Collapse or Survive: The stark choice facing our species (Johann Hari)

We all know what has to happen. But are we too primitive and irrational to do it? Sept. 23, 2009 -- (The Independent) -- We are -- at the same time -- thrillingly close and sickeningly far from solvi ...

Why I Love Al-Jazeera (Robert D. Kaplan)

The Arab TV channel is visually stunning, exudes hustle, and covers the globe like no one else. Just beware of its insidious despotism. From The Atlantic Has anyone watched the English-language versi ...

Globalization Goes Bankrupt (Chris Hedges)

Free speech zone?: The David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, where the G-20 global economic summit will be held Sept. 24 and Sept. 25, as seen from the parking lot, which is being leased ...

Man Vs. God (Richard Dawkins and Karen Armstrong)

From the Wall Street Journal We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God?" Neither knew what the other would say. Here ...

Daydreams of Destruction (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer Sept. 16, 2009 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week's post on The Archdruid Report got rather more than the usual number of responses. Most of the comment – no surprises there – focused ...

A Terrible Ambivalence (John Michael Greer)

Sept. 9, 2009 (Archdruid Report) -- I’d meant to spend this week’s report talking about scarcity industrialism, the kind of economy that will be defined for us in the near future by the conjunction o ...

Sick and Wrong (Matt Taibbi)

How Washington is screwing up health care reform – and why it may take a revolt to fix it Sept 3, 2009 (Rolling Stone) -- Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest h ...

Cheney’s Tortured Logic (Jonathan Alter)

Sept. 4, 2009 (Newsweek) -- Dick Cheney is in retirement, a cable nuisance but not a political threat to President Obama -- unless there's another terrorist attack. In that case, Cheney will no doubt ...

What is the CIA Still Hiding about Interrogations? (Nat Hentoff)

Sept. 4, 2009 (Billings Gazette) -- A fierce debate will long continue to swirl around former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's long-delayed 2004 report (sprung by an American Civil Liberties Un ...

Prediction of the United States collapse in 2010 (Wikipedia)

(Wikipedia) -- In the summer of 1998, based on classified data about the state of the U.S. economy and society supplied to him by fellow analysts at FAPSI, Russian professor and political scientist I ...

TOON: The Citizens Began To Turn Into Monsters (This Modern World)

http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/09/01/tomo/index.html