Engdahl, "A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World

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"A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order" by F. William Engdahl

-Academic, footnotes, good bibliography -- on what I call the "Petroleum-Political Complex" - Not a fast read.

Hits very hard at the root causes of the many and myriad of problems in the Middle East (not just Israel/Palestine), as what could be characterized as the "Petroleum-Political Complex".

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1. Daniel Yergin's "The Prize" is also essential reading. Does Engdahl

add much?

Just out of curiousity - are you aware that in 1998 Prince Abdullah offered to sell SA's upstream oil supplies to the U.S.-based majors? That plan was blocked by some of the other Saudi princes, several of whom ended up dead in the desert or in car accidents after 9/11. See Posner's book. That was a turning point in the civil war in Saudi Arabia.

After some in US intel put the finger on the Saudis for the 9/11 attacks, a $60 billion contract for natural gas development was handed to the Chinese and the Russians. All of the US companies were written out of that deal.

Here we have more than one motive for an oil industry-backed covert U.S. operation overthrow the Saudi regime, and the reason we're sliding into World War.

I find it amazing that so few Americans have heard a word about about any of this.