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Iraq War
Bill Moyers Journal (PBS) - Big Oil and Iraq "Oh no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from WMD. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire, and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be, the bottom line. It is about oil" view the Cheney Energy Task Force documents here stream pbs player
Aljazeera - Inside Iraq: oil law (June 2008) Who said the war wasn't about oil? If a new law is passed in Iraq, the big multinationals will get a huge share of the country's vast oil wealth. With deals that could secure them black gold for several generations to come, critics accuse Iraq's Prime Minister of handing over the country's national wealth stream google video
BBC Panorama - Daylight Robbery: What Happened to the $23billion? Jane Corbin investigates claims that as much as $23bn may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq. Now more than 70 whistleblower cases threaten to reveal the scandals behind billions of dollars worth of waste, theft and corruption during the war. The US justice department has imposed gagging orders which prevent the real scale of the problem emerging stream/download real player stream 225kbps google video
BBC Newsnight - Iraq war intelligence probed Newsnight reports on the Iraqi agent, codenamed Curveball, whose fabricated intelligence helped lead to the invasion of Iraq stream windows media/real player
PromaOne Productions - Gulf War Syndrome Independent experiment on depleted uranium testing with blood samples from five veterans of the first Gulf War. The results reveal chromosome damage that could have been caused by exposure to depleted uranium. More on the use of DU here stream/download real player
Dispatches - Jon Snow's Hidden Iraq (2008) Five years after the invasion, Jon Snow examines the brutal reality of life inside post-invasion Iraq, meeting a variety of its citizens from victims of bomb blasts and war widows to human rights activists and politicians. While the coalition forces herald its burgeoning democracy, Snow ties together reports and unseen footage of recent violence and human rights abuses from beyond the Green Zone which paint a picture of a fragmented state on the brink of anarchy and collapse stream google video
BBC Panorama - On Whose Orders? Investigation into why the British Army in Iraq used interrogation techniques that were banned over 30 years ago stream windows media/real player
Jean-Pierre Beaurenaut & Yves Billon - The Epic of Black Gold (2004) The history of oil is the history of the 20th century. It is a history of corruption, violence, unimaginable profits and human suffering. In the last 100 years, oil has changed almost every part of human life in almost every corner of the globe. This series sets out to tell the tale of Black Gold, in suitably epic detail and scope; from John D Rockefeller and Henry Ford's Model-T, through both world wars, to the current US engagement in Iraq - everyone should watch this stream part 1 windows media player stream part 2 windows media player stream part 3 windows media player stream part 4 windows media player stream part 5 windows media player
Bird and Fortune – Iraqi Oil Interview with a Counselor from the British Embassy in Washington stream
Emmanuel Amara (SUNSET Presse) – A High-Risk Barrel (2005) What are the problems posed by dwindling oil supplies? What are the oil companies doing as oil becomes harder to find? Features Colin Campbell stream/download
Michel Chossudovsky – America's "Long War" - From the Truman Doctrine to the NeoCons The History of US War Crimes and the Implications of the US Military Agenda. Chossudovsky's address at the opening session of the Perdana Global Peace Forum to criminalize war. Kuala Lumpur, February 2007 stream
Michel Chossudovsky - Keynote Presentation at the University of Winnipeg A keynote speech from Chossudovsky
at an anti-war rally held in Winnipeg on 28th October 2006.
