Oil
Pipeline judge’s decision shows limits of capitalist jurisprudence
July 5, 2017Judge Boasberg will not shut down DAPL in the interim. What kind of sense does that make? A lot if you are a judge who favors powerful oil corporations.
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Price-fixing and policy failure: Other factors in Venezuela’s crisis
May 25, 2017"I strongly agree with the conclusions of Jesse Jackson’s recent PW article on the crisis in Venezuela, but I think he leaves out a lot of information."
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Environmental violations a continued feature of Dakota Access pipeline
May 11, 2017In the conversation surrounding the #No DAPL movement, a number of environmental specialists raised serious concerns about the continuation of the pipeline.
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Trump: Stop bombing Syria, stop the deadly war for oil
April 7, 2017For nearly a century powerful oil companies based in the U.S. and other Western countries have waged a continual struggle to maintain control over the vast energy resources of the Middle East. What Donald Trump did...
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Desert on Fire: Photo collection documents Kuwait oil disaster
January 4, 2017When Iraq’s army left Kuwait in 1991, it set hundreds of oil wells alight. Photographer Sebastião Salgado documented the heroes who halted an environmental catastrophe.
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