Family Planning Critics Soon To See Global Population Reach 7,000,000,000

On August 18th, 1920,  the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified as Tennessee clinched a necessary vote to become the 36th state to duly sign on to the groundbreaking legislation – thus ensuring a woman’s right to vote throughout America. The 19th Amendment forbids discrimination against any voter on the basis of sex. […]

EIA analysis: the SPR oil is here

When the International Energy Agency announced a release of strategic stocks in June — with the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve providing the biggest share — there was controversy that continues today. Will it have any impact on prices? Shouldn’t this wait for something bigger than just the loss of Libyan crude? Isn’t the market well-supplied […]

The Pros And Cons Of Density

By the year 2025 we will have finally come to grasp that in virtually every human endeavor, density pays. Silicon Valley has known this since Gordon Moore coined his eponymous law nearly half a century ago, predicting the exponentially increasing density and decreasing price of the processing power crammed onto microchips — a dynamic that […]

Time to refine energy security

What are we to make of the energy debate? If good public policy is the art of distilling the signal from the noise, the challenge has never been greater. How to balance the risks of climate change against the costs of doing anything about it? And what, in turn, might these decisions mean for energy […]

Food and Population Control as a Weapon in Africa

Few parts of the world aptly fit the description of hell better than Somalia’s crumbling capital city, Mogadishu; a nation ravaged by imperialism, domestic instability and economic sabotage from foreign forces. Parades of malnourished Africans queuing up to receive rations are trumpeted in thirty second news pieces on most mainstream media outlets, of which offer […]

Israel-Lebanon Oil Dispute Must Be Stopped Short of War

The chance of armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is increasing. Renewed hostilities would be disastrous for all involved, so the U.S. and its allies need to act now to prevent events from spinning out of control. Energy companies say that large oil and gas reserves might lie off the Israeli and Lebanese coasts. The […]

Rebels say Tripoli encircled; Gaddafi defiant

Libyan rebels said on Monday they had seized a second strategic town near Tripoli within 24 hours, completing the encirclement of the capital in the boldest advances of their six-month-old uprising against Muammar Gaddafi. In a barely audible telephone call to state television overnight, a defiant and apparently isolated Gaddafi called on his followers to […]

Kunstler: High Corn

Looking every inch the Assistant Manager of a J.C. Penny, Rick Perry of Texas stepped on-board the touring evangelical freak show that the Republican pre-primary parade has turned into. I like to think of him as George W. Bush without all the encumbering intellect. I give it three months before media snoops catch him in […]

Shale Gas Reports to Energy Secretary Chu

A cross-section of experts advising the Obama administration on how to proceed with shale gas have said producers need to chill out so that the public warms up. As such, it is demanding more monitoring and greater transparency. The moves would not just satisfy a segment that has grave concerns, says the advisory committee that […]

When the sovereign falls: Is this the endgame for world markets?

Back in May in response to a question during an interview I suggested that when the sovereign debt of a major nation is finally questioned, it will signal the endgame for the worldwide bull market in just about everything. That moment has arrived, and my thesis will now be tested. And, I’m not talking about […]

Obama, Saudi king urge end to Syria crackdown

President Barack Obama spoke with the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Britain on Saturday and all three called for an immediate end to the Syrian government’s crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad, the White House said. Obama and Saudi King Abdullah “agreed that the Syrian regime’s brutal campaign of violence against the Syrian people […]

Thousands Riot in Southwest China Town

Thousands of residents of a town in southwest China took to the streets on Thursday, smashing police vehicles in the latest protest by citizens angered by the rough handling of local officials, according to news reports. The protest in Qianxi County, Guizhou province, was the latest of thousands of brief, local riots and demonstrations that […]

Obama Is Implementing Plans For War Throughout the Middle East Created 10 Years Ago by the Neocons

Politico reports: The U.S. has dramatically ratcheted up the pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad, slapping new sanctions on key companies Wednesday as White House press secretary Jay Carney said the leader is guilty of “heinous actions” and the country would be better off without him. *** President Barack Obama and other administration officials have […]

Rebranding Canadian Oil and Gas: “The Ethical Choice”

“Governments must not only do well; they must also be seen as doing well.” – Source/author undetermined. Caeteris Paribus*, Who Has a Tougher Job – A Business Executive or a Government Executive? Woodrow Wilson: Quintessential Public Administrator At a graduate Marketing Management course which I attended in the early 90’s back in my country of […]

Heinberg: GDP is dead: Will the world be happier without it?

Memo to politicians: Stop promising to grow GDP and start targeting social benefits you can actually deliver—or prepare to face angry mobs. Nothing grows forever on a finite planet, not even the US economy. It’s not surprising that everyone from President Obama to Michele Bachmann is assuring the electorate that he or she can deliver […]

Peak Oil & Public Health: Political Common Ground?

