Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Mission Accomplished for Big Oil?

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, August 24, 2012

Mission Accomplished for Big Oil?

Click here to access article by Greg Muttitt from TomDispatch. (Note: you may wish to skip the introduction by scrolling down to the article.)

The author provides a valuable review, including recent findings, of what has happened in the Empire's war on Iraq to secure their oil fields.

In 2011, after nearly nine years of war and occupation, U.S. troops finally left Iraq. In their place, Big Oil is now present in force and the country’s oil output, crippled for decades, is growing again. Iraq recently reclaimed the number two position in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), overtaking oil-sanctioned Iran. .... So is this finally mission accomplished?

Well, not exactly.