The Peak Oil Crisis: The Portland Report (Tom Whipple)

Last week Portland, Oregon became the first governmental body in the United States to not only acknowledge that imminent peak oil is a reality, but also to publish a plan as to what the city should b ...

The Amphetamine of the Intellectuals (John Michael Greer)

One of the most inescapable dimensions of the crisis of industrial society is the hard fact that six and a half billion people now live on a planet that can support, at most, two billion sustainably. ...

Stocks to Weather Subprime Crisis, Credit Suisse Says (Alexis Xydias)

Stocks worldwide will weather a surge in U.S. subprime loan defaults because earnings growth and a robust labor market are enough to sustain the world's largest economy, according to Credit Suisse Gr ...

World Liquidity Crisis Emerging (Chris Laird)

In my judgment, we are possibly right at the cusp of a stock decline of the magnitude of the 1929 stock crash sometime this year.

Should President Bush Be Impeached? (Chuck Baldwin)

Congress should immediately commission an independent counsel to investigate whether President Bush and Vice President Cheney did indeed manipulate evidence and deliberately lie to the American peopl ...

30-day Countdown to War (Bob Moriarty)

We are almost certainly in the last days of a countdown to nuclear war.

‘Corporate Hippies’ Seek Their Bliss in a New Environmental Economy (Felicity Barringer)

“I would call myself a corporate hippie,” she said. “I’m in the business of definitely caring for and supporting environmental growth and change for the better, but I also believe in the growth of bu ...

Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning (John Michael Greer)

The Great Turning is anything but naive, and though it uses the rhetoric of Utopian fantasy it does so in pursuit of a far more pragmatic agenda.

False reporting of peak oil (Byron King)

As is the case with much of what gets published in The New York Times, some of the information in the article is true. Yet, in a not-so-subtle manner, the Times article appears to diminish the credib ...

The Failure of Reason (John Michael Greer)

Attempts to change the course of industrial civilization without changing the narratives and symbols that guide it on its way are doomed to failure. Behind this specific technical problem lies a much ...

Americans Have Lost Their Country (Paul Craig Roberts)

In a few short years, the Bush-Cheney regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions and the remains of America's moral reputation, along with the infrastru ...