[Peace-discuss] War and oil

[ndahlhei at uiuc.edu]

How serious is the Peak Oil issue?  What are the connections 
to war in the Gulf and Central Asia? What is the meaning for 
our economy and society? What are the connections to 
protecting civil liberties and the rights to question 
growing government power? What can be done to help the 
environment and conserve precious natural resources? I would 
love to hear what people think about these issues, and I 
would love to know what you all know about all of these 
issues and what you think about the value of discussing them 
and teaching others about American government and capitalism.

These are the important systemic questions that I think we 
must examine with our nation, economy, military, and society 
itself in peril from the increasingly Orwellian government 
and its accompanying repression of political and social 
activism opposed to the War on Terror.  I 

Some resources that I have resarched recently on this 
subject that have been quite informative and avoid the 
propaganda circulated by the likes of the oil-soaked 
mainstream media and the oilmen sitting in the White House:

Resource Wars by Michael T. Klare
 -------Discusses the world energy situation and the 
cold,hard facts about dwindling energy resources, in 
particular the looming peak in world oil production.  
Examines the impact of these energy issues and how future 
supply problems threaten to bring about new wars in the 21st 
century.

The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski
--------The ex-National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter and 
current major player on the Council on Foreign Relations 
discusses in 1997 the need for America to weaken Russia, 
seize the natural resources and strategic 
transportation/trade routes of Central Asia (like 
Afghanistan), and establish undisputed global hegemony at 
the expense of the rest of the world through war and 
economic extortion.  It reads like a national security 
strategy for the war in Vietnam.

Stan Goff; writer to Counterpunch, From the Wilderness, 
Guerilla News, and Narco News

One of his articles for Narco News dating back to October 
10, 2001 I have linked here regarding the War on Terror and 
global conflict: 

http://www.narconews.com/goff1.html

Dale Allen Pfeiffer; independent geologist and writer on 
Peak Oil and society.  Some articles listed here:

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/042903_media_lies.h
tml

Check out www.peakoil.net.  

Peak Oil Conferences during the last two years in Paris and 
Berlin also brought a lot of these issues to the attention 
European and foreign press.

The energy crunch is coming, and the War on Terror should be 
rightly reframed as the U.S. war to take over the remaining 
productive oil fields.  With our economy and lifestyle so 
heavily dependent on oil to run our industry, securing oil 
supplies and stamping out political opposition to the 
military ventures needed to accomplish the seizure of these 
oil supplies can only inevitably mean trouble ahead as the 
U.S. government will protect the rich of this country and 
economically oppress the middle and lower classes to ensure 
that the rich survive the energy crunch.  As a community, we 
who stand to suffer most from the economic downturns, 
political repression, and wars that will likely result from 
the oil/energy crunch must find ways to adjust and fight for 
peace ane justice.  The stakes are high and the social, 
cultural, economic, and political landscape must be examined 
in its totality.  I would love to hear what people think 
about the future and the meaning of energy in the politics 
of war and what we as concerned citizens can do to protect 
our own communities.