US Imperialism and Oil Politics: Africa, Middle East, Asia

US Imperialism and Oil Politics: Africa, the Middle East and Asia, with moderator Deepa Kumar and Lee Wengraf, Michael Schwartz, and Saadia Toor discussing US strategy to control world oil supply. At Left Forum, March 20, 2010 at Pace University, NYC camera: Joe Friendly

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News & Politics

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• Iraq
• Afghanistan
• Saudi Arabia
• Deepa
• Kumar
• Lee
• Wengraf
• Saadia
• Toor
• Michael
• Schwartz

[CoachDaKingMRP]

@superdog797 The US is an Empire, no doubt about that. A Military/Econmic Empire. The US has protectorates and bases around the Globe as well as companies operating in areas around the Globe. They conduct Military actions to maintain, and lately expand this Empire. All Superpowers are Empires.... You dont have to have Kings and Emperors to be an Empire...... Economic agendas backed by military power, creating vassal states and client states, is going to ruin the world and have us in WW3

[CoachDaKingMRP]

This is Probably why Obama signed the NDAA.... he knows the areas they're duscussing each have large minority groups in the US and they are gonna "detain" people indefinitely when they start protesting the conflicts to come.... Especially the African Americans...... the majority of whom, I'm ashamed to say, couldn't give two fucks about Africa....

Stay out of the Motherland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ameer18]

@bapyou is that why there was a mass exodus of vietnamese at the end of tha war? Clearly they diddn't want uncle ho being they leader.

[Ameer18]

wow she is such a socialist yet drinks capitalist made soda and sucks on a capitalist made cough drop. What a bunch a fuckin hypocrites!

[nmpxl]

I don't want to be rude or anything but why is the first speaker drinking pop when she is sick and coughing? Cough drops don't work like that.

[kicktothebass]

One of the most effective ways to save lives in Africa would be to send 3million bras. Not only this but we need to have 100s of support workers whose specific job is to persuade African woman to wear bras & put them on correctly. Currently newborns are rejecting the nipple due to the shear droopiness of the tit, this denies the babies valuable nutrition. However perkier breasts will lead to an inevitable rise in shagging thus the spread of HIV because they also refuse to wear condoms over there

[Treblaine]

@bapyou Look, how can you hold a free and fair elections when you have communist terror squads threatening to visit massacres any district that doesn't vote for communist loyalists? You can't. It' like holding elections in 1932 Germany with Brown Shirt thugs walking the street on polling day.

You think the massive migrations post division, the Boat People when Saigon fell, would have willingly voted for communism?

I suppose you think Iran is democratic because it had "elections".

[bapyou]

@Treblaine "Americans were invited into South Vietnam" . . . "considering the open & blatant aggression [North Vietnam, Laos [&] Cambodia] directed at South Vietnam, America would have every right to invade to protect their ally."

What utter bullshit. South Vietnam wouldn't have existed were it not for US lies & willful disobedience of international law. The US cancelled 1956's scheduled election which would have given Ho Chi Minh the presidency under reunification.

You're a fucking pig.

[christvbible]

@DickOPlenty Yep, a viscious circle of inter-breeding minorities who between them control the wealth of nations by occupying multiple executive posts within public and private sectors of military, media, government, industry and education where they can engineer the blurring of private and public finances to such an extent that the public, kept dumb by the media, are robbed daily to the tune of trillions of dollars. Soldiers would not die for their country if they knew who owned its wealth 

[christvbible]

Industrialisation and the creation of a consumer society obsessed with expansion and more consumption has its roots in the neue sachlichket of humanists - an epoch of science and philosophy in which charlatans created the big idea that spacial consciousness can only be filled with the industry of man. Sparked by the Faustian idea that man has no moral or purpose other than the assent of self over every other living thing governmental systems have evolved that foster elitism as a desirable thing