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The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California
The Burning Earth Bears Witness in California Photo by Glenn Beltz | CC by 2.0 Watching the first ten minutes of the “Public” (Petroleum and/or Pentagon?) Broadcasting System (“P”BS)’s NewsHour two nights ago, I was overcome by a sense of the surreal. The first news item was the Insane Clown President’s (ICP) idiotic (if base-pleasing) […]
Beware the Green Corporate Scam: the 100% Renewable Façade
Beware the Green Corporate Scam: the 100% Renewable Façade A few months ago, Google announced that they will achieve their goal of being 100% powered by renewable energy in 2017 [1]. They are not the only corporation with such lofty goals. Google is joined by GM, Apple, Coca Cola, and more than one hundred companies […]
Cold War Number One: 70 Years of Daily National Stupidity; Cold War Number Two: Still in Its Youth, But Just as Stupid
Cold War Number One: 70 Years of Daily National Stupidity; Cold War Number Two: Still in Its Youth, But Just as Stupid Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair “He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did.” – President Trump, re Vladimir Putin after their […]
The Collapse of Media and What You Can Do About It
The Collapse of Media and What You Can Do About It Photo by Poster Boy | CC BY 2.0 When a system enters into the final stage of its deterioration – whether that is an institutional system, a state, an empire, or the human body – all the important information flows that support coherent communication […]
The Neoliberal Survival Game
The Neoliberal Survival Game Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair One of the ways the media has shaped the public’s attitude concerning the distribution of wealth and power in our society, has been by the dissemination of a familiar but menacing ideology, an ideology which teaches that human success and failure is determined by evolutionary fitness — ‘the […]
Climate Crisis, ‘Smart’ Growth and the Logic of Calamity
Climate Crisis, ‘Smart’ Growth and the Logic of Calamity A few years back at a Leftish gathering a group of self-described Marxist economists channeled liberal Democrat Paul Krugman’s explanation of the Great Recession without apparently knowing of Mr. Krugman’s thesis. Basically, a self-perpetuating recession had a grip on the economy, Wall Street was a catalyst […]
What Does It Mean to Live in the Age of the Anthropocene?
What Does It Mean to Live in the Age of the Anthropocene? Photo by possan | CC BY 2.0 It’s another day in the age of the Anthropocene where a global game of musical chairs continues to play out. As humans continue to plunder and pillage the earth in a global economy that thrives on […]
Monetary Imperialism
Monetary Imperialism Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair In theory, the global financial system is supposed to help every country gain. Mainstream teaching of international finance, trade and “foreign aid” (defined simply as any government credit) depicts an almost utopian system uplifting all countries, not stripping their assets and imposing austerity. The reality since World War […]
From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages Photo by Credo Action CC BY 2.0 Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content […]
A Radioactive Plume That’s Clouded in Secrecy
A Radioactive Plume That’s Clouded in Secrecy September 29 marked the 60th anniversary of the world’s third most deadly— and least known — nuclear accident. It took place at the Mayak plutonium production facility, in a closed Soviet city in the Urals. The huge explosion was kept secret for decades. It spread hot particles over […]
Fukushima Darkness
Fukushima Darkness Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 The radiation effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triple meltdowns are felt worldwide, whether lodged in sea life or in humans, it cumulates over time. The impact is now slowly grinding away only to show its true colors at some unpredictable date in […]
Doomsday Scenarios: the UK’s Hair-Raising Admissions About the Prospect of Nuclear War and Accident
Doomsday Scenarios: the UK’s Hair-Raising Admissions About the Prospect of Nuclear War and Accident Photo by Toby Scott | CC BY 2.0 The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has published several reports over the last few years. They discuss geopolitics and related themes, one of which is the likelihood of nuclear war or accident, including […]
Is Trudeau Ready for a Middle East war?
Is Trudeau Ready for a Middle East war? The world is now at the mercy of a coalition of three of the most dangerous autocrats on the planet: Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia’s new absolute ruler Mohammad bin Salman a name that will become increasingly familiar as the months go by. These three […]
McCarthyism Redux: Attacks on the Russian Media
McCarthyism Redux: Attacks on the Russian Media Photo by Mike Maguire | CC BY 2.0 “We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not fearful men, not […]
