World War I: Far uglier than many people remember 

By Bill Federer
via the World Net Daily web site

“The Great War” began in 1914 between Germany and its allies, and England and France and their allies. Battles were fought in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China and off the coast of South and North America.

Private Edward Hubert having hot chocolate and cakes at Field Hospital No. 328 of the 82nd DivisionOne of the reasons for World War I was access to Middle East oil. In the article “Falling Empires and their Currencies” (Centre for Research on Globalization, Global Research, Jan. 15, 2007), Rolf Nef wrote of circumstances leading up to the war: “France after Waterloo (1815) had been militarily beaten. … The 19th century was the time when the British upper class had the time to spend … plunder from its colonies. … When (German Chancellor) Bismarck started war against France in 1871, London found it … to her advantage to have a weakened France. But the defeat of France gave birth not only to a new united Germany under Bismark and Prussia, but also to a new economic powerhouse, Germany. …”

Rolf Nef continued: “Britain, where the first Kondratieff cycle (50 years of economic growth followed by depression) started with the steam engine fell into a heavy depression by 1873. But Germany started the new Kondratieff cycle with diesel, gasoline and electric engines (founders were all German: Messers. Diesel, Otto and Siemens). Soon Germany was producing more steel than England. The new source of energy, oil, made the German war ships faster than the English one, something of great concern to London. Deutsche Bank and Georg von Siemens initiated the Baghdad railway, which went from Berlin through the Austrian Empire, Serbia and into the Ottoman Empire to the oil fields in Kirkuk, north of Baghdad (oil was at that time only known in Baku, Russia, Kirkuk and Pennsylvania). … The new German rail link with Baghdad was out of range of British sea power and their controlled waterways. The alarm bells went on in Whitehall (London’s government district). …”

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