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An indigenous Rubicon by Joanna Cabello (August 2009)

While climate jargon-fuelled meetings like the recent Bonn talks happen at the global level, examples of local resistance remind us what dealing with climate change is really about. The indigenous peoples’ struggle in Peru against the colonisation of their lands by polluting industries is one such example, writes Joanna Cabello

Shell to Sea by Andy Bowman (December 2008)

Andy Bowman examines the global links and networks being built by Irish anti-Shell activists

The end of the world as we know it by Michael Klare (August 2008)

As fuel prices rocket, a new world energy order is emerging. It will bring with it a fierce international competition for dwindling stocks of oil, natural gas, coal and uranium, and also an epochal shift in power and wealth from energy-deficit states such as the US, Japan and the newly-industrialising China to energy-surplus states such as Russia, Venezuela and the oil producers of the Middle East. Michael Klare examines the likely consequences of the growing competition for the soon-to-be diminishing supply of energy

Occupation without troops by Becca Fisher (November 2007)

The US and UK governments, the IMF and oil corporations are behind Iraq’s proposed Hydrocarbon Law, which would effectively privatise Iraqi oil. Becca Fisher investigates

Back to the post-oil future by Richard Heinberg (February 2005)

The imminent demise of the global petroleum industry will necessarily entail a complete redesign of industrial societies.

Energy independence and the American dream by Melanie Jarman (October 2004)

Both Kerry and Bush recognise the need for alternatives to fossil fuels. Yet neither show any desire to address the US’s bulimic consumption patterns.

The end of the oil age by Melanie Jarman (May 2004)

Fossil fuel companies are about to become industrial dinosaurs. Efforts to postpone their extinction would only accelerate the overheating of the planet.

The Devil’s tears by Melissa Jones, Michael Gillard (May 2004)

In Azerbaijan, oil is known as the Devil’s tears - a curse for the desperately poor Azeris and a blessing for their autocratic rulers. Satan cried a lot in this former Soviet satellite state on the west coast of the Caspian Sea. His tears were mostly shed offshore.