Ray McGovern

Surprise, surprise! Iraq war was about oil

Documentary evidence has emerged showing that Great Britain’s Lords and Ladies lied about how big oil companies, like BP, lusted after Iraqi oil in the months leading up to the attack on Iraq.

Oil researcher Greg Muttitt’s new book Fuel on Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq presents that evidence. After a five-year struggle, he obtained more than 1,000 official documents which — how to say this — do not reflect well on the peerage, the captains of the oil industry, and the government of Tony Blair.

April 23, 2011

It sounds crazy, but …

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern revives the neocon’s old nickname, the ‘crazies,’ to describe their approach to oil depletion, the possibility of an overt war with Iran and the problems of the Israeli-US military nexus for peace in the Middle East.

March 5, 2005

We Need the Oil, Right? So What’s the Problem?

Such openness is rare; it set me back on my heels. The question came last Monday as I finished a lecture in Pewaukee, Wisconsin–the first of a handful of talks I gave for “Great Decisions 2005.”

February 16, 2005

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