How Bush won the war in Iraq – really!
If you thought it was “Blood for Oil”– you’re wrong. It was far, far worse.
Because it was marked “confidential” on each page
OPEC
Driving the surge in gas prices?: The Bush-McCain surge in Iraq
In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map
George of Arabia: Better Kiss Your Abe “Goodbye”
George of Arabia: Better Kiss Your Abe “Goodbye”
“I have Karl Rove’s emails”
Read the Interview with Palast from the Dollars & Sense magazine spring issue about to hit the streets
It's STILL The Oil: Secret Condi Meeting on Oil Before Invasion
Four years ago this week, the tanks rolled for what President Bush originally called, “Operation Iraqi Liberation” ”“ O.I.L. I kid you not.
And it was four years ago that
The Baker Boys: Stay Half the Course
Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?
They’re kidding, right?
James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the “Iraq Study Group” have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.
Baker’s Two Big Ideas are:
1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq is a disaster getting more disastrous. The Baker Boys’ idea: cut the disaster in half — leave 70,000 troops there.
But here’s where dumb gets dumber: the Bakerites want to “embed” US forces in Iraqi Army units. Question one, Mr. Baker: What Iraqi Army? This so-called “army” is a rough confederation of Shia death squads. We can tell our troops to get “embedded” with them, but the Americans won’t get much sleep.
Project Censored 2007 — All About The O.I.L.
In what has become a annual event Greg Palast wins two Project Censored awards. Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media. Both winning stories, Bush Didn’t Bungle Iraq, You Fools and Opec and the Economic Conquest of Iraq can be read below.
Bush Didn’t Bungle Iraq, You Fools: The Mission Was Indeed Accomplished
From The Guardian
Big Oil and the Trillion-Dollar War Bonus
excerpted from, “Armed Madhouse” (Penguin 2006)
It has been a very good war for Big Oil — courtesy of OPEC price hikes. The five oil giants saw profits rise from $34 billion in 2002 to $81 billion in 2004, year two of Iraq’s “transition to democracy.”
But this tsunami of black ink was nothing compared to the wave of $113 billion in profits to come in 2005: $13.6 billion for Conoco, $14.1 billion for Chevron and the Mother of All Earnings, Exxon’s $36.1 billion.
"The Best Thing in The World for Big Oil"…Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Palast on why Saddam had to go.
“This war in Iraq has been the best thing in the world for Big Oil and OPEC. They’ve made the largest profits in the history of the world. The interesting thing about your book is you show how it was all planned from the beginning. The story is like a spy thriller.” — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Listen to RFK and Greg Palast on Iraq, a 20-minute conversation about blood and oil for ‘Ring of Fire’ from Air America.
Ken Lay's Alive!
Don’t check the casket. I know he’s back. When I saw those lights flickering out at La Guardia Airport yesterday and heard the eerie shrieks and moans in the dark, broiling subway tunnels, I just knew it: Ken Lay’s alive! We can see his spirit in every flickering lightbulb from Kansas to Queens as we head into America’s annual Blackout season.
Was The Invasion of Iraq a Jewish Conspiracy?
Tikkun Magazine JULY/AUGUST 2006
Did the Jews do it?
The US Congress will open hearings this week on the War in Iraq — a wee bit late one might think. But one question at the forefront of the minds of many on both the Left and the Right is sure not to be asked: Did the Jews do it? I mean, after killing Jesus, did the Elders of Zion manipulate the government of the United States into invading Babylon as part of a scheme to abet the expansion of Greater Israel?
Yes, It's About Oil
From The New AmericanFriday, June 16, 2006
Greg Palast, in his new book Armed Madhouse, offers a pretty plausible answer to this question: Why did the US invade Iraq?
Short answer: It’s the oil, stupid — and the point is not to sell it, but to control it.
