Conflict

GPM correspondent David Room talks to Donald Fournier, co-author of the report Energy Trends and Their Implications for U.S. Army Installations (pdf).

Topics of discussion include the potential relation of peak oil to the recent passing of the bankruptcy bill, an examination of the way the resource wars could begin to play out, and things that individuals can do to prepare for backside of Hubbert's Peak.

We are entering a period of economic hardship and declining incomes. The increment of new development will be very small, probably the individual building lot. The suburbs as are going to tank spectacularly. We are going to see an unprecedented loss of equity value and, of course, basic usefulness. We are going to see an amazing distress sale of properties, with few buyers. We're going to see a fight over the table scraps of the 20th century. We'll be lucky if the immense failure of suburbia doesn't result in an extreme political orgy of grievance and scapegoating.

"I have personally not been a Bush-basher myself -- though I didn't vote for the sonofabitch. I tend to hold the American public as being complicit in the cluelessness that afflicts our society regarding the oil and gas issues and how they relate to our way of life. The dirty secret of the American economy for the last two decades is that it is all about the creation of suburban sprawl and accessorizing, furnishing and servicing it."

Since his death in 1973, Leo Strauss has become arguably the most important political philosopher of our age. Shadia Drury discusses how his ideas of promoting fear, elitism, secrecy, and lying have helped to undermine democracy and build a world where violent pre-emption is becoming the norm.

Analyzing the geopolitical issues of who controls the remaining oil as well as the probable wars and political control which we see already occuring

While the Bush administration is fond of blaming oil prices on OPEC, the group says the pricing is beyond their control. what is driving this so-called crisis?

A video synopsis of Richard Heinberg's latest book Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

Speaking about the connections between the 9-11 attacks, the United States government, and peak oil.

In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies.