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

The Myth of the Black Swan (Hale "Bonddad" Stewart)

Aug. 27, 2009 (Huffington Post) -- The most common argument made against people who see a recovery emerging is that we are in the middle of uncharted waters where the traditional rules of economic an ...

Entropy Gets No Respect (John Michael Greer)

Archdruid John Michael Greer Aug. 26, 2009 (Archdruid Report) -- The relation between modern industrial society and the scientific ideas that supposedly guide it is more complex than a casual glance ...

This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery (Chris Hedges)

Chris Hedges Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87% Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428% Chances that ...

Quenching a Thirst for Learning (Katherine Jamieson)

Aug. 23, 2009 (New York Times) -- I’m an adjunct professor, one of hundreds of thousands in an overeducated, unmoored, disposable work force staffing a majority of the nation’s colleges and universit ...

Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse? (Paul Kinsnorth & George Monbiot)

Aug. 17, 2009 (Guardian) -- The collapse of civilisation will bring us a saner world, says Paul Kingsnorth. No, counters George Monbiot -- we can't let billions perish. Dear George On the desk in fro ...