Press TV – February 5, 2017 Iran has confirmed the discovery of 15 billion barrels of new in-place oil reserves, but a top official says huge investments and state-of-the-art technology are required to exploit those reserves. Ali Kardor, the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), was quoted by domestic media as saying […]
By Roger Harris | CounterPunch | January 20, 2017 Over-population of a particular kind contributes to planetary environmental degradation, poverty, and wars without end. Thanks to Oxfam, we know just who the offending individuals are. Eight people now have the same wealth as the poorest half the world’s population. Heading the list of the world’s […]
Oxford Trinity College High Table. I doubt these professors have anything to fear from a food tax. By Winky from Oxford, UK (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons By Eric Worrall | Watts Up With That? | November 19, 2016 A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive […]
Sputnik – 18.11.2016 The United States Geological Survey has announced the discovery of the largest oil field in the United States to date. The Wolfcamp formation, in the Permian Basin in a West Texas desert, is believed to hold some 20 billion barrels of oil, worth roughly $900 billion at today’s prices. It is also […]
By David Wojick | Climate Etc. | August 17, 2016 The party platform adopted at the Democratic National Convention, on page 45, calls for a national mobilization on the scale of World War II. What enemy deserves the wrath endured by Hirohito and Hitler? Climate change! Democrats want to declare a war on climate. Here […]
teleSUR | July 15, 2016 Ecuador’s proven oil reserves grew recently with the announcement by Vice-President Jorge Glas that Block 43 in the Amazonian province of Orellana counts on 1,672 million barrels of oil, an increase of 82 percent over previous findings. U.S. oil engineering company Ryder Scott conducted an evaluation and confirmed the amount […]
Sputnik – 24.02.2016 Japan is continuing preparations for an unofficial visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Russia, secretary general of the Japanese government Yoshihide Suga said. In an exclusive interview with Sputnik, former Russian Ambassador to Japan Alexander Panov clarified Japan’s intentions and explained its “disobedience” to Washington. Earlier, during a telephone conversation […]
By Adnan Al-Daini | Dissident Voice | January 23, 2016 The latest Oxfam report on poverty and inequality in our dysfunctional world makes a depressing read. It shows that the chasm between the richest 1% and the rest of humanity has considerably widened in the last few years. One statistic that is truly shocking is […]
By M. David |Counter Current News | January 15, 2016 It took decades of protests and petitioning the government, but after being continuously ignored, African American activists took over a federal wildlife refuge. While sites are drawn up in the debate over who is right or wrong in the Bundy militia stand off in Oregon […]
Here Are the Lessons of History the Press Ignores By Eamonn Fingleton • Unz Review • January 11, 2016 “You cannot hope to bribe or twist – thank God! – the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to.” So wrote the witty early twentieth century British man of […]
