Just like the bombings, killings and interventions in Iran, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. "kinetic military action" in Libya is once again just about American oil interest. Here's the proof...
Libyan rebel group sells first oil to U.S.
The rebel government in control of the eastern part of Libya has made its first sale of oil from territory it controls, the State Department confirmed Wednesday.
Tesoro, a U.S. oil refiner, entered into a deal May 25 with the Transitional National Council based in Benghazi, Libya for 1.2 million barrels of Libyan crude oil, the State Department said in a written statement. The shipment was scheduled to arrive aboard the MT Equator, a Liberian-flagged tanker, at the Single Point Mooring in Hawaii on Wednesday. The dollar value of the deal is not known.
U.S. support for additional oil sales with the TNC will continue as a means to support additional revenue streams for the Libyan people, the statement said.
The sale was made possible following an April announcement by the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department that established a new licensing policy with Libya. That action was taken to ease barriers to certain oil related transactions with the TNC, in place because of wider U.S. sanctions on Libya.
The announcement came the same day Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the United Arab Emirates for a meeting with the Libya Contact Group, a coalition of various countries and international organizations that seek to build support for the TNC while preparing for Libya's future after the presumed end of Moammar Gadhafi's regime. This is the third meeting of the group.
This news should not be surprising to any American, considering our history of blood for oil. In fact just this week, Congressman Dennis Kucinich spoke about exactly why President Obama had ordered U.S. forces into a war of choice in Libya without Congressional authorization...
In reality. the U.S. military is fighting for corporate interests in Libya. Libya is among the world's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US. The real objective of the intervention in Libya is to take possession of Libya's oil reserves, destabilize the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and eventually privatize the country's oil industry, namely transfer the control and ownership of Libya's oil wealth into foreign hands.
The National Oil Corporation (NOC) is ranked 25 among the world’s Top 100 Oil Companies.
Yes, in
Libya it's the oil stupid. And it's sad to say it's just another American
"blood for oil" war.
When will it end?