Syriana

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

• petrol
• central intelligence agency (cia)
• middle east
• capitalism
• globalization
• persia
• war on terror
• conspiracy
• false flag
• geopolitics
• us imperialism
• war for oil