Why rednecks may rule the world (Joe Bageant)

(BBC) -- During this U.S. election cycle we are hearing a lot from the pundits and candidates about "heartland voters," and "white working class voters."

Jean C. Duley... Tell Us Again... (Larisa Alexandrovna)

Okay, well the more research I do into the now infamous Ms. Jean C. Duley - the "therapist" who filed a restraining order against the alleged anthrax attacks suspect Bruce E. Ivins - the more her sto ...

Economic Free Fall? (William Greider)

Aug. 3, 2008 (The Nation) -- Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. In this case, the people are Wall Street's titans, who are scared witless at the p ...

Reviving the Household Economy (John Michael Greer)

Part One: The World Outside the Market (Archdruid Report) -- As the current pullback in oil prices continues -- one of the benchmark grades dropped to a little over $120 a barrel yesterday, though it ...

Post-Peak Politics (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- The recent downward lurch in the price of oil, among its other effects, has provided a good look at the downward arc of a cycle of public discourse about energy that will likely ...

The Mother of All Messes (Paul Craig Roberts)

The Greatest Threat America Has Ever Faced: the GOP?

Airport Gestapo (Paul Craig Roberts)

The Bush Regime’s “terrorist” protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defend ...

The Triumph of History (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- Nearly two decades have passed now since Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The chorus of catcalls that greeted this claim was by no means undeserved. Still, his the ...

Saving Science (John Michael Greer)

June 11 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week may just find its place in the history books as the point in time when peak oil became a social fact. Combine a drastic spike in oil prices -- up US$16 in two ...

Religion And The Survival Of Culture (John Michael Greer)

(Archdruid Report) -- Among the more interesting things I've had occasion to notice, during the time The Archdruid Report has been online, is a common assumption shared by the two popular viewpoints ...

Why Decline Matters (John Michael Greer)

May 28 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the most curious blind spots in the contemporary imagination, as I have suggested more than once in these essays, can be traced in the way that the concept of decl ...