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"Mark was making available a scheme for looking at what is mostly hidden, counteracting the aura of infotainment chaos with the presentation of causality," Richard says.

Without a doubt, the most chilling Lombardi drawing in the context of America's current political situation is George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, c. 1979-1990 (5th version), completed in 1999. Lombardi clearly shows money flowing from Republican backers through the Republican National Committee to George H.W. Bush, to George W. Bush's Texas-based company Harken Energy, to the mysterious James R. Bath, to Sheik Salim bin Laden -- brother of Osama. James R. Bath was a Houston businessman who was hired in the late '70s by wealthy Saudis to invest in American corporations with their money. In 1979, Bath invested in W's Arbusto Energy, which eventually merged with Spectrum 7 Energy Corporation, retaining W as its head and later merging into Harken Energy.

In her article "Obsessive -- Generous," published online by Williamsburg Quarterly (www.wburg.com) and excerpted for the Global Networks catalog, Richard explains, "In 1990 [Harken Energy] embarked upon a sweetheart deal to drill oil wells in Bahrain. . . . Oil industry cognoscenti again assume that the Bahrain contract was orchestrated as a favor from the Saudis to the American chief executive and his family." George W. Bush made out like a bandit when, in 1990, he sold the majority of his Harken Energy stock, and watched as the stock lost 75 percent of its value as his father became involved in the Gulf War.

As if W's chilling involvement in the bin Ladens' wealth accumulation wasn't bad enough, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Reagan, Bush, and Thatcher and the Arming of Iraq, ca. 1983-1991, a 1995 drawing, details the involvement of two American presidents in the well-known funding of Saddam Hussein to combat a feared enemy of Reagan and George H.W. Bush: Iran. This drawing plainly shows enormous sums of money (between $800 million and $950 million) flowing from the U.S. Department of Agriculture under Secretary John Block to the Commodity Credit Corporation, to several other corporations, then to Iraq for the purpose of arms purchases.

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