The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest

Buried in the millions of words that were written about the shootings in Arizona last week was a recent poll showing that only 13 percent of the American people think favorably of the U.S. Congress. The implication, of course, is that as 87 percent or roughly 270 million Americans harbor some level of animosity towards their elected federal representatives, the emergence of […]

Mike Ruppert: The Shooting Of Congresswoman Giffords

The shooting yesterday of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D, AZ) which also resulted in the deaths of six people and the wounding of 14 others was more than just a wake up call. My first reaction was that civil unrest in the midst of economic collapse and corruption calling into question the legitimacy and relevance of government […]

The extremely leisurely pace of American democracy and the urgency of our predicament

Winston Churchill once remarked that “[t]he United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.” The assumption behind that remark is that there will be time to do the right thing after all alternatives have been exhausted. This assumption is especially troubling when it comes to addressing such issues as peak […]

ASPO-USA appoints Jan Mueller new executive director

In a bid to boost its influence on US energy policy, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas-USA has appointed a Washington policy insider and former campaign hand as the group’s full-time director, it said Thursday. Jan Mueller, now a senior policy associate of transportation and energy program associate at the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), will assume the position on March 1, ASPO-USA president and co-founder Jim Baldauf said. “We need to make inroads with decision-makers,” Baldauf said.  “Everybody knows about this issue but few are […]

Cutting the cord: wrestling with subisidized oil prices

It was said in 2008, when oil prices reached their all-time high, that the only countries that showed an increase in oil consumption that year were those that capped prices or subsidized them to some degree. With prices rising again, though still a long way from the 2008 peak, those subisidies are once again becoming […]

Iran Assumes OPEC Presidency

Iran assumed the presidency of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries as of January 1, 2011, for the first time in 36 years. Iranian oil minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi was elected as OPEC president at a one-day meeting of the Vienna-based Organization. Iran, which takes over from Ecuador, is OPEC’s second-largest oil producer and holds about […]

Japan Rejects Cap and Trade

The government of Japan has rejected a cap-and-trade proposal for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions hard on the heels of the UN’s Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, in early December. The Japan Times reports the Japanese Cabinet this week adopted a basic policy on global warming aimed at cutting emissions by 25 percent from […]

Nigeria, Peak oil, and Dick Cheney

Cheney always sadly gets away with murder but when it comes to economic opportunity oil rich Nigeria has some of the greatest potential in the world. They are sitting on an estimated 37 billion barrels of the black gold and rank 15th in the world in oil production. The International Monetary Fund and Paris Club […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Time of the Demagogues

The transition from 200 years of cheap and plentiful fossil fuels to an era without will go through many phases as it gradually dawns on the body politic what is happening. A few weeks ago Virginia’s U.S. Senator Mark Warner noted that the global warming debate was not so much a scientific one as it […]

Robert Rapier: Borrowing For the Present at Our Children’s Expense

This past week my youngest son told me that he wanted to be president when he grows up. I still remember when I felt that way. As a child, I thought “I would make a good president.” I thought I had the qualities that you would want in a president. I was considerate of others, […]

Peak Empire

As far as the speed of imperial collapse, it varies: Rome took five centuries to collapse but USSR took just a couple of years. Alfred W. McCoy, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently wrote: “empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight […]

In Iraq, a new government could be around the corner

Iraq moved a couple of steps closer Saturday to forming a government after a maddening year marked by political squabbling and paralysis. Parliament on Saturday lifted a ban on three politicians who were barred from participating in Iraqi elections because of purported links to Saddam Hussein’s banned political movement — the Baath Party. Incumbent Prime […]

US empire could collapse at any time

America’s military and economic empire could collapse at any time, but predicting the precise day, week or month of its potential demise is unattainable, according to a former New York Times war correspondent who spoke with Raw Story. “The when and how is very dangerous to predict because there’s always some factor that blindsides you that […]

UNFPA launches World Population Report

The United Nations Population Fund launched the State of World Population Report 2010; ‘From Conflict and Crisis to Renewal:   Generations of Change’ last evening. According to the report  “when women have access to the same rights and opportunities as men they are more resilient to conflict and disaster and can lead reconstruction and renewal efforts […]

