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Klare: A Planet at the Brink
Znet Article, February, 28 2009
Michael t. Klare
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Will economic brushfires prove too virulent to contain?
Klare: Oil 2009
Znet Article, January, 11 2009
Michael t. Klare
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Only yesterday, it seems, we were bemoaning the high price of oil.
Klare: Obama's Toughest Challenge
Znet Article, November, 11 2008
Michael t. Klare
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America's Energy Crunch Comes Home
Klare: Putin's Ruthless Gambit
Znet Article, September, 02 2008
Michael t. Klare
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To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary to view the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significant geopolitical struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energy riches of the Caspian Sea basin.
Klare: Why We're Suddenly Paying Through the Nose for Gas
Znet Article, June, 22 2008
Michael t. Klare
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As the pain induced by higher oil prices spreads to an ever growing share of the American (and world) population, pundits and politicians have been quick to blame assorted villains -- greedy oil companies, heartless commodity speculators and OPEC....
Klare: Garrisoning the Global Gas Station
Znet Article, June, 14 2008
Michael t. Klare
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American policymakers have long viewed the protection of overseas oil supplies as an essential matter of "national security," requiring the threat of -- and sometimes the use of -- military force. This is now an unquestioned part of American forei...
Klare: Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower
Znet Article, May, 08 2008
Michael t. Klare
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Less than a month ago, the United States lost its claim to superpower status when a barrel crude oil roared past $110 on the international market, gasoline prices crossed the $3.50 threshold at American pumps, and diesel fuel topped $4.00.
Klare: The End of the World as You Know It
Znet Article, April, 15 2008
Michael t. Klare
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Oil at $110 a barrel. Gasoline at $3.35 (or more) per gallon. Diesel fuel at $4 per gallon. Independent truckers forced off the road. Home heating oil rising to unconscionable price levels.
Klare: The Bad News at the Pump
Znet Article, March, 11 2008
Michael t. Klare
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On Monday March 3, the price of crude oil reached $103.95 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, surpassing the record set nearly 30 years ago during another moment of chaos in the Middle East. Will that new mark prove distinctive in the ...
Klare: Something Had to Give
Znet Article, February, 01 2008
Michael t. Klare
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The role of oil in the coming US recession.
Klare: Iraq and Climate Change
Znet Article, December, 11 2007
Michael t. Klare
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When our grandchildren and more distant descendants assemble in such classrooms as may be available and ask their teachers, "Why did our ancestors not take effective action to prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change?" one of the answers...
Klare: Entering the Tough Oil Era
Znet Article, August, 17 2007
Michael t. Klare
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When "peak oil" theory was first widely publicized in such path breaking books as Kenneth Deffeyes' Hubbert's Peak (2001), Richard Heinberg's The Party's Over (2002), David ...
Klare: The Pentagon v. Peak Oil
Znet Article, June, 17 2007
Michael t. Klare
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Sixteen gallons of oil. That's how much the average American soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan consumes on a daily basis -- either directly, through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multip...
Klare: Warships, Warships Everywhere, and Many a Bomb to Drop
Znet Article, May, 04 2007
Michael t. Klare
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Looking down from the captain's deck some six stories high, the flight deck of the USS Nimitz is an impressive sight indeed: 80 sleek warplanes armed with bombs and missiles are poised for takeoff at any minute, day or night. The sight of these pl...
Klare: Bush's Future Iran War Speech
Znet Article, February, 26 2007
Michael t. Klare
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Sometime this spring or summer, barring an unexpected turnaround by Tehran, President Bush is likely to go on national television and announce that he has ordered American ships and aircraft to strike at military targets inside Iran. We must still...
Klare: Two Faces of an Emerging Energo-fascism (Part 2)
Znet Article, January, 17 2007
Michael t. Klare
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Not "Islamo-fascism" but "Energo-fascism" -- the heavily militarized global struggle over diminishing supplies of energy -- will dominate world affairs (and darken the lives of ordinary citizens) in the decades to come. This is so because top gove...
