Fact Sheet on Oil and U. S. Policy Toward Iraq (pdf format)
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Iraq Neither Independent nor Stable--Der Spiegel
Baker Institute Study Says Iraq Faces Hurdles in Becoming Oil Leader--Oil and Gas Journal
EU affirms authority of Iraq's central government over oil, gas exports--Washington Post
Amid the Arab Spring, a U.S.-Saudi split--Washington Post
Iraq oil deal puts pressure on Opec--Financial Times
Eni wins Iraq oil field deal--Financial Times
Buoyant Iraqi minister sees 'big leap' coming in production--Oil and Gas Journal
Aramco production capacity at 12 million b/d--Oil and Gas Journal
Between Iraq and a Hard Place--Poten Partners
Crude competition--Financial Times
Iraqi Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can
--Interpress Service
Iraq Oil Production Could Surge
--Energy Investment Strategies
A New Assassination Program?
-- Bob Woodward, The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
Has the Surge Put Iraq on the Path to Success?
--Council on Foreign Relations
The Mutiny of Charlie 1-26
--Army Times
Iran Report Sends Bush's War Rhetoric Out to Pasture
--Der Spiegel
Can the Surge's Successes Be Maintained?
--Der Spiegel
Why Did We Invade Iraq Anyway? Putting a Country in Your Tank--Michael Schwartz
How The Bush Oil Grab Went Awry--The Nation
Beyond the Age of Petroleum--The Nation
Over a Million Iraqi War Dead--Opinion Research Business
Future of Oil and Gas Industry--Poten & Partners
Bush denies preparing attack against Iran
--Financial Times
Bush tackles growing unease over possible military action in Iran--Financial Times
Time to Offshore Our Troops (to Diego Garcia)--New York Times
Talk of another preventive war in the Middle East is folly--Financial Times
Iraq Study Group Report excerpts--Financial Times
New Report on Guantanamo Review Hearings--Lefttalk.com
'No-Hearing' Process Traps Detainees--National Public Radio
U.S. Central Command CHART from Previous Article
--New York Times
Shia infighting in south threatens troop withdrawal
--Financial Times
Amara unrest strains plans for unified Iraq
--Financial Times
Bush sees support ebb away for military strategy in Iraq
--Financial Times
OPEC ON THE MARCH: Why Iraq still sells its oil à la cartel--Harper's
Shiite Cleric's Soldiers Battle Rivals in Najaf and Basra--N Y Times
Sunnis on Constitutional Panel: Determined by Impugned--N Y Times
U.S. Faces Pressure to Pull Troops from Iraq--Power and Interest News Report
Modern memorials stand for the warriors, not the war--USA Today
Arlington West Memorial, Oceanside, CA, Sept. 2004
Amnesty Takes Aim at 'Gulag' in Guantanamo--Washington Post
Pentagon Blamed for Lack of Postwar Planning in Iraq--Washington Post
Harsh Tactics Were Allowed, General Told Jailers in Iraq
--N.Y.Times
Secret U. S. Plans for Iraqi Oil--BBC
Campus Group Honors War Dead--San Diego Union
Iraqi Election Turnout Lies, Future Oil Plans--Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
Fresh Details Emerge on Harsh Methods at Guantánamo--New York Times
Terror Suspect Alleges Torture, Says U.S. Sent Him to Egypt Before Guantanamo--Washington Post
Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground, CIA Advisers Report--Washington Post
Soldiers Who Refused Suicide Mission
Diego Garcia: Paradise Cleansed --The Guardian
Medical Study Says 98,000 Dead Since Start of Iraq War--The Lancet
Generals Say Iraq Far Graver than Vietnam--The Guardian
Growing Pessimism on Iraq--Washington Post
ConocoPhilips and Lukoil to Share Production in Iraq--Oil and Gas Journal
U. N. Secretary General Annan Says Iraq War Illegal--BBC News
CIA Estimate Pessimistic About U.S. Control of Iraq--CBS News
New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge--Washington Post
