Iraqi oil agreement reveals true winners
Mother Jones
by James Ridgeway
03/01/07
The Iraqi oil deal set to go before the country’s parliament next month could spell the end of the country as a nation state, and signals a major Bush victory in the war. The proposed law not only opens the door to the big international oil companies, but offers them lucrative contract deals, and even a place on the national oil board that will run the industry. The Byzantine scheme for dividing up oil revenues on the basis of population is little more than a facade for the biggest rip off of resources since the British barged into Mesopotamia more than a century ago...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Ridgeway
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
by James Ridgeway
03/01/07
The Iraqi oil deal set to go before the country’s parliament next month could spell the end of the country as a nation state, and signals a major Bush victory in the war. The proposed law not only opens the door to the big international oil companies, but offers them lucrative contract deals, and even a place on the national oil board that will run the industry. The Byzantine scheme for dividing up oil revenues on the basis of population is little more than a facade for the biggest rip off of resources since the British barged into Mesopotamia more than a century ago...
http://tinyurl.com/3aml6a
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Ridgeway
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
rudkla - 2. Mär, 16:47
