Avevamo scritto nel nostro comunicato di Bassano che accompagna la mobilitazione di Montecchio
"Chi sono i "pazzi" che spingono il mondo alla catastrofe?La fonte di tutto sta nei soldi, nell'economia, nella lotta per il dominio sui mercati. In particolare la guerra attuale non è "giustizia infinita" o "libertà duratura", come la chiama Bush, ma guerra per riaffermare il dominio delle grandi società multinazionali sul petrolio del Medio Oriente e del centro Asia (le più grandi riserve esistenti), il dominio sui mercati mondiali, il dominio sul mondo.
Sentiamo come una cosa importante e politicamente significativa l'argomentazione convinta di questa analisi da parte di un compagno americano, appartenente a quei gruppi che già si sono mossi per manifestare contro la guerra e con cui cerchiamo di dare vita ad un azione globale, la quale comincia ad avere anche una sua sostanza di analisi strategica.
traduco a spanne il cuore dell'articolo pregando qualche compagno valente (de te Curzio loquemus) di tradurre da dieci anni le grandi corporate (multinazionalei) Exxon, Mobil, Chevron intrigano per avere nelle loro mani le ricchezze petrolifere dell'ex Unione Sovietica.
Come raggiungere questo obiettivo è una priorità fondamentale nella politica estera americana [figuriamoci poi col texano Bush sostenuto in primis dai petrolieri....la priorità diventa un debito da pagare pronta cassa..una missione..una crociata appunto - nota di redazione-]
Il 12 febbraio del 1998 John Maresca , vice presidente della Unocal corp descrisse in questi termini l'importanza di questa regione " La regione del Caspio contiene tremende riserve non sfruttate di idrocarburi.. sono presenti riserve che coprono per un secolo i bisogni dell'Europa
e qui John Maresca rivela il businnes americano impadronirsi militarmente delle riserve dell'exURSS e rivendere all'Europa il greggio ed il gas....
Ma ci sono altri concorrenti, in
particolare il patto russo-cinese-iraniano (avanguardia di un formidabile
schieramento continentale) Gli Usa non potevano star fermi, dovevano spezzare
quell'iniziativa. .......
CASPIAN SEA: WASHIGNTON'S STRATEGIC TARGET IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Cecil Williams
"America's new war!" That's what CNN calls President George
W. Bush's plans to bomb and invade Central Asia and the
Middle East.
There's not much new about it, though.
U.S. bombs and missiles have killed hundreds of thousands of
civilians in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Somalia and
Afghanistan in the past two decades alone. No doubt many
people in those countries have acquired a deep dislike for
the United States.
When investigators look into a murder, however, their first
question is not, "Who disliked the victim?" They want to
know who will benefit from the crime. The Sept. 11 deaths of
over 6,000 people, many Muslims among them, benefit no one
in the Islamic world. But for some rich and powerful people
in the United States, the tragedy will pay off quite
handsomely.
"Since Sept. 11 opposition to increased military spending
has evaporated," the New York Times reported Sept. 22. That
should make the Pentagon brass quite happy. Just a few
months ago they were publicly whining they hadn't gotten the
giant budget increase they were expecting after Bush's
selection as president.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was complaining he
couldn't get funds to build a "21st-century military." Now
Congress has not only voted the Pentagon an emergency
increase. Democrats say they'll no longer object to Bush's
antiballistic missile pork barrel.
When generals, admirals and defense secretaries retire from
the military, they usually get jobs with giant defense firms
like General Electric and Lockheed Martin. These firms are
"among the benefactors of the Sept. 11 tragedy," the New
York Times wrote.
Then there's the trenchcoat gang at the National Security
Agency, the CIA, the FBI and Secret Service. Not to mention
the new Office of Homeland Security to be headed by Bush's
fellow executioner, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. They have
been promised funding and powers they recently only dreamed
of.
The CIA actually created Osama bin Laden's organization back
in the 1980s to attack Soviet troops and the progressive
government in Afghanistan. As vice president, George Bush
Sr. oversaw the operation. In the Agency's employ, bin
Laden's troops murdered teachers, doctors and nurses,
disfigured women who took off the veil, and shot down
civilian airliners with U.S.-supplied Stinger missiles. The
Afghan people called bin Laden's forces the "brotherhood of
Satan."
The Afghanistan war was the biggest covert operation in the
CIA's history. It was paid for in part by the heroin trade.
Many who took part in the operation were recruited by
Egyptian, Pakistani and Saudi intelligence services and
didn't know they were working for the CIA.
