Stories by Michael T. Klare
Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency.
The era of plentiful oil is drawing to a close, and a new era of economic peril, rising starvation and environmental disaster is born.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009
In a world on the brink, we must offer a global stimulus or else face an epidemic of global crime.
Posted on Apr 7, 2009
As the wealthier nations cease investing in the developing world or acquiring its exports, the crisis is hitting them with a vengeance.
Posted on Mar 20, 2009
This struggle started when the former Soviet republics began seeking Western customers for their oil and natural gas.
Posted on Aug 21, 2008
Oil companies, speculators and OPEC played their part, but ruinous Bush Administration policies have compounded the crisis.
Posted on Jun 21, 2008
It's time to ask whether the U.S. military should have anything to do with American energy security.
Posted on Jun 13, 2008
Shows of force by nations competing to control dwindling energy supplies could trigger conflict in hot spots across the globe.
Posted on May 31, 2008
Get ready for a new world order in which energy will govern what we eat, where we live, and if and when we travel.
Posted on Apr 16, 2008
Within the Bush administration, the 'military option' remains as popular as ever.
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
On March 3, the price of crude reached its highest ever. Are energy costs becoming the decisive factor in the balance of global economic power?
Posted on Mar 15, 2008
Cheap oil propelled the stock market to dizzying heights. We're in for a long fall.
Posted on Feb 1, 2008
Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.
Posted on Nov 8, 2007
Buckle your seatbelt and fill up your gas tank. Our oil future is likely to be a bumpy ride toward cliff's edge.
Posted on Aug 18, 2007
How wars of the future may be fought just to run the machines that fight them.
Posted on Jun 15, 2007
Has the justification for war with Iran already been drawn up? A careful reading of Bush's statements on Iran could preview the actual list of charges he might make in his case for attack.
Posted on Mar 2, 2007
Global warming is an energy problem, and we cannot have both an increase in conventional fossil fuel use and a habitable planet. Yet the United States is projected to consume 35 percent more oil, coal, and gas combined in 2030 than in 2004.
Posted on Feb 17, 2007
The Pentagon is helping to create a grim future for all of us: a struggle for energy primacy abroad and Big Brother at home.
Posted on Jan 20, 2007
What lies in our future may well be a blend of conflicts between rising and declining energy superpowers and a state-protected nuclear renaissance.
Posted on Jan 20, 2007
We're closer than we think to an age when gasoline becomes a luxury and restaurant meals become unattainable.
Posted on Dec 7, 2006
Because global oil supplies are never likely to be truly abundant again, it would only take one major storm or one major crisis in the Middle East to push crude prices back up near or over $80 a barrel.
Posted on Sep 29, 2006
The United States and the rest of the world would be much better off if we gave up on Bush's plan for global domination.
Posted on Jul 20, 2006
Despite Bush's preoccupation with Iraq and Iran, the administration is more concerned with keeping China from becoming an economic and military superpower.
Posted on Apr 20, 2006
President Bush's dangerous deal to deliver nuclear technology to India makes nuclear war all the more likely.
Posted on Mar 22, 2006
America's closest ally has announced that climate change has ushered in an era of violent conflict over energy, water and arable land.
Posted on Mar 10, 2006
There are many reasons to believe that, unlike the gas and electricity crises of the 70s, 80s and 90s, the energy troubles we now face will last for decades.
Posted on Feb 13, 2006
The growing quagmire in Iraq has proven that the application of military force can diminish America's access to foreign oil.
Posted on Sep 23, 2005
The competitive pursuit of oil and natural gas will inevitably pit major consuming nations against one another.
Posted on May 10, 2005
Contrary to administration claims, Iran's nuclear program is not the paramount reason to attack the country. Any assessment of Iran's strategic importance to the United States should focus on its huge oil reserves.
Posted on Apr 12, 2005
America is more dependent on foreign oil than ever before and the Bush administration has no exit strategy for getting out of the perpetual crisis.
Posted on Dec 9, 2004
Under the pressure of Bush administration energy geopolitics (and under the guise of anti-terrorism), the U.S. military is being remolded into an oil-protection force.
Posted on Oct 11, 2004
It is the open-ended war to dominate the Middle East and not the impending encounter with Iraq that is likely to prove truly costly and dangerous .
Posted on Mar 12, 2003
Despite media attention to U.N. resolutions and weapons inspections, it's the Bush blueprint for war -- fiercely debated for months among administration hawks -- that runs the show.
Posted on Feb 12, 2003
The president's case for war on Iraq can be boiled down to three phony assertions. The only real reason for the rush to war is oil.
Posted on Jan 30, 2003
In his state of the union address, George Bush will not mention the two little words that sum up his push for war: oil and empire.
Posted on Jan 27, 2003
The proposed war on Iraq may the biggest oil grab in modern history, providing hundreds of billions of dollars to U.S. oil firms.
Posted on Oct 1, 2002
The aborted coup in Venezuela is just one piece of a broader plan to secure a global oil empire, stretching from Colombia to Uzbekistan.
Posted on Apr 23, 2002
Any suggestion that Iraq, Iran and North Korea are allied against America is preposterous and the nuclear and biological arms threat they pose is better addressed without war rhetoric.
Posted on Jan 31, 2002
Bin Laden never mentions it in his calls for a jihad, and neither does Bush in his calls for a war against terror. But oil is central to both their plans, and Saudi Arabia is the key.
Posted on Nov 5, 2001
A professor of peace and world security charts out how the war against terrorism might evolve and escalate.
Posted on Sep 24, 2001
The terrorist strikes have been called an act of war against the U.S. But they were not mere expressions of anti-American or anti-Western sentiment; they were a major assault in the continuing struggle between the U.S. and its adversaries for control of the Persian Gulf.
Posted on Sep 17, 2001
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