Over a Barrel: Breaking the Mideast Oil Cartel
by By Learsy, Raymond J.
Category: Political Science , General

Longtime commodities trader Raymond J. Learsy lifts the veil of the Mideast oil cartel, showing how OPEC manipulates the oil markets and destabilizes the world's economy. With refreshing candor and an insider's perspective, Learsy explains how OPEC:twists bogus perceptions of oil scarcity to hike prices and gain political poweris compromised by Islamist terrorist connections that fuel anti-American hatred with dollars from our own walletskeeps Third-World nations in abject poverty despite their rich oil depositsand became the de facto master of Iraq's newly liberated oil fieldsA sharp, sweeping survey of OPEC's methods of economic dominance, this book explains how to bust the Mideast oil cartel and chart our own course toward energy independence.