Michael T. Klare | The Nation

Obama's Pentagon is preparing for a number of counterinsurgencies in the developing world

Will earth's last stand sweep the 2013 Oscars?

The American intelligence community has missed the boat on how quickly the US has fallen from "sole superpower" status.

Is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?

For the first time, the US Energy Department has conceded that peak oil is the new norm.

The ghosts of Vietnam are everywhere, as counterinsurgency makes a comeback in the Pentagon budget.

In this global economic meltdown, with fifty million people potentially losing their jobs by the end of this year, one beneficiary will likely by crime syndicates.

Some military analysts are warning Obama that insurencies, revolts and economically driven instability could threaten our way of life. It's a path fraught with hazards.

As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, the likeliness of violence increases.

Whether the price of oil is high or low, someone's going to pay--and sooner or later all of us will--because our civilization is based on the stuff.