The Petrodollar: The Financial Weapon That Changed the Middle East
How the 1973 US-Saudi agreement created the petrodollar, the financial weapon that shaped the Middle East for 50 years.
How the 1973 US-Saudi agreement created the petrodollar, the financial weapon that shaped the Middle East for 50 years.
The occupation of Palestine as a laboratory of territorial control: illegal settlements, separation wall and fragmentation.
How Israel was created in 1948 as a geopolitical tool for Britain and the US to control the Middle East. From the Balfour Declaration to the Nakba and the Six-Day War.
Introduction Between 3400 and 3000 BCE, in Lower Mesopotamia, a civilization invented writing. The first clay tablets did not record poems or hymns: they recorded debts. This fact is not an archaeological curiosity. It is the first historical record of centralized power. In Sumer we find the first documented evidence of social control through debt, … Read more
An introduction to how global powers have fought to control the Middle East for over a century. Oil, debt, Sykes-Picot, and the Great Game.
Spain’s 1981 coup attempt: real rebellion or a controlled operation to consolidate the Transition? The 2026 declassified documents reveal new clues.
How Spain sold its state-owned crown jewels – Endesa, Telefonica, Repsol, Argentaria – for 45 billion euros, trading sovereignty for short-term revenue.
How Britain turned Gibraltar into a permanent strategic occupation to control Spain and the Mediterranean for over 300 years.
How England, the Dutch Republic and Protestantism crafted the image of a monstrous Spain to legitimize their own colonialism. The oldest propaganda campaign in history.
The external debt crisis of the 1980s trapped Spain in adjustment conditions that limited its economic sovereignty. The way out was joining the EEC.