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Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jack up in magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. The capitalist world system we live under today has for a long time

been fueled in significant part and in a fundamental way by oil. In the early years of the international

oil market, massive companies known as the oil majors, backed by the U.S. and UK,

exercised their colonial and imperial power to take over and control concessions in Venezuela

and across the Middle East. Petro states, the sovereign landlords of those oil resources

ultimately fought back, leading in 1960 to the creation of the organization of petroleum

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