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Archives: Petroleum
![Trump & Saudi Arabia: Oil Boycott or Bromance?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/trump-saudi-arabia-oil-boycott-o-187x137.jpg)
![All of Putin’s / Trump’s Men](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/all-of-putins-trumps-men-187x137.jpg)
All of Putin’s / Trump’s Men
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The NYT has broken the story that several Trump associates are under investigation by the FBI for their contacts with Russian intelligence and…![Taking Iraq’s Oil](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/taking-iraqs-oil-187x137.jpg)
Taking Iraq’s Oil
By Edward Hunt | (Foreign Policy in Focus | Originally published in Lobelog. Trump wants Iraq's oil, and he's not interested in sharing. The leaders of the United States have provided many…![Trump Signs Executive Orders Pushing Dakota, Keystone Pipelines](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trump-signs-executive-orders-pus-187x137.jpg)
Trump Signs Executive Orders Pushing Dakota, Keystone Pipelines
TeleSur | - - The decision comes as a blow to environmentalists and Indigenous groups opposing the controversial projects. U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to revive the controversial Dakota…![Climate Activists fear Tillerson, Call him Out for Lying About Warming During Hearing](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/climate-activists-fear-tillerson-187x137.jpg)
Climate Activists fear Tillerson, Call him Out for Lying About Warming During Hearing
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - 'Listening to his hearing, it would be easier to conclude Tillerson is under criminal investigation than under consideration for secretary…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/image-20170108-18659-1fbqo3l-187x137.jpg)
Exxon’s Rex Tillerson and the rise of Big Oil in American politics
Brian C. Black | (The Conversation) | - - “How Big Oil Bought the White House and Tried to Steal the Country” is the subtitle of a book that tells the story…![Trump mires us in carbon Swamp with fossil cronies in key roles](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/trump-mires-us-in-carbon-swamp-w-187x137.jpg)
Trump mires us in carbon Swamp with fossil cronies in key roles
The Tree | (Content for Climate Communicators) | - - Instead of draining the swamp as promised, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is doing the opposite, appointing powerful fossil fuel executives and dirty…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/rtl2-1-187x137.png)
Trump’s Sec of State pick Tillerson chief of US-Russian Oil Company in Tax Haven
By Jon Queally, staff writer | Commondreams.org | - - Leaked documents show Trump's nominee for Secretary of State is director of subsidiary based in Bahamas Documents leaked to a German newspaper…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/klarepbk2012-180x137.jpeg)
Trump’s plan to drown World in Oil is a Planetary Nightmare
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Scroll through Donald Trump’s campaign promises or listen to his speeches and you could easily conclude that his energy policy consists…![Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/is-bruited-sec-of-state-tillerso-187x137.jpg)
Is Bruited Sec. of State Tillerson allied with Iran & at war with Iraq?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A couple of years ago an oil tanker showed up off the Texas coast with cargo from Iraqi Kurdistan. The problem? Iraqi Kurdistan…![In the shadow of Trump, a DAPL Victory and Global Protests against Fossil Fuels](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/in-the-shadow-of-trump-a-dapl-vi-187x137.jpg)
In the shadow of Trump, a DAPL Victory and Global Protests against Fossil Fuels
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The surprise announcement Sunday by the Army Corps of Engineers that they will not permit the Dakota Access Pipeline to go under the…![Too bad, Trump: As EVs take off, Dirty Petroleum’s Death Spiral has Begun](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/too-bad-trump-as-evs-take-off-di-187x137.jpg)
Too bad, Trump: As EVs take off, Dirty Petroleum in Death Spiral
The Tree | - - The renewable energy revolution is now well underway, but many continue to underestimate just how fast and transformative it is going to be. Despite a conservative approach…![Does Turkey’s Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/does-turkeys-erdogan-dream-of-ne-187x137.jpg)
Does Turkey’s Erdogan Dream of Neighboring Mosul?
By Lucy DerTavitian | (Informed Comment) | - - The battle over Mosul appears to have ignited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s expansionist Ottoman era fantasies. He gained a few more adversaries…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/mi_50m_800-741x960-187x137.jpg)
DAPL: This Thanksgiving, Time to Listen to Native Americans again on Climate & Survival
Revised and updated. By Juan Cole | --- The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a harvest festival in 1621,…![N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/n-dakota-judge-laughs-riot-charg-187x137.jpg)
N. Dakota Judge Laughs Riot Charges against Amy Goodman out of Court
TeleSur | - - A state prosecutor had sought to charge Goodman with participating in a "riot" for filming an attack on protesters. A North Dakota judge has dismissed the "riot" charges…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/2-1-4-surface-1-187x137.png)
Hurricane Matthew a Herald of Man-Made Climate Change
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - If your tv isn't telling you the below, turn it off and read more Informed Comment columns instead. Hurricane Matthew is unusually strong,…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/countthedeadturse-1-180x137.jpg)
Native American Rights and Health versus Pipeline Cowboys
By Chip Ward | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Americans who don’t live in the West may think that the historic clash of Native Americans and pioneering settlers is long past…![Native American Resistance Camp Fights Oil Pipeline](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/native-american-resistance-camp-187x137.jpg)
Native American Resistance Camp Fights Oil Pipeline
AJ+ | (video News Report) - - "We take you inside the resistance camp in North Dakota that's protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, a 1,170-mile oil pipeline project that has been halted.…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/klarepbk2012-180x137.jpeg)
Why we’re addicted to Fatal Oil, even when Costlier than Solar
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Here’s the good news: wind power, solar power, and other renewable forms of energy are expanding far more quickly than anyone…![Why you can’t explain the Iraq War without mentioning oil](http://web.archive.org./web/20170329140052im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/why-you-cant-explain-the-iraq-wa-1-187x137.jpg)