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By Fouad Qasim Al-Amir

Al-Amir US-Iraq Agreement Study (Arabic)
This is an important study of 73 pages, of the proposed security agreement between US and the Iraqi Government, by the prominent Iraqi commentator and oil expert, By Fouad Qasim Al-Amir. The author has published several important studies on the subject of occupied Iraq, mainly on the oil […]

On March 19th, 2008, the day after Vice President Richard Cheney’s unannounced visit to Iraq, events for the battle for Basra started to take off. The Jerusalem Post (March 20, 2008) welcomed the results of the visit with a whiff of ecstasy:
“US Vice President Richard Cheney visit to Iraq on the fifth anniversary of Operation […]

The Iraqi Communist Party-Central Leadership, Calls for National Unity to Defeat Partition & Ocupation

The Iraqi Communist Party (ICP-CL), in a statement on 30 September 2007, condemned US Senate’s motion to partition Iraq on sectarian and ethnic lines. The party called for national unity, and proposes to form a united front by pateriotic parties to oppose partition and put an end the occupation of the country. The statement said that Senator Biden’s motion has already backfired. It was condemned by the great majority of the Iraqi people and the political personalities, including high-ranking officials of the US installed government. Among those who opposed the US Senate motion are the two vice-presidents of the Iraq, and the representatives of 8 parties and organisations, represented in Iraq Parliament.

Bush-linked Texas oil company signs major deal with Kurdish Region in disputed areas
The deal between the Bush-linked “Hunt Oil Company” and the Kurdish Regional Government has uncovered a major crisis between the Maliki Government and the US, according to well-informed sources. The sources disclosed to Al-Ghad that the terms of the deal are still secret, […]

We have updated our Oil Archive (link on the left ) with a few new pages. There is…
a new draft of the “Final” draft of the Iraq Oil Law
Transcript of a TV interview with the Prime Minsiter of the Kurdish Regional Government.
A study of how the Iraqi government proposes to share revenue between the […]

Iraqi Tanks Take Control of the Oil Pipelines In Basra,by Orders of Maliki
The People of Basra Rally to the Support of Oil Workers Strike
Demands are Growing to Put the Oil Law on Hold
Iraqi Government in Panic, Holds Talks With Oil Unions Leaders
The Basra Oil Pipelines Workers Started their strike on Monday defiantly, cutting the oil […]

Iraqi Trade Unionists to tour the US
Demonstration Against the Oil Law
A demonstration will be held on June 5th by US Labour Agianst War against the US contractor paid by the US to help write and promote law in Iraq to put most of Iraq’s oil under control of multinational oil corporations. As part of the […]

The rise of oil workers’ movement in occupied Iraq is not new. The movement is organised country wide body representing 26,000 workers known as the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU), presided by Hassan Jumaa Awad al Assadi, who is active in presenting the case of the federation in many countries. The union leaders […]

The statement of the Accord Front in the Iraqi Parliament objecting on the timing and the content of the Oil Law (in Arabic).
أثار مشروع قانون النفط الكثير من الجدل حوله والكثير من الاهتمام داخل وخارج العراق .
ونحن في جبهة التوافق آثرنا عدم التسرع في أبداء الرأي الاخير لكي تتاح لنا الفرصة الكافية للإستماع إلى آراء […]

تاريخ: 18/4/2007
السيدات والسادة أعضاء ندوة دبي حول مسودة قانون النفط العراقي المحترمين،
نحن لفيف من المهتمين بشؤون النفط العراقي، نود أن نعرض عليكم بمذكرتنا هذه اقتراحاتنا لمناقشتها من قبل ندوتكم الكريمة نظراً لعدم تيسر مشاركة بعضنا فيها، راجين منكم النظر فيها لما تتضمنه، في رأينا المتواضع، من أهمية لقضية النفط العراقي لحاضر ومستقبل […]