it should be our job and the job of our party to educate them ...
we Americans have almost arrived at the breaking point ... for almost 100 years, some Americans have reaped the benefit of a rapacious foreign policy ... while perhaps delivering cheap oil and gas to us all, make no mistake that the pursuit of oil and gas from sovereign foreign governments has been engineered first and foremost to benefit a very narrow segment of American society ...
and one could readily bemoan the immorality of the methods used to procure this oil ... we have, as a nation, executed democratically elected leaders in oil-producing countries all over the world ... we precipitated the current crises in the Middle East with our ill-conceived policies not least of which was toppling Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 and then installing and supporting the genocidal Shah of Iran ...
the global empire of American oil domination is racing towards its final curtain and most Americans know almost nothing about what really is going on in the world ... for almost 100 years, corporate greed for oil has been able to have its way with weaker foreign governments ... mega-oil has always been able to take whatever they wanted or to arrange for those who gave them what they wanted to assume power ...
those days have reached the "end times" ... as mega-economies like China and India emerge, new alignments are being formed ... please take the time to read this post and the article it links to:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/welshTerrier2/92the basic theme of the above-linked article is that China, using a much more "cooperative and friendly" international style than the abusive bullying that has characterized the US image acting on behalf of Big Oil, has been very effective in sewing up future supplies of oil ... the US, should the trend continue, will soon find itself with a rapidly dwindling list of suppliers ...
and, per the article below, the dangerous trend is indeed continuing and even accelerating ... the world has wised up to the abusive American oil empire ... and now it's fighting back very, very effectively ...
what's most disturbing is that Americans are largely unaware that this sits at the epicenter of American foreign policy ... at a time where we should be talking about how this problem can be addressed or at least how its impact can be somewhat lessened, we involve ourselves in inane discussions about Wars on Terror and even longer term discussions about alternative energy ... these topics are not unimportant at all but they do NOT address the immediacy we face in the oil markets ...
we cannot expect to use American military might to procure the oil we need ... and, most certainly, we cannot allow Big Oil and their lobbyists to continue their marauding for oil to fulfill the fantasies of Big Oil's largest stockholders ... i'm screaming this as loud as i can and neither party seems willing to make this a priority ... American imperialism and the disrespect of sovereign nations has brought the country to the brink of destruction and we still do little more than stay the course ... Big Oil must be stopped immediately and we need to begin a major diplomatic change in course to begin rebuilding US credibility in the world and rebuild respect for the US ... we need to start living on this planet cooperatively instead of aggressively or we will soon find the whole world united against our greed and our tyranny ... and if that becomes the case, we will truly be doomed ...
please read this whole article ... this one, combined with the one provided above, will give those who are willing to take the time the information you need to understand just how severe the problem has become ...
source:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=jain/jain96.txt&writer=jainYet the unmistakable geo-political trend among oil and gas producing nations of the Gulf, Latin America, Africa and Central Asia is to avoid US oil companies in favour of nations that do not interfere in their internal affairs. America's high comfort levels with dictatorial regimes on one hand, and promotion of puppet democracies on the other, as per its corporate convenience, has diminished its value as a desirable economic and strategic global partner.
Central Asia is alert after the string of 'coloured' revolutions. America currently retains bases in Kyrgyzthan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan. But Uzbekistan asked it to vacate the crucial Karshi-Khanabad (K2) base after the failed Andijan riots. President Islam Karimov was warned by ousted Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze against American financier George Soros and West-funded NGOs; he promptly expelled the Open Society Institute, stifled other NGOs, and courted Russian President Putin. A gas deal with Russia's Gazprom is expected to affect America's hydrocarbon pipeline over Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea. Karimov has invited India to share an energy partnership along with Russia and China, a move that makes profound geo-political sense. <skip>
Experts opine that Russia is leading the attempt to marginalise Western multinational oil companies. The move strikes a chord because the White House is dominated by a cartel of the oil and gas industry and some banker-financiers, and the oil-rich nations of Central Asia, the Gulf and Latin America prefer joint ventures with State enterprises rather than these rapacious multinationals. Thus, a very basic economic nationalism drives their tilt towards Russia and China. The West, used to more than a century of de facto imperialism in the oil and gas sector, finds itself on a sticky wicket. <skip>
Washington facilitated this process by its unacceptable oil greed in Iraq. In a path-breaking work, "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time," Antonia Juhasz exposes the US corporate invasion of Iraq. So far, 150 US corporations have received a staggering $50 billion worth of contracts for the failed reconstruction of Iraq, even as a new oil law has opened the oil sector to private foreign corporate investment.
Under the Geneva Convention, it is completely illegal for an occupying power to change the laws or political structure of the occupied country. Yet the United Nations and the international community have been idle bystanders as the Bush Administration has changed all basic economic and political laws, while totally failing in the primary task of providing for the security and basic needs of the Iraqi people. Thus, as many as 30 oil contracts signed by President Saddam Hussein with oil companies from all around the world, except the US, were simply cancelled. Iraq oil is now being guzzled by Chevron, Exxon and Marathon. <skip>
America's obduracy has reinforced the global preference for State-to-State long-term agreements and contracts which serve the energy-security interests of nations, rather than private corporate entities. Russia's domination of oil and gas flowing to the West has helped it re-emerge as a global power in concert with its strategic partners. And, surprising as it may seem, Washington lacks the global leverage to refashion events in its favour.
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