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Key Stories From Around the World October 22, 2005 Who was Rafik Hariri, and who was behind his assassination? - by Mohamed Hassan (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 21, 2005 Agriculture facing its own Katrina - by Jimmy Westerfeld (read this story) Hurricane Wilma Is Most Powerful Storm in Atlantic History - by Willie Drye (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 20, 2005 Global warming, in capsule form - by David Roberts, Gristmill (read this story) World Temperatures Keep Rising With a Hot 2005 - by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post (read this story) Waiting for the lights to go out - The Sunday Times (read this story) The growing cost of growing wheat - by Andy Porter, Union-Bulletin (read this story) Fertilizer Costs Soar; Farmers Face Tough Decisions (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 19, 2005 As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound - by Clifford Krauss, Steven Lee Myers, Andrew C. Revkin And Simon Romero With comments by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Satellite destroyed after Russian rocket launch - by CNN.com With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) White House Watch: Cheney resignation rumors fly - by Paul Bedard With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 18, 2005 Residential Natural Gas Prices (CA) (read this story) Higher natural gas bills will start hitting California in October - by Michael Liedtke, AP (read this story) Fearing Heat Costs, Many Take Preventive Action - by Pam Belluck And Sarah Kershaw, New York Times (read this story) Genuine Elections - by Ron Resnick (read this story) First case of bird flu confirmed in Greece - by CTV.ca (read this story) The Avian Flu Fright is Politically Timed - by Dr. Leonard Horowitz With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 17, 2005 State utilities to waive reconnection fees - by Mary Wisniewski, Chicago Sun Times With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Play Financial Craps At Your Own Risk - by Devvy Kidd, NewsWithViews.com (read this story) Bird flu strain confirmed in Turkey - by CNN (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 14, 2005 Run over: Delphi may cost GM $11B - Automaker owes union members at former unit; newspaper says plant closings, job cuts coming. - by CNN (read this story) Big oil getting desperate: Making oil with nuclear energy - by Jerome a Paris (read this story) Rita and Katrina knock more than £400m off BP's third-quarter profit - by Terry Macalister (read this story) RBA warns of 'meltdown' - by David Uren, The Australian (read this story) US warns millions in aid at risk if Nicaragua ousts president - Duncan Campbell, Guardian With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Flood relief efforts hit problems - BBC News With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 12, 2005 Global: Pondering Delphi - by Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley With comments by Michael C. Ruppert and Stan Goff (read this story) Oil hits $64 - Crude prices move higher on winter energy supply fears and IEA's outlook on global demand. With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Land of Make Believe - by James Howard Kunstler (read this story) Interior Secretary Gale Norton Reports on Gulf of Mexico Energy Status (read this story) Greenspan Concerned About Risky Mortgages - by Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 11, 2005 It's time to take seriously a US-led global recession - by Lau Nai-keung, China Daily With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Delphi files for bankruptcy - by David Bailey With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) As Delphi Goes, So Goes G.M.? - by Micheline Maynard (read this story) When Bankruptcy Becomes Personal - by Michelle Singletary (read this story) GM stock tumbles on Delphi news - by Money.cnn.com (read this story) A Doozie of a Recession - by Stephen Pizzo, News for Real (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 10, 2005 Witness to 1918 flu: 'Death was there all the time' - 98-year-old man recalls pandemic that killed millions - by Kelley Colihan, CNN With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Pretext for more martial law: bird flu - by Larry Chin, Online Journal (read this story) Bush: Military may have to help if bird flu breaks out - President wants Congress to discuss how to use armed forces (read this story) Martial Law and the Avian Flu Pandemic - by Michel Chossudovsky (read this story) Experts Unlock Clues to Spread of 1918 Flu Virus - by Gina Kolata, The New York Times (read this story) From frozen Alaska to the lab: a virus 39,000 times more virulent than flu - by Ian Sample, The Guardian (read this story) Bird flu jumps transmission barrier in humans, Tom Clifford (read this story) Hurricanes destroyed 109 oil platforms: US government - by Agence France-Presse With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World October 5, 2005 Chavez: Venezuela Moves Reserves to Europe With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Report: Rigs take record hit from Rita - Damaged, lost rigs used for exploration may delay discovery of new global oil supplies, paper says. With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) No easy fix for Rita-damaged oil works - Report: Problems getting workers, helicopters, equipment slowing repairs to offshore production. (read this story) New satellite observations show sea ice in the Arctic is melting faster, while air temperatures in the region are rising sharply, scientists said. - by Cnews (read this story) America Be Wary of the New Silk Road - by William O. Beeman, Asian Week (read this story)
