July 08th 2008 — Aside + Link + Quote — Leave a Comment
Bill Moyers, one of the last journalists alive in the United States, has a biting and brief indictment of American petrocracy at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS [VIDEO].
Oh no, they told us, Iraq isn’t a war about oil. That’s cynical and simplistic, they said. It’s about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator [...]
November 12th 2007 — Quote + Text — Leave a Comment
Naomi Klein, author of the now-bestselling “Shock Doctrine” wrote in the Guardian:
On a recent visit to Calgary, Alberta, I was taken aback to see my book on disaster capitalism selling briskly at the airport. Calgary is ground zero of North America’s oil and gas boom, where business suits and cowboy hats are the de facto [...]