War on Iraq is about a lot more than boosting oil companies’ profits. It’s the latest battle in the ongoing war over who gets to control the earth’s remaining energy reserves. By Lutz C Kleveman.
… Iraq Oil Rights Oil Industry Oil Dependency War Oil Companies Oil Reserves Oil Oil War Military Boycotts US Fuel Energy Society NEWGAME_APRIL03_MAIN.jpg War on Iraq is about a lot more than boosting …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
… eyes follow the diminutive dirigible up towards the strip lighting, Olive steps forth. … scale that few people appreciate. We are all aware of the petrol we put in our cars, and the … of us, addicted to oil. The New Great Game War on Iraq is about a lot more than boosting …
Concerned for the future of the planet? Wait till you hear about the Project for the New American Century. By William Rivers Pitt.
… win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars’ and for them to ‘perform the … which spent years advocating that a nuclear war with the Soviet Union was ‘winnable’. And … ‘educate’ the US populace about the need for war in Iraq. CLI has funnelled millions of …
For all its obsession with international terrorism, Washington fails to see how the phenomenon is driven by its own model of globalisation – a model that is itself uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Fritjof Capra on security and sustainability
… Globalization Security Sustainability War Military US Politics Globalisation September 11 911 Terrorists US War Religion Globalisation Companies Oil … All of a sudden we have become acutely aware of our vulnerability. However, the roots …
Does it annoy you that the earth is being destroyed to benefit a tiny minority? Enough to do something about it? Derrick Jensen invites you to join him on the barricades
… trial for his life in Jerusalem, part of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann’s defence was … mandate 25-year minimum jail terms for anti-war protesting. After the powerful make the … WTO and transnational corporations. I look forward to a reply from you allaying my concerns. …
Janine Roberts describes how De Beers cons the world into paying so much for its cheap, plentiful diamonds and turns a blind eye to the eradication of the oldest culture on the planet.
… in the advertising campaign). Soon afterwards, De Beers counter-attacked. Lawyers … public pressure has resulted in stones from war-torn countries such as Angola and the … at large and thereby channel US spending toward larger and more expensive diamonds …
Next time you find yourself ‘grabbing a bite to eat’… STOP.
Fast food blights our lives and the environment. It’s time to slow down.
… If only we could look around like snails – warily come out of our shells, save energy and … ‘feeding’ 35 million people a day Cheese war In defiance of trends in both taste and … : Website: www.slowfood.com BOX: SLOW FOOD AWARD The Slow Food Award was set up in 2000 to …
Free trade. So benign sounding a phrase. A concept whose principles no reasonable person would challenge. Trouble is, free trade as we know it – free trade as it is pushed by those who will mass at Cancun, Mexico, in September – is far from free. Think about it. If it truly was free, would they put sanctions on those who don’t want to participate and use police to violently put down protests by those who oppose it? Free trade is really just a euphemism, like ‘peacekeeping’ or ‘forest management’, that hides a far uglier, more brutal reality. Free trade is a brand – Free Trade™, which sells a repackaged product no one in their right minds would buy if they knew what it really was.
… theorist Karl von Clausewitz once wrote that war is the continuation of politics by other … powerful. Far worse, it merely requires the reward and logic systems of civilisation to …
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business
… invasion in 1939, much of the world declared war to save Poland. Now, when the … farm. Smithfield builds football field-sized warehouses in which it crams thousands of … and borrow approximately $200,000 to build warehouses according to the firm’s …
Already on sale in some British supermarkets, is farmed cod really the long-term solution to the problem of declining wild populations.
By Tom Hargreaves
… Hanseatic League in the first of many ‘cod wars’. Some believe it was the Basques who …
Locked out of some meetings. Not even invited to others. And then all the decisions are made after you’ve left. It’s all in a day’s work for ‘developing’ World delegates at the WTO. By Mark Lynas
… Mark Lynas Yash Tandon approached the guard warily and asked permission to pass. Briefly … They cast cursory – almost derisory – backward glances at Tandon, who stood aside as … ministers from developing countries are well aware that WTO decisions on opening up trade to …
In the 1960s psychologist Stanley Milgram tested a cross section of ordinary Americans to see if they’d administer potentially lethal electric shocks to a mild-mannered little man, sitting in an electric chair. The findings stunned the world.
… voltage had the assessment ‘slight shock’; towards the other end of the scale there was the … of Milgram’s research is clear: we must beware evil systems more than we must beware evil men. We all contain the capacity to …
Russia’s zapovedniks are some of the world’s most pristine wildernesses. For 70 years they were protected ruthlessly by the Soviet system, but recently they have fallen prey to Putin, the World Bank and ecotourists. Paul Webster reports on their plight
… pay was terminated for thousands of nature wardens and researchers in the reserves. The … their perimeters. Furthermore, it was put foward that those zapovedniks without buffer … and salaries. A further $440,000 was awarded for 66 scientific projects. And the …
The adverts tell you the company’s green. The Ecologist tells you the truth.
… March 2003 Ethical Living Shell Oil Global Warming Greenhouse Gas Emissio Companies Oil Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Comments And Analysis Climate Change … had announced a $3m campaign to raise awareness about the loss of Louisiana’s …
Nanotechnology has the power to affect every aspect of life on the planet. Here, the Ecologist presents the many claims of its promoters and outlines some of the major developments taking place now or in the near future. In response, some of it’s leading critics analyse the risks that nanotechnology poses in their various fields of expertise.
… will enhance human performance in sport and warfare. Among the risks, Freitas lists … that they can exert.’ Professor Vyvyan Howard, department of human and cell biology, … carbon dioxide build up and reducing global warming. They also have the potential to …