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The Palestine Congress
The Palestine Congress Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again! Yes, that’s right, once again, democracy-loving people here in New Normal Berlin and all across the New Normal world were right on the brink […]
U.S. Funds Ukraine Groups Censoring Critics, Smearing Pro-Peace Voices
U.S. Funds Ukraine Groups Censoring Critics, Smearing Pro-Peace Voices American taxpayers are footing the bill for Ukrainian NGOs focused on smearing proponents of a diplomatic solution as “Russian disinformation” agents. Ukraine’s American-backed fight against Russia is taking place not only in the blood-soaked trenches of the Donbas region but also on what military planners call […]
Inflation is Causing Tectonic Shifts
Inflation is Causing Tectonic Shifts Even if stock investors are acting as if nothing happened along the road they are walking, they will soon wish they had not missed the obvious. Photo by Roberta Piana on Unsplash Yesterday when stocks crashed hard, I wrote the following caveat to their epitaph: Whoa! Delusions broken. At least, for today, but give investors […]
Can Our Veggie Gardens Feed us in a Real Crisis?
Can Our Veggie Gardens Feed us in a Real Crisis? Musings from someone who has tried and failed to grow all their own food A haul from the Author’s urban farming operation in Portland, Sept. 15, 2007, set out for CSA members to pick up (Photo C.H.White) This is one of my all-time most popular essays, […]
Biden’s Inflation Narrative Dies as Price Growth Rises to a Seven-Month High
Biden’s Inflation Narrative Dies as Price Growth Rises to a Seven-Month High “…we can expect the administration and the regime in general to continue gaslighting the public and claiming that greedy capitalists cause inflation.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest price inflation data, CPI inflation in March rose to a seven-month high, and price inflation […]
Dodging The Gator – What Can Be Done?
Dodging The Gator – What Can Be Done? Photo by Dušan veverkolog on Unsplash Humanity is in overshoot, and a major correction is already underway, something, which will only accelerate even further. A runaway energy crisis, together with resource depletion, climate change and ecosystems collapse will upend centuries of growth and prosperity. But what does that mean on […]
The Road Worrier
The Road Worrier Final preparations for moving the donkey foals are upon me, which has me sorting out the logistics of getting them safely home. The breeder lives less than a kilometre away, which originally made me wonder if they could be walked over but the open road is just too dangerous. If it was […]
The Peacock Joins The Smear Campaign
The Peacock Joins The Smear Campaign If “misinformation” reporter Brandy Zadrozny is the best hit artist NBC News has left on its roster, it might be time to shutter the network NBC’s Brandy Zadrozny wrote: After over a year, the House committee investigating researchers and their work on disinformation… has yet to produce tangible results. Public hearings […]
The battle for control of our minds – and the invaluable role of independent journalism
The battle for control of our minds – and the invaluable role of independent journalism Journalists like myself were the first to break free of corporate media servitude. Now we face a backlash to disappear us by the very media establishment we threaten The true costs of the West’s corporate media system have been hidden […]
Global News: The Wrap-up Smear & More Nazi Talk.
Global News: The Wrap-up Smear & More Nazi Talk. Yet more propaganda and censorship, domestic and foreign The Wrap-up Smear. Although this Substack is about international news, I want to start with a five-year old old video of Nancy Pelosi describing a tactic used by democrats and the deep state to target and defame conservatives […]
How We Fail: Framing the Problem to be Fixable with an Existing Solution
How We Fail: Framing the Problem to be Fixable with an Existing Solution We say we want solutions, but we actually want a specific subset of solutions: those that already meet with our approval. The possibility that none of these pre-approved solutions will actually resolve the problem is rejected because we are wedded to the […]
Minimisation Is The New Denial – climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero
Minimisation Is The New Denial – climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero The temperature extremes of 2023 and those coming in 2024, tell us we face the possibility of climate catastrophes that cause the collapse of whole societies and threaten the lives of millions, not at some distant point in our children’s futures but within our own lifetimes. […]
Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany’s Nose?
Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany’s Nose? There are indeed plans for a conventional Western intervention in Ukraine despite their leaders’ denials over the past two weeks, but they’ve yet to fully form and their execution can’t be taken for granted, but they also can’t be ruled out […]
The Rise of Huxwell
The Rise of Huxwell Two dystopias are better than one… = HUXWELL Noam Chomsky stopped just one rung shy of perfection with his illuminating book, Manufacturing Consent, about how commercial media work as extensions of government and corporate power to manufacture the consent of the masses. Likewise, Matt Taibbi’s title, Hate, Inc. is a near-perfect indictment of cable and […]
Community, Belonging and the Polycrisis
Community, Belonging and the Polycrisis Image: Ad Parnassum, by Paul Klee Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” — Charles Eisenstein ChatGPT, the A.I. robot, often gets things badly wrong It even makes wildly false statements […]
