Iraqi Oil

The Iraqi Oil Conundrum: Energy and Power in the Middle East

Michael Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Schwartz

Will the vast Iraqi oil reserves be developed and sent into the hungry world market any time soon? If they are, who will determine the rate of flow, and so wield the power this decision-making confers?

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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jackson Williams

Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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Jason Linkins

T. Boone Pickens Thinks America Should Just Take All Of Iraq's Oil

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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T. Boone Pickens has garnered much renown over the past two years with his "Pickens Plan" for energy independence, which basically reads: "America sho...

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Richard Perle, War Architect, Exploring Iraq Oil Deal

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Wall Street Journal reports that neoconservative war architect Richard Perle is getting back into Iraq: Influential former Pentagon official Richa...

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On Morality of War, Art Imitates Life

Lincoln Chafee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lincoln Chafee

It may be easy, in the coming months, for Americans to forget the immorality of the Iraq War. But American foreign policy must be consistent with our interests as well as our morals.

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U.S. Helped Western Companies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil

NY Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and fiv...

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