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This program is about an hour here we are with the secret world of oil, your new book on the oil business. Im going to ask the first question that you are sick of answering. Why did you decide to write this book lacks guest well, ive written about the oil industry for a long time, for over a decade. And ive written about the corruption of the oil industry and the way the United States maintains Close Relationships with various unattractive regimes and the basis of the relationship so for example when i was at the Los Angeles Times back in 2002 thats when i first started writing about it and if the Equatorial Guinea which is a small west african country, nobody knew about it or cared about it. It was a pariah state, terrible dictatorship and dirt poor. And then in the mid1990s, exxon found a lot of oil and other American Companies poured in and suddenly the relationship changed and it was no longer a pariah. They had a friendly relationship because it was a little too embarrassing but t

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