Taking Liberty | James Howard Kunstler

From “The Spirit of 61. God, Our Country and Liberty!” by Currier and Ives circa 1861. Library of Congress James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 15, 2017 You can see where this has been goin ...

Abracadabra | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 11, 2017 And so, as they say in the horror movies, it begins…! The unwinding of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Such an esoteric concept! Is there ...

Stranger Things | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 8, 2017 The hidden agenda in the so-called tax reform bill is to act as stop-gap quantitative easing to plug the “liquidity” hole t ...

What Now? | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 4, 2017 “Contact with Russians.” Grown men and women, doubling and re-doubling down on a political fantasy, repeat this prayer hour ...

Whipping-Post Politics | James Howard Kunstler

Garrison KeillorJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 1, 2017 Charlie Rose skulked offstage like a punch-drunk palooka with barely a whimper, and Matt Lauer offered up the now laughably pro ...

Exit Sign | James Howard Kunstler

Bitcoin. Credit: AIR FORCE ONE, Flickr (CC BY 2.0)James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 17, 2017 Shoeshine boys in airports ‘round the world must be whispering about Bitcoin as the crypto-cu ...

The Old Songs | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 24, 2017 What if the fun and games of 2017 are over? The hidden message behind the sexual harassment freak show of recent weeks is ...

What Now? | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 13, 2017 It must be exciting to wake up on a gilded bed somewhere in Riyadh and realize that you are Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bi ...

Theoretical quark fusion found to be more powerful than hydrogen fusion | Bob Yirka

Schematic depiction of quark-level exothermic fusion reactions ΛQΛQ′ → ΞQQ′N, where Q,Q′ ∈ . Credit: (c) Nature (2017). Nov. 6, 2017 (Phys.org) -- A pair of researchers with Tel Aviv University and t ...

Spanking the Monkey | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2017 The hysteria-manufacturing business formerly known as the news media is enjoying multiple orgasms this morning in the outi ...

What Could Go Wrong? | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 6, 2017 Everybody and his uncle, and his uncle’s mother’s uncle, believes that the stock markets will be zooming to new record highs this week, and prob ...