Thinking in Straight Lines (Dimitry Orlov)

July 17, 2010 (ClubOrlov) -- Let’s face it, we, the civilized, educated, enlightened part of humanity like things to be straight. Let primitive tribesmen live in picturesque and practical round huts ...

Calling All Future-Eaters (Chris Hedges)

July 19, 2010 -- The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with ...

TOON: The Sacred Bull In The Room (Auth)

Pimco’s Crescenzi Sees ‘Endpoint’ in Devaluations (Wes Goodman and Garfield Reynolds)

Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO Bill Gross speaks during a conference. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Nations have reached a “Keynesian endpoint” as exhausted balance sh ...

This Country Needs a Few Good Communists (Chris Hedges)

AP / Elizabeth Dalzie May 31, 2010 (TruthDig) -- The witch hunts against communists in the United States were used to silence socialists, anarchists, pacifists and all those who defied the abuses of ...

The World After Abundance (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer May 26, 2010 (Archdruid Report) -- It has been nearly four decades now since the limits to industrial civilization’s trajectory of limitless material growth on a limited planet hav ...

Warning: Crash dead ahead. Sell. Get liquid. Now. (Paul B. Farrell)

Commentary: 'Game's in the refrigerator.' Power's turning off. Dow sinking below 6,470 May 25, 2010 -- ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "This game's in the refrigerator! The door's closed, the ...

The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News (Chris Hedges)

AP / Elaine Thompson Feb. 1, 2010 (Truthdig) -- Reporters who witness the worst of human suffering and return to newsrooms angry see their compassion washed out or severely muted by the layers of edi ...

Is this the meaning of life? (John Stewart)

John Stewart argues that despite the perception that science has stripped the meaning from life, recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that humans have a central role to play in the futu ...

Zero Point of Systemic Collapse (Chris Hedges)

Feb. 8, 2010 (Adbusters) -- Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job to save a dying system ...

Wall Street's Bailout Hustle (Matt Taibbi)

Illustration by Victor Juhasz Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash Feb. 17, ...