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Abiotic oil

Gulf Oil Spill ‘Could Go Years’ If Not Dealt With

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 10 June 2010

The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage (...)

Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

There is no scientific consensus at the UN

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 20 December 2009

While the overwhelming media campaign is heralding the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference as our last chance to "save the planet", Thierry Meyssan considers that, despite appearances, the issues on the table have little to do with environmental concerns but revolve around financial interests (...)

The Population Myth

by George Monbiot

London (United Kingdom) | 10 October 2009

People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor. People breed less as they become richer, but they don’t consume less; they consume more.

“Ukraine’s gas settlement: the wrong solution”

by Yuliya Tymoshenko

2 February 2006

Europe’s sigh of relief when the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine was supposedly over could even be heard in Kiev. But this settlement, which leaves Ukraine’s energy requirements to the mercy of a nonexistent company linked to a gang of international criminals, brings about more problems (...)

“In the hands of a woman”

by Sergio Ramirez

31 January 2006

As seen in the photos, Michelle Bachelet looks like what she really is: a paediatrician with a confident and frank smile, to whom any mother would entrust the health of her children and to whom Chile has been entrusted today. The day of the coup d’état against Salvador Allende, on September (...)

“The Iranian danger”

by Rafael Nieto Loaiza

27 January 2006

In an open challenge to the international community, the regimen ruled by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad lifted the seals that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had on the Iranian nuclear facilities and resumed its nuclear programme. Iran has said this programme is only aimed at the (...)

“Changes in Latin America”

by Óscar Collazos

17 January 2006

What is happening in the continent is alarming Washington’s allies. The right-wing policy, shortsighted and color-blind, wants to see the changes in Latin America as a “triumph” of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. Some recommended even against this new “conspiracy” that methods of the 60’s and (...)

Popular rage overthrows Ecuadorian President

The rebellion of Quito

by Marcelo Larrea

8 May 2005

Lucio Gutierrez was overthrown by the volcanic though peaceful popular uprising of Quito. The suspension of the Supreme Court could not stop the massive demonstrations which defeated its brutal repression. Even when Vice President Palacios assumed the presidency, the people still demanded (...)

The Assassination of A Venezuelan Attorney

The CIA behind Danilo Anderson’s Murder?

by Marcelo Larrea

1 December 2004

The authors of the attack that took Danilo Anderson’s life operate under the secret war methods; from a political perspective that entwines the Venezuelan evolution with the region, the continent and the world together. The crime meets all the characteristics of a secret conspiracy directly (...)