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March 21, 2006
Stop Global Warming Virtual March
We have placed a form in the left column so that readers can sign up for the upcoming Stop Global Warming Virtual March. It is our belief that the quest to quickly develop an alternative to our present carbon-based energy addiction is the single most important political action of this generation. Anything that brings the public together on this issue is of vital importance. The Virtual March is clearly a step in the right direction if it can help forge a poltically active global environment community.
Kevin Phillips, the Conservative commentator who was one of the first to predict a shift in America to a Republican majority, argues in his most recent book American Theocracy that oil is one of three broad and related trends that threaten the future of the United States and world.
A New York Times review puts it this way:
The American press in the first days of the Iraq war reported extensively on the Pentagon's failure to post American troops in front of the National Museum in Baghdad, which, as a result, was looted of many of its great archaeological treasures. Less widely reported, but to Phillips far more meaningful, was the immediate posting of troops around the Iraqi Oil Ministry, which held the maps and charts that were the key to effective oil production. Phillips fully supports an explanation of the Iraq war that the Bush administration dismisses as conspiracy theory — that its principal purpose was to secure vast oil reserves that would enable the United States to control production and to lower prices. ("Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve underneath," an oil analyst said a couple of years ago. "You can't ask for better than that.") Terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, tyranny, democracy and other public rationales were, Phillips says, simply ruses to disguise the real motivation for the invasion.
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Posted by dymaxion at March 21, 2006 02:04 PM