Over the last several years as more people, organizations and governments began to take the prospect of global warming and human influenced climate change more seriously there has arisen a kind of 60 cycle background hum over the potential dangers of social unrest, disease, famine and mass movements of populations resulting from such change.
Before plunging into John McCain's warmongering delusional matrix later in the day, I think it's important to take note of how unfortunately bipartisan the current mess is. This is not to blame Democrats equally, but to highlight, once again, the moral corruption of supposedly saintly bipartisanship. The bipartisanship in this case consists of the Clinton Administration's continued hostility to Russia and its penchant for facilitating the wishes of the petrochemical industry with scant thought for other consequences.
These issues were brought into focus on Friday, when peace studies and global security expert par excellence Michael Klare appeared on Democracy Now yesterday, in a segment titled, "Russia-Georgia Conflict Fueled by Rush to Control Caspian Energy Resources" And extended excerpt, followed by my coments can be found on the flip.
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