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Friday, July 02, 2004
U.S. coddles one oil tyrant while trying another
It turns out that even while the U.S. is trying [[Saddam Hussein]], they are increasing the military advisors in Azerbaijan, where Ilham Aliyev has dealth with ruthlessly with the opposition movement. Amnesty International reports that the regime has been responsible for torture, violent repression of peaceful protests and beating journalists. Surprisingly, that's no hurdle for the Bush administration.

The military advisers are not shy about being seen. On June 10, Navy Seals were racing high power speedboats around the Caspian with their Azerbaijani counterparts. Bushwatch reports that the administration is eyeing Central Asia as the next big oil colony.

An excerpt from the Guardian article:
US officials cite the important strategic and logistical role that the key state in the Caucasus, on the border with Iran, can play in the "war on terror". They are also open about the need to protect the £2bn oil pipeline set to carry a million barrels of Caspian oil daily to Turkey and the American market by late next year.
How many times have we heard this before? How long before we are invading Azerbaijan or some other Central Asian republican? How long before we are seeing Mr. Aliyev on television ranting in dramatic televised court appearances? How long before we stop supporting brutal dictators as pawns in our single minded drive for oil, power, and wealth?

In other news...

Yesterday I spent the day hanging out with a really cool Anabaptist psychiatrist in York. He showed me the Lake district and we discussed how corporations are basically immortal, greedy psychopaths. We're putting together an article on how its about time Anabaptists started thinking about how to relate to corporations, not just governments.

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