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an anti shia role still the presence of us troops encourages al qaeda without the us there in iraq perhaps al qaeda would lose some support in its war against america bush s addition of 4 000 troops to anbar province won t affect the strategic balance functioning there as a guerilla force al qaeda will grow in response to the scope of military power directed against it the primacy of muqtada and iranian backed sciri power reflects the political power of the majority shia the us military presence may mask an urge among shia to seize all government control in the fashion of saddam s rise to power where political enemies are immediately purged in an orgy of vengeance saddam s execution hinted at a craving for a night of the long knives with whatever facade remains of a plural secular society will rapidly be dismantled by the underlying shia fundamentalist majority so the us must back maliki to prop up the facade under sadr the shia might move to remove any political forces not willing to submit in the course of a coup followed by the prompt implementation of sharia law and pro iranian doctrine sadr s political faction is after all the supreme council for revolution in iraq sound familiar it should the supreme council for revolution in iran currently controls that nation shia extremists could emerge in baghdad eager to implement their regressive worldview and turn back the clock on progress for now the shia appear content to wait for the americans to leave exploiting iraq chris floyd has edited his article new oil law means victory in iraq for bush for his website empire burlesque the newer version claiming the prize bush surge aimed at securing iraqi oil is here the independent has a good article on the benefits awaiting western oil firms here the roots of iraqi exploitation are evident in other countries which have been economically liberalized victimized by their right wing business elite these countries have lost control over their economies and been put at the mercy of arbitrary economic influences from abroad impoverished by draconian controls over their currencies by the international monetary fund and international bankers the countries are forced to capitulate to disadvantageous terms and lease out resources in order to prevent economic collapse predatory capitalism establishing us economic hegemony over iraq has directed reconstruction projects to large military contractors who have close relationships to government bodies like the pentagon and white house who award the contracts military industrial companies have profitted including cheney s former halliburton implementing hegemonic controls over iraq benefits big oil an industry also ingratiated to the bush administration preferential treatment in us govenrment policies for big oil predictably rewards the industry s political support for bush to offer up iraq s oil at discount is a simple matter of progression in policy the evolution of a process that began with the awarding of military contracts to companies friendly to the administration chris floyd refers to an article max fuller wrote for the centre for research on globalization fuller describes the economic integration process designed to extend us control over iraq in iraq the war comes in two phases the first phase is complete the destruction of the existing state which did not comply with the interests of british and american capital the second phase consists of building a new state tied to those interests and smashing every dissenting sector of society openly this involves applying the same sort of economic shock therapy that has done so much damage in swathes of the third world and eastern europe covertly it means intimidating kidnapping and murdering opposition voices link the issue of iraqi control over its oil and economy has been point of contention since the early days of the occupation like some appointed ruler bremer and his coalition provisional authority passed a series of illegal measures privatizing the economy reducing obstructions to the repatriation of capital and granting legal immunity for foreign contractors fuller discusses the systemic methodology draining iraq of its right to economic sovereignty he looks at the coercive management of iraq s economy and resources by outsiders alongside the use of the military to suppress the population fuller is aware that el salvador is not another iraq he does however find in colombia an excellent example of economic exploitation accompanied by strong repression by right wing death squads apparently the process is more about migrating the salvador approach to thugs in country to further expedite the looting of public assets fuller explains as a model el salvador is not wholly accurate either in el salvador us advisors were few in number and prohibited from taking part in combat nevertheless it is towards this model that the us is attempting to move hoping to farm out the sordid business of occupation to iraqi auxiliaries but in many ways it is contemporary colombia that offers the closest analogy not for the disposition of us forces but because here the same process of asset stripping impoverishment and conquistador like plundering is both deeply entrenched and ongoing source the political roots of repression accompany forced liberalization internal conflict in which thousands of social activists have been murdered has butted seamlessly with the country s exposure to economic liberalisation in short legitimate social demands are violently suppressed in favour of allowing foreign capital to extract super profits from colombia s rich natural resources and selling off its public assets for the same purpose source since the end of communism the us has demonstrated benevolence to countries who are open to neoliberal trade policies and membership in the the international monetary fund as both argentina and thailand can attest joining that elite club of nations may require the submission of sovereign interest to the whims of international currency flows and arbitrage in the nineties liberalization in international capital flows led to a drain of foreign currency reserves and rapid currency depreciation in those countries the lesson for a battered iraq is clear take the money and develop now longer term issues aren t as crucial so the reasoning would go also big oil would claim the iraqis lack sufficient capital or experience to develop their own fields gradually iraq would embrace laws even more favorable to outsiders in exchange for the development of oil fields in iraq starved of any outside capital by the underlying security environment iraqi may have no choice but to turn to international oil companies the only ones likely to be approved to extract iraq s oil while the internationalization of the iraqi economy benefits large oil concerns longer term the contracts may be quite detrimental as chris floyd points out just how far will iraq go to service these outside interests remains to be seen only time can tell how much oil can be brought to the surface and transported unmolested out of iraq with the obvious security risks iraq is a bargain yet at the time a risky proposition for a multi billion dollar investment should the shia take power down the road sunnis could retaliate by disrupting oil infrastructure and exports if the oil flow was seen as benefitting the shia controlled government at the present oil fields in shia areas in southern iraq appear to be working