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Reports: Chevron in the White House

Reports: Bush’s Follies Will Destroy Obama If He Lets Them

Ear to the Ground: Chavez Celebrates Sweeping Victory

Ear to the Ground: Pirates Hijack Saudi Oil Tanker

Reports: America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

Reports: With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick

Reports: Homeland Security Pays Dividends for Alaska

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Stevens’ Corruption Was About the Little Things

Ear to the Ground: Stevens Goes Down

Reports: Populism Arising—but Will It Be the Killer Kind?

Ear to the Ground: Cuban Windfall: Billions of Barrels of Black Gold

A/V Booth: McCain’s Oil-Talk Addiction

Ear to the Ground: Stevens Defends Himself, Blames Others

Ear to the Ground: What Do John McCain and Saddam Hussein Have in Common?

Reports: America’s Political Cannibalism

Reports: Welcome to the Third World, America

Cartoons: Drill, Baby, Drill!

A/V Booth: Couric Stumps Palin With Question About Reading

Reports: Back in the USSR

Ear to the Ground: R.I.P. Offshore Drilling Ban

Ear to the Ground: Follow the Money: New Group Runs Ads Promoting Drilling

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Has a Lousy Monday

Reports: Fleecing What’s Left of the Treasury

Reports: With ‘Allies’ Like NATO, Georgia Better Not Annoy Russia

A/V Booth: McCain Campaign Ads: Impending Economic Cataclysm Edition

Ear to the Ground: Biden Strikes Back at McCain Campaign

Ear to the Ground: Palin Finally Accepts Global Warming

Reports: Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

Ear to the Ground: Interior Dept. + Financial Hanky-Panky + Sex = Scandal!

Ear to the Ground: Fact-Checking McCain’s ‘Alaska Maverick’ Ad

A/V Booth: Mr. McCain Goes to Washington

Cartoons: Vote for Oil

Reports: The Cost of Saakashvili’s Folly

Reports: McCain Is More Dangerous Than Bush

Reports: Cold War Spin Only Compounds Georgian Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Wavers on Drilling Vote

Cartoons: The New Republican Mascot

Ear to the Ground: Crisis Mounts in Georgia as Russian Bombing Intensifies

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on the Middle East

A/V Booth: Big on Oil, Small on Facts

Reports: His Drilling Plan Is Full of Holes

Ear to the Ground: Bloodless Coup Leaders Arrest Mauritania’s President

Ear to the Ground: 2 Million South Africans on Strike

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Takes the Heat on Drilling

Ear to the Ground: Iraq’s $79-Billion Windfall

A/V Booth: Obama and McCain Spar Over Oil

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Go Web 2.0 for House Protest

Ear to the Ground: McCain Camp Gets Big Checks From Big Oil Execs

Cartoons: Skeptical Junkie

Ear to the Ground: What Else Is New? Economy Slumps, Oil Profits Surge

Cartoons: Gashole

Reports: McCain’s Oil Drilling Hoax

A/V Booth: Obama = Britney = Paris. Say What?

Ear to the Ground: Alaska Senator’s Home Improvements Lead to Corruption Charges

Cartoons: Arctic Oil

Ear to the Ground: Fortune Frowns on McCain

A/V Booth: Al Gore’s Netroots Cameo

Ear to the Ground: New Hampshire Takes Chavez Up on Free Oil Offer

Reports: The Democrats’ Visionary

Ear to the Ground: Inflation Runs at a 26-Year High

Ear to the Ground: Enterprising GOP Troubadour Blends Poetry, Politics in ‘Republican Song’

Ear to the Ground: Bush Lifts Drilling Ban

Reports: Disorderly or Not, America Should Withdraw

Cartoons: Free SUV

Ear to the Ground: Biofuels Blamed in Global Food Crisis

Reports: Happy Oil Dependence Day

Ear to the Ground: Georgia Cops to Charge for Their Trouble

Reports: Politicizing the Polar Bear

A/V Booth: A Venezuelan’s Perspective on Campaign ’08

Cartoons: OIL-E

Ear to the Ground: American Fingers in Iraq’s Cookie Jar

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Penalty

Ear to the Ground: Greenspan Talks Recession as Oil Prices Soar

Reports: Oil Mania

Cartoons: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane …

Cartoons: War Memorial

Cartoons: Lord Petro

Ear to the Ground: Bush: Lift the Ban on Offshore Drilling

Cartoons: Fuel Duel

Ear to the Ground: McCain Pulls the Pin on Offshore Drilling

Cartoons: Oil Junkie

A/V Booth: Carville: Obama Should Pick Gore

Ear to the Ground: Senate Blocks Oil Tax

Reports: Blame Rising Oil Prices on Bush

Cartoons: Oil

Cartoons: Mission to Mars

Ear to the Ground: Oil Hits New High, Again

Reports: Paying for War at the Pump

Ear to the Ground: McCain Warms Up to the Environment

Arts and Culture: Geoffrey Wheatcroft on ‘Muqtada’

Ear to the Ground: McCain Revisits Remarks About Oil and Occupation

Ear to the Ground: Iran Condemns Clinton

Ear to the Ground: $10.9 Billion Ain’t What it Used to Be

Ear to the Ground: Bush Passes the Buck

Ear to the Ground: Bush Ready to Stimulate America

Ear to the Ground: The Imperial Palace of Iraq

Cartoons: Pope at the Pump

Ear to the Ground: ¿Zapping Zapata?

