Commentary -- WNT Original

Progress and Amnesia | John Michael Greer

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 extract a limitless supply of highly concentrated fossil fuel energy from a finite planet will run us face-first into the same brick wall we hit in 1972 and 2008, with similar consequences. We’ll get to t ...

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How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed | Ellen Brown

July 10, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another t ...

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The Long View | John Michael Greer

July 3, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- For more than three years now, the themes of these online essays of mine -- here, and in my previous blog The Archdruid Report -- have had a relatively tight focus on ...

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Libra: Facebook’s Audacious Bid for Global Monetary Control | Ellen Brown

June 27, 2019 (EllenBrown.com) -- Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated -- not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the ...

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The Flight To The Fringes, And What Waits There | John Michael Greer

June 19, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Several of my readers alerted me over the last week to an online essay by Christian writer Rod Dreher on the rising popularity of malevolent magic and demonolatry (th ...

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The Path Between the Pillars | John Michael Greer

June 5, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- The issue we’ve been discussing for the last several months -- the conviction on the part of well-to-do Americans, and people of the industrial world’s privileged clas ...

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Delusions of Omnipotence | John Michael Greer

Wizard puppet by Neil Tackaberry, Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)May 29, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- I hope my readers won’t object at this point if our conversation takes an excursion into the outer reaches of Americ ...

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A Conversation with the World | John Michael Greer

May 15, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last three and a half months, I’ve spent most of my writing time on this blog tracing a series of trajectories that all spiral in toward a common center. Each ...

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Present at the Death | John Michael Greer

May 1, 2019 (EcoSophia.net) -- Well, the penny finally dropped. I’m not sure why it took me this long to realize that the collective tantrum that’s seized America’s mass media, intelligentsia, and pr ...

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After The Shouting, The Silence | John Michael Greer

Donna TrumpApril 17, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- Over the months just past, not counting January’s break, we’ve explored the crisis of our age from various angles, moving in from the discordant jangle of out ...

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The Unfinished Gaza War: What Netanyahu Hopes to Gain from Attacking Palestinian Prisoners | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 8, 2019 The current violence targeting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails dates back to Jan. 2. It was then that Israel’s Public Security Mi ...

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