Fight for Oil: 100 Years in the Middle East (1/3)

Chronicles the 100 year period since the discovery of oil. Profiles the rise and fall of British rule in the region, the Soviet’s ‘power politics,’ imperiali…

22 thoughts on “Fight for Oil: 100 Years in the Middle East (1/3)

  1. Good news for North America in particular the United States, as the fact
    is the USA and Canada will become energy self sufficient in 2014 as
    solar,Natural Gas,Hydrogen and new oil finds will change the face of world
    energy. Big loser will be Russia, as oil is its large income.China will
    benefit from the American technology.

  2. power: the heart of the matter, power to rule, power to provide energy,
    power to have al the riches. it doesn’t matter who the people are, because
    the human race is always destined to take advantage of the weaker and/or
    the ignorant group/race of human beings… 

  3. Hello I have to summarize this video and my english does not very well to
    cath spesefic details and I do not enough time to watch it.Could somebody
    send email which brings his or her summarized ideas about this great
    documentary untill next thursday it makes me to help get a great mark if I
    done.

  4. What I got from this was basically we need to go back even before the
    Ottoman Empire. By that I mean something like the Kurds get back there land
    which right now is technically in three different countries. Iraq should be
    smaller, similar to the size before ww1 which had less on the north and the
    west of the existing country. Even though i am an American and we almost
    always back Israel I say we officially give the West Bank to a state called
    Palestine but Gaza Strip should be split as well as jeruselum but Gaza goes
    70/ 30 Palestine and jeruselum goes 70/30 Jewish. I could go own but I
    think we could go back to borders where people would jot be as pissed off
    because we all know war there will never go away.

  5. To all the fucking hypocrites calling western countries “greedy imperialist
    pigs” or something to that effect. Why don’t you stop fucking complaining
    every time the price of oil and everything else goes up? Don’t say on one
    hand “Duhr, return the oil to the native people” and then bitch about how
    expensive everything is. Your fucking food takes oil to get to your local
    supermarket, all manufactured good takes oil to produce. You can’t have the
    cake and eat it too fuckers.

  6. So this is is the reason for dictatorship in the Middle East. The oil that
    makes the government live independent of his own people.

  7. that’s it: I’m making a shitload of popcorn and watch “the basis of the end
    of the world”! YOU DO KNOW THAT WHEN OIL AND COALS ARE GOING TO BE VERY
    DIFICULT TO GET, THE WORLD POPULATION WILL GO DOWN TO LESS THAN 1 BILLION ,
    RIGHT? or less…

  8. you are Right the saudi Regime has stole the rich natural resources of
    Arabia to their selves I know that becuase I am From Arabia

  9. Because we Muslims practice Islam so well, right? We have nothing to say to
    the west until we get our own house in order. We have no education, we have
    no peace and we have no vision forward as an Ummah. What in the world are
    we doing?!

  10. They didn’t mention Britain’s undercover shit stirring in Serbia before
    WW1, that whole war was instigated by them together with France & Russia to
    weaken Germany & all because of the Baghdad rail line

  11. re: 4.) I have heard the Gerrymandering of the Ottoman empire was done to
    prevent another one from forming also. Specific evidence I don’t have, but
    I believe it was a verbal claim or quote of a powerful Brit. Re: 3.) Even
    if the house of Saud denied them access to search for water, I don’t
    understand the significance of this point. It takes 2 to tango. Do you have
    any videos you respect here about the early 20th century in Mesopotamia? I
    sensed the story of the female diplomat was embelished

  12. YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ALWAYS FIND A REASON TO GET IN TO OUR COUNTERIES TO STEAL
    OUR GOLD AND OIL FUCKING WHITE BASTARDS GOT NOTHING IN YOUR LAND SO YOU
    STOLE OTHER PEOPLES WEALTH YOU BUILD YOUR WHOLE COUNTRY WITH LIES MUSLIMS
    HAVE GAINED EMPIRES YOU HAVE 1 SHUITTY REIGN WE RULED THE WORLD IF IT WASNT
    FOR THE MUGHAL’S DECLINGING IN INDIA YOU WOULD BE PEASANTS!!

  13. The commentator says ”Salvation didnt came from god or Allah but from
    oil”.This is just blasphemy, ignorance,arrogance.This videois all against
    Arabs

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