{"id":47637,"date":"2019-08-06T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47637"},"modified":"2019-08-06T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:05:09","slug":"global-warming-and-u-s-national-security-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47637","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Old power station, West Linn, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Control of oil has long been a key aim of U.S. foreign policy. The Paris climate agreements and any other Green programs to reduce the pace of global warming are viewed as threatening the aim of dominating world energy markets by keeping economies dependent on oil under U.S. control. Also blocking U.S. willingness to help stem global warming is the oil industry\u2019s economic and hence political power. Its product is not only energy but also global warming, along with plastic pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fatal combination of the national security state\u2019s mentality and oil industry lobbying threatens to destroy the planet\u2019s climate. The prospect of raising temperatures and sea levels along the coasts while inland regions suffer drought is viewed simply as collateral damage to the geopolitics of oil. The State Department is reported to have driven out individuals warning about global warming\u2019s negative impact.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only attempts to restrict oil imports are the new Cold War trade sanctions to isolate Russia, Iran and Venezuela. The aim is to increase foreign dependence on U.S., British and French oil, giving American strategists the power to make other countries \u201cfreeze in the dark\u201d if they follow a path diverging from U.S. diplomatic aims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the drive to control the world\u2019s oil trade \u2013 and to keep it dollarized \u2013 that led the United States to overthrow the Iranian government in 1953, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to invade Iraq in 2013, and most recently for Donald Trump to isolate Iran while backing Saudi Arabia and its Wahabi foreign legion in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Sixty years earlier, in 1953, the CIA and Britain joined to overthrow Iran\u2019s elected President Mohammad Mosaddegh to prevent him from nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. A similar strategy explains U.S. attempts at regime change in Venezuela and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy Old power station, West Linn, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Control of oil has long been a key aim of U.S. foreign policy. The Paris climate agreements and any other Green programs to reduce the pace of global warming are viewed as threatening the aim of dominating world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[93,141,333,369,442,6279,588,701,827,851],"class_list":["post-47637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-britain","tag-climate-change","tag-france","tag-global-warming","tag-iraq","tag-michael-hudson","tag-oil","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47639,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637\/revisions\/47639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}