OPERATION CORPORATE TAKEOVER - TUES 6 NOV
1) IRAQ: OPERATION CORPORATE TAKEOVER - TUES 6 NOV
2) SHAHRISTANI - WE'RE READY TO SIGN OIL DEALS BEFORE NEW LAW
3) THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN AND 'OIL FOR PEACE' IN IRAQ
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1) IRAQ: OPERATION CORPORATE TAKEOVER - TUES 6 NOV
7pm, Tuesday 6 November
Institute for Contemporary Arts, London
War on Want is launching Iraq: Operation Corporate Takeover, at Comica at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) on 6 November at 7pm.
The event, chaired by Seumas Milne (Guardian columnist and associate editor), will be a lively debate on the corporate takeover of Iraq. The comic's creators Sean Michael Wilson (script writer) and Lee O' Connor (illustrator) will be on hand to sign copies and discuss why comics are an important medium to communicate political realities.
Get your tickets now!
http://www.ica.org.uk/Iraq:%20The%20Graphic%20War,%20Today%20and%20in%202011+15109.twl
Watch the trailer here:
http://www.waronwant.org/Iraq:%20Operation%20Corporate%20Takeover%2015012.twl
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2) SHAHRISTANI - WE'RE READY TO SIGN OIL DEALS BEFORE NEW LAW
Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani has told Reuters that Iraq's government hopes to sign deals with foreign oil companies for some of the country's oil fields before the end of the year - even if a new law has not been passed by the Iraqi parliament.
It follows controversial Production Sharing Agreements signed by the Kurdistan regional government with foreign oil firms earlier this month, including with Texas-based oil firm Hunt Oil - which Shahristani described as 'illegal'.
Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL2486797320070924
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3) THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN AND 'OIL FOR PEACE' IN IRAQ
Carbon Web article, October 2007
by Greg Muttitt, PLATFORM
"The USA justifies its pressure on grounds that an oil law would help bring reconciliation.
Even if that account fitted the facts (which it doesn’t - their oil law barely mentions the revenue sharing they claim is so important), even if the USA were not responsible for sponsoring the sectarianism that is now tearing at the country, the very concept of the US benchmarks is based on a racist premise: that Iraqis are not able to sort out their politics themselves, that they need US pressure to get the country on track. That is a premise almost unanimously accepted by the media."
Read the full article: http://www.carbonweb.org/showitem.asp?article=300&parent=296
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