Michael Hudson — Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy

Summary:
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’s economic and hence political power. Its product is not only energy but also global warming, along with plastic pollution.... Naked CapitalismMichael Hudson: Global Warming and U.S. National Security DiplomacyMichael Hudson | President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: climate change, Oil, US economic policy, US foreign policy, US global hegemony

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