Peak Oil
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 happens for perfectly prosaic reasons. Right now, as I look at headlines and certain other indicators, I’m having a very strong case of déjà vu for reasons that require only the simplest explanation. Some ...
Joe Bageant at Innie's Cafe in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2010 -- Ferrara, Italy -- Sitting in a bottliberia, one of those wine bars that brings out food to match your particular ...
July 29, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s open post, I noted that I didn’t have anything in particular planned for this fifth Wednesday of the month, and asked my readers what they wanted to he ...
Photo: Medium We Need Three Decades of Revolutions. But Are We Capable of It? July 25, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- Any thoughtful person should understand that, at this juncture in human history, civil ...
Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an Anglo ...
Aug. 7, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, it’s about to happen all over again. I’ve been wondering how soon a certain marriage of convenience in contemporary cultural politics would come messily apart, a ...
Giant laser walrus. Source: worldwidewalrusweb.comJuly 17, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to launch straight into a discussion of peak oil this week, and talk about how the ongoing attempt to extr ...
Horsefly. Credit: Dave Edens, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 4, 2018 You can see where this Mueller thing is going: to the moment when the Golden Golem of Great ...
James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust April 30, 2018 I had a fellow on my latest podcast, released Sunday, who insists the world population will crash 90-plus percent from th ...
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 9, 2018 That crusty ole rascal, Gov. Jerry Brown of California, seems to be enjoying his sunset journey into Civil War II or maybe the destination is m ...
James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 5, 2018 It must be hard on The New York Times editors to set their hair on fire day after day in their effort to start World War T ...