October 4, 2005 GOVERNMENT, FINANCIAL, AND POLITICAL AWARENESS OF PEAK OIL PRIOR TO 2005 - FIVE RULES FOR SURVIVAL OF THE COMING COLLAPSE -- (A Speech for the New York Petrocollapse Conference - October 5, 2005) - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Summary Here Subscribers Read Full Story Here
Key Stories From Around the World October 3, 2005 Investigators: 'Ready-made' victims killed - by The Associated Press With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
September 30, 2005 The September 30th newsletter is available in Adobe PDF format September 30th Newsletter (848k PDF)
Key Stories From Around the World September 30, 2005 "We could be looking at $10-a-gallon gas this winter." - by Jeanne Klobnak-Ball (read this story) Credit-card delinquencies hit record - Pain at the pump is a major factor, according to the American Bankers Association. - By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN/Money (read this story) Fuel price hike provokes riots in Indonesia - By Chris Brummitt (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World September 29, 2005 We can do this the nice way ... or the nasty way - by Larry Elliott, The Guardian With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Project delays 'drive up prices' - by Carola Hoyos With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) High prices not only at the pump - by Nate Jenkins, Lincoln Journal Star With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Open letter to Daniel Yergin on optimism and addressing Peak Oil seriously - by Clyde Simkins, Energy Bulletin (read this story) Arctic Could Be Ice-Free By Century's End... 500,000 Extra Square Miles Melted This Year - by Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times (read this story) DOE Releases Climate Change Plan - by RenewableEnergyAccess.com With comment by Michael Kane (read this story) Saudis warn region is on brink of war - Crisis Threatening A Regional War - by Joel Brinkley, The Age (read this story)
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Key Stories From Around the World September 28, 2005 Rita damages Chevron platform, several rigs missing - by Deepa Babington (read this story) U.S. Bars Robert Fisk From Entering Country (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World September 27, 2005 Russia ’s Largest Oil Producer Lukoil Opens Office in China - by MosNews With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Station owner snubs Lukoil - by Sue Robinson, Courier-Post (read this story) Greenspan to French finmin: US lost deficit control - by Paul Carrel With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World September 26, 2005 Crude oil prices rise after Rita - Oil prices have risen as the industry continues to evaluate the damage caused to facilities in the Gulf of Mexico by Hurricane Rita. - by BBC News With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
September 23, 2005 Biodefense Program in Galveston, TX Sacrifices Research for Public Safety - By Jamey Hecht, PhD Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World September 22, 2005 Historic changes possible in military's role in domestic emergencies, by AP (read this story) Rita could equal $5 gas - The timing and strength of the latest storm could cause worse spike at the pumps than Katrina did. - by By Chris Isidore, CNN/Money (read this story)
September 21, 2005 RITA: Storm May Be the Coup de Grace for the American Economy and Many of Us As Well - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World September 21, 2005 'Get Off The Fucking Freeway': The Sinking State Loots its Own Survivors - by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth, GNN With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Peak Oil and Japan's Food Dependence - by Andrew DeWit With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World September 20, 2005 Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans - by Ryan Parry, Mirror.co.uk (read this story) Oil Facilities in Gulf Defenseless Against Katrina's Fury - by ABC News With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Global warming 'past the point of no return' - by Steve Connor, Independent.co.uk With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Experts Foresee More Katrinas - Brace for more hurricanes, say experts - by Agence France-Presse (read this story) ACORE Previews Phase II Policy for Renewable Energy - Regional Roundtables Held in 12 Cities - Press Release from American Council On Renewable Energy With comment by Michael Kane (read this story) Western refineries spurning sulphurous Saudi oil - by Carl Mortished, Times Online UK (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World September 19, 2005 Bush pledges nation's help for Gulf Coast - Federal government to lead rebuilding, president says - by CNN With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Vanishing U.S. Wetlands: Report to Show 11,000 Acres of Wetlands in 15 States Opened Recently to Development By Army Corps Of Engineers - by Environmentalintegrity.org (read this story)
