Care Enough to Make Dua
This is an article with excerpts from Noam Chomsky’s new book INTERVENTIONS published by City Lights Books.
It discusses some eye-opening poll statistics and what they mean for the future of Iraq.
quote:
"...The report makes no inquiry into those guiding interests, or why the United States invaded, or why it fears a sovereign and more or less democratic Iraq, though the answers are not hard to find. The real reason for the invasion, surely, is that Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, very cheap to exploit, and is at the heart of the world’s major hydrocarbon resources. The issue is not access to those resources but control of them (and for the energy corporations, profit). As Vice President Dick Cheney observed last May (2006), control over energy resources provides “tools of intimidation or blackmail”—in the hands of others, that is.
Buried in the study is the expected recommendation to allow corporate (meaning mostly U.S.-U.K.) control over Iraq’s energy resources. In the more delicate phrasing of the study, “The United States should assist Iraqi leaders to reorganize the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise, in order to enhance efficiency, transparency, and accountability....."
May Allah give patience and steadfastness to the Iraqi people and may he help us to stand up for their due rights.
Discuss
Add this link to...
Tell a friend
Bury
It discusses some eye-opening poll statistics and what they mean for the future of Iraq.
quote:
"...The report makes no inquiry into those guiding interests, or why the United States invaded, or why it fears a sovereign and more or less democratic Iraq, though the answers are not hard to find. The real reason for the invasion, surely, is that Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, very cheap to exploit, and is at the heart of the world’s major hydrocarbon resources. The issue is not access to those resources but control of them (and for the energy corporations, profit). As Vice President Dick Cheney observed last May (2006), control over energy resources provides “tools of intimidation or blackmail”—in the hands of others, that is.
Buried in the study is the expected recommendation to allow corporate (meaning mostly U.S.-U.K.) control over Iraq’s energy resources. In the more delicate phrasing of the study, “The United States should assist Iraqi leaders to reorganize the national oil industry as a commercial enterprise, in order to enhance efficiency, transparency, and accountability....."
May Allah give patience and steadfastness to the Iraqi people and may he help us to stand up for their due rights.
Discuss
Add this link to...
Tell a friend
Bury
Comments