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Roots of Conflict in the Middle East
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress
Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on the historical roots of modern-day conflicts in the Middle East.
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Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars about Long-term Thinking.
Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
He is most recently the author of the books The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006) and Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004).
Peter Schwartz is cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network (GBN), a unique membership organization and worldwide network of strategists, business executives, scientists, and artists based in Emeryville, California. Established in 01988, GBN specializes in corporate scenario planning and research on the future of the business environment. From 01982 to 01986, Peter headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. His team conducted comprehensive analyses of the global business and political environment and worked with senior management to create successful strategies.
Schwartz is the co-author of both the 01999 books The Long Boom, and When Good Companies Do Bad Things: Responsibility and Risk in an Age of Globalization, and is the author of the 01991 book, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. He is a member of the Long Now Foundation's Board of Directors.
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1908: Oil discovered in Masjed Soleiman(Iran)
1912: the Turkish Petroleum Company seeks a concession from the Ottoman Emp to explore for Iraqi oil
By 1914 the German Controled Berlin-Baghdad railway is nearly completed
1914: British invade Basara(Iraq)
1918: British Invade Mosul
Israel has bombed Brits and americans while blaming arabs to have the US bomb their enemies for decades
US/UK/Israel foster division and sectarian strife to better control (divide to conquer), before Iraq's secterian outburst, MI6 agents were caught with explosives dressed as arabs(good bet they used false flag to ignite the escalation of sectarian violence)
Thanks for the advice, but what are your sources to the contrary?