The geopolitical truth under the cloak of America's New War on terrorism
is
the same old ghoulish grab for riches: The new Great Game.
The attack on Afghanistan is not about Sept 11:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
U.S. gov't analysis of Afghan energy and geopolitics of region:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html
U.S. analysis of pipeline routes for Caspian basin oil & gas --
the Unocal
connection (see route thru Afghanistan to Pakistan:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/casproute.html
The whole enchalada on the Unocal Website.
"The 48-inch diameter [gas] pipeline will extend 790 miles (1,271
kilometers) from the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border, generally follow
the
Herat-to-Kandahar Road through Afghanistan":
http://www.unocal.com/uclnews/97news/102797a.htm
Wanted by Unocal (and Dick Cheney's infrastructure industries!) a new,
friendly government in Afghanistan:
http://www.worldpaper.com/2000/june00/vivknand.html
Global Circle has put together a good page with the above links and
other
essaysd on the new Great Game in the Caucasus and America's global
oil grab.
I recommend the excellent Covert Action Quarterly essay by Karen Talbot.
It's been around for more than a year, but it now has an urgent relevance.
Watch this space. The new Great Game:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0%2C3604%2C446490%2C00.html
DICK CHENEY, The oil baron:
http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/chaney.html
MR. & MRS CHENEY, The facist financers:
http://www.motherjones.com/reality_check/cheneymoney.html
CHENEY, the mobster: http://www.public-i.org/story_01_080200.htm
CHENEY, the "discrete" war monger:
http://www.halliburton.com/BRS/BRSSS/BRSSS_defense.asp
CHENEY, building pipelines of blood:
http://www.earthrights.org/pubs/halliburton.html
Please, take the time to read this 45 page report from Earthrights
International.
Finally, what "they" don't want you to know -- just like in 1991 --
It's the
oil, stupid http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/44/cover-angel.shtml
I also urge you to make John Pilger http://pilger.carlton.com/
and Robert
Fisk http://www.independent.co.uk/search.jsp?keywords=robert+fisk
part of
your regular reading habit. These two British journalists and documentarians
have a long history in the region, and in the case of Pilger, a particular
understanding of how the globalist juggernaut is bent on total world
domination to protect the "interests" of capital. George Monbiot is
also a
good read http://www.monbiot.com/