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  Oil imperialism theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oil imperialism theories characterize a broad group of political science theories which assert that direct and indirect control of world petroleum reserves is a root factor in current international politics.
Some theories hold that access to oil defined 20th century empires and was the key to the ascendance of the United States as the world's sole superpower and explain why Russia was able to sustain itself for so long despite poor economic organization.
Oil Imperialism - by Norman D. Livergood - note: this essay is clearly delineated as expressing a specific point of view, with support for this position offered throughout the essay.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oil_imperialism   (277 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Oil imperialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Some critics of the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, mostly coming from the far left, argued that oil imperialism was a major driving force behind these conflicts.
Oil Imperialism - by Livergood - note: this article has a clearly advertised as pushing a specific point of view - the list of more mainstream journal articles offered as references at the end are this article's primary and most credible sources.
Oil Imperialism - by Norman D. Livergood - note: this article is clearly advertised as pushing a specific point of view - the list of more mainstream journal articles offered as references at the end are this article's primary and most credible sources.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Oil-imperialism   (498 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Oil imperialism theories Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oil imperialism theories are a broad group of political science theories which assert that direct and indirect control of world petroleum reserves is a root factor in current international politics.
Oil imperialism theories generally tend to assert that control of petroleum reserves plays an overriding role in today's politics.
Some critics of the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, mostly coming from the far left, argued that oil imperialism was a motivation for going to war.
www.ipedia.com /oil_imperialism_theories.html   (259 words)

  
 15 Oil, imperialism and Equatorial Guinea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Before EG is to be allowed a share in its own oil, the oil companies must have generated sufficient income for themselves to repay the whole of their investment in the oil industry of EG, including the cost of exploration.
In addition, the oil companies were, until 1998, free of any obligation to pay import taxes in respect of anything they chose to import, with the result that they had little or no incentive to obtain any of their requirements locally.
The contribution of oil revenues to the public purse is between 12-19% of export values, while in Gabon, Cameroon and Nigeria it is 30%, 48% and 40% respectively.
www.wpb.be /lalkar/lalkarnov99/15guinea.htm   (1175 words)

  
 Knowledge King - Oil imperialism theories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oil imperialism theories are a broad group of political science theories holding the general assertion that direct and indirect control of world petroleum reserves is a root factor in current world politics.
While control of relevant resources has always and will always play a greater or lesser role in politics, Oil Imperialism theories generally tend to assert that contol of petroleum reserves plays an over-riding role in politics.
Oil Imperialism - by Norman D. Livergood - note: this article has a clearly advertised as pushing a specific point of view - the list of more mainstream journal articles offered as references at the end are this article's primary and most credible sources.
www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/o/oi/oil_imperialism_theories.html   (193 words)

  
 Articles - Petroleum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
However, oil's unique role as a transportation fuel makes reducing its CO emissions a particularly thorny problem; amelioration strategies such as carbon sequestering are generally geared for large power plants, not individual tailpipes.
Proponents of peak oil theory also refer as an example of their theory, that when any given oil well produces oil in similar volumes to the amount of water used to obtain the oil, it tends to produce less oil afterwards, leading to the relatively quick exhaustion and/or commercial unviablility of the well in question.
The oil is landed at Sullom Voe terminal in the Shetlands.
www.deluxez.com /articles/Petroleum   (4294 words)

  
 Oil Imperialism and the US-Israel Relationship, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Roger Hurwitz, David Woolf & Sherman ...
Furthermore, there is "widespread acceptance among energy experts of the fairness of today's oil prices" which "are merely what had long be expected by the end of the 1970s anyway..."9 One person's "fairness," of course, is another's "cruel exploitation," but those with the power are generally in the former camp, not only in this regard.
As long as the state uses its power to enhance "profits beyond the dreams of avarice,"12 as in the case of the oil companies, and to secure the conditions for their enhancement it is hardly necessary for those concerned directly with business operations to attempt to intervene in affairs of state.
The Middle East oil reserves are, by a very large margin, the largest and the cheapest energy resources in the world, and whoever has control over them runs a good part of the world.
www.chomsky.info /interviews/197703--.htm   (7004 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Oil imperialism
Oil and gas supplies are now much more geographically diverse than they were even ten years ago.
Control of Iraq’s oil reserves, the hawks believe, will allow the US to break the powerful influence on the oil market of the Saudi regime, as well as smashing OPEC.
One of their delusions is that cheap oil (if they secure it) will dissolve the deep-rooted crisis in the world capitalist economy.
www.socialismtoday.org /74/oil.html   (694 words)

  
 The New U.S.-British Oil Imperialism
The U.S. invasion of Iraq to loot its oil and politically restructure the Middle East, is part of a policy of military imperialism that the American and British ruling circles have been engaged in for several centuries.
Oil imperialism rests on our continued dependence on oil, which not only threatens the future of humanity through prolonged and bloody conflict, but through another even more insidious threat--climate change and ecological collapse.
Oil imperialism flourishes when a supine press cheers and a groveling congress grants unconstitutional authority to the oil-saturated Demonic Cabal.
www.hermes-press.com /impintro1.htm   (6125 words)

