thenation.com - 7/15/2009
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This article originally appeared on TomDispatch . Has it all come to this? The wars and invasions, the death and destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before ...
tomdispatch.com - 7/19/2009
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Anthony Shadid has, without a doubt, been the
finest American mainstream journalist to cover Iraq in the...
period after the 2003 invasion. He's now back in Baghdad for the Washington Post , telling the saddest story of all ( "In the City of Cement" ). ...
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dallasnews.com - 7/12/2009
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12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, July 11, 2009
By REESE ERLICH / Special Contributor to The Dallas...
Morning News Reese Erlich is a freelance journalist based in Oakland, Calif. TAK TAK OIL FIELD, Iraq – With the passage of a controversial new constitution, ...
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Kurds lay claim to land and oil, defying Iraq's central ...
atimes.com - 7/14/2009
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Hubble bubble means forest trouble From the Institute
for War and Peace Reporting Shouldering a saw, Amer,...
18, heads to the woods every night to cut down trees near his village of Markieh in Syria's northern coastal province of Latakia. With his ...
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Michael T. Klare: Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?
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... and Iran (with 138 billion). Many analysts, however, believe that Iraq has been inadequately explored, and that the utilization of modern search technologies will yield additional reserves in the range of 45 to 100 billion barrels. If all its reserves, known and suspected, were developed to their full potential, Iraq could add as much as 6 to 8 million barrels per day to international output, postponing the inevitable arrival of peak oil and a contraction in global energy supplies. The Nation
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Michael T. Klare: Will Iraq Be a Global Gas Pump?
Has it all come to this? The wars and invasions, the death and destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet? Will it all end not with a bang but with a gusher? The latest oil news out of that country offers at least a hint of Iraq's fate.
For modern Iraq, oil has always been at the heart of ...
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