The heading above, about Turkey's private oil companies, and, more precisely, Kurdistan's oil fields, should come as no surprise to anyone if they have been reading my blog for some time.
Of course, supplying Nabucco is mentioned in the following article, as well as the GCC,
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=109778
So far, I 've yet to see ANY acknowledgement from the global fake Left and support for Turkey's opposition to the role of their pseudo-Islamic, privatizing AKP, and, of course, their partners in crime and privatization, Talabani, Barzani, the KRG, the PKK, Iran, the US, the GCC, etc. Meanwhile, Turkey's opposition keeps being attacked, a la American McCarthy style, as Turkey's state assets get sold off and down the drain, while nobody here seems to notice much of anything.
And, no surprise, a simultaneous development, "Iraq's Oil Reserves Thrown Open to Foreign Firms."
The token distinction mentioned in the following about Saudi Arabia and other GCC states and their "national" firms is a meaningless one, since these "countries" are all "client" states of the US and have a "special" relationship in the money-go-round.
Their "sovereignty" is nominal and even that will disappear, soon, anyway. The GCC is the financial coordinating arm, like Switzerland during WWII, for the "new middle east project,"
www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080713084052/lok84000080713
The reason I paraphrased the song in my heading, above, "Where Have All the Arabs Gone...(Long Time Ago)" is that I see/read many articles which happen to notice the absence of an Arab voice in what was an Arab state, Iraq.
Of course, Iraqi Arabs are gone, thanks to Iran's militias, Kurdish Peshmerga and the US.
But, last time I looked, the GCC states and Saudi Arabia were/are very much Arab.
Then, we have Syria's Assad in a rapprochement with France's Sarkozy. And, if that isn't sufficient, there's Egypt's Mubarak, in the highly reported, "Union of the Mediterranean..."
www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15047
Perhaps readers will recall Egypt's EFG-Hermes prominent role, about which I've written so much.
And, then, of course, Egypt's EMG deal with Israel, and then Dana, Crescent, Iran, Iraq, etc.
If you have not been following the cozy Dana Gas relationship, too bad. The latest on that one,
www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080714070812/lok070800080714
And, as for more Arabs, try the folks at MerchantBridge.
Remember them?
MerchantBridge was established to sell off Iraqis non-oil state companies. They're busy expanding now,
www.ameinfo.com/rssfeeds/3332.xml
I thought, at the point, a little refresher or reminder would be in order, a little retrospective regarding MerchantBridge and their role, illustrative of so much else.
Basil Al-Rahim is MerchantBridge's Managing Director.
They have an extensive list of advisors besides Rahim which you can peruse if you wish.
However, focusing on Rahim, at the moment.
Rahim was also a Founder and Board Member of the Iraq Foundation.
The Iraq Foundation, in turn, was connected to America's prestigious, private, Ivy League, Harvard University.
Here's a good roundup on the Iraq Foundation and its numerous inter-connections,
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_Foundation
Here's a transcript of the testimony Rahim gave at a 2003 Senate hearing, "Transforming the Iraqi Economy," (if you do not want to read all this, skim it and/or skip to the following link),
www.jec.senate.gov/archive/Documents/Hearings/alrahimtestimony11june2003.pdf
And, this is the one from 2004 which I love the most, which says it all in a nutshell, "From De-Bolshevization to De-Baathification..."
Can't be much more clear than this/that.
Of course, assuming one is not brain dead,
www.aei.org/events/filter.,eventID.912/transcript.asp
So, as usual, it all depends as to WHICH Arabs one is referring.
As for Iran, as it privatizes and is partnered with the US, conflicts and competition still abound on the ground.
And, one of those conflicts, for sure, IF it's accurate, which is a big IF, is about Gazprom and Iran, coupled with the explosive situation surrounding Georgia, the Caucasus, Ukraine, NATO expansion, and Russia,
www.payvand.com/news/08/jul/1135.htm
However, I remain very dubious about the above report on Gazprom, just like Iran's missile test.
Nonetheless, an arc of destabilization now exists, ranging across the region and the globe.
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