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A Walk Along the Beach of Doom with Benjamin Franklin

31 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Empire, Environmental Degradation, Military Industrial Complex, Peak Oil, Pollution, Wall Street Fraud

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“When the well’s dry,
we know the worth of water.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
  

From Luke’s Journal:
Date: January 2064

I’ve just returned from a salvaging expedition into the heart of what was known as Los Angeles, a vast megalopolis once teeming with millions of people and home to Hollywood movies and TV, hallucinogens for the masses. It is now known as celluloid cemetery. The air was still this evening and off in the distance I could hear the desperate screams of those who had been exiled from our underground colonies.

I’ve got all the public libraries mapped out on my tracking device so that I can hit them up for rare books not archived on our historical databases. Paper books never died because a lot of data has been lost over the years due to grid failure, floods, fires, and arson. A very well-preserved collection of writings by Benjamin Franklin, a true renaissance man of his time, caught my eye as I rummaged through piles of books strewn knee-deep across the floor. Inside the dusty tome I saw the brief essay ‘Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind‘ and read it on the spot. Franklin says, “But not withstanding this (population) increase, so vast is the Territory of North America, that it will require many ages to settle it fully…” A mere 215 years after those words were published, America officially went into overshoot. Thomas Malthus is said to have credited Franklin for discovering the ‘rule of population growth’ which states that when agriculture increases in arithmetic progression(2, 3, 4, …), the population grows in geometric progression(2, 4, 6, …), eventually outpacing the means to feed everyone. Neither Malthus nor Franklin foresaw the discovery of fossil fuels, which fueled the population explosion, or its horrific side-effect of climate change which would act as a catalyst for the spread of virulent diseases and pathogens such as the African Flu Pandemic of 2029, otherwise known as The First Great Culling. Two-thirds of the global population were wiped out. Subsequent pandemics of varying origins and lethality picked away at the remaining 2.5 billion, leaving a few hundred million survivors scattered across the globe. The construction of vast subterranean cities began several decades ago once the world knew that industrial civilization would never be able to survive runaway climate change above ground. Today no one is allowed to have more than two children. Population is strictly monitored by the technocracy which severely punishes those who break this law; no one wants to be banished to the outside where life is short and brutal.

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Franklin must truly have been rolling in his grave at the end result of his expansionist dreams for America: a pockmarked landscape of fracking wells, oil spills, and toxic waste dumps; a corrupt government of corporate sock-puppets; a military that had become a malevolent industrial complex seeking war for profit and destroying fledgling democracies wherever they appeared; an agricultural system of factory farms and frankenfood; a self-proclaimed “free press” of corporate mouthpieces and shills; and a population of citizens that had been reduced to mindless consumers incapable of critical thought. And I think he would be utterly distraught to find that his name had been reduced to a popular idiom by the dumbed-down masses — “it’s all about the Benjamins.“ Knowing what a grotesque monstrosity this country would become, he surely would not have declared America’s cause to be ‘the cause of all mankind’ — wasteful consumerism, monopoly capitalism, and the tyranny of the corporate state. When he was studying dinosaur bones in northern Kentucky back in the mid 1700’s, I’m sure it never crossed his mind that the human species would soon suffer the same fate, becoming the next hapless victim to sink into a tar pit of its own making. Franklin would have said, “It’s inconceivable such a technologically advanced society as this would not look at the scientific evidence and take action at once to preserve life and liberty.” But after witnessing what an irredeemable abomination his Republic had become, he would most likely say, “My God, the only recourse remaining is to clear the entire system with near-term-extinction.”

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Walking with the tortured spirit of Benjamin Franklin along the Beach of Doom where anoxic ocean waves wash plastic debris and dead jellyfish ashore, I explain to him that the seeds of our destruction were planted long ago with the expansionist mindset of the first European settlers. The Indians and buffalo were systematically wiped out, all the virgin forests were chopped down and converted to lumber, and the rest of America was laid wide open for exploitation by the construction of a transcontinental railroad. Technology and the power of fossil fuels only intensified the process; this country never looked back, expanding to foreign shores for control of evermore resources and spreading the same logic and belief system of capitalism throughout every inch of the Earth until there was no place further to go. The system started to cannibalize itself after hitting peak oil, turning inward to burn dirtier, more marginal energy resources and starving the masses whose share of the economic pie kept shrinking while a tiny few gorged themselves on ill-gotten wealth and delusions of grandeur. In its final days, this con game measured everything only with a monetary scale. If there was no profit to be earned, then real solutions to the grave threat of anthropogenic climate change, like “powering down”, were summarily discounted. America and the world had ideologically boxed itself into a death trap called capitalism. No one realized or refused to realize that all the perceived gains in infrastructure, technology, social institutions, and other complexities of industrial civilization would soon fade into oblivion at the hands of an uncaring climate radically and thoughtlessly altered by mankind’s activities. In the end, it was all phantom wealth stolen from nature and built off her back by burning trillions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. The system’s only available avenue was to rush headlong into the dark void of misery, death, and extinction while spinning quixotic tales of “sustainable growth”, “renewable energy”, and geoengineering fixes. Cooperation on a planetary scale to lower greenhouse gases could never be accomplished under a capitalist system, nor would the arms race amongst nations which requires a constant investment of highly dense energy to develop technologically superior weaponry. After knowing for decades that it was far too late to escape the carnage of climate chaos, those in positions of power felt compelled to ignore the facts and keep the gas pedal pressed to the floor, leading all of humanity over the cliff.

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“He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.”
~ Johann Friedrich von Schiller

Secondhand Daylight

26 Sunday Jan 2014

Posted by darbikrash in Capitalism, Consumerism, Corporate State, Empire

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From a musical perspective, the ‘70’s brought us disco, big hair stadium acts, pretentious prog rock and the first defective strains of punk.

Disco and the big hair crowd were mostly clueless mainstream commercial acts celebrating the soon to come neoliberal tsunami of class warfare that was drawing a bead on middle class America.

Like canaries in a coal mine, the artistic set is often the first to smell a rat, through the visual arts or via music. As there is virtually no revenue stream possible from painting and other visual media, music is often the favored format for counterculture expression -after all you might even get paid.

Cynicism aside, there were but few tuning forks, so-called receivers of early stage temblors, captors of high frequency squeals and squelches beyond the audible range-invisible to most but painfully loud to a few. These savants interpreted these signals into more than just coming of age angst, more than the stick-it-to the-man oeuvre of the day, they put a name and a face to a shiftless, nameless face of unease.

They heard, visualized, and identified it as alienation. The culmination of a multi-decade process where incrementally, the collective human psyche of the American worker be it lower, middle, or upper class was disintegrating as a direct result of the capitalist mode of production.

These early criers were obscure, unwanted, and largely transparent. There is no recording deal for such messages, no decadent hotel parties with televisions being pitched out of windows, just abysmal living conditions, homelessness, and despair.

One such musician was a lead vocalist named David Thomas, who headed up a very strange band called Pere Ubu.

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Based in Cleveland Ohio in the heart of the rust belt, no one wanted to hear from a backwater band with a sweaty, overweight lead singer who bought his clothes at thrift shops.

The girls won’t touch me
Cus I’ve got a misdirection
Living at night isn’t helping my complexion
The signs all saying it’s a social infection
A little bit of fun’s never been an insurrection
 
Mama threw me out till I get some pants that fit
She just won’t approve of my strange kind of wit
I get so excited, always gotta lose
Man that send me off
Let them take the cure
 
Don’t need a cure-need a final solution 

But they successfully captured the archetypical angst that was to descend on us like a black plague.

Much of today’s angst is focused on the tangible aspects of capital’s invasion of the political economy, the destruction of the environment, loss of civil liberties, and the widening gulf of inequality.

Less mentioned but also noteworthy are the pervasive intangibles as capital metastasizes through the global society.

The class structure of capitalism requires the presence of exploitation to function. This exploitation component is perhaps the singular defining quality separating the simple exchange of commodities, which dates to pre-Roman history, from the capitalist means of production dating back to only the last 400 years or so. The act of exploitation stratifies society into a two tier class structure, exploited and exploiter. This arrangement superseded the feudal class structure, first through the migration path of mercantilism into so-called free market capitalism, and then on to the more fully developed forms such as State capitalism. This migration and sequencing is pre-ordained, it occurs as an easily predictable- and irreversible- set of events baked in to the capitalist mode of production.

It is within this component of exploitation that we find the insidious intangibles of capitalism. We can name these intangibles alienation and appropriation.

To fully appreciate the gravity of these intangibles, and their impact on the individual, we have to reconcile the intrinsic contradictions that are created as artifacts of capitalism.

The first subject is property ownership, which is where the initial elements of fundamental course error are detected on the moral compass.

The groundwork for modern bourgeoisie property ownership was formulated by John Locke (circa 1690) which established that ownership of previously undeclared property could be appropriated for individual ownership by the application of labor.

In other words, if you find vacant and unclaimed land, and improve the land by applying your labor to the land, you are the de facto owner.

Much of the interpretation of Natural Law into the modern theory of property rights was spearheaded by Edmund Burke (circa 1790), often considered the father of modern conservatism. His theories on property ownership were pivotal in assembling the class structure of capitalism.

Burke’s ideas placing property at the base of human development and the development of society were radical and new at the time. Burke believed that property was essential to human life. Because of his conviction that people desire to be ruled and controlled, the division of property formed the basis for social structure, helping develop control within a property-based hierarchy. He viewed the social changes brought on by property as the natural order of events that should be taking place as the human race progressed. With the division of property and the class system, he also believed that it kept the monarch in check to the needs of the classes beneath the monarch. Since property largely aligned or defined divisions of social class, class too was seen as natural—part of a social agreement that the setting of persons into different classes is the mutual benefit of all subjects.

Underpinning these abstract features, Burke laid the groundwork for his contemporaries, among them Adam Smith, and James Wilson of the high court, to advance the notion of the connection between private ownership of land, and the application of labor to secure this land, and the principle (soon to be pushed under the rug) of the potential for over-accumulation.

Supreme Court justice James Wilson, in 1790:

In the opening sentence of “On the History of Property,” he states quite clearly: “Property is the right or lawful power, which a person has to a thing.” He then divides the right into three degrees: possession, the lowest; possession and use; and, possession, use, and disposition – the highest. Further, he states: “Man is intended for action. Useful and skilful industry is the soul of an active life. But industry should have her just reward. That reward is property, for of useful and active industry, property is the natural result.” From this simple reasoning he is able to present the conclusion that exclusive, as opposed to communal property, is to be preferred.

