What is really going on in the middle east
Article by the superb Dean Henderson
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It shouldn’t have surprised anyone when the six nations which make up  the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) called on their Western protectors  to enforce a no-fly zone in the skies over Libya in 2010.  Or that these  same monarchies scurried to arm the same 
al Qaeda terrorists they were protecting in Libya as they invaded Syria in a failed attempt to overthrow the Assad government. 
Why would these Arab nations- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE,  Oman and Qatar- clamor for war against these fellow Arab oil-producers?   A brief history of the GCC is in order.
 
(Excerpted from Chapter 5: Persian Gulf Rent-a-Sheik: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)
 
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a watershed event.  With the Shah  deposed and the Iranian Consortium nationalized, the Four  Horsemen- Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco and Royal  Dutch/Shell- and their Rockefeller/Rothschild owners sought to create a  more comprehensive security system for the safeguarding of Persian Gulf  crude oil.  The House of Saud was fast becoming a lightning rod for Arab  nationalists, who saw the monarchy as a Western surrogate.
 
The State Department sought to take pressure off the Saudis by  finding other regional leaders willing to embrace the same oil for arms 
quid pro quo that  had been in force in the Kingdom since the early 1950’s.  That  arrangement involves the US arming the House of Saud to protect it from  enemies both foreign and domestic.  In return the Saudis serve as “swing  producer”, ensuring the West a steady and relatively cheap supply of  oil.  While US spook outfits like SAIC, Booz Hamilton, TRW and  Vinnell Corp. trained the Saudi National Guard, Pakistani and Egyptian  pilots (Saudi nationals were not to be trusted) were trained to fly US  F-15 fighters in protection of the Kingdom.  The Saudis in turn became  the primary funder of CIA/MI6/Mossad covert operations worldwide,  including those aimed at Libya from bases in Exxon Mobil-controlled  Chad.
 
While the Middle East region contains 66.5% of known global crude oil  reserves, the shoreline which surrounds the southwest side of the  Persian Gulf and which is the property of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar,  Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), contains 42% of the  world’s crude reserves.  The Saudis have 261 billion barrels, more than  double any other nation and 26% of the world’s known reserves.  The  Kingdom encompasses no less than 60 major oil and gas fields which  produce 10 million barrels per day.  The massive Ghawar field is by far  the largest on earth.  Iraq has the world’s second largest proven  reserves at 112 billion barrels  The UAE is third with 97.8 b/b.   Kuwaiti is fourth with 96.5 billion barrels.
 
In 1981 the US and Saudi governments spearheaded an effort to create  the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), consisting of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,  Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and UAE.  All except Oman are members of OPEC.  All  are what are known as banker nations within OPEC.  Iran, Indonesia,  Venezuela, Iraq, Algeria and Nigeria are considered the industrializing  nations of OPEC.  The formation of the GCC drew immediate criticism from  Libya, Syria, Iraq and the PLO who said the agreement divided the Arab  League into haves and have-nots.
 
The banker nations are prone to sell oil to the Four Horsemen  cheaply, since their countries are already developed and any oil  revenues can be recycled into global investments which benefit those  countries’ elites.  The industrializing nations need a higher oil price,  both to develop their countries’ infrastructure and to service their  enormous debts to Western bankers.  The banker nations of OPEC are the  price doves, while the industrializing nations are price hawks.
 
The price-dove banker GCC states are all ruled by monarchs, whom Big  Oil finds easy to manage.  OPEC’s price hawk industrializing nations  tend to be more democratic and thus more difficult for the Four Horsemen  to manipulate 
via bribery schemes and other forms of  corruption.  These democracies tend to have nationalized oil sectors, so  the sale of oil benefits the whole of society, whereas the GCC oil  sector is increasingly privatized, with revenues enriching the Four  Horsemen and their puppet monarchs.
 
Culturally in the Arab world the foundation of the GCC dramatically  diffused the power of the more traditional and nationalistic  geopolitical power centers in the Middle East such as Damascus and  Beirut, while enhancing the power of the relatively short-lived Gucci  Gulf State monarchies.
 
