Oil industry and trade — Political aspects.

Roots of the Gulf crisis / Eqbal Ahmed ; produced by David Barsamin.

Eqbal Ahmed, editor and Professor Politics at Hampshire College, talks about internal and external origins of the Iraq Gulf crisis: Saddam Hussein’s ambition, the legacy of British imperialism, the politics of oil, the role of the media, Iraeli-Palestinian issue, and the United States goals in the region. His information and analysis are ignored in the…

August 24, 2025

History of United States Mideast policy : motives and consequences / Joel Beinin ; produced by David Barsamian.

Talk by Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East history at Stanford University and member of the Jewish Committee on the Middle East. He examines the turbulent and complex relationship between the United States and the Middle East since World War II. He also traces the origins of U.S. involvement, the crucial politics of oil, the…

August 24, 2025

What is new about the new world order / Saul Landau.

Talk on the relationship between the United States policy of national security and the Persian Gulf crisis. He examines the reborn peace movement; the origins of the term “New World Order,” in Nazi Germany, and how those views have come to dominate U.S. foreign policy toward the Third World; how changes in Eastern Europe took…

August 24, 2025