[A-List] A CENTURY OF WAR by William Engdahl [London:Pluto Press 2004.303pp]

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A CENTURY OF WAR by F. William Engdahl (Pluto Press Ltd.) is a
controversial and new view of oil and great power geopolitics through
today's events in Iraq and beyond. It examines the entire world history of
the century past through the illuminating lens of oil.  

'This is the only accurate account I have seen of what really happened
with the price of oil in 1973. I strongly recommend reading it.' Sheikh
Zaki Yamani, former Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia

'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.' Dr Frederick Wills, former Foreign Minister, Guyana

'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

...More thilling than the best who done it. I could not put it down.
Andre Gunder Frank

'... 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.' Leon D. Richardson, Far East Financial columnist,
industrialist, advisory board, Sloan School of Management, Massachussetts
Institute of Technology

This book is a gripping account of the murky world of the international
oil industry and its role in world politics.

Scandals about oil are familiar to most of us. From George W. Bush's
election victory to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US politics and oil
enjoy a controversially close relationship. The US economy relies upon the
cheap and unlimited supply of this single fuel.

William Engdahl takes the reader through a history of the oil industry's
grip on the world economy. His revelations are startling. Moving from the
post-World War I period up to the present day, he shows how oil has always
been ­ a prime motivating factor in international policy and conflicts
since the First World War.

Shedding light on the 1970s oil shocks and the grand strategy of
Washington after the end of the Cold War, Engdahl presents a convincing
case that geopolitics and oil were behind the collapse of the Soviet
Union, the breakup of Yugoslavia, the rise and fall of the Taliban. He
documents the role of Henry Kissinger in the manipulations behind the 1973
oil price shock which butressed the dollar by petro-dollar recycling, and
includes hitherto unpublished details of a private meeting in May 1973 in
Saltsjoebaden Sweden which discussed the imminent oil shjock six months
before the Yom Kippur War triggered it.

He reveals evidence to show that the US and UK decision to go to war in
Iraq was not simply an issue of corporate greed. It was a strategic move
to control the world economy, through strategic control of energy, for the
following half century or more.