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  • The REAL Oil for Food Scandal
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A COMMISSION investigating allegations of corruption in a UN humanitarian assistance program in Iraq during the 1990s cleared Secretary General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing. Annan had been accused of steering a contract to his son, Kojo, through the oil-for-food program, which allowed Iraq to sell oil on the world market and use money approved by a UN committee for food and other humanitarian goods. But the real scandal never had anything to do with Kojo Annan or kickbacks from certain (…)

  • BIODIESEL INFORMATION / introduction
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prelude
    THE BIODIESEL
    Environment friendly and revolutionary By : Matt Lechien
    With technical support from : Joner Translated from french by : Simon Hallynck ( http://www.reclaimyourwork.org ) Media partner : Bellaciao ( http://bellaciao.org ) SURREALISTE editions ( http://www.surrealiste.org )
    Original version ebook and paper :
    All is copyleft :-) Introduction
    How to strike capitalism at the capital while protecting the Earth, here’s the complete biodiesel file.
    This file has (…)

  • The real oil-for-food scandal: The humanitarian cover for the brutal embargo of Iraq
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ANTHONY ARNOVE
    ANTHONY ARNOVE edited the book Iraq Under Siege and is coauthor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Here, he examines the controversy over the United Nations (UN) oil-for-food program in Iraq, following the release of the findings of a corruption investigation.
    A COMMISSION investigating allegations of corruption in a UN humanitarian assistance program in Iraq during the 1990s cleared Secretary General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing. Annan (…)

  • US Had Hand In Violating Iraq Oil Sanctions
    6 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Had Hand In Violating Iraq Oil Sanctions Molly Ivins April 05, 2005 Some days, it’s hard to pick the outrage du jour, but hypocrisy is always an inviting target, and the United Nations oil-for-food scandal provides a two-fer.
    We have been hearing much right-wing huffing over the dreadful, terrible, awful, unprecedented, worst-ever scandal in all history.
    One indignant winger was livid because The New York Times devoted more coverage to the collapse of Enron than to the earth-shaking (…)

  • Hey Folks, it’s a Coercive Hoax. stOp. (S)HriLL (O)iL (S)hiLLs.
    16 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Deceit UNveiled: -’Peak’ is PreText ’ PiLL’ Forcing the ’UNavoidable’ ? die-off Plan/Scam
    One theory is backed by a massive body of research representing fifty years of intense scientific inquiry. The other theory is an unproven relic of the eighteenth century.
    So which theory have we in the West, in our infinite wisdom, chosen to embrace? Why, the fundamentally absurd ’Fossil Fuel’ theory, of course — the same theory that the ’Peak Oil’ doomsday warnings are based (…)

  • US Officer: "Why I Disagree With Bush’s War For Oil"
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Pip Hinman
    Brayden joined the US army not thinking he’d ever be sent to war. He certainly hadn’t entertained the idea that he would turn against a war.
    He served as a commissioned officer, rising to the rank of captain, from June 2000 to November 2004. Originally part of an Air Defence Artillary combat unit based in Germany, Brayden was sent to Iraq in May 2003 and spent 14 months there.
    His company of 125 soldiers, one of six that made up the 1st Armored Division’s Main Support (…)

  • If Attacked, Iran and Venezuela Threaten to Cut Off US Oil Supply
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran Threatens Retaliation On Persian Gulf Arab Oil If Attacked By U.S.
    Iran has warned that Gulf Arab oil would be endangered by any U.S. attack on the Islamic republic.
    In the first such threat, a leading Iranian official raised the prospect of Iranian retaliation against Middle East oil exports. The official said such Persian Gulf oil states as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia could be threatened, Middle East Newsline reported.
    "An attack on Iran will be tantamount to endangering Saudi (…)

  • Oil brokers trade blows with eco-warriors
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By James Sturke
    Greenpeace campaigners, not a group of people unaccustomed to flying in the face of danger, were forced into a tactical retreat yesterday after feeling the wrath of angry oil traders.
    On the day the Kyoto Protocol came into force, 35 eco-warriors stormed the Interna- tional Petroleum Exchange [IPE] in the City. Armed with fog horns, rape alarms and whistles they tried to stall business by creating a deafening noise that made it impossible for the traders to work. But the (…)

  • The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next?
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next? Murray Polner January 29, 2005 I started wearing a "Don’t Bomb Iran" pin in my lapel when the number of American dead in the Iraq War passed the 1400 mark with some 10,000 others wounded, plus tens of thousands of uncounted Iraqi civilians. As W.H. Auden memorably and painfully asked in his "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier":
    "To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
    With casualty lists (…)

  • Documents: US Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Documents: US Condoned Iraq Oil Smuggling Elise Labott and Phil Hirschkorn, CNN Wednesday, February 2, 2005 (CNN) — Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by Saddam Hussein’s regime, and did so to shore up alliances with Iraq’s neighbors.
    The oil trade with countries such as Turkey and Jordan appears to have been an open secret inside the U.S. government and the United Nations for years.
    The unclassified State (…)