The Empire Eats Its Own | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust May 10, 2014 Just watched Alexander Payne’s new film Nebraska, written by Bob Nelson and starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte. I don’t really know what the write ...

Captain Erikson's Equation | John Michael Greer

Captain Gustaf EriksonMarch 26, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- I have yet to hear anyone in the peak oil blogosphere mention the name of Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Åland Islands and his fleet of windj ...

Growing Up In America | Paul Craig Roberts

Aug. 19, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Terrible things are happening faster than we can keep up with them. Monsanto, widely regarded as a criminal enterprise, is expanding its monopoly over seeds an ...

African Safari Trip of a Lifetime | Joel S. Hirschhorn

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust May 22, 2013 The most amazing thing I learned on my first safari trip in South Africa is that elephants have the most incredible, very long black eyelashes. Sec ...

Nature’s Capital Is The Limiting Resource | Paul Craig Roberts

Life will perish as the environment perishes Jan. 24, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Only in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat. In Robert A. Heinlein’s Ti ...

They Paved Paradise (Honk If You’re An Environmentalist?) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 18, 2013 “In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic i ...

Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson

A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the patience of city and state officials concerned that utilities are moving too slowly to repair the ...

New York City floods as Sandy slams into eastern U.S. | Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman

The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it come ...

Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey | Esme E. Deprez and Brian K. Sullivan

Oct. 29, 2012 -- NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy strengthened on its path toward New Jersey, where it is predicted to make landfall today while bringing a life-threatening storm surge as it w ...

It Sucks to be You! | David Glenn Cox

SS William G. Mather David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 17, 2012 It has been a strange weekend; fabulous, interesting, maudlin, magnificent and informative. Sometimes, even though you already ...

The Eye of Sauron: Something New Under the Sun | Fred Reed

Aug. 8, 2012 (Fred On Everything) -- The pieces come together. Within the last week I have read: 1) New software, associated with Google, will recognize customers in stores so as to offer them discou ...