'Iraq is dying': oil flows freely but corruption fuels growing anger

[umbertino]

 

Locked out of polluting wealth beneath their feet, those calling for an end to a ‘rotten system’ risk detention and death

 

 

Mon 27 Aug 2018 12.27 BST

by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Bani-Mansour

 

 

 

 

Iraqi security forces arrive to disperse a demonstration outside oilfields near Basra on 17 July

Photograph: Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP/Getty

 

 

 

More pics & 1 vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/27/iraq-is-dying-oil-corruption-protest-basra

 

 

[3n1]

thanks umbertino , i feel you should have had a music video attached to the article / JK ... slowly the iraqis are realizing they gonna have to risk it to get the biscuit ... all the best  

[boosterbglee]

If Parliament would get off their azzes and do their job, implementing an HCL might help everyone!    

[WheresmyRV?]

1 hour ago, boosterbglee said:

If Parliament would get off their azzes and do their job, implementing an HCL might help everyone!    

Greed and corruption is standing in the way of that getting done unfortunately.

[NextYear]

1 hour ago, boosterbglee said:

If Parliament would get off their azzes and do their job, implementing an HCL might help everyone!    

 

I do believe they are voting on the HCL on or around September 5th if memory serves from an article that was posted around here about a month ago. Unless it's postponed for a vote on some new holiday.

[NextYear]

14 minutes ago, NextYear said:

 

I do believe they are voting on the HCL on or around September 5th if memory serves from an article that was posted around here about a month ago. Unless it's postponed for a vote on some new holiday.

 

Tried looking for the article post but it was either moved or deleted for some reason.  Tried my browser history first.

 

 

Edited August 27, 2018 by NextYear

[ChuckFinley]

Thanks Next Year, still hoping for this year.