The UK Environment Secretary David Miliband has said that dealing with climate change does not only help the environment but bring a “peace dividend” because the world’s “oil dependence creates real danger”.
Mr Miliband said it was “right” for a growing movement in the US to push for energy independence in the United States, […]

A Saudi Arabian terrorist group affiliated with Al Qaeda has urged Muslim militants to attack oil facilities worldwide, including in Canada, Mexico and Venezuela, to stop the flow of oil to the United States.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said in its monthly magazine posted on an Islamic website that “cutting oil supplies to the […]

Interesting piece in today’s LA Times about the struggle for Kirkuk, the oil-rich town in northern Iraq. American officials, regional leaders and residents are increasingly worried that the town could develop into a third front in the country’s civil war.
All the different ethnic groups in the region - the Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens are all […]

The Independent on Sunday continues its excellent reporting on the origins and scandal behind the soon to be introduced, US approved, Iraqi oil law. Last week the IoS reported that Bearing Point, a Virginia based contractor, heavily advised the Ministry of Oil on the law. This week we discover that Bearing Point contributed […]

Interesting article by Michel Chossudovsky, published in Global Research, and by Scoop. Throughout history, he writes, “wars of religion have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. These wars were fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and natural resources.