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All the early post Enlightenment thinkers acknowledged the potential for over-accumulation by private property ownership. The common explanation for how this would be avoided was to simply limit the amount of property any given individual could own, with a basic stipulation than the land appropriated for example, could be no larger than what one could reasonably work with his own labor, or the labor of his immediate family.

This had the effect of limiting the general land parcel size to the range of 40-80 acres for the average agrarian family, and was the guiding principle well into the 20th century. The Homestead Act, essentially an extension of this 17th century principle finally discontinued in 1976, with some exceptions allowed in Alaska until 1986. This also dovetailed nicely with the notion of Manifest Destiny, whose expansionist horrors were soon to unfold.

The principles laid out here can be summarized as the Workmanship Ideal.

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It’s important to consider the theological linkages to the use of Lockean property rights. Under Locke, the religious link to Natural Law was very pronounced, e.g. if you were born with a physical defect, and could not provide labor to improve land, you didn’t get any. Nor were you entitled to subsistence of any kind, but more importantly, as this (condition) was presumably God’s will, this absolved society of any responsibility to provide subsistence for those unable to provide for themselves.

If these themes seem familiar, they are. Much of this was and still is the basis of contemporary conservative thinking today.

If the Workmanship Ideal is then secularized to remove the notion that not all can provide for themselves, physically, and these deficiencies are not due to the will of a supreme being, then we begin to see some cracks in the armor of the basic operating theory of modern property rights.

Secularizing the Workmanship Ideal also introduces some new concepts such as the distinction between labor power and labor. Labor power is a commodity, the labor act itself is transcendental and cannot be commoditized.

But the contradictions really begin to pile up as capitalism begins to develop, as agrarian culture converts to a wage labor society. The wholesale conversion of the 19th century American agrarian lifestyle to a predominantly 20th century wage labor economy is tectonic in magnitude.

A series of property rights concepted in a 17th century world where land was plentiful, and the New World was as close a representation to realizing superabundance as we have known in modernity, was quickly becoming obsolete.

An ownership class soon emerged, ownership of land, factories, and livelihoods. Perhaps the greatest of all swindles of the bourgeois ownership class upon the working class was the expropriation of the Workmanship Ideal.

This is the very centerpiece of contemporary alienation, the removal of the right of the worker to own what he or she creates. Secondarily, the worker loses his or her connection to his work product, in a system of social relations based entirely on anonymous commodity exchange, the worker knows not who uses his work product, nor how it is used, nor does he or she know anything about the production of commodities that he or she may need for subsistence.

A completely anonymous set of social relations wherein the worker is permanently, and deliberately separated from not only any value recognition in production, but also absolved of any responsibility of production.

The logical construct from which to view this phenomena is to consider man in a capitalist society as severed from nature, severed from his work, and severed from other humans insomuch as his principal means of social interaction is the exchange of anonymous commodities.

Alienated man is an abstraction because he has lost touch with all human specificity. He has been reduced to performing undifferentiated work on humanly indistinguishable objects among people deprived of their human variety and compassion. There is little that remains of his relations to his activity, product and fellows which enables us to grasp the peculiar qualities of his species.

So afflicted, we see the way clear for moral disconnection between nature, our fellow citizens, and of course our work. Many of today’s contemporary hobbies are not just diversions or distractions, but (fabricated) mechanisms to reconnect us to the loss of the Workmanship Ideal, through building something tangible (such as woodworking or gardening) that can compensate for the severing effects of fully developed capitalism.

The Lockean notion of property rights is inexorably linked to other key concepts, the division of labor, and accumulation for example. Together, these concepts form a narrative that supports the expansion of capitalist class structure. These are supplemented by Marginalist economic theories of value and commodity exchange that replaced labor based theories of value, an essential diversion which allowed for a pseudo-scientific patina of authenticity.

To keep from dying the worker sells his labor power to live.

This stark realization that the exchange of labor power is virtually the only means of survival is often subconscious, not readily reflected as the true realty of one’s condition. Certainly “shopping” does not connotate the hard scrabble reality of selling labor power for subsistence, one conjures this commodity exchange as advancing one’s social standing through accumulation of goods that attempt to compensate for the severing forces of alienation.

The contradiction of a wage labor economy comes vividly to life, what you work at and what you work for is no longer yours. It is appropriated away from you as an artifact of the wage labor exchange, in addition, you are no longer in charge of your time during this period, you operate solely at and for the direction of others.

Consider the case where you take out a 30 year mortgage on a house for you to live in. You exchange wage labor daily to make the payments, after 30 years of this you take permanent possession of the house from the lien holder, it is finally yours with nothing further due to the lender.

Unfortunately this equity advancing scheme is not available to you at your job. After the same 30 years of service, you are owed nothing- and sent packing.  A “retirement” party and a gold watch is all that is left to show for this input. Imagine if the aforementioned home lender kicked you out of the house you made payments on for 30 years at the end of the term, instead of relinquishing the ownership title. This is essentially what happens to the wage laborer- a particularly egregious violation of the Workmanship Ideal.

To add insult to injury, the collapse of late stage capitalism is beginning to take its toll on expectations for retirement. The trope of saving for “the golden years” has instead turned into a horrific nightmare of valueless savings accounts, worthless in the sense of the inability to earn any meaningful interest income for the time when you are too old and unable to exchange wage labor for subsistence.

The side effects of alienation are profound and startling, we can trace many of society’s abominations both directly and indirectly to various aspects of alienation.

Defensive Accumulation

Often the practice of accumulation is described as a greed based attribute of the bourgeoisie, but the working class is forced into the same behavior when faced with the pragmatic terms of the capitalist mode of production.

The prospect of reaching a point in your life where you will be unable to exchange wage labor for commodities is profoundly disturbing. Most elderly would be unwelcome at their children’s homes, as they would no doubt interfere with their offspring’s mad grab for status enhancing commodities. So many are consumed by a (justifiable) paranoia-stricken frenzy to accumulate cash, commodities, and social status, embroiled in a siege mentality to stave off hunger and a barren future of declining health and diminishing purchasing power of a fixed income.

Proletariat Accumulation

The active working class have it no better. The prospects of long-term stability are shattered with the reality of living paycheck to paycheck. Society bemoans “instant gratification” but ignores the impossibility of any type of efficacious planning given the overarching free-for-all employers exhibit to appropriate worker’s labor and profit at all costs. Layoffs and salary freezes are de rigueur, and when you stop making a profit for your boss you stop earning your own living. Such calculus often portends bad behavior, stealing and embezzling for example, but most frequently lesser crimes of omission and dishonest social relations intended as a “go along to get along” strategy. These outcomes are nearly always attributed to poor moral fiber, substandard upbringing- and in general just going to the wrong church. No one wants to talk about the vicious underbelly, the stepping on bodies necessary to rise to the point where you can feed yourself.

If a consistent salary and stable work environment are not forthcoming, what then? Well then we have the big score, the single life changing event to instill stability and harmony, the lottery ticket, the basketball scholarship, closing the “deal of a lifetime”, that promotion to the elite .1%, that ethereal land of milk and honey perhaps best epitomized in the documentary film “Queen of Versailles”. In a most poignant scene, the trailer trash billionaire wife is seen in her 36,000 square foot house, with Bentleys in the garage and dog shit on the carpet, a juxtaposition that graphically illustrates the superficiality of her obscene wealth.

Bourgeois Accumulation

Life ain’t so grand at the top either. Much is made of the sociopathic behavior of the .1%, and this is well deserved. Recently, it is noted that some of these actors exhibit addictive characteristics, in effect, addicted to money. Indeed some, in fact many of the actions of these people can be described as drug seeking behavior, always on the lookout for the next fix or cash infusion. The aforementioned Queen of Versailles (a real person) was dissatisfied with her 36,000 sq. foot manse, so she and her husband commissioned a 92,000 square foot behemoth- the largest single family dwelling in North America. This can only be described as a sickness.

Mystery Train

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Everyone must reconcile in their own way these factors. One must consider, in some way, directly or indirectly, how these facts shape current events. When gunmen shoot up school children, when mall shootings occur with increasing and alarming frequency, when workplace shootings and other “random” acts of violence become so common as to elicit not even a vague sense of interest, we have a problem.

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In totality we cannot lay all of societies outrageous outbursts at the feet of alienation- but we can lay down a good bit, perhaps the majority. We see the security state girding its collective loins with surveillance capability and (domestic) military firepower. They know what is coming and it is not the Muslims. It is not the invading foreign hordes. It is the disenfranchised factory worker, the déclassé intellectuals, the retirees, and the unemployed who have stepped on one too many bodies to feed their families. The petite bourgeoisie who have one too many trinkets at the expense of their integrity. A rousing, rabid crowd of dangerous souls poisoned to their very cores by an alienating system of exploitation and commodity exchange that defiles and diminishes all those who participate, willing or unwillingly.

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Extinction is Profitable, in the Short Term

25 Saturday Jan 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Corporate State, Empire, Environmental Degradation, Peak Oil, Pollution, Wall Street Fraud

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“Hey, my name’s Luke. The year is 2060 and I live in what was once called America. As you can see, the ‘developed world’ never was able to kick its fossil fuel habit. They just kept turning to dirtier sources and more extreme processes to burn the stuff, like the liquefaction and gasification of coal. The entire planet became a sacrifice zone for the sake of keeping mega cities lit up and the machinery humming, but ultimately it was death by a thousand cuts. Entropy was the victor. GHG’s continued to rise, warm the planet, and wreak havoc on the biosphere. Cancer and industrial disease spread to every corner of the globe. Weather patterns were drastically altered until the world’s food production was forced to move indoors. Large-scale cloning of animals became common practice in order to feed the several hundred million surviving people. War, drought, floods, fresh water scarcity, and a rash of pandemics crashed the world’s population from a high of 8 billion. The agricultural bread baskets of the world became wastelands of dust and weeds. International cooperation failed and the world’s existing powers scrambled for the last remaining resources. There are none who buy into the propaganda of a “better world” any longer because the stark evidence of what we have done to the planet cannot possibly be hidden from view. There is no utopian sanctuary for anyone to escape to, no matter how many gold coins one has managed hoard. Despite this realization and even after all the geoengineering mishaps, people still cling to the belief of salvation through technology. Everyone lives in fortified bunkers to escape the hot, drying winds that sometimes carry poisonous and toxic clouds. When we do venture out, gas masks are always worn as well as long clothing to protect from the thinning ozone layer. Industrial smoke stacks still belch plumes into the air to keep the underground cities running.”

