Now at last it's time for Shell to atone for my father's death

The son of the executed activist faces the oil giant in a human rights trial this week. He seeks understanding rather than retribution.

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Big oil profiteert

Exxon Breaks Own Profit Record with $14.8B 3rd Quarter

Shell profiteert van piek olieprijs


Kwartje van Kok


Het is niet alleen de overheid, en niet alleen big oil. Beiden profiteren samen. Van u.

Een practische oplossing.

Evo Morales dwingt Shell Bolivia te verlaten - goed nieuws voor het Boliviaanse volk

Onder de kop “Bolivia geeft Shell een schijntje”, implicerend dat het arme oliebedrijf op een onrechtvaardige manier wordt afgezet door dat socialistische tuig in Bolivia, meldt Trouw goed nieuws uit het Zuid-Amerikaanse land.

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At Last, Some Truth About Iraq and Afghanistan

PARIS – After a sea of lies and a tsunami of propaganda, the ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally emerged into full view this week.

Four major western oil companies, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP and Total, are about to sign US-brokered no-bid contracts with the US-installed Baghdad regime to begin exploiting Iraq’s oil fields. Saddam Hussein had kicked these firms out three decades ago when he nationalized Iraq’s foreign-owned oil industry for the benefit of Iraq’s national development. The Baghdad regime is turning back the clock.

Meanwhile, according to Pakistani and Indian sources, Afghanistan just signed a major deal to launch a long-planned, 1680 km long pipeline project expected to cost $ 8 billion. If completed, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline (TAPI) will export gas and, later, oil from the Caspian Basin to Pakistan’s coast where tankers will transport it to the west.

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