Fury Ignites Solidarity in Iraq--Los Angeles Times
Iraq Solidarity Action- Resist the Massacre in Fallujah--Middle East Realities
Iraqi Battalion Refuses American Orders to 'Fight Iraqis'--Washington Post
Bush bullied CIA in order to dupe us--Atlanta Constitution
Chalabi's Power grab in Iraq--Washington Times
The Thirty Year Itch: Strategy for US control of the Persian Gulf's oil--Mother Jones
Chief Weapons Inspector Admits There Were None--Associated Press
There Was No Failure of Intelligence--Guardian
Money to rebuild Iraq still lost in the pipeline --The Straits Times
Why the US Really Opposes Democracy In Iraq--Green Left Weekly
White House Source Confirms Invasion Plans Before 9/11--ABC News
The Missing History of the U.S.-Saddam Relation--In These Times
Kurds Claim They Captured Saddam FIrst--Sydney Morning Herald
US limits international participation in Iraq reconstruction contracts--Oil & Gas Journal
CIA Role in Rise of Saddam Detailed--UPI
Richard Pearle Admits U. S. Invastion Illegal--The Guardian
Politics of Casualty Numbers--New York Times
U. S. Sale of Iraqi Assets Contrary to International Law--The Guardian
Uzbek Dictator Karimov is U. S. / U. K. Friend--The Guardian
U. S. Soldiers Buldoze Iraqi Farmer's Crops--The Independent
Iraq Made Last Minute Attempt to Avert War--New York Times
Oil Folly--The Washington Post
Lack of "Transparency" in Iraqi Oil Deals--Oil and Gas Journal
Oil Investor Interest Grows in Iraq--Oil and Gas Journal
OPEC Still Has Customers Over a Barrel--The Economist
Bush Ideologues Trump Big Oil Interests in Iraq--Alternatives
Inspectors Still Find No WMD's in Iraq--CNN
Iraq, OPEC and U. S. Access to Iraqi Oil--Washington Post
Russian and U. S. Plans for Iraqi Oil--Oil and Gas Journal
Why We Aren't Winning the Peace in Iraq--San Diego Union
BP and Shell Make Iraq Oil Deals--Oil and Gas Journal
Bush Grants Oil Companies Immunity for Iraqi Dealings--L. A. Times
U. S., Iraqi Casualities Mount--S. F. Chronicle, Guardian
Iraqi Mobile Labs Not Weapons--London Observer
No Iraqi Ties with Al-Qaeda--San Diego Union
U. S. Gov't's 10 Big Lies about Iraq--Alternet
Cheney Taskforce Studied Iraqi Fields before War--Associated Press
Wolfowitz Admits War Was About Oil--The Guardian
Wolfowitz: "Iraq Swims in a Sea of Oil"--Die Welt
Iraq's pipeline damage could hinder its oil exports--Oil and Gas Journal
Republican move to close hearings on US' Iraq intelligence--Agence France Presse
US-led coalition pushes for early privatization in Iraq--AFP
CIA officer: Bush ignored warnings--KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
White House in Denial--New York Times
Revealed: The Secret Cabal Which Spun Iraq Intelligence for Blair--Sunday Herald (Scotland)
Wolfowitz: WMDs Were Only a "Bureaucratic Reason' for War--Sidney Morning Herald
Those Elusive WMDs--San Diego Union
Wolfowitz Admits WMDs Just Conventient Excuse for War--London Independent
Better Security Needed to Export Iraqi Oil--Oil and Gas Journal
Disputes over Russian and Chinese Oil Contracts with Iraq--Oil and Gas Journal
UN Resolution Allowing Sale of Iraqi Oil--UN Security Council
US seeks accord on Iraqi oil revenue by June deadline--Oil and Gas Journal
US Admits Saddam had no WMDs--Sunday Herald, AP
US, UK intelligence cannot be trusted on WMDs--BBC
Western companies' pipe dream of Iraqi oil--AP
US WMD lies a "matter of emphasis" Paul Krugman--N. Y. Times
Iraq oil production delayed--Oil and Gas Journal
Corporate Colonialism In Iraq--Village Voice
"Crude Visions," Rumsfeld's Role in Arming Saddam--Institute of Policy Studies
"Making
Iraq Safe for...Theocracy?--A Dave Ross Audio Commentary CBS Radio (requires MP3 Player)
George McGovern: The Reason Why--Nation
The Fight Over Iraqi Oil Revenue--Oil and Gas Journal
History Is Not On America's Side--San Diego Union
