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 F. William Engdahl on The West Coast Truth
Engdahl grew up in Texas, and after earning a degree in engineering and jurisprudence from Princeton University in 1966 (BA) and graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm from 1969 to 1970, he worked as an economist and free-lance journalist in New York and in Europe. Engdahl began writing about oil pol...TEASER | FULL PROGRAM
Al Arabiya TV: Russian Weapons En Route to Syria
A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday as credible. Syria is one of Russia's top weapons customers. The United States and European...READ
Episode 15: Andrew Gavin Marshall
Andrew Gavin Marshall is a journalist living in Montreal. Andrew is a regular on Russia Today and many radio talk shows and is a wealth of information. In addition to being a brilliant writer, Andrew is also a student in solidarity with the protests against the outrageous tuition hikes...however, what is transpiring in Montreal goes well beyond tuition fees, this has becom...FULL PROGRAM
Marshall, Kramer, Cassaro & Redfern +
The Season 4 schedule is complete. The remaining guests are: F. William Engdahl, Andrew Gavin Marshall, Casper Leitch, Richard Bondira, Dale Graff, Neil Kramer, Richard Cassaro, Anthony F. Sanchez, Russ Baker, Nick Redfurn and Greg Palast. The last 3 shows will air on Independance Day. Season 5 to premiere on Oct.1
Russell Scott to Attend Solidarity Rally in Vancouver
There are rumours that the Canadian military is being called in to help quell the student protests in Montreal. Reports are that military trucks are already in downtown Montreal. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and express...READ
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Killings, cancer, corruption and AzerbaijanBy Greg Palast
Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the military police of Azerbaijan during my investigation of BP for Channel 4′s Dispatches in 2010, one of the cops who surrounded our crew in the desert told us, with great pride: “BP drives this country.” Indeed it does. In 1992, the newly independent former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan elected a kindly Muslim Professor, Abulfaz Elchibey, as President. But the voters had made an error: Elchibey refused to give BP an exclusive contract to drill the nation’s massive Caspian Sea fields as the company wished. In 1993, with assistance and, reportedly, guns provided by MI6, Elchibey was overthrown by the nation’s former Soviet KGB boss, Heydar Aliyev. Within three months, Aliyev handed BP a sweetheart deal, called “The Contract of the Century”, to take Azerbaijan’s Caspian oil. The way to the no-bid deal for BP was “greased”, to use the term applied by former BP operative Leslie Abrahams, with several million dollars in illicit payments and weekends with lap dancers in London for Azeri officials. I asked Abrahams, who was ordered by BP to provide military intelligence to MI6, whether he understood that he was paying “bribes on behalf of BP and the British government”. He replied, “absolutely, yes”. When asked, BP would not directly deny paying bribes. The company told us, tantalisingly, that: “While there were some facts in [Abrahams] account that were accurate, we do not recognise most of it and regarded it as fantasy.” (here is Abrahams in the BP office with his Kalashnikov). Since BP has taken control of Azerbaijan’s oil, the nation has become fabulously wealthy – at least for those close to the Aliyev family and BP. And they eat well. The daughters of the new President, Ilham Aliyev (son of Heydar), picked up the tab for dinner in London for a half dozen of their friends. It came to £300,000 (excluding tip and VAT). According to Robert Ebel, the CIA’s former oil intelligence chief, the whereabouts of $140 million in BP and other oil industry payments are “totally unknown”. This week, Eurovision Song Contest viewers will be treated to the images of the ancient city of Baku where the Silk Road streets are filled with Maseratis and Bentleys. The Bentley dealership, and much of the capital, is owned by Azerbaijan’s First Lady, Mehriban Aliyeva, the “Sexiest Muslim Woman in the World”. That’s official, the vote was taken by Esquire Magazine. (She’s actually the twelfth “Sexiest Woman in the World”, but the other eleven, infidels all, can be ignored here.) I’m not saying she doesn’t deserve the title: her fashion model face has been created at great expense by “so much plastic surgery”, according to the US State Department Manning/WikiLeaks cables, that Lady Mehriban “appears unable to show a full range of facial expression.” But when I left the Old City and its Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana stores and headed off to Sangachal, the town where BP’s terminal operates, I found a nation heading full speed into the 14th century… Baku, once the world’s leading manufacturer of oil drilling equipment, is now one of the world’s leading centers of oil-toxin cancers. Walking along the main street of Sangachal, the aptly nicknamed, “Terminal Town”, was like doing the rounds in a cancer ward. The local shoemaker, Elmar Mamonov - who hasn’t sold a shoe in two years - told me: ...CONTINUE READING ARTICLE |
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