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Financial Times Quotes Flynt Leverett on Bush Speech and ISG Report

January 11, 2007

President George W. Bush, setting out his new strategy for Iraq on Wednesday night, appeared set to ignore the advice of allies and the Baker-Hamilton commission by pursuing a policy of isolating and containing Iran and Syria, and by refusing to accept any linkage with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Iran and Syria were warned not to fuel the sectarian and insurgent violence in Iraq, with the president signalling in a hardline speech on Wednesday night that the US was prepared for possible military intervention against their activities....

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Washington Times Quotes Flynt Leverett on 'Axis of Oil'

January 11, 2007

The United States must face the fact that most of the world's energy resources are in the hands of powerful states such as Russia, Iran and Venezuela that are increasingly hostile to U.S. interests and consumers, analysts and senators said yesterday.

Partly because of fumbled foreign relations by the United States, an "axis of oil" is developing outside of U.S. influence that encompasses Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, among other giant energy producers and consumers.

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Flynt Leverett Comments on 'Axis of Oil' in The Washington Post

January 10, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' role as dominant global military and economic power hinges on secure access to crude oil, but U.S. politicians who call for "energy independence" are shouting into the void, experts told a U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday.

The U.S. economy will continue to rely on crude oil imports -- which currently account for more than half the nation's oil consumption -- panelists said at a hearing before the Senate Energy Committee on global oil supplies...

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CNN Interviews Afshin Molavi on the Rise of Dubai

January 4, 2007
JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Building dreams in Dubai. A tiny synthetic city-state has transformed itself and is now literally changing the landscape around it, making its own new world out of oil money and ambition.

Hello and welcome...Joining us now to talk about it is the author of that "National Geographic" piece, former Reuters correspondent based in Dubai, Afshin Molavi, now of the New America Foundation...Let me ask you first of all, Dubai does not have all that much oil compared to its neighbors. So where's all the money coming from?
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