Stories by Michael T. Klare

If history is any guide, rising food prices of this sort will also lead to widespread social unrest and violent conflict.

In energy terms, we are now entering a world whose grim nature has yet to be fully grasped.

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.

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.

Crucial developments taking place in 2011 are changing the way we are likely to live on this planet for the foreseeable future.

The old oil order is dying, and with its demise we will see the end of cheap and readily accessible petroleum -- forever.

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.

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.

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.

In a world on the brink, we must offer a global stimulus or else face an epidemic of global crime.

This struggle started when the former Soviet republics began seeking Western customers for their oil and natural gas.

It's time to ask whether the U.S. military should have anything to do with American energy security.

Get ready for a new world order in which energy will govern what we eat, where we live, and if and when we travel.

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?

Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.

How wars of the future may be fought just to run the machines that fight them.

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.

What lies in our future may well be a blend of conflicts between rising and declining energy superpowers and a state-protected nuclear renaissance.

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.