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As U.S. and British oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government, is it time to declare Big Oil the “victor” in the bloody venture?
by Antonia Juhasz
November 14, 2009
Last week, ExxonMobil became the first U.S. oil company in 35 years to sign an oil-production contract with the government of Iraq.
As I write, several other [...]

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por Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
30 de agosto, 2009
La revista Fortune (20/7/09) publica anualmente la lista de las primeras 500 empresas globales según sus ingresos.
Existen otras publicaciones anglosajonas que realizan taxonomías fundadas en otros rubros: ganancias, ventas y capitalización de mercado (el valor total de las acciones que cotizan en bolsa) y donde variarían significativamente los rankings de [...]

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also see Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill in the New York Times
Email from American Petroleum Institute outlines plan to create appearance of public opposition to Obama’s climate and energy reform

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by Jason Leopold
July 3, 2009
Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain “a prisoner of its energy dilemma” as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.

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