Dubai Ports World, Halliburton, and our democracy
What is behind the plaintive “What’s the big deal” complaint we hear from administration officials about the sale of operations at 6 major US ports to a company owned by the emir of Dubai and his government? Some journalists have drawn the map for us. It should probably not surprise us by now, but we find […]
Attack on Saudi oil refinery
Friday’s attack on a major oil processing complex in Saudi Arabia illustrates the problem of oil dependency. Two thirds of the country’s oil exports are processed through this complex. Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility.
On this evening’s news, CNN notes that world oil supplies right now are very tight and it would take little to […]
Violence and destruction where the oil lies
With the news of this past week, I think about how many conflicts in our world are in the same places where the oil lies – violence in the Niger Delta has claimed scores of lives in the past few days; Iraq is sinking rapidly into the sectarian strife predicted by so many before […]
What I want to blog about
A conjunction of crises is about to present US society with some stark realities. Climate change due to global warming, natural resource depletion, peak oil production and the looming energy crisis, along with multiple economic disasters in the waiting, are coming together to pose enormous challenges for this society.
