New documentary “Sea of Oil” picks up mainstream media’s slack on Iraqi oil issue

Posted by Aaron Seeley on
Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Yes, this is indeed a shameless plug for a video I helped produce with my colleagues in San Diego for the independent non-profit Alternate Focus. Since the major media outlets seem uninterested in tackling this issue, we felt a need to Flip the Media and take a stab at it ourselves…

Possessing one of the largest remaining oil resources on the planet, and one of the least developed, Iraq has been a tempting target for foreign intervention by powerful western oil interests, backed by military force. As an occupied country weakened by civil war, can Iraq retain its sovereignty over its oil wealth in the face of a bid to control it by US corporations?

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