Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo names Halliburton as one of the US corporations poised to enter Venezuela and "support" the people there by extracting their oil.
The planned takeover is described as an effort to impose a “capitalist model” on Venezuela.
In 2003, Halliburton was awarded a $7 billion no-bid contract to carry out a similar task in Iraq – a sweetheart deal likely facilitated by Dick Cheney, who ran the company until he became Vice President.
As the the lives of 1,000,000+ Iraqis and thousands of US troops were being claimed in a US war of choice launched on false pretenses, Halliburton quickly set to work defrauding American taxpayers.
Within 2 years, Pentagon auditors found the company tried to pass off over $1.4 billion in "questioned" and "unsupported" charges onto the US government.
The most vocal neocons may be gone from the Trump administration, but the game remains the same: massive profits for the chosen few, and endless resource wars for everyone else.
Mike