America Versus the Deep State | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 9, 2017 The bamboozlement of the public is nearly complete. The Deep State has persuaded 80 percent of Americans that all news is p ...

How Not To Write Like An Archdruid | John Michael Greer

From apastyle.org Jan. 4, 2017 (Archdruid Report) -- Among the occasional amusements I get from writing these weekly essays are earnest comments from people who want to correct my writing style. I fi ...

Forecast 2017: The Wheels Finally Come Off | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 1, 2017 “There is no other endeavor in which men and women of enormous intellectual power have shown total disregard for higher-order reasoning than mon ...

A Leap in the Dark | John Michael Greer

Hobart Vosburg Roberts , A Leap in the Dark, c 1920. - Hobart Vosburgh Roberts (1874-1959) was one of the nation’s most recognized amateur wildlife photographers in the first decades of the 20th cent ...

Exit, Hope and Change | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 26, 2016 Yes, that was a gag. By now, anyone in this country still of sound mind knows that Barack Obama presided through eight years of remarkable cont ...

The Deep State Blues | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 19, 2016 Lest you wonder, not only did I not vote for Mr. Trump (or Hillary), but I relished heaping opprobrium on him during the e ...

Trumpxuberance… Until It’s Not | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 11, 2016 "Markets shrugged off the Brexit vote in a couple of days. They shrugged off Donald Trump’s election in a single day. They shrugged off the Ita ...

The Fifth Side of the Triangle | John Michael Greer

Dec. 7, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the things I’ve had occasion to notice, over the course of the decade or so I’ve put into writing these online essays, is the extent to which repeating patte ...

The Deepening Deep State | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard KunstlerJames Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Dec. 5, 2016 One amusing angle on the news media broadside about Russia “hacking” the U.S. election is the failure to mention -- or even ...

The End of the American Century | John Michael Greer

Nov. 30, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I have a bone to pick with the Washington Post. A few days back, as some of my readers may be aware, it published a list of some 200 blogs that it claimed were cir ...

The Free Trade Fallacy | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerNov. 23, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- As longtime readers of this blog know, it’s not uncommon for the essays I post here to go veering off on an assortment of tangents, and this week ...