The Guardian • oil
Issue #2163
GLOBAL BRIEFS
EU: Trump has lobbied for EU, G7, and NATO countries to impose 100% tariffs on China. Originally also targeted at India, Trump’s new round of...
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Issue #2186
China and Cuba’s solar revolution: solidarity in practice
When the lights go out in Havana – as they have done for up to 20 hours a day in the worst months of Cuba’s...
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Issue #2179
Cuba: resilience, not surrender
Claims by officials in Washington that “Cuba’s collapse is imminent” usually coincide with a tightening of the blockade. Yet, once again, Cubans have reaffirmed their...
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Issue #2183
China helps Cuba achieve 900 MW per day solar power generation
The Trump administration’s energy siege on Cuba – cutting off oil from Venezuela, threatening punitive tariffs on any country that dares sell fuel to the...
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Issue #2110
Slick – Australia’s toxic relationship with Big Oil
How many billion tonnes of CO2 did humanity pump into the atmosphere the year you were born? How about the year your youngest relative was...
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Issue #2175
Chavismo survives US attacks on Venezuela
On 3 January the US military attacked Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. More than 100 Venezuelans...
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Issue #2171
People in the US go hungry as Trump spends millions to invade Venezuela
The United States government is in the grips of one of its longest-running funding gaps in history. The ongoing government shutdown has already stretched beyond...
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Issue #2135
Trump attacks Alaska’s tribal sovereignty
US President Donald Trump’s flurry of Executive Orders has had a lot of attention since 20 January, with Executive Orders affecting Diversity Equity and Inclusion...
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Issue #2137
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa announced the formation of an “independent committee” to investigate armed clashes and massacres that killed more than 1,300 people,...
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Issue #2181
GLOBAL BRIEFS
LEBANON: Thousands of people are fleeing their homes following relentless bombings by Israel. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that at least 52 people were killed and...
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Issue #2173
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HUNGARY: The current corruption scandal in Ukraine is “one of the most serious corruption scandals in the history of European politics,” the Hungarian Foreign Minister...
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Issue #2176
GLOBAL BRIEFS
NIGERIA: Nigeria has contracted an American PR firm for US$9 million to counter disinformation about Christian persecution and manage the relationship with the Trump administration....
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Issue #2188
Hormuz crisis could spread
By now, everyone reading this knows what the Strait of Hormuz is, and what it’s like to have the strait blocked. Fuel prices have skyrocketed,...
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Issue #2177
Monroe is back, rules-based international order is out
The 2026 National Defense Strategy report, authored by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, redefines the United States’ role in the world, prioritising the Western Hemisphere...
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Issue #2202
GLOBAL BRIEFS
CONGO: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has imposed an immediate ban on exports of copper and cobalt concentrates. It marks a major step...
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Issue #2184
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDIA: India’s anti-terror agency has arrested seven people for allegedly training and supplying weapons to insurgents in Myanmar. Six Ukrainians and a US citizen were...
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Issue #2201
Cuban ingenuity and resilience are saving the country
The US oil embargo and sanctions have restricted Cuba’s access to finance, trade, and many imported goods, causing high fuel and food prices. Limited access...
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Issue #2174
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: President Lula da Silva has announced the creation of two new higher education institutions – the Federal Indigenous University (UNIND) and the Federal University...
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Issue #2202
US - Iran war and oil profits
One-fifth of the world’s traded oil passes through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The outbreak of the US-Iran conflict interrupted Gulf oil and petroleum product...
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Issue #2134
Saudi Arabian Oil Policy and the Iran-Iraq War
With US President Donald Trump promising to produce cheap global oil, this is a useful study that shows why the United States has tried, but...
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Issue #2129
LA fires a warning of things to come
Global Climate Scientists have confirmed 2024 was the world’s hottest since records began, eclipsing the previous record set in 2023 and raising the alarm that...
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Issue #2053
Govt’s toxic plan for Timor Sea
The Federal government has announced plans to dump undisclosed amounts of radioactive material, oil, and other toxins into the Timor Sea, just 155 kilometres from...
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Issue #2134
Monopolies destroying the planet
Food monopolies are intensifying agricultural production in ways that both produce more emissions and which leave us vulnerable to climate impacts by increased use of...
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Issue #2151
Consequences
The Mid-North Coast of NSW recently experienced record breaking flooding, after experiencing back to back extreme weather events in the last few years. Such disasters...
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Issue #2172
GREEN NOTES
Brazil, the host nation of COP30, is facing criticism for approving new oil drilling off the Amazon River’s mouth just before the start of the...
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Issue #2185
PEACE NOTES
The War in the Middle East The extent and brutality of the war just continue to mount with very little protest from the Australian government...
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Issue #2158
Alliance to dismantle oil-gas rigs
A new analysis by an alliance of unions and leading environmental organisations has recommended a nation-first ‘decommissioning hub’ be built in Western Australia to manage...
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Issue #2154
GREEN NOTES
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves blasting huge volumes of water mixed with toxic chemicals and sand deep into the earth to fracture rock formations and...
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Issue #2084
GREEN NOTES
Thanks to concerted organising and campaigning by environmentalists, Traditional Owners, farmers, communities and individuals there were some wins in 2023. Progress is far too slow,...
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Issue #2188
GREEN NOTES
The Indonesian province of West Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is a classic example of Marxist dependency theory, in which the region occupies...
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Issue #2183
Fuel security crisis
The Maritime Union of Australia is calling out the deliberate policy settings and economic engineering that have created Australia’s perilous fuel security situation. Australians need...
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Issue #2125
DINGO
ExxonMobil is using Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in an Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) to sue the Netherlands over the early shutdown of gas production in...
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Issue #2175
Hands off Venezuela!
The Communist Party of Australia unequivocally condemns the Trump administration’s illegal military attack against Venezuela, including the forcible kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his...
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Issue #2136
DINGO
The Climate Change Authority’s latest report confirms the risks of delaying a clean energy future in favour of nuclear power will lead to higher emissions...
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Issue #2164
Stop the US threats to Venezuela
A CPA delegation led by the Party president paid a visit to the embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to meet with the Chief...
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Issue #2139
DINGO
Environmental activist group Greenpeace International has been ordered to pay more than $660 million (US) in damages to a pipeline company by a US court....
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Issue #2184
Hands off Cuba!
Almost unnoticed in the Australian media, a war crime is taking place. A nation of ten million people is being literally starved by a superpower...
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