Subject: AUT: RE: Hydrocarbons and a New Strategic Region: The Caspian Sea and CentralAsia
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:50:25 -0000
From: "Massimo De Angelis" <M.Deangelis-AT-uel.ac.uk>


This article states: "Unocal and other companies have abandoned attempts at
establishing this route since the political situation seems unresolvable." 

what played a part was also a mounting US campaign by women groups against
unocal. 

In any case, I don't see the dismissal of the pipeline in this text. The
afghani route has always been only one of the options on the table for oil
and gas directed to Asia. Incidentally, it was not only the cheapest, but the
one less controlled by Russia. My position is that this oil is part of the
plot, just part of it, especially due to the fact that plenty of oilmen are
in the administration (and oilmen must be thinking in oil terms). 

The implication of this - to go back to herald I think - is not only that we
"expose" the so called "real aims" of the war (there are others). the left
generally always talks about the "greed"  for oil without linking it to the
boundlesness of accumulation. maybe oil is just another entry point to the
question of alternatives, of the world we want to build. 

m

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Pugliese [mailto:debsian-AT-pacbell.net]
> Sent: 28 October 2001 16:52
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> Subject: AUT: Hydrocarbons and a New Strategic Region: The Caspian Sea
> and CentralAsia
> 
> 
>    Courtesy of Mark Douglas Whitaker on the World Systems 
> Network list.
> "Hydrocarbons and a New Strategic Region: The Caspian Sea and 
> Central Asia,"
> by Lieutenant Colonel Lester W. Grau, US Army, Retire (In 
> Military Review,
> "The Professional Journal of the United States Army", May/June, 2001)
> http://www.cgsc.army.mil/milrev/English/MayJun01/grau.htm
>    Richard Hutchinson comments, "I read this piece by Grau in 
> "Military
> Review" (thanks, Mark), and it
> corroborates Rashid and others -- the Afghanistan pipeline plan is not
> considered a high priority.  In fact, Grau writes it off 
> entirely.  Not
> that he is THE authority on the subject, but his analysis certainly
> lends no support to the Ted Rall/Guardian Unocal Conspiracy Theory.
> 
> RH
> 
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