A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order

Figure 1 Text of the remarkable 1899 agreement secured on behalf of the British government with Sheikh Mubarak al-Sabah of Kuwait. Since then, Britain has regarded Kuwait as its special sphere of interest in the Arabian Gulf.

A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order

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Index

Appendix II: Participants at the Saltsjöbaden Meeting of the Bilderberg Group (1973

‘Full spectrum dominance’

Appendix I: Founding Members of the Trilateral Commission (1973

The peak of oil?

Notes

Oil and bases: removing the obstacles

‘You’ve got to go where the oil is’

From Kabul to Baghdad: war on terror or war on oil?

‘The New American Century’

U.S. oil geopolitics in the Balkans

‘Where the prize ultimately lies’

Yugoslavia gets the shock therapy

Washington revisits Halford Mackinder

Russia gets the IMF Third World cure

Phase two: shooting Asian tigers

Japan: wounding the lead goose

The target: an independent Europe and Japan

Saddam and Operation Desert Storm

‘We’ll get by with a little help from our friends’

The fall of a wall panics some circles

Wall Street replays the 1920s, IMF-style

Gunboat diplomacy and a Mexican initiative

Reagan’s chickens come home to roost

The Crash of 1979: Iran and Volcker

Gold, dollar crisis and dangerous new potentials from Europe

Population control becomes a U.S. national security issue

From Colombo comes a political earthquake

Atoms for Peace becomes a casus belli

Taking the ‘bloom off the nuclear rose’

The economic impact of the oil shock

Developing the Anglo-American green agenda

Dr. Kissinger’s Yom Kippur oil shock

Saltsjöbaden, 1973

4. List of proposed U.S. Bilderberg group participants (1973

6. Cover page of Bilderberg protocol (Saltsjöbaden, 1973

Saltsjöbaden, 1973

De Gaulle is toppled

Sterling, the weak link, breaks

An unusual meeting at Saltsjöbaden

The beginnings of America’s internal rot

The Vietnam option is taken

The dollar wars of the 1960s

1957: America at the turning point

‘That ’58 Chevy’

Anglo-American grand designs against Europe

Mattei’s bold development initiative

Italy attempts independence in oil and development

Mohammed Mossadegh takes on Anglo-American oil

The power of the New York banks tied to U.S. oil

The dollar standard, Big Oil and the New York banks

The Marshall Plan forms a postwar oil hegemony

Deterding, Montagu Norman and Schacht’s Hitler Project

The Anglo-American Red Line

The real origins of Weimar hyperinfl ation

Military occupation of the Ruhr

Germany tries to outfl ank the British

Sinclair and the American bid

Churchill and the Arab Bureau

New York bankers challenge the City of London

The secret of British oil control

Britain moves for oil supremacy

A battle for control of Mexico

Balfour backs the new concept of empire

Arthur Balfour’s strange letter to Lord Rothschild

‘Selling the same horse twice’

Oil in the Great War

3. British map of the Mesopotamian oilfi elds (1914

Sir Edward Grey’s fateful Paris trip

Railway project (1899

Fashoda, Witte, great projects and great mistakes

Britain’s secret eastern war

The new Dreadnoughts

The necessity for ship and rail infrastructure

Partial list of offi cial Bilderberg attendees

The Great Depression of 1873

Kuwait (1899

A Berlin bank panic