The Petroleum Broadcast System
Owes Us an Apology
Tonight, my dog Pluto and I watched the PBS ‘Frontline’ investigation of BP, “The Spill.” PBS has uncovered a real shocker: BP neglected safety!
Chevron
Shoot BP
The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, “If I had a machine gun I’d shoot every one of them white sons of
Economic Hit Men and the Next Drowning of New Orleans
Hurricane Bush Four Years Later, Part 2
Who put out the hit on van Heerden? Ivor van Heerden is the professor at Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center who
From 8-Mile to the Amazon – Palast Investigates
The Story Without The Censors
Last week, you may have caught the story on “60 Minutes” about Chevron crapping all over the Amazon in
War Paint and Lawyers
Rainforest Indians versus Big Oil
BBC Television Newsnight has been able to get close-in film of a new Cofan Indian ritual deep in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. Known as “The Filing of the Law Suit,” natives of Ecuador’s jungle, decked in feathers and war paint and heavily armed…
Big Oil and the Trillion-Dollar War Bonus
excerpted from, “Armed Madhouse” (Penguin 2006) It has been a very good war for Big Oil — courtesy of OPEC price hikes. The five oil giants saw profits rise from $34 billion in 2002 to $81 billion in 2004, year two of Iraq’s “transition to…
Why Palast Is Wrong – And Why The Oil Companies Don't Want You to Know it
Guerilla News Network – Excerpt from Armed Madhouse
Now that I’ve convinced you that the Peak Oil crowd is crackers, let me disagree with myself. We can’t understand the new class war unless we understand why oil, a certain kind at least, has in fact “peaked.”
We’ve long jumped over Hubbert’s predicted peak and, in 2006, rolled our SUVs right through the “culmination”- that is, used the last drops of the one-and-a-quarter-trillion barrels of liquid crude the good Earth can provide according to the Hubbert jeremiad. Furthermore, “The rise in the production of power from nuclear energy for the United States” ran out long before uranium’s five-thousand-year reign, despite Hubbert’s hope and prediction.