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The Bulletin: October 22-28, 2025
The Bulletin: October 22-28, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Japan Pushes Back on U.S. Pressure to Halt Russian Energy Imports | OilPrice.com Demystifying Collapse Western Media Finally Admit That Trump’s Mobilisation of Forces Against Venezuela Is All About Regime Change | […]
The Bulletin: September 24-30, 2025
The Bulletin: September 24-30, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Terracotta Pot Heater: A DIY Guide To Cozy Emergencies ‘Families are dying’: an Ohio town suffering from fallout years after nuclear plant’s closure | US news | The Guardian Confronting devastating […]
The Bulletin: June 26-July 2, 2025
The Bulletin: June 26-July 2, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Farming Ourselves to Extinction: The Great Tulip Uprising of 1822 – George Tsakraklides Indicators of Global Climate Change ‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and […]
The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025
The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Pharaohs to AI: The Long Ascent of the Superorganism | Art Berman No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature Wetlands Disappearing Three Times Faster than Forests | UNFCCC […]
The Bulletin: December 12-18, 2024
The Bulletin: December 12-18, 2024 The Baby Bust: How The Toxicity Crisis Could Cause the Next Economic Crash Global Warming and the Great Unravelling All Stories Are Propaganda | how to save the world The Big Shining Lie: We’re Better Off Now–No, We’re Poorer, Much Poorer Are We Running Out Of Copper? This Image Says […]
July 7, 2024 Readings
July 7, 2024 Readings War is Peace: Andrew Carnegie’s “Temple of Peace” in the Hague–Dr. Jacob Nordangard GOP Senate Farm Bill Framework, Similar to House Bill, Elevates Threat to Health, Biodiversity, and Climate – Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog Crash Or Bear Market, Either Way Stocks Going “Down, A Lot”: Mark Spiegel–Quoth the Raven 150 […]
War On Nation’s Food Supply?: Idaho Restricts Water To 500,000 Acres Of Farmland
War On Nation’s Food Supply?: Idaho Restricts Water To 500,000 Acres Of Farmland In late May, Idaho Department of Water Resources Director Mathew Weaver issued a curtailment order requiring 6,400 junior groundwater rights holders who pump off the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to shut off their spigots. Idaho Gov. Brad Little issued a statement following the […]
It’s Dangerous to Farm Alone
It’s Dangerous to Farm Alone At the start of the famous video game, Legend of Zelda, a helpful old man says “It’s dangerous to go alone, take this.” Surprisingly, the protagonist is then given a limited selection of technologies to use, so that they can then proceed, alone, on their adventure. I suppose the whole […]
N-wrecked
N-wrecked The way that humans have messed with the Earth’s carbon cycle rightly figures as planetary eco-problem No.1 in public debate, but the way we’ve messed with its nitrogen cycle probably ought to get more attention than it does. In the former case, farming often gets a bit too much of the blame in my […]
The Government’s War on “Backyard” Farms
The Government’s War on “Backyard” Farms “I’m still the king of me” – Part 1 On the front page of the CDC website, is the following headline: Which then opens into the following: Are you ready to give away your chickens? Move from the country? Wear gloves and a mask when caring for backyard chickens? […]
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to a doubling of farmland prices from 2010-2015. Land prices in the US agricultural […]
I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops
I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops The climate crisis is making the farming business unsustainable – and without support for us, food security will suffer too Farming has always been a risky business. To the chaos of Brexit and the relentless squeezing of the supermarkets, we can […]
California cracks down on water pumping: ‘The ground is collapsing’
California cracks down on water pumping: ‘The ground is collapsing’ Farm region near Tulare Lake has been put on ‘probation’ as overpumping of water has caused faster sinking of ground Even after two back-to-back wet years, California’s water wars are far from over. On Tuesday, state water officials took an unprecedented step to intervene in […]
Large-scale factory farms have become the biggest source of water pollution in the U.S.
Large-scale factory farms have become the biggest source of water pollution in the U.S. The EPA can change that. Your hotdogs and burgers may be doing more than feeding friends at a barbeque. Large-scale factory farms and confined feedlot operations have become the biggest source of water pollution in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to […]