Klare: The Global Energy Race and Its Consequences (Part 1)
Znet Article, January, 14 2007
Michael t. Klare
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It has once again become fashionable for the dwindling supporters of President Bush's futile war in Iraq to stress the danger of "Islamo-fascism" and the supposed drive by followers of Osama bin Laden to establish a monolithic, Taliban-like regime...
Klare: The Meaning of Gates
Znet Article, November, 16 2006
Michael t. Klare
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There are many reasons why President George W. Bush might have wanted to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with Robert M. Gates: To distance himself from the current military disaster in Iraq, to make the adoption of a new Iraqi strateg...
Klare: Lessons Of The Gas Pump
Znet Article, October, 04 2006
Michael t. Klare
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What the hell is going on here? Just six weeks ago, gasoline prices at the pump were hovering at the $3 per gallon mark; today, they're inching down toward $2--and some analysts predict even lower numbers before the November elections. The sharp d...
Klare: Reading the Gas Pump Numbers
Znet Article, September, 27 2006
Michael t. Klare
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What the hell is going on here? Just six weeks ago, gasoline prices at the pump were hovering at the $3 per gallon mark; today, they're inching down toward $2 -- and some analysts predict even lower numbers before the November elections. The sharp...
Klare: An Imperial Defeatist -- And Proud of It
Znet Article, July, 19 2006
Michael t. Klare
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Just recently, I was accused by a writer for the ultra-Right Washington Times of being a "defeatist" when it comes to America's expansionist milit...
Klare: The Tripolar Chessboard
Znet Article, June, 15 2006
Michael t. Klare
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For months, the American press and policy-making elite have portrayed the crisis with Iran as a two-sided struggle between Washington and Tehran, with the European powers as well as Russia and China playing supporting roles. It is certainly true t...
Klare: Containing China
Znet Article, April, 18 2006
Michael t. Klare
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Slowly but surely, the grand strategy of the Bush administration is being revealed. It is not aimed primarily at the defeat of global terrorism, the incapacitation of rogue states, or the spread of democracy in the Middle East. These may dominate ...
Klare: Saudi Arabia: The Sands Run Out
Znet Article, March, 23 2006
Michael t. Klare
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Last month’s foiled attack on a Saudi Arabian oil installation demonstrated yet again the world’s extreme vulnerability to any check on oil supplies. But what if the Saudi oilfields are running lower on untapped supplies than the k...
Klare: The Coming Resource Wars
Znet Article, March, 13 2006
Michael t. Klare
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It's official: the era of resource wars is upon us. In a major London address, British Defense Secretary John Reid warned that global climate change and dwindling natural resources are combining to increase the likelihood of violent conflict over ...
Klare: The Permanent Energy Crisis
Znet Article, February, 10 2006
Michael t. Klare
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President Bush's State of the Union comment that the United States is "addicted to oil" can be read as pure political opportunism. With ever more Americans expressing anxiety about high oil prices, freakish weather patterns, and abiding American t...
Klare: Losing the War on Terrorism
Znet Article, January, 08 2006
Michael t. Klare
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President Bush has lost the support of most Americans wh...
Klare: Wag the Dog
Znet Article, November, 16 2005
Michael t. Klare
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In the 1998 movie Wag the Dog, White House spinmeister Conrad Brean seeks to deflect public attention from a brewing scandal over an alleged sexual encounter in the White House between the president and an all-too-young Girl Scout-type by concocti...
Klare: Revving Up the China Threat
Znet Article, October, 13 2005
Michael t. Klare
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Ever since taking office, the Bush Administration has struggled to define its stance on the most critical long-term strategic issue facing the United States: whether to view China as a future military adversary, and plan accordingly, or to see it ...
Klare: More Blood, Less Oil
Znet Article, September, 20 2005
Michael t. Klare
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It has long been an article of faith among America's senior policymakers -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- that military force is an effective tool for ensuring control over foreign sources of oil. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president...
