Crimes Against Humanity: Oil is the Goal

C R I M E S A G A I N S T H U M A N I T Y

The 9-11 bombings Are Not Acts of War

The 9-11 bombings Are Crimes Against Humanity

the focus is:

Oil is the Goal

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"A quick look at the map is all it takes. It's no coincidence that the map of terror in the Middle East and Central Asia is practically interchangeable with the map of oil. There's Infinite Justice, Enduring Freedom -- and Everlasting Profits to be made: not only by the American industrial-military complex, but especially by American and European oil giants.
"Where is the realm these days of former US secretary of state James Baker, former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, former White House chief of staff John Sununu and former defense secretary and current Invisible Man Dick Cheney? They are all happily dreaming of, and working for, the establishment of Pipelineistan.
"Where Pipelineistan is the golden future: a paradise of opportunity in the form of US$5 trillion of oil and gas in the Caspian basin and the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. In Washington's global petrostrategy, this is supposed to be the end of America's oil dependence on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). This is of course the heart of the matter in the New Great Game -- compared to which the original 19th-century Great Game between czarist Russia and the British Empire was a childish tin soldier's diversion."

--Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan, Part 1: The rules of the game,
Asia Times, 25 Jan 2002

Revisited - The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War in Iraq:
A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth,
by William Clark, 26 Jan 2003; updated: January 2004
Mass Murder for Oil and Resources
Custer Returns as George Bush,
by Brenda Norrell, UN Observer & Int'l Report, 9 May 2003
Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline,
BBC, 4 Dec 1997
Afghanistan, the Taliban and the Bush Oil Team,
by Wayne Madsen, democrats.com, January 2002
Oil has always been top of Bush's foreign-policy agenda,
by Ritt Goldstein, 7 Oct 2002
by Larry Chin:
- Enron: ultimate agent of the American empire
  composite article, February 2002
- Enron: Ultimate agent of the American empire:
  - Part 2: Enron, the Bush administration, and the Central Asian war, 7 Feb 2002
Is Enron Behind The War In Afghanistan?
from Robert Lederman, 5 Feb 2002
by Pepe Escobar:
- Pipelineistan, Part 1: The rules of the game, Asia Times, 25 Jan 2002
- Pipelineistan, Part 2: The games nations play, Asia Times, 26 Jan 2002
A War in the Planning for Four Years,
by Michael Rupert, From the Wilderness, 11 Nov 2001
US efforts to make peace summed up by `oil',
by Lara Marlowe, The Irish Times, 19 Nov 2001
Oil Lust and Israeli "Hatchet Men" Behind U.S. Plans to Occupy Iraq,
by Christopher Bollyn, American Independent Press, 18 Oct 2002
Russia's resurgence reshuffles global oil industry,
Reuters, 12 Dec 2001
Playing skittles with Saddam
The gameplan among Washington's hawks has long been
to reshape the Middle East along US-Israeli lines
by Brian Whitaker, The Guardian, 2 Sep 2002

"In portraying Enron as a `scandal,' and as an isolated case of overheated capitalism and `unusual political influence,' the mainstream American corporate media and congressional investigators have studiously hidden the truth: Enron, like many multinational corporations, has long functioned as an operational arm of the US government, the ruling financial elite and as a weapon of economic, political, and territorial hegemony.
"The Enron scandal, arguably the biggest financial and political crime in modern history, exposes a terminal malignancy at the heart of world politics, and global capitalism itself."

--Larry Chin, Enron: ultimate agent of the American empire, February 2002

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