BagNews Archives About Staff BagNews is a progressive site dedicated to visual politics and the analysis of news images.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Twitter

@bagnewsnotes »
Advertisement

December 12, 2009

Finally!

Fakka 1.jpg

Caption: Workers sit near a pond on the walk at Fakka oilfield, near Amara, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, December 8, 2009. Deal makers from the world’s largest energy firms assembled amid tight security at Iraq’s Oil Ministry on Friday to compete for deals to develop some of the country’s most prized oilfields. Picture taken December 8, 2009. (NYT article.)

(photo: Atef Hassan/Reuters)

  • http://jarreauquasimedia.xanga.com/ jrfunkenstein

    After 8 years of bloody conflict, hundreds of thousands of lives wasted and billions of dollars poured down a sinkhole, the great Iraq experiment turns out to be nothing more than a vast con game to garner foreign petroleum conglomerates access to the second largest reserves of oil on the planet.
    Who knew?

  • lytom

    f…..s Blier and Bush and all politicians…
    Simplified arrogance of Blier:
    “It would have been right to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein even without evidence he had weapons of mass destruction.”
    Talking about corruption in third world countries and being blind to empire and its buddies’ corruption.
    The bloody hand covered by oil and more dark deeds for planet’s destruction.
    Hope for change?? Take a look who is suffering!

  • http://www.nocaptionneeded.com Hariman

    Is that the correct caption? They aren’t sitting. . .

  • http://motherrr.blogspot.com mcmama

    Didn’t we always know it was about the oil?

  • jtfromBC

    What say you, to China’s oil contract, Dark Side Dick ?
    ‘Critics of the US invasion six years ago often said its ultimate aim was to control Iraq’s vast deposits of oil.So it is ironic, perhaps, that the first foreign oil company to sign a production agreement with the Iraqi government since 2003 should be from America’s growing rival, China
    A year since it signed a 23-year, $3bn (£1.84bn) deal to exploit the small al-Ahdab field, in Wasit province, south of Baghdad, China’s National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has already struck oil’
    http://www.globalpolicy.org/iraq/political-issues-in-iraq/oil-in-iraq.html

  • Gasho

    If this image looks like a couple of guys visiting an oilfield in overalls and work boots, remember that there are billions of dollars, millions of lives, and a game of global dominance underlying it.
    These oil fields have been divvied up on Dick Cheney’s charts for many many years. Those charts were reviewed in the infamous ‘energy meetings’ early on in the administration. PNAC was the brain of the Bush administration and they laid out plans to dominate the world through strategic military interventions and the control of key energy resources. All they needed, they said was ‘a new Pearl Harbour’. Months later we had 9/11, with all of it’s un-answered mysteries, attacking the homeland and it’s Pentagon, meaning that not only aggression was commited, but WAR had been declared. The PNAC plan was in full swing.
    The plan took a few years longer than expected, and was bloodier and messier than they had planned, but here we are, claiming the prize. This is nothing short of a manifestation of Nietzsche’s “Will to Power”on the grand political scale and it’s exactly what the international institutions are designed to protect the world against. Nietzche: 1, UN: 0.