writer 0 2007-03-14T00:00:00Z It's not very clear. What you said is correct. The law was not even seen by the Iraqi Parliament until it was finished, so it's an inside job. Exactly what this entails is still kind of open. It allows for Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) which have traditionally been a way of gouging the producer and ensuring that foreign corporations have control and make huge profits. It's quite different from other contractual arrangements in the region--it's what they used to have but they've since nationalized their oil production and countries set terms more in their own interest with the corporations that are moving in. This Noam 4441 true true 2007-03-14T00:00:00Z Chomsky 12331 1844 0 1 War, Neoliberalism & Empire war-neoliberalism-and-empire-in-the-21st-century-by-noam-chomsky War, Neoliberalism and Empire in the 21st Century 2009-09-24T03:19:38Z 206