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Posts Tagged ‘petropolitics’

The axis of oil

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on August 19, 2025 | 1 Comment »

There are three main hypotheses explaining Donald Trump’s eagerness to please Vladimir Putin. The first is “conspiratorial”: that Putin has something over Trump, related perhaps to the Steele dossier, Trump’s real estate shenanigans, the KGB’s long-term efforts to cultivate Trump as a “Russian asset,” or maybe even the Epstein files (Trump and Putin do, after […]

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Shake-up in oil country

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on May 7, 2015 | 4 Comments »

There is a lot being said about the unexpected rout of the long-ruling Progressive Conservative government in the oil-rich Canadian province of Alberta by the socialist New Democrats. Some of it (on the left) is euphoric and over the top — which is understandable given the seemingly helpless state of the left across much of North […]

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How to stop a pipeline

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on November 8, 2014 | 1 Comment »

More information here and here. Not all Wet’suwet’en agree. See here and the video here.

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Winona LaDuke at UWS3

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on September 12, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Winona LaDuke’s talk (at Under Western Skies 3) was, as always, powerful and empowering. Here are some quoteworthy lines from it. “I’ve lived my entire life in the fossil fuel era. I’d like a graceful exit out of it.” “I want to be able to walk out of my teepee into a Tesla.”

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