Reports: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Reports: Consider Iraq Defined

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Troops Step Up Fighting in Basra

Reports: The Race to Captain a Sinking Ship

Reports: Dinner With Ahmed

Cartoons: Up for a Debate

Cartoons: The Price of Oil

Reports: Aboard the Condoleezza Rice

Ear to the Ground: Spielberg Quits Olympics Post in Protest of China

Ear to the Ground: Putin and the New ‘Arms Race’

Cartoons: Oil

Reports: Bush’s Tragic Dream World

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Bush Channels Woody Allen in Saudi Arabia

Reports: Climbing Out of the Oil Ditch

Ear to the Ground: Take the Cost of the War and Double It

Ear to the Ground: Corruption Scandal Rocks Alaska Politics

A/V Booth: Oil Is King

Ear to the Ground: Emergency in San Francisco Bay

Ear to the Ground: Cheney:  ‘We Will Not Allow Iran’ to Get Nukes

Reports: Al Gore and the Blue Sky Theory

Reports: The Senate’s Strange Double Standard

Ear to the Ground: UK Joins Grab for Polar Territories

Arts and Culture: Marc Cooper on Hugo Chavez

Reports: Inside the Military-Industrial Complex

Reports: Breaking the Taboo: Why We Took On the Israel Lobby

Arts and Culture: Milton Viorst on ‘The Israel Lobby’

Reports: Chevron’s Pipeline Is the Burmese Regime’s Lifeline

Cartoons: revOILution

Ear to the Ground: Arctic Land Grab Update: Russia Claims Victory

Reports: Coming Apart at the Seams

Ear to the Ground: Not So Fast, Putin

Ear to the Ground: House Gets Busy Over the Weekend

Ear to the Ground: Russian Flag on North Pole Seabed

Ear to the Ground: Russia Claims Much of Arctic

Ear to the Ground: Halliburton Profits Spike on Spinoff of Subsidiary

Ear to the Ground: North Korea Shuts Down a Nuclear Reactor

Reports: Gore Vidal Sounds Off on Solar Power Caper

Ear to the Ground: Gas Riots in Iran

Reports: The Pentagon vs. Peak Oil

Cartoons: A Pompous Circumstance

Ear to the Ground: Kucinich on ‘The Truth About Oil and Iraq’

Ear to the Ground: Cheney’s Fightin’ Words For Iran

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Iran Vie for Gulf Allies

Reports: A Shining Light Goes Out in Africa

Ear to the Ground: Saudis Arrest 172 in Anti-Terror Sweep

Ear to the Ground: Iran’s Trump Card

Ear to the Ground: House Dems Grill White House Spin Man

Ear to the Ground: Halliburton Relocates to Dubai

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Nears Oil Sharing Deal

Ear to the Ground: Iran Info From Top to Bottom

Ear to the Ground: Who Are You Calling a Gas Guzzler?

Ear to the Ground: Exxon Mobil Posts Record Profit

Reports: Annie Nelson on the ‘Fuel That Doesn’t Kill Us’

Ear to the Ground: Chavez Consolidates Power

Reports: Petraeus! Is Baghdad Burning?

Ear to the Ground: Save Money and the Planet at the Same Time

Ear to the Ground: Stealing Iraq’s Oil

Reports: Robert Scheer: Ike Was Right

Ear to the Ground: Can Dr. Evil Save the World?

Ear to the Ground: Awkward Marriage for Oil and Auto Industries

Ear to the Ground: Rumsfeld Unveils New Justification for Iraq Invasion

Ear to the Ground: Supersized Paychecks for Oil Execs in 2005

Ear to the Ground: Profits up 40% at Shell, 36% at Exxon

Ear to the Ground: Mediterraneans Have All the Fun, Fewer Heart Attacks

Ear to the Ground: Oil Prices Could Triple Upon a U.S. Invasion of Iran

Ear to the Ground: EPA Rule Loosened After Oil Exec’s Letter to Rove

Ear to the Ground: Robert Redford: Americans Ready to Kick the Oil Habit

Ear to the Ground: Ted Koppel: Time for Army of U.S. Mercenaries?

Ear to the Ground: Small Miracle: House Votes Against Oil Subsidy

Ear to the Ground: A Brit Ponders America’s Love Affair With Cars

Ear to the Ground: Big Oil Launches Attack on Al Gore

Ear to the Ground: Kick the Oil Habit

Ear to the Ground: Bush at New Low in N.Y. Times/CBS Poll

Ear to the Ground: Conservatives Drive Down Bush’s Poll Numbers

Ear to the Ground: Lay’s Chips to Use Healthier Oil

Cartoons: Luckovich - The Big Oil Bribe

Ear to the Ground: GOP Tax Rebate Proposal Dying Quick Death

Cartoons: Luckovich - GOP Gas Company Loyalists

Ear to the Ground: Barack Obama Slams Bush’s Oil Policy

Ear to the Ground: Nuke Expert: Some U.S. Officials Set on Hitting Iran

Ear to the Ground: America: Iraq on Its Own to Rebuild

Reports: Fishing for a Pretext to Squeeze Iran

Ear to the Ground: Say What? Bush Pushing International Engagement?

Ear to the Ground: Bush Lacked Iraq Rebuilding Plan

Ear to the Ground: Iran Ascendant After Iraq War

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Plans $7-Billion Royalty Windfall to Oil Companies

Ear to the Ground: ‘Syriana 2’

Ear to the Ground: Sweden Plans to Be World’s First Oil-Free Economy

Reports: Take From the Poor, Give to the Military

Reports: Kicking the Oil Addiction: Bush Lied, Again

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Requests Billions More for War

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Hypocrisy on Oil

Ear to the Ground: Bush Advisors: Don’t Take the President Literally on his Vow to Reduce Mideast Oil Imports

Bazaar: Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta

Ear to the Ground: Iran Has Us Over a Barrel--Of Oil

Ear to the Ground: Senate Dems Block Arctic Refuge Drilling

A/V Booth: Lives in the Balance

Reports: Threat to Tribe, Caribou Is Averted — for Now

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