Oil and Iraq - Part One

Obscure (well obscure to the likes of me, but then I don't troll around Indymedia and Peak Oil websites) Marxist philosopher George Caffentzis has published an article that was introduced to the oil project's discussion mailing list by Mute editor Josie Berry, arguing that desire to enforce "neo-liberal" policies on oil exporters together with a "military-Keynesianism" for the American workforce is behind the war on terror and invasion of Iraq. I'm happy to fire some rhetorical cruise missiles at it, which I'll do at some more civilised hour. Suffice to say, he might have a nice turn of phrase, but as with Klein, Monbiot and others of this genre (although unlike them, he is supposed to be a trained academic researcher), some observations of the real world challenge his conclusions. Until tomorrow...