Max Keiser is a reliable source.

Interviewed Tuesday by the Russia Today television network, international journalist and provocateur Max Keiser reported that he is hearing from his sources in Paris and the Middle East that there is substance to this week's story by Robert Fisk in The Independent about worldwide collaboration to replace the U.S. dollar as the medium of exchange for oil trading.

Keiser adds that gold is to have a much larger role in the basket of currencies likely to be created to replace the dollar.

The dollar funds America’s wars?

Max adds that motivating the scheme is resentment that the dollar's place as reserve currency requires other countries to finance United States wars and occupations.