Hell in an Iraqi Hospital--Sydney Morning Herald
New Afghan Pipeline Plans--Oil and Gas Journal
Planned Iraq Reconstruction is Really Robbery--Observer
Iraq is Trial Run for U. S. Policy--ZNET
U. S. Wants to Privatize Iraqi Oil--L. A. Times
Gauging Promise of Iraqi Oil--L. A. Times
U.S. Marines Kill Civilians on Bridge of Death--Times (London)
Treatment of Prisioners, Iraqis vs. Quantanamo--Guardian (London)
U.S. Names Desert Oil Depots "Exxon" and "Shell"--Guardian
U.S. Marines Kill Civilians in Nasiriya--Times (London)
Collective Portrait of U. S. Neoconservative War Planners--AlterNet
U. S. is Fighting for Control of Oil, says fromer Saudi Oil Minister --BBC
A Russian Take on U.S. Aggression --Moscow News
Excerpts from U. N. Charter on Justifications for War
The Empire Needs New Clothes --Common Dreams
US Claims It Will Follow Law As Occupier Of Iraqi Oil Fields --Energy Intelligence Group
Americas By Far The Largest Buyer Of Iraqi Crude Oil--Energy Intelligence Group
War in Iraq boils down to oil profits--Daily Aztec
Cóilín Nunan: Oil, Currency and the War on Iraq--Feasta Website
Saudi Arabia quietly eases US crude oil supply trouble --Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections
"It's not all about oil, but ..." --Business Week
Unilateral Imperialists: Interviews from Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Pearle
Multilaterial Imperialist: Excerpts from C. Kupchen, The End of the American Era
As Venezuela Returns, Oil Market Can Handle Iraq War--Energy Intelligence Group
It's Final: Russian Oil Company Forced Out of Iraq--Energy Intelligence Group
Code Word: "Stability" -- Oil and War--Counterpunch
Exclusive List of Iraqi Weapons Providers, includes 24 U.S. firms--die tagezeitung
Iraqi Weapons Supplier--Interview--Democracy Now
War-Wary Saudis Move to Increase Oil Market Clout--Washington Post
US Plans to Ditch Industry Rivals and Force end of OPEC--Reuters
THE ROVING EYE:China, Russia and the Iraqi oil game--Asia Times On Line
C.I.A. Letter to Senate on Baghdad's Intentions--N Y Times
White House Disputes C.I.A. Estimate--London Observer
Oil Is Factor in Iraq War Equation--L A Times
Oil Economics Lubricates Push for War--L A Times
Headline: Is it all about oil?--Christian Science Monitor
Spoils of War: In Iraq War, to the Victor Goes the Oil--ABC Nightline
Background Information on Oil Companies and War Plans Against Iraq
Speech in Bagdad by Former U.S. Weapons Inspector--CSPAN
U. S., French and Russian Oil Companies Fight Over Iraqi Oil--Washington Post
Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy--New York Times
Iraq for Whimps--New York Times
Former Blair Cabinet Member Says U.S. Wants to Seize Saudi Oil--The Guardian
New York Times Attacks Bush War Plans
U. S. Battle Plan for Iraq Attack--New York Times
Oil Moves the War Machine, by Michael T. Klare--The Progressive, June 2002
Oil Greases the Wheels of U.S. Conquest of Afganistan--Toronto Globe and Mail
Bush Admin's Plan for Attack on Iraq--From New Yorker Magazine
Bush Admin. Debates When to Start War With Iraq--New York Times
U.S. Strategies to Manage its Empire-- New York Times
Declassified Document Shows U.S. Knew It Was Creating Epidemics In Iraq
(Note: "AFMIC" means the Armed Forces Medical Information Center,
located at Fort Detrick, Maryland. "ARCENT" means Army Forces Central
Command. For the Pentagon link to this document: Click here))
An Oil War Coming? Letter to the New York Times 9/27/2001
America is rushing blindly into a war of its own creation--Daily Aztec
Madeline Albright on U.S. Policy of Starving Iraqi Children
U. S. Oil Companies Buy Most Iraqi Oil--ABC News
Henry Kissinger Advocates Attack on Iraq--L. A. Times
Iraq's big oil promise clouded by bigger political questions --Oil and Gas Financial Journal
