Energy
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The Middle East and Fossil Capitalism: Oil, Militarism and the Global Order
10 November 2025 - by Adam Hanieh
For more than a century, the Middle East has been central to the making of the contemporary world order. Today the region is the world’s largest exporter of oil, and its vast reserves have shaped the rise of fossil capitalism and the unfolding (…) -
SOUTH AFRICA
New World Bank loan puts corporate power over people
8 November 2025 - by Amandla
The AIDC notes with deep concern the World Bank’s approval of a $1.5 billion loan to South Africa. This loan is not an act of charity from a benevolent international institution. The choice to pursue this foreign financing is a political choice (…) -
Oil Jabber heard in Dubai: Our top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28
16 December 2023 - by Patrick Bond, Desmond D’Sa
The most publicised sentence from the final COP28 document – the first ‘Global Stocktake’ (GST), presided over by oil man Sultan Al-Jaber and co-managed by South Africa’s environment minister Barbara Creecy – is this objective: “Transitioning (…) -
How the BRICS+, Africa Climate Summit, G20 and UN Prepare Us for Planetary Arson
Summary In the months prior to the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference (hosted in Dubai), summits held by global, ‘multipolar’ and continental-African elites are worthy of consideration in part because their (…) -
Frying in France
18 July 2023 - by Michael Roberts
As I fry in record temperatures in the south of France, the concept of a short sunny vacation away from the vagaries of British weather has evaporated. The world endured the hottest week ever recorded between 3-10 July this year. And (…) -
The cost of living and profits
14 July 2023 - by Michael Roberts
The latest employment report from the OECD is a real eye-opener on the cost of living crisis and whether wage rises or profit rises have been the biggest contributor to the rise in inflation. On wages, the OECD finds that real wages have fallen (…) -
French fossil imperialism, South African subimperialism and anti-imperial resistance
15 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract As protest against TotalEnergies stretching from South Africa’s Cape coastline to eastern Uganda rises, the main Big Oil target of African climate activists is facing an historic choice. It can continue long-standing patterns of (…) -
Who is Financing Fossil Fuel Expansion in Africa?
28 November 2022 - by Urgewald
Africa, an Eldorado for the development of new fossil projects that benefit others. As COP 27 was taking place in Egypt, a new report from the NGO Urgewald pointed to the very high level of fossil fuel projects on the continent. TotalEnergies (…) -
In South Africa, resistance rises to the World Bank’s climate-killing mega-projects
16 October 2022 - by Patrick Bond
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings have witnessed protests in Washington and many other sites. Nearly 100 protesters from community, environment and youth groups joined Extinction Rebellion and the DebtForClimate.org (…) -
Energy, cost of living and recession
5 September 2022 - by Michael Roberts
The G7 governments have a problem. The war in Ukraine against Russia is not won. It looks set to be a long grinding conflict, possibly with no end. And yet the world and particularly Europe depends on Russian energy supplies. The G7 has (…)
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