Showing posts with label oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil. Show all posts
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Why sanctions on Iraq could have been ended without any war of invasion or occupation ; no threat from Saddam’s regime to Iraqis or other countries existed by 2000; the genocide against the Marsh Arabs was largely over by the late 90s and could have been ended by air strikes in the Southern No-Fly Zone

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The tenth anniversary of the Iraq war has seen the repetition of many excuses for the invasion. One of the commonest is that UN sanctions ...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

A non-binding consultative referendum on independence or increased devolution for Scotland would still have democratic legitimacy

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David Cameron and the UK government can certainly refuse to make the results of any referendum including increased devolution legally bind...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Citigroup aren’t fit to give advice on banking never mind energy policy

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One of the main critics of government investment in renewable energy in Scotland – the Citigroup investment bank – failed to predict the f...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Any third round of quantitative easing money should by-pass the banks and go straight to businesses and people to restore employment and growth

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then we have to deal with our energy and waste crises The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee have said there may be a third round...
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Why Gaddafi running out of fuel or money or being killed would not guarantee an end to the war in Libya

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There have been reports that Gaddafi’s forces may be close to running out of fuel altogether , mostly assuming that this will force his si...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

More on the oil motive for NATO's intervention in Libya

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The difference between the Gaddafi government’s oil policies and those that oil importing governments (such as NATO countries) and compani...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Yemen and Bahrain : What about the responsibility to protect civilians and support democracy in Yemen and Bahrain?

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We’re hearing a lot of talk about protecting civilians and promoting democracy in the Arab world. This focuses largely on Libya and to a l...