On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I love Noam, but how can you believe that policy would remain unchanged
> despite a big change in material circumstances? How do quotes from fifty
> years ago continue to explain a different world?
>
> Note that U.S. oil companies did rather poorly in the recent round of
> auctions in Iraq. Companies from China, Malaysia, France, and Russia did
> at least as well or better.
And while we're on the subject, remember that famous natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan? The one that was supposed to go from Turkmenistan to India?
It just went to China:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2ySwtf_yx7ojznvMBz0S0wmqFvg
Michael