STWR - Share The World's Resources

The electrification of poor, rural communities will mean a more equitable distribution of the gains from globalization – ultimately giving the poor a voice in national or international decision-making processes, write Adriana Valencia and Georg Caspary.

Georgia's disastrous attack on South Ossetia has given Russia a perfect excuse to roll back US control of Azerbaijan's oil supply, argues Dilip Hiro.

The geopolitics of oil concerns a strategy of maximum extraction by any means possible, presenting multiple global threats - and the crucial challenge facing humanity of weaning the world from its excessive dependence on fossil fuels, writes John Bellamy Foster.

With oil supplies peaking in the coming years and uranium following a similar path, the weight of humanity's needs will increasingly fall on coal - and our salvation lies in finding a way back to the pre-ICE era, writes Dilip Hiro.

The relentless demand for raw materials will lead to the destruction of the world’s forests - and result in a global land grab that will leave millions of forest people impoverished and homeless, a new study warns.

U.S. presidential candidates need to seriously discuss the role of oil in the Iraq invasion, even if they cannot acknowledge what it really constituted - a supreme international crime, writes Noam Chomsky.

Twenty-eight years since the Carter Doctrine was established, the time has come to demote petroleum and stand down the troops, writes Michael T. Klare.