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  • 25 Mar 2009
    Activists step up Iraq oil fight against UK and US takeover

    Campaigners will today intensify their battle against the US and Britain handing control over Iraq’s oil to corporations in a landmark conference for the occupied country’s civil society.

  • 24 Feb 2009
    Norwegian bishop's oil moratorium call excites debate

    Some Norwegian church leaders want a five-year moratorium on oil and gas exploration on Norway's continental shelf in the North Sea, in particular off the Lofoten archipelago in the Arctic Circle.

  • 1 Nov 2007
    Choosing between human rights and oil

    It is wrong that "rules of law, human affairs and democracy are cast aside to worship a barrel of oil" said Mark Thomas in protesting about the Saudi state visit to the UK.

  • 29 Aug 2007
    Sudan church leaders concerned over Darfur oil-war link

    Sudan Christian leaders are concerned that the country's oil wealth, previously used by the government in the north of the country to fuel a 21-year war in the south, is again being used for war purposes, as well as government attempts to solve the Darfur crisis.

  • 25 Jan 2007
    Poorest left trailing as companies exploit commodity prices, says report

    Poor people in mineral-rich developing countries are missing out on the benefits of higher commodity prices while large transnational oil and mining corporations make record profits, a new report says.

  • 14 Jan 2007
    Absurdity as the Theatre of War

    “Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day”, remarked Albert Camus, the existentialist philosopher of life in the face of the absurd. An atheist himself, he also once challengingly declared: “What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.” You don't get more theological than that.