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[The New Nixon Blog] Blood and Oil: That principle-better known as the Carter Doctrine-was shaped into an enduring tenet of US policy by then-National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (with an aim to deterring Soviet aggression in the Persian Gulf).
[English] The End of Dollar Hegemony: In return, the U.S. promised to protect the various oil-rich kingdoms in the Persian Gulf against threat of invasion or domestic coup. This arrangement helped ignite the radical Islamic movement among those who resented our influence in the region.
[DhafirTrial] United Nations; February 5th 2003, A Day of Shame: 1980 : President Carter (now reinvented as a peacemaker) announced the “Carter Doctrine”, stipulating that the U.S. will intervene militarily in the Persian Gulf region to protect U.S., access to oil reserves. A “Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force” (RDJTF) is formed to implement Carter’s doctrine.
[portland indymedia - newswire] THE UNITED STATES AND THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR.: Oppenheim, based on interviews with U.S. officials, "The weight of the evidence suggests that the principal consideration behind the indulgent U.S. government attitude toward higher oil prices was the belief that higher prices would produce economic benefits for the United States vis-a-vis its industrial competitors, Western Europe and Japan, and the key Middle Eastern states, Saudi Arabia and Iran."<15> And Henry Kissinger has confirmed that this was U.S. Government thinking: "The rise in the price of energy would affect primarily Europe and Japan and probably improve America's competitive position."<16>
[AIC Articles] Nuclear Geopolitics in US-Iran Relations: The case for a Big Push ...: Indeed we can observe the tremendous integration of Western and Israeli interests with Arab interests in the Persian Gulf region and beyond in the Arab world. This phenomenon, on a related note, reflects the integration of Jewish .
[americasnewstoday.Com /.Org - Industry's First Blog-Format News and Editorial Site] People Who Shape Our World - March 16, 2008: During this time, he oversaw 28 crises, including the invasion of Panama in 1989 to remove General Manuel Noriega from power in the United States invasion of Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. During these events, Powell earned his nickname, "the reluctant warrior".
[My Telegraph : PETDOLLARandEconomicWarfare] WHY THE US ECONOMY IS SUFFERING: Since the mid-to-late 1990s the Caspian Sea region of Central Asia was thought to hold approximately 200 billion barrels of untapped oil (the later would be comparable to Saudi Arabia's reserve base)." [33] Based on an early feasibility study by Enron, the easiest and cheapest way to bring this oil to market would be a pipeline from Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan to the Pakistan border at Malta. In the late 1990s not only was the Enron Corporation relying on cheap liquefied natural gas from the Caspian Sea region for their power plan in India, but also large energy companies such as Unocal and Halliburton.
[911 Truth] Fwd: [WarOnFreedom] Behind the Copied Speeches: Deval Patrick is ...: for 1980, he had promulgated the so-called Carter Doctrine, namely that the United States would maintain supremacy in the Persian Gulf against all comers. This became the framework for the first Gulf War and the current Iraq war, not to .
[FriendlyFire.Org] San Francisco Bay Guardian : Article : Censored!: Cheerleaders for privatization are deeply embedded in the Bush administration (see story 7), where they’ve been secretly fostering plans for a North American Free Trade Agreement superhighway, a 10-lane route set to run through the heart of the country and connect the Mexican and Canadian borders. It’s specifically designed to plug into the Mexican port of Lázaro Cárdenas, taking advantage of cheap labor by avoiding the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose members are traditionally tasked with unloading cargo, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, whose members transport that cargo that around the country.
[World Prout Assembly] A Culture of Violence - by Stephen Lendman: The Bush administration is pounding Iran with menacing claims of meddling in Iraq and covertly advancing a nuclear weapons program despite having no proof of either. Whatever's planned could be devastating to the region (and world economy if oil shipments are disrupted), and the kinds of options being considered may cause dire unintended consequences if the worst of them involving nuclear weapons are used.
[March of the People] False Flag: Iran, Wars and Rumors of Wars: As of now, we have the strongest military presence in the Persian Gulf region since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. On August 1, the American aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, the navy’s largest air carrier, sailed to the Persian Gulf, accompanied by destroyers and a submarine.
[The real estate blog.] Capitalism Under Attack: Petrodollars, Petroeuros and the Iranian ...: By invading Kuwait and threatening Saudi Arabia, Saddam breached the Carter Doctrine postulated by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, which states that “ an attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be .
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