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Going Apeshit (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 17, 2011 -- It was amusing to see President Obama try to align himself with the OWS movement. The genial Millard Fillmore update asked them not to "demonize those who work on Wall Street." Of course, demonization proceeds from the failure of this president and his appointed agents in authority to subject those who work on Wall Street to th...

Why The Whole Idea Of The U.S Achieving 'Energy Independence' Is A Sham That Enriches Big Oil And Coal (Joshua Frank)

Oct. 13, 2011 (Alternet) -- Whether it is the hucksters pushing for the Keystone XL pipeline to cut across the Heartland, or the coal barons who are ramping up their exploits in Powder River Basin, a ...
Is The War On Terror A Hoax? (Paul Craig Roberts)

Paul Craig Roberts Sept. 30, 2011 (Information Clearing House) --In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, a...
Perestroika (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2011 -- There's a difference, of course, between what this country thinks it needs and what it's going to get. The world has a way of drag...
Demystifying 9/11: Israel and the Tactics Of Mistake (Dr. Alan Sabrosky)

“I am also absolutely certain as a strategic analyst that 9/11 itself, from which all else flows, was a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation. But Mossad did not do it alone.” June 30, 2011 (Veterans...
'Know Your Digital Rights' Guide -- Full Version (EFF)

ByHanni Fakhoury --EFF Staff Attorney June 2011 Know Your Rights Whitepaper(pdf)EFF Police Tips(pdf) Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal inform...
Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)

June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” --Stev...
Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2...
A bridge to somewhere (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer Jun 8, 2011 (The Archdruid Report) --Last week’s discussion of the twilight of the electrical grid in an age after abundance turned out to be timely, in an ironic sort of way. ...
Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy (Michael Hudson)

June 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Soonafter the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In Ma...
The Creeping Nausea of American Exceptionalism (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust June 6, 2011 -- History, that coy dominatrix, loves to trick the credulous human race.In a moment when something we call "democracy" seems to be sp...
Get Real (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 23, 2011 -- Americans gathered around the hearth of CBS's60 Minutesmust have been bemused to hear reporter Scott Pelley announce self-importantly th...
Human Intelligence and the Environment (Noam Chomsky)

May 10, 2011 (International Socialist Review) --I’ll begin with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the grand old ma...
The Song of Spring (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 9, 2011 -- This is a nervous country. I'm not sure that hanging Osama Bin Laden on the White House wall like a coonskin really helps that much. ...
Enabling Acts (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust May 7, 2011 --I’ve been watching a magic trick, just another of many that I’ve witnessed over the years. Funny thing about magic tricks is that even though you d...
Nuclear Calendar -- May 2, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- May 2, 2011 May 2 10:00-11:00 a.m., Rep. Barney Frank (MA), "Creating a Sustainable and Affordable Defense Posture." Center for American Progress Action Fund, 133...
Lying Is The New Normal (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 2, 2011 -- Mark these words: within about three hours, the "Birther" faction around America will be asking for Osama Bin Laden's driver�...
The Banana Peel of Destiny (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Apr. 25, 2011 -- That was a cute move by President Obama last week, calling out the "oil speculators" with a memo to his Attorney General, Eric Hol...
Blowing Green Smoke (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust -- Apr. 4, 2011 "We also have Secretary Steven Chu, my Energy Secretary. Where is Steven? There he is over there." --President Obama at Georgetown ...
Nuclear Calendar -- March 22, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- March 22, 2011 March 18-28 House and Senate recess. (Senate recess is March19-27.) March 19-22 Civilian Soldier Alliance, Friends Committee on National Legislation,...
An Odd Rumination (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Mar. 21, 2011 -- Can't we just drop Pee Wee Herman on Tripoli? Surly this shocking manifestation of everything toxic in America's existential zeit...
Japan’s ‘BP Moment’ Troubles Global Economy (William Pesek)

Mar. 20, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- You never want to kick a nation when it’s down. It’s time, though, to consider the depth of Japan’s coming recession. A week ago, before radiation fears prompted a mass e...
All Out War on Libya: Surge in the Price of Crude Oil (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)

"Humanitarian Wars are Good for Business"... Speculators Applaud... This is Part III of a three-part article. PART I Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attemp...
Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)

Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Re...
Reality Optional Nation (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Mar. 7, 2011 -- Before retiring to a casket packed with clods of my native soil, I tuned in the Sunday night late news to find the political struggles of Ara...