“Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.” BelieveKindWaterViewsCompanyWesternCensorship Author:Jonathan Zittrain
“Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.” TryingStatesRememberUnitedCompanyUnited StatesResponseWesternBritishOilIranContinuationOil CompaniesAppeasement Author:Leonard Peikoff
“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.” WayIdeasGovernmentCultureSidesNumbersCompanyWesternChineseOfficialsLarge Numbers Author:Ian Buruma
“Under the current U.S. policy, because of this power struggle, American oil companies can't do business with Iran. So I think the ultimate goal of the U.S. administration in Iran is regime change, to put into power a pro-Western government that will eliminate the strategic challenge to U.S. interests and, at the same time, allow the lifting of sanctions and allowing American oil companies to do business with Iran.” ThinkingGovernmentGoalInterestChallengesCompanyStrugglePolicyUltimateWesternCurrentsOilAdministrationIranAllowingRegimesStrategicLiftingSanctionsUltimate GoalOil CompaniesPower StruggleRegime Change Author:Michael Klare
“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.” WorldLongGovernmentPoliticalPowerfulCompanyDemocracyMiddleTaughtWillingBalancePaidWestWesternHeavyOilEastOppressionCodeOperationsRegionsFriendlyMost PowerfulTyrantsRegimesMiddle EastDictatorshipTolerateLimitlessCiaAugustCoupsTiltOil CompaniesAjaxPowerful Government Author:Stephen Kinzer