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Portrait of an oil-addicted former superpower
How rising oil prices are obliterating America's superpower status |
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08 May 2008 |
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| The following is a guest essay from Michael T. Klare, author of the new book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet. It was originally published on Tom's Dispatch, which has graciously permitted us to use it here. ----- Nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the Soviet Union as the world's other superpower. Yes, the USSR as a political entity stumbled on for another two years, but it was clearly an ex-superpower from the moment it lost co ... |
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| Topics: energy, international politics, oil, politics, Russia (all these topics) |
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