Betting on the Rust Belt (John Michael Greer)

Aug. 19, 2009 (Archdruid Report) -- I owe, I think, an apology as well as a few words of explanation to the regular readers of this blog. The weeks I’ve taken off from posting here this summer have n ...

War (Sergei Tunin)

Sergei Tunin, Russian Newsweek, Russia

You Say Tomato, I Say Agricultural Disaster (Dan Barber)

Karen Barbour Aug. 9, 2009 -- TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (New York Times) -- If the hardship of growing vegetables and fruits in the Northeast has made anything clear, it’s that the list of what can go wrong in ...

The Cheney-Like Secrecy of the Obama White House (John Nichols)

Aug. 9, 2009 (The Nation) -- Those of us who proposed the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney for violating his oath of office and engaging in a Nixon-on-steroids spree of high crimes and misde ...

America the Great... Police State (Gore Vidal)

July 28, 2009 (TruthDig) -- For those of us who had hoped that the Obama administration would present us with a rebirth of the old republic that was so rudely erased a few years ago by that team of j ...

Tenacious G (Joe Hagan)

Inside Goldman Sachs, America’s most successful, cynical, envied, despised, and (in its view, anyway) misunderstood engine of capitalism. Illustrations by Darrow (Goldman Sachs figure), Gluekit (smal ...

Surviving the 'End of Civilization' (Paul B. Farrell)

Paul B. Farrell -- MarketWatch July 28, 2009 -- In his 2008 bestseller, "Wealth, War and Wisdom," hedge fund manager Barton Biggs warns that investors must "assume the possibility of a breakdown of t ...

The economics of decline (John Michael Greer)

Many people nowadays fail to grasp some of the most basic realities facing us as the industrial age comes to an end.

Prosecuting Torture Or Growing Gardens? (Carolyn Baker)

April 27, 2009 (CarolynBaker.net) -- As most readers of my writings know, I don't concern myself with what the two ambiguously separate wings of America's one political party are up to. I have more i ...

Galloping With Blinkers On (John Michael Greer)

March 25, 2009 (Archdruid Report) -- Making sense of history as it happens is a bit like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle without any idea of the picture the puzzle will show. A blue piece with ...

How the Crash Will Reshape America (Richard Florida)

The crash of 2008 continues to reverberate loudly nationwide—destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others ...