1. Gilad Shalit: The Grand Illusion
(Newsletter)

... investigative journalist Pratap Chatterjee, author of the new book Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War. CONTINUE... GATES vs. Ge...

2. Tax Cut Zombies From the Planet No
(Opinions/Humor)

...Nightmare on Wall Street. The Return of the Son of the Bride of Frankenstein's Social Security Meltdown. The Texas Oil Profits Chainsaw Massacre. The Night of the Living General Accounting Office Esti...

3. Halliburton's Army
(Opinions/Daily)

... investigative journalist Pratap Chatterjee, author of the new book Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War. Pratap Chatterjee on "H...

4. Is it karma when 'Voodoo Christians' pray up the wrong storm?
(Opinions/op-ed)

...real. I don't believe God stirred up Katrina in order to smite gays, just as he never spun out Rita to smite Texas oil companies, so please eschew Voodoo Christianity. I will never believe the weather...

5. Ken Lay's Alive!
(Opinions/Politic)

...the lights dim -- exactly how much they had to invest to keep the juice flowing.   But then, in 1992, a Texas oil man, George H.W. Bush, ordered to evacuate the White House by two-thirds of the U...

6. Was the Invasion of Iraq A Jewish Conspiracy?
(Opinions/Politic)

... long distance from mainstream Jewish views, armed only with Leo Strauss’ silly aphorisms, were no match for Texas oil majors and OPEC potentates with a combined throw weight of half a trillion barrel...

7. Gouging? What Gouging?
(Opinions/Humor)

...re to help. Let me go through this one more time. Stay with me. Its not that complicated. The President is a Texas oilman. His father is a Texas oilman. His vice president is an oilman who shoots Texa...

8. US counts the cost of Hurricane Ike
(Archived/News/S+T)

The US state of Texas is expected to be left with a repair repair bill of at least $8bn after Hurricane Ike, now weakened to a tropical storm, flooded coastal towns, cutting power lines and paralysing

9. Global oil prices soar
(Archived/News/Economy)

World oil prices have risen to their highest levels since December as traders focused on weakening US energy stockpiles and shrugged off declines in global equity markets.

10. Oil-for-food scandal: Korean convicted
(Archived/News/Global)

A South Korean businessman has been convicted of conspiracy for accepting at least $2 million to secretly act as an agent of Iraq to influence the United Nations' oil-for-food programme.