Blood and Oil – Trailer – Featuring Michael Klare
http://www.bloodandoilmovie.com
Now Available on DVD
Featuring the author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet; Blood and Oil; and Resource Wars.
“Of course it’s about oil, we can’t really deny that.”
Fmr. CENTCOM Commander General John Abizaid
Synopsis:
The notion that oil motivates America’s military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years — rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.
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reminds me of …
reminds me of Manuel Antonio Noriega
If we spent half of …
If we spent half of the money we’ve spent on the wars in the Middle East on alternative energy, we wouldn’t have needed to invade in the first place.
research the imf …
research the imf and the world bank. i mean really research go deep into the rabbit hole. the war in the middle east was more than just needing some oil.
Petroleum products …
Petroleum products are like drugs….
gotta have em…heh…heh
JD
At 1:42 Bush points …
At 1:42 Bush points to himself
I’m having trouble …
I’m having trouble thinking of anything else that’s worth spending blood on. Sure as not buying gold with blood, you can’t use gold for anything. We’ve got rubber, we’ve got land, we’ve got metal, no, oil is basically all we need right now. So spend away, just keep the exchange rate good.
The term is …
The term is petroleum, not gasoline. The public thinks the addiction is to the gas to run their cars, but it is also the asphalt the cars drive on, and the plastics that half the car is made of. The part of petroleum not turned into gas, is the basis of hundreds of industries. America’s economy runs on heavy crude.
Just like the 47% of the cow not eaten by humans, is the raw material for hundreds of industries. Millions of cows aren’t fattened and slaughtered just for burgers.
Invade just for …
Invade just for that? Or because America faces a serious decline with no quick alternative?
It would take many …
It would take many decades. Its not the oil running out that is the problem, its the cheap oil and its extraction costs.
Buy the Lastoilshock book by David Strahan, BBC journalist. Lets see what you really you know.
Or buy “The Party’s over”, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by your fellow American citizen Richard Heinberg
No one in America wants to change with pain, they want an easy going change that just doesn’t exist.
This issue is HUGE …
This issue is HUGE and would be impossible to debate in a comments forum.
Who said quickly? …
Who said quickly? The changeover can happen within 15 years, that’s 90% of all oil consumption and use GONE! And who the said anything about hydrogen? Hydrogen is a bullshit energy to bilk more money out of us. Hydrogen should be used commercially like for trains, buses and semis. Not for normal civilian use. We could have 95% of the nations drivers using EV’s in 10 years, this could of been accomplished sooner if GM and our own government wouldn’t have killed the idea back in 2000.
No there are no …
No there are no alternatives that can replace oil quickly, they are oil. Remember I’m sure you do.
Who’s been in a hydrogen car in a test crash no one. No hydrogen lorry even exists to move food to a super market.
Yes there is …
Yes there is alternatives, don’t be ignorant.
boy man this is …
boy man this is amazing
totally agree
totally agree
I am sorry people …
I am sorry people but everyone is addicted to dihydrogen monoxide. I mean you can’t go for days w/o it and if you have too much of it it could kill you. You dont even know it, but right now ppl in the world are users; your wife, ur doctor, ur lawyer, ur teacher, even ur kids and parents are users…. YES WE CAN overcome our addiction to dihydrogen monoxide! CHANGE IS COMING!
Frozansafi, Do you …
Frozansafi, Do you have evidence of this? I would like to see it. I do not mean this in a malcious way.
And it is all about …
And it is all about everything, power, oil and all kind of business. And the Globe is spinning too fast now. We have to slow down to be able to survive. Survival of the Species has begun
It is all about how …
It is all about how to prevent nuclear disaster. It is a World War III wiping out people slowly. I hope we use robber bullets not to kill. It is all about to save the Globe. Don’t be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Wars are always existed and will be exist until the end of the life in Earth. It is all about how to clean nuks from falling into wrong hands. Every country owns it now.
i just typed in …
i just typed in blood for oil and lots of stuff came up, this is all so horrible see oil allowed the world overpopulate especially in areas of the world where people cannot live without oil (cold climates) so when the oil runs out millions will be in turmiol and have to move to warmer climates where they can live off the land and not by driving to the grocery store, everybody drives so much and its just plain sick, the whole educational system in this country brings kids up to be dependentonit
50 !!
50 !!
saadaam was selling …
saadaam was selling his oil in europe and usa needs enough oil so they had buy it back from europe so it was making the dollar drop which caused bush to invade iraq so they stole their oil.
There are no …
There are no alternatives.
Oil is used for everything.
I read the book ” …
I read the book “Blood and Oil” by Dr. Klare. If you get a chance to, by all means read it.
I had an …
I had an opportunity to watch this movie at my University. It was very imformative and mind blowing. It is very well chronologically organized and trying to reveal the truth of why we are where we are now. After the movie, we had interesting discussions for about 30 minutes. If you haven’y seen this movie, you really should, then tell your opinion. We can always investigate wheather or not what it’s told in this movie is true.