Questioning Growth: "I Want You To Imagine A World"

""Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must." "The only thing that has actually remotely slowed down the relentless rise of carbon emissions over...

'Advanced' Civilization: The Long Party is Over

"Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive." -- Robert Jensen In 2010 we watched, aghast, as British...

Libya: 'Humanitarian' Snow Job

Lately there has been much written about the US/NATO attacks on Libya, with much ‘cheering’ over Obama looking as ‘strong’ as crazy republicans. The one thing that most overlook, or few seem to want to...

Give Obama and the Democrats Some Credit For A Change

In 2010, American voters foolishly aided and abetted the Republicans by giving them control of Congress. We now enter a very dangerous period in the lead up to the 2012 presidential election. If Obama is not...

US Gov. Spending Cuts: What's On The Table?

Under the first U.S. income tax law that was passed in 1913, only 1 percent of Americans were required to file income tax returns, and to be liable to file you would have had to be earning an annual income of about...

Plouffed: The Obama 2012 Re-Election Strategery

Do you ever get the impression that Barack Obama is not only either utterly powerless to produce any positive progressive results, in which case he's not worth voting for, or he's got the power to produce...

The End Of The Beginning?

In the nineteen sixties and seventies the western world was in the throes of a cultural and psychological revolution of awareness that at times threatened to bring down the governments and destroy the societies of...

BP's Well May Leak for 55 Years or More Into the Gulf of Mexico?

On June 15, 2010 the US Department of Energy announced that a group of federal and independent scientists convened by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Chair of the National...