Links With Your Coffee - Friday
- Please Never Find A Giant Squid
- Audio: Urban Planning: Online Only: The New Yorker
- From Smut to Adult Diapers: The Young Novelist's Life
- The author and the Austen plot that exposed publishers' pride and prejudice
- Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities by Noam Chomsky
What has been central to planning is control, not access, an important distinction. The United States followed the same policies long before it relied on a drop of Middle East oil, and would continue to do so if it relied on solar energy. Such control gives the United States “veto power” over its industrial rivals, as explained in the early postwar period by influential planners, and reiterated recently with regard to Iraq: a successful conquest of Iraq would give the United States “critical leverage” over its industrial rivals, Europe and Asia, as pointed out by Zbigniew Brzezinski, an important figure in the planning community. Vice President Dick Cheney made the same point, describing control over petroleum supplies as “tools of intimidation and blackmail”—when used by others.
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