  
 June 2, 2004 Science Magazine 21 MAY 2004 VOL 304 1114-15
The worst effect of this recurring oil panic is that it has driven Western political circles toward oil imperialism and attempts to assert direct or indirect control over oil-producing regions.
Oil is trapped in porous subsurface rocks, which makes it difficult to estimate how much oil there is and how much can be effectively extracted.
Two centuries later, oil took the place of coal as "the king of energy sources" because of its convenience and its high flexibility in many applications, but coal was neither exhausted nor scarce.
www.condition.org /sm4602.htm   (1886 words)

  
 Oil feature
Violent provocation is standard: war is oil, oil is war -- this is the way imperialism expects to gain control in the last and frequent resort.
The US embassy report on Chechenia says the future of its highgrade oil will not be as great as before the war, but that it was possible to restore the pipeline as a transit route for Caspian oil.
And oil companies are searching every possible pipeline route to get around any obstacle: from Baku to the Turkish Mediterranean coast at Ceyhan; from the Black Sea Bulgarian port of Burgas to the Greek port of Alexandroupolis; from Chardzhou in Turkmenistan to Pakistan's new port of Gwardark via Afghanistan, and so the options multiply.
www.newworker.org /oil.htm   (2831 words)

  
 Read about Oil imperialism theories at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Oil imperialism theories and learn about Oil ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oil imperialism theories characterize a broad group of
left, argued that oil imperialism was a major driving force behind these conflicts.
Oil Imperialism (http://www.hermes-press.com/impintro1.htm) - by Norman D. Livergood - note: this article is clearly advertised as pushing a specific point of view - the list of more mainstream journal articles offered as references at the end are this article's primary and most credible sources.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Oil_imperialism   (290 words)

  
 To those who think Iraq is about oil or imperialism - TechIMO Forums
The easiest way to achive lower oil prices and such is to normalize relationship with IRAQ and get their oil on the market.
Imperialism is a rediculous charge and un founded, absurd, idiotic, moronic and basically lacking in fact.
Oil will also be used to rebuild the nation of Iraq and funnel the money back into Iraqi society.
www.techimo.com /forum/t55781.html   (1547 words)

  
 War in Dagestan: Oil and imperialism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There is now a huge contest in the region both for the control of the oil deposits and for the control of the pipelines which will take the oil to the west.
But what is clear is that the interests of the people in the region are being subordinated to the machinations of the Great Powers in their lust for oil profits.
At the end of the twentieth century, just as in the middle of the nineteenth century, it is still the peasants and workers of the region who suffer -- living in terrible poverty, and dying as cannon fodder in the wars.
www.web.net /sworker/En/SW1999/314-05-Dagestan.html   (593 words)

  
 The new U.S. “Oil Imperialism” -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Washington rejects all accusations that it invaded Iraq for oil, but the bitter fact is that Washington policy researchers were asked to settle plans to privatize Iraq's oil wealth since the invasion occurrence in 2003.
America needs 22 million oil barrels a day to keep its economy on the road, so it is trying to guarantee a constant presence on the Iraqi territory laying on massive oil reserves, which makes it the world’s second largest oil reserves.
In fact, this manipulation over others’ oil supplies would be either acquired by strong military might or by building strong ties or by peaceful means, as the report predicts that by 2020 the U.S. will consume two-thirds imported oil.
www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9880   (1289 words)

  
 SEEN
In May, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1483, which ended sanctions and endorsed the creation of Development Fund for Iraq, to be controlled by Paul Bremer and overseen by a board of accountants, including UN, World Bank, and IMF representatives.
All proceeds from the sale of Iraqi oil and natural gas are also to be placed into the fund.
For the Bush/Cheney administration and their allies in the oil industry, this was not enough.
www.seen.org /pages/media/20030723_Oily_Immunity.shtml   (725 words)

  
 komentare E   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To overcome the problem of his oil holdings being broken apart by the U.S. government in 1911, John Rockefeller set out to control the world's oil, gas, and nuclear energy reserves.
With the Saudi regime tottering--an aging king about to die, widespread internal corruption creating calls for revolutionary overthrow--and a new source of oil and gas in the Caucasus, the Standard Oil suzerainty is looking to create a new regime in Saudi Arabia and develop a new center of operations in Southern Asia.
The western route is to move oil from Chechnya, across the Black Sea and through the Bosporus to the Mediterranean, but the narrow Bosporus channel is already clogged with oil tankers from the Black Sea oilfields.
www.mujweb.cz /www/irak/komF.htm   (4632 words)

  
 Vive le Canada - Canadian Oil Imperialism and the Lubicon First Nation
The oil sands in the western Canadian province of Alberta comprise the largest known hydrocarbon reserves -- estimated at over 300 billion barrels of currently recoverable oil.
Recovery of the oil is energy intensive, environmentally disruptive, and expensive (although the soaring cost of oil is making extraction more profitable).
The oil sands are found in three different deposits in northern Alberta: Athabasca, Peace River and Cold Lake.
www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php/20050506103446728   (1218 words)

