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The stability or otherwise of the Delta matters a great deal, even to those who have never heard of it. Within a decade, the United States expects to extract around a quarter of its oil from the Gulf of Guinea. They see it as a safer option than the Middle East, and it has played a large part in the thinking behind the establishment of the US's Africa Command – a plan for a series of permanent military bases on the continent.

Tags: delta niger nigeria petroleum industry

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THE NIGER DELTA: NO DEMOCRATIC DIVIDEND

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:56:00 -0000

Tags: csr international petroleum industry business

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bnarchives - The Scientist and the Church

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:23:55 -0000

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In their article, the authors advance a supposedly new explanation for the wars in the Middle East.

Much of their explanation – including both theory and fact – is plagiarized. It is cut and pasted, almost ‘as is,’ from our own work. The primary source is ‘The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition,’ a 71 page chapter in our book THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ISRAEL (Pluto 2002). The authors also seem inspired, incognito, by our more recent papers, including ‘It’s All About Oil’ (2003), ‘Clash of Civilization or Capital Accumulation?’ (2004), ‘Beyond Neoliberalism’ (2004) and ‘Dominant Capital and the New Wars’ (2004).

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Much of their explanation – including both theory and fact – is plagiarized. It is cut and pasted, almost ‘as is,’ from our own work. The primary source is ‘The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition,’ a 71 page chapter in our book THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ISRAEL (Pluto 2002). The authors also seem inspired, incognito, by our more recent papers, including ‘It’s All About Oil’ (2003), ‘Clash of Civilization or Capital Accumulation?’ (2004), ‘Beyond Neoliberalism’ (2004) and ‘Dominant Capital and the New Wars’ (2004).

Tags: watts bichler nitzan academia

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Memo From Somalia - Anarchy-Cursed Nation Looks to Bottom-Up Rule - NYTimes.com

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:37:25 -0000

Yet another article about Africa that uses terms like "cursed," "hopeless," "state of nature," and makes only superficial note of external intervention.

Tags: somalia instability conflict us ethiopia

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The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:34:19 -0000

Tags: chad cameroon petroleum development industry

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World Hunger Notes -- Making Sense of Chad by Alex de Waal

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:13:48 -0000

Tags: dewaal chad instability sudan opinion

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Oil Industry at the Heart of the Zaghawa Power Struggle in Chad

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:21:36 -0000

Tags: international security zaghawa us intervention

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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:52:22 -0000

Tags: africa extractive energy industry petroleum

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