War Sponsor Exxon-Mobil, Official Supplier of the Empire

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John D. Rockefeller created the first vertical oil trust: Standard Oil. By the means of not very orthodox methods, he ruined his US competitors and organized the tax evasion of his incomes. Later, by establishing an alliance with his rivals BP and Shell, he formed a cartel to control the world market. He financed, as no one did, the Nazi military adventure with the hope of taking control of the USSR’s resources. His company, turned into Exxon-Mobil, is today the world leader and subsidizes the neoliberal think tanks (Center for investigation, propaganda, and dissemination of ideas, generally of political nature) and Bush’s electoral campaign.

The ecologist NGO Greenpeace twisted the famous Esso slogan: "Put a tiger in your tank"

Exxon-Mobil, also known outside the US as «Esso», is the leading oil company worldwide (above British Petroleum and Shell) and performs businesses of exploration, production, supply, transportation and sales of oil and natural gas including its byproducts in nearly 200 countries and territories.

The company has reserves of 22 000 million barrels of oil in equivalent products (including bituminous sands) and net earnings of 14 500 million dollars in the year 2003. In terms of comparison, the GDP of a country like Mali was, in the same year, about 10 000 million dollars <1>.

The history of Exxon, which is also the dean of the major world companies, is closely related to the development of economic liberalism since late 19th century because its founder, John D. Rockefeller I, was the first one to exploit the whole potential developing the principle of trust <2>.

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