WHY IRAQ STILL SELLS ITS OIL A LA CARTEL
From the April Issue of Harper's Magazine
On Newstands Tuesday, March 22
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
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Harper's discloses a secret 323-page State Department plan written by Big Oil. The winner: OPEC. The losers: consumers, Iraqis ... and neo-cons.
Two years and $154 billion into the war in Iraq, the United States has
at least one significant new asset to show for it: effective
membership, through our control of Iraq's energy policy, in the
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the
Arab-dominated oil cartel.
According to insiders and to the documents obtained from the State
Department, the neo-cons, once in command, are now in full retreat.
With pipelines exploding daily, the fantasy of remaking Iraq's oil
industry also went up in flames.
Privatization was taken off the agenda with the arrival of the Oil Men
(and woman) of Texas.
The new blueprint, now being followed in Iraq. was ordered up by Robert
McKee of ConocoPhillips. Supervised and drafted by Amy Jaffe of the
James Baker Institute behind closed doors with other Industry experts
and consultants, this plan is in direct contradiction to the original
neo-con preferred agenda of 'sell everything'.
Read how circumstance, political maneuvering and the shifting sands of power have been determining the future of a war-weary country and its
only viable asset: OIL - In the April Issue of Harper's Magazine, investigated by Greg Palast for Harper's Magazine and BBC Newsnight.
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." View his writings at www.GregPalast.com |