Topics covered include: Canada's participation in the war in Afghanistan,
9/11, Canada and American military integration and the American war
on terror
C-Span - Dick Cheney interview - 15th April 1994 Back in 1994 the 'Halliburton
Pimp' said that invading Baghdad and removing Saddam Hussein would
create a quagmire in Iraq and therefore was not a good idea. Nine
years later, all that changed with the reality of 'peak oil'
The Real Deal - The Last Oil Shock George Galloway interviews
David Strahan, investigative journalist, documentary film-maker and
author. They discuss Iraq, Iran and the future of oil. Strahan produced/directed
the BBC Money Programme films about oil - featured below. See his
website here
David Strahan (BBC Money Programme) – The War for Oil (2003) The advocates of war insist it's not about oil. But global oil production is on the brink of terminal decline and when the West begins to run short of supplies - Iraq could be a lifeline stream/download real player
David Strahan (BBC Money Programme) – The Last Oil Shock (2000) First shown in November 2000, this programme meets the scientists who believe that we are at the beginning of the long term decline in conventional oil production stream/download
Grace Productions - Iraq: Mixing Oil & Blood Reporter Chris Frederick
investigates the controversial background to Iraq's Oil Law, recently
approved by the Iraqi cabinet, which critics say will effectively
hand over control of the country's prized oil industry into the hands
of foreign multinational oil companies
BBC News – Australia 'has Iraq oil interest' Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq - who would of thunk it? stream
CBC News - The Lies that Led to War (2007) As the White House warns
about the latest threat from Iran, it's worthwhile looking back to
examine the deception, suspect intelligence, even lies, that convinced
the world of the rightness of targeting Saddam Hussein
Michelle Mason – Breaking Ranks (2006) Documentary film that examines the current phenomena of US soldiers seeking refuge in Canada as part of their resistance to the war effort in Iraq stream/download
John Pilger - Flying the Flag, Arming the World (1994) David Munro and John Pilger
look behind the political rhetoric and discover the world of international
arms dealing
Helmut Grosse (WDR) – Africa: US Oil's New Target (2005) America has set its sights on Africa, which, according to a White House national energy policy document, is predicted to be - together with Latin America - "one of the fastest growing sources of oil and gas" for the future American market. But in the global hunt for oil, America has to compete with an increasingly successful and aggressive major competitor - China stream/download real player
Dispatches – Iraq: The Lost Generation This programme opens a window onto the hidden world of Iraqi youth, revealing the brutalisation and psychological trauma of living under military occupation. It reveals how the people with whom the future of Iraq rests, are reacting with anger, aggression and, in some cases, violence stream/download
Free-Will Productions - The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (2004) After assessing today's dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, "The Oil Factor" questions the motives for the US wars in the Middle East and Central Asia, where three-quarters of the world's oil and natural gas is located stream
Robert Greenwald – IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Greenwald takes you inside the lives of people who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so stream real player
BBC Newsnight – Kurdish soldiers trained by Israelis Newsnight has obtained the first pictures of Kurdish soldiers being trained by Israelis in Northern Iraq, as well as an interview with one of the former commandos who carried out the work stream
Ted Honderich – The Real Friends of Terror Can suicide bombers ever be justified? Professor Honderich, Britain's leading moral philosopher, is unafraid to tell the truth as he sees it. Taking what he says is the betrayal of the Palestinian people as his starting point, Ted reveals who shares moral responsibility for recent acts of terrorism, and points a finger at the politicians. Bizarrely, David Aaronovitch gave a response to this programme, failing completely to address Honderich's "Principle of Humanity" - see here stream/download real player
Martin Bright – Who Speaks for Muslims? The British Government is appeasing radical Islam, according to documents uncovered by Channel4. Rather than tackling the ideology that breeds extremism, Whitehall has instead embraced it; promoting a narrow, austere version of Islam stream/download
GMTV – Norman Baker MP undertakes private investigation into the death of Dr Kelly Baker is two months into his year-long investigation to establish what really happened to Dr David Kelly. Suicide was presumed, but peculiar elements to the death, eg. the blunt gardening knife, the transected (ulnar) artery that would have retracted, the lack of blood splattering, and the tiny amount of co-proxamol found in Kelly's stomach, point up the need for closer scrutiny. Dr David Kelly Blog: click here for the latest developments and news stream
Democracy Now – Greg Palast on his new book "Armed Madhouse:..." In this interview, Palast suggests that the Iraq war may actually be about keeping Iraq's oil in the ground to raise the price globally, and thereby increasing the profits for the oil majors. He also talks about Hugo Chavez and the petro-dollar stream 128k real player
