Michael T. Klare
Sunday, April 17th was the designated moment. The world’s leading oil producers were expected to bring fresh discipline to the chaotic petroleum market and spark…
Many reasons have been provided for the dramatic plunge in the price of oil to about $60 per barrel (nearly half of what it was…
It’s a ritual long familiar to observers of American politics: presidential hopefuls with limited international experience travel to foreign lands and deliver speeches designed to…
Carbon Counterattack: How Big Oil Is Responding to the Anti-Carbon Moment Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing popular…
Pop the champagne corks in Washington! It’s party time for Big Energy. In the wake of the midterm elections, Republican energy hawks are ascendant, having…
Washington Takes on ISIS, Iran, and Russia.It was heinous. It was underhanded. It was beyond the bounds of international morality. It was an attack on…
Considering all the talk about global warming, peak oil, carbon divestment, and renewable energy, you’d think that oil consumption in the United States would be…
Global Conflicts Are Increasingly Fueled by the Desire for Oil and Natural Gas -- and the Funds They Generate Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, South Sudan, Ukraine,…
Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets the Developing World for Future Profits In the 1980s, encountering regulatory restrictions and public resistance to smoking in the…
Of all the preposterous, irresponsible headlines that have appeared on the front page of the New York Times in recent years, few have exceeded the…
A week after the most powerful “super typhoon” ever recorded pummeled the Philippines, killing thousands in a single province, and three weeks after the northern…
Republished with permission from Tom DispatchFor years, energy analysts had been anticipating an imminent decline in global oil supplies. Suddenly, they’re singing a new song:…
When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems. Most of us believe (or want to believe) that…