tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65802443674451740482026-08-13T09:14:14.143-07:00The End of Money: a critique of paying, owing and working "for a living"Why must we pay to live on the planet we're born on?Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-55204151097037236512009-12-24T11:28:00.000-08:002009-12-24T11:29:35.870-08:00Energy, Politics and the US Role in Uganda’s Culture War http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/284407 Uganda's oil, and gay death penalty, may rival Saudi Arabia's Posted Dec 24, 2009 by ■ Ann Garrison Reprinted with the author’s permission. Oil reserves as large as Saudi Arabia's may soon embolden Ugandan officials who've been threatening to punish homosexuals with death, just as independently oil wealthy Saudi Arabia does. U.S. Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-62920632633582987312009-10-26T12:12:00.000-07:002009-10-30T22:25:47.657-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda[Originally published in December, 2004 in Online Journal]
Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda
By Larry Everest
Common Courage Press; ISBN 1-56751-246-1
392 Pages, $19.95USD
Review by Kellia Ramares
The U.S. government has mustered a dizzying and often shifting assortment of
“reasons” for invading and occupying Iraq. At one time or another—sometimes in theKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-53359240193322660702009-10-19T20:40:00.000-07:002009-10-30T22:29:16.760-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in AgricultureEating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture
By Dale Allen Pfeiffer
New Society Press
ISBN 0865715653
125 Pages, Paperback
by Kellia Ramares
[This review was originally published in Online Journal on December 1, 2006]
At just the point when agriculture was running out of unexploited tillable lands, technological breakthroughs in the 1950s and 1960s allowed itKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-28314626394238613762009-10-19T20:30:00.000-07:002009-10-30T22:30:46.308-07:00ARCHIVE: Book Review: Crude: The Story of Oilby Kellia Ramares
[This review was originally published in Online Journal on April 2, 2007]
Crude: The Story of Oil
By Sonia Shah
Seven Stories Press
ISBN 1-58322-625-7
232 Pages, Hardback
Crude is the tenth book related to oil that I’ve read and reviewed. As you can expect, a certain amount of material in these books is old hat to me by now; the names of some of the experts cited, andKellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.com0