Liquid War: Postcard from Pipelineistan
by Pepe Escobar
What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentric world order, also known as the New Great Game.
Our good ol' friend the nonsensical "Global War on Terror," which the Pentagon has slyly rebranded "the Long War," sports a far more important, if half-hidden, twin -- a global energy war. I like to think of it as the Liquid War, because its bloodstream is the pipelines that crisscross the potential imperial battlefields of the planet. Put another way, if its crucial embattled frontier these days is the Caspian Basin, the whole of Eurasia is its chessboard. Think of it, geographically, as Pipelineistan...
Full article at <http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/25-1>.
Chris Doss wrote:
> I know you don't want to hear this, but none of Afghanistan's neighbors want
> the US to leave. Iran, Russia, and China must not have gotten the news that
> the war in Afghanistan is really about controlling energy supplies. Actually,
> US forces in Afghanistan are being supplied through Russia, which for some
> reason seems to want to encourage US efforts to undermine Russia's position
> as an energy provider. Ah, the mysterious Russian soul!
>
>
> --- On Sat, 3/28/09, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
>> From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> Subject: [lbo-talk] How Obama
>> took over the peace movement To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Saturday,
>> March 28, 2009, 9:33 PM "Some of us saw this unfolding years ago. Others
>> are probably shocked watching their peace candidate escalating a war and
>> sounding so much like the previous administration in his rationale for
>> doing so."
>>
>> How Obama Took Over the Peace Movement John Stauber, March 27, 2009
>>
>> ...
>>
>> http://www.prwatch.org/node/8297