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2006

• Trojan horse - story - Dec . 21
  
  
  
• Bush's scapegoats - story - Dec . 18
  
  
• Surrounded and contained - story - Dec . 14
  
  
• Brent bottom forged? - story - Dec . 11
  
  
  
• Bush on the offensive - story - Dec . 08
  
  
  
• One for home - story - Dec . 07
  
  
  
• Strike one - story - Dec . 06
  
  
  
  
• Yes, Sir! - story - Dec . 05
  
  
  
• Brazil's image down the drain - story - Dec . 04
  
  
  
• Too close to call - story - Dec . 01
  
  
  
• What money can buy - story - Nov. 28
  
  
  
• Threats in Venezuela - story - Nov. 24
  
  
  
  
• Illusion or else? - story - Nov. 23
  
  
  
• OPEC's cheats - story - Nov. 22
  
  
  
• Moscow 's assassinations - story - Nov. 21
  
  
  
• Baker takes US Presidency - story - Nov. 20
  
  
  
• Gas law ready to change - story - Nov.14
  
  
• Pelosi go get him ! - story - Nov.13
  
  
  
• TT & Venezuela deal ready - story - Nov.10
  
  
• Petrochina and Sudan ? - story - Nov.09
  
  
• Democrats on the go - story - Nov.08
  
  
  
• Diamonds underground - story - Nov.07
  
  
  
  
• Last word on US elections - story - Nov.06
  
  
  
  
• Garthman on US elections - story - Nov.03
  
  
  
• War games - story - Nov.02
  
  
  
• A no-no - story - Nov.01
  
  
  
• JV incompetence ? - story - Oct. 31
  
  

• Baseball Ambassador? - story - Oct .30

  
  
  
• The perfect candidate - story - Oct .27
  
  
• Beijing bound - story - Oct .26
  
  
• On US mid-term elections - story - Oct .25
  
  
• Shell and Athabasca - story - Oct .24
  
  
• And Enron's directors ? - story - Oct .23
  
  
• More on NK nuclear - story - Oct .18
  
  
• NK nuclear rumors - story - Oct .17
  
  
• From the front - story - Oct .16
  
  
• Crude oil prices - story - Oct .13
  
  
  
• PDVSA 2005 at last ! - story - Oct .12
  
  
• NKorea a fake ? - story - Oct .11
  
  
  
• PDVSA 2005 - story - Oct .10
  
  
  
• In bad shape - story - Oct .09
  
  
• A fast one - story - Oct .06
  
  
• No thanks - story - Oct .05
  
  
• Collapsed - story - Oct .04
  
  
  
• 14 in the fight - story - Oct .03
  
  
• Pay back - story - Sept.29
  
  
  
• Bush caves in - story - Sept.28
  
  
  
• Spread the word - story - Sept.27
  
  
  
• The Count - story - Sept.26
  
  
  
• "Teflon President" - story - Sept.25
  
  
  
  
• Illiteracy - story - Sept. 22
  
  
  
• Sulfurous UN - story - Sept. 21
  
  
  
• Going under - story - Sept. 20
  
  
• Misunderstood - story - Sept. 19
  
• Muqtada al-Sadr is Tito, and Ahmadinejad is Hitler - story - Sept. 15
  
• Kristol's White Flag on Terrorism - story - Sept. 14
  
• Dilemma - story - Sept. 13
  
• Output on the rise - story - Sept. 12
  
  
  
• "Before and after" - story - Sept. 11
  
  
  
• The German Octopus - story - Sept. 6
  
  
  
  
• Ethnic cleansing - story - Sept .5
  
  
• Brazil 's restriction - story - Sept. 4
  
  
• Moving ahead - story - Aug 28
  
  
• Clock ticking -story - Aug 28
  
  
• At last ! -story - Aug 24
  
  
  
• Serious business -story - Aug 23
  
  
  
