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I just finished a rather excellent (if slightly depressing) book on the links between the US government and Saudi Arabia that suggests those links are rather deeper than you might suspect:

http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-Crude/...

[NB: From what I can tell the author, Bob Baer, is fairly credible - he is a former CIA field officer with a lot of experience in the Middle East.]



He's autobiography on his time in the CIA, "See No Evil" is also interesting (and depressing).

edit: While we're on the subject of sci-fi and capitalism; I highly recommend Bruce Sterling's latest book, the Zenith Angle: http://www.amazon.com/The-Zenith-Angle-Bruce-Sterling/dp/034...


Thanks, I will check it out!




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