energy
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Gaza Catastrophe: Resource Conflict? Natural Gas, Palestinian Elections, and Israel’s Subversion of the ‘Peace Process’ by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The current outbreak of violence cannot be understood without analysing the asymmetries in military violence between the two parties Continue reading
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Igor TOMBERG: Under Sign of Cartels
Now that the credit market has thinned, leaving few chances for speculations, Moscow begins to play a more adequate role in fuel price formation. Having carrying out some calculations, Russian experts concluded that the lack of liquidity would make the law of supply and demand more influential. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Propping Up Propaganda IRAQ, CLIMATE AND THE CORPORATE MEDIA’S FEAR OF THE PUBLIC
October 22, 2008 Since starting Media Lens in 2001, we have learned that corporate journalists are very often ill-equipped, or disinclined, to debate vital issues with members of the public. In 2004, the esteemed Lancet medical journal published a study showing that 98,000 Iraqis had most likely died following the US-led invasion. John Rentoul, chief Continue reading
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Media Lens: Hawking The Technofix – Business As Usual And The Ultimate Genocide
What would a 4C rise mean for the planet? According to the 2006 Stern review on the economics of climate change, up to 300 million people would be affected by coastal flooding annually. Water availability in Southern Africa and the Mediterranean could drop by half, and agricultural yields in Africa may be cut by up… Continue reading
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US invade Pakistan — but no complaints from the ‘international community’ By William Bowles
I love it! I just came across an article, “Did We Just Invade Pakistan?” but you’ll search in vain for any headline in the mainstream media that even comes close to calling it a US invasion of Pakistan. Continue reading
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Iraq and Oil — Why the mainstream media won’t talk about it By William Bowles
10 September 2007 ‘Order 150 passed in 1987 by Saddam Hussein banned public sector workers from organizing trade unions. Oil Minister Hussein al-Sharistani declared all oil unions illegal in July 2007, using [the same] Ba’ath regime anti-union law'[1] Ever since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the mainstream media have deliberately downplayed the role of Continue reading
The New Dark Age 