Is this a War About Oil?

Friday September 20, 2002 08:09

by Anti-Bush

Role of Multinationals

many times it is heard that the war against terror is one about oil and Bush's connections to the oil industry are cited alongside prominent members of his government. But who rulest America? It isn't simply the oil industry but other industries which are just as important. Governments are nothing more that the representatives of the bourgeois order and as such are middle men of minor rank.

Was the war Hitler unleashed simply about the Soviet Unions natural resources, could we say it was a war for oil? No. Judged by past history this war is a war about the multinationals dominating the planet. Freeing up any protectionist trade barriers that get in their way, like the CAP in Europe and showing to the world who is trulymaster of the the Universe.

The Arab world not having been united is fragmented into a series of statelets and as such is now representing the main threat to the US imposition of its new world order. Since the defeat of Vietnam America sufferred another humiliating defeat in Iran. If the war was simply about oil and that is only a small component, American oil reserves would be depleted and the price would have skyrocketed. Instead we have a glut on the world oil markets like we have a glut in almost every other capitalist product from coffee to sugar. We are experiencing a crisis of overproduction and underconsumptions and the worlds second largest economy, Japan is in freefall.

For the large multinational corporations to surpass this crisis it is necessary for them to gain direct control of the planet, its resources and to get rid of the middle men whether they are Arab nationalists or European politicians. Part and parcel of this process is the creation of a single currency in Europe. SO as to carry out the task US imperialism has to take control of the sea water and the air. Problems abound in the Horn of Africa after the SOmalia debacle, in Latin America in particular Columbia, in Sub-Saharan Africa in particular South Africa and in Asia from Indonesia through to Afghanistan.

The periphery of the American Empire is imploding at a pace faster than they can put out the fires already started. In this race against time, the USA will try to pretend it is winning the war against terror only so as to convince itself and its multinationals that is all is well and the crisis isn't systemic but manageable.