Geopolitics & Military

We need to face up to the crisis in energy consumption. Michael Meacher finds some solutions in The End of Oil by Paul Roberts

Tehran finds itself located in a very volatile region of the world, one in which powerful outside interests have as their major foreign policy objective the desire to prevent a Middle Eastern state from gaining too much power.

Kazakhstan is determined to take a stake in the country’s Kashagan oil field, signaling that there might be further turmoil in the development of the world’s largest oil find in more than three decades, according to the country’s top energy official.

Peak Oil, petrodollars and the US interest in Venezuala

Let me introduce you to a kook. In 1956, when U.S. oil wells were spouting like so many Old Faithfuls, a geophysicist named Marion King Hubbert thought he was the prophet Teiresias.

The story of the energy industry’s dollar-fueled ascent to the White House is full of drama, both high and low.

While some debate whether the war in Iraq was or was not “about oil,” another war, this one involving little but oil, has broken out between two of the world’s most powerful nations.

Leaders of local Arab tribes warn that they are arming themselves to keep the oil industry out of Kurdish hands.