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2005

Sunday´s
Opinion

 

Message of his holiness Pope Benedict XVI
For the celebration of the World Day of Peace

AFP/Torsten Blackwood

Children on Dolphin Point overlooking Coogee Beach watch the early New Year's Eve fireworks display for families in Sydney.

1 January 2006In Truth, Peace- story

Urbi et Orbi message of his holiness
Pope Benedict XVI Christmas 2005

AP Photo Pier Paolo Cito

Pope Benedict XVI waves to pilgrims and faithful after delivering his ''Urbi et Orbi'' message (Latin for ''to the city and to the world'') from the velvet-draped loggia of the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, Dec. 25, 2005. - story

Religion and Science

By Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - story - previous articles

How to Win in Iraq

By Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.- story

Chávez’s clean sweep

From The Economist Global Agenda - story

Information And Oil Markets

By Walid Khadduri

The Early Scene- story

 

Resources to Reserves: Oil And Gas
Technologies For Future Energy Markets

By International Energy Agency (IEA) - story

The US And The Security Of Oil And Gas Supplies
By Francisco Parra - story

Solutions for Grandeur
By Marc Perelman - story

CFR's Sweig: 'War of Words' Between Washington
and Chavez Continues to Escalate
By The Council on Foreign Relations- story

Shaping The Energy Future: The Role Of Saudi Arabia
By Ali Naimi - story

FP interview with Matthew Simmons: Seven Questions:
The Future of Oil
By Foreign Policy - story - previous articles

Issam Al-Chalabi: What Is Happening To Iraqi Oil?

Carlos Sabino/Bolivia: Natural Gas and Demagoguery

Foreign Relations' Council Chairman Peter G.Peterson
in a Conversation with Vicente Fox Quesada - Article

ABC News' Ted Koppe Interview Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan President On Rocky Relations with Washington- Article

Orimulsion the best way to monetise the Orinoco's Bitumen
By Carlos Rodriguez - Article

Oil Prices Hikes In Perspective
By UNCTAD- Article - Previous articles

Venezuela: a Launch Pad for Muslim Extremism?
By Gary Leupp - Article - Previous articles

The Breaking Point

By Peter Maass - Article

Iraq: Oil Plans and Policy
By Tariq Shafiq - Article

I Better Stay
By Democracy and Development - Article

To sow the oil, 1961 the validity of a slogan
By Arturo Uslar Pietri - Article

An energy answer in our own backyard
By Lynn J. Cook - Article

The Military Take a Leading Role
By Democracy and Development - Article - Previous articles

Ecuador - Oil Companies’ Links With Military Revealed
By Bolívar Beltrán and Jim Oldham - Article - Previous articles

The Chavez-Bush Rift
By Democracy and Development - Article

The hidden hypocrisy that drags down Bolivia

By Gonzalo Sanchez Lozada - Article

 

 

Get ready for the last oil wars
By Andrew McKillop - Article

Oil and Social Expenditures

By Democracy and Development - Article

 

Enhancing The Efficiency And Transparency
Of The International Oil Markets

By John Gault - Article

 

OPEC fulfilling its commitments but refining
and shipping bottlenecks keep oil prices on boil
By 'Ali al-Yabhouni - Article

Revolution and the Economy

By Democracy and Development - Article

OAS Shooting the Wounded in Ecuador

By Marcela Sanchez
Special to washingtonpost.com - story

O.A.S. to Pick Chile Socialist
U.S. Opposed as Its Leader

By Larry Rother
The New York Times - story

 

The Environmental Cost of Coal Mining in Venezuela, By Robin Nieto - story

Bernard Mommer: The Value Of Extra-Heavy Crude Oil From The Orinoco Belt

David J. Rothkopf : Inside the Committee that Runs the World

Democracy and Development: Chavez’s Response to New Catastrophes - previous articles

Democracy and Development: Fidel Castro: Pathriac of the Region

Herman Franssen:The end of cheap oil: Cyclical or structural change in the global oil market?

