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Sandbox? My question is on quality of sources NJGW, sandbox is for draft of texts

NJGW, can you just make some helpful comments on the quality of the sources instead of keep on deleting them and evading my valid questions?

Thanks. 

...the Nixon administration decided to try to ensure that international financial relations should be taken out of the control of state Central Banks and should be increasingly centred upon private financial operators. It sought to achieve this goal through exploiting US control over  international oil supplies. 

It is still widely believed that the sharp and steep increase in oil prices  in 1973 was carried out by the Gulf states as part of an anti-Israel and anti-US policy connected to the Yom Kippur war.  

Yet as we now know, the oil price rises were the result of US influence on the oil states and they were arranged in part as an exercise in economic statecraft directed against America’s ‘allies’ in Western Europe and Japan. And another dimension of the Nixon administration’s policy on oil price rises was to give a new role, through them, to the US private banks in international financial relations.

The Nixon administration was planning to get OPEC to greatly increase its oil prices a full two years before OPEC did so and as early as 1972 the Nixon administration planned for the US private banks to recycle the petrodollars when OPEC finally did take US advice and jack up oil prices.  

The Nixon administration understood the way in which the US state could use  expanding private financial markets as a political multiplier of the impact of US Treasury moves with the dollar. But according to the Nixon’s Ambassador in Saudi Arabia at the time, the principal political objective behind Nixon’s drive for the OPEC oil price rise was to deal a crippling blow to the Japanese and European economies, both overwhelmingly dependent on Middle East Oil, rather than to decisively transform international financial affairs. 

Nevertheless , Nixon’s officials  showed far more strategic insight into the consequences of what they were attempting than most political scientists would credit any government with. Its capacity for deception both over the oil price rise and in the way in which it manipulated discussions with its ‘allies’ in the IMF over so-called ‘international monetary reform’ was brilliant.

The US government realised that the oil price rises would produce an enormous increase in the dollar earnings of oil states that could not absorb such funds into their own productive sectors.

At the same time, the oil price rises would plunge very many states into serious trade deficits as the costs of their oil imports soared. So the so-called petrodollars would have to be recycled from the Gulf through the Western banking systems to non-oil-producing states.

Other governments had wanted the petrodollars to be recycled through the  IMF.  But the US rejected this, insisting  the Atlantic world’s private banks (at that time led by American banks) should be the recycling vehicles. And because the US was politically dominant in the Gulf, it could get its way...

- The Globalization Gamble: The Dollar-Wall Street Regime and its Consequences By Peter Gowan

http://www.iwgvt.org/files/9-gowan.rtf

http://www.marxsite.com/Global%20Gamble2.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Global-Gamble-Washingtons-Faustian-Dominance/dp/1859842712 
218.186.68.129  

'I am 100 per cent sure that the Americans were behind the increase in the price of oil. 

- Sheikh Yamani, Former Saudi Oil Minister

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2001/jan/14/globalrecession.oilandpetrol 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zaki_Yamani

V.H.Oppenheim: “Why Oil Prices Go Up? The Past: We Pushed Them”, Foreign Policy,25 Winter 1976-77

Since 1971, the United States has encouraged middle east oil-producing states to raise the price of oil and keep it up...

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1148022

20 Years of Censored News: Why Oil Prices go up

While most Americans believe the increase in oil prices was due to the Arab oil embargo started in 1973, few are aware that their elected representatives collaborated with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Persian oil-producing nations to deliberately inflate the price of oil...
[http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=9LW8GG-n4UYC&pg;=PA39&lpg;=PA39&dq;=Why+Oil+Prices+Go+Up%3F+The+Past:+We+Pushed+Them+pdf&source;=web&ots;=HJc04_hJsZ&sig;=f6lob5l25_CHVfsimMRjKdB3g_Y&hl;=en&sa;=X&oi;=book_result&resnum;=3&ct;=result#PPA38,