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.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Blood
• and
• Oil
• Bush
• Iraq
• Saddam
• energy
• MEF
• Gulf
• War
• Peak
• Jimmy
• Carter
• Addiction
• Wolfowitz
• Cheney
• Greenspan
• Eisenhower

[PseudoSenator]

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.

[Medech2012]

At 1:42 Bush points to himself

[DarkyAngeLAra]

OiL  war !

[shadowofears]

Iraqi Blood is running in American cars

[arivas713]

---if this was true then why am i still paying 4 bucks a gallon? and think about how big the federal government is and how can they keep a secret this big even thought they can't even run a cash-for-clunkers effectively?-do you actually believe that Bush a multimillionaire and Rove who, think about this, gets paid thousands upon thousands of dollars for opening and letting words-err-speaking at Republican conventions--you think they're are moaning about 4 penny increase on regular unleaded?

[MrDoobious]

Sorry to rain on everyones optimism, but free/renewable energy just isnt feasible in a capitalistic society. And America, your the big dog behind the chain-link fence. You use 3x more oil than any other country. You are COMPLETELY to blame for the destabilisation of the middle east.

What needs to happen is a major paradigm shift away from capitalism to a new type of government, in which money and power are no longer the driving force of a nation.

[MrDoobious]

@PseudoSenator LOL.

[kkkiiinnnggg222]

america is great, many americans are great but its government is not

[MYTHOMINHTRAN]

Enjoy life with a thick money pocket in Taxas after eight years in business " Blood for oil."

[ironman2432]

using oil as an economic weapon!? SO what!!?? that is there OIL!!!! what gives us or anyone the right to go in and take it!!! oh wait the british have been doing it, the french, the italians, hmmmm . history keeps repeating itself. Power has already started to shift, and WE the people know what the deal is!

[okeleke1]

you people have just destroy what this people has build for century crazy Americans , you did help them to do nothing , America is so wicked