This new banker nation block quickly signed the GCC Economic  Agreement, liberalizing their economies to allow for more direct  investment by Western banks and corporations, creating a free trade zone  within the entire membership and launching a duty-free port at Dubai in  the UAE.  Bahrain became a major offshore banking center.  Foreign  workers from poor Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh  were encouraged to enter GCC countries, providing cheap labor for the  oil elite.  A common market was established.  Oil policies were  harmonized.
 
According to the 
Wall Street Journal, the most valuable currencies in the world are not the British pound, the US dollar or the Swiss 
franc.  Far more valuable are the Kuwaiti 
dinar (D$.30=1 US dollar), the Bahraini 
dinar (D$.37=1 US dollar) and the Maltese 
lira (L$.46=1  US dollar).  Malta was founded by Catholic Crusader Knights of Malta  with help from the Vatican.  It is a nexus of CIA/organized crime  activity in the Mediterranean.
 
A 1966 
al-Ba’ath newspaper column in Damascus enunciates the Arab nationalist price hawk position which was the 
raison d’etre  for OPEC in the first place. “There remains no other course for  national and progressive forces except that of struggle in all its  forms”, the paper implored, adding, “even if this leads to cutting off  oil supply…and closing down oil wells in order to deprive the  monopolist, the embezzler, the despot of this oil”.
 
Tea-Sipping Embezzlers
      In order to fully understand the significance of the formation  of the GCC, one must appreciate the history of feudal elite rule and  British colonization which resulted in the very existence of the  sheikdoms which make up the GCC.  A history of single-family rule in  these Persian Gulf States made these emirates ripe for the imposition of  an oil-for-arms security pact like the one formed in 1981.  As Qatar’s  Oil Minister stated bluntly in a recently, “The industrial world will  protect the oil.  We believe this is a proper exchange of interests and  benefits”.
 
In 1776 the British East India Company set up a headquarters at what  is now Kuwait.  When Kuwaiti members of the Hashemite al-Sabah clan, who  share their surname with Assassin founder Hasan bin Sabah, helped the  Ottoman Turks quell uprisings in southern Iraq, the Shiek of the  Muntafiq tribe gave the al-Sabahs date groves near Fao and Sufiyeh in  southern Iraq.
 
Kuwait was seen as highly strategic by the British in its role as  protector of Indian Ocean sea lanes.  By 1900 the British cut a deal  with Mubarak al-Sabah which carved Kuwait out of Iraq and made it a  British protectorate.  The vast majority of people who lived in what was  now declared Kuwait opposed the British plan and wanted to remain part  of Iraq.
 
In 1914, in the midst of WWI, the British resident in the Gulf  promised Sheik Mubarak al-Sabah Crown recognition of his new country in  exchange for al-Sabah’s turning on and attacking Ottoman Empire troops  at Safwan, Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq.  The al-Sabah clan earned  their Union Jack stripes.  The Hashemite monarchy single-handedly rules  Kuwait to this day.
 
In 1917 the British made a client out of Ibn Saud, who was also told  to encourage Arab tribesman to repel the Ottoman Turks from the Gulf  Region at the onset of WWI.  That same year the British House of  Rothschild pushed through the Balfour Declaration, lending Crown support  for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.  Rothschild was less concerned  about the Jewish people than he was about establishing a Middle East  outpost from where he and his lackeys could keep watch over the center  of their global oil monopoly.  A year later the Ottomans were defeated.
 
Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia were carved out of the Ottoman Empire  and fell under British rule, with Ibn Saud taking control of his  namesake Saudi Arabia.  His progeny form the modern-day House of Saud.   Palestine became part of Transjordania and was run by an emir  hand-picked by the British.  The Trucial States of Oman (now United Arab  Emirates) and the Oman Coast (now Oman) were also given British  protectorate status.  As Winston Churchill commented three decades  later, “The emir is in Transjordania, where I put him one Sunday  afternoon in Jerusalem”.
 