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“When above ground, I’ll spend hours walking through the wreckage of industrial civilization, the skeletons of its skyscrapers blotting out the sun like the mythical Redwood trees once did along the west coast. The occasional sound of a steel beam crashing to the ground or a glass window shattering breaks the ghostly silence. These deserted cities are infested with rats the size of small dogs, and the ray of my flashlight is reflected in their staring eyes. The endless and self-defeating rat race of humans has now been replaced by the scurrying, scavenging, and fighting of real rats. I find it amazing that my ancestors spent their entire lives living and working inside these little office cubicles. That was a time when Earth was still green and you could hear the birds chirping and singing outside your window. I’ve got a digital recording of various holographic scenes depicting bygone days of nature that I project inside the confines of my subterranean home, but I’d give my right arm to experience the real thing. To think that people were once surrounded by nature all the time amazes me. Its true value had never really been calculated. Rather, money seems to have been what people were most preoccupied with back then. On one of my excursions I came across a dwelling whose crumbling walls were packed with stacks of moldy paper money. Whoever lived there must have worked an entire lifetime to eke out a savings of that size, stuffing it into every wall cavity like it was insulation. Many thought humans would go extinct long before money would ever cease to exist. I guess they were wrong.”

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“They say the people of this country went mad, obsessed with money as it overtook their every thought, decision, and activity. One of America’s forefathers once said, ‘He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.‘ All things were framed within the context of money. Environmental damage was discussed in terms of financial setbacks to the economy. Political leaders made decisions based, first and foremost, on the financial interests of those powerful few who put them in office. Choices on matters involving the well-being of humanity were made solely in the interests of corporations and stockholders. Even as the overwhelming evidence mounted that mankind’s place on earth was becoming evermore tenuous, the money worshippers continued to find ways to profit from calamity and mayhem. Preserving the Earth simply was not profitable, so they let it die. The Arctic melted, so they raided its open waters. The land became parched, so they invested in water rights. CO2 levels skyrocketed, so they put their money into carbon credits. Our continued existence became a crap shoot in the marketplace. The vultures of capitalism were able to profit from the collapse; thusly, such nightmarish and dystopian scenarios as botched geoengineering schemes, a Venus syndrome on earth, and ultimately human extinction were allowed to become sober realities….”

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‘No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.’
~ Derrick Jensen

Destroy the World

21 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Climate Change, Corporate State, Ecological Overshoot, Environmental Degradation, Pollution

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As mankind spirals towards its own self-manufactured demise, I look with a jaundiced eye at daily events in the news and at the bread-and-circus infotainment that fills the American hologram. The mass media is replete with misinformation on the state of the world, so I wasn’t too surprised by the recent words of wisdom(sarcasm) from Kathleen White (Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence & Director, Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment); nevertheless, I felt compelled to set aside a partially completed essay on capitalism and technology in order to express some of my thoughts about White’s essay on the benefits of fossil fuels to humanity:

“…Fossils fuels also augment food supply. Fertilizer derived from natural gas has increased agricultural productivity by 40-60 percent. According to economist Indur Goklany, without fossil fuels, an area equivalent to U.S., Canada, and India combined would have to be converted into crop land to meet global food demand. Fossil fuel-based fertilizer, pesticides, and mechanized substitutes for animal power have saved vast natural ecosystems from conversion to cropland. And the increased atmospheric concentration of man-made CO2 has enhanced plant growth.”

[You fail to consider that without fossil fuels, mankind would not have been enabled to overpopulate the planet to such a degree as to require so much farmland. You also fail to say that the negatives of climate change swamp (no pun intended) any supposed benefits of a warming planet. As we are already seeing, the effects of epic droughts and floods are wreaking havoc on farmers. Good luck trying to move the agricultural industry northward where the soils are extremely poor. Famine and mass extinction are the inevitable outcome of industrial civilization’s destabilizing activities on the planet.]

“Although combustion of fossil fuels releases pollutants, that environmental damage can, and is, undergoing dramatic reversal far quicker than could the conversion of natural ecosystems to croplands. The prosperity supported by fossil fuel energy allows investment in effective technologies to reduce and eliminate harmful pollution.”

[CO2 and other GHG levels are increasing every year, having gone parabolic in the last 100 years. This reality paints a bleak picture for the future of humanity. Far from being mitigated, environmental damage is accelerating everywhere one looks from the acidification of the oceans to the die-off of forests and jungles. The simple fact is that renewable energy cannot replace fossil fuel based energy at the rate the world is consuming, as European actions have recently indicated. Only a wholesale reconfiguration of the economy and our way of life will enable solutions to the environmental crisis. Rather than taking this courageous and self-reflective approach, society is putting its proverbial head in the sand concerning climate change. The public already finds the subject of climate change difficult enough to understand without having to wade through a constant onslaught of misleading articles such as yours.]

“Renewable energy still provides a sliver of global demand. Despite the billions of dollars in subsidies, retail prices are still 2-3 times higher than fossil fuels. Renewable energy from wind and solar remain diffuse, intermittent and parasitic on fossil fuels for back-up. Nuclear fission provides energy comparable or superior to fossil fuels, but the public remains resistant to broad use.”

[Yes, capitalist industrial civilization cannot be run on renewables so that is why we need to be talking about powering down and living within the carrying capacity of the planet rather than maintaining the status quo. Nuclear has the little problem of making vast swaths of the planet uninhabitable from radiation contamination, as evidenced by such catastrophes as Chernobyl and Fukushima. Nuclear energy also leaves behind tons of radioactive waste that must be stored away for thousands of years. These sort of factors tend to scare the public. With global sea levels rising and storms becoming more destructive, the world’s nuclear plants, which are mostly situated along waterways and oceans for coolant purposes, are in jeopardy. Get it?]

“Energy-dense, abundant, imperishable, versatile, reliable, portable and affordable, fossil fuels provide 85 percent of the world’s energy because they are superior to the current alternatives. And hundreds of millions still await the benefits of affordable energy. Until energy sources comparable or superior to fossil fuels are fully available, policies to reduce emissions of CO2 should proceed with caution lest they prematurely jettison the well-springs of mankind’s greatest advance — the blessings of which literally light up the holiday season.”

[The “well-springs of mankind’s greatest advance” are soon to be jettisoned into the dustbin of history and extinction as we have already tripped multiple tipping points in the earth’s biosphere such as the Polar ice melt and many others. Hundreds of millions will never experience the energy-intensive lifestyles of developed countries since climate chaos will put a halt to human expansion within this century. Fossil fuels have allowed industrial civilization to far overshoot the environment; for the rest of the world to live like Americans, we would need more than 4 Earths.]

Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian #8

18 Saturday Jan 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian

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Bottom Percussion PATAX, Chris Christie's Traffic-Gate, Edward Abbey, Monty Python, Mother Nature has a sense of Humor, The Collapsing Economy, The Intelligence of Crows, Weekend Funnies for the Depressed Collapsitarian, Will Ferrell

Wow, it’s been 3 months since we’ve done one of these, and I think we need a laugh or a chuckle. Quote for the day:

“Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.” ~ Edward Abbey

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Really, a great rule of thumb:

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“Yet another fucking fat joke. I hope this guy never gets elected president, the insults thrown against him would be worse than his economic policies.” – brorack_brobama

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Yes, the other bridge scandal. If you don’t understand, read here and here and (h/t Tom) here:

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I guess it ends in “I love her NOT.”

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Crows Are Way Smarter Than You Think and Incredible.

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A SONG YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO WHEN YOU ARE DOWN IN LIFE

Over 10 million people have seen this video – astronomically more popular than my website:

The Black Road of Technology

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, Pollution

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“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that shouldn’t exist under natural law… The honorable thing for our species to do is to stop reproducing and walk hand in hand, brothers and sisters, into extinction — one last midnight.”
~ Rust Cohle, ‘True Detective‘

Sitting comfortably within their climate-controlled homes and buildings, a tiny percentage of eco-conscience humans watches with morbid fascination as large numbers of animals drop like flies in a bug zapper. In the latest die-off, bats rain down from Australian skies; parrots, kangaroos and emus perish from heat exhaustion. Ominous signs of an unraveling web of life are everywhere to see, but the industrial world has become utterly disconnected from nature and pays little heed to such warnings. Rather, what holds their interest is Chris Christie’s Traffic-Gate. That our fate is bound to the well-being of Earth is a belief lost with the genocide of so many indigenous cultures. Capitalist carbon man resides in a totally fabricated world — he eats food mass-produced from fossil fuel inputs, drinks ‘purified’ water bottled in plastic, and at bedtime drowns out the noise of energy-gluttonous cities with the electronic recordings of ocean waves and forest sounds. But most absurdly, he ‘communes with nature’ through staged wildlife TV shows and eco-trip adventures. Rather than allow poachers and farmers free rein, the capitalists thought it wiser to extract profit out of the Earth’s dying ecosystems by tapping into the “green” industry of eco-tourism, another in a lost list of anthropocentric oxymorons.

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Relentless marketing on TV, internet, radio, billboards, print, etc has created an unending cycle of desire and consumption, fueling the trivialization of life that feeds its commodification. The individual is reduced to a “buying unit” by the skyscrapers, institutions, and bureaucracy of capitalism, but in a future world of spent resources and civilization-destroying weather, the market won’t have much use for so many “buying units”. Introspection by many rational, sober, and clear-minded people since the publication of ‘The Limits to Growth’ has not altered the course of history to date; why would I think the human species would suddenly alter their behavior after having tripped so many ecological tipping points and feedback loops? Hindsight is 20/20 only if a lesson was learned the first time.

“…The basic truth between the lines of this press event [National Research Council (NRC) briefing on abrupt climate change] was that we are facing a world that is becoming increasingly hostile to humankind.

We are literally making the planet into a wasteland like this is some post-apocalyptic science fiction story. It is just shocking. And the most horrifying aspect of it all is that we’ve waited to reduce emissions so long that we’re exiting the win-win field of possible climate responses. We’re now headed into a world of lose-lose. That’s the news nobody wants to convey – or hear. But there it is.” – link

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The cancer of hyper consumption and economic growth for never-ending profit has trashed the planet, but blind faith in the markets and techno-optimism are the siren’s call beguiling industrial civilization over the cliff. Capitalism likes efficiency; in its quest for greater efficiency, diversity – the essence of life – is being exterminated. Monoculture is death. More biodiversity means more resilience. A recent scientific paper purports to prove this long-held maxim:

“…when a lot of species are interacting and competing in an ecosystem, the ‘average’ interactions that any one species experiences are likely to be weaker than in a simpler, less diverse system. When there are a lot of different niches occupied by different species, we also expect different responses to environmental fluctuations among the community, meaning that some species inherently do better than others depending on the specific disturbance. Species-rich systems also tend to have more of what we call ‘functional redundancy‘, meaning that if one species providing an essential ecosystem function (e.g., like predation) goes extinct, there’s another, similar species ready to take its place…”

Biodiversity loss is not the only aspect of life being degraded. The planet is also losing cultural diversity – languages, crafts, religions, histories, ancient knowledge, etc. are disappearing as globalization reduces all of life to the status of a marketable commodity. Thousands of languages were once spoken in North and South America before the invasion of European powers. It’s interesting to note that in the Ojibwe language, and perhaps in most if not all native languages of North America, there exists no word to describe “greed” or the concept of personal property, but there are endless numbers of verbs to describe “every movement and temperature and visual sense of water.” After a few hundred years of progress, the white man has Wall Street and the natives have gambling casinos.

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“In the Seventh Fire prophecy of the Anishnabek, each of the seven fires represent an era in human history. We are now in the time of the Seventh Fire. The task of the people of this age, including the Anishnabek and other red people, the yellow people, the black and the white, is to come together through choosing the road of cooperation. Without this, there will be no Eighth Fire, or future for Natives and others…

…Today, in the age of the Seventh Fire, the races are again faced with a choice. The two roads are the black road of technology and overdevelopment leading to environmental catastrophe, the other is the red road of spirituality and respect for the earth. Together, people of the world have to choose the right road, be of one mind, or the earth cannot survive…” ~ The Seventh Fire (Ojibwe) Prophecy

The “black road of technology and overdevelopment” is paved with the fallout of dead bodies and poisoned landscapes —nuclear meltdowns, oil and chemical spills, factory fires and explosions, etc., but to a very tool-centric species just itching to keep this omnicidal train going, geoengineering looks like the perfect ticket. It promises to allow industrial civilization to continue burning carbon while avoiding the nasty side-effect of catastrophic climate change. Unfortunately, human error and miscalculation, the bane of so many other industrial endeavors, will undoubtedly come into play. The ‘hacking’ of the Earth’s entire climate system represents the peak of hubris for modern man. Describing the conceit of our technological domination of the planet, Clive Hamilton states:

“Pursuing abatement is an admission that industrial society has harmed nature, while engineering the Earth’s climate would be confirmation of our mastery over it — final proof that, whatever minor errors made on the way, human ingenuity and faith in our own abilities will always triumph. Geoengineering promises to turn failure into triumph.”

The Earth’s carbon sinks are filling up and the twin problem of ocean acidification will need a techno-fix too. Complexity begets even more complicated problems. Our culture avoids the simple fact that humanity is vulnerable and dependent on the Earth, that life is fragile and interconnected, and that the importance of Murphy’s law is amplified exponentially when playing GOD with technology. Let’s also hope that the psychological effects of climate change don’t make the nuclear powers lose their cool.

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…A warm dry wind is all that breaks the silence
The highways quiet scars across the land
People lie, eyes closed, no longer dreaming
The earth dies screaming…

Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings

08 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by Brutus in Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, Pollution

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Let’s start with a quote from Wikepedia:

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane’s formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks earlier.

In the popular mind, which is arguably more heavily influenced by myth, fiction, and propaganda than by science (especially something as esoteric as chaos theory), the butterfly effect is often understood as a minor disturbance to a timeline resulting in a substantial divergence downstream. It’s an alteration from one likelihood or expectation to another one, typically carrying major impacts. We have no trouble believing in fates and destinies being fundamentally altered by arbitrary choices and happenstances. Hindsight sometimes even affords the opportunity to wonder what might have happened if one had zigged instead of zagged, knowing that every instant has the unbeknowst potential for a life-changing development. (What bus?) The foresight to recognize those linchpin moments escapes us most of the time, but we believe in them nonetheless.

My reason for bringing this up is to make the observation that with the biosphere now manifesting major impacts that are highly discontinuous from the historical record, we don’t really believe in the butterfly effect, or at least ignore/deny it. Minor perturbances, from population pressure to pollution to paving to purported prosperity, are frequently thought to be too tiny to affect something as large as the planet and its finely tuned systems. Yet ripples and eddies have accumulated over time and are now lapping shores like tsunamis, causing the face of the Earth to be quite different from its state, say, 250 years ago, before the fossil fuels era kicked off in earnest.

This week’s biggest news is a good case in point: an artic vortex has brought dangerously low temperatures and wind chills to North America. This phenonenon, where the mass of extremely cold air slides off its normal center at the North Pole, may not be entirely unknown in modern history, but its reappearance this week reminds us that small changes to the systems of the Earth’s thermal regulation can wreak substantial havok. (Please stop reporting the damage in terms of cost in dollars!) Further, in answer to the question, “Are these cold temps due to climate change?” at least this article at Common Dreams answers unequivocally “yes.” It argues that all weather events major and minor are now attributable to climate change because, like the fate or destiny aspect of the butterfly effect, we have embarked on a new timeline that diverges from a calmer, steadier state we might have enjoyed had we not made unwitting, wholesale alterations to the Earth’s climate systems. This is essentially the same argument made by Bill McKibben in The End of Nature way back in 1989, namely, that Nature (capital N) didn’t really exist anymore because humanity’s imprint is now everywhere: in the air, water, and soil. (Incidentally, this is the book that awakened me to ecological issues that in the ensuing 25 years have only grown progressively gloomier and doomier.) Put another way for the entertainment-bred masses, we now have the equivalent of J.J. Abrahm’s reboot of Star Trek TOS with a new timeline, offering the opportunity to depart from canon as desired. The major difference is that, in our reality, we can only project and extrapolate how it would have been had we not messed everything up — except to say that it wouldn’t have been, well, nearly so messed up.

From my home and workplace in Chicago, it’s been curious to see how people have responded to the extreme cold. Fashion has been displaced in favor of function, with men and women on the street mummified under multiple layers to the point they look like the Michelin Man. Traffic (air, train, bus, automobiles) has not ground to a complete halt but it’s been slowed to a crawl, with many cancellations, delays, and accidents. The huddled masses (read: the homeless and unhoused) are congregating unapologeticaly in warming locations (public buildings such as libraries, underground pedways, on public transportation, etc.) to avoid the very real threat of freezing to death. Nonetheless, several freezing deaths have already been reported. School and business closures kept many at home, with many others calling in to complain of their inability to get to work. Four days of snow just prior to the extreme cold snap has everything covered in snow and ice, and plumes of water vapor behind every vehicle and over every building testify to the ongoing maintenance of an inside/outside temperature delta of 80+ deg. F. In addition, everything is encrusted in salt, which inevitably gets tracked indoors.

The look and feel of this experience may not yet be apocalyptic, but the sense of hunkering down to endure, if not survive, is palpable. Most individuals are cooperative and aware of others facing the same difficulties, but there are always a few douchebags arguing and pushing their way forward as though no one else matters. Such idiots turn out to be yet another part of the entire package to be tolerated, though my suspicion is that worsening conditions in repeat events will eventually lead to intolerance, violence, and mayhem. It’s a sneak peek, perhaps, of what many of us expect when collapse of services and utilities, financial institutions, and infrastructure impacts all of us directly, like the weather is impacting us this week.

We’ll Have Nothing Left to Lose!!!

05 Sunday Jan 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Corporate State, Empire, Environmental Degradation, Military Industrial Complex, Peak Oil, Pollution, Wall Street Fraud

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Rejoice: McDonald’s to open up first restaurant in Vietnam in 2014. Disneyland can’t be too far behind.

The . . . metamessage of our time is that the commodity form is natural and inescapable. Our lives can only be well lived (or lived at all) through the purchase of particular commodities. Thus our major existential interest consists of maneuvering for eligibility to buy such commodities in the market. Further, we have been taught that it is right and just—ordained by history, human nature, and God—that the means of life in all its forms be available only as commodities. . . . Americans live in an overcommodified world, with needs that are generated in the interests of the market and that can be met only through the market.
~ Stephen Fjellman, Vinyl Leaves:Walt Disney World and America

From the Amazonian tribe driven off its land by fossil fuel companies to the wage-enslaved city dweller dependent on mass-produced food and other commodities, no place on Earth has escaped the planet-wide reach of capitalist industrial civilization’s profit-extracting mechanisms. The oligarch’s of industry and banking shape public thought through an all-pervasive mass media monopoly, control legislation and regulation by pulling political purse-strings and commanding an army of lobbyists, sew death and mayhem with the global arms trade, sacrifice the next generation in resource wars, decimate ecosystems for short-term gain, manipulate and devalue currencies, create economic bubbles, and sell this entire vile process back to the masses as “progress” and “development” with measurements of inflated stock prices and skewed GDP figures. The untold human and environmental costs are now bursting at the seams with societal disintegration, epidemic mental illness, wide-scale resource depletion, industrial pollution and contamination, and the on-going collapse of the Earth’s biosphere.

If you’re wondering why there can never seem to be any significant action taken on climate change, don’t look for honest answers from those whose livelihood is tied to capitalism. If the true costs of the global industrial economy were calculated in terms of environmental damage, the ill-health effects on workers and the public, as well as the fraying of the Earth’s web of life, industries would find the costs too great to bear. The honest truth is that this ecocidal economic system would have to be dismantled for there to be any hope of humanity preserving a living planet and averting extinction.

“…big-time corporate capitalism is an omnicidal momentum. I mean, it just has one thing in mind, and it will destroy or weaken or co-opt anything in its way that is civic, that is democratic….corporations have been very clever A) in distracting people, especially young generation, with entertainment, with professional sports, turning them into spectators. Now you’ve got, you know, 24/7 entertainment. There’s no end to it. And they’ve also been very good in making people internalize a sense of powerlessness.” ~ Ralph Nader

Perhaps the three biggest crises facing civilization are unrestrained financialization of commerce and society, climate change, and peak oil (or peak net energy). Let’s take a quick look at how America is handling each of these crises:

Employing paid shills for the financial industry is now simply standard operating procedure in the U.$.A.:

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…Consumer advocates and independent analysts do their best to weigh in as well, but they are outgunned. Meanwhile, consulting firms dedicated to playing matchmaker between corporations and hired experts have flourished in the new regulatory environment. Director Charles Ferguson, whose film Inside Job highlighted the role of sponsored professors in supporting the deregulatory policies that led to the financial meltdown in 2008, says the business of economic consulting firms that work to “source” academics for expert testimony and regulatory filings “has been going on for quite a while, and it’s now quite a large industry.”…

Of course anthropogenic climate change, the existential threat of modern times, would seem to be a catastrophe deserving of mankind’s attention, would it not? Well, as you can see, the capitalist only views it as a public relations war:

An extensive study into the financial networks that support groups denying the science behind climate change and opposing political action has found a vast, secretive web of think tanks and industry associations, bankrolled by conservative billionaires.

