount: Hanging Chads, the Price of Oil and Understanding the Past When It Happens

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kevein Spacey, Al Gore, Jim Baker, HBO the Recount, Katherine Harris, Clarence Thomas, George W. Bush, Antonin Scalia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oil, Politics News

I realize now George W. Bush didn't steal the election from Al Gore. It was stolen for him by Jim Baker III and his team of legal snakes that included the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Turkey & Qatar: New Mediators on the Block

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ismail Haniyeh, Palestine, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, Hamas, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bush, Politics News

Two important stories have emerged last week from the Middle East, and for a change, both had to do with peace.

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New Highs for Oil, Saudi Crocodile Tears, Ecuador's Elegance

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Saudi Oil Minister Al Naimi, Ecuador, Ecuador Oil Minister Galo Chiriboga, President Bush, Sen. Byron Dorgan, Saudi Arabia, 'Agopec", Business News

The impact of the production cutback has escalated the price of oil by some 150%, delivering a body blow to the world economy.

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Bush says Saudi oil boost doesn't solve US problem

AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 05.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Bush, Oil Supply, Saudi Arabia, Business News

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — President Bush said Saudi Arabia's small increase in oil production will not solve soaring U.S. fuel prices, but he defe...

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Iran Wins in Lebanon

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Lebanon, Lebanon Fighting, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Hariri, Hezbollah, Bush, Nasrallah, Politics News

The warring parties in Lebanon agreed to a deal brokered by Arab diplomats, and incoming flights to Beirut's International airport have resumed ending...

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Bush fails to win Saudi help on gas prices

AP | TERENCE HUNT | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia Oil, Oil Production, Middle East Oil, Business News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a s...

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Beirut Is Burning

Hooman Majd | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Iran, President Assad, Condoleezza Rice, Saudi Arabia, Hezbollah, Hamas, Beirut, Sheikh Nasrallah, Politics News

If there were ever a perfect example of the Bush administration's utterly bankrupt foreign policy, it would have to be the State Department's reaction to events in Beirut over the last few days.

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Civil War in Lebanon?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hariri, Hezbollah, Nassrallah, Lebanon, Civil War, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Syria, Middle East, Politics News

Today, gun battles have erupted in Beirut following a speech by Hezbollah's Secretary General. Has Lebanon become the new battlefield for Saudi Arabia and Iran, or is it edging closer towards civil war?

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