April 23, 2012

Argentina's Oil Grab Is Justified

Will Hutton, The Observer


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Suppose the British government knew that a key shareholder in Centrica, our last great British energy company and owner of British Gas, was to sell its stake to Gazprom, so making Russian state ownership inevitable. . .

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