Product Details

• Actors: Michael T. Klare
• Directors: Jeremy Earp, Scott Morris (producer)
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Media Education Foundation
• DVD Release Date: May 20, 2008
• Run Time: 52 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001HWCNCI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,056 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The US - Middle East oil relationship is litte understood by Americans, May 3, 2009

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T. Wessels (Rindge, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood and Oil (DVD)

Michael T. Klare makes plain how the past 60 years of American foreign policy in the Middle East is linked to Middle Eastern oil. The American military longed for permanent bases in the Middle East that were larger and less secretive than the ones used in Israel. The first Gulf War permitted the "temporary" basing of American forces in Saudi Arabia, which proved to be very provocative to Islamic radicals and lit the fuse for their attacks on the American diplomatic and military presence in the Gulf states, Africa and finally attacks on US financial and military headquarters in New York City and Washington, D.C. The second Gulf War was an attempt to push aside an unlikable Iraqi leader to make way for a number of permanent US military bases in Iraq that would guarantee continued US access to Iraqi and Middle Eastern oil.

Michael T. Klare is right to focus on the political relationships that have shaped American access to valuable resources that lie outside our borders. Resources that today are in decline and will be come increasingly scarce and more valuable to control. The American military, despite six years of war in Iraq, is prepared to militarily attack any country that dares to stand in the way of American access to these resources. And as long as the US has the energy and the war machine and political inclination to do so there will be future resource wars in the coming decades. Watch out when the current US economic stimulus program fails to produce acceptable results. War will be the answer. It always is.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's about oil, not pawns like Saddam Hussein., November 25, 2008

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Preston C. Enright (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood and Oil (DVD)

The power elite of this country is very skilled at convincing large enough segments of our population to go along with horrifying wars of aggression Body of War - The True Story of an Anti-War Hero. One technique of persuasion that Petagon "perception managers" use is diversion; for example, getting the public to discuss Saddam Hussein instead of debating the use of force to control oil supplies in the interests of transnational corporations (not the "national interest"). The managers of our plutocracy know how unpopular a cause increasing Exxon and Lockheed's profits is; so instead the corporate noise machine focuses the discussion on Saddam Hussein's cruelty (Hussein is one of many dictators Western "civilization" has supported, and the Iraqi people are one of many populations Western "civilization" has brutalized) and whether he should be in power. That's a framing of the War on Iraq that the war profiteers will win.
U.S. citizens need to defend themselves against these rhetorical manipulations, and the documentaries of the Media Education Foundation are invaluable tools to resist the corporate colonization of our minds.
MEF's production of "Blood and Oil," based on the work of author Michael Klare Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum, is the sort of insightful analysis that exposes the less-than-noble agenda that lies at the root of U.S. state terror in the Middle East, and beyond. The Middle East is the focus of "Blood and Oil," but similar resource warfare is taking place throughout the Global South The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations. Even in the wealthier and more Anglo parts of the globe, the tyranny of the fossil fuel industry is wreaking havoc, as in the case of King Coal which is literally blowing apart mountains and cultures in West Virginia Lost Mountain.
Thanks to independent films like "Blood and Oil," there is growing awareness and more community organizing taking place The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It. I was fortunate to see this film on "Link TV," and am pleased that it's available on Amazon. The Media Education Foundation needs to get all their DVDs on Amazon.
I'm going to suggest to MEF that they start providing foreign language subtitles to their DVDs, since the scope of the corporate matrix's propaganda is transnational The Global Media: The Missionaries of Global Capitalism (Media Studies). The progressive resistance and solidarity needs to be global as well Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening, June 26, 2011

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This review is from: Blood and Oil (DVD)

Should be required viewing for all high school civics classes. It's not so much the oil but the lies, like our own government thinks we American's are idiots who will believe anything...and in many cases we proved them right!