Ask Dems: We gave Big Oil Iraq, what did we get back?
I addressed this to Sam Husseini, because he has gotten in the face of top Democrats and Republicans and asked them about things like what they think of letting Big Oil write the law that gives them...
View ArticleZOGBY POLL: 73% say Iraq's oil a factor in the war
A couple of observations on this:the number that don't believe is pretty close to those still support Bush and think yard gnomes are idols to worship false gods.more seriously, our elected leaders are...
View ArticleBlogger scoops NY Times on Iraq Oil Law
Blogger translates leaked copy of secret Iraq oil law draftThis should be a major story. Iraq-born blogger Raed Jarrar has obtained a leaked copy of Iraq's new oil law. You also can get a look at this...
View ArticleDirtbag Dick gets the Iraq Oil!
Pay no attention to the oil companies hiding behind the fog of war! Cheney’s done it. Pepe Escobar Asian Times writes:.....only now is the mission really accomplished. More than half a trillion...
View ArticleBUSH VICTORY: OIL law forced on Iraqis gives oil companies veto
Rather than directly forcing production sharing agreements on Iraqis which would give the bulk of the oil profits to oil corporations, they put oil company executives on the council that approves oil...
View ArticleIraqi scholars & pols say REJECT Bush-coerced hydrocarbon law
The guy at Hands off Iraqi oil makes it a lot easier for me to find this stuff.Scholars, politicians, and oil technocrats got together at a conference and were pretty unified in their opposition to the...
View ArticleKucinich Seeks to Strip Oil Law Benchmark from Supplemental
Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy, March 14, 2007Almost all of the progressive criticism so far of the supplemental appropriation for the war being considered by the House could be organized under the...
View Articleal-Maliki fears U.S. will oust him if oil law not passed
From the AP:BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fears the Americans will withdraw support for his government — effectively ousting him — if parliament does not pass a draft oil law by the end of...
View ArticleIraqi Oil Workers Unions vs new Iraqi Oil Law
The Iraqi government, with very strong US backing, is trying to change the national oil laws. The Iraqi Parliament is 'discussing' the law now, and is trying to pass it.Currently, the oil...
View ArticleWhat Does Iraq's New Hydrocarbon Law Say About an Invasion?
Here's a link to the OMNI version oil law story. A lot of critics say this law delivers evidence that the invasion was about oil, but supporters say the law brings Iraq into world oil marketplace.
View ArticleThe Iraq parliament bombing: it's Game On for Iraq's oil
[cross posted at Over the Line, Smokey!]Today, the surge failed. And its not about casualties. Forget about casualties. Killed, maimed Iraqis and Americans mean nothing to the Bushies.Iraqi casualties...
View ArticleIraq's doubled OIL reserves & Cheney's 2001 map of Iraq's oil
The doubled estimated oil reserves in Iraq recently reported are right where Dick Cheney was looking at a map with oil company execs during his energy task force back in 2001. The oil law Bush is...
View ArticleYour Money is Going into Cheney's Pockets
When the Iraq invasion/war/occupation/clusterfuck began, there were smart people who told us from the get-go: this is about oil.Forget the shit about fighting terrorists, forget the "protecting...
View ArticleOdd Thoughts: Another Bush-Chaney Scandal Begging for Investigation
We have not yet been treated to a congressional investigation of the secret meetings Vice-President Cheney held with the heads of major British and American oil companies at the start of President...
View ArticleIt's the oil, stupid.
Okay, I know I'm getting to sound like a broken record, but I simply cannot take it anymore. The whole discussion about ending the "war" in Iraq has for me reached a level of absurdity that is making...
View ArticleIraq Oil Law DOA - Kurds Making Own Deals & Sunnis Object to Foreign Control
Our only friends in Iraq, the Kurds are signing their own contracts for newly discovered fields with Norwegian and Turkish oil companies. They don't like the unfavorable terms of the draft oil law and...
