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Resources to Accompany “Focus the Nation”

In support of our school’s participation in “Focus the Nation,” here is a list of resources to accompany our discussion in class of the politics of Middle Eastern oil.

1.  Victor Davis Hanson, “Blood and Oil,” The Salt Lake (City) Tribune, Nov. 29, 2006

2.  Michael Klare, “Mapping the Oil Motive, Tompaine.com, March 18, 2005

3.  Jane Bryant Quinn, “The Price of Our Addiction,” Newsweek, Apr. 24, 2006 

4.  Malise Ruthven, “How the Saudis Used Oil Money to Export a Hardline Ideology That Fuels Islamist Terror,” The Independent (London), Oct. 30, 2007

Additional Resources:

1.  “Post-Oil Solutions”- a local (Brattleboro, VT) group.

2. EIA (Energy Information Administration) and Petroleum Supply Monthly - Statistics, other energy related information.  This site is linked in the left side nav bar at the History of the Middle East Database.

3.  More in our electronic conference on SWIS.

Posted by Ted Thornton on Tuesday, January 29, 2008, at 8:33 pm. Filed under Economic Issues, Natural Resources, Oil. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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