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Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower
For TomDispatch.com, Michael T. Klare writes: "Nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the Soviet Union as the world's other superpower. Yes, the USSR as a political entity... ...
Agrofuels Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and Communities
ACTION ALERT UPDATE PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Agrofuels on Stolen Lands Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and Communities By Ecological Internet, http://www.ecologicalinter net.org/ May 6, 2008... ...
Perhaps 60% of today's oil price is pure speculation
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High gas prices: Fuel for thought
Fox News/Heritage by Ben Lieberman 05/02/08 When it comes to soaring gasoline prices, we need a federal government that does less. Less contributing to the problem, that is. As lawmakers and presidential... ...
Making a Killing From Hunger
From the April issue of GRAIN: "For some time now the rising cost of food all over the world has taken households, governments and the media by storm. The price of wheat has gone up by 130% over the last... ...
Driven To Starvation
By William A. Cohn How the auto industry continues to destroy the environment and is now abetting global hunger and poverty. http://www.infor mationclearinghouse.info/a rticle19841.htm -------- Biofuels... ...
Myriad Crises, but Inertia in Official Washington
Carl Hulse, reporting for The New York Times, writes: "Americans are pumping their paychecks into their gas tanks, and the economy is in a stall. Food scarcities threaten governments overseas and spur... ...
Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars
Steven Mufson, of The Washington Post, reports: "across the country, ethanol plants are swallowing more and more of the nation's corn crop. This year, about a quarter of US corn will go to feeding ethanol... ...
BP's first-quarter profit jumps 63 percent
The oil company on Tuesday reported a profit of $7.6 billion compared to $4.4 billion in the first quarter of 2007. http://edition.cnn. com/2008/BUSINESS/04/29/br itishpetroleum.profit.ap/ Shell profits... ...
The New Economics of Hunger
Anthony Faiola reports for The Washington Post, "The food price shock now roiling world markets is destabilizing governments, igniting street riots and threatening to send a new wave of hunger rippling... ...