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Details Published on Monday, 22 February 2016 07:59 William Engdahl expressed unease recently at Goldman Sachs' prediction that oil is going down to $20 per barrel; Goldmans is the archetypal, Machiavellian player in securities markets, invariably betting against the clients they advise and to whom they sell investments. Engdahl referred to a large shock which could dramatically alter the supply/demand equation to drive oil prices up again. That shock could well be an impending dramatic escalation of hostilities across the Middle East, including the destruction of the bounteous oil fields in Mosul, Iraq. Washington’s Machiavellian Game in Syria by F. Inevitably, none of this interpretation of events is revealed by our puppet politicians or captive media - indeed they remain unaware of what's unfolding before our eyes because they just follow the script that's handed to them. Iraqi Kurdistan is Collapsing. Snapshot of work-in-progress.
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