Washington's Trojan Horse in the New Iraqi Government: Vice President Abdel Mahdi

by Democracy Now

Thu, Apr 7, 2005 9:50AM

Outgoing finance minister Adel Abdel Mahdi was named by the Iraqi parliament to be one of the country's two vice presidents. We speak with author and activist Antonia Juhasz about Abdel Mahdi's ties to neo-liberal institutions and his plans to privatize Iraq's oil.

Antonia Juhasz, author and activist. She is currently working on a book about corporate globalization and Iraq. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Cambridge University Review of International Relations Journal, and the LA Times. For years, she was Project Director at the International Forum on Globalization.

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