The axis of oil: how a plan for the world's biggest pipeline threatens to

[Nottingham]

The axis of oil: how a plan for the world's biggest pipeline threatens to wreak havoc

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=457996

By Philip Thornton and Charles Arthur
28 October 2003


It is a story of empire-building, intrigue, espionage, double-dealing and arm-twisting that Rudyard Kipling would have been proud to write.

Kipling popularised the phrase "The Great Game" to describe the secret battle to dominate central Asia fought between the British Empire, Russia and France.

But even he would have blanched at plans by the United States - with the help of the oil giant BP and British taxpayers - to establish a hegemony across an area stretching from the Russian borders to the Mediterranean Sea
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On Thursday, the project receives its first public test when the International Finance Corporation, an arm of the World Bank, meets to approve its loan.

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This has HUGE Enviromental implications! :bounce:

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. leave the environmental implication

it has huge geo political implicatins, the kind that the American
people have nto been informed off

[Nottingham]

2. I agree it is Huge GeoPolitically too! and US people are in the dark

:bounce:

[Bandit]

3. Guarded by US Military

Since the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, the US has enthusiastically started building military bases across a region that was off limits during the Cold War, offering financial aid to country governments in exchange for permission.

The pipeline will be guarded either by the US Army or by local forces that are dependent on US support. Inevitably, opposition groups to the current governments are labelled terrorists by the Americans.

So it is all about OIL afterall

[Nottingham]

4. Yep BANDIT! Bush is going to need lots more troops

if he is planning this one! :bounce:

[TrogL]

5. This explains the Afghan war and Iraq war

:kick: