OffGardian Topic: WATCH: "Robert Newman’s History of Oil"

@nCphzdsekp:disqus suggested this video of comedian Robert Newman. Timely stuff. Thank you kuji! Here's Philip Roddis's introduction: 
The best comedians are the cleverest people on the planet. I’m grateful to a BTL comment on OffGuardian, below a piece of mine on Venezuela, for linking to this forty-five minute video. It has Robert Newman saying exactly what I try to say, but with vastly greater wit and panache, on the history of oil and, more generally, a materialist perspective on history.

Performed in 2006, it could have been yesterday given the clueless way we insist on viewing each “pro-democracy” intervention – Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Venezuela – on a case by case basis.

Given too the criminal way ‘our’ media ignore the material drivers of war. In both my two posts this week on Venezuela, I described corporate media as having “abdicated a core duty in their refusal to explore motives that cast a very different light on Western interventions sold to us as humanitarian”.

Newman treads the same ground but here too – damn the man – he does it better.
Watch it at  https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/06/watch-robert-newmans-history-of-oil/

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