Posts Tagged ‘Oil’
Osama bin Ladin’s Letter to the Americans (6 October 2002)
Jump to Start of Post, or to Osama bin Ladin’s Letter: 1. Why are we fighting and opposing you? 2. What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you? 3. Conclusion With the recent release of an—almost certainly fake—"Osama bin Ladin" voice recording, "experts" are being quoted to attribute motives and interpretations to the [...]
Balkanise Sudan: Independence Referendum in 2011
Pravda.ru | By Ivan Tulyakov | 21 January 2010 Sudan's Independence Vote To Finally Kill Bleeding Nation (Read the original in Russian) Sudan is the largest country on the African continent. However, the country may lose this status in the near future already. The independence referendum will take place in the south of the nation in 2011. [...]
Former CIA Analyst on How the American People are being Duped
Antiwar | By Scott Horton | 14 January 2010 Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses the rare outspoken exception to the subdued White House press corps, the Obama administration’s refusal to explain the motivations of terrorists, the lack of contextual explanation in US media where [...]
A Balkanised Iraq is Easier to Loot
“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” — Alan Greenspan The ongoing saga of the Iraqi oil patch pie adds a new chapter, courtesy of the Thursday New York Times, and its above-the-fold front pager, "American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil [...]
India plays catch-up in the great game
Asia Times | By By M K Bhadrakumar | 18 July 2009 The Central Asian question is no more the same as it was in the 1990s. No one speculates anymore that it was inevitable that the region would descend into anarchy. However, the problems endemic to a critical period of state formation linger. The transition economies were just about switching [...]
America Arming Christian Separatists in Southern Sudan
Danger Room Reports: Amid Arms Race, U.S. Trains Up South Sudan Army By Nathan Hodge | July 10, 2009 | 7:45 am The conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region gets the most headlines. But the simmering north-south conflict has the potential to eclipse Darfur. While the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) forbids both sides from rearming, [...]
Iraq WAS invaded for its oilfields
Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion Friday 03 July 2009 by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam [...]