In 1990 and 1991 the CIA used bin Laden's's group for
operations against Iraq. More recently this group carried
out anti-Russian operations in Chechnya and Daghestan and
participated in U.S.-backed operations against Yugoslavia.
No one has more to gain, however, than the corporate big
shots at Exxon, Mobil, Chevron and the other big oil
monopolies. For 10 years now they have been scheming to get
their hands on the vast oil and gas wealth of former Soviet
Central Asia, just north of Afghanistan.
How to achieve that goal has been a U.S. foreign policy
priority since the fall of the Soviet Union.
In a Feb. 12, 1998, report to the House Committee on
International Relations, Unocal Corp. Vice President for
International Relations John J. Maresca testified on the
importance of this region. He said: "The Caspian region
contains tremendous untapped hydrocarbon reserves. ...
"Proven natural gas reserves within Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan equal more than 236 trillion
cubic feet. The region's oil reserves may reach more than 60
billion barrels of oil-enough to service Europe's oil needs
for 11 years. Some estimates are as high as 200 billion
barrels."
Oil, of course, is a commodity in which Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney have a deep personal interest.
Now George W. has named his dad's old employees in
Afghanistan as the culprits in the Sept. 11 attack. And the
Pentagon has demanded the right to occupy the former Soviet
republics named above plus Kyrgizia. In other words, right
where the oil is.
According to the Sept. 25 New York Times, the Putin regime
in Moscow is offering the United States broad support in
this move.
The oil reserves are 10 percent of the world's known supply,
under or around the Caspian Sea. That's worth about $5
trillion at today's prices.
Maresca testified that since "the Asia/Pacific region has a
rapidly increasing demand for oil," it would be useful to
have an oil pipeline from the Caspian region to the Indian
Ocean--that is, through Afghanistan. An unrecognized Taliban
government in Afghanistan is an obstacle to this, he wrote.
In May 1998, Time magazine reported that the CIA had "set up
a secret task force to monitor the region's politics and
gauge its wealth. Covert CIA officers, some well-trained
petroleum engineers, had traveled through southern Russia
and the Caspian region to sniff out potential oil reserves.
When the policymakers heard the agency's report, [Secretary
of State Madeline] Albright concluded that 'working to mold
the area's future was one of the most exciting things we can
do.' "
That's just what Washington and Wall Street set out to do.
The Pentagon tried to entice the regions' governments into a
military alliance linked to NATO's "Partnership for Peace."
Oil companies hired Washington insiders like Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Lloyd Bentsen, John Sununu and a certain Dick
Cheney to lobby for them in the region.
As the 20th century ended, it seemed their efforts would be
crowned with success. The U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia seemed
to block the possibility of Caspian oil and gas reaching
Western Europe through Russian-owned pipelines.
Meanwhile President Bill Clinton's 1998 bombing of Iraq
pushed oil prices high enough to make construction of a U.S.-
owned pipeline seem possible. "U.S. is Gaining in Great Game
in Central Asia," a Time magazine headline crowed.
Then Boris Yeltsin resigned, and Vladimir Putin took office
in the Kremlin. The Putin administration offered German
banks stakes in Lukoil and Gazprom, Russia's main energy
companies. Russia began to actively reassert its influence
east of the Caspian, and Central Asian governments began to
stall or renege on their deals with U.S. oil companies.
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh and CIA Director George
Tenet made emergency trips to the region.
The potential alliance of German capital and Russian,
Caucasus and Central Asian energy resources raised the
prospect that Western Europe would no longer have to buy its
oil and gas from U.S. firms.
Adding to the U.S.-based corporations' problems, China began
negotiating to build oil and gas pipelines from Kazakhstan
and Turkmenistan. And Russia brokered a treaty with Iran to
divide up the Caspian Sea without U.S. participation.
Oil industry journals blasted the Clinton administration for
"appeasing Russia" and moaned about losing Central Asia.
Caucasuswatch.com bills itself as an intelligence service
for the oil industry. In January it wrote: "With the coming
of a Sino-Russian pact of mutual assistance and an Iranian
acceptance of the Russian proposal to carve up the Caspian
Sea, any chance the U.S. had of cementing alliances in the
region seemed doomed. The incoming American administration,
heavy in oil and related interests, will likely try to
reverse this trend. How effective they will be is open to
question."
A more recent entry on the Web site tied U.S. Big Oil's
prospects in the region to "the success of the Central Asian
counterstrike." That article was posted on April 24 of this
year.
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