View ArticleThe truth about Iraq's oil law
[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]check this from today's nyt... Iraqi Blocs Opposed to Draft Oil Bill Kurdish and Sunni Arab officials are concerned over a draft of a bill...
View ArticleCheney's Middle East Trip and the Iraq Oil Law (Update)
[Update just below fold]Vice President Cheney is off on one of his trademark "shrouded in mystery" trips to the Middle East today:US Vice President Dick Cheney leaves Tuesday on a four-country visit of...
View ArticleA power addiction (or why George wants Wolfie to stay)
[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally]is it any wonder the white house is still, as of this morning, fighting to keep wolfowitz in his job...? read on...[more after the fold]
View ArticlePutin 1, Cheney ?
For a frustrating number of years, Dick Cheney had his wishful eye on a pipeline that could move East Caspian hydrocarbons to market across Afghanistan and Pakistan and away from Russia and China....
View ArticleBENCHMARKS=THE HYDRPCARBON BILL
This is a bill that we are trying very hard to sign off on and the Iraqi government has so far refused to sign, part of this bill shares the current oil revenues among the three groups, the Kurds, the...
View ArticleSen. Feinstein flees Iraq oil theft law question
Video of Sen. Feinstein running away rather than answering question about Hydrocarbon Law Bush is forcing on Iraqis that will give most of their oil wealth to Big Oil. Unfortunately, other democratic...
View ArticleIraq PM Orders Union Leaders Arrest, Army Breaks Oil Strike
In the Southern Iraqi city of Basra, a standoff is developing between striking Iraqi oil workers and the Iraqi military. Iraq PM Nouri Al-Maliki has issued arrest warrants for leaders of the Iraq...
View ArticleIraq’s Hydrocarbon Law: Not all it’s CrAcKeD up to be
There comes a time when simple ignorance turns into willful ignorance. I believe the latter has become endemic in the U.S. Congress.By now, everyone (at least in the left blogosphere) is aware of the...
View ArticleSunni Council Issues Fatwa on Oil Law
As you are no doubt aware, the Bush (mis)administration has linked success in Iraq to the Hydrocarbon Law, aka the "Oil Law." The Iraqi people have consistently opposed this blantant robbery and...
View ArticleCheney Behind Attempt to Bring Maliki Down
The Iraqi government has not been exactly effective one could say. With difficulty achieving parliamentary quorums, dozens of members living outside the country, and politicians who frequently put...
View ArticleAl Gore: Iraq War about OIL THEFT
Al Gore is honest about an issue few in Congress or running for president (even most Democrats) will touch: that we are in Iraq to give control of its tens of trillions of dollars worth of oil to...
View ArticleOil Revenue Sharing
I got an email response from Senator Patty Murray today, July 9, 2007, outlining all she has done legislatively to bring about the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Don’t laugh. In the letter she stated...
View ArticleWhat does Madame Speaker know about it?
I recently had the unprecedented (for me) chance to ask Speaker Pelosi a direct question, and with my arm around her waist I was sure I'd get an answer. Now, I'm not sure what I got. I know I got...
View Article5 Nobel Laureates fight Iraq OIL THEFT law
Five Nobel Laureates have gotten together to oppose the Hydrocarbon Law drafted by an oil industry lobbyist to give up to 80% of Iraq's oil income to big oil companies, and that Bush is now forcing on...
View ArticleNYT, WaPo misreport Iraq Oil Law Benchmark
It's unforgivable that both The New York Times and the Washington Post persist in misreporting the key Iraq oil law benchmark. These two leading print news sources, with the resources to have...
View ArticleBenchmark Boogie: A Guide to the Struggle Over Iraq's Oil
AlterNet just ran a really great article which gets to the heart of what's going on in Iraq, and these "benchmarks" that keep getting touted as a way to have peace and an end to the violence in Iraq....
View ArticleNYT Editors, Contradicting Reporting, Assume Iraq Oil Law is "Reconciliation"?
Frequently, a careful reader of foreign policy coverage in the New York Times finds oneself confronted by a headline or lead paragraph which seems to be clearly contradicted by the article that...
