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- What should we do with the obscene oil profits?
“Exxon Mobil reports outsized profits. So did Shell. It’s all got politicians teeing up evil-oil rhetoric, except they are leaving one thing behind: the facts.” Let’s see what this little Marketplace ideological hack job serves us as “facts”: Oil prices are set by global forces. Since the mid-1980s, actual negotiations and deliveries of oil contracts [...]
- Iraqi workers strike against the new Oil Law
The following is an excerpt from the interview that Amy Goodman conducted with Antonia Juhasz, the author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. The interview is aired on Wednesday as the 600 pipeline workers in southern Iraq began a strike on June 5 to protest the new oil law [...]
- Iraq oil and its colonial pre-history
I remembered some years ago talking in class about the US-led plans of privatization in Iraq at the beginning of the Occupation. From what I recall, Bremer even had a timeline for selling off the state-owned oil firm. At the time, it was roundly criticized by neighboring countries (surprise, surprise), and i think the plan [...]
