Commentary From World News Trust Partners
-
Conversation as Commons | John Michael Greer
May 5, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- A little while back I fielded yet another attempt to bully me into censoring my comments pages. It was the same schtick as always. One of my commenters had expressed a ...
Read more... -
The Flight From Thinking | John Michael Greer
Silvanasono, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsApril 21, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- For more than a year now I’ve been devoting a post or two each month to the magical history of the United States, ...
Read more... -
BOOKS: The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: Preliminaries | John Michael Greer
April 14, 2021 (EciSophia.net) -- Last month we wrapped up three years of monthly discussions of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, arguably the 20th century’s most important work of occult ...
Read more... -
Rice and Beans in the Outer Darkness | John Michael Greer
Red Beans and Rice at Angeline's Louisiana Kitchen - Berkeley, Calif.. Photo Credit: Arnold Gatilao from Fremont, Calif., USA, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons March 31, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- ...
Read more... -
A Sense of Déjà Vu | John Michael Greer
April 7, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Déjà vu -- the sudden insistent feeling that you’ve encountered the present moment before -- can be one of the oddest of human experiences. Sometimes, though, it ...
Read more... -
A Useful Kind of Madness | John Michael Greer
March 17, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- Like the last two installments in this blog’s discussion of the magical history of America -- which you can read here and here -- this post will discuss one of the ...
Read more... -
A Gathering of Long Lost Friends | John Michael Greer
Feb. 17, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Regular readers will be aware that many of last year’s posts on this blog were devoted to what we might call the history of American magic, or perhaps the magical ...
Read more... -
The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Feb. 11, 2021 Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is ...
Read more... -
The Last Years of Progress | John Michael Greer
Feb. 3, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- No, I’m not going to put much time here into discussing the last few weeks of political gyrations in the United States. I grant that it was highly entertaining to watch ...
Read more... -
The ‘Insurrection’ and Its Discontents: ‘American Exceptionalism’ Revisited | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- Politics Today Jan. 19, 2021 History is being written in the United States today. Even the most pessimistic about the prospects of American democracy have rarely ...
Read more... -
The Grand Mutation: An Astrological Interlude | John Michael Greer
Dec. 23, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last year, and especially over the last month, I’ve fielded a flurry of questions about the astrological meaning of the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn ...
Read more...
Page 7 of 129