In 1922 the Treaty of Jeddah gave Saudi Arabia independence from  Britain, though the Crown still exerted considerable influence. [173]   During the 1920’s, with help from British troops, Ibn Saud grabbed more  territory from the Ottomans when he annexed Riyadh.  He also seized the  holy cities of Mecca and Medina from the Hashemites.
 
Britain and France signed the San Remo Agreement which split Middle  East oil concessions between the two countries.  Within two weeks the US  responded with the Open Door Policy, which cut the US Horsemen into the  Middle East oil game.  Small US independent producers like Sinclair  opposed the policy, complaining that it favored the Rockefeller oil  interests.  US oil majors Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Texaco and Gulf- the  first three progeny of the John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil  Trust- joined with British Petroleum, Royal Dutch/Shell- owned largely  by Holland’s royal House of Orange and the Rothschild family- and the  French 
Compaignie de Petroles in dividing up the Middle East oil patch.
 
The Iraqi Petroleum Company (IPC) and the Iranian Consortium would be  dominated by the European companies, while Saudi ARAMCO would be owned  by the American Horsemen.  The British protectorates would be exploited  through various combinations of the Four Horsemen.
 
An IPC subsidiary, Petroleum Development Trucial Coast, began  drilling in what is now the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1935.  Today  in the UAE oil industry ADCO is 24%-owned by BP Amoco, 9.5% by Royal  Dutch/Shell and 9.5% by Exxon Mobil.  ADMA is owned 14.67% by BP Amoco  and 13.33% by the old French 
Compaignie de Petroles, which has  now consolidated into Total.  Esso Trading Company/Abu Dhabi is 100%  owned by Exxon Mobil.  Dubai Petroleum is 55% owned by Conoco, which  also owns 35% of Dubai Marine Areas, of which BP Amoco holds a 33.33%  share.  The majority of the UAE’s oil goes to Japan.  BP and Total hold  long-term shipping contracts with the UAE.
 
Chevron and Texaco, already joined through ARAMCO and their  Caltex marketing arm, formed the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BPC) in that  protectorate.  The new Chevron Texaco now runs BPC.  In Qatar, Exxon  Mobil dominates the rich natural gas sector.  It owns a large chunk of  Qatargas, which currently provides Japan with 6 million tons of natural  gas per year.  It is also a 30% partner in the giant Ras Luffan gas  field which produces 10 million tons of natural gas per year.
 BP joined with Gulf in starting the Kuwait Oil Company, which today  sells discount crude to ex-proprietors BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco  (Chevron bought Gulf in 1981).  By 1949 the US Horsemen controlled 42%  of Middle Eastern oil reserves, while the Anglo-Dutch Horsemen had 52%.   The remaining 8% was owned by Elf Total Fina and other smaller  companies.
 
The British began granting independence to its Gulf State  protectorates beginning in 1961 with Kuwait and ending in 1971 when the  United Arab Emirates were formed out of seven sheikdoms, the most  important of which are Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.  British influence  did not wane. Oman remains particularly close to the Crown.  British  mercenaries constitute the royal guards which protect the ruling  families in all six GCC states.
 
These emirates are ruled by single family monarchies selected by  British colonialists to carry out their plan for dominating Middle East  oil and shipping lanes in the late 18th century.  The six GCC ruling  families are inter-related with one another, just as are the royal  families of Europe.
 
What happened in Libya and now in Syria is a classic covert  operation conjured by Western intelligence and funded by the GCC which  attempts to seize oilfields belonging to the people of Libya and gas  fields owned by Syrians and hand them over to the  Rothschild/Rockefeller trillionaires.  Don’t be fooled.  This is the  same old colonial bullshit.  Viva Ghaddafi!  Viva Assad!
 
Dean Henderson is the author of four books: 
Big  Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight  Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, 
The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries, 
Das Kartell der Federal Reserve & 
Stickin’ it to the Matrix. You can subscribe free to his weekly 
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