Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

The price of oil cartoon from Hack Cartoons.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

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Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The rising price of crude oil is connected to a lack of global refinery capacity, changing demand and good old traditional geopolitics. Why would a group of countries want to make their major economic asset cheaper, just to us please our domestic users?
Click the picture, or go straight to Channel 4 from here, for the animated cartoon.
Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

The former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Alan Greenspan, for 18 years probably the second most-powerful man on the planet,* admits what the whole world knew to be true. The invasion of Iraq was really about control of oil supplies.
Link from The Times.

* after Dick Cheney.

We are getting close to the opening of Birds of War - a collaborative exhibition about the experience of civilians in Iraq since the invasion of 2003.

There's some terrific stuff on the website and I know the exhibition, opening on April 11th, is going to be excellent.

Birds of War

And here is an old Birds of war drawing of my own.