The Great Game in the Holy Land

(Before It's News)

By Michael Schwartz, TomDispatch

Almost all the current wars, uprisings, and other conflicts in the Middle East are connected by an increasingly frenzied competition to find, extract, and market fossil fuels whose future consumption is guaranteed to lead to a set of cataclysmic environmental crises.

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