Japan’s Energy Policy And Energy Security

Democracy and Development: Venezuela: A Review 1999-2004

Democracy and Development:The muzzle act is a fact

 

2004

Rising to the New Year: The New York Times - January 1, 2005 - Editorial

The Saudi Syndrome: The New York Times - Editorial January 1, 2005 - Editorial

The story of Christmas : By Saint Luke - story

The Birth of Jesus : By Jon Meacham - story

Democracy and Development: The Spiral of Violence - Full Article

 

Democracy and Development:The Spiral of Violence

Juan Carlos Boue / MEES: PDVSA’s Refinery Acquisition Program: A Shareholder’s Perspective

Democracia y Desarrollo: The New Phase of the Revolution

Andrew McKillop: Oil price trends through 2004-2010

Øystein Noreng:Norway: Economic Diversification And The Petroleum Industry

MEES: Alan Greenspan: Technology key to more oil supplies in the future

Andrew McKillop:Energy Transition and Final Energy Crisis

Andrew McKillop: Demographic Oil Demand and Peak Oil

MEES: Lukoil Seeks West Qurna Development/ Iraq Debt Deal

John W. Schoen : How long will the world's oil last? - story

MEES: Rodriguez on turbulent relations between PDVSA and Venezuelan government

John W. Schoen: How long will the world's oil last?

Andrew McKillop: Oil prices: Fiscal folly begins at fifty-five

Bassam Fattouh: The Investment Challenge For Oil Producing Countries

Venezuela Today: The frustrated referendum

John Maxwell: Is there oil in Haiti?

Alvaro Vargas Llosa: Next Steps in Venezuela

Mary Anastasia O`Grady : Why the EU Skipped the Chavez Vote

Mary Anastasia O`Grady: Observers Rush to Judgment
Jimmy Carter gets rolled--first by Fidel Castro, now by Hugo Chávez.

Democracy and Development: The Recall Around the Corner?

Phil Gunson: Venezuela: A Latin Enigma

By Democracy and Developmen: Chávez fears losing the RR

Juan Forero: Chávez taps Venezuela's petroleum windfall

Ryan Lizza: TNR`s CAMPAIGN JOURNAL: Havana John

Democracy and Development: International Observers

Ross Gelbspan:Toward A Global Energy Transition

Walid Khadduri: Iraq's Oil Industry: The Endemic Problem

Oil and Gas Journal : Trinidad and Tobago banks its future on natural gas -Prev.articles

Democracy and Development: Now or Never!- Full article

The Pragmatist - MEES-Full article

The last chapter of the RR -Full article -Prev.article

Russia's oily future: overcoming geology, not ideology,
will become Moscow's greatest challenge By Moises Naim -Full article

A State Plot Vs. the Recall -Full article

Carlos Coello: The passion of Chavez -Full article -Prev.article

The Recall [RR] in the Supreme Court - Full article

Venezuela - Chavez Obstruction of the Presidential Recall Referendum The Chavez Presidency-Background - Full article -Prev.article

OILWATCH: Position on the annual meeting of IDB governors.- Full article

The Electoral Coup - Full article

Washington and Paris overthrow Aristide- Full article

The recall (RR) and Fidel’s wrong advise- Full article

The way of the cross of the recall- Full article

The way of the cross of the recall - Full article

Maneuvers by Chávez - Full article

The right government for Venezuela's transition 2004-2006 By Gustavo Coronel - Full article -Prev.article

Taking a page out of Cuba's book hardly wise- Full article -Prev.articles

The Monterrey Summit- Full article

Venezuelans get sacrificed in blame game Full article -Prev.articles

A Castro-Chávez Tête-Á-Tête -Full article -Prev.articles

Hydrocarbon Upstream opportunities in Venezuela: Up-and-coming projects and investment alternatives -Full article -Prev.articles

 

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