Peak petroleum—the point at which the maximum rate of global oil extraction is reached, after which the rate of production begins to decline—is a hot topic in scientific and energy circles. When will it occur? What will the impact be? While geologists and economists debate the specifics, American University School of Communication professor Matthew Nisbet […]

Kunstler: Change You Don’t Have to Believe In

A waterfall of woe broke over all the realms of money last week – including especially the realm where we determine just what money is supposed to mean – and a lot of folks barely made it to a rooftop, or a floating log, or some scrap of high ground, where they sit wet and […]

Iran’s oil minister: Replace foreign oil companies

Iran’s new oil minister says he wants the Revolutionary Guard’s economic conglomerate to replace foreign gas and oil companies, the official IRNA news agency reported. The minister, Rostam Qasemi, had been the chief of the economic conglomerate until his appointment last week to the government post. The economic conglomerate, Khatam-ol-Anbiya, is the Revolutionary Guard’s most […]

The Need for a Real Domestic Alternative Energy Policy in the USA

Alternative energy (or renewable energy) is a new manufacturing industry paradigm that is in its infancy. However, the discussion is not new, and it looks as if the United States has positioned itself to be behind history on what can be a very promising industry for a stumbling economy. After the oil shortages in the […]

Israel ‘ready to negotiate borders with Palestinians’

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has bowed to US pressure by agreeing for the first time that a Palestinian state should roughly follow the contours of the 1967 ceasefire lines separating the West Bank from Israel. The offer, which emerged tonight appeared to represent a major climb-down by Mr Netanyahu, who has consistently refused […]

The Problem with a Carbon Tax

Fuel is a luxury, sometimes. And sometimes it is a necessity. If we rely entirely on a “price” on carbon, and carbon remains fungible, what happens? Well, in a sense we already know. We in the US have encouraged the use of farmland to produce corn to produce ethanol. This notoriously contributes to the rise […]

Kunstler: Weimar Meets Waterloo

The Sunday night news, scant as it is these days despite the grotesque exertions of over a thousand cable TV stations, showed the old familiar faces lit up with crocodile smiles. The Republic was saved, surprise, surprise, by a last-minute fugue of reasonableness, when all concerned decided that putting the business-end of a double-barreled 20-guage […]

Deadly Syrian crackdown continues

Fresh attacks reported in Deir ez-Zor, a day after 142 people reported killed in Hama and elsewhere in the country. Syrian forces have killed nearly 142 people, including at least 100 when the army stormed the flashpoint protest city of Hama to crush dissent on the eve of Ramadan, political activists say. A witness in […]

Tis the Season for Oil Company Misinformation

In my travels around the globe, I have never been to another country that regards their oil companies as we do here in the U.S. I have actually been in countries where people view their domestic oil companies as a source of national pride. Here in the U.S., the average person on the street views […]

US-China conflict: worldwide competition for oil?

Chinese jets have headed off an American spy plane over Taiwan, raising tensions between Beijing and Washington. But Conn Hallinan says the conflict is a worldwide competition, and both the US and China are out to secure oil resources. ­China has warned that relations with the US might become tense after two Chinese fighter jets […]

Automakers, Obama administration agree on fuel efficiency standards through 2025

The Obama administration and major auto manufacturers have reached a deal to raise fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks between 2017 and 2025, resolving a contentious negotiation over how to cut vehicles’ greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement would require U.S. vehicle fleets to average 54.5 miles per gallon or 163 grams per mile […]

Syria erupts in fresh Friday violence

Security forces have fired at demonstrators in the southern city of Deraa as tens of thousands again took to streets across Syria after Friday prayers to demand the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses and activists said. “They are firing at demonstrators in alleyways and people are running for cover. Protesters have been trying to […]

Britain leads NATO effort to find Libya exit strategy

In one swoop, Britain has recognized Libya‘s rebel government, expelled the remaining London diplomatic staff of the Tripoli-based regime, and freed up millions in assets that can now be funneled to the cash-strapped rebel troops. Amid a weeks-long stalemate, diplomatic activity seems to have stepped up. This is likely partially because Ramadan begins next week, […]

Carbon…from Al Gore to Michael Bloomberg to enhanced oil recovery

Al Gore’s newly named Climate Reality Project (he’s not giving up!) wants everyone to make September 14-15 “24 Hours of Reality,” with people around the world sharing videos about climate change effects and local approaches to solutions. Coal’s role probably will be just one focus of the event, which aims at regular people, not so […]

To save capitalism, will the rich accept reform?

So far, plutocrats haven’t shown much willingness to compromise. Image: Propaganda Remix Project. Few would disagree that the contemporary capitalist societies of the Western world are in crisis. The crisis takes the form of a syndrome — a condition made up of a variety of symptoms that relate to each other in complex ways — […]

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