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Interview with Michael Klare Part I

atticusink — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:43:04 +0000

Michael Klare is a five-colleges professor of Peace and World Security studies, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and contributor to Tom’s Dispatch, Mother Jones and Foreign Policy in Focus. He’s published many books, but most recently he’s concentrated on global energy supply and conflict, including Resource Wars and his most recent, Blood and Oil.

Part I of the interview includes the implications of the U.S military’s dependence on oil, a discussion of rising oil prices, questions about the European Union’s energy strategy and the implications of biofuel development.

Read the transcript on my Newsvine column

Interview with Michael Klare Part II

atticusink — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:41:52 +0000

Part II includes a discussion of various parts of the world from which the EU imports oil and natural gas, including Russia, the Caspian Sea Basin, and North Africa, the implications of a potential U.S. invasion of Iran, and Prof. Klare’s term “Energo-fascism.”

Read the transcript on my Newsvine column

Interview with Michael Klare Part III

atticusink — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:39:41 +0000

In Part III we continue the discussion of Energo-fascism, the concept of a “peak in oil production,” Russia’s Arktika expedition to the North Pole, and M.K. Hubbert’s theory of Peak Oil.

Read the transcript on my Newsvine column

Interview with Michael Klare Part IV

atticusink — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:37:17 +0000

The fourth and final part of the interview continues Prof. Klare’s discussion of Peak Oil Theory, a recent IEA World Energy Outlook report and Mr. Klare’s lack of optimism for the future.

Read the transcript on my Newsvine column