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Many Americans think that their country is indebted to Middle Eastern oil. The term “foreign oil” conjures up Arab sheikhs. And nefarious ones at that....
made popular Jan 4 2011
Since the 1990s, Arab-American organizations (many of them anyway) have traded trying to cultivate the support of actual Arab-Americans and have turned to impressing...
made popular Nov 30 2010
According to USA TODAY, a Greenpeace-arranged expedition researching the Gulf of Mexico BP-criminal-oil-spill effect had found significant oil sediment on a bottom of...
made popular Oct 26 2010
One of the most extraordinary people I have met in 10 days of travelling around Peru and Ecuador has been Alberto Costa. He’s head of Ecuador’s leading...
made popular Sep 28 2010
Here’s where Arab oil money is being spent, nay, wasted.
It was not until 2003 that a member of the Saudi royal family publicly acknowledged that the kingdom...
made popular Sep 27 2010
Brazil’s state-run energy company, Petrobras, has raised the $70bn (£44.6bn) necessary for the world’s biggest-ever share offering, as it seeks to explore...
made popular Sep 24 2010
An explosion ripped through a major refinery in northern Mexico on Tuesday, state oil firm Pemex said, but officials were unable to confirm reports that several people...
made popular Sep 8 2010
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to cut off oil sales to the United States if Venezuela is attacked by its U.S.-allied neighbor Colombia in a dispute over...
made popular Jul 27 2010
The EU’s anti-piracy task force says Somali pirates have hijacked a chemical tanker carrying lubricating oil in the Red Sea.
The force says pirates attacked the...
made popular Jul 6 2010
If Aussie political storms possessed some space in a foreign press, it is something extravagant usually, capable to divert a world readers’ interest at least for a...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Cuba’s civil defense chief said Tuesday that authorities are preparing coastal residents for the oil spill fouling the Gulf of Mexico, and a top military official...
made popular Jun 16 2010
With all due respect to the supposedly neutral and impartial organisation UN is being described, it is hard sometimes to refrain from elementary misunderstandings the...
made popular Jun 15 2010
Mexico’s violent drug cartels are getting into the oil business, tapping into underground pipelines and siphoning off tons of crude, gasoline and other fuels,...
made popular Jun 1 2010
In October of, 2008,
The International Monetary Fund took a blind hit from Chinese state-sponsored hackers in a military tactic known as ‘Strategic Information...
made popular May 31 2010
Just a few words of more recent environmental disaster unfold in Mexican Gulf.
There is a significant difference between clean usage of natural resources and denying...
made popular May 3 2010
A few weeks back, President Obama angered many liberals when he become the first president in a long time to allow for off-shore drilling on the east coast. Even...
made popular May 2 2010
A deepwater oil platform that burned for more than a day after a massive explosion sank into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, creating the potential for a major spill as...
made popular Apr 23 2010
British oil drilling operations around the Falkland Islands are whipping up new tensions with Argentina almost 30 years after the two countries went to war over the...
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Authorities got concerned when they identified the animal killed in November 2009 as a reedbuck that had been transported to Kabwoya from Lake Mburo National Park to...
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Visitors to Rier, in southern Sudan, are welcomed by a large rectangular tank and a freshly-painted sign trumpeting the White Nile Petroleum Operating Company’s...
made popular Nov 19 2009
What I am the most wondering at is the short-seeing of an Islamist danger infiltrating a traditionally Catholic region Brazil is.
Filling a gap of info covering an...
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It’s no secret that Arab power in the world, such as it is, is based on oil. What people don’t realize (or blind themselves to) is that the strength of Israel is...
made popular Oct 29 2009
“Since its establishment in the 70s, the NTPC has been run professionally. But at stake today, are huge sums that will flow from the balance sheet of NTPC, and...
made popular Aug 27 2009
What could turn an enemy into a trade partner respectful recently?
Perhaps, rocky relations with Col. M. Khaddafi is a classic example of smoothing Western stand on...
made popular Aug 24 2009
A top militant commander in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta region will surrender rocket launchers and gunboats Saturday in the biggest hand-over of weapons since a...
made popular Aug 22 2009
Faced with the world’s most important oil discovery in years, the Brazilian government is seeking to step back from more than a decade of close cooperation with...
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Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty, often in shanties dwarfed by fire-belching...
made popular Aug 13 2009
Only two letters separate “pre-salt” from “pre-school,” but between these two options is an immense separation for the future of Brazil. Diverse...
made popular Jun 23 2009
The case, in which the company was accused of backing a campaign of repression conducted by Nigeria’s former military government in the oil-rich Niger Delta...
made popular Jun 9 2009
“Peru, a mining country” is a government slogan which can be seen emblazoned on official buildings and heard repeatedly on state media broadcasts.
It is...
made popular Apr 13 2009
It has become an American ritual: kissing the Saudi King’s rear. We all know why. Saudi Arabia has the oil and America the thirst. That is why U.S. president show...
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It has long been known that Saudi Arabia uses its oil money to spread its vile, grotesque, obscurantist, misogynist, homophobic, and xenophobic Wahhabi doctrine to...
made popular Mar 28 2009
I’m just having new carpets put in my condo, so all the furniture is out of the bed rooms and office and piled up in the living room.
As a result, I had to...
made popular Mar 18 2009
This is not the new word for today. The recession duration and prediction are increasing day by day. But the good thing which I observe in the market is the mediocre...
made popular Jan 28 2009
By: Afreen Baig
When President Musharraf took over, Pakistan was on the verge of default and bankruptcy, with less than a billion dollars in its foreign reserves and...
made popular Jan 28 2009
I watched it live on my afforded cable transmission on 14th August 2008 as the federal minister of Justice Hon. Andoakaa exchanged a signed document with the Cameroon...
made popular Jan 20 2009
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Oil prices are getting a big boost today, as...
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Power companies are under increasing pressure to pass on the benefit of the plummeting price of oil.
Watchdogs are angry that domestic energy bills have continued to...
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U.S. navy servicemen stand to attention at the Khawr al-Amaya oil terminal off the coast of Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 30, 2009. The U.S. navy handed over control of Khawr al-Amaya, Iraq’s oldest oil...
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