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Agyeman & Ogneva-Himmelberger, eds., Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union MIT Press, 2009

Crude Accountability

A number of post-Soviet states are bent on exploiting their natural resources to drive their economies. This has momentous implications both for natural environments and for environmental justice struggles. Kate Watters and Susie Crate describe the efforts of communities and indigenous people to address environmental degradation caused by extractive operations and nuclear tests.

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Michael Klare

In Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, Michael Klare argues that a global political realignment of historic proportions is under way, based on ever-more-intense competition for reliable energy supplies. Klare describes emerging Big Power alliances and rivalries in energy-rich sites like the Caspian basin and Africa. (Holiday encore presentation.)

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George Caffentzis, No Blood For Oil! Energy, Class Struggle, and War, 1998-2004

The impact of oil exploitation on residents of the Niger Delta is explored in Curse of the Black Gold, which features the photos of Ed Kashi. Kashi describes social misery as well as grassroots resistance to the designs of Big Oil and the Nigerian government. George Caffentzis is encouraged by an emerging emphasis on petroleum as common property.

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CounterPunch

Chronicling attacks on our natural environment is a long-time specialty of veteran journalist Jeffrey St. Clair, whose book Born Under a Bad Sky also documents a vigorous green resistance. He and Joshua Frank have co-edited the volume Red State Rebels, which supplies true stories of resistance and rebellion in regions often dismissed by progressives.

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Colin Duncan, The Practical Equivalent of War? Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics

Colin Duncan, The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996

Twentieth century civilization is about to collapse, argues Colin Duncan, because of the imminence of rapid and vast climate change. The environmental historian believes a mass collective project must arise to plan a necessary transition to a new sustainable society. Also, Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute describes oil exploration and extraction in Alberta's tar sands.

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Rick Wolff, "Economic Blues" MRZine

Richard Wolff & Stephen Resnick, New Departures in Marxian Theory Routledge, 2006

Home prices plummeting; stock markets reeling; fuel and food prices spiking. Radical economist Rick Wolff explains why busts have followed booms, and who or what is responsible. Also, Jeff Conant and Gopal Dayaneni discuss the new book A Community Guide to Environmental Health, and specifically its section on oil.