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[Iopha] iopha @ 2008-07-23T18:54:00: In fact, "one of Bremer's economic edicts specifically prohibited Iraq's central bank from offering financing to state-owned enterprises." Compounding the economic problems, private Iraqi enterprises were forced into bankruptcy, unable to compete with the rapacious foreign enterprises now running the country: "freed of all regulations, largely protected from criminal prosecution and on contracts that guaranteed their costs would be covered, plus a profit, many foreign corporations did something entirely predictable: they scammed wildly." Klein's multiple stories of such fraud are enough to gain some sympathy for al-Sadr.
[SWJ Blog] 23 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blogs and Events Roundup: The Shia militias, the Jaish al- Mahdi, who controlled large parts of Basra until March this year, has now gone and instead the city is firmly under the grip of Iraq's new security forces, in whom the coalition has invested so much training. They re-established control in April, in an operation romantically named “The Charge of the Knights”, systematically clearing the city with British and American support, confiscating illegal weapons and arresting the violent gangs whose combination of criminality and vicious extremism was making life a misery for so many of Basra's people.
[Freethought Forum] Lebanon’s Sunnis and the Civil War: It still took all the military power of the Syrians and the political and financial power of the Saudis combined with the power vacuum left by the removal of Iraq from the Lebanese equation to enforce it. Sadly the Lebanese nightmare is still not over and as we saw in the summer of 2006, Israel still thinks it can force the Lebanese people and its government into submitting to its will by military power, just as the Syrians think they can by assassination.
[American Messiah by Charlie Cardinal] August 2, 2008: In the media, Lansky’s hybrid charity earned him the regrettable coinage “philanthropreneur.” And since Gaia Fund made huge bets based on geoeconomics, it acquired the mouthful “technophilanthropy.” In no time, Gaia was flush with cash, but Lansky quickly realized that emergency life-saving interventions were subject to the world’s agribusiness, a system that held the globe’s food surpluses hostage.
[Hillary's Voice] Campaign Updates for 7/20/08: Some folks are beginning to notice that Cass Sunstein is no defender of the rule of law”¦ “Cass Sunstein, an adviser to Barack Obama from the University of Chicago Law School, cautioned against prosecuting criminal conduct from the current Administration. Prosecuting government officials risks a ”˜cycle’ of criminalizing public service, he argued, and Democrats should avoid replicating retributive efforts like the impeachment of President Clinton-or even the ”˜slight appearance’ of it.” What people do not realize is Cass Sunstein has been defending the Bush Administration’s illegal actions and the Bush Administration’s preposterous claims for many many years now.
[Untitled] Want To Know The Future?: When he and the Chad Parliament decided in early 2006 to take more of the oil revenues to finance military operations and beef up its army, new World Bank President, Iraq war architect, Paul Wolfowitz, moved to suspend loans to the country. Then that August, 2006, after Deby had won re-election, he created Chad’s own oil company, SHT, and threatened to expel Chevron and Malaysia’s Petronas for not paying taxes owed, and demanding a 60% share of the Chad oil pipeline.
[Press Blog Search] War for Oil: The money accumulating in Iraqi coffers must be used to produce good outcomes, to build infrastructure, to educate the Iraqi people and restore Iraq’s rightful place in the world. If it sits around too long, somebody will figure out how to steal it or employ it in some nefarious fashion.
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