What Will Fracking Do to Your Food Supply?
The controversial gas-drilling practice is tainting water. Your food might be next. Barry Estabrook Fracking Pollution GiltTaste There’s a stunning moment in the Academy Award-nominated…
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Venezuela oil chief says US can ‘go to hell’
© AFP/Prensa Miraflores/File AFP CARACAS (AFP) – The head of Venezuela’s state oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) said the “imperialist” United States could “go…
Complex But Clear US Foreign Policies
Wiki Image Jack D. Douglas LewRockwell I’ve heard Congress people and others say repeatedly that the U.S. has no real or clear foreign policy for…
US Senate blocks bill targeting oil firm subsidies
© AFP/Getty Images/File David Paul Morris AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Senate defeated a bill taking aim at some $2 billion in annual subsidies…
Exxon CEO Estimates Oil Should Cost $60-70 Per Barrel (Video)
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Obama announces new oil drilling
Obama has previously vowed to cut US oil imports © AFP/File Mira Oberman AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama, under pressure over high gasoline…
US House votes to boost oil, gas drilling
Sun sets behind two under construction offshore oil platform rigs in Port Fourchon © AFP/File Saul Loeb AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Amid a political war…
The Roller Coaster Ride of Oil Continues
Dees Illustration Greg Hunter USA Watchdog Gas prices 2011! Oil prices are on the rise. The price per barrel rose again yesterday, and so did…
US authorizes oil transactions with Libyan rebels
Libyan rebels stand guard in a petrol station © AFP Borni Hichem AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Wednesday authorized Americans to buy…
Wall Street Behind High Food-Oil Prices Causing Global Instability (Video)
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Oil Crisis Just Got Real: Sinopec (Read China) Cuts Off Oil Exports
Sinopec Station in Hong Kong Wikimedia Commons image Zero Hedge As if a dollar in freefall was not enough, surging oil is about to hit…
Are Rising Oil and Food Prices a Scam?
Danny Schechter Consortium News Editor’s Note: International crises – from the earthquake/tsunami in Japan to the war in Libya – may be subjects for sympathy…
Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
Wikimedia Image Paul Bignell The Independent Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year…
Saudis Slash Oil Output; Say Market Oversupplied
OPEC Countries/Wikimedia image CNBC/Reuters Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said on Sunday the kingdom had slashed output by 800,000 barrels per day in March due to…