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Unocal is emblematic of corporate abuse and corporate power run amok.

Unocal cannot do business in Burma without supporting that hopeless regime.

In 1997, while George W. Bush was governor of Texas a delegation of Taliban leaders from Afghanistan flew to Houston to meet with Unocal executives to discuss the building of a pipeline through Afghanistan bringing natural gas from the Caspian Sea.

And who got a Caspian Sea drilling contract the same day Unocal signed the pipeline deal?

He was a former adviser to Unocal.

Bush also appointed, as our envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, who was also a former Unocal adviser.

The Carlyle Group. The Unocal Pipeline. The assassination of Olof Palme.

The Carlyle Group, the Unocal pipeline, the assassination of Olaf Palme?

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When China National Offshore Oil Company tried to buy America's UNOCAL two years ago, it set off a political firestorm in the United States.

They tried to enter the US energy market with the purchase of Unocal, but were blocked by politicians.

Examples include the China National Overseas Oil Company's failed effort to buy the US energy firm UNOCAL, and Dubai Ports' failed bid to buy a firm managing major US ports.

In Afghanistan last year, the US installed Hamid Karzai, a former consultant for oil giant Unocal, as interim leader.

It also appointed Kalmay Khalilzad, another former Unocal consultant --indeed, Karzai's boss--as special US envoy.

Things got off to a poor start in 2005, when the China National Off-Shore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) tried to buy Unocal.

Even though almost all of the oil produced by Unocal would have ended up on world markets rather than back in China, the US Congress's skittishness assured that Unocal was sold to homegrown Chevron.

Although Chinese investors have since made numerous lower-visibility plays in US markets, the failed Unocal deal left a legacy of bitterness.

Indeed, a case similar to Unocal arose this summer.