Naked colonialism : Iraq's new oil law: not even a figleaf

Deirdre Griswold, Axis of Logic

It hadn’t even been seen by Iraqi legislators yet, but details of a new "Iraqi" hydrocarbons law, drafted in reality by U.S. contractors, were revealed Jan. 7 in the Independent, a major London newspaper that has been critical of the Iraq war. Once information about the leaked document got out, it was condemned around the world as an unprecedented giveaway to the multinational oil companies—in particular, those based in the U.S. and Britain...

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