Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Petrolio di guerra

Da tener d'occhio, il sito 
www.oil.com
 : vi si possono trovare ottime
notizie su una delle ragioni profonde della guerra all'Iraq: il
ridimensionamento del Medio Oriente (e segnatamente dell'Arabia
Saudita) nel bilancio delle risorse energetiche. Nell'affare entra
anche la Russia (come segnala un interessante art. sul "Sole" di oggi,
"L'America apre le porte al petrolio russo", di A. Scott, ove si
prevede, per il 2010, un apporto russo al mercato americano di 2 mln
di barili al giorno: dividendi *comuni* dell'11-9?). Per gli aspetti
complessivi della guerra in sé, si veda il link
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/09/29/MN
116803.DTL :
[Dal "San Francisco Chronicle"]
Oil firms wait as Iraq crisis unfolds
by Robert Collier, Sunday, September 29, 2002
The world's biggest oil bonanza in recent memory may be just around
the corner, giving U.S. oil companies huge profits and American
consumers cheap gasoline for decades to come.
And it all may come courtesy of a war with Iraq.
[...]
"The U.S. administration wants to destroy Iraq in order to control the
Middle East oil, and consequently control the politics as well as the
oil and economic policies of the whole world," said a letter from
[Saddam] Hussein read to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 19.
Some domestic U.S. critics, while reluctant to appear sympathetic to
Hussein, partially echo his claims.
"The administration doesn't want oil to be part of the war discussion
because it undercuts the reasoning that the rush to war is because of
an imminent (Iraqi) military threat," Michael Klare, professor of
peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Amherst,
Mass., and author of "Global Petro-Politics," wrote in the March issue
of Current History magazine.
"If the real motives were made clear -- that this is a grab for oil
and an attempt to break the back of OPEC -- it would make our motives
look more predatory than exemplary."
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Predatori di molte razze: tutte, però, aliene da chiacchiere
"fallaciane", e tendenti al sodo.
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The oil card is clearly a factor in the current tug-of-war between
Baghdad, Washington and key members of the U.N. Security Council that
oppose the Bush administration's push for a military move on Iraq. In
recent years, seeking to curry favor, Hussein has given huge contracts
to oil firms from France, Russia and China, which all have veto power
in the Security Council.
The French oil giant TotalFinaElf has the largest position in Iraq,
with exclusive negotiating rights to develop Majnoon, a field near the
Iranian border with estimated reserves of 10 billion barrels. Moscow
has a $3.5 billion, 23-year agreement for several huge Iraqi fields
that gives a lead position to a Russian oil consortium led by LukOil.
E mentre i fautori della guerra, nella lontana provincia italica,
invocano il coraggio e la bandiera (altrui...), elevano peana alla
civiltà e
deprecano la barbarie, non lasciano asciutto il ciglio nella
rievocazione della "generosità" americana, né trattengono lo sdegno al
pensiero della "viltà" europea, cianciando di "armi di distruzioni di
massa" e di legami Saddam-al-Qa'eda, la storia andrà come deve andare.
Come sempre. Alla facciaccia loro (come diceva Totò) e delle vittime.
Shalom.
Namib

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Smetti di usare benzina, di consumare elettricità, porti due mattoni alla
pace.
Ciao
Ad'I