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Saudi Oil Approaching Hubbert Peak

Despite being lambasted by his critics (mainly economists), M King Hubbert’s prediction that despite all possible advances in technology and expansion of drilling areas, US oil production would peak and then decline during the...

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Let’s Hear It For The Autarchs

Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk has shown that advancing years are no barrier to an open mind and liberal attitude. After watching television images of gay marriages in San Francisco, the 81-year-old monarch has decided...

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First The War, Then The Revolution?

BREMER: On the question of the Peshmerga, let me address it as a somewhat broader question relating to militia and armed forces that are not under the control of the central government. We have...

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Halliburton: Burn & Loot

Halliburton?s construction-and-engineering subsidiary … Brown & Root was part of a consortium of four companies that built about eighty-five per cent of the infrastructure needed by the Army during the Vietnam War. At the...

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Invisible Dead

By refusing to make public its estimates of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has undercut international support for the US campaigns in those countries and has made the postwar stabilization of...

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Paradise On Earth

Rikers Island sits in the East River at the opening of Bowery Bay. Once it was small and bucolic and green, an 87-acre patch of land owned since 1664 by a family of early...

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Same Donkey, Different Blanket

It’s bad enough if your parents make a suprise visit when you’re say, away at College. But how would you handle it if your Mum popped up in the middle of Iraq when you’re...

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In a Western Town, A Dead End World

On bad days Toby said he worked as a “pipette bitch.” … Supposedly Toby was at the center of an economic revolution in biotech. The most-wanted jobs of the new millennium were in genomics;...

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Great Green Gouts

I got the flu. This was bad, but not unprecedented. What I was not prepared for was a secondary bacterial infection that turned me into a lean green snot-producing machine. Thankfully, this state of...