Helena Cobban, IPS News. October 19, 2009. For many years, U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith had a secret financial interest in the political breakup of Iraq.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. June 30, 2009. It is very doubtful that, decades from now, Iraqis will tell their grandchildren about where they were on June 30, 2009.
Salah Al-Rubai, Azzaman. May 8, 2009. It is the second incident in less than a week involving the Ahdab oil field which the China National Petroleum Corporation is developing.
AzzamanApril 30, 2009. Though representing a modest fraction of Iraq's oil riches, the Ahdab field was marketed as proof that security conditions have improved.
Saadoun al-Jaberi, Azzaman AlterNet: War on Iraq. November 21, 2008. Iraq's oil exports are decreasing by nearly 100,000 barrels a day every month, according to the former oil minister.
Iraq Oil ReportOctober 29, 2008. The goal is to de-escalate tensions between Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government and the central government in Baghdad.
Terry Macalister, Nicholas Watt, The Guardian. October 13, 2008. BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are being given access to eight oil fields, which represent some 40 percent of Iraq's oil reserves.
Jim Lobe, IPS News. May 8, 2008. "The argument that Iraq should use its oil revenues to pay the U.S. sounds like the ultimate proof that we invaded Iraq for mercenary reasons."
