Part Five: Peak Oil and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Previous – Part Four: Operation Cyclone and the CIA’s Connection to Tim OsmanIn 1956, Marion Hubbert King, a geophysicist with the Shell Oil Company, presented a paper to the American Petroleum Institute entitled ‘Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels’. He used this paper to make two predictions about the date the US would reach its [...]

Part Four: Operation Cyclone and the CIA’s Connection to Tim Osman

Previous – Part Three: Operation Gladio and The Strategy of Tension Competition between Russia and the West – initially the British Empire – for supremacy in Central Asia began in the early 19th century with ‘The Great Game’. Fearful that Imperial Russia might threaten its dominance of the Indian sub-continent, the British attempted to establish [...]

Part Three: Operation Gladio and The Strategy of Tension

Previous – Part Two: The Bretton Woods Agreement and the Rise of the Petrodollar On March 12th 1947, US President Harry S Truman addressed a joint session of Congress and spoke about the need to “support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” Thus he encapsulated the ‘Truman [...]

Part Two: The Bretton Woods Agreement and the Rise of the Petrodollar

Previous – Part One: The Day the World Changed If the McCollum Memo set out the means by which America would be drawn into World War II, the Bretton Woods Agreement and its precursor, The Atlantic Charter, set out the motivation. When World War II broke out, President Franklin D Roosevelt’s interventionist stance was in [...]

Part One: 9/11 – The Day the World Changed

At 08:46 EDT on September 11th 2001, the world changed forever. American Airlines Flight 11 was reported to have flown into WTC-1; America was under attack. In the immediate aftermath, few people had any qualms about hunting down the alleged mastermind, Osama bin Laden. But there were some doubters. Over the years, their numbers have [...]