• Spies games -story - Aug 21
  
  
• Venezuela can't deliver -story - Aug 18
  
  
  
• And now CITGO -story - Aug 17
  
  
  
• PDVSA's refinery in Java -story - Aug 16
  
  
  
• And now Jamaica -story - Aug 15
  
  
  
• Energy price collapse -story - Aug 14
  
  
• Repsol to win -story - Aug 11
  
  
  
• Old ideas -story - Aug 10
  
  
• Boycotted -story - Aug 09
  
  
  
• Saudi: key -story - Aug 07
  
  
  
• Caribbean gas line moving -story - Aug 04
  
  
  
• Oil for cotton -story - Aug 03
  
  
  
• Face -story - Aug 02
  
  
  
• Israel a liability -story - Aug 01
  
  
  
• Provocation -story - July 27
  
  
• Ill-prepared -story - July 26
  
  
• Alarm bells -story - July 21
  
  
• Bush's Doctrine -story - July 20
  
  
• Resistance -story - July 18
  
  
• Another hot head -story - July 12
  
  
• Iran dictates US policy in Iraq -story - July 11
  
  
• Syria-Iran Schism over Iraq -story - July 07
  
  
• The safest world in our life time -story - July 06
  
  
• N.K. nuclear arsenal -story - July 05
  
  
• Leading the troops -story - July 04
  
  
• Pride's mordidas -story - July 03
  
  
• JM is coming to town -story - June 29
  
• Ready for a war? -story - June 22
  
  
• The Bolivarian -story - June 21
  
  
• Who is appeasing Iran -- Russia or the US? -story - June 20
  
  
• An alternative to OPEC -story - June 19
  
  
• STRATFOR silent on Iran's plan for Iraq - story - June 16
  
  
• Battle lines clearly drawn - story - June 15
  
  
• PDVSA in numbers - story - June 14
  
  
• PDVSA imperialist ? - story - June 13
  
  
• Chevron waiting - story - June 12
  
  
• President Bush new partner - story - June 9
  
  
• A light on high prices - story - June 6
  
  
• Bush losing fight with House on Pro-Iran Policy - story - May 31
  
  
• Bolivia, tightening the screws - story - May 30
  
  
• Liberate Basra ! - story - May 29

• Bad influence - story - May 26
  
  
• The world cup fiasco - story - May 25
  
  
  
• World Cup: Risky business - story - May 24
  
  
• CITGO sale moving ahead - story - May 23
  
  
• Mugabe, Chavez and Evo - story - May 19
  
  
• Kurds betray US -- Democrats to sweep US elections - story - May 18

• Nationalization: Integration and Sovereignty - story - May 17
  
• Muqtada is preferable to an Iranian Iraq - story - May 16
  
  
• Hugo Chavez's ex-mistress: fear him - story - May 15
  
  
• Why Iraq's partition won't work - story - May 12
  
  
• Latam gold market alert - story - May 11
  
  
  
• Canada's luck - story - May 10
  
  
  
• Washington in the losing end - story - May 9
  
  
  
• Bolivia a regional crisis - story - May 8
  
  
  
• Gas Summit fail - story - May 5
  
  
• CITGO's sale of CARCO ?? - story - May 4
  
  
• Evo's show - story - May 3
  
  
• Cheney trip to Kazakhstan helps Iran - story - May 2
  
  
  
• Chavez downfall - story - May 1
  
  
  
• Putin the good guy ! - story - April 27
  
  
• Ahmadinejad -- Forget Hitler! - story - April 26
  
  
• Russia's gas control ? - story - April 25
  
  
• Ahamadinejad's and US in Germany 2006 ? - story - April 24
  
  
• Teodoro Petkoff's for president announcement - story - April 21
  
  
• US Options: Support Jaafari or pull out - story - April 20
  
  
  
