What if India and China are no longer hostile parties but cooperative players in the geopolitical arena? The union of the two economic powers in Chindia is playfully suggested in a new Bollywood film, but there's more than fantasy behind the idea.

Low oil prices in one part of the world, like the United States, mean that such oil-producing countries as Venezuela and Iran are going to have to pay for it.

The war between Georgia and Russia -- framed as a territorial dispute -- is really struggle between Russia and the West over Caspian Sea oil and natural gas.

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Oil has far surpassed $100 a barrel. The oil production in Iraq, once meant to pay for the war, is far from doing that. Meanwhile, China and India's rise has come with booming energy needs. NAM interviewed Michael T. Klare, author of "Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy."

When most Americans seek to extricate US forces from the fighting in Iraq as swiftly as possible, George W. Bush is constructing a new rationale for intervention whose logical conclusion is not withdrawal but possibly involving attacks on Iran.

Oil and other resources make Africa a new frontier for the U.S., Europe and emerging powers like China and India. Will the competition for African resources produce conflict, or new opportunities for co-operation?

The old Cold War theaters of Europe and the Far East are being replaced in strategic importance by the Persian Gulf basin, where the desires of Russia, China and the United States for oil, security and geopolitical advantage could collide.

The stated reasons for war on Iraq can be boiled down to three phony assertions, writes PNS contributor Michael Klare, who examines each in turn and offers one real reason for the rush to war.

The US is fighting two wars at the present time: a small war aimed at the capture of Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, and a larger one aimed at the consolidation of American power in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Terrorism is a tactic, not a cause or any single organization. The United States will not strike all terrorist groups in its "war against terrorism," but only those that threaten American interests in the Persian Gulf.

All proposals on energy from the Bush Administration share the idea of increasing supply. This is not only unrealistic, but will entail costs we can never pay.

All the fingers being pointed in blame over California's power crisis -- at the state, the utilities, natural phenomena -- are pointed in the wrong direction.

Growth and prosperity, expansion and new technology, all translate into unprecedented demand on natural resources. Unless international bodies come up with equitable methods for sharing what we have, some particularly bitter contests seem likely.