Introduction -- Iraq: seeking the riches of Babylon -- Central Asia: the Silk Road strategy -- West Africa: exploiting the other gulf -- Colombia: feeding Washington'saddiction -- Venezuela: an alternative for the twenty-first century? -- Conclusion
Summary
Crude Interventions examines the military and economic policies of the Bush administration in oil-rich regions of the world. More precisely, it examines the socio-economic and human rights consequences of these policies, as well as those of recent US administrations and multinational energy companies, for the peoples of oil producing nations in the global South. With only four percent of the world's population, the United States consumes 25 per cent of global energy production. This thirst for energy has played a significant role in determining US foreign policy in recent decades. By focusing
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index
