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Iraq: Occupation Continues Suffering
World  (tags: Iraq, usa, capitalism, dishonesty, propaganda, u.s., troops, military, bases, military bases, U.S. bases, US bases, imperialism, US imperialism, U.S. imperialism, neocolonialism, Neo-colonialism, middle-east, oil, oil corporations, corporations, war )

Simon
- 7 days ago - greenleft.org.au
Despite the supposed withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, more than 130,000 US soldiers remain -- similar to the size of the US contingent when the invasion began in 2003. Torture is routine in government detention centres. Get U.S. troops out of Iraq now!!!
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Crime Lords 'Ruining West Africa'
World  (tags: West Africa, senior officials, government, corruption, conflict, drugs, guns, oil, diamonds, crime, cover-up, dishonesty )

Dee
- 135 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The United Nations says organised crime is "plundering" West Africa, as illicit goods flood through the region.
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Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon To Oil Drilling and Logging Deforestation
World  (tags: peru, amazon, rainforest, climate-change, global warming, protests, deaths, oil, oil-drilling, logging, deforestation, world, americas, violence, corruption, news, environment, ecosystems, government, forests, habitatdestruction, HumanRights )

SirRobert
- 161 days ago - nytimes.com
Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru's Congress this week has suspended the decrees that had set off the protests, which were focused upon saving the Amazon rainforests.
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Sign Petition: Tell Peru to Protect Indigenous Rights & Save The Amazon
World  (tags: world, violence, amazon, rainforests, indigenous, peoples, protesters, ecology, environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, conservation, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, protection, government, corruption, oil, gas, money, business, corporate, greed )

Tom
- 163 days ago - change.org
Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. Pres. Garcia responded with violence.
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Allegations of Corporate Crimes Against Humanity Going to Trial
World  (tags: world, business, Shell, oil, money, environment, crimes, humanity, nigeria, human rights, abuses, corporate, corruption, ethics, gas, flaring, pollution, humans, habitat, nature, ecosystems, health, illness, risks, death )

Tom
- 198 days ago - law.com
Possibly for the first time, a corporation goes on trial for crimes against humanity. Southern District of New York Judge Kimba Wood rejected all but one motion to dismiss by Shell Petroleum, N.V. and other defendants in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum.
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Shoes and Words Fly as Canadians Protest Bush at Calgary Speech
World  (tags: canada, oil, bush, war crimes, shoe throwing, war criminal, calgaryterrorism )

Cheryl Su
- 247 days ago - rawstory.com
As a center of Canada's oil industry, Calgary - in the relatively conservative province of Alberta - would seem to be an ideal place for George W. Bush to give his first post-presidential speech.
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US Wars: Unjust and Unwinnable - Join the March 20 Global Peace Demonstrations
World  (tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, War on Terror, USA, US imperialism, imperialism, capitalism, exploitation, oil, violence, war )

Simon
- 248 days ago - greenleft.org.au
On March 20, peace & international solidarity activists globally will mark the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by the US-led "coalition of the willing". Imperial forces have used the old imperial tactic of divide & rule, perpetuating the violence.
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War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields
World  (tags: Israel, Gaza, Great Britian, British Gas, oil, USA, Bush, Ariel Sharon, TOny Blair, Palestine, Gaza Marine )

Blue
- 314 days ago - globalresearch.ca
The issue of sovereignty over Gaza's gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine. The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic...
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Analysis: Post-Peak Oil Crisis (2011-2013) To Devastate Global Economy
World  (tags: americans, congress, democrats, economy, government, obama, u.s., usa, war, business, consumers, corporate, energy, humans, investments, investing, money, oil, society, world, conflict )

SirRobert
- 376 days ago - energy-daily.com
(corrected url): According to reported analysis projections, between 2011 thru 2013, there will be real oil shortages that will translate into escalating fuel prices, and is further projected to devastate the global economy!
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Analysis: Report Warns Of Post-Oil Crisis
World  (tags: government, europe, asia, africa, china, humans, society, world, news, oil, peak oil, fuel costs, global economy, americans, u.s., usa, opec )

SirRobert
- 376 days ago - energy-daily.com
Oil production will peak between 2011 thru 2013 causing escalating fuel prices, and devastating damage to the global economy -- so hold on to your wallet!
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Marching Toward Hell
World  (tags: Israel, oil, American foreign policy shackled, middle-east )

Pastor Ti
- 502 days ago - informationclearinghouse.info
"Michael Sheuer's new work "Marching Toward Hell" is very clear with it's overall purpose of exposing where America's interests have gone wrong with their interactions with the various people, beliefs and religions of the Middle East."
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A Major Milestone: Big Oil Is Back in Iraq
World  (tags: oil, raq, Shell, BP, Total, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Iraq war, profiteering )

RC
- 520 days ago - nytimes.com
It seems as though one of the largest, yet unadmitted, reasons for the US and the UK to wage war in Iraq is producing its bittersweet fruit: no-bid oil development contracts are on the table.Big Oil is sitting down with Iraqi offcials to make it happen.
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Oil, Smoke & Mirrors   video
World  (tags: oil, 911, corruption, ethics, government, iraq, UnitedNations, society, world, usa )

John
- 538 days ago - video.google.com
"Oil Smoke & Mirrors" offers us a sobering critique of our perceived recent history, of our present global circumstances, and of our shared future in light of imminent, under-reported and mis-represented energy production constraints.
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Iraq: US Has No Claim to Oil Boom
World  (tags: Bush, Republicans, oil, Iraq, war, troops, lies, deception, politics )

Blue
- 566 days ago - alternet.org
Iraqis are fuming at suggestions being floated by lawmakers that Baghdad should start paying a share of the war's costs by providing cheap fuel to the U.S. military.
3 comments
Native Chief Seeks Funding From Venezuela's Chavez in Oil Fight
World  (tags: Canada, oil, indigenous rights, Hugo Chavez )


- 582 days ago - cbc.ca
Terrance Nelson, chief of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation, has sent a letter to Chavez asking for a $1 million donation or loan, which he says he will use to hire lawyers to force two companies to share revenues from two pipelines that will be bu
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