The Real “Takers” in America: The Unproductive, Rent-Extracting Rich | Michael Lind

Dec. 29, 2016 (Evonomics) -- You don’t have to be a Tea Party conservative to believe that the economy is threatened when there are too many “takers” and not enough “makers.” The “takers” who threate ...

Dystopian Donald: Will Trump Make 1984 Look Like a Nursery Tale? | Tom Engelhardt

It might just be impossible to overstate how much damage this administration can do. (Photo detail: Jim Bourg/Reuters, Paneikon) Dec. 22, 2016 (Tom Dispatch) -- Can you doubt that we’re in a dystopia ...

A Season of Consequences | John Michael Greer

Santa Claus 3D. By wim hoppenbrouwers. Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Dec. 21, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the many advantages of being a Druid is that you get to open your holiday presents four days ...

Why the Peak Oil Movement Failed | John Michael Greer

The “Peak Oil” dinosaur. From aleklett.wordpress.com Dec. 14, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- As I glance back across the trajectory of this blog over the last 10 and a half years, one change stands out. ...

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 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 ...

When The Shouting Stops | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerNov. 16, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I've been trying for some time now to understand the reaction of Hillary Clinton’s supporters to her defeat in last week’s election. At first, I ...

Trump’s $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan: Lincoln Had a Bolder Solution | Ellen Brown

Painting by Andy Warhol Web of Debt Blog Nov. 14, 2016 Donald Trump was an outsider who boldly stormed the citadel of Washington DC and won. He has promised real change, but his infrastructure plan a ...

The Working Class Won The Election | Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig RobertsNov. 9, 2016 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- The U.S. presidential election is historic because the American people were able to defeat the oligarchs. Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Ol ...

Reflections on a Democracy in Crisis | John Michael Greer

Donald Trump at the New Hampshire Town Hall at Pinkerton Academy, Aug. 19t 2015. By Michael Vadon. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Nov. 9, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- Well, it’s finally over, and I think it’s fa ...