Dallas Oil Company Signs Deal With Kurds

A Texas energy company with strong connections to the Bush administration seems to have landed a big oil deal, in spite of a lack of arrangement with the central Iraqi government. And (I presume) with the approval of the US: Dallas Oil Company Signs Deal With Kurds

On a related note, Alan Greenspan has some shocking revelations in his new book: Greenspan: Oil the Prime Motive for Iraq War .

Liberty Lunch

This blog is a free-wheeling discussion forum out of Austin, TX. It is a more open and permanent record used to replace various ad-hoc email lists over the years. There is no limit to the topics, but they have tended to revolve around local, national and international issues concerning the interactions of people and their governments.