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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 18, 2013
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Feb 24, 2013
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on Jan 13, 2013
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By Ellen Cantarow, TomDispatch —
In small hamlets in upstate New York, a loose network of activists is waging a guerrilla campaign not with improvised explosive devices or rocket-propelled grenades, but with zoning ordinances and petitions.
Posted on Nov 20, 2012
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Nick Anderson —
Posted on Nov 18, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
In the way he has engaged in the geopolitics of oil as part of an American struggle for dominance among the major powers, President Obama’s global energy policies bear an eerie likeness to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s.
Posted on Jun 21, 2012
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With 18 million Americans unemployed, thousands from across the country are flocking to North Dakota amid an oil boom there. The state now produces more oil than many members of OPEC and could soon make America the world’s top oil producer.
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By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica —
A study into the safety of gas drilling in New York state’s Marcellus Shale concludes that natural faults and fractures, exacerbated by the effects of fracking, could allow chemicals to reach the surface and contaminate drinking water supplies much sooner than experts previously predicted.
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has infuriated Spanish oil barons by proposing a bill that would recover a majority share of a petroleum company from a foreign firm that has owned it since the early ’90s.
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 25, 2012
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but they are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, “tough oil” variety that will be more costly to extract, refine and buy at the pump.
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jan 22, 2012
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
In 2012 and beyond, energy and conflict will be bound ever more tightly together, lending increasing importance to the key geographical flashpoints in our resource-constrained world.
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Brian Fairrington, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 27, 2011
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner —
Posted on Apr 21, 2011
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Just a month after President Obama’s rightward lunge into the realm of political appeasement known as offshore drilling, the administration reinstituted a ban on new drilling as it investigates the causes of the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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In an announcement that was one part election hackery and one part good domestic politics, the Iraqi prime minister has declared that his country will not sell the rights to any more of its oil fields to foreign companies, a move that signals an intent by Iraq to develop its own national oil industry.
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You may have seen the bumper stickers: “Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Power.” With oil prices high and the planet cooking, some prominent green voices want us to reconsider nuke plants. Long before Monday’s earthquake in Japan started a nuclear plant fire (causing a radioactive water leak), writer Rebecca Solnit was trying to stop this line of thinking in its tracks, calling it defeatist and naive.
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