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For the past eight years, Jennifer L. Turner has been director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. She received her Ph.D. in public policy and comparative politics from Indiana University in 1997.

Mark Mills is the co-author (with Peter Huber) of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy.

Whether or not you agree with the stated reasons for launching the Second Iraq War, how the war has been managed, or George W. Bush’s plan to send an additional 21,500 U.S. soldiers to Iraq, one thing is abundantly clear: the conflict has done tremendous damage to the United States.

Molly Ivins was a uniter, not a divider.

She spoke truth to power but she did it with joy and humor. And that’s what set her apart from all the other pundits, politicos and various hangers-on who have waded into the political/publishing game.

Oil prices may be falling, but hold off the cheering. Yes, cheaper oil leads to cheaper gasoline, and that’s good for America.

As 21,500 more young Americans begin deploying to Iraq on President Bush’s orders, U.S. troops there are facing an escalating threat from improvised explosive devices.

Hugo Chavez hasn’t always hated the U.S. And here’s photographic proof – in the form of a snapshot that’s readily available on the U.S. Department of Defense’s media Web-site.

Texas Observer

The ultimate crony is back on center stage. James A. Baker III, the single most powerful and most recognized non-elected politico in the U.S. has emerged again to play power politics And once again, Baker is using his influence to hoodwink the American people.

Dear Nancy: Here’s Your Energy To-Do List

Richard Smalley called it the “terawatt challenge.” In the months before his too-early death from cancer last year at age 62, the 1996 Nobel Prize winner was the world’s foremost energy evangelist.

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Venezuela, and Iran are key members of OPEC. But over the next few years, they are going to have to make way for Qatar, the smallest member of the cartel.

Since 1973 and the first Arab oil embargo, the U.S. has been in fear of another embargo. And that fear has been fed a steady diet of hyperbole by American neoconservatives like James Woolsey and others who frequently talk about the need for the U.S. to develop alternative fuels, like ethanol, to decrease its foreign oil dependence.

If the Second Iraq War was, in fact, about oil, then one thing is clear: we’ve lost.
In 1991, America won its first oil war in the Persian Gulf.