BBC Newsnight – Greg Palast visits Venezuela and meets Hugo Chavez Venezuela has large deposits of extra-heavy oil that previously was too expensive to exploit. Now, with oil costing over $50 a barrel, those reserves are estimated to be far in excess of those in the entire Middle East stream real player/windows media player
Jacques Charmelot & Arnaud Hamelin – Saddam: America's Best Enemy Historical account of the relationship between America and Saddam Hussein. Reveals the complicity of America in Saddam's atrocities. Forty years of secrets, incomprehension and incompetence led to the occupation of Iraq stream real player
Crying Wolf – Who is behind the death squads in Iraq? This short movie examines the epidemic of violence sweeping Iraq, and considers who should be held intellectually responsible stream
Noam Chomsky & Robert Fisk – War, Geopolitics and History Fisk speaks about the problems with journalism in the US, and the lack of concern for Iraqi's as human beings, as illustrated in newspaper articles and politician's speeches. Introduced by Noam Chomsky dial-up real player
Jon Snow – Iraq: The Hidden Story Images of Iraq dominate our TV news bulletins every night but in this film, Channel4 news presenter Jon Snow, questions whether these reports are sugar-coating the bloody reality of war under the US-led occupation stream real player
Zeena Ahmed – Iraq: The Women's Story This Channel4 Dispatches film provides a compelling account of life inside Iraq that is rarely seen on news bulletins: stories of ordinary women whose struggle to survive has only worsened since the war stream real player
Robert Newman – Robert Newman's History of Oil The comedian and author gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all the commotion. Excellent and factual, Newman tells it how it is stream real player
Michael C Ruppert – Denial Stops Here: From 9-11 to Peak Oil and Beyond Ruppert's follow up to 'The Truth and Lies of 9-11'. In this film compiled from various recent lectures, Ruppert discusses the 9-11 cover-up, peak oil, the war in Iraq, economic turmoil and accountability, world events relating to oil, and sustainability and the importance of community reliance stream
BBC Newsnight – US soldiers turn against Iraq war Latest polls show a clear majority of Americans are now against the campaign in Iraq. Inigo Gilmore meets some disillusioned soldiers who have served there, as they march across America to protest against the occupation. They reveal some disturbing allegations about military practices in Iraq stream
Dispatches/GuardianFilms – Iraq's Missing Billions Dr Ali Fadhil, a 29 year old Iraqi doctor, investigates what has happened to billions of dollars worth of Iraqi money which was put into the care of the US led coalition to be spent for the benefit of Iraqi people on the reconstruction of their country. He uncovers a shocking story of fraud, incompetence and corruption, unscrupulous foreign contractors who made millions from dodgy contracts, and literally billions of dollars which cannot be properly accounted for stream real player
BBC Newsnight – The 50 Billion Dollar Robbery Following the Iraq war, billions of dollars of Iraq's money was directed to American companies to rebuild the country. But much of it remains unaccounted for, and Peter Marshall has been investigating startling allegations of post war profiteering stream
The History Channel – Declassified: Ayatollah Khomeini Historical look at the relationship between Iran and America. Reveals how the US installed a dictatorship with secret police via the puppet Shah stream real player
Dispatches – Stealing Your Freedom Peter Hitchens takes a look at how the recent avalanche of security legislation has affected the civil liberties of ordinary people in Britain. The result, Hitchens explains, is that we are sleepwalking into a Big Brother state stream real player
Michel Chossudovsky – America's "War on Terrorism" Chossudovsky's presentation to the Perdana Global Peace Forum (2005) in Malaysia stream/download
Sky Television – Conspiracies: Iraq A must-see documentary. Simon Reeve investigates the real reasons for the war in Iraq. Starting with oil and the contracts set up between Saddam and non-American/British companies. The latter part of the film looks at the petro-dollar cycle and how OPEC members can threaten US power by using the euro to trade oil - could Iran be next? stream real player download real player
Rory Bremner – Beneath Iraq and a Hard Place (2006) What has happened in the two years since the troops arrived in Iraq? In 48 minutes of sketches, monologue, animation and reworked archive, Rory brings us up to date and tells the tale of life between Iraq and a hard place stream real player
BBC Newsnight – Is it all about oil? First shown in January 2003, this news story shows how important Iraqi oil is to the world market and how the regime change could impact OPEC stream
Harold Pinter – Art, Truth and Politics Winner of 'The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005'. Pinter's excellent lecture sets the record straight regarding America's sordid past of imperial devastation broadband real player
Dispatches – Iraq: The Reckoning Peter Oborne reports on the West's exit strategy for Iraq. He believes the invasion of Iraq is proving to be the greatest foreign policy failure since Munich. Oborne argues that the plan to transform Iraq into a unified liberal democracy, a beacon of hope in the Middle East, is pure fantasy stream download |