“I call it the climate-change counter movement,” study author Robert Brulle, who published his results in the journal Climatic Change, told the Guardian. “It is not just a couple of rogue individuals doing this. This is a large-scale political effort.”

His work, which is focused on the United States, shows how a network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible for conservative opposition to climate policy. Almost 80 percent of these groups are registered as charitable organisations for tax purposes, and collectively received more than seven billion dollars between 2003 and 2010.

How about peak oil? Again, the energy industry has its PR machine in full swing touting America’s imminent energy independence along with many other myths, but commenter James of this blog cuts to the chase:

Now, which ponzi is most despicable, a religious or financial one? Both are based upon deceit and both serve primarily the enrichment of the scheme officialdom. One promises a payoff in eternal life while the other promises financial success. One examines your credit score while the other applies tick marks in you behavioral ledger of good and evil. Both systems of fleecing are based upon human fear and herd mentality. Society shuns the heretic of either ponzi and damnation awaits those that do not participate fully. Ponzis collapse when increasing numbers of fools, resources and energy can no longer be sucked into their cancerous growth schemes. The religious structures will be more enduring as they can always find plenty of poor dolts to give their last penny to gain a chance at the big after-life payoff. The financial schemers, faced now with meeting the absolutely unbelievable limits of growth will have to leave all those little nest eggs of promises, unhatched. The key is to convince the ponzi participants that the U.S. is the new Saudi Arabia, that fracking oil and natural gas is the future and we can get enough oil from shale to last a million years. “Just relax folks, you’re all gonna get your money back”. Not. What a miraculous world we live in.

As you can see, America is handling all three crises like a sleazy car salesman unloading a lot full of lemons.

And if anyone was spooked by the Snowden revelations of government spying, the implications of corporate espionage on social-change organizations that threaten to impede unfettered access to profits is truly terrifying.

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Although I’m not a particularly religious person, all evidence does point to a civilization which has completely succumbed to the worship of Mammon:

…The fruits of such idolatry are clear: the injustice and unemployment and waste of human talents; the corruption of our political leadership and their collusion with immoral financial practices; the depredation and degradation of our natural environments and the exhaustion of our natural resources; the inevitable wars and other crises that arise from the systematic fostering of base human appetites and the refusal to compromise our ways of life, and pursue a more equitable sharing of the gifts bequeathed to us…

I would not blame anyone for wanting to seek comfort in a bottle or some other form of self-medication, but perhaps doing something more dramatic to escape this nightmarish reality of a thoroughly corrupted, money-worshipping society is in the cards. When your back is against the wall and you’ve lost faith in everything, then revolution is the antidote for the “pseudo-realities” that plague us.

“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.” ~ Philip K. Dick

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The specter of death, near-term extinction, haunts us as we silently endure the evil and decay all around us, going along just to get along in the belly of the American empire. One day pent-up anger and hunger will burst forth, pushing us into the streets. Blood and emotions will flow freely. Inept and crooked governments will fall. We’ll have nothing left to lose.

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Finding the roots of addiction in the instability of ‘free markets’

01 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by xraymike79 in Capitalism, Corporate State, Military Industrial Complex, Neo-Colonialism

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An excellent essay which pinpoints the underlying causes of societal disintegration and the breakdown of traditional social support systems. Capitalism destroys local community and sustainability in order to bring all resources (human and otherwise) into the global “free market”. People, cultures and ecosystems are then fed into the conveyor belt of profit extraction as they become commodities in the labor market, consumerist culture, and natural resource market. The onslaught has been global and its destruction is seen everywhere, especially in the rise of mental illness in America:

“…We are today disengaged from our jobs and our schooling. Young people are pressured to accrue increasingly large student-loan debt so as to acquire the credentials to get a job, often one which they will have little enthusiasm about. And increasing numbers of us are completely socially isolated, having nobody who cares about us….”

“The rising popularity of the consumerist life-model has been imported from the West or rather imposed by the globalization of Western standards… conspicuous consumption had been cut off from the task to satisfy survival needs and put in the service of positional rivalry and cut-throat competition for social standing, renown and prestige.”
~ Prof. Zygmunt Bauman

Systemic Disorder

Addiction is big business and obscuring its roots is its ideological handmaiden. Despite the incessant chanting that everything that happens to you is solely your fault, social ills do have social roots.

We need not lay this “personal responsibility” mantra solely at the feet of neoliberal ideologues, for such beliefs pervade capitalist society, even among those who are critical of capitalism’s excesses. New age philosophy, for example, routinely blames the individual for all manner of personal misfortunes and overemphasizes personalities at the expense of collective effort.

An episode of Oprah that featured Nelson Mandela saw Oprah Winfrey repeatedly tell the former president that he had accomplished so much by himself; she was oblivious to his protestations that he could not have brought an end to apartheid except as part of the collective movement of which he was a part. On the personal level, a friend still angrily recounts an incident…

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  • END CIV Resist Or Die (Full)
  • END:CIV 2011
  • Final Warning Limits to Growth
  • Four Horsemen
  • Garbage Warrior [Full Length Documentary]
  • Gasland Part II
  • Green Illusions
  • Green Illusions: "Solar Cells and Other Fairy Tales"
  • Guy McPherson – Earth Extinction 2030
  • Guy’s Climate Chaos Presentation from Pauline Schneider
  • Harvest of Empire
  • Hoodwinked: Who Stole Our World – Presented By John Perkins
  • Into Eternity ( A Nuclear Waste World )
  • Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers • FULL DOCUMENTARY
  • Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs, & Steel
  • Jeremy Jackson: Ocean Apocalypse
  • Joseph Tainter: The Energy Crisis and the End of The Industrial Age
  • Journeyman Pictures
  • Koch Brothers Exposed
  • Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
  • LAST CALL: the untold reasons of the global crisis
  • Last Hours for Humanity?
  • Lecture on Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter
  • Life After People
  • Manufacturing Consent
  • Modern Black Death – The Next Pandemic – BBC Horizon
  • Nate Hagens – Limits to Growth: Where We Are and What to Do About It
  • Noam Chomsky – Propaganda & Control of the Public Mind
  • Obey
  • Ocean Acidification
  • Ocean Acidification in Earth's Past: Insights to the Future – James Zachos
  • Oil, Smoke & Mirrors
  • Peak mining & implications for natural resource management
  • Permian – Triassic Mayhem: Earth's Largest Mass Extinction
  • Peter Ward Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps
  • Peter Ward The Medea Hypothesis II
  • Peter Ward: The Medea Hypothesis I
  • Photographing the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima
  • Pirate Television: Financializing America with Randy Mandell
  • Professor Al Bartlett – Arithmetic, Population and Energy
  • Professor Kevin Anderson: Real Clothes for the Emperor – Facing Climate Change
  • Rick Wolff // A Cure for Capitalism
  • Six degrees could change the world
  • Somewhere In New Mexico Before The End Of Time
  • Submedia TV
  • Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
  • Surviving Progress
  • Techno Fix – Why Technology Won’t Save Us Or the Environment
  • Techno-Fix – Dr. Michael Huesemann interview
  • The Age of Stupid
  • The Big Fix
  • The Century Of The Self, Part I
  • The Century of the Self, Part II
  • The Century of the Self, Part III
  • The Century of the Self, Part IV
  • The Chomsky Videos
  • The Coming Famine
  • The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
  • The Crash Course
  • The Crisis of Civilization : Full Movie
  • The Day the Earth Nearly Died
  • The Domino Effect – Overpopulation
  • The False Solutions of Green Energy – Wilbert & Foley (PIELC 2014)
  • The Flaw
  • The Fuck-it Point
  • The Long Emergency
  • The Man who Quit Money
  • The Methane Ticking Time Bomb has Struck Again…..
  • The Myth of Capitalism with Michael Parenti
  • The Myth of Sustainability – Guy McPherson
  • The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News
  • The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski
  • The Overview Effect
  • The Permian–Triassic Extinction Event [FULL VIDEO]
  • The Planet by Johan Söderberg
  • The Power Principle: (Full Length Documentary)
  • The Secure & the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World
  • The Shock Doctrine 2009
  • The Sixth Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert)
  • The Twin Sides of the Fossil Fuel Coin – Guy McPherson
  • There's No Tomorrow (peak oil, energy, growth & the future)
  • Threads (Nuclear War)
  • Tom Murphy: Growth has an Expiration Date
  • TOXIC: AMAZON – FULL LENGTH
  • Up & Coming Liquid Fuel Crisis by Tom Murphy
  • VICE Documentaries
  • What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire
  • Who's Afraid Of Machiavelli?