View ArticleIraqi Govt: Oil Workers' Unions "Not Legitimate"
On one side of the ledger, we have: more than 3,600 U.S. soldiers killed, and more than 25,000 wounded. The financial cost of the war is now $10 billion a month - three months of the war would pay for...
View Article"Benchmark This!" A Kossack Guide to the Hydrocarbon Law
There have several diaries and/or front page posts here on "the" Daily Kos referencing the legalization of thievery that is known as the Hydrocarbon Law, which is also referred to as the "Iraqi Oil...
View ArticleWhat Unites Iraqis: Blocking The Great Anglo-US Oil Grab
I'm a writer with AlterNet, and I want to bring this piece to the attention of as many people as possible. If you get to the end of the first page and like it, please finish reading it on AlterNet as...
View ArticleGeorge Bush's Diary, August 24th, 2007
Obviously, I was very excited when the President approached me, owing to my association with Ann Coulter, to help him organize his online journal. I understand that readers might prefer the original...
View ArticleQuestion that no DEM asks about Iraqi Oil Sharing program
Ok, it seems to me that CONs and the MSM seem to be in compelete agreement on what is the #1 goal of for political progress in Iraq to create a Jeffersonian Democracy: The Oil Revenue Sharing Program....
View ArticleCongress Never Passed a Benchmark to Privatize Iraq's Oil
If you formed your impressions solely from mainstream media coverage in the United States, it is quite likely you would have the following understanding of the draft "oil law" being considered by the...
View ArticleIraqi Opposition to the Oil Law Intensifies
The opposition of the Iraqi people to the Hydrocarbon Law, also known as the Iraqi Oil Law, has been ratcheted up another notch today. The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions joined with the Iraqi Anti-Oil...
View ArticleToday's Help Wanteds: Great Job w/ Benefits!
Attention Kossacks! Looking for work? Need a full-time gig for a few years with great pay and benefits? Can you speak Arabic? Are you willing to set aside any of those pesky scruples or morals you...
View ArticleGeorge Bush...Here's your Nelson Lech Mandela Walensa
In his most recent press conference, George W. Bush decried, inartfully as usual, that Iraq's Nelson Mandela was already dead. It seems Saddem Hussein got him.By happenstance or serendipity I have...
View ArticleKurdistan Pressure For the Hydrocarbon Law
Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government signed four more Oil deals this week. The move comes only a week after the controversial deal involving Hunt Oil Company. Abdul-Hadi al-Hasani, deputy head of...
View ArticleThe Spoils of War Renunciation Act
I suggest that a Spoils of War Renunciation Act of 2008 could unite the right and the left. After all, what honorable person could oppose it?
View ArticleKucinich Will Introduce Legislation to Prevent Oil Privatization
Dennis Kucinich has the been the only candidate willing to consistently speak out against the unjust efforts to privatize the national oil wealth of the Iraqi people to multinational oil companies. He...
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Oil Law Benchmark?
Which benchmark you might ask? I think you'll remember the much discussed benchmark, the so-called "Oil Revenue Sharing Law". President Bush has said that passage of the oil law will result in the...
View ArticleWhat did Iraq's Oil Law Say About an Invasion
Although this particular story is now one year old (yes I wrote it) ...it still has relevance: There are questions that still need to be answered regarding the motives behind the invasion of Iraq....
View ArticleWill PSA's signed by the interim government in Iraq be valid?
Long-term agreements signed by a government which, almost by definition, will be short-lived are not smart, for Iraqis. posted on another site in 2005 -- still relevant!
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Oil's Well ... that ends Well ...
Fill up that Tank lately? Ouch! What Happened?Gasoline drives US consumer prices higher (AFP) – May 13, 2011On a 12-month basis, the Labor Department's consumer price index was up 3.2 percent in...
View Articlenyt: Iraq Drafts New Oil Law
The New York Times is reporting this morning that Iraq's Oil Law is close to completion and has some info on how the law looks so far.The draft law would also radically restructure parts of Iraq’s...
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