Showing posts with label BP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BP. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2012

Apologies to British Petroleum

Feel free to download, repost and distribute.

A loyal Nomadic Politics commenter and reader, JF,  has also supplied these links to add to the poster. Thanks so much.


Here is a you-tube copy of the apology.
Oil Leak in the Gulf-Amazing, Devastating Photography 

Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Uncomfortable Truth about Iran: How the US Lost a World

 by Nomad
Amid all the advertisements for gas-guzzling cars, there is an interesting editorial from LIFE magazine, dated May 21, 1951. The title:

At that time, because of its location and its petroleum, Iran was caught between two great millstones of conflicting ideologies, Capitalism and Communism.

Britain, heavily reliant on Iranian oil, had directly controlled the oil monopoly through the British Anglo-Iranian Oil company (later to become BP) but now, suddenly the rules of the game had changed.The author neatly summarized the lead-up to the foreign policy disaster like this: