Will Iraq be a global gas pump?
The Nation
by Michael T. Klare
07/14/09
Has it all come to this? The wars and invasions, the death and destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet? Will it all end not with a bang but with a gusher? The latest oil news out of that country offers at least a hint of Iraq’s fate. For modern Iraq, oil has always been at the heart of everything. Its very existence as a unified state is largely the product of oil...
https://www.thenation.com/doc/20090720/klare
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+T.+Klare
by Michael T. Klare
07/14/09
Has it all come to this? The wars and invasions, the death and destruction, the exile and torture, the resistance and collapse? In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet? Will it all end not with a bang but with a gusher? The latest oil news out of that country offers at least a hint of Iraq’s fate. For modern Iraq, oil has always been at the heart of everything. Its very existence as a unified state is largely the product of oil...
https://www.thenation.com/doc/20090720/klare
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+T.+Klare
rudkla - 15. Jul, 10:01
