Why OPEC Is Cutting Its Production
Sam Hamod
03/31/04 "ICH" -- Many have asked why OPEC is cutting its production
when the price is already over OPEC’s projected market design price.
This has caused consternation in the Bush administration, upset Kerry
and allegedly puzzled many American financial analysts
who think the price is already too high for America’s and the world’s
economies.
The answer is simple: the OPEC countries are tired of Bush and his
administration trying to tell them how to run their countries—from
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait to Venezuela—they are all tired of Bush trying to
be the dictator and government framer of the world.
If you will notice, in the past six months, American politicians have
instituted a campaign to tell Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Indonesia
and Venezuela how to “reform” their governments, and in the case of
Venezuela, America has been supporting the anti-government,
anti-democratic group that wants to kick out the democratically
elected president, Chavez. Obviously, Chavez will not do anything to
aid America, whom he sees as the enemy of his regime and his life.
These Arab and Muslims countries do not like this pressure, especially
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, who have had royal families running these
countries for decades; even Russia, who Bush thought would send extra
oil to help the American economy, has been slow in helping, if they
help at all, since Secretary of State Powell’s comments on Putin’s
election, and alleged “irregularities” in the Russian election. You
may recall that Putin’s response was, “Don’t tell me about elections
and democracy; remember Florida before you speak.”
So there you have it in a nutshell. In addition to this, America had
its hand in the postponement of the recent Arab League Summit that was
to be held in Tunisia.
Knowledgeable experts, and there are very few in America, or at least
that the media will allow on the major TV channels, know that America
was pressuring some of its lackeys in the Arab world to pressure
others, and to make a major agenda item, the “democratization” of the
Arab world. The U.S. always holds up Israel as a model, rather than
admitting democracies in Lebanon and Tunisia; the Arab nations, and
the Muslim nations are tired of Israel, which is thought by them to be
a terrorist nation, with Arabs and some Sephardic Jews being treated
as second class or worse, citizens.
There is also the Palestinian/Israeli problem that has caused nothing
but upset in the Arab and Muslim worlds; all of these nations are
sympathetic to the Palestinians and know that the Israelis have
violated most UN laws and humanitarian codes in the Geneva Conventions
and in the UN Conventions, yet these countries see America constantly
aiding Israel, and vetoing any and all resolutions in the UN Security
Council when Israel is up for justified condemnations, i.e., the
illegal wall, the illegal destruction of homes of non-combatants, the
jailing of people without warrants or any rights, the assassination of
leaders from within Palestine, capped off recently by the killing of
Sheikh Yassin and the threat to kill Al Rantisi, and the use of
weapons from the U.S. that are illegal to be used in civil areas, such
as cluster bombs, rockets, helicopter missiles, etc.
There are also the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most Muslims,
aside from the lackeys, are very upset about American occupation of
these lands; the Arab nations, all of whom have majority Muslim
populations, share in this upset and must answer to their citizens
everyday when America kills more people or occupies more land. There
is also upset when the journalists from Qatar with Al Jazeerah and
from Saudi Arabia with Al Arabiyah are killed by American soldiers, in
what are clearly “assassinations”; yet the American military
constantly says the killings were justified “under the rules of
war”—but it is interesting, only Arab and foreign journalists get
killed in cars that are clearly marked “JOURNALISTS”, but no American
journalists are ever killed…….??
No one can be blind to what this is all about. The Arab and Muslims
governments must answer to their people about these events as well as
the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan—something that none of them
can justify. Of course, they would agree that Saddam being gone is
good, but the take-over and occupation in force is violently opposed,
not only in Iraq and Afghanistan, but in other Arab and Muslims
countries as well. That is why you have “volunteers” coming into Iraq
and Afghanistan to fight the U.S. and the occupiers, from as far away
as China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhistan, Turkey and on and on—not to mention
Arab nations in North Africa, Muslims from central Africa and European
countries.
Yes, to any rational, non-neo-con observer, it is clear as to why the
OPEC nations are putting the screws to a failing U.S. economy run by a
dictatorial, empire driven man like Bush.
Perhaps the next time you hear a TV program or radio program that
wonders why, or if you hear your congressperson wondering why—just
tell them what I’ve passed on to you—
It just might help America wake up before it’s too late.
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