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The real problem says the WSJ, here and elsewhere, is "restricted access" and a lack of will and various other political/military problems to which the U.S. military and the companies that support it have a ready solution.
Interesting to see that "peak oil" or whatever they want to call it is basically just an opportunity for U.S. global intervention, and not, say, an opportunity to change the global or national energy economy itself, or to work on energy together with climate change. Nope... just try to get "access." and solve the "security" problems. When all you've got is a hammer the whole world looks like a nail, and when you are the propaganda mouthpiece for an empire... the whole world and all the problems in it look like one big "security" problem.
Really, this article is exactly what you'd expect from the WSJ.
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Throughout the article there is a constant theme that the real problem ("especially") is a political and security one, not a geographic or geological one, and in most of the world that is code talk for a reason to impose the kind of order that the U.S. military sees as its prime mission.
I really don't think it is particularly radical to point out that the WSJ is a mouthpiece for the U.S. "military industrial complex"... although there are those who may find those words, first spoken by and warned against by a Republican, the former General, President Eisenhower, to be somehow ideological.
This article is doing what many future articles in the WSJ and the mainstream media will do. They will argue that while there may or may not be a geophysical issue, we can't do anything about that, but we can do something about the geopolitical dimension and they will use the oil production leveling and decline argument to build the case for military spending, intervention and empire.
Just you watch.
Here is Eisenhower's farewell warning to America:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Two comments on this article which I have stolen and posted from another blog -
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Interesting to see that "peak oil" or whatever they want to call it is basically just an opportunity for U.S. global intervention, and not, say, an opportunity to change the global or national energy economy itself, or to work on energy together with climate change. Nope... just try to get "access." and solve the "security" problems. When all you've got is a hammer the whole world looks like a nail, and when you are the propaganda mouthpiece for an empire... the whole world and all the problems in it look like one big "security" problem.
Really, this article is exactly what you'd expect from the WSJ.
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Throughout the article there is a constant theme that the real problem ("especially") is a political and security one, not a geographic or geological one, and in most of the world that is code talk for a reason to impose the kind of order that the U.S. military sees as its prime mission.
I really don't think it is particularly radical to point out that the WSJ is a mouthpiece for the U.S. "military industrial complex"... although there are those who may find those words, first spoken by and warned against by a Republican, the former General, President Eisenhower, to be somehow ideological.
This article is doing what many future articles in the WSJ and the mainstream media will do. They will argue that while there may or may not be a geophysical issue, we can't do anything about that, but we can do something about the geopolitical dimension and they will use the oil production leveling and decline argument to build the case for military spending, intervention and empire.
Just you watch.
Here is Eisenhower's farewell warning to America:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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