Posted: 04/ 2/2012 5:16 am
The callous greed in the oil patch seems to know no limits. Here we have a company, Royal Dutch Shell, bursting with earnings, at the apogee of its yearly returns, going after the last dollar or Euro to make things fatter still. This to the cold dismissal of the brave Iranians who rose en-masse in 2009 to rally for free elections only to be put down brutally by the Mullah’s goon squads financed in large measure by the plenitude of oil revenues streaming from Iran’s export oil loadings. The world was outraged, but helplessly stood by as the slaughter continued. From far and wide came calls to impose sanctions on Iran and to impose embargoes on Iran’s products. One would have thought any responsible organization would have desisted its activities with what had now evolved into a murderous regime.