America and Oil: Declining Together?

by Michael T. Klare

America and Oil. It’s like bacon and eggs, Batman and Robin. As the old song lyric went, you can’t have one without the other. Once upon a time, it was also a surefire formula for national greatness and global preeminence. Now, it’s a guarantee of a trip to hell in a hand basket. The Chinese know it. Does Washington?

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On being offered a biscuit

i read the packet’s contents

(over twenty ingredients listed)

and wonder how food

made for supermarkets

remains so cheap

and how this super obfuscation

by those who disregard

the limits to growth

made clear and manifest

from the first unnoticed spore

push on with unbound insistence

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