Chad, Oil & Kakistocracy

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Wed May 16 07:38:02 PDT 2001


Very interesting presentation from Congresswoman McKinney. (BTW, in her last campaign ADL tried to smear her Father as an anti-semite).

Here is another article from Wayne Madsen, http://www.progressive.org/wm0900.htm . The book from Edwin Mellen publishers is pricey, head to a university library! If they let you in, the Jesuits at Univ. of San Francisco don't anymore, SF State does...

On Resource Wars, here is the newest from Michael Klare. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/results.asp?fi=&au=Klare&sinc=2 The New Geography of Conflict by Michael T. Klare. (Foreign Affairs, May/June 2001) Summary As last year's global shortage of petroleum and natural gas showed, the world can no longer keep up with the demands of continued population growth and economic expansion. Indeed, the competition for natural resources is intensifying. And with four-fifths of the world's oil reserves lying in politically unstable areas, with diamond and timber wars already raging in Central Africa, and with many regions suffering persistent drought, resource competition could easily turn into open conflict. Governments now see the acquisition and protection of natural resources as a national security requirement -- and one they are prepared to fight for. 500-word preview http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document.asp?i=20010501FAESSAY4767.XML

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document.asp?i=20010501FABOOK4792.XML

His first book, btw, "War Without End: American Planning for the Next Vietnams, " from Vintage/Randon House around '73 or so is still worth reading.

Finally, new book, "When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, " by Mahmood Mamdani, Princeton Univ. Press, 2001. http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=48ICA3OAHQ& mscssid=CC2LRTRRKEUM8NFTH8X0NFS0NE5RDTCB&isbn=0691058210&displayonly=excerpt (That might not work! Cookies>user ID, anyway, www.bn.com has a big excerpt from this new book.) Michael Pugliese



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