• DJ: Money buys - story - April 19
  
  
• What the US really wants? - story - April 18
  
  
• US Joins Tehran-Caracas Axis - story - April 17
  
  
• OPEC and China - story - April 12
  
  
  
• Petroecuador in the Amazons - story - April 11
  
  
• Total, Eni not invited to sign - story - April 3
  
  
  
• Withdraw Anbassador Khalilzad! - story - Mar 31
  
  
• Petrobras: Bolivia on hold - story - Mar 30
  
  
• Crystallex's illusion - story - Mar 29
  
  
• Evo's USA friends - story - Mar 28
  
  
• Stop Chavez/Iran Axis - story - Mar 27
  
  
• Cheney the fall guy - story - Mar 24
  
  
• The US sells out of Syria - story - Mar 23
  
  
• Baker/Sunnis vs. Khalilzad/Shia - story - Mar 22
  
  
• Why is the US following and not leading? - story - Mar 21
  
  
• Withdraw Ambassador Khalilzad - story - Mar 20
  
  
  
• Drugs and oil - story - Mar 17
  
  
  
• Shell, Gazprom, Mitsui and Mitsubishi - story - Mar 16
  
  
  
• Kirkuk - Iraq's time bomb - story - Mar 15
  
  
  
• Venezuela-US rift worsening - story - Mar 14
  
  
• US into Iraq's civil war - story - Mar 13
  
  
• Syria and Iran pipeline across Iraq - story - Mar 10
  
  
• Bush-Cheney impeachment on agenda - story - Mar 9
  
  
  
• Venezuela's big mining doom - story - Mar 8
  
  
• US to turn to Russia - story - Mar 7
  
  
• US is Iran's best Friend - story - Mar 6
  
  
  
• More on PDVSA's transparency - story - Mar3
  
  
• US and Russia racing to appease Iran - story - Mar 2
  
  
  
• What a difference one week makes! - story - Mar 1
  
  
• Chavez's money laudering - story - Feb 24
  
  
• Who Favors Iraq's Break-up? Analysis - story - Feb 23
  
  
  
• Schlesinger warning! - story - Feb 22
  
  
  
• Iran: UK withdraw from Basra! - story - Feb 21
  
  
  
• PetroTulsa's coincidences - story - Feb 20
  
  
• Gazprom-Chavez - story - Feb 17
  
  
• Brazil pushing for Amazonian pipeline - story - Feb 16
  
  
• Lukoil on the attack - story - Feb 15
  
  
• Valentines' present - story - Feb 14
  
  
• Second toughs... - story - Feb 10
  
  
  
• PDVSA's transparency - story - Feb 9
  
  
  
• Venezuela's "international solidarity" - story - Feb 8
  
  
  
• Evo's energy options - story - Feb 7
  
  
• DoD anti-Chavez - story - Feb 6
  
  
• As goes Kirkuk, goes Iraq, and Iran - story - Feb 3
  
  
• Oil & gas disappointed - story - Feb 2
  
  
• Iran's, + Iraq - UK - US = caos - story - Feb 1
  
  
• US and Venezuela partners in oil - story - Jan 31
  
  
• Censorship!- story - Jan 30
  
  
• PDVSA to pay up ?, forget it! - story - Jan 27
  
  
• Evo's present - story - Jan 26
  
  
  
• PDVSA reimbursement policy - story - Jan 25
  
  
  
• A helping hand to Lula - story - Jan 25
  
  
• Chavez AK-47s to Bolivia - story - Jan 23
  
  
• A case of dubious Venezuelan debt story - Jan 18
  
  
• Petropars coming strong - story - Jan 17
  
  
• All aboard the Failure Express ! - story - Jan 16
  
  
• 2006 a very good year - story - Jan 13
  
  
• Ethanol from straw - story - Jan 12
  
  
• Petrobras awaits - story - Jan 11
  
  
• Venezuela drug enigma - story - Jan 10
  
  
• Crude from LATAM up - story - Jan 09
  

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