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• Putin's New Vision of 'Eurasia'

  Published 10 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Many western politicians have harbored deep suspicions of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimorovich Putin since he first emerged on the Russian political stage in 1999.…

• Armenia's Aging Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant Alarms Caucasian Neighbors

  Published 06 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The USSR might have imploded two decades ago, but debris from its headlong industrialization drive litter the post-Soviet landscape, and nothing more unsettles the population…

• Turkey and Russia Spar Over Natgas Prices

  Published 04 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  While few people in the world have warm feelings for energy companies beyond perhaps their stockholders, Russia's state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom has shown an…

• Russia Claims New Arctic Hydrocarbon Finds Effectively Double Nations Reserves

  Published 03 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Russia, currently vying for the title of world's top oil producer with Saudi Arabia, claimed that new findings in its offshore Arctic territories have effectively…

• Germany - It's Not Easy Being Green

  Published 30 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Forty-one years ago on Sesame Street, Kermit the frog sang a plaintive song, "It's not easy being green." In a gesture of solidarity, perhaps he…

• China's Rare Earths Monopoly - Peril or Opportunity?

  Published 29 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The prosperity of China's "authoritarian capitalism" is increasingly rewriting the ground-rules worldwide on the capitalist principles that have dominated the West's economy for nearly two…

• Oil Diplomacy to the Rescue? Cuban Drilling off Florida Keys to Begin by End of the Year

  Published 28 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  For 51 years the U.S. has imposed an economic embargo against Cuba, severely crippling the island's economy for its effrontery in choosing a socialist path…

• China, Japan Minuet Around the Issue of Rare Earths

  Published 27 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  It's official - China's de facto monopoly on current rare earths production is a threat to the global economy. As least, that was the gist…

• Mexican Government Under Assault From Drug Cartels, Washington Yawns

  Published 26 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Suspected Mexican drug traffickers from the Zetas drug cartel on 20 September drove two trucks to a main avenue in the Mexican Gulf coast city…

• Oil and the Falklands

  Published 22 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Like some dimly remembered Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, pitting Hardy British tars against perfidious foreigners, the Falklands periodically recycles into the gaze of bemused international…

• Daniel Yergin and Peak Oil - Prophet or Mere Historian?

  Published 21 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  On 17 September The Wall Street Journal published a fascinating article on "peak oil," "There Will Be Oil," written by Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS…

• Turkey, Egypt to Drill for Natural Gas in the Mediterranean, Threatening Israel's Energy Dreams

  Published 19 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  What a difference fifteen months makes. In May 2010 Israel's cold peace with Egypt was viable, the country was celebrating massive Mediterranean natural gas finds…

• Iranian Bushehr Nuclear Plant Comes Online - World Survives

  Published 15 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  On 12 September Iran brought its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr online, connecting it to the country's electrical grid. Iranian officials at the opening…

• China is Interested in Biofuels - Why Not the West?

  Published 14 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  China, arguably the world's most influential and dynamic economy, is beginning to eye renewable as a partial solution to its voracious and growing energy needs.…

• Pakistan's Energy Crisis and U.S. Interests

  Published 12 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  On 7 October 2001, the opening phase of "Operation Enduring Freedom" U.S. military campaign began, which quickly drove the Taliban and its al-Qaida affiliates from…

• In the Aftermath of Fukushima, Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Rise to 20 Percent

  Published 07 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The worldwide implications for nuclear power advocates in light of the 11 March disaster at Japan's Daichi Fukushima nuclear complex, battered first by an earthquake…

• Unseemly Scrabble for Libya's Post-Gaddafi Oil Assets Underway

  Published 05 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  While NATO members, led by France, piously proclaimed at the onset of their military offensive in Libya that their concerns were solely humanitarian, a covert…

• So Much for the Polar Bears - Arctic Drilling to Begin

  Published 01 September 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The "good" news for wildlife around the Arctic Circle is that BP, renowned despoiler of the Gulf of Mexico, will not be coming. BP's 2010…

• Russia and China's Energy Dispute and the Struggle for Eurasian Dominance

  Published 30 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  China's voracious appetite for energy from anywhere has led most oil-producing nations to attempt to feed the dragon, including Russia. But a curious situation has…

• China and Biofuels - Stir-Fry or Fly?

  Published 29 August 2011 | viewed 0 times

  China's omnivorous global appetite for energy resources is well known. While biofuel production is one of the rising energy stars of the 21st century, it…