Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
They have a lot of control over their oil. Private oil companies - Exxon, BP, etc., only hold 5% of the world's resources all together.

As for non-violent resistance; look at the civil rights movement in the south of the USA. The racists in power didn't go out easy.

CR
I don't claim to be the expert on oil, but from what I know, West still controls the flow of oil. Three major bourses for oil are located in US and UK and all transactions are in US dollars. Barely 6 months ago Iran opened a bourse which is hoped to rival those three, naturally not generating much happiness in the West. Ironically, that was what Iraq had plans to do before US military intervention, and I have a hunch that Western "problem" with Iran is in no small way connected with this...

But let's not digress. That's another problem for another thread.

I think that non-violent resistance is a great idea, but I don't see how it can be applied to this situation. They have a problem with the West, not their own governments. How can they protest non-violently against that? Get several millions on a plane and send them to US, to protest non-violently for a decade in front of the White House? I don't understand how it can practically be done in this instance...