Transparency: How Much Does the United States Subsidize Energy

The government spends billions of dollars to support the energy industry, which allows it to make energy cheaper than it should cost on the open market. These subsidies—either in the form of tax breaks or direct funding—favor some types of energy over others, giving our country a skewed sense of what each gallon of gas […]

Thoughts On Peak Oil & Planning by Rich Turcotte

“We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. We should not cling to crude down to the last drop – we should […]

New Worry of Potential World Resource Wars

Scientists have been warning for years that the inevitable peak in oil production could lead to serious skirmishes or even the next world war. There is disagreement over whether peak oil has already occurred or, if not, then how far into the future the finite supply will no longer be enough to supply soaring demand. […]

Cancun agrees on ‘climate deal’, funds for developing countries

Delegates at the UN climate change conference in Cancun have agreed on a deal to curb climate change and fund developing countries on Saturday. Bolivia however, raised objections to the proposals drawn up the host Mexico. The draft comes as respite as the last summit in Copenhagen failed to agree on the best way to […]

Local Future 2010 – Nathan Ayers, Kurt Cobb, David Gard, John Sarver

Nathan Ayers, Kurt Cobb, David Gard, and John Sarver field questions regarding peak oil, climate change, permaculture, and the future of energy. This is part 1 of 2 videos following the first session of talks at the 2010 International Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy & Environment organized by Local Future and directed by Aaron Wissner. […]

Saudis concerned about having oil fields attacked by Iran

The Ras Tannurah oil facility was named as the next site to be assessed, with its VA to be conducted as soon as possible. It was agreed DOE would establish three VA teams dedicated solely to evaluating Saudi Arabia’s critical infrastructure sites, which number approximately 100. These DOE teams would be joined by MOI members […]

American Energy Policy IV: The Price of Transition

Take a look at the following presentation about our energy future as seen by a very influential professor at Penn State, Dr. Frank Clemente. His vision of the future reveals the true impact of overpopulation. The study focuses mainly upon Coal and Clean Coal Technologies. It’s a shock. What he says about natural gas from […]

Wikileaks Reveals Hushed Concern Over Tar Sands Oil in US State Dept.

Not all of the cables aired in the latest Wikileaks focus on the tense, high-stakes diplomacy with China, Afghanistan, or the Middle East, though that stuff certainly grabs the headlines. Yet there are quiet revelations about other important diplomatic subjects as well — like Canada, for instance. And no, the news is not that our […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Future of Government

In case you missed it, a couple of weeks back the International Energy Agency in Paris got around to disclosing that the all-time peak of global conventional oil production occurred back in 2006. Despite that fact that this declaration was tantamount to announcing the end of the 250-year-old industrial age, few in the mainstream media noted the event and it was left to obscure corners of cyber space to ponder the […]

Reaping Whirlwinds: Peak Oil and Climate Change in the New Political Climate – By Sharon Astyk

Political prognostication is a dangerous game, but one of the certainties of the latest election was that the US will not be enacting any significant federal climate legislation. One could be forgiven for wondering what the election has to do with anything. In the two years previously during which the Democrats controlled Presidency, House and […]

Obama’s attitude toward oil is deeply ideological

Never mind. That, in a nutshell, is the White House’s new position on domestic oil exploration. In March, President Obama announced that he would allow — or at least entertain – some new oil development off the Atlantic Coast and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. This week he reversed himself, saying such exploration is […]

WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord

Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid […]

Video: Have you heard about Peak Oil?

A person well versed in our energy crisis discusses peak oil with a Fox News viewer.

Obama to Order Massive New Offshore Drilling Ban

Obama administration officials will announce Wednesday afternoon they will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as part of the next five-year drilling plan, according to sources briefed on the plan, reversing two key policy changes President Obama announced in late March. During that […]

WikiLeaks: Saudi king urged U.S. to attack Iran

Saudi King Abdullah has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran’s nuclear program and China directed cyberattacks on the United States, according to a vast cache of U.S. diplomatic cables released on Sunday in an embarrassing leak that undermines U.S. diplomacy. The more than 250,000 documents, given to five media groups by the whistle-blowing […]

Energy and immigration

THOSE WHO think immigration pressures are bad today are in for a real shock: The combination of climate change and declining Mexican oil production — both of which will strain the personal and public treasuries in Mexico — are likely to magnify the northward pressure. The United States should come to terms with immigration now, […]

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