Imperial Pipe Dreams (DCC44)

Devil's Chess Club is an American Exception production. This episode of Devil's Chess Club premieres here exclusively thanks to Four Died Trying!

We discuss pipeline geopolitics and US imperialism with attorney and historian Charlotte Dennett. Charlotte is the author of:

• Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil (See: American Exception 110)

• "Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil"
  

• "War in Ukraine Could Be the Mother of All Energy Wars: But the Media Still Misses the Context"

Charlotte Dennett is also the co-author (with Gerard Colby) of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil (See: American Exception 107)

Image: A US soldier walks towards a burning oil well in Iraq's vast Rumaila oil fields in March of 2003. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music