Systems That Suck Less | John Michael Greer

Dec. 27, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on political economy attracted plenty of disagreement. Now, of course, this came as no surprise, and it was also not exactly surprising that most of ...

Must be the Season of the RICH | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Dec. 25, 2017 Many thanks to singer/songwriter Donovan's Season of the Witch for inspiration. As New Year 2018 is before us, we are truly in ...

Christmas Story | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 25, 2017 These are the long, dark hours when cis-hetero white patriarchs sit by the hearth chewing over their regrets for the fadin ...

An Introduction to Political Economy | John Michael Greer

Adam Smith. By Unknown. Public Domain.Dec. 20, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last month, when I looked across the vast gray wasteland of the calendar page ahead and noted that there were five Wednesdays in ...

Amerika's Jacob's Ladder | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2017 In Adrian Lyne's 1990 drama, Jacob's Ladder, Tim Robbins plays a haunted Vietnam War vet mourning his dead son, while sufferin ...

The Darkest Hours | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 18, 2017 The Tax “Reform” bill working its way painfully out the digestive system of congress like a sigmoid fistula, ought be re-named the U.S. Asset-s ...

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 ...

The Silence of the (Empire's) Lambs | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Dec. 5, 2017 In Jonathan Demme's superb 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, homicidal manic Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) asks FBI agent ...

Hey Landlord... Take a Hike! | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Nov. 28, 2017 In 2016, the last time accurate statistics were given, there were over 43 million housing units occupied by renters, up from 3 ...

Empire of Cards | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Nov. 15, 2017 Just finished viewing the final season's episodes of Netflix's House of Cards, based on the British miniseries of the same nam ...

People are Crazy & Times Are Strange | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Nov. 8, 2017 The title's lyrics are from one of Bob Dylan's greatest songs of social commentary, "Things Have Changed." To this writer, the ...