“Opponents of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline have focused largely on its disproportionate role in global warming. President Obama gave a nod to this concern last June, when he said he would deny approval for Keystone if research indicated that its completion would ‘significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.’ “

Join in an intimate dialogue with Michael T. Klare, author of the new Nation article, ‘”Petro-Machismo: How the US Energy Boom Is Harming Foreign Policy.” Michael will share his thoughts on how rising energy production close to home is prompting a dangerous escalation of dangerous moves abroad.

Michael Klare is a former IPS Fellow, and is currently a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College, a defense correspondent of The Nation magazine, and author of The Race for What’s Left, Resource Wars, and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency.