Multinational Monitor

SEP/OCT 2007
VOL 29 No. 4

FEATURES:

Ecuador's Oil Change: An Exporter's Historic Proposal
by Kevin Koenig

Fueling Another Debt Crisis
by Neil Watkins

The Best Congress Oil Could Buy
by Steve Kretzmann

A Call for Global Economic and Energy Transitions

Sin and Society II
by Edward Alsworth Ross

INTERVIEWS:

Bolivia Asserts Oil Sovereignty
an interview with Carlos Villegas

Causes of Soaring Oil Prices
interviews with oil industry analysts

Can Big Oil Adapt to Climate Change?
interviews with oil industry analysts

DEPARTMENTS:

Behind the Lines

Editorial
Independence from Oil

The Front
CAFTA and the Politics of Fear - Whistleblowers Betrayed

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Greed At a Glance

Commercial Alert

Names In the News

Resources

Resources

Mailing List

Search

Editor's Blog

Archived Issues

Subscribe Online

Donate Online

Links

Send Letter to the Editor

Writers' Guidelines

HOME

Organizations

Oil Change International
2228 12th Place, NW
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.priceofoil.org

Jubilee USA Network
212 East Capitol Street, NE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.jubileeusa.org

Amazon Watch
One Hallidie Plaza, Suite 402
San Francisco, CA 94102
E-mail: [email protected]
www.amazonwatch.org

Christian Aid
35 Lower Marsh
London SE1 7RL
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.christianaid.org.uk

Friends of the Earth
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036-2002
E-mail: [email protected]
www.foe.org

Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ran.org

Bank Information Center
1100 H Street, NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: [email protected]
www.bicusa.org

Earth Track
2067 Massachusetts Avenue,
4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02140
E-mail: [email protected]
earthtrack.net

Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)
Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.seen.org

Public Citizen’s Energy Project
215 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.citizen.org

Earth Economics
1121 Tacoma Avenue
South Tacoma, WA 98402
E-mail: [email protected]
www.eartheconomics.org

Acción Ecológica
Alejandro de Valdez N24 33 y Av. La Gasca
Quito
Pichincha
ECUADOR
www.accionecologica.org

Center for American Progress
1333 H Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: [email protected]
www.americanprogress.org

International Energy Agency
9 rue de la Fédération
75015 Paris
FRANCE
E-mail: [email protected]
www.iea.org

Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting (FAIR)
112 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
E-mail: [email protected]
www.fair.org

Organic Consumers Association
6771 South Silver Hill Drive
Finland, MN 55603
www.organicconsumers.org

International Forum on Globalization
1009 General Kennedy Avenue, #2
San Francisco, CA 94129
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ifg.org

Amigransa
E-mail: [email protected]
www.geocities.com/RainForest/5304/
amigrans.htm

Oilwatch
13, Agudama Avenue D-line
P.O. Box 13708
Port Harcourt
NIGERIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.oilwatch.org

Africa Action
1634 I Street, NW, #810
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: [email protected]
www.africaaction.org

Environmental Rights Action
P.O. Box 10577
Ugbowo
NIGERIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.eraction.org

CEE Bankwatch Network
Jicinska 8
Praha 3, 130 00
CZECH REPUBLIC
E-mail: [email protected]
www.bankwatch.org

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ipcc.ch/index.htm

REDOIL
Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ienearth.org/community_profiles.html

Project on Government Oversight
666 11th Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20001
E-mail: [email protected]
www.pogo.org
Democracy Center
Casilla 5283
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.democracyctr.org

Amazon Alliance for Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the Amazon Basin
1367 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.amazonalliance.org

Greenpeace
702 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
E-mail: [email protected]
www.greenpeace.org

EarthRights International
1612 K Street, NW, #401
Washington, DC 20006
www.earthrights.org

Center for Economic
and Policy Research
1611 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cepr.net

Food & Water Watch
1616 P Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.foodandwaterwatch.org

Alliance for Responsible Trade
P.O. Box 5206
Hyattsville, MD 20782
www.art-us.org

Commercial Alert
P.O. Box 19002
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.commercialalert.org

Publications

The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia
By Benjamin Dangl
Oakland: AK Press, 2007

Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal
Hegemony and Popular Resistance
By Benjamin Kohl
and Linda Farthing
New York: Zed Books, 2006

Crude Chronicles:
Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
By Suzana Sawyer
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004

Indians, Oil, and Politics:
A Recent History of Ecuador
By Allen Gerlach
New York: SR Books, 2003

American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
By Kevin Phillips
New York: Penguin, 2007

Where Vultures Feast:
Shell, Human Rights and Oil
By Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas
New York: Verso, 2003

Crude: The Story of Oil
By Sonia Shah
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004

Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
By Richard Heinberg
Gabriola Island, BC:
New Society Publishers, 2004

Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
By Lisa Margonelli
New York: Nan A. Talese/
Random House, 2007

Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth
By Matthew Yeomans
New York: New Press, 2006

Oil Wars
Edited by Mary Kaldor,
Terry Karl and Yahia Said
London: Pluto Press, 2007

Poisoned Wells:
The Dirty Politics of African Oil
By Nicholas Shaxson
Hampshire, UK:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Escaping the Resource Curse
Edited by Macartan Humphreys,
Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz
New York: Columbia University Press, 2007

"The Climate of Poverty: Facts, Fears and Hope"
By John McGhie et. al.
London: Christian Aid, 2006

"Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific - The Threat From Climate Change to Human Development and the Environment"
By John Magrath
Boston: Oxfam International, 2007

Crude Interventions: The U.S., Oil and the New World (dis)Order
By Garry Leech
New York: Zed Books, 2006

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction
By Terry Tamminen
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006

Stern Review on the Economics
of Climate Change
By Nicholas Stern
Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2007

Manifesto on Global Economic
Transitions
San Francisco: International Forum on Globalization and the Institute for Policy Studies, 2007
www.ifg.org/store.htm