Oil Crimes

comments added to, A Quick Cruise through the (Not Too) Recent and Brief History of Afghanistan–As Affects the US Directly or Indirectly, by Metonymy:




If we peel back the whole GWOT overlay, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan reveal themselves for what they are: the titanic clash of Oil Giants coopting State powers and vying for control of our planet's oil -- "market penetration" by military means (nothing new).

The real, true "strategic" objectives in Iraq and Afghanistan:

- de-nationalize their oil industries

- expel "foreign suitors"

- hand-over control to "our" Giants (and their related service and subsidiary companies: Exxon, BP, Haliburton, Bechtel, etc., etc.)

Unravel the tapestry of lies in which these military conquests are cloaked, and examine how control of oil (Iraq) and "the pipeline" (Afghanistan) has changed as a consequence.

This (latest) US/British conquest of Iraq, in particular, then reveals itself for what it is: one of the biggest armed robberies in all of human history (the biggest, thus far, of this nascent new century).


see:

Terrorized by "War on Terror," by Zbigniew Brzezinski

The So-Called "War on Terror," by Richard Behan

Crude Designs, by Greg Muttitt

Slick Connections, by Erik Leaver and Greg Muttitt

Cheney's Energy Task Force [amended: Task Force Maps and Charts}

The White House Iraq Group






p.s. Google: "Bridas, Unocal, Afghanistan"




follow-on:

Just as McCain is catching flak, in some quarters, for his “anti-torture” rhetoric; as there is a political block in this country that is “down” with torture — so, too, many are tacitly “down” with the unvarnished oil-grab aims of Bush/Cheney & Company.

“So we had to launch an aggressive war (”the supreme international crime”) — with as many as one million dead; several million “displaced;” a-trillion-dollars-and-counting spent — in order to maintain our lighted, heated, TV-watching, web-surfing, SUV-driving, plastic-and-pesticide-laden lifestyle. So what?”