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

Contents......Page 4
The Empire needs a new strategy......Page 12
Free trade and the sinews of British power......Page 13
Britain\'s informal empire......Page 16
The Great Depression of 1873......Page 19
Germany\'s Wirtschaftswunder......Page 22
A Berlin bank panic......Page 25
The necessity for ship and rail infrastructure......Page 26
A British admiral sees beyond lamp oil......Page 30
D\'Arcy captures the secret of the burning rocks......Page 31
By rail from Berlin to Baghdad......Page 33
The new Dreadnoughts......Page 39
Sir Edward Grey\'s fateful Paris trip......Page 40
Fashoda, Witte, great projects and great mistakes......Page 41
A bankrupt Britain goes to war......Page 46
Oil in the Great War......Page 48
Britain\'s secret eastern war......Page 51
\'Selling the same horse twice\'......Page 54
Arthur Balfour\'s strange letter to Lord Rothschild......Page 55
Balfour backs the new concept of empire......Page 57
Morgan finances the British war......Page 61
New York bankers challenge the City of London......Page 66
Britain moves for oil supremacy......Page 69
Churchill and the Arab Bureau......Page 70
A battle for control of Mexico......Page 71
The secret of British oil control......Page 72
A conference in Genoa......Page 76
Sinclair and the American bid......Page 77
Germany tries to outflank the British......Page 79
Military occupation of the Ruhr......Page 81
The real origins of Weimar hyperinflation......Page 82
The Anglo-American Red Line......Page 85
Deterding, Montagu Norman and Schacht\'s Hitler Project......Page 87
A new empire rises from the ashes of war......Page 96
The dollar standard, Big Oil and the New York banks......Page 98
The Marshall Plan forms a postwar oil hegemony......Page 99
The power of the New York banks tied to U.S. oil......Page 101
Mohammed Mossadegh takes on Anglo-American oil......Page 102
Italy attempts independence in oil and development......Page 108
Mattei\'s bold development initiative......Page 110
Continental Europe emerges from the rubble of war......Page 116
Anglo-American grand designs against Europe......Page 118
1957: America at the turning point......Page 120
‘That \'58 Chevy’......Page 121
The dollar wars of the 1960s......Page 122
The Vietnam option is taken......Page 125
The beginnings of America\'s internal rot......Page 128
Sterling, the weak link, breaks......Page 131
De Gaulle is toppled......Page 136
Nixon pulls the plug......Page 138
An unusual meeting at Saltsjöbaden......Page 141
Dr. Kissinger\'s Yom Kippur oil shock......Page 146
The economic impact of the oil shock......Page 149
Taking the \'bloom off the nuclear rose\'......Page 152
Developing the Anglo-American green agenda......Page 154
Population control becomes a U.S. national security issue......Page 158
The petrodollar monetary order devastates the developing world......Page 161
From Colombo comes a political earthquake......Page 167
Atoms for Peace becomes a casus belli......Page 173
Gold, dollar crisis and dangerous new potentials from Europe......Page 176
The Crash of 1979: Iran and Volcker......Page 180
Volcker borrows a British model......Page 189
Gunboat diplomacy and a Mexican initiative......Page 194
Wall Street replays the 1920s, IMF-style......Page 202
Reagan\'s chickens come home to roost......Page 210
We\'ll get by with a little help from our friends......Page 218
The fall of a wall panics some circles......Page 220
Saddam and Operation Desert Storm......Page 224
The target: an independent Europe and Japan......Page 230
Finding the new bogeyman......Page 234
Japan: wounding the lead goose......Page 236
Phase two: shooting Asian tigers......Page 240
Washington revisits Halford Mackinder......Page 242
Russia gets the IMF Third World cure......Page 244
Yugoslavia gets the shock therapy......Page 249
U. S. oil geopolitics in the Balkans......Page 252
Bush brings Big Oil back to Washington......Page 257
Where the prize ultimately lies......Page 259
The New American Century......Page 261
From Kabul to Baghdad: war on terror or war on oil?......Page 263
You\'ve got to go where the oil is......Page 266
The peak of oil?......Page 269
Oil and bases: removing the obstacles......Page 274
\'Full spectrum dominance\'......Page 279
Notes......Page 282
Appendix I: Founding Members of the Trilateral Commission (1973)......Page 296
Appendix II: Participants at the Saltsjöbaden Meeting of the Bilderberg Group (1973)......Page 297
Index......Page 299