Foreword
1. The Three Pillars of the British Empire
2. The Lines are Drawn: Germany and the Geopolitics of the Great
War
3. A Global Fight for Control of Petroleum Begins
4. Oil Becomes the Weapon, the Near East the Battleground
5. Combined & Conflicting Goals: U.S. rivals Britain
6. The Anglo-Americans Close Ranks
7. Oil and a New World Order of Bretton Woods
8. A Sterling Crisis and the Adenauer-de Gaulle Threat
9. Running the world economy in reverse: Who made the 1970's oil
shocks?
10. Europe, Japan and a Response to the Oil Shock
11. Imposing the New World Order
12. From Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil
13. A New Millennium for Oil Geopolitics
Appendices
Index of names
William Engdahl has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970's. He has contributed regularly to a number of publications, including Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine; Grant'sInvestor.com, European Banker and Business Banker International. He has also spoken at numerous international conferences on geopolitical, economic and energy subjects, and is active as a consulting economist.
For those truly interested about how the world economy functions,
this book will be greatly useful. The book treats especially well
the political goals of Britain, a thread in modern history all too
often overlooked.
*Stephen J. Lewis, economist, City of London*
This book is the only accurate account I have seen of what really
happened with the price of oil in 1973. I can strongly recommend
reading it.
*Sheikh Zaki Yamani, former Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia*
A more thrilling account of the real world than the most thrilling
fictional thriller. I could not put it down - and I learned an
enormous amount of important information.
*Andre Gunder Frank*
... intellectually penetrating in its grasp of the conditions under
which politicians have to operate in the modern world, The
scholarship is impeccable and it elucidates the lamentable record
of the crimes and fillies of the few who stretched the levers of
power almost to the breaking point.I recommend this book to all who
wish to know how the world is really run, what are the systems
behind the sub-systems we perceive in the daily media, and what are
the antecedents of the present global political dilemmas. Above
all, I recommend this book to readers in the Third World as a
faithful account of why my generation of political leaders failed
to achieve the reasonable expectation of their political
constituencies...
*Dr Frederick Wills, former Foreign Minister, Guyana*
This book is not for the timid or the inattentive. It gets down to
bed-rock... It is a fine bit of work and defines better the real
problem areas of our society...
*Col Fletcher Prouty, USAF (ret.), author, The Secret Team and the
real life of Mr.X and JFK movie.*
...one of the most readable books I have ever seen. It will shock
people, but it is needed. William Engdahl has found a common thread
that ties hundreds of events which , at first glance appear to be
unassociated... fully surpasses my standards for a worthwhile
book
*Leon D. Richardson, Far East Financial columnist, industrialist,
advisory board, Sloan School of Management, MIT*
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