Oil and the Occupation of Iraq
Biden in Baghdad to uphold occupation, speed access to oil
By Bill Van Auken, September 18, 2009
Vice President Biden visited Iraq to uphold the US occupation and push for a law to open up the country’s oil wealth to exploitation.
Oil and the Iraq “withdrawal”
By James Cogan, June 30, 2009
It is fitting that today’s deadline for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq’s cities coincides with a meeting in Baghdad to auction off some of the country’s largest oil fields to companies su...
Falling oil prices shatter Iraqi budget forecasts
By James Cogan, December 20, 2008
The fall in world oil prices is slashing the revenues of the US-backed regime in Iraq, with immense implications for the mass of the Iraqi people, who face no improvement in the nightmarish conditions...
Perle returns to the scene of the crime
Former Bush administration official seeks cut of Iraqi oil deal
By Tom Eley, August 4, 2008
Richard Perle, the “neocon” defense analyst who played an outspoken role in building the fraudulent case for the invasion of Iraq, is now poised to take a position with a private oil firm ...
Bush administration encouraged oil deal in Kurdistan, undermining Iraqi “national unity”
By David Walsh, July 4, 2008
The Bush administration publicly criticized a deal made between Hunt Oil of Dallas, Texas and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq last September for supposedly undermining Iraqi “national ...
US advisers steered Iraqi oil contracts to Western firms
By Bill Van Auken, July 1, 2008
As the Iraqi regime formally opened the bidding for foreign oil companies to resume exploitation of the country’s oil wealth, it was revealed that US “advisers” played the leading ro...
Big oil cashes in on Iraq slaughter
By Bill Van Auken, June 20, 2008
Four major US, British and French oil companies are getting their hands on the petroleum reserves of Iraq for the first time in 36 years, based on no-bid contracts, the New York Times reported Thursda...
US-backed crackdown in Basra paves way for opening up Iraq’s oil and gas
By James Cogan, April 25, 2008
The Iraqi government is following up its US-backed campaign of terror against the Shiite Sadrist movement and its Mahdi Army militia in Basra with moves to open up the country’s oil and gas reso...
Corporate oil giants scramble to plunder Iraq’s energy reserves
By James Cogan, December 18, 2007
When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki finally sent the so-called “oil law” to be passed by the parliament in July, George Bush phoned to congratulate him personally. Maliki’s fai...
US, British and Australian forces build oil-protection base in Iraq
By Patrick Martin, November 13, 2007
The US Navy, with the assistance of British and Australian commandos, is building a permanent base to guard two oil-export platforms in Iraqi waters at the northern end of the Persian Gulf, according ...
Bush-linked Texas company signs oil deal with Iraqi Kurds
By Joe Kay, September 15, 2007
Earlier this month, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq announced that it had signed a production-sharing deal with Texas-based Hunt Oil. The move is an indication that Western oil companies...
US seeks legal expert to oversee plunder of Iraqi oil
By Kate Randall, September 12, 2007
As Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified before Congress on Monday and Tuesday, and US senators and representatives quibbled over the tactics of the US occupation of Iraq, there wa...
