CounterPunch Oil Wars on the Horizon | Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have been fought every decade or so since World War I, an... (photo: AP / Abd Raouf)
Al Jazeera A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC | Goldman Sachs - via economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 - invented the concept of a rising new bloc: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, later, South Africa). Some cynics couldn't help calling i... (photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz)
