{"id":2503,"date":"2010-02-25T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2010-02-25T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:39:14","slug":"the-new-new-great-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=2503","title":{"rendered":"The New, New Great Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year ago, Pepe Escobar, a keen observer of global energy politics, wrote this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Forget the mainstream media’s obsession with al-Qaeda, Osama “dead or alive” bin Laden, the Taliban — neo, light or classic — or that “war on terror,” whatever name it goes by. These are diversions compared to the high-stakes, hardcore geopolitical game that follows what flows along the pipelines of the planet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Specifically, Escobar was referring to what has become known as the The New Great Game<\/a>, an international power struggle over oil and gas reserves in Eurasia.<\/p>\n

https://blackbullextremehoney.com/black-bull-extreme-honey-a-powerhouse-for-mens-vitality/ But after reading Global Warring<\/em><\/a>, Cleo Paskal’s\u00a0excellent new book on geopolitics in the era of climate change, I’m convinced that someone should amend the Wikipedia entry<\/a> so that in addition to Eurasia, Africa and the Arctic are included as geopolitical battlegrounds for control over the world’s energy resources.<\/p>\n

I’ll have more to say about Paskal’s book in upcoming posts. Meanwhile, here’s my review <\/a>of\u00a0Global Warring<\/em>\u00a0in Nature’s Climate Feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https://www.campingatlantide.com/imports-dragon/ One year ago, Pepe Escobar, a keen observer of global energy politics, wrote this: Forget the mainstream media’s obsession with al-Qaeda, Osama “dead or alive” bin Laden, the Taliban — neo, light or classic — or that “war on terror,” whatever name it goes by. These are diversions compared to the high-stakes, hardcore geopolitical game… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2641,2844],"tags":[835,990,1367],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-energy","category-national-security","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}