The Journey From Anger To Anguish: Responding To Eco-cide (Carolyn Baker)

Messenger My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled san ...

Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)

June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...

Pimco’s Crescenzi Sees ‘Endpoint’ in Devaluations (Wes Goodman and Garfield Reynolds)

Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO Bill Gross speaks during a conference. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Nations have reached a “Keynesian endpoint” as exhausted balance sh ...

Warning: Crash dead ahead. Sell. Get liquid. Now. (Paul B. Farrell)

Commentary: 'Game's in the refrigerator.' Power's turning off. Dow sinking below 6,470 May 25, 2010 -- ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "This game's in the refrigerator! The door's closed, the ...

After Haiti: A Conversation with John Perkins | Elizabeth Ferrari

Elizabeth Ferrari -- World News Trust Mar. 26, 2010 When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, the first person I wanted to hear from was John Perkins. Several years before Naomi Klein coined the ...

Editor & Publisher, Kirkus Reviews to be shut | Geraldine Baum

Nielsen Business Media will stop publishing the trade magazines. One covers the newspaper industry; the other reviews books. Dec. 11, 2009 (Los Angeles Times) -- The ever-shrinking world of print jou ...

The Devil and Mr. Obama | Joe Bageant

Barack promised change -- and sure enough, things changed for the worse (Note: Patrick Ward, associate editor of the UK's Socialist Review asked Joe to write a piece for the party publication. This i ...

Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food | Robert Roy Britt

Nov. 26, 2009 (LiveScience.com) -- U.S. residents are wasting food like never before. While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot ...

Eliot Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke 'Complicit' in Financial Crisis and Should Go | Amy Goodman

Dec. 4, 2009 (Democracy Now) -- In an extended interview, we speak with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer about the financial crisis and how it was handled by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernan ...

YouTube Launches Channel For Citizen Journalists | Paul Bond

TV, online outlets can request, obtain video via new initiative Nov 17, 2009 (Hollywood Reporter) -- Celebrities beware: YouTube is making it even easier for anyone with a camera phone to turn your b ...

Goldman/AIG Conspiracy Theories: There’s a Reason They Won’t Go Away (Thomas Adams)

Note: this post is by Thomas Adams, at Paykin Krieg and Adams, LLP, and a former managing director at Ambac and FGIC, with some minor additions by yours truly. This is a significant piece of some puz ...