Iraqi 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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