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Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws
America's Search for a New Foreign Policy
1996
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In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Klare argues that the containment of these rising Third World powers-Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea, especially-became the centerpiece of American military policy and the justification for near-Cold War levels of military sping.
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or Free with Kobo PlusThe World According to Tomdispatch
America in the New Age of Empire
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- Ann JonesArlie HochschildBehzad YaghmaianBill McKibbenChad HeeterChalmers JohnsonDahr JamailDavid RosnerDilip HiroGerald MarkowitzGreg GrandinIra ChernusJohn BrownJonathan SchellJuan ColeJudith CoburnKaren J GreenbergMark DannerMichael KlareMichael SchwartzMike DavisNick TurseNoam ChomskyRasha SaltiRebecca SolnitRuth RosenSteve Fraser
2020
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Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the global online media. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest political analysis of our age, from Afghanistan and Iraq through Guant�namo and extraordinary rendition, Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold, and the misbegotten 'clash of civilizat...
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Loving This Planet
Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make A Better World
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- Helen CaldicottMaude BarlowBill McKibbenLester BrownJanette Sherman-NevingerHugh GustersonChris HedgesDiane CurranVini Gautam KhuranaDavid KriegerCarole GallagherJonathan SchellWilliam HartungMichael T. KlareDaniel EllsbergAntony LoewensteinJohn ChurchRhett ButlerMartin SheenArjun MakhijaniLily TomlinMichael MadsenBob HerbertFrances Fox PivenDenis HayesPhil Radford
2011
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Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: "A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse." — BooklistA co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century by the Smithsonian Institute, Helen Caldicott presents a valuable collection of her interviews with prominent figures and environmentalists—in which she:*Scrutinizes ...
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or Free with Kobo PlusThe Race for What's Left
The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
2012
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From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competitionThe world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion—a crisis that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water and arable land. With all of the planet's easily accessible resource deposits rapidly approaching exhaustion, the desperate hunt for supplies has become a frenzy of e...
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All Hell Breaking Loose
The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
2019
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"Illuminates the prescient warnings the Pentagon has issued to the United States national and homeland security apparatus . . . highly readable." —Nathan P. Jones, Small Wars JournalThe Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change—still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet of all the major institutions in American society, none take climate change as seriously as th...
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Maritime Strategy and Global Order
Markets, Resources, Security
2016
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Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement—but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade in creating the international system.The book begins in the early days of the industrial revolution with t...
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or Free with Kobo PlusBlood and Oil
The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum
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- American Empire Project
2007
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In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-cold-war world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States—its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer.Since September 11 and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationshi...
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Resource Wars
The New Landscape of Global Conflict
2001
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This sobering look at the future of warfare predicts that conflicts will now be fought over diminishing supplies of our most precious natural resources.From the barren oilfields of Central Asia to the lush Nile delta, from the busy shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the uranium mines and diamond fields of sub-Saharan Africa, Resource Wars looks at the growing impact of resource scarcity on the military policies of nations. International security expert Michael T. Klare argues ...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
The New Geopolitics of Energy
2008
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From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world's diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the international balance of powerRecently, an unprecedented Chinese attempt to acquire the major American energy firm Unocal was blocked by Congress amidst hysterical warnings of a Communist threat. But the political grandstanding missed a larger point: the takeover bid was a harbinger of a new structure of worl...
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All Hell Breaking Loose
The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
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- Richard Poe
Unabridged
7 hours 46 min
2019
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All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change—still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet of all the major institutions in American society, none take climate change as seriously as the U.S. military. Both as participants in climate-triggered conflicts...
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2016
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This Handbook is the first volume to analyse the International Political Economy, the who-gets-what-when-and-how, of global energy. Divided into five sections, it features 28 contributions that deal with energy institutions, trade, transitions, conflict and justice. The chapters span a wide range of energy technologies and markets - including oil and gas, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, and electricity - and it cuts across the domestic-international divide. Long-standing iss...
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