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Lawrence Solomon: Quarantining Alberta oil
(April 25, 2013) Environmentalists are successfully ring-fencing the province. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Oil, Pipelines, Tar Sands
Tagged Alberta, Climate Change, energy self-sufficiency, environmentalists, Global Warming, Keystone, Obama, oil sands, pipelines, tar sands, United States
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Lawrence Solomon: The Romney boom
(September 3, 2012) Romney would make good his pledge of energy self-sufficiency and lift the blanket of insecurity stifling the U.S. economy. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
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Lawrence Solomon: Free global gas prices
(March 23, 2012) There is a silver bullet for lowering gas prices: a return to a free market in gasoline. Continue reading
Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Pipelines
Tagged energy, energy independence, fracking, gas, gas prices, gas tax, gasoline, gasoline prices, Lawrence Solomon, Obama, road tolls, U.S. Politics
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Lawrence Solomon: New battle over Mediterranean gas
The Middle East has moved north, with the Mediterranean emerging as home to some of the world’s richest deposits of energy. And as in the Middle East, rights to resources will be settled less by law than by force, or by the threat of force. Continue reading
Posted in Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Tagged Cyprus, EEZ, energy, Exclusive economic zone, Greece, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Mediterranean Sea, Natural gas pipeline, Turkey
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A Voice From the Harem
(April 13, 2009) This article from the archieves of the New York Times describes a first-hand recounting of the life of a Turkish slave girl and argues for the abolition of slavery in Turkey. Continue reading
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Horrible Traffic in Circassian Women—Infanticide in Turkey
(April 13, 2009) In the early 1860s, after Russian conquest of their region of the Caucasus, nearly half a million Circassians migrated to Turkey. Many Circassian women, prized for their beauty, were sold into slavery. This article, which originally appeared in a London newspaper, describes this slave economy in detail, including the speculation that the unwanted children of African slaves and Turkish masters were disposed of by infanticide. Continue reading
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Obama’s missed opportunity
(Apr. 11, 2009) No country on Earth is more responsible for the abolition of slavery than the United States of America. Continue reading
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Obama’s missed opportunity
(April 11, 2009) He could have told the Turks of America’s role in ending the universal scourge of slavery. No country on Earth is more responsible for the abolition of slavery than the United States of America. Continue reading
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Text of Obama’s Speech to Turkish Parliament
(April 6, 2009) PRESIDENT OBAMA: Mister speaker, madam deputy speaker, distinguished members, I am honored to speak in this chamber, and I am committed to renewing the alliance between our nations and the friendship between our people. Continue reading
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No boom yet
(January 26, 2003) Halifax, Nova Scotia — The harbor of this Atlantic city has seen warships, slave ships and ships of commerce. Now, increasingly, titanic drilling rigs are calling here, igniting Canada’s dreams of an economic boom fired by natural gas. Continue reading
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