Tag Archive | "Iraq"
The Legacy of Saddam’s Architecture of Fear
Empires rise and fall, but the physical foundations they lay remain like ghosts. Fifty years ago Baghdad had just three public sculptures. During the revolution mobs destroyed two of them, leaving just one dedicated to an obscure prime minister. Today Iraq proliferates with imposing monuments and lavish palaces. But what has become of this architecture of fear since the fall of Saddam?
Continue reading...Black Gold Still Rules in Pipelineistan
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The bottom line on the Iraq and AfPAK wars, and the American fixation on Iran, is oil. Obscene amounts of money, civilian lives and American integrity continue to be wasted on attempts to secure control over Central Asian energy resources, and the pipeline network that must be built to get this Black Gold to market.
Continue reading...Iraq’s Depleted Uranium Shells Could Kill 500,000
Monday, May 26, 2008
Image from Christiaan Briggs In the wake of the first Gulf War, the American Press was enamored with military technology in a way that they never had been before, trumpeting the ability of the modern Roman Legions to put a single bomb through a single window anywhere in [...]
Continue reading...A Barrel of Oil for a Banana Please
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said Central American and Caribbean states could pay for oil with services or products like bananas and sugar. Speaking at the Petrocaribe summit of oil consumers and exporters,
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Monday, November 2, 2009
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