Powering the Empire - Oiling the War Machine

[L. Coyote]

Powering the Empire - Oiling the War Machine
By MANUEL GARCIA, Jr. - http://www.counterpunch.org/garcia07112008.html

Is the Iraq War a US response to Peak Oil? Is it a favor to Israel? Is it meant to bring US consumers cheap gasoline?, or to inflate oil prices that balloon the profits of US oil firms? Ismael Hossein-Zadeh posed these questions and gave his answers in an interesting article "Are They Really Oil Wars?" He summarized his view this way:

"In this study I will first argue that the Peak Oil theory is unscientific, unrealistic, and perhaps even fraudulent. .....

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