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Autonomy, arguing tirelessly in numerous venues for such proposals – including in multiple Op - Eds for and insisting that Kurds must have the right to control oil resources located in Northern Iraq….. What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years was that a company he formed in 2004 came to acquire a large stake in a Kurdish oil field whereby, as the put it, he "stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars. " direct — and vast — financial stake in the very policies which he was. Antiwar.com. Media Matters for America. ThinkProgress » Home Page. CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names.
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