Crossposted from TomDispatch Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never ...
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Professor Klare teaches courses on international peace and security issues at Hampshire College and is the author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency.
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A Presidential Decision That Could Change the World: The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL
Crossposted from TomDispatch Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the “dirtiest,” ...
Crossposted from TomDispatch Don’t look now, but conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific. Things are turning ugly, with consequences that could prove deadly and spell catastrophe for the global economy. In Washington, it is widely assumed that a showdown with Iran over its nuclear ambitions will be the first ...
World Energy Report 2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Really, Truly Ugly
Crossposted from TomDispatchRarely does the release of a data-driven report on energy trends trigger front-page headlines around the world. That, however, is exactly what happened on November 12th when the prestigious Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) released this year’s edition of its World Energy Outlook. In the process, just about ...
The New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t: Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities
Crossposted from TomDispatch Last winter, fossil-fuel enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs, and free this country from its dependence on imported petroleum. Ed Morse, head commodities analyst at Citibank, was typical. In the ...
The Hunger Wars in Our Future: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest
The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America’s counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, soybeans, and other food staples is guaranteed to fall far short ...
Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?
Crossposted from TomDispatchAs details of his administration’s global war against terrorists, insurgents, and hostile warlords have become more widely known -- a war that involves a mélange of drone attacks, covert operations, and presidentially selected assassinations -- President Obama has been compared to President George W. Bush in his appetite ...
The Energy Wars Heat Up: Six Recent Clashes and Conflicts on a Planet Heading Into Energy Overdrive
Crossposted from TomDispatchConflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have been fought every decade or so since World War I, and smaller engagements have erupted every few years; a flare-up or two in 2012, then, ...
A New Energy Third World in North America?
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe “curse” of oil wealth is a well-known phenomenon in Third World petro-states where millions of lives are wasted in poverty and the environment is ravaged, while tiny elites rake in the energy dollars and corruption rules the land. Recently, North America has been repeatedly hailed as the ...
A Tough-Oil World: Why Twenty-First Century Oil Will Break the Bank -- and the Planet
Crossposted from TomDispatchOil prices are now higher than they have ever been -- except for a few frenzied moments before the global economic meltdown of 2008. Many immediate factors are contributing to this surge, including Iran’s threats to block oil shipping in the Persian Gulf, fears of a new Middle ...
Crossposted from TomDispatchEver since December 27th, war clouds have been gathering over the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow body of water connecting the Persian Gulf with the Indian Ocean and the seas beyond. On that day, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi warned that Tehran would block the strait and ...
Crossposted from TomDispatchA 30-year war for energy preeminence? You wouldn’t wish it even on a desperate planet. But that’s where we’re headed and there’s no turning back. From 1618 to 1648, Europe was engulfed in a series of intensely brutal conflicts known collectively as the Thirty Years’ War. It was, ...
The Global Energy Crisis Deepens
Here’s the good news about energy: thanks to rising oil prices and deteriorating economic conditions worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that global oil demand will not grow this year as much as once assumed, which may provide some temporary price relief at the gas pump. In its May ...
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April 21st, 2013
Crossposted from TomDispatch Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth ...
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February 11th, 2013
A Presidential Decision That Could Change the World: The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL
Crossposted from TomDispatch Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually ...
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January 22nd, 2013
Crossposted from TomDispatch Don’t look now, but conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific. Things are turning ugly, with consequences that could prove deadly and ...
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November 27th, 2012
World Energy Report 2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Really, Truly Ugly
Crossposted from TomDispatchRarely does the release of a data-driven report on energy trends trigger front-page headlines around the world. That, however, is exactly what happened ...
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October 5th, 2012
The New “Golden Age of Oil” That Wasn’t: Forecasts of Abundance Collide with Planetary Realities
Crossposted from TomDispatch Last winter, fossil-fuel enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that would kick-start the American economy, generate ...
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August 7th, 2012
The Hunger Wars in Our Future: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest
The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than ...
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June 21st, 2012
Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?
Crossposted from TomDispatchAs details of his administration’s global war against terrorists, insurgents, and hostile warlords have become more widely known -- a war that involves ...
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February 11th, 2013
A Presidential Decision That Could Change the World: The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL
Crossposted from TomDispatch Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually ...
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June 6th, 2011
The Global Energy Crisis Deepens
Here’s the good news about energy: thanks to rising oil prices and deteriorating economic conditions worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that global oil ...
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May 10th, 2012
The Energy Wars Heat Up: Six Recent Clashes and Conflicts on a Planet Heading Into Energy Overdrive
Crossposted from TomDispatchConflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have ...
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April 21st, 2013
Crossposted from TomDispatch Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth ...
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April 1st, 2012
A New Energy Third World in North America?
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe “curse” of oil wealth is a well-known phenomenon in Third World petro-states where millions of lives are wasted in poverty and the ...
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November 27th, 2012
World Energy Report 2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Really, Truly Ugly
Crossposted from TomDispatchRarely does the release of a data-driven report on energy trends trigger front-page headlines around the world. That, however, is exactly what happened ...
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June 21st, 2012
Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?
Crossposted from TomDispatchAs details of his administration’s global war against terrorists, insurgents, and hostile warlords have become more widely known -- a war that involves ...
