Oil, spoils, and perpetual war
By Mike Mizzi It was Winston Churchill who first realised the importance of the Middle East’s oil fields during the evolution of the British Royal Navy’s ships from coal to diesel engine technology. As...
View ArticleThe end of the House of Saud?
By Mike Mizzi Recent reports have it that there is a family feud going on in the House of Saud in Arabia. The Huffington Post reports that King Salman is possibly on his death bed and a letter leaked...
View ArticleQatar: the new kid on the block in the Middle East
By Mike Mizzi An old Arab motto goes something like this: “The young son against the elder brother, the elder brother against the father, the daughter against the mother, the family against the clan...
View ArticleRisking it all – BP and the Great Australian Bight
This week a Senate inquiry was announced to investigate BP’s proposal to search for oil in the Great Australian Bight off South Australia. The oil giant wants to drill four deep-water exploration wells...
View ArticleDystopian Reality – a Climate Change Future
A Climate Change Future Predicting the future is a no-win scenario. There are so many variables that virtually anything is possible. Futurism inevitably becomes a matter of balancing likely outcomes...
View ArticleThe Cancer of Capitalism
By Christian Marx Capitalism by its very definition is exploitative. It relies on winners and losers. At its most basic definition it can be defined as the exploitation of an individual or group of...
View ArticleDystopian Reality – a Climate Change Future
A Climate Change Future Predicting the future is a no-win scenario. There are so many variables that virtually anything is possible. Futurism inevitably becomes a matter of balancing likely outcomes...
View ArticleThe Cancer of Capitalism
By Christian Marx Capitalism by its very definition is exploitative. It relies on winners and losers. At its most basic definition it can be defined as the exploitation of an individual or group of...
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