"Powerful! Provocative! A must see!"
- Ed Begley, Jr. | Actor & Environmental Activist
"The film of Michael T. Klare,
Blood and Oil, provides an
invaluable visual and oral historical overview of how intertwined
the U.S. foreign policy agenda and private U.S. interest in
controlling foreign sources of oil have been since World War II.
This film should be available in every school film library from
high school to university. I strongly recommend it."
- F. William Engdahl | Author,
A Century of War: Anglo-American
Oil Politics and the New World Order
"Michael Klare looks into the future with sharper eyes than almost
anyone else around. Pay attention!"
- Bill McKibben | Author,
The End of Nature
"Michael Klare's analysis of the role of oil in U.S. foreign policy
since 1945 is indispensable to an understanding of the critical
problems we face. I hope that this lucid and historically accurate
film is widely seen."
- Chalmers Johnson | Author,
The Blowback Trilogy
"
Blood and Oil is a compelling, credible and
thought-provoking history lesson for all Americans. A must-see for
current and older generations who served America's militaristic
pursuit of oil, and for their children who will soon be required to
conduct a serious intervention at home to heal this nation's blood
for oil compulsion."
- Karen Kwiatowski | Retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel
"
Blood and Oil is an indispensable primer on the role of oil
in driving US military policy. Every peace activist, every
environmental activist, and every concerned citizen should see this
film for the perspective it provides on how to free the U.S. and
the world of our addiction to oil."
- William Hartung | New America Foundation
"A thought-provoking contemporary history lesson, this is highly
recommended."
-
Video Librarian
"... An absolutely necessary -- and totally riveting -- documentary
that every American must see to fully understand the events
unfolding around us in today's world."
- Thom Hartmann | Host of
The Thom Hartmann Program on Air
America Radio
"
Blood and Oil zeroes in on the most fundamental issue of
our time - the intersection between oil and war. With a surgeon's
precision, Michael Klare exposes our recurring pathology:
Overconsumption of oil leads to imperial interventions and support
of dictators, making us the target of terrorist attacks, which in
turn lead to more interventions. A must see for the general public
who has been duped into believing that we make war to liberate the
natives rather than to liberate "our resources" from their
lands."
- Medea Benjamin | Cofounder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women
for Peace
"Michael T. Klare's
Blood and Oil is a thoughtful and
important look at the history of U.S. dependency on petroleum. It
is an important contribution to understanding how our nation got
itself into the dire and completely avoidable addiction to a
substance that threatens both our global economy and our planetary
survival."
- Harvey Wasserman | Author,
SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered
Earth
"...a very, very well made film"
- AfterDowningStreet.org
"Digging into the archives of military history, Klare discerns a
clear pattern: Presidential commitment to oil addiction entails
mounting costs and loss of life."
- Deron Lovaas | Co-Director of the NRDC's Move America Beyond Oil
project
"Like cherished notions of American 'innocence' (which is strangely
capable of being lost repeatedly) or horror at any suggestion of
Washington's imperial reach, the notion that the United States
strives to keep control of the world's oil supplies seems so
untenable to American public opinion that pointing this out in a
film boldly entitled
Blood and Oil seems outrageously
challenging. When Klare's producers unearth a series of clips of
American presidents and high functionaries saying the unsayable,
their juxtaposition seems to amount to an uncommon revelation."
- Maurice Walsh | Global Media and Communication
"
Blood and Oil makes it plain and simple --
it's the oil,
stupid. Michael Klare provides a chilling and compelling
argument that oil is and has been at the foundation of many dire
conflicts around the world. The film dramatizes this fact with
gripping historic footage of the confluence of oil and
militarism."
- Andy Shallal | Owner, Busboys & Poets
"Laying his case out rather like a seasoned prosecutor, Michael T.
Klare incontrovertibly and beyond a doubt demonstrates in this film
that, as writer Jim Holt put it, '
It's the oil, stupid!' Not
that the film doesn't open with Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity
separately ridiculing the very idea. But in this documentary
structured as a kind of illustrated lecture, Klare, Five College
Professor at Hampshire College, convincingly shows that, more than
any other factor, it's the insatiable appetite for oil that has
driven American foreign policy since the end of World War II -- not
only in the Middle East but elsewhere in the world as well. The
evidence overwhelms. Highly recommended."
- Rebecca Adler |
Educational Media Reviews Online
Press Reviews
'BLOOD AND OIL' CHRONICLES AMERICA'S PETROLEUM THIRST
The Ithaca Journal | Beth Saulnier | September 25, 2008
BLOOD AND OIL
Maree Boyce |
M/C Reviews | January 16, 2009
