Neolliberalism at work. Guardian/UK reports an Enron-like scam afoot to use Iraq's future oil revenues as collateral reconstruction. A multibillion-dollar jackpot for Halliburton and Bechtel now. Bonded servitude to Big Banks for the Iraqis for years to come, if not forever.

Meanwhile, the arch privatizers are busy turning the once isolated economy into a so-called free trade zone, all the better to kill off all local business in in favor of cheap imported products owned my megacorps. important Go IMF.