so the model for further oil development under shia control exists the full scope of the sunnis capacity to retaliate remains unknown with iraq s infrastructure damaged is unclear how difficult it will be to maintain or disrupt an entire oil field grid were it constructed oil synergy oil is blamed for continuation of the occupation bush cheney and their big oil ties have been a tired refrain for the progressive media while the mainstream covers up an obvious motive for the invasion hesistant to displease fellow conglomerates the corporate owned media ignore the role of big oil in promoting an occupation of iraq the energy industry can claim a large camp of support and influence under the bush administration as all the players cheney bush rice have directly worked for big oil rice s services to chevron were so highly esteemed as to earn the secretary of state an oil tanker named after her the s s rice big oil s affection for bush co is clearly well placed price of their product has tripled since before bush took power new sources of supply have been opened to extraction albeit not without substantial risk in serving america big oil is obligated to provide america with its energy needs big oil justifies its favorable treatment in iraq by the need to must supply america with abundant energy in this sense cheney and bush always sympathetic to the oil industry see what is good for the oil industry as being good for the us therefore whatever is good for them is seen as good for the us had the us government been truly independent the us government would have sought better oil contracts and lease terms as was discussed here on jbpeebles instead the interior department overseeing leases recently fired a whistleblower see the nyt article here under the bush administration many lobbyists for big oil have found their way into high places in government low balled lease terms and perhaps even the invasions of iraq and afghanistan have been the payback if the considerable energy reserves of those countries can be cheaply acquired the oil industry has reason to maintain the status quo in selling to the american public oil must not be too expensive causing inflation but not too cheap either lest profits be threatened most importantly profitability must be increasing for the industry lest their stock price decline motivated by the profit motive like any other business the oil companies have no interest in seeing their sales fall energy conservation is a sales inhibitor and thus purged from any policy america s conservation movement dates to the carter years and has hardly been heard from since bush took office whatever our national energy management plan conservation appears suspiciously absent our energy planning appears to revolve around securing new sources of oil cheney s energy task force meetings in which a map of iraq s oil fields was consulted remains off limits to public scrutiny will congress investigate the administration has made secret access to white house visitor logs a formerly public source of information as a result cheney s co conspirators remain anonymous the state of energy addiction is profound that the us government has committed to expand energy production operating in tandem with government policies big oil is expanding its drilling on public land lease deals with the federal government ostensibly the people s representative in these matters has profitted big oil by reducing their acquisition costs at the expense of the public who must buy their product at the pump after government has taxed it the media will never threaten the market for energy keeping americans in the dark as to the scope of their dependency perpetuates the status quo and waste aware of america s energy habit big media avoids any mention of the inherent immorality of stealing iraqi oil how deeply are the interests of big oil and the administration tied should the scale of waste be exposed the need for conservation would become a mandate for change transparency in the media might allow us to see the scope of our government s interest in keeping oil pumping and profits rising to americans oil is as addictive as big macs as our obesity epidemic shows we ve become addicted to that which hurts us i recently saw the documentary supersize me on msnbc which charts the effects of morgan spurlock s thirty day binge at mcdonald s one consequence of eating big mac s every day were the headaches spurlock would have if we didn t eat big macs big oil furnishes the equivalent of big macs and we become addicted to them as we are to cheap gas yet at the same time our corporate pusher men feed our ever worsening addiction which is not an addiction to big macs but rather a lifestyle branded for consumption big oil has generated massive profits to the rising price of oil simultaneously the largely artificial terror environment has driven the price higher it s unclear how much terror has been the result of suggestion by bush and blair s governments fear or terror undoubtedly plays to the right s support for popular militarism recently we ve seen quite a swing downward yet oil still sits at price triple that of the pre invasion price cheney has said that the us needs oil out of the mideast also through the use of predatory techniques iraqi oil resources stand to be systemically exploited by big oil as for big oil should the us government embrace the needs of one vital industry as its own does securing america s energy future justify making war the ultimate use of governmental authority abroad big oil should have to pay its fair share for its access to public lands whether in iraq or off the coasts of the us mainland big oil has a vested interest in seeing the price of energy to the end consumer rise governments in seeing it not rise too fast where do the interests of big oil and the us public coincide as a for profit entity big oil must profit and its stock price must perpetually go up to entice investor interest by controlling the world s energy supply big oil can create a monopoly by devaluing conservation and hyping demand despite the debt it brings governments can maintain rising demand wars become increasingly costly to the general economy at some point maintaining the benefit of occupation for one corporate constituency cannot justify the collateral damage resulting from the ongoing use of force needed to sustain that benefit there is also the tendency to avoid fiscal oversight in government spending in order to mask conflicts of interest funds spent in the service of corporate interest have cost the us mightily and delivered less than adequate results efficiency in the provisioning of public resources should be an ideal not demeaned by the inadequate comparisons to the corporate model where profitability is the standard by which success is measured the failure to restore new orleans shows the inadequacy of privatized or commercial solutions the failure to rebuild iraq may in large part be a product of no bid contracts and sweetheart deals the inadequacies of the reconstruction effort now spurn bush efforts to revive reconstruction through the iraqi government despite all the evidence of corruption and mismanagement just how far does the synergy between big oil and the current government go are the two entities intertwined or do the goals of one exist parasitically on the root of the other does our foreign policy serve our energy needs or is our energy gluttony the result of wise business strategy in a free market perhaps...