The upcoming G8 Summit, which formally begins on June 6, is one of the biggest security operations in Germany’s post-war era.
The German government has brought roughly 16,000 police officers and 1,100 soldiers from across the country to Heiligendamm, Germany, a small resort town on the Baltic coast where the Summit will take place. Germany also […]

Saturday, June 2: G8 leaders won’t arrive for several days, but the demonstrations in Germany have already begun. I’m just back from today’s march, which started in a few different locations throughout city of Rostock, Gemany, and then converged at the fair grounds near the city’s harbor. The Police have apparently claimed that there were […]

Greenpeace has posted a leaked copy of the Bush Administration’s comments on the draft climate change document that is being negotiated in the run-up to the G8 meeting in Germany. The document needs to be seen to be believed.
The U.S. position seems to that every item of any substance whatsoever needs to be removed. Germany […]

Yet another CEO of a major oil company has announced the arrival of peak oil. Jim Buckee, head of Talisman Energy Inc., said in a speech last week that global oil production has peaked and will soon start declining. “I believe we’re already here (at the peak),” Buckee said at the company’s annual meeting in […]

How many billions of dollars a year are the world’s armies spending to defend oil supplies instead of human life?
If you ask NATO the answer is apparently: “Not enough.” According to Jamie Shea, director of policy planning in the office of NATO’s secretary-general, NATO is considering sending sea-borne rapid-reaction forces to Africa, Asia and the […]