Iakovos Alhadeff: 37 books

There is a wide spread belief that it was the private banking sector that caused the current economic crisis. “Greedy” private bankers destabilized the economy, as socialists put it. At the same time, there are many conspiracy theories about central banks around. According to these theories, central...

This essay explores the true causes of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is alwasy a financial phenomenon, and the essay examines the interaction betweeen the Greek political and economic elites with the Arab world, and explains how this interaction affects Greek anti-Semitism.

There is a rumor that it is very difficult to understand the Middle East. However this is not true. It is difficult to understand the Middle East only when the emphasis is not on oil and natural gas. If oil and natural gas are taken into account it is very easy to analyze the Middle East. Because...

This essay describes the energy war between U.S.A. and Russia, the geopolitical changes generated by this war, and the resulting threats for the survival of the state of Israel.

The modern father of the idea of an Islamic Caliphate was the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). And even though ISIS is retreating in Iraq and Syria, due to the NATO bombings, the idea of an Islamic State is becoming more and more popular in the Muslim world.More and more terrorist groups...

There are many conspiracy theories about the creation of Israel. Many people believe that it was the Rothschilds and other Jewish bankers that caused the two world wars. They even believe that it was the Jews who supported Hitler, because they wanted the Jews of Europe to immigrate to Palestine and...

A comparison between the Russian expeditions of Afghanistan and Syria in 1979 and 2015. The essay describes the Russian allies and enemies in each case, and explains why the situation in Syria is much easier than the one the Soviets were facing in 1979 in Afghanistan.

This booklet explains why oil was the real cause of the First World War, and explains the economic and geopolitical interests behind all the major players of this war. Moreover it compares the first Great War for oil in 1914 with the oil wars of 2014 in Syria and Iraq one hundred years later.

The following chapters are independent essays that were written between July 2015 and February 2016. They appear in random order, and therefore they do not have to be read in the order they appear. The issue in all the essays is the connection between the energy policies of various countries,...

Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad needed a monster in order to keep Syria under their control, when in 2011 Turkey and Qatar used the Muslim Brotherhood to cause a regime change.It turns out that this monster was the Islamic State, which was the successor of Al-Qaeda of Iraq, which was established...

Unlike the Sunni Muslim world, which has been very divided during the energy war that was given the code name “Arab Spring”, the Shia Muslims have been relatively united.But recently there are signs of cracks in the Shia camp too. Many Shia Muslims of Iraq are calling for a normalization...

This essay explains in very simple words the problems encountered by banks during periods of severe economic crises, like the crises of 1929 and of 2008. Moreover the document describes the means that banks have at their disposal to combat such crises. This is a non technical document and does...

A very common socialist claim is that the free market leads to economic monopolies, and it is the governments’ duty to protect consumers from “unreasonably” high prices set by monopolists. The purpose of this essay is to explain in simple words, why consumers should not be protected from the...

A brief summary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, and how these historic events were related to terrorism, and more specifically to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.