About this episode

The episode discusses the US government's actions in global oil politics, likening them to piracy.

Typically, the American president has blurted out 'the plain truth' about what his government is doing around the world - from the Caribbean to the Arctic to the Black Sea and Indian Ocean: behaving like pirates. This week we review, taking into account Richard Medhurst's excellent dot-connecting in his documentary 'The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War', the string of US and Israeli government moves this year to effectively 'ring-fence' the global flow of oil and...

Topics covered

• energy wars
• US Navy
• political strategy
• oil flow
• Iran war
• global politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US Navy, Richard Medhurst

Books & works: The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War

Places: Iran, Caribbean, Arctic, Black Sea

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