The recent appointment of Islamic Revolutionary Guards veteran Rostam Ghasemi as Iran’s new petroleum minister is not only the Islamic Republic’s latest poke in America’s eye but it is also harbinger of things to come with respect to Iran’s petro-politics.
President Obama had good reasons to welcome spring with a high profile energy policy address. The first anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig is just three weeks away. The President surely knows that this anniversary will
Several weeks ago riots rocked Ivory Coast after its longtime leader Laurent Gbagbo was removed from power. For chocolate lovers Ivory Coast is an important country as it produces one third of the world’s cocoa. Indeed, cocoa prices spiked as
A female journalist was sexually and brutally assaulted by a gang of 200 Egyptians in Tahir Square. What does the terrible personal tragedy of Lara Logan tell us about “modern” Egypt and more broadly about the Arab culture? The most
What should the new Congress do to address America’s energy security challenge? First, insure America against the next oil shock. America is still mired in a recession yet oil, the commodity that lubricates its economy, is already at $90 a
The three-month oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been a stark reminder of one of the intangible costs of the transportation sector’s near total dependence on oil. But if there was some hope that from this disaster would
When the founding fathers declared our independence, they could not have imagined that, 234 years later, our nation would be so spectacularly dependent on a market dominated by countries fundamentally hostile to America, some implicitly and some explicitly, for something