Notes and Documents

  • 'Conspiracy Theories' and Clandestine Politics
  • 'Green Energy' is a Myth
  • 10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America
  • 8 reasons why we need to rethink the management of phosphorus resources in the global food system
  • American Empire and Killing Hope – The Essays of William Blum
  • An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for US National Security
  • An Anarchist FAQ Webpage
  • An Inconvenient Truth: Does Responsible Consumption Benefit Corporations More Than Society?
  • Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism
  • Averting Collapse: 6 Steps
  • Below Crush Debt
  • Beyond Growth or Beyond Capitalism? A Reprise
  • Book review of Turchin’s “Secular Cycles” and “War & Peace & War”
  • BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED
  • Burning Energy to Keep Cool: The Hidden Energy Crisis in Saudi Arabia
  • Capitalism's Ideological Crutches
  • Carbon Trade Watch
  • Carmageddon and Karl Marx
  • Carmaggedon or Rational Discourse?
  • Charles Eisenstein Essays
  • Chatham House: Sustainable Energy Security
  • Climate and Social Stress: Implications for Security Analysis (2012)
  • Climate Change Infographics
  • Climate Change is Simple – We Do Something or We're Screwed
  • Climate Change: Just the Facts.
  • Climate World
  • Consistency in American Foreign Policy
  • Contemporary & Global Human Problems ~ Capitalism, Globalisation, and The Victims of Progress
  • Could the 'Black Death' Strike Again?
  • Dangerous Climate Warming: Myth & Reality
  • David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D.
  • Dennis Meadows: “There is nothing that we can do”
  • Desert
  • DieOff.org
  • Dinosaur, We
  • Dispelling myths about oil
  • Dr. Steven Best – Writings
  • Drill, Baby, Drill
  • Ecoglobe: Requiem
  • Economic Research – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  • Edward Morbius
  • Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI) for photovoltaic solar systems in regions of moderate insolation
  • English version of German military peak oil study
  • Entropy and Economics
  • Eric R. Pianka: The Vanishing Book of Life on Earth
  • Fire and Water (Nuclear Power)
  • Fleeing Babylon
  • FRACKING GONE WRONG: FINDING A BETTER WAY
  • Fracking: Series on the Eagle Ford Shale
  • Getting to the Nearest Star? Not in Our Lifetimes…If Ever!
  • Gleanings for an Understanding of the Endgame
  • Global Drought Monitor
  • Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
  • Global Warming & Climate Change Myths
  • Globalization and the Emergence of a Transnational Oligarchy
  • Green Capitalism: the God that Failed
  • Green Capitalism: The God That Failed (Updated)
  • Hirsch Report
  • How a Culture Dies
  • How Many Gigatons of Carbon Dioxide?
  • How to Avoid Population Overshoot and Collapse
  • Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind
  • Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
  • Intentional Ignorance
  • Interview with Jay Hanson
  • Is Global Collapse Imminent?
  • Jason W. Moore: Essays
  • Johnny Reb's Freethought Website
  • Julian Cribb
  • Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II – Part I by William Blum
  • Le Monde interview with Dr Robert Hirsch from September 2010
  • Life as a Manifestation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Life Begins at 40 : Awakening from the Matrix
  • Living Dangerously: Stories of Climate Change
  • Living for the Moment while Devaluing the Future
  • Lloyd's adds its voice to dire 'peak oil' warnings
  • Looking Back on the 'Limits to Growth'
  • Michael E. Mann
  • Mysterious Siberian Crater Found at "End of the World" May Portend Methane Climate Catastrophe
  • NATURAL CAPITAL AT RISK: THE TOP 100 EXTERNALITIES OF BUSINESS
  • Natural Law
  • Natural Way of Farming Masanobu – Fukuoka Green Philosophy
  • Net Energy and The Economy
  • NOAA & U.S. Geological Survey Interactive Sea Level Rise Map (up to 25 ft)
  • NOAA Interactive Sea Level Rise Map
  • Noam Chomsky on human extinction: The corporate elite are actively courting disaster
  • Oil and gas industry using military psyops techniques to reduce opposition to fracking
  • OilCrash.com
  • On Human Nature
  • OVERSHOOT LOOP: Evolution Under The Maximum Power Principle
  • Partnership for Civil Justice
  • Peak Coal
  • Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization
  • Peak Oil – A Turning Point for Mankind by Dr. Colin J. Campbell
  • Peak Oil Australia
  • Peter H. Gleick : Has the U.S. Passed the Point of Peak Water?
  • Peter H. Gleick: Water Scarcity Issues
  • Planetary Hospice: Rebirthing Planet Earth
  • Policy Makers Slow to Take Peak Oil Action
  • Portland Peak Oil Task Force
  • Power Point Presentation on “Corporate Globalization, Corporate Power, Free Trade, Mega Trade Agreements and the Negative Impacts of TPP” by Janet M Eaton, PhD
  • Power Shift Away From Green Illusions
  • Primitivism
  • Problem Solving: Complexity, History, Sustainability
  • Professor Charles Hall
  • Renewable energy – Hope or hype?
  • RENEWABLE ENERGY – THE ARGUMENT AGAINST ITS CAPACITY TO SUSTAIN AN ENERGY-INTENSIVE SOCIETY
  • Richard Reese on 'Near Term Extinction'
  • Saudi Arabia May Become Oil Importer by 2030
  • Searching for a Miracle: 'Net Energy' Limits & the Fate of Industrial Society
  • Secular Cycles, Chapter 1
  • Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
  • Stephanie McMillan's 'Capitalism Must Die'
  • Study by Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Fleming at the U.S. Army War College
  • TED talks – a recipe for civilisational disaster
  • The Anarchist Library
  • The Authoritarian Personality
  • The Bichler & Nitzan Archives
  • The climate threat: What our children can expect
  • The Collapse of Complex Societies
  • The Coming Reality of Sea Level Rise: Too Fast Too Soon
  • The Consumer Trap
  • The Current Mass Extinction
  • The Damage of Current Human Activities Without Precedent in Past 'Mass Extinction' Fossil Records.
  • The Discovery of Global Warming
  • The End of Growth
  • The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
  • The evolution and psychology of self-deception
  • The Free Press
  • The Future of Ice Sheets and Sea Ice: Between Reversible Retreat and Unstoppable Loss
  • The Gore Vidal Pages
  • The Great Oil Swindle
  • The human brain is in Denial.
  • The Human Nature of Unsustainability
  • The Idiot's Guide To Buying A Congressman
  • The Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations & U.S. Policy
  • The Limits to Growth (PDF scanned version)
  • The Loss of Biodiversity: a Dangerous Game
  • The Meritocracy Myth
  • The moral environment on Wall Street is pathological — money rules all
  • The Myth of the 1970′s Global Cooling Consensus
  • The myth of US self-sufficiency in crude oil
  • THE NEED FOR A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM: "…he feared that human society is headed for a crash."
  • The Network of Global Corporate Control
  • The New Middle Ages
  • The physics of long-run global economic growth
  • THE POPULATION PROBLEM AND SOCIALISM
  • The Power Elite
  • The Principle of Imminent Collapse
  • The Science of Apocalypse
  • The Story of P(ee)
  • The Temptation of The Technofix (The Quest for “New Nature”)
  • There Is No "Green" Energy
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon
  • Tilting at Windmills, Spain’s disastrous attempt to replace fossil fuels with Solar Photovoltaics
  • Tipping Towards the Unknown
  • Too many bodies? The return and disavowal of the population question
  • Trade-Off: Financial system supply-chain cross contagion – a study in global systemic collapse
  • Twenty Premises on Industrial Civilization from Derrick Jensen
  • Underminers: A Practical Guide to Radical Change
  • US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015
  • Wake Up Amerika!
  • We Are All Madoffs
  • Wealth and Inequality – Pareto, Gini and Contingency
  • What Evolution Is?
  • Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
  • Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power
  • Why shale gas won’t end our energy woes
  • Why Space Opera Won't Fly
  • Why won't planting trees stop global warming?
  • Zygmunt Bauman

RSS 3 Quarkes Daily

  • The only way to construct a robust philosophy for life is to have a clear and realistic picture of what makes humans tick
  • Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

RSS A Closer Look

  • Media bias chart March 15, 2019
  • 10 Journalism Brands Where You Find Real Facts Rather Than Alternative Facts March 10, 2019
  • Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors, updated 7/9/2017 July 12, 2018

RSS A Prosperous Way Down

  • Don’t come around here no more October 15, 2017
  • Systems thinking and the narrative of climate change July 21, 2017

RSS Adam Curtis Blog

  • SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME November 30, 2012
  • WHILE THE BAND PLAYED ON November 14, 2012
  • HE'S BEHIND YOU October 21, 2012

RSS Adam Vs The Man

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RSS AdBusters

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RSS Against the Grain

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RSS Aljazeera

  • Second journalist covering Gaza rally killed by Israeli forces April 25, 2018
  • Why is Macron courting Trump? April 25, 2018
  • What about N Korea's non-nuclear arsenal? April 25, 2018
  • Greeks protest against proposed pension cuts April 25, 2018
  • Kuwait expels Filipino envoy, recalls own ambassador April 25, 2018

RSS Aljazeera – Opinion

  • Greeks protest against proposed pension cuts April 25, 2018
  • Kuwait expels Filipino envoy, recalls own ambassador April 25, 2018
  • The DNC lawsuit against the Trump campaign could be a great thing April 25, 2018
  • Rouhani lashes out at Trump, says no changes to nuclear deal April 25, 2018
  • Light pollution undermining search for other planets April 25, 2018
  • Chemical inspectors reach second site of Douma 'gas attack' April 25, 2018
  • Collapse of North Korea nuclear site threatens fallout: report April 25, 2018

RSS All Tied Up and Nowhere to Go

  • Trump. He’s famous, you know February 28, 2017
  • Just saying February 6, 2017
  • Hate, and its antidote February 6, 2017
  • Melissa McCarthy slaps Spicer and Trump February 5, 2017
  • Deutschland zweiter, den Vereinigten Staatem zuerst February 5, 2017
  • The chaos February 3, 2017

RSS Alternative Radio

  • [David Cay Johnston] Trump: The Age of Mendacity April 19, 2018

RSS AlterNet

  • White House Refuses to Disavow Trump's Wildly Racist 'Muslim Ban' Campaign Promises April 25, 2018
  • Use This Approach to Explain That the Earth Is Round to Flat-Earth Conspiracy Theorists April 25, 2018
  • A New York Times Reporter Is Making a Stunning Admission That She Became an 'Unwitting Agent of Russian Intelligence' April 25, 2018
  • The Toronto Van Attacker Saluted an American Killer Before His Massacre While Hinting at a Deeply Disturbing Motive April 25, 2018

RSS Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

  • TSB under growing pressure as MPs and tech experts accuse bank of rushing botched IT upgrade April 25, 2018
  • Metro Bank shares slump on concerns further capital raise needed April 25, 2018
  • UK will not match US sanctions on Russia as Hammond blames EU dissent  April 25, 2018
  • European car sales accelerate, in sign diesel confusion in Britain behind UK demand falling  April 25, 2018
  • Comcast declares bidding war on Murdoch and Disney over Sky  April 25, 2018

RSS Anarchist News

  • “Network” underground in Russia April 25, 2018
  • Anarchy Radio 04-24-2018 April 25, 2018
  • MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency from the creator of Signal, just raised 30 million for mobile payments April 24, 2018
  • What does it mean to sell out? A Personal Approach to Setting a Standard April 24, 2018
  • Anews Podcast – episode 60 April 24, 2018

RSS Antony Loewenstein

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RSS Apocadocs

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RSS Arctic Emergency Institute

  • Declining Summer Sea Ice Threatens More than Arctic Wildlife August 25, 2012

RSS Arctic Methane Emergency Group (AMEG)

  • AMEG Strategic Plan December 8, 2012
  • Breaking the Chain November 27, 2012
  • AMEG Policy Brief September 23, 2012
  • The biggest story of all time September 1, 2012

RSS Arctic News

  • April 2018 Update April 24, 2018
  • Mars Today - A 'Business-As-Usual' Model for Earth Tomorrow April 22, 2018
  • Heat Storm April 17, 2018

RSS Arctic Sea Ice

  • PIOMAS April 2018 April 5, 2018
  • Bering goes extreme March 27, 2018
  • The 2018 melting season has started March 23, 2018
  • PIOMAS March 2018 March 6, 2018
  • Talk about unprecedented February 26, 2018

