And while the Civil War-era hoax had to use crude tools (war is going badly, gold rises in the face of bad news), Internet-fueled falsehoods and day-trading sites allow for highly tailored rumors to be quickly amplified and exploited.
In its final scene – which is shocking, as Churchill herself describes it – the crude rhetoric of war has won.
Iraq has awarded its second post-war crude oil tender to at least four companies, including a U.S. oil major and a trading house, with most of the oil heading to the U.S., market sources said Tuesday.
Though the project as a whole might have been successful were it not for the war, this crude effort is what it will be best remembered for.
Since biplanes first dropped crude bombs in World War I, the military has been using ground spotters to direct pilots to targets.
By which I mean that in a climate of blinkered, polarized politics, especially to a young smart-alecky New Yorker, the museum could appear to be a crude instrument of cold war propaganda.
The Dow sold off almost 400 points yesterday after violence in the Middle East touched off a price spike in the oil market, pushing the price of a barrel of crude up to Gulf War levels.
Linda McQuaig is a political columnist for the Toronto Star, and author of seven Canadian best-sellers, including It's the Crude, Dude: Greed, Gas, War and the American Way, which was published in the U.S. by Thomas Dunne Books.
A small number of crude daguerreotypes of the Mexican War exist.
The move also signals Saudi Arabia's willingness to ensure the flow of affordable crude in the event of war with Iraq.
