At least for myself, I think it's safe to say that a journalist's account of the occupation of Iraq is much more interesting than an anthropologist's or a historian. Muttitt's style of writing was super engaging, and the book was true page-turner - it made me think of how politicized our identities ...more
"Fuel on the Fire" is an excellent overview of national and oil politics of Iraq under US occupation (beginning in March 2003 until its technical end in December 2011).
Perhaps the author's primary motivation for writing this book was a genuine concern with the fate of Iraq's oil due to the popular ...more
"We Now Know," to mock John Lewis Gaddis’ coldwar phrase. Opponents of the war on Iraq deeply suspected it was “all about the oil,” but could not know exactly how. Greg Muttitt shows us, being privy to the debates – and let’s state it frankly, conspiracies – hatched to facilitate the resource lootin ...more
As one commentator quoted by the author puts in neatly, "US and UK are in Iraq not for its sand!". The author seems genuinely concerned for Iraq and people like him and others, in cooperation with the locals, are the reason why the big, disgusting, oil and tech companies, have not yet destroyed the ...more
الكتاب مهم وغني بالمعلومات عن تفاصيل السياسة النفطية الأمريكية في العراق والتي تلخصت في تدمير القدرة العراقية على انتاج النفط والتي استمرت صناعة وطنية خالصة منذ السبعينيات ومن ثم تسليمها بالكامل لشركات غربية بشروط مجحفة وعقود غير قانونية في التفاف مفضوح على كل الاعراف الدولية، يستحق القراءة. ...more
Apprentice sorcerers in an age of total unaccountability
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Exhaustively researched work. Describes with left leaning sensibility the importance of oil, not in the reasons for invading Iraq but it's recovery and how Iraq would be governed in the future. ...more