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Is Chinese Big Oil Going to Destroy Ecuador's Amazon?

To oil and gas companies, the Amazon rainforest is one huge cash cow just begging to be milked. But anyone who'd rather not rid the world of 30 percent of its animal species would probably argue it's a region that shouldn't be destroyed by rich people. Full story

Mem'ries: Fighting Fires in a Burning Kuwaiti Oil Field

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, he set in motion a political conflict that resulted in a devastating man-made environmental catastrophe. He had sworn that if he was "evicted from Kuwait by force, then Kuwait will be burned," and it turned out he wasn't kidding. The Ku… Full story

Greg Palast

Vaya Con Dios, Hugo

"It's a chess game, Mr. Palast," Chavez told me. "And I am a very good chess player." When it comes to class war on a chessboard, even in death, I wouldn't bet against Hugo Chavez. Full story

Greg Palast

Hugo Chavez Told Me He Won't Sell Oil to the Kochs

I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2,000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians, and reason in its path. It's called the XL Keystone Pipeline. Full story

Tanked

It will take four months and 500 workers to dismantle the erstwhile Exxon Valdez. Full story

SeaFox: Wargames, Meet Watersports

U.S. sends a submersible SeaFox drones to pacify subsurface Iranian mine threats. Full story

Picture Perfect

Chloe Dewe Mathews

Picture Perfect travels to Azerbaijan with Chloe Dewe Mathews to take a closer look at how the Caspian region is re-defining itself in the wake of new oil wealth and a free reign on their future. We document as she photographs the region and the people who live on and around the Full story

Oil Rigged

Why do we keep giving slick handouts to the world's richest companies? Full story

Phone Call from Lagos

Another Blue Monday in Lagos

President Goodluck Jonathan is ironically named for Nigeria's angry Occupiers. Full story

I Was Uday Hussein

A Stand-In Speaks

The hand that rocks the oil pumps controls the world. Between 1979 and 2003, that hand was Saddam Hussein's. He would also use it to sign death warrants on dissenters, to murder his own countrymen, and to plot disastrous wars with neighboring countries. Full story