Saudi Arabia to increase oil supply, Saudi opinion, and the Iraq Security Agreement

By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, June 23, 2008
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, June 22 — Saudi Arabia on Sunday promised to increase oil production as needed while Western countries agreed to improve the transparency and regulation of financial markets, signaling a readiness from oil-producing and oil-consuming nations to make concessions and work together to tackle [...]

Big Oil Companies Gain No Bid Contracts in Iraq

Oil Companies Negotiating with Iraq with no-bid contracts

From the New York Times:
Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American [...]

Project Censored - Keeping the Mainstream News Honest

Here is a great resource discovered on digg.com - Project Censored from Sonoma State University.

Check out their site, which has the endorsement of Walter Cronkite - “Project censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcast outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.”
Here is [...]