Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:42 PM Subject: [MLL] Trading Blood for Oil Part II China has restored its capitalist economy with the aspirations to become a major economic power and with the US intentions of securing and dominating the Balkans, it is posing a serious threat to the economic stability, needs and desires of China. The reason of this threat is that China needs petroleum and its oil requirements are estimated to double by 2010. This means that China will need to import 40% of its needs which will be a 20% increase from 1995. As a result of China's dependency on oil and petroleum it signed a $4.3 billion arrangement with an oil facility in Kazakh. This deal gives China 60% interest in this facility, not something China will give up easily. It is quite clear that the Central Asian region is rich in natural resources and therefore has strategic vital importance to US capitalism. It is even quite obvious that US imperialism will not allow itself to be undermined by Europe or its hegemonic role to be challenged but will in fact resort to militarist aggression by any challenger. It should also be obvious that the US will not allow the Central Asia region to be peacefully and equally divided amongst its capitalist "allies." Another conclusion is that US imperialism will continue to foment and exacerbate local ethnic conflicts as it invests its capital in major oil projects in order to obscure and justify its militarist aggression. The region possesses billions of dollars in oil export revenue and the redivision of this region will be decided by the imperialists and their armies. A factor to consider is that the US imperial armed forces will be going up against several major powers with enormous military capabilities, therefore, any conflict will not be a one-sided conflict like in Yugoslavia. US imperialism will be at war with opponents that are not defenseless but in fact possess nuclear weapons. This is what gives way to another plausible pretext for US imperialisms' aggression against Iraq....to eliminate "weapons of mass destruction" in order for US imperialism to ravage the world with minimal amount of challenge and loss. The reason why the US has strategic interests in the Balkans is because of its vast resources. Kosovo, by itself, has the richest mineral resources. According to Chris Hedges in his article, "Below it all in Kosovo, A War's Glittering Prize", NY Times, 7/8/98, he said that, "...the sprawling state-owened Trepca mining complex, the most valueable piece of real-estate in the Balkans, is worth at least $5 billion..." No wonder we are supposed to believe in the Serbian "atrocities" committed there, the US imperialists needed a casus belli to liberate this mine for its own possession!! Also, to quote Partija Rada, "facts from the terrain" have proved that the Serbian massacre here were fabricated and served as the casus belli for US imperialist occupation of this area and nothing more! However, the major resource that is of the most strategic value and interest is oil. For US imperialism to secure this resource, it will deny Iran, Russia, Japan and China of their strategic interests and needs for this resource, subjugating them into a dependency on US capitalism. US imperialism has completely dominated the Albanian economy and replaced its socialist economy with a "free-market" economy. The World Bank and the IMF have succeeded in the destruction of Albania's banking system and economy bringing it under the dominance of American and European TNC's. Some of these TNC's include Occidental, Shell and British Petroleum. So what does the destruction of Albania and Yugoslavia show? It certainly does not show the "humanitarianism" of US imperialism. On June 25, 1998, Michael S. Lelyveld wrote in the Journal of Commerce that, "A bitter ethnic battle in the Caucasus spilled over into Congress this week as U.S. corporate and oil interests won a key vote on aid to the region in the Senate Foreign Relation Committee. The panel approved the Silk Road Strategy Act...which would 'target assistance to support economic and political independence of the countries of the South Caucasus and Central Asia.' But behind the measure's bland title is a widening web of international and US business alliances with stakes in the outcome of a 10-year old war..." What this does show is that US imperialism is going to expand its dominance into the region of Central Asia in pursuit of oil. What does this mean? It means that once again we will be bombarded with the bourgoisie's lies of "ethnic cleansing" and the need for armed militarist intervention to protect "human rights." According to the International Petroleum Encyclopedia, 1999, the largest network of pipelines were built by the Soviet Union who was the leading producer of oil and natural gas. Its gas and oil fields, refineries and pipelines extended from western Siberia, from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, the Ukraine, the Baltic and east European countries. It is the intent of US imperialism to dominate and control the entire Caspian Sea. Already 50% of all the oil investment in this region are controlled by a coalition of 11 western oil companies that include Atlantic Richfield, Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, Pennzoil, Phillips Petroleum, Texaco and British Petroleum-Amoco. There are already existing pipelines that go through Cechnya and other areas of Russia to Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. The intentions of the US capitalists though are to by-pass Russia with a possible pipeline through Turkey to the Mediterranean Sea which is called the Baku-Ceyhan route. In November 1999 at the OSCE summit in Istanbul, Georgia signed the Ankara Declaration which gives its support to the building of the Baku-Ceyhan and trans-Caspian pipelines. This route passes through Turkey and is therefore complicated by the struggles of the Kurds. The purpose of this route is to by-pass Russia and consolidate US support of Turkey. The trans-Caspian pipeline will be built underneath the Caspian Sea from its eastern shore to Azerbaijan and connect with other pipelines, again by-passing Russia. Azerbaijan has enormous oil reserves but its existing pipelines have a very restricted capacity going from Georgia to Supra and another goes through Russia to Checnya to Novorossiysk. The problem with the trans-Caspian pipeline, although it by-passes Russia, is that there is a treaty that must be agreed to by all five littoral states, two of these countries are Russia and Iran. Disputes are being waged about the ownership of the pipelines, oil and gas... and at the urging of the US capitalists...for the legalities of this treaty to be ignored and disregarded so that the US capitalists can build this pipeline. The US capitalists, represented by Richard Morningstar, who was the former special advisor to Clinton, and Secretary of State for Caspian Basin energy issues has urged Azerbaijan and Turkemnistan to ignore the Russian and Iranian hostilities even if it means violating the existing legal status of the Caspian Sea. Another complication in this proposed pipeline is that China has invested quite extensively in Turkmenistan to help in its exploration, drilling and construction of refineries. China has established both military and economic relations with Turkmenistan. China's National Petroleum Company has helped to rebuild over 100 wells which increased Turkmenistan's export production and according to Stratfor Global Intelligence Update of September 17, 1999, Turkmenistan will soon be the 3rd largest gas exporter in the world. This is not a prize the Chinese will simply hand over to the US capitalists in the interests of "equal development" but will require the "strength of those participating" in the redivision of this region. ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