RSS Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

  • 2018 winter Arctic sea ice: Bering down April 4, 2018
  • Arctic sea ice maximum at second lowest in the satellite record March 23, 2018
  • A warm approach to the equinox March 6, 2018

RSS Around the Coast Mountains

  • The name’s Mark… Mark BC March 18, 2014
  • Packrafting / Fatbiking Buntzen Lake March 3, 2014
  • My New Surly Pugsley Fatbike Build February 11, 2014

RSS Arthur Silber

  • Horribly, Desperately Ill April 18, 2018
  • THIS IS SERIOUS, and a Proposal March 5, 2018
  • No More Hoorays for Hollywood March 4, 2018
  • Help, Please March 2, 2018

RSS Arundhati Roy

  • An exclusive extract from Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness May 27, 2017
  • Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: ‘He was small and lithe, like a house cat’ November 28, 2015

RSS Arundhati Roy Says

  • A perfect day for democracy February 9, 2013
  • Arundhati Roy speaks about the issue of rape in India December 22, 2012
  • We Call This Progress December 17, 2012

RSS ASPO – USA

  • Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd wants to almost triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline April 23, 2018
  • Peak Oil Review – 23 April 2018 April 23, 2018
  • The natural gas market dynamics in North America April 16, 2018
  • Peak Oil Review – 16 April 2018 April 16, 2018
  • The state of underinvestment in oil exploration and discoveries April 9, 2018
  • Peak Oil Review – 9 April 2018 April 9, 2018
  • Green Car Congress on SUV registrations in Europe in February 2018 April 2, 2018
  • Peak Oil Review – 2 April 2018 April 2, 2018
  • CEO of EOG Resources on the future of US Shale & Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in New Jersey on Nuclear Fusion Reactors March 26, 2018
  • Peak Oil Review – 26 Mar 2018 March 26, 2018

RSS Avedon’s Sideshow

  • The boundaries in between April 14, 2018
  • You're gonna reap just what you sow March 30, 2018
  • Don't stay too long March 19, 2018

RSS Bad Astronomy

  • The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr. Knows Exactly How Moonlight Won Best Picture: “Peak Blackness”
  • All Good Things
  • Shaking the Fabric of Reality

RSS Barbara Ehrenreich

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RSS BBC: Science & Environment

  • Gaia telescope's 'book of the heavens' takes shape April 25, 2018
  • 'Ground-breaking' galaxy collision detected April 25, 2018
  • Galileo: UK plan to launch rival to EU sat-nav system April 25, 2018

RSS Big Picture Agriculture

  • A Cather Poem Found in a Box of My "Stuff" April 25, 2018
  • A New Zealand Architect's Strawbale House April 24, 2018
  • Global Food and Agriculture Photos April 22, 2018 April 22, 2018
  • Wales Farm Auction 1950 April 19, 2018
  • How Does a Silk Farm Make Silk? April 17, 2018

RSS Bill Moyers

  • Additions to Our Trump-Russia Timelines April 24, 2018
  • A Timeline: Everything We Know So Far About the Comey Firing (in One Place) April 24, 2018
  • Interactive Timeline: Everything We Know About Russia and President Trump April 24, 2018

RSS Bit Tooth Energy

  • Waterjetting 37e - Using Cavitation to disintegrate rock November 18, 2015
  • Waterjetting 37d - Underground Drilling with Waterjets November 16, 2015
  • Waterjetting 37c - A Drilling Diversion October 14, 2015

RSS Bizarro Blog

  • Not All Dogs Go To Heaven April 24, 2018
  • The Waiting Room March 25, 2018
  • Mistaken Email Alert This Morning March 23, 2018
  • Tall Tail Tales March 18, 2018

RSS Brane Space

  • Trillions of Gallons Of Water Waste Traced To Food Waste April 25, 2018
  • IMF Debt Warning Ought To Send Chills Through Every Stock Investor April 24, 2018

RSS Brave New World

  • Tbilisi, Georgia — The City Where (Almost) Everyone Owns a Hotel April 14, 2018
  • South Sudan: “Fragile” State Ravaged by Famine and War March 19, 2018
  • Turkey Coup Attempt: Propaganda Beats Journalism July 18, 2016
  • Muhammad Ali: An American Muslim June 4, 2016

RSS Breaking the Set

  • Abby Martin Breaks the Set One Last Time February 28, 2015
  • Never Stop Breaking the Set! February 28, 2015
  • Cuba Part III: The Evolution of Revolution February 27, 2015
  • Cuba Part II: Ebola Solidarity & Castro’s Daughter on Gay Rights February 26, 2015
  • Why Are Americans Getting Their Medical Degrees in Cuba? February 26, 2015

RSS Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

  • Enough is enough: holding users of chemical weapons accountable April 23, 2018
  • How do we control dangerous biological research? April 12, 2018
  • New pathogen research rules: Gain of function, loss of clarity February 26, 2018

RSS Business Insider

  • People are furious that Kim Kardashian used a full frontal nude photo to promote her newest fragrance April 25, 2018
  • Jeff Bezos' $12 million home renovation apparently includes 25 bathrooms — and people have a lot of questions April 25, 2018
  • Facebook is launching a huge advertising blitz promising it will fix all its scandals April 25, 2018
  • A person has been arrested in the 'Golden State Killer' case — and fans are thanking Patton Oswald's late wife, Michelle McNamara April 25, 2018
  • George H.W. Bush says he is more concerned about the Houston Rockets' playoff series than his hospitalization April 25, 2018
  • Goldman Sachs is betting a Bachelorette star can boost its hot new business April 25, 2018
  • Allison Mack apparently tried to recruit a slew of prominent feminists for her alleged sex cult — here they are April 25, 2018
  • The Marine Corps is trying to turn its V-22 Osprey into a gunship April 25, 2018
  • I make $90,000 a year in the film and TV industry in Los Angeles — here's how I spend my paycheck April 25, 2018
  • A woman said her $20 eyeliner still looked flawless after a car crash — and people can't stop talking about her review April 25, 2018

RSS C-Realm

  • Automation and SJWs: A Conversation with James Howard Kunstler February 12, 2016
  • It's official. The Age of Limits gathering is on hiatus January 22, 2015
  • Three Conferences in Three Weeks June 13, 2014

RSS Cagle: Premium Cartoon News

  • Anti dandruff american shampoo April 25, 2018
  • Howdy Pardoner April 25, 2018
  • Waffle House Hero April 25, 2018
  • Trump VA Secretary Nominee April 25, 2018
  • Rudy Giuliani joins Trump team April 25, 2018
  • Gaza Attack April 25, 2018

RSS Cassandra’s Legacy

  • The road to the Seneca Cliff is paved with evil intentions. A new cycle of destruction of the world's forests may be starting April 23, 2018
  • Photovoltaics? Who in the world would want to spend money on such a silly idea? April 21, 2018
  • If you can't see it, it can kill you. Propaganda, for instance. April 17, 2018
  • Are our leaders mad, stupid, or evil? Or all the three things together? April 14, 2018
  • False Flag Operations: How Common Are They? April 13, 2018

RSS Censored News

  • Indigenous Women's Delegation in Switzerland Photos -- Camp Zürich Divest Credit Suisse April 25, 2018
  • L'eau Est La Vie Camp -- Occupying Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana April 25, 2018
  • Mohawk Nation News 'AFN Terrorism' April 24, 2018

RSS Center For Biological Diversity

  • 10 Sunny States Get Failing Grade for Rooftop-solar Policies April 25, 2018
  • Report: North Carolina's Endangered Red Wolves Down to 40, Could Be Extinct in Eight Years April 24, 2018
  • Senate GOP Aims to Weaken Protections for Whales, Other Marine Mammals April 24, 2018

RSS Center for Investigative Journalism

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RSS Center for Economic & Policy Research

  • An Overview of the 11th Ministerial Conference of the WTO April 25, 2018
  • The Irresponsibility of Fiscal Responsibility April 23, 2018
  • Harvard Teaches Us That Hedge Fund Managers Get Rich Even When They Mess Up April 16, 2018
  • New York State's Big Middle Finger to the Republican Tax Plan April 9, 2018

RSS Charles Eisenstein’s Blog

  • Das Zeitalter, in dem wir einander brauchen November 20, 2017
  • Charles Eisenstein zu Gast bei Oprah Winfrey: “Super Soul Sunday” – 16. Juli 2017 November 20, 2017

RSS Chomsky

  • The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What's Wrong with Libertarians June 9, 2013
  • Upcoming speaking event in Boston with Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, and Jeremy Scahill April 19, 2013

RSS Chris Hedges

  • Macron and Trump Talk New Iran Deal, But Is It Pie in the Sky? April 25, 2018

RSS Class Warfare Blog

  • Capitalism: A Conservative Christian Religion April 22, 2018
  • The Role of Religion in Society in a Nutshell April 22, 2018

RSS Cliff Schecter

  • Second journalist covering Gaza rally killed by Israeli forces April 25, 2018
  • Why is Macron courting Trump? April 25, 2018
  • What about N Korea's non-nuclear arsenal? April 25, 2018
  • Greeks protest against proposed pension cuts April 25, 2018
  • Kuwait expels Filipino envoy, recalls own ambassador April 25, 2018
  • The DNC lawsuit against the Trump campaign could be a great thing April 25, 2018

RSS Climate and Capitalism

  • The Keeling Curve at 60: A portrait of climate crisis April 24, 2018
  • Hugo Blanco on the indigenous struggle for land in Peru April 22, 2018
  • Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2018, Part 2 April 18, 2018
  • Five Revolutions: How bacteria created the biosphere and caused the first climate crisis April 17, 2018
  • Where’s the ‘eco’ in ecomodernism? April 16, 2018
  • Project Life: Cuba’s action plan prepares for climate change April 13, 2018

RSS Climate Central

  • Sea Level Stakes for the Caribbean, in Pictures
  • The 10 Most Important U.S. Climate Stories in 2017
  • Antarctic Modeling Pushes Up Sea-Level Rise Projections
  • How Smoke From California’s Fires is Harming the Most Vulnerable

RSS Climate Change: The Next Generation

  • Ben Santer, Charles Manski & Ray Weymann: Scientific American: Speaking Science to Power April 24, 2018
  • Algae, Impurities Darken Greenland Ice Sheet And Increases Melting April 8, 2018
  • Zack Labe: Gif of temperature anomalies by latitude and year (1951-1980 baseline) February 13, 2018

