[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Texaco-istan/ more "oil opportunism"

["carolyn f. Strauss" <carolyn@dreamcapsule.com>]

bush and his supporters are also leveraging the current environment of
uncertainty to push through a disastrous bill in the name of "national
security" that will allow for oil drilling in the arctic.  nettimers in the
u.s. can urge their senators to oppose the bill by going to
http://www.savebiogems.org/arctic/index.asp?src=aa0110a

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>From: Paul St George <stgeorge@lgu.ac.uk>
>To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
>Subject: <nettime> Texaco-istan
>Date: Fri, Nov 2, 2001, 7:12 AM
>

>Texaco-istan: or Gulf War II
>
>We now know that the US government planned to attack the Taliban over 2
>months before 11 September 2001. We also know that there is oil in
>Tajikistan and that the Taliban refused to allow the US to pipe this oil
>across Afghanistan to the Gulf.
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
>
>Is the US attacking Afghanistan so that they can replace the Taliban? Does
>the US want to replace the Taliban with a government that will permit
>pipes to carry oil across Afghanistan? Is the US attacking Afghanistan to
>enable and ensure cheaper oil for US businesses?
>
>If George Dublya Bush was not from Texas, if oil money had not been part
>of the US election process and democracy had not been conflated with
>capitalism we could have more confidence in the answers to these
>questions.
>
>--
>Paul St George
>
>
>
>
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