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Deep State 101: A Primer and Prescription
Deep State 101: A Primer and Prescription Every nation worth its salt has a deep state, a loose network of rich and powerful players who ratify, veto or formulate state social, economic and military policies. Whether monarchy, dictatorship, or constitutional republic, no government worthy of the name lacks for a shadowy unelected elite with hands […]
Climate Change 10-Year Check-Up
Climate Change 10-Year Check-Up Ten years ago Kevin J. Surace delivered a fascinating TED talk entitled “Worst Case Climate Change.” Based upon credits at the end of his speech, data for his talk came from the following sources: – Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear – Tipping Points in Climate Change (Beacon […]
The Interminable Advance of World War 3
The Interminable Advance of World War 3 The current war-shrieking is irrevocably lashed to the over-extendedness of the West’s aggregate balance sheet. Somewhere in the basement of the NY Fed the Mother of All Spreadsheet’s (MOAS) burgeoning cells are starting to acquaint, of necessity, with scientific notation. A key leverage point has been reached if […]
The National Forests Should be Off Limits to Logging
The National Forests Should be Off Limits to Logging Photograph Jeff Gunn | CC BY 2.0 Logging, conducted ostensibly to “thin the forest,” “reduce fuels” or for so-called “restoration,” causes a net loss of carbon from forest ecosystems. One of the best strategies for reducing CO2 levels is by protecting our forests. Yet few environmental […]
Russian Sea Monsters: Rudderless Reactors on the High Seas
Russian Sea Monsters: Rudderless Reactors on the High Seas Did you hear the one about the Exxon Valdez, Fuku-Chernobyl, Gulf Oil Titanic? Yeah: Russia floated two nuclear reactors on a bargeto power oil rigs in the Arctic Ocean and nothing went wrong! Unsatisfied with trouncing Japan at the Winter Olympics, 14 gold medals to four, […]
Nestlé’s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint
Nestlé’s Profits Trump Clean Water in Flint Screw the people of Flint, or so goes the mantra of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), which last month approved a controversial permit that will allow Nestlé to pump and bottle 400 gallons of fresh water per minute from the state’s White Pine Springs, near the […]
Nature’s Breaking Point
Nature’s Breaking Point Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann | CC BY 2.0 Ever wonder how the classical philosophers/economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo would view today’s credo of infinite economic growth, forever more, above and beyond yesteryear. Well, in a word, they would be horrified. Ricardo, similar to the father of capitalism Adam Smith, believed […]
Where It All Began: The Dawn of “Fake News”
Where It All Began: The Dawn of “Fake News” It has long been suggested that the first full-blown example of “fake news”—where patently false information is intentionally presented in a phony but utterly believable “news media” format in order to sway public opinion—occurred during the watershed 1934 California gubernatorial election. The two principals were Republican […]
Bronze Age Redux: On Debt, Clean Slates and What the Ancients Have to Teach U
Bronze Age Redux: On Debt, Clean Slates and What the Ancients Have to Teach U Photo by Zak Greant | CC BY 2.0 One of the most compelling sequences in the Oscar-winning Inside Job, Charles Ferguson’s indictment of Wall Street’s role in the 2008 global financial meltdown, involved not the banker culprits but their supporting […]
Societal Death or Transfiguration? Cinema Visions of Humanity Facing Extinction
Societal Death or Transfiguration? Cinema Visions of Humanity Facing Extinction Still from “Downsizing.” How should world society respond to the approach of human extinction compelled by implacable external forces, such as: radioactive fallout after a global nuclear war (as in Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach), or an alien invasion by a species of technologically […]
De-escalation With North Korea, Escalation With Iran
De-escalation With North Korea, Escalation With Iran Photo by DAVID HOLT | CC BY 2.0 As a journalist, I have always dreaded reporting on meetings between world leaders billed as “historic” or “momentous” or just plain “significant”. Such pretensions are usually phoney or, even if something of interest really does happen, its importance is exaggerated […]
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, so we may stop calling it the “second […]
Donald Trump and the Next Crash: Making the Fed an Instrument for Disaster
Donald Trump and the Next Crash: Making the Fed an Instrument for Disaster Photo by futureatlas.com | CC BY 2.0 Warning: What you are about to read is not about Russia, the 2016 election, or the latest person to depart from the White House in a storm of tweets. It’s the Beltway story hiding in […]
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History
Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, so we may stop calling it the “second […]
The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy Theorists
The League of Assad-Loving Conspiracy Theorists So the global capitalist ruling classes’ War on Dissent is now in full swing. With their new and improved official narrative, “Democracy versus the Putin-Nazis,” successfully implanted in the public consciousness, the corporatocracy have been focusing their efforts on delegitimizing any and all forms of deviation from their utterly […]