  
 Special to the World, U.S. attacks on Iraq spell "oil imperialism"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The apparent aim is to further cripple Iraq whose people are still suffering starvation conditions from the economic blockade imposed by the U.S. after the Gulf War.
The UN had agreed to permit Iraq to export $2 billion worth of oil with the money earmarked for the purchase of food and medicine but President Clinton ordered a "freeze" on that agreement as part of the current anti-Iraqi offensive.
Defense Secretary William Perry was even blunter in spelling out oil imperialism's goals, telling reporters that the missile attacks' aim is "the security and stability of the region and the flow of oil to the world."
www.pww.org /archives96/96-09-07-3.html   (488 words)

  
 Top Polish Spy Warns of Russian Oil Imperialism
WARSAW -- Russia is seeking to re-establish its grip on ex-communist countries in Central Europe through its near monopoly on oil and gas, a former Polish chief spy says.
Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, a senior figure in the ruling left, told a parliamentary inquiry that as part of this drive Russian oil firms were seeking control of their peers in ex-Soviet satellites, many of which are now European Union members.
"I agree that we are facing a restoration of the Russian Empire through economic means and with the principle of 'yesterday tanks, today oil'," Siemiatkowski told the inquiry on Wednesday, according to a transcript released by parliament.
www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/10/29/043.html   (219 words)

  
 Oil Imperialism, the International Struggle for Petroleum (The History and Politics of Oil Ser)
Oil Imperialism, the International Struggle for Petroleum (The History and Politics of Oil Ser)
Louis Fischer gives a detailed and balanced account of the "Caucasian Oil Rush" of the early 1920's.
This account shows the behind the scenes finagling that Standard Oil and Royal-Dutch-Shell went through in order to secure lease and concessions from the USSR.
www.literacyconnections.com /0_0883552892.html   (149 words)

  
 Why War? Oil, Imperialism and ''Hypocrisy''   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I was about to thank him and move on when Shahid volunteers: "We should have finished Saddam off the first time!" He''d caught me short.
Oil, imperialism, "hypocrisy" — this is a the charge sheet and lexicon of the "antiwar" movement.
Whatever possible benefits might flow from military action are, it seems, rejected and disparaged, either on grounds of the means (the cure is worse than the cold), or on grounds of America and Britain''s corrupt and hypocritical motives.
why-war.com /news/2003/02/16/oilimper.html   (3001 words)

  
 [nukkad] The New U.S. -British Oil Imperialism - (2/3)
-Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately, Big Oil's greed has not abated a whit.The American and British rulers have a new imperialistic strategy by which they hope to gain total control of the world's energy supplies and the strategic Eurasian land mass.
------------------------------------------------------- The huge oil and gas reserves in the Caspian Sea must either be moved west to European markets or south to Asian markets.
------------------------------------------------------- As soon as the Soviets discovered the vast Caspian Sea oil fields in the late 1970's, they attempted to take control of Afghanistan to build a massive north-south pipeline system to allow the Soviets to send their oil directly through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean seaport.
www.mumbai-central.com /nukkad/mar2003/msg01221.html   (1967 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Press sees trouble ahead for Blair
Mr Blair comes out of this election victorious but profoundly damaged.
As in the USA, the civilized and democratic voters in the UK have voted for the murders of war, the oppression of a miserable and poor people and for oil imperialism.
It was expected that Mr Blair would be punished at the ballot box more severely, with his being a war criminal, his US-controlled policies, the exposure of his political lies and so many protests and critics.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4524701.stm   (741 words)

  
 The New U.S.-British Oil Imperialism
The American and British ruling circles have been engaged in a policy of military imperialism for several centuries.
Oil imperialism flourishes when a supine press cheers and a groveling congress grants unconstitutional authority to the oil-saturated High Cabal.
11/15/01: U.S. Policy Towards Taliban Influenced by Oil
www.new-enlightenment.com /impintro1.htm   (6058 words)

  
 Big Oil Imperialism
McGraw-Hill, and I have a website that is a full scale attack on every
aspect of "Big Oil Imperialism." Excerpts from each chapter of my
every aspect of "Big Oil Imperialism." Excerpts from each chapter
www.groupsrv.com /science/about28645.html   (3622 words)

  
 [Imc-uk] The New U.S.-British Oil Imperialism Who is Next? USA can read your E-Mail
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lists.indymedia.org /mailman/public/imc-uk/2002-May/001462.html   (707 words)

  
 JoAnn Wypijewski: What is an Antiwar Movement?
Lots of people who are furious about Iraq think Afghanistan was just fine (the labor resolutions, for instance, are never against the war in Afghanistan).
Brenner is saying it should be a movement against US policy in the Middle East, oil policy, imperialism.
That would be nice; I just don't think broad political opposition ever develops this way, and I certainly don't think it develops because some people at the top of national organizations have decided to draft a line or debate with each other.
www.counterpunch.org /jw01142006.html   (2968 words)

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