STWR - Share The World's Resources

We therefore need to create an institution imbued with sovereign powers to develop the massive fuel sources in the Arctic Circle- a necessary and far-reaching step based on enhanced global co-operation,says Jeffrey Garten.

The task is nothing less than reclaiming water as a commons for the earth and all people that must be wisely and sustainably shared and managed if we are to survive - and this will not happen unless we are prepared to reject the basic tenets of market-based globalization, writes Maude Barlow.

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.

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.