RSS Climate Citizen

  • Guest Post: What's your heatwave plan? January 27, 2018
  • March for climate justice in Bonn at COP23 calls for end to coal November 5, 2017
  • Australia and coal at Bonn Climate conference #COP23 November 4, 2017

RSS Climate Code Red

  • 1.5°C of warming is closer than we imagine, just a decade away April 4, 2018
  • What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures February 25, 2018
  • Do we have the capability to reverse global warming within a meaningful timeframe? February 11, 2018

RSS Climate Connections

  • Climate Connections Update February 5, 2015
  • CIC’s environmental and social justice photography contest open for entries January 9, 2015
  • FBI Harassing Activists in Pacific Northwest January 7, 2015

RSS Climate Denial Crock of the Week

  • Republicans Enacting Anti-Science Agenda at NASA, EPA April 25, 2018
  • Macron: “No Planet B”. Psst. Now Tell your new Bud… April 25, 2018
  • US Schools Becoming STEM Deserts April 25, 2018

RSS Climate Progress

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RSS Climate Snapshot

  • "Carbon tsunami" lead by Enbridge Northern Gateway takes aim at BC June 18, 2014
  • BC's tar sands? Thirteen proposed LNG projects equivalent to 13 times current BC emissions June 9, 2014
  • Car Carbon series: cool new animation, plus the jaw-dropping impact it left out May 13, 2014
  • Climate change fuels both California's record drought and "polar vortex" storms May 6, 2014

RSS ClimateSight

  • I am an Almost-Doctor! February 27, 2018
  • Interview at Forecast February 21, 2018
  • At the library February 13, 2018

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  • Why the DNC Is Fighting WikiLeaks and Not Wall Street April 25, 2018
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  • On ‘Openness’ and Deceit April 24, 2018

RSS Consumer Energy Report

  • Notice: New R-Squared Is rrapier.com June 3, 2017
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  • Loss of Community August 23, 2017

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  • The Impossible World Called America! April 25, 2018
  • GMI + JG = paid work as a choice for all April 23, 2018
  • Superstitious April 23, 2018
  • Sunday photoblogging: sculpture of divers, Oslo April 22, 2018

RSS Crooks and Liars

  • Macron's Speech To Congress Smacks Trump Isolationism April 25, 2018
  • Sarah Kendzior Graces Seth Myers With 9 Straight Minutes Of Brilliance April 25, 2018
  • White House Blames Tight Arizona Race On GOP Candidate Not Being Trump April 25, 2018
  • Laura Ingraham Whines On Radio Show: Fox Advertisers 'Gave Into The Mob' April 25, 2018

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  • Self-Immolation as the World Burns: An Earth Day Report April 22, 2018
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  • Cartoon: A matter of perspective April 23, 2018
  • Cartoon: Coffee sensitivity training April 20, 2018

RSS Damn the Matrix

  • Finally…… out of the ground. April 25, 2018
  • A question too obvious… April 24, 2018

RSS Dan Hagen

  • Fox Is Fiction, Not Fact April 17, 2018
  • Fox News Judgment April 10, 2018

RSS Dangerous Intersection

  • It’s Time to Clean Up Missouri Politics: About the CLEAN MISSOURI Ballot Initiative April 20, 2018
  • Jeffrey Sachs Traces U.S. Syria Mistakes from Trump back to Obama April 20, 2018
  • Research Tools – the Beginning of a Collection April 19, 2018

RSS Dark Ages America

  • 330 April 24, 2018
  • Twelve Years On April 12, 2018
  • Turkeys out of Control! March 31, 2018
  • Turkeys on the March! March 23, 2018

RSS David Bollier

  • Some Recent Interviews about the Commons April 10, 2018
  • Now Underway, a Neocolonial Land Grab on Barbuda March 16, 2018
  • The Commons Transition Primer Demystifies and Delights January 8, 2018

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  • Audio: Jacobin Radio interview with Suzi Weissman: David Harvey on Marx Today April 25, 2018
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RSS David Hilfiker

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RSS David McNally

  • My top Five Films and Novels of 2017 January 3, 2018
  • Of Hegel and Bernie Sanders March 14, 2017

RSS David Roberts

  • Seattle’s unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck June 5, 2015
  • Please support Grist April 10, 2015
  • There’s an emerging right-wing divide on climate denial. Here’s what it means (and doesn’t) April 8, 2015

RSS Death by Car: Capitalism’s Drive to Carmageddon

  • A Day in the Life April 8, 2018
  • Guns and Cars March 24, 2018
  • How We Kill Our Children February 27, 2018
  • Untitled February 1, 2018
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RSS Decline of the Empire

  • The Best Kept Secret On Earth
  • Adventures In Flatland — Part IV

RSS Deep Green Resistence News Service

  • Soft Power April 24, 2018
  • Where’s the “Eco” in Ecomodernism? April 23, 2018
  • Buffalo Activist’s Relief Fund April 22, 2018
  • India: A Changing Landscape for the Bonda Highlanders April 21, 2018

RSS Deepak Tripathi’s Diary

  • The United Kingdom in 2017: Divided, Scandalised and Lost December 21, 2017
  • Sex, Lies and Incompetence: Britain’s Ruling Establishment in Crisis November 17, 2017

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  • 7 governors launch unprecedented effort to study gun violence April 25, 2018
  • Poll: Most voters say they haven't seen pay boost from tax law April 25, 2018
  • Carson proposes that poor should pay more rent April 25, 2018
  • Chafee will 'very likely' challenge Whitehouse for US Senate April 25, 2018
  • Don't Gut Coal Ash Rules, Communities Beg EPA at Hearing April 25, 2018
  • Patriots' Owner Robert Kraft Forcefully Criticized Trump at Secret NFL Meeting Last Fall April 25, 2018
  • HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose tripling rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing April 25, 2018
  • Trump set for official UK visit in July minus pomp and ceremony April 25, 2018
  • France's Macron calls on U.S. to engage world, reject nationalism April 25, 2018
  • After Toronto attack, online misogynists praise suspect as 'new saint' April 25, 2018

RSS Democratic Underground – Good Reads

  • "Greatest Scam in History and a Colossal Pump-and-Dump Scheme-Bitcoin"/ Fmr PayPal CEO Bill Harris April 25, 2018
  • Giant Chicken Houses Overrun Delmarva, and Neighbors Fear It's Making Them Sick April 25, 2018
  • Ignatius: Key to Mueller investigation is Manaforts finances April 25, 2018
  • Commentary: Food stamp work requirement solves nothing April 25, 2018
  • First Trump State Dinner Brings Billionaires And Administration Officials April 25, 2018
  • 9,000 Nepalis face deportation as Trump administration prepares to cancel residency permits April 25, 2018
  • Sean Hannity's real estate venture linked to fraudulent property dealer April 25, 2018
  • WWII Sub Rumoured to Have Taken Top Nazis to South America Found Off Danish Coast April 24, 2018
  • Veteran receives penis and scrotum transplant in surgery doctors say is a medical first April 24, 2018
  • She created a document to warn women of sexual harassers. It's haunted her ever since. April 24, 2018

RSS Democracy Now

  • Arizona Reproductive Justice Activist, Now Free from ICE Jail, Says She Was Targeted for Activism April 25, 2018
  • Burying Fetal Remains: Court Strikes Down Indiana Law Signed by Mike Pence April 25, 2018
  • Texas Woman: I Was Forced to Consent to Bury Fetal Remains After Miscarriage in “Horrific” Ordeal April 25, 2018
  • Trump Decries Iran Nuclear Deal as He Fills Cabinet with Advocates Pushing Regime Change in Tehran April 25, 2018
  • Headlines for April 25, 2018 April 25, 2018
  • Activists Demand Release of Manuel Duran, Prominent Latino Journalist in Memphis Jailed by ICE April 24, 2018
  • The Untold Story of How Fidel Castro's Love Affair with ABC Journalist Altered U.S.-Cuban Relations April 24, 2018
  • As Cuba Gains a New President, Raúl Castro Steps Back, Not Down, from Power April 24, 2018
  • No End in Sight for US-Backed Yemen War as Airstrike Kills At Least 20, Including Bride, at Wedding April 24, 2018
  • Headlines for April 24, 2018 April 24, 2018

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RSS Desdemona Despair

  • Relative timing of species interactions has changed substantially in recent decades – “Many species interactions from around the world are in a state of rapid flux” April 25, 2018
  • Weird wildlife ventures to northern Alaska as Arctic climate warms – “It’s amazing but also a bit concerning. The change is happening so, so fast.” April 25, 2018
  • Trump administration considers charging for popular Earth-observing data as scientists object – “It would be just a huge setback” April 25, 2018
  • Researchers measure record concentration of microplastic in Arctic sea ice – “No one can say for certain how harmful these tiny plastic particles are for marine life, or ultimately also for human beings” April 25, 2018
  • Costa Rica prepares to export 10 tons of hammerhead shark fins – “The Costa Rican Fishery authority has allowed fishing efforts upon hammerhead sharks to continue at their current unsustainable levels” April 24, 2018
  • Great Barrier Reef saw huge losses from 2016 heatwave – “The study paints a bleak picture of the sheer extent of coral loss on the Great Barrier Reef” April 22, 2018

RSS Desertification

  • Untitled December 10, 2017
  • Temporary closure of this blog July 27, 2017
  • Taking resilient food security to scale means supporting innovation among millions of farmers over millions of hectares July 16, 2017
  • Key insights from the 17th Meeting of the GCF Board in Songdo, Korea July 16, 2017
  • Number of people needing humanitarian assistance on the rise July 16, 2017

RSS deSmog Blog

  • UK Climate Diplomacy Staff Cut Again as Post-Brexit Links to Trump and US Deniers Strengthen November 24, 2016
  • Is Fossil Fuel Industry Secretly Behind a New Campaign Against Fossil Fuel Divestment? April 25, 2018
  • Pruitt's 'Transparency' Rule Would Use Big Tobacco Plan to Gut EPA Science April 24, 2018

RSS Digbys Blog

  • Politics of the hat April 25, 2018
  • Will Lesko win again in November? April 25, 2018
  • Presidential l'amour among the Roman columns April 25, 2018
  • No DeLay in Trumpish corruption by @BloggersRUs April 25, 2018
  • Poor Ronny April 25, 2018
  • Incel Rebellion? April 24, 2018

RSS Disinfo – Ecology

  • The Alchemical Ecology Of The Secret Commonwealth: A Solution To The UFO Enigma April 12, 2018
  • Good King Crab: An Arctic Shaman’s Death Song February 25, 2018
  • Invasion of the earthworms, mapped and analyzed April 22, 2015
  • “People