CounterPunch Oil Wars on the Horizon | Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have been fought every decade or so since World War I, an... (photo: AP / Abd Raouf)
Al Jazeera Without question: US military expansion in the Asia-Pacific | As Noam Chomsky wrote in this two-part essay, America's "pivot" toward the Asia-Pacific region is in response to what it calls "classic security dilemmas" posed by the rising influence of China and ... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shawn D. Torgerson)
