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.
Posted on May 10, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
Consider these flash-points as signals that we are entering an era of intensified conflict over energy.
Posted on Mar 13, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
In energy terms, we are now entering a world whose grim nature has yet to be fully grasped.
Posted on Jan 31, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
The Strait of Hormuz--through which one-fifth the planet's oil supply travels--is suddenly the site of tensions between the US and Iran.
Posted on Jan 10, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
With energy demand on the rise and sources of supply dwindling, we are entering a new epoch in which disputes over vital resources will dominate world affairs.
Posted on Dec 6, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
This ensures that, environmentally, militarily, and economically, we will find ourselves in a more, not less, perilous world.
Posted on Sep 15, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
America's rise to supremacy was fueled by control over the world's oil supply. Now, the decline of the U.S. coincides with the decline of oil as a major energy source.
Posted on Jun 26, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
A 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.
Posted on Jun 5, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
Crucial developments taking place in 2011 are changing the way we are likely to live on this planet for the foreseeable future.
Posted on Apr 14, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
What Earth does to protect itself from human intervention is unlikely to prove beneficial for human societies.
Posted on Mar 7, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
The old oil order is dying, and with its demise we will see the end of cheap and readily accessible petroleum -- forever.
Posted on Jan 23, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society.
Posted on Jul 16, 2010, Source: The Nation
Only a dramatic change in course -- governed by an entirely new policy framework -- can reduce the risk of catastrophe and set the nation on a wise energy trajectory.
Posted on Jun 22, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
The disaster in the Gulf is no anomaly. It's an arrow pointing toward future disasters.
Posted on Jan 6, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Much will change in 10 years. China will rise, the global South will grow in importance, the U.S. will decline. These phenomena will be eclipsed by devastating planetary changes.
Posted on Sep 24, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
The great age of renewable energy is in our distant future. Before then, energy prices will rise, environmental perils will multiply and conflict will grow. Buckle your seatbelts.
Posted on Jul 15, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
Will it all end in Iraq not with a bang, but with an oil gusher? The latest oil news out of that country offers a hint of Iraq's fate.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Apr 7, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
In a world on the brink, we must offer a global stimulus or else face an epidemic of global crime.
Posted on Mar 20, 2009, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
As the wealthier nations cease investing in the developing world or acquiring its exports, the crisis is hitting them with a vengeance.
Posted on Aug 21, 2008, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
This struggle started when the former Soviet republics began seeking Western customers for their oil and natural gas.
Posted on Jun 21, 2008, Source: The Nation
Oil companies, speculators and OPEC played their part, but ruinous Bush Administration policies have compounded the crisis.
Posted on Jun 13, 2008, Source: TomDispatch.com
It's time to ask whether the U.S. military should have anything to do with American energy security.
Posted on May 31, 2008, Source: Metropolitan Books
Shows of force by nations competing to control dwindling energy supplies could trigger conflict in hot spots across the globe.
Posted on Apr 16, 2008, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Mar 27, 2008, Source: The Nation
Within the Bush administration, the 'military option' remains as popular as ever.
Posted on Mar 15, 2008, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Feb 1, 2008, Source: TomDispatch.com
Cheap oil propelled the stock market to dizzying heights. We're in for a long fall.
Posted on Nov 8, 2007, Source: The Nation
Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.
Posted on Aug 18, 2007, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Jun 15, 2007, Source: TomDispatch.com
How wars of the future may be fought just to run the machines that fight them.
Posted on Mar 2, 2007, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Feb 17, 2007, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
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 Jan 20, 2007, Source: TomDispatch.com
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, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Dec 7, 2006, Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
We're closer than we think to an age when gasoline becomes a luxury and restaurant meals become unattainable.
Posted on Sep 29, 2006, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Jul 20, 2006, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Apr 20, 2006, Source: TomDispatch.com
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 Mar 22, 2006, Source: The Nation
President Bush's dangerous deal to deliver nuclear technology to India makes nuclear war all the more likely.
Posted on Mar 10, 2006, Source: TomPaine.com
America's closest ally has announced that climate change has ushered in an era of violent conflict over energy, water and arable land.
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