Palast: OPEC AND THE ECONOMIC CONQUEST OF IRAQ (10/24)

[Carolab]

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=471&row=0

Why Iraq Still sells its oil à la cartel
Twilight of the neocon gods
Harper's
Monday, October 24, 2005
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By Greg Palast


By special arrangement with Harper's magazine, we are reproducing here for the first time the entire updated article on the US government's secret schemes for seizing control of the oil fields of Iraq.

On Saturday, October 22, the Greg Palast investigative team received a Project Censored award, the "alternative Pulitzer Prize," for uncovering the State Department's confidential pre-war plans for the economic conquest of Iraq.


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...For months, the State Department denied the existence of this 323-page document ...

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...The switch to an OPEC-friendly policy for Iraq was driven by Dick Cheney himself. "The person who is most influential in running American energy policy is the Vice President," who, said the insider, "thinks that security begins by . . . letting prices follow wherever they may."

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1. Morning kick.

[unhappycamper]

2. Carolab:

Please be aware that DU copyright rules require that excerpts of copyrighted material be limited to four paragraphs and must include a link to the original source.

TIA.

unhappycamper
DU Moderator

(BTW, great article.)

[Carolab]

3. Thanks.

I wasn't sure if the introductory sentences counted or not.

So now I know.

[realFedUp]

4. Important piece to read

thank God for Greg Palast.

[Demeter]

5. Very Important Insight into the Neocon Fantasy World

Thanks so much for posting this!