September 16, 2005 Background on the Los Angeles Blackout - FTW Gets New LA Department of Water and Power Chief on Tape Less Than a Month before Los Angeles Blackout - by Michael C. Ruppert More Insight into What Is Facing America's Cities with Peak Oil and Gas Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World September 16, 2005 Did global warming power Katrina? (read this story) Displaced oil workers get new homes (read this story)
September 15, 2005 BLOCKING THE GRETNA BRIDGE - Racism and Resource Scarcity May Be Siamese Twins in a Post-Petroleum World - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World September 15, 2005 Katrina, New Orleans, and Peak Oil - by Richard Heinberg With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Crossing the Rubicon: An Interview with Michael Ruppert - by Rob Williams With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Rep McKinney Special Order Censored? - by Rep Cynthia McKinney (read this story)
September 13, 2005 NEW ORLEANS AREA BIOWEAPONS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH LABS JEOPARDIZED BY KATRINA - by Michael C. Ruppert Tulane’s National Primate Research Center Reports No Release of Nearly 5,000 Test Monkeys or Disease Agents – Other NOLA Defense or Research Projects Involve HIV, SIV, SARS, Herpes-B, Anthrax, Botulism, Measles, West Nile and Mousepox No Confirmed Information on Other NOLA Level-3 Labs Involved in Bioweapons Research – At Least One Lab Reportedly Compromised Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World September 13, 2005 U.S. won't ban media from New Orleans searches, CNN filed suit for right to cover search for bodies of Katrina victims With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Fewer Bodies Than Expected Found in Sweeps - Authorities in New Orleans Say Fewer Bodies Than Expected Have Been Found After City-Wide Sweep - by Don Babwin, The Associated Press (read this story) Government simulation: 61,290 deaths - Planners looked at what could happen if a Category 3 hit (read this story) New Orleans a 'ghost town' for 9 months - by Geoffrey Lean and Andrew Gumbel (read this story) Bodies Are Strewn 'Like Roadkill' - by Scott Gold and Alan Zarembo, Times Staff Writers (read this story) Worker error kills power to half of L.A. - by CNN (read this story) Rolling blackouts in Southern California - As many as half a million people affected (read this story) Joel McNally: Politicians let Big Oil use Katrina to pillage public - by Joel McNally, The Capitol Times (read this story) Gas higher as U.S. scrambles for fuel - by Janet McBride (read this story) Some Ways to Prepare for the Absolute Worst - by Damon Darlin, The New York Times (read this story)
** Mike Ruppert Interviewed at Solfest ** Last month FTW's Mike Ruppert delivered a keynote speech at Solfest, an annual Northern California event promoting sustainable living and organic agriculture. He gave a lengthy interview to radio journalist Sue Supriano which you can now hear by clicking here. Mike made some interesting observations about the US economy just weeks before Hurricane Katrina. September 12, 2005 The Demise of Business as Usual - An Apollo Project For Energy Can Succeed, But Not In A Market Economy - by Thomas L. Wayburn, PhD Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World September 12, 2005 Duty Binds Officers Who Have Gone to Help After Storm - by Al Baker With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Japan's Rivalry With China Is Stirring a Crowded Sea - by Norimitsu Onishi And Howard W. French, New York Times (read this story) Water crisis looms as Himalayan glaciers melt, by CNN (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World September 9, 2005 Mexican troops cross into U.S. for hurricane relief, by CNN.com With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) The Peak-Oil Crisis: The Storms of August - by Tom Whipple, FCNP.com With comment by FTW (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World September 8, 2005 Energy protests rock Jamaica - by CNN.com (read this story) IN KATRINA'S WAKE Morticians prep for 40,000 bodies - by Worldnetdaily.com (read this story) Recovery of Bodies Could Take Up To Four Months; 40,000 Feared Dead - by D.L. McCracken (read this story) Gulf Oil Production Faces High Hurdles After Hurricane Katrina (read this story) Saudi Arabia urges Opec to cover shortfall in crude - by Javier Blas, Financial Times (read this story) Further fuel protests threatened - by BBC (read this story)
September 7, 2005 THE DANGER OF IRAQI PARTITION: An update on the progress of the Energy War - by Stan Goff "The greatest impediment to a political solution to post-invasion Iraq is not some cauldron of inter-ethnic rivalry. It is the politico-military distortion produced by the American occupation." Read Now September 6, 2005 GREEKS BEARING GIFTS - Paul Krugman at the New York Times and Clinton FEMA Director James Lee Witt Leading America Into the Next Slaughter - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now September 6, 2005 Renewables PART III - Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Wall Street - by Michael Kane Mike Kane enters the heart of the establishment and finds big investors, CIA men, and the descendents of presidents discussing renewable energy. Where will it lead? Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World September 6, 2005 Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans - By Joseph R. Chenelly, Army Times (read this story) New Orleans police break out of their 'Fort Apache' - by Michael Christie (read this story) Troubles Travel Upstream Farmers in the Heartland Aren't Sure Their Crops Will Make It Through for Export - by Caroline E. Mayer and Amy Joyce, Washington Post (read this story) FOCUS - Oil prices at 100 usd/barrel no longer unthinkable in wake of Katrina - by Bernice Han, Agence France-Presse (read this story) Katrina's growing economic impact - Gas prices only tip of the iceberg, as deadly storm will affect real estate, trade, heating costs. - by Chris Isidore, CNN/Money (read this story) Bodies Are Strewn 'Like Roadkill' - by Scott Gold and Alan Zarembo, Times (read this story) Bush faked levee repair for photo op yesterday - by John in DC (read this story) New Orleans a 'ghost town' for 9 months - by Geoffrey Lean and Andrew Gumbel (read this story) New Orleans mayor fears CIA to take him out - Nagin says he has been yelling at governor, president - by WorldNetDaily.com (read this story) The Not-So-Gradual Collapse Of Empire - by Carolyn Baker, Online Journal (read this story) Iran Oil Ministry Evaluates Crude-Oil Flow After Blasts - By Sally Jones, Dow Jones Newswires With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Katrina's Gulf of Mexico Wreckage May Spark $100 Oil - by Bloomberg News (read this story) Offshore Rigs, Platforms Damaged in Storm - by Steve Quinn, Associated Press (read this story) To See It Coming Is Not Enough - by Marc Fisher, Washington Post (read this story)
September 2, 2005 You Bet Your Life - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World September 2, 2005 U.S. oil firms examine Katrina damage - by Reuters (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World September 1, 2005 Airlines Cancel More Flights, Prepare for Possible Fuel Shortages - by Harry R. Weber, AP (read this story) Shortage looms if jet-fuel disruption not fixed soon - by Dan Reed, USA TODAY (read this story)
September 1, 2005 OIL SHOCKWAVE: Torrance, CA Emergency Simulation Targets Big Business and Local Government Managers - by Zac Evans and Michael C. Ruppert Read Now Soundbite - Listen here. (Real Media) ** FTW ANNOUNCES STAFFING CHANGES ** As of August 31, 2005 FTW’s Science Editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer is no longer with From The Wilderness. Due to his success in bringing Peak Oil and gas issues to the public consciousness and as a successful novelist, FTW can no longer afford to pay Dale what he is worth on the open market and what he can command in other spheres. Dale has also expressed his desire to write in subject areas outside of FTW’s current needs. FTW Publisher/Editor Mike Ruppert expresses his deep personal gratitude to Dale for the groundbreaking and unacknowledged pioneering research and reporting he has done over the last four years at FTW. Said Ruppert, “Dale may have saved more lives than history will ever acknowledge, but we know it, Peak Oil activists know it, and God knows it. We wish him and his family all the best.” As of August 31, 2005 Jamey Hecht moves from Assistant Managing Editor at FTW to the position of Senior Staff Writer where he will investigate and write critical survival and preparedness-based stories in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the onset of Peak Oil. August 31, 2005 The August 31st newsletter is available in Adobe PDF format August 31st Newsletter (658k PDF)
Key Stories From Around the World August 31, 2005 Energy Secy Bodman: U.S. to tap Strategic Pete Reserve, CNBC - by Michael Baron With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Experts: $4 a gallon gas coming soon - by Grace Wong, CNN/Money (read this story) Wind, water and oil - by The Baltimore Sun (read this story) New Orleans Is Now Off Limits; Pentagon Joins in Relief Effort - by Joseph B. Treaster and Maria Newman, New York Times (read this story) Hurricane 'will force consumers to reduce fuel use' - by Peter Klinger and Adam Sage, The Times Online UK (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 30, 2005 MARTIAL LAW DECLARED: Situation Deteriorating - by CBS News (read this story) Hurricane could turn city into toxic cesspool - by The Associated Press (read this story) Is Global Warming Fueling Katrina? - by Jeffrey Kluger (read this story) MIT Hurricane Study: Global Warming 'Pumping Up' Destructive Power - by Insurance Journal (read this story) Global warming will bring fiercer hurricanes (read this story) Another Storm Casualty: Oil Prices - by Jad Mouawad and Simon Romero, New York Times (read this story) Republicans accused of witch-hunt against climate change scientists - by Paul Brown, Guardian (read this story) Greenspan: End of home boom inevitable (read this story)
August 29, 2005 The Dollar, the U.N., and the U.S. - Right-Wing Populists Still Fear the Wrong Thing - by Jamey Hecht with comment by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now Related story: China, Africa Dictators Link Rings Alarms - by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Foxnews.com (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 29, 2005 Katrina cuts oil output by a third With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Monsoons pushing India death tolls - by CNN / AP With comment by FTW (read this story) Oil surges over $70 as Katrina churns through Gulf - by Paul Marriott, Reuters(read this story) Blast hits oil well in Iraq's Kirkuk field - by Michael Georgy, Reuters (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 24, 2005 China's Kazakh prize: The expert opinion - by Jeff Moore, Asia Times With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Chinese oil company to buy Canadian firm for $4.2B - by USA Today (read this story) Riding Down the Curve: How Cities Can Survive the Energy Crisis (Peak Oil, Part III) - by By Ryan McGreal With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 24, 2005 China's Kazakh prize: The expert opinion - by Jeff Moore, Asia Times With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Chinese oil company to buy Canadian firm for $4.2B - by USA Today (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 23, 2005 Lawsuit filed against Rumsfeld: Cruel Confinement of 'Enemy Combatant' in the United States - by Human Rights Watch (read this story) Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Threatens US-German Relations With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) World Turning Its Back on Brand America by Kevin Allison (read this story) Uncle Sam wants you - even if you're 42 years old With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) The Oil Effect (read this story) Protests cripple Ecuador oil output (read this story) 'Peak oil' issue piques interest - by Cathy Proctor, The Denver Business Journal With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) The Breaking Point - by Peter Maass, New York Times (read this story) EMINENT DOMAIN NIGHTMARE - by Jonathan O'Connell "The U.S. Supreme Court recently found that the city's original seizure of private property was constitutional under the principal of eminent domain, and now New London [Connecticut] is claiming that the affected homeowners were living on city land for the duration of the lawsuit and owe back rent. It's a new definition of chutzpah: Confiscate land and charge back rent for the years the owners fought confiscation." (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 20, 2005 Attackers Fire Missiles at U.S. Navy Ship in Jordan - By Jamal Halaby, AP (read this story) "The U.S. Has Lost the Iraq War" (Commentary No. 167, August 15, 2005) by Immanuel Wallerstein (read this story)
** Book Review - Climate Crash ** A Lesson in Humility - by Michael C. Ruppert Read it here
Key Stories From Around the World August 17, 2005 Standing on the Shoulders of Perjury Law - by Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 16, 2005 Termination of the fossil-fuels society - by Jan Lundberg (read this story) Deadly bird flu found across Asia - by Shaoni Bhattacharya, NewScientist.com With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Top Shiite Politician Joins Call for Autonomous South Iraq - by Edward Wong (read this story) Past the Peak - by R. V. Scheide (read this story) Bush raises option of using force against Iran - by Reuters (read this story) Airline screening hassles may be cut - by CNN.com (read this story)
** FTW ALERT ** C-SPAN will be broadcasting the entirety of the Rep. McKinney congressional briefing on 9/11 Click here for details August 12, 2005 IRAN, LONDON, WARGAMES AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS - by Michael C. Ruppert with comment by Jamey Hecht Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World August 11, 2005 Patenting a Pig - by Paul Harris With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Warming hits 'tipping point': Siberia feels the heat - by Ian Sample, The Guardian (read this story) Worst Midwest drought in years is wilting crops - by Scott Kilman, The Wall Street Journal (read this story) Monsanto's Big Deal - by Karl Beitel and Nick Parker (read this story) Thar's Uranium in Them Thar Hills - by Jeff Rice With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 10, 2005 Canada to develop a no-fly list - by CNN With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Radio tag testing at Canadian border crossing - by Associated Press (read this story) U.S. Threatens to Pull Venezuela Drug War Certification - Reactions to Venezuelan Government’s Split with the DEA - by Dan Feder, Special to The Narco News Bulletin (read this story) 'Credible' threats led to U.S. closures in Saudi Arabia - by Elise Labott, CNN Washington Bureau (read this story) Soldier's mom digs in near Bush ranch - Senator sees 'echoes of Vietnam' in vigil to meet president With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Kerr-McGee selling its North Sea assets - By Oil and Gas Journal editors With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Saudi Oil and the World Economy - by The Washington Post (read this story) Shortages Stifle a Boom Time for the Solar Industry - by Chris Dixon (read this story) Crude oil prices hit new record - by Gillian Wong (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 10, 2005 Radio tag testing at Canadian border crossing - by Associated Press (read this story) U.S. Threatens to Pull Venezuela Drug War Certification - Reactions to Venezuelan Government’s Split with the DEA - by Dan Feder, Special to The Narco News Bulletin (read this story) 'Credible' threats led to U.S. closures in Saudi Arabia - by Elise Labott, CNN Washington Bureau (read this story) Soldier's mom digs in near Bush ranch - Senator sees 'echoes of Vietnam' in vigil to meet president With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Kerr-McGee selling its North Sea assets - By Oil and Gas Journal editors With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Saudi Oil and the World Economy - by The Washington Post (read this story) Shortages Stifle a Boom Time for the Solar Industry - by Chris Dixon (read this story) Crude oil prices hit new record - by Gillian Wong (read this story)
August 9, 2005 Rovegate (part 2 of 2) By Jim DiEugenio, Special to From the Wilderness In this keen assessment of the burgeoning scandal called "Plamegate" -- echoing Watergate, which it increasingly resembles -- Jim DiEugenio finds guilt in high places. Read Now Read FTW's previous article "Coup D'etat" here: Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World August 8, 2005 Humans Dying of Pig Disease a Concern - by Margie Mason, AP Medical Writer (read this story) Falling out of love: Brazil 's affair with China is going off the boil - by The Economist With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Flu could infect half world's people in year - WHO in talks to stockpile antiviral drugs in case of global outbreak - by Ian Sample (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 5, 2005 Former lobbyists charged in Pentagon probe - by CNN.com With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
August 5, 2005 A HALF-TRUTH IS STILL A LIE - by Michael C. Ruppert Read Now
Key Stories From Around the World August 3, 2005 Oil Shock - by Sean Brodrick, Whiskey & Gunpowder With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) CNOOC Withdraws $18.5B Bid for Unocal - by Michael Liedtke With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Washington Politics Shock Chinese - by Paul Maidment (read this story) Scientists puzzle over oddities along Pacific coast - Dead birds, fewer fish, drop in plankton cause concern - by CNN.COM With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Climate change may be fueling storms - Global warming is a probable cause of a dramatic upswing in the power of hurricanes, according to a new study. - by Martin Merzer (read this story) Hurricane outlook worsens - by CNN.COM (read this story) Prince Turki, former head of Saudi intelligence, becomes Saudi ambassador to US - by Larry Chin, Online Journal (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 2, 2005 World Not Set To Deal With Flu - Strategy for Pandemic Needed, Experts Say - by David Brown, Washington Post (read this story) H5N1 spreading among humans? Epidemiology in Vietnam raises the possibility of human-human spread - by Katherine Schlatter (read this story)
Key Stories From Around the World August 1, 2005 Saudi King Fahd dead - CNN.COM With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Luis Posada Carriles Denied Bond - by Bill Weaver and Irasema Coronado, Narconews.Com With comment by Jamey Hecht (read this story) Posada Carriles deportation case turns into Bay of Pigs sparnfarkel - by Bill Conroy, Narconews.Com (read this story) The Peak Oil Crisis: A Mid-Summer Review - by Tom Whipple, The Falls Church News-Press (read this story) Prosecutor In CIA Leak Case Casting A Wide Net - By Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei, Washington Post With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story) Uzbekistan Evicts U.S. From Air Base - by Robert Burns, AP With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)
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| The Draft
Part One Will The US Reopen The Draft? Close Analysis by a Military Expert Says "Yes" ... And Soon by Stan Goff | Part Two Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide New Treaties and Technologies Limit Choices ... And Soon by Michael C. Ruppert