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.