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Sunday´s
Opinion

2007

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Iran’s Emerging Economic Threats

By Jahangir Amuzegar

The West’s inordinate preoccupation with the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in recent months has diverted world attention away from two other issues that threaten the management of Iran’s frail economic structure. These internal challenges are perhaps of much greater potential impact on the economy than any unilateral or selective external economic sanctions. - story - previous stories

Promise and Threat of Managed Reform
Incumbent Regimes and
the “ King’s Dilemma” in the Arab World

By Marina Ottaway and Michele Dunne

Incumbent regimes in the Arab world, monarchical and republican alike, have weathered the period of intense, worldwide political change that has followed the end of the Cold War without giving up much of their power.- story - previous stories

It was all about oil, global warming

By Gwynne Dyer

THE year two thousand and seven was the year in which global warming finally began to be taken seriously. The climate change deniers were in full retreat, and the realisation that we face a long and grave crisis was finally dawning on the general public. - story - previous stories

Iraq’s Uncertain Oil And Political Prospects (II)

By Issam Chalabi- story

Bolivia’s controversial constitution

By John Crabtree- story

Iraq’s Uncertain Oil And Political Prospects (I)

By Issam Chalabi- story

Why I Parted Ways With Chávez

Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Raúl Isaías Baduel

By Raúl Isaías Baduel - story

Dialogue For Global Energy Security: The Role Of The IEF

Source: IEA China’s scramble for energy security:
an analysis of recent activities (2005)

By Arne Walther- story

Chávez is killing a cash cow

WSJ

By Ana Campoy y David Luhnow - story

The Perils of Petrocracy

Ambroise Tezenas for The New York Times

PDVSA HQ in Maracaibo, Venezuela

By Tina Rosenberg - story

Latin America's New Petro-Politics

By Nadia Martinez - story

Venezuela Increasingly A Conduit For Cocaine
Smugglers Exploit Graft, Icy Relations With U.S.

Source: UN

Interpol web site

By Juan Forero - story

Dumb and Dumber

By Andy Webb-Vidal - story

Peak Oil and Price Trends

By Andrew McKillop - story - previous stories

THE ROVING EYE
The southern axis of evil

By Pepe Escobar - story

The Battle Over Burma: What can be done to solve the problem?

By Michael Green and Derek Mitchell - story

Bitumen Who’s Who ?
Six influential individuals who's opinions count regarding oilsands development
From Western Gold: Heavy Oil and Oilsands in Canada

Canadian Bitumen

By Oilweek Magazine- story

The Booming Economy You Never Heard
About: Peru makes its way in S. America

Caretas

Planta procesadora de gas Pacaras de Pluspetrol, en el corazón de la bahía de Paracas, Peru.

By Jason Simpkins - story

Why We should Exit Iraq Now

Bill Richarson on a fact-finding mission in North Korea

By Bill Richardson- story

Oil Market In 2H 2007: Fluctuations Torn
Between Optimism And Pessimism

By Behrooz Baik Alizadeh - story

Real world oil demand

By Andrew McKillop - story

The Economics Of Climate Change
Management In The Petroleum Industry

BusinessWeek

By Paul E Hardisty - story

The US’s Political Jiu Jitsu In The Middle East

TNR

By Gary Sick - story

Gas pipeline in Brazil seen as a model

By Sara Miller Llana - story

Banco del Sur : Latin America's answer to the World Bank and IMF
A group of regional countries is launching a development bank to be run by Latin Americans.

El Comercio

Ministers from Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela
met in Quito in May to discuss plans for Banco del Sur.

By By Sara Miller Llana and Matthew Clark - story

A New Assertiveness for Latin American Governments

By Mark Weisbrot - story

The Rising and Falling Power of Hydrocarbon States

Lookout: Oil is a temporary tool of foreign policy; Venezuela’s
President Hugo Chavez and other leaders of oil-rich nations
must plan ahead to the day when oil wells run dry

By Dilip Hiro - story

Securing The Future – An Oil Company Perspective

By Tony Hayward - story

Loving the price of oil

Superstock

By Creighton A. Welch - story

How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor

Forests are burned on plantations in Indonesia to clear land to produce palm oil which is
" a key ingredient in biodiesel." Source of caption quote and photo:
online version of WSJ article cited below.

By C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer - story

Contract Stability In The Petroleum Industry: Changing The Rules And The Consequences

By Peter D Cameron B- story

Extreme Investing: Inside Colombia
An improbable journey from crime capitalto investment hot spot. Can this boom last?

Bogota's Bolivar's Plaza

By Roben Farzad - story

In Oil Producers' Brave New World,
a Key Word Is 'Partnerships'

By Knowledge@Wharton - story

Extreme Investing: Inside Colombia
An improbable journey from crimeMcapitalto investment hot spot. Can this boom last?

Bogota's Bolivar's Plaza

By Roben Farzad - story

All Hat, Not Cattle

By Elliott H. Gue - story s

Bush and the Generals

By Michael C. Desch

Summary: The rift between U.S. military and civilian leaders did not start with George W. Bush, but his administration's meddling and disregard for military expertise have made it worse. - story

The Return of the Idiot

By Alvaro Vargas Llosa - story

Energy-hungry China looks to Latin America

By the Economist Intelligence Unit- story

The Limitations and Necessity of Naval Power

By George Friedman - story

Energy Policy: A Norwegian Perspective

By Olav Akselsen, MP - story

Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World

By Michael Shank - story

We Got Tubed—Again

Kim Jong Il may not have highly enriched uranium,
but he now has enough plutonium to make as many as 12 nuclear bombs.

By Joseph Cirincione

The Bush administration didn’t just hype flawed intelligence on Iraq. It got North Korea wrong, too. Now Kim Jong Il has the bomb—and the last laugh.- story - Previous stories

The Russian-Iranian Energy Relationship

By Florence C Fee - story - Previous stories

The State of the Energy Industry:
Strengths, Realities and Solutions

By Rex W. Tillerson - story

Oil and troubled waters

By Luisa CH. Savage - story

Can OPEC and NOPEC Stop the Oil Price