Oil is key to regime change in Iraq, the escalation of the US military role in Colombia's conflict, and the increased US military presence in the oil rich regions of Central Asia and West Africa. This work exposes the US oil policy and its human rights implications, and features interviews with military personnel and residents of oil-rich areas
Crude Interventions examines the military and economic policies of the Bush administration in oil-rich regions of the world. More precisely, it examines the socio-economic and human rights consequences of these policies, as well as those of recent US administrations and multinational energy companies, for the peoples of oil producing nations in the global South. With only four percent of the world's population, the United States consumes 25 per cent of global energy production. This thirst for energy has played a significant role in determining US foreign policy in recent decades. By focusing
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