Oil and the Occupation of Iraq
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...
Royal Dutch Shell and the struggle for Iraqi oil
By Jörg Victor, July 24, 2007
Despite growing popular opposition, the Dutch government coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDA), Social Democrats (PvdA) and Christian Union (CU), under Christian Democratic Prime Minister Jan Pie...
Under sustained US pressure, Iraqi cabinet sends oil law to parliament
By James Cogan, July 5, 2007
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went before the media on Tuesday to announce that his cabinet had “unanimously” approved US-backed draft legislation covering the future development of...
Iraqi oil workers strike in Basra
By James Cogan, June 9, 2007
Some 600 members of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) who work for the Oil Pipeline Company in the southern city of Basra went on strike on Monday, curtailing the flow of refined petroleum and...
Wall Street drools over prospect of capturing Iraq oil wealth
By Patrick Martin, March 6, 2007
The Iraqi cabinet’s adoption last week of a law creating the legal framework for turning over the country’s oil wealth to American corporations has touched off a chorus of salutes from the...
Iraqi regime set to hand over oil reserves to US energy giants
By Jerry White, January 11, 2007
As the Bush administration prepares to escalate military violence against the Iraqi people the US-installed regime in Baghdad is set to approve a new hydrocarbon law that will hand unprecedented contr...
Shiite faction pushes for control over southern Iraq and its oil
By James Cogan, September 13, 2006
The main Shiite fundamentalist party based on the clerical and propertied elite in Iraq’s south is stepping up its agitation for the formal division of the country into federal states with sweep...
Iraqi oil minister resigns amid protests and economic chaos
By Peter Symonds, January 9, 2006
The events surrounding the resignation of Iraqi oil minister Ibrahim Bahr Uloom last Monday provided a revealing glimpse into the economic and social chaos created by the US occupation of the country.
Report outlines plans for corporate plunder of Iraqi oil
By James Cogan, December 8, 2005
A report published in November by the London-based environmental and social justice network Platform makes clear that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was, and remains, a war for oil. The document,...
Report highlights unchecked looting of Iraq’s oil resources
By Rick Kelly, July 21, 2004
The British based non-government organisation Christian Aid released a report on June 28, pointing to the unrestricted plundering of Iraq’s oil by the US and its allies. The paper, “Fuelli...
Bush grants permanent legal immunity to US corporations looting Iraqi oil
By Rick Kelly, August 19, 2003
An extraordinary Presidential Executive Order, signed into law by President Bush on May 22 but kept out of the pages of the US media, further underscores the real motivations behind the illegal US-led...
