Blood Red Oil Runs In American History's Veins

since america was once criss-crossed by electric trolleys...

since america produced nearly all the oil it used...

since america used an oil embargo on japan in 1941...

since america and the carter doctrine: "by any means necessary"...

since america supported saddam from 1980 - 1988...

since america produced only 50% of its oil in 1998...

since america produced only 40% of its oil in 2004...

since america produced only the vaguest of reasons for war...

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it's oil.

oilways has been.

oilways will be.

until it's oil gone.

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Keynote: Michael Klare

Oil, The Iraq War and American Foreign Policy

Producer: Media Education Foundation
Length: 29:25 minutes

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Author of the book "Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict," and most recently, "Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency (The American Empire Project)." He is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.

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