I Watched Syriana last night. I had seen about half of it before but only now is it sinking in what the film was saying. It is in the nature of oil to seep into everything and corrupt. Now, a fictional movie doesn't use real names but that doesn't mean that the characters Gaghan used in the film are not very much real people out there, wielding their fascist power in various ways, because this morning in the Guardian we get to see two real life oil men doing their oily work oh-so oilmightily well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/leak-exposes-heartland-institute-climate
and if you really want to know more about these "greedy lying bastards" (can't wait for that film!) you can read this ...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=1
It's a long article but you get to watch in stunnning detail, the seeping, oily rivulets of Big Oil as it lubricates the political machine.