Oil and Pipedreams of the Afghani Region

U.S. Analysis
of Afghan Energy Reserves and the Geopolitics of the Region

U.S. Analysis of Pipeline Routes
(see route through Afghanistan to Pakistan)

Uzbekistani Oil
one part of the oil agenda

Tengiz Oil Field
in western Kazakhstan is among the world's largest

Oil in the Caucasus
the New Great Game

Pipedreams from the Unocal Website
"The 48-inch diameter [gas] pipeline will extend 790 miles (1,271 kilometers)
from the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border, generally follow
the Herat-to-Kandahar Road through Afghanistan"

Wanted by Unocal
a new, friendly government in Afghanistan

The Taleban in Texas?
Unocal met with Taleban officials in 1997

It Is About Oil

Map of Oil Routes from Le Monde

Perspectives on Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney and Saddam Hussein

The Cheney Checkbook
support for Halliburton and the Ultra-Right Wing

Cheney's Revolving Door
steering govt. money to the defense industry he works in privately

Cheney, Halliburton
and the Russian Mafia?

Don't Forget The Opium Trade

"Most of World's Opium"
in the Afghan Region

Tajikistan - Opium Routes

CIA Involvement in Afghanistan

Taliban Move to Slow Trade
last winter

Bush's Faustian Deal w/ The Taliban

Taliban Renews Drug Trade
to raise funds for war

Drug Trade Could Bloom In War

Heroin as a tool
of the oil war

More Heroin Please

Drugs and War in Columbia Too

More Analysis and Perspectives

Robert Fisk

Molly Ivins

George Monbiot

John Pilger

Jason Elliot

An Unexpected Light

Holy War, Inc.

Corporate Watch on Big Oil