By: Michael Hudson |
The mainstream media are carefully sidestepping the method behind
America’s seeming madness in assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard
general Qassim Suleimani to start the New Year. The logic behind the
assassination was a long-standing application of U.S. global policy, not
just a personality quirk of Donald Trump’s impulsive action. His
assassination of Iranian military leader Suleimani was indeed a
unilateral act of war in violation of international law, but it was a
logical step in a long-standing U.S. strategy. It was explicitly
authorized by the Senate in the funding bill for the Pentagon that it
passed last year. The assassination was intended to escalate America’s presence in Iraq to keep control of the region’s oil reserves, and to back Saudi Arabia’s Wahabi troops (Isis, Al Quaeda in Iraq, Al Nusra and other divisions of what are actually America’s foreign legion) to support U.S. control of Near Eastern oil as a buttress of the U.S. dollar. That remains the key to understanding this policy, and why it is in the process of escalating, not dying down. Read More |
Thursday, January 9, 2020
America Escalates Its “Democratic” Oil War in the Near East
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