Empire of Oil: Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa
Empire of Oil: Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa
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石油帝国：资本主义的掠夺和对非洲的争夺
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10.14452/mr-058-04-2006-08_1
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2006
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M. Watts
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把历届总统都不愿在公开场合说出的话说出来：上瘾。他承认，美国对石油“上瘾”--也就是对汽车上瘾--其结果是不健康地依赖中东供应商。他没有提到的是，二战后美国的全球石油采购战略--自1945年2月罗斯福总统与沙特阿拉伯国王沙特会面，并在昆西号航空母舰上拼凑起他们的“特殊关系”以来，一直是美国外交政策的核心--陷入了一团糟。这一政策的支柱-伊朗、沙特阿拉伯、海湾石油国家和委内瑞拉-在美国帝国的圈子里很难说是乞丐本文也可以在每月评论网站上找到，在那里发表了最新的文章全文。点击此处购买本文的PDF版本，请访问月刊网站。
put into words what all previous presidents could not bring themselves to utter in public: addiction. The United States, he conceded, is "addicted" to oil—which is to say addicted to the car—and as a consequence unhealthily dependent upon Middle Eastern suppliers. What he neglected to mention was that the post-Second World War U.S. global oil acquisition strategy—a central plank of U.S. foreign policy since President Roosevelt met King Saud of Saudi Arabia and cobbled together their "special relationship" aboard the USS Quincy in February 1945—is in a total shambles. The pillars of that policy—Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf oil states, and Venezuela—are hardly supplicant sheep within the U.S. imperial fold This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.