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1941 was Standard Oil of New Jer-
sey, whose largest shareholder was
the Rockefeller family - and the sec-
ond largest shareholder at the time
was Germanys IG Farben, then the
worlds largest chemical conglomer-
ate.
Their relationship came into exis-
tence after the U.S. invested mas-
sively in Nazi Germany during the
American Depression in the 1930s,
when Germany was considered a
good and safe place to invest.
Western oil hedged the Luftwaffe
Not only Standard Oil, but also
firms such as Du Pont and General
Motors were partners with IG Far-
ben - the three companies were the
main reason that Hitlers Luftwaffe
was able to take to the air.
The German airplanes used Tetra-
ethyl lead (TEL) as an additive to
their fuel - and this was provided by
Standard Oil, Du Pont and General
Motors.
When World War 2 began in
Europe, there was great resistance
from England to the U.S. supply of
Since before World War II the
search for economic growth in the
Western world has made oil the
most coveted resource across the
globe. Oil is a prerequisite for
heating, transport and the devel-
opment of most modern products
- and it is absolutely essential for
waging war.
By Tommy Hansen
and Gregg Vardy
As the nazi Field Marshal Erwin
Rommels forces were left stranded
in the desert at Haifa in Libya after
the Battle of Tobruk in 1942, it was
not because of a lack of fire power
on the part of the Allies - he had
simply run out of oil.
In fact the whole campaign had
been nothing more than a desperate
attempt to conquer North Africa in
order to provide oil to Adolf Hitlers
Germany and fascist Italy.
Hitler had formulated the mission
a year earlier. In a directive in
August 1941, he stated that it was
necessary to conquer the Crimean
peninsula in order to cut off Russian
oil supplies and ensure fresh ones as
the US was about to stop trading
with Germany.
In the early 1940s, the U.S. was
the worlds largest producer of oil,
and both the Nazi war build-up and
the start of World War 2 created a
boom for the U.S. oil industry.
The United States was then a
contemporary version of Saudi Ara-
bia.
From early on in the war, U.S.
companies delivered oil to all the
belligerents: Britain, Germany, Italy
and Japan. None of them had signif-
icant in-house production and were
therefore all dependent on the U.S..
American oil to the Japanese
Until shortly before the attack on
Pearl Harbor in December 1941, it
was American oil that fueled the
whole Japanese army.
Japan had no oil resources, so
tankers sailed in regular service
between the United States and Japan
until the Japanese operations in the
Indian Ocean became so threatening
that President Roosevelt stopped
deliveries.
Similarly, the oil from the U.S.
was the basis for economic growth
in Germany until the war - and
secured Hitlers aggressive expan-
sion in its first year.
Without financial support and oil
from the United States, the expan-
sion and war efforts of Nazi Germa-
ny, would never have been realized.
Standard Oil owned by Rockefell-
er and IG Farben
The largest U.S. oil company in
No wars without oil - and
without oil no wars
oil and fuel to the Nazi Germany,
and Standard Oil responded by
immediately relocating all its oil
fleet to Panama.
From there Standard Oil contin-
ued supplying central plants in the
Canary Islands and Tenerife where
the oil was loaded onto German
tankers for use by both German and
Italian troops.
Trade until Spring 1941
This traffic continued until Spring
1941 when the U.S. government
published a detailed list of U.S.
companies trading with the Nazis
which raised a minor scandal.
At the time, Standard Oil was
responsible for more than 80 per-
cent of the U.S. oil production, and
it was closely tied to Chase National
Bank of New York - a bank closed
by the U.S. authorities on 17 April
1945 after money-laundering Nazi
money throughout the war.
Since at least World War II the key to waging wars througout the world has
been oil. Oil is both the goal and the means of war, and in this century,
wars and reconstructions have become both political and economical
necessities (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline has
been on the drawing board since
the mid-1990s and was only made
possible with the invasion of Afgha-
nistan in 2001. Scheduled for com-
pletion in 2016 it will connect the
oil wells in the Caspian Sea with
major markets in India and Asia.
(Photo: PeaceReporter.net)
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Oil from Standard Oil,

Du Pont and General
Motors was the main
reason that Hitlers
Luftwaffe was able to
take to the air
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cally its about rulers needing
increasing amounts of oil to main-
tain their positions, says Daniele
Ganser.
Focus on oil in Iraq before 9/11
Even before 9/11, it was clear that
the United States focused on oil
reserves in Iraq, which at that time
possessed the second largest
reserves in the world. The West
invaded the country, removed and
liquidated Saddam Hussein, and the
Iraqi oil wealth was divided among
selected Western oil companies such
as BP, Shell and Exxon.
In late 1990, the Western oil giant
Unocal, joined forces with the Saudi
Arabian oil company Delta. Togeth-
er they signed a cooperation agree-
ment with the then Taliban regime
in Afghanistan, to establish an oil
and gas pipeline through the coun-
try. It was to secure supplies from
resources. The alternative was that
the Japanese war machine would
face an abrupt halt.
Most wars are resource wars
The Swiss historian Dr. Daniele
Ganser, is convinced that the under-
lying reason for most wars, is the
need for oil.
- The military machine, is depen-
dent on oil; without oil no war. And
if we look at the worlds hotspots at
any given time, you will nearly
always find, that massive oil inter-
ests are present, says Daniele Gan-
ser.
- Almost all wars are resource
wars. The people are told all sorts of
reasons, usually something with
democracy and freedom, but basi-
the Caspian Sea through Turkmeni-
stan, Afghanistan and Pakistan and
beyond to the major markets in
Asia.
The Trans-Afghanistan pipeline
The construction of this Trans-
Afghanistan Pipeline, which is
scheduled for completion in 2016,
was initially strongly opposed by
the Afghan people and especially
among the various Afghan warlords,
who were not controlled by the cen-
tral Taliban regime in Kabul. The
invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 is
therefore seen by many observers as
a desire to ensure and secure this
pipeline through military presence.
The U.S. interest in securing oil
supplies and consumption is due to
both the U.S. oil industry and the
U.S. dollar. Since the early 1970s it
has been the standard procedure,
that oil transactions are paid in dol-
lars, and no other currencies.
85 percent of Hitlers oil came
from the U.S., Venezuela and Iran
As oil supplies from the U.S. to
Nazi Germany were finally stopped,
Hitler faced a serious problem. Even
at the outbreak of war, Germany
consumed about three million tons
of oil a year, with 85 percent of it
coming from the United States, Ven-
ezuela and Iran. Just as in World
War I, Germany was once again
dependent on oil from Romania and
the Ukraine - and once again the
production wasnt sufficient to ful-
fill the German ambitions for
growth and invasions.
When the Japanese in March
1942 invaded the Dutch colony,
Indonesia, the goal was to ensure
access to the countrys rich oil
OIL-FOR-DOLLAR - According to
the 1973 agreement between the
United States and Saudi Arabia,
the U.S. would provide military pro-
tection of the Saudi oil fields - as
well as equipment, manpower and
supplies for the construction of the
new Saudi Intelligence Services,
modelled by the CIA. In return,
Saudi Arabia rejected to trade its
oil in any other currency than the
US-dollar. Thus the nickname Pet-
rodollar.
Two years later, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait
and Venezuela were in on the
same agreement, followed by
Qatar, Indonesia, Libya, United
Arab Emirates, Algeria, Nigeria,
Ecuador, Gabon and Angola.
FACTS
Dr. Daniele Ganser is a historian and peace researcher and director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy
Research in Basel. Ganser specializes in international history over the past 100 years, pointing to oil and other fos-
sil fuels as the sources of war. As the Wests oil consumption has increased, invasions and false flag operations
have secured access to an increasing amount of the worlds oil resources.
The war on terror after September
11th has primarily been carried out
in the oil-producing regions of the
world, paving the way for massive
new supply lines on the Eurasian
kontinent
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The currency confusion
- If you look at the so-called Brent
oil coming from North Sea oil fields
in the area between Norway and the
UK, the price is listed in dollars.
Today, no one finds it strange that
we dont use the Norwegian krone,
pound sterling or for that matter the
Euro to pay for the oil. This linkage
between one countrys currency and
a global demand for a raw material
is extremely dubious, to say the
least, says Dr. Daniele Ganser.
In practice, the 1971-73 petrodol-
lar agreements, automatically
strengthens the U.S. dollar whenev-
er oil is being traded, 24/7 around
the globe. The dollars value is arti-
ficial, created by hijacking the
whole planets trading of a given
natural and very essential ressource.
It is generally unknown to the
public, that before 2000, Saddam
Hussein announced plans to sell
Iraqi oil for EURO, generating posi-
tive reactions in European financial
circles. But after the invasion in
2003, when Iraqi oil production was
taken over by Western oil compa-
nies, the oil trade has remained in
dollars.
Gaddafi wanted to nationalize
Libyan oil fields
Similarly, in 2009, Libyas dictator
Mohammar Gaddafi announced his
plans in to nationalize Libyan oil
fields and introduce a new currency,
based on the more than 144 tons of
gold reserves in the country. He
would henceforth not recognize the
U.S. dollar as payment for anything
at all. The plans were effectively
shelved when Libya was invaded in
March 2011, and Gaddafi was
killed. According to the former head
of Libyas National Bank, Qasem
Azoz, Libyas gold disappeared
shortly after the invasion. Libyas
oil trade also, still remains in dol-
lars.
It is a fact that every single
attempt to leave this petrodollar
agreement have been halted under
great economic and political pres-
sure, ultimately with American mili-
tary intervention.
The friendships between Saudi
Arabia and the United States, and
the extensive trading links between
the Saudi and U.S. oil industries are
historic and well documented. As
the organizers of the attacks on 11th
September 2001 should be found,
international observers find it
strange that the Bush administration
focused on Afghanistan, rather than
Saudi Arabia - although 15 of the 19
alleged hijackers were residents of
Saudi Arabia and the alleged ring-
leader, Osama bin Laden was a Sau-
di national.
The Bush family, the CIA and
Saudi Arabia
The Bush familys close friendship
with the Saudi royal family and the
Bin Laden family is widely recog-
nized and a part of American histo-
ry. When former President George
H. W. Bush in 1976-1977 was direc-
tor of the CIA, he had amongst oth-
er things, the priority task to initiate
and build the Saudi Security struc-
ture - based on the American model.
This came as a counterpart oil-for-
Through generations, the Bush family have had close friendships and busi-
ness dealings with the Saudi Crown and the Bin Laden family who own and
operate one of the largest enterprises in middle-east. They specialize in the
construction of American military bases.
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rapidly increased after the oil-for-
dollar agreement in 1973
(Source:Seimosblog.com)
dollar contract - at the time, the
United States was in the process of
building strategic military bases
throughout Saudi Arabia, to protect
the Saudi oil fields.

The friendship between

Saudi Arabia and the
United States and the
extensive trading links
between the Saudi and
U.S. oil industry is his-
torical and very well
documented.
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This military alliance consolidat-
ed the value of the oil / dollar agree-
ment, officially securing the U.S.
dollar, while the U.S. and Saudi
Arabian oil industries literally
boomed.
In 1953, the oil company Zapata
Petroleum was founded. A joint ven-
ture was made between George HW
Bush and former CIA staffer Thom-
as J. Devine, who coincidently quit
his CIA post to enter private busi-
ness. Thus, the documents declassi-
fied in 1993, confirm that George
HW Bush, until 1963 was both
director of Zapata Oil and employed
by the CIA. This was 14 years
before he became director of the
CIA.
In 1979, George HW Bush found-
ed the oil company Arbusto Energy,
in Midland, Texas, along with a
number of local businessmen,
including James R. Bath, represen-
tative of Salem bin Laden (older
half-brother of Osama Bin Laden)
and of the Saudi Binladin Group.
Arbusto Energy has since led a Che-
quered existence, and has also been
associated with fraud and money
laundering scandals in the CIA infil-
trated Bank of Credit and Com-
merce International. The BCCI was
forced to close in 1991, by the inter-
national court in Luxembourg. In
2002 it was revealed to have contin-
ued activities long after closure.
Over the last 100 years, high lev-
el politics, decisions concerning oil,
foreign policy and global Develop-
ment, have been heavily influenced
by increasingly powerful families.
Effectivly shaping the global agenda
to fit private financial interests.
Through links with firms such as
the Carlyle Group, the same fami-
lies today have created vast person-
al and private corporation fortunes
with billion dollar values. War has
become a political and economic
necessity. Carlyle Group is the
worlds largest private capital inves-
timent company. The Carlyle Group
payroll has a shifting string of for-
mer presidents and ministers from
the United States and governments
around the world.
Follow the oil
Follow the petrodollar
Tying the global demand of an energy resource, to the currency of one particular country, ensures almost perpetual prosperity for that one currency. The
system can only be threatened by alternative energy sources or countries that attempt to waive the agreement and go their own way. All attempts to leave
the oil-for-dollar agreement since 1971 have been halted, by monetary or ultimately military invasions. The foreign military presence in Afghanistan has
now secured the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline, between the Caspian Sea and the major markets in India and Asia. Through Ukraine, future access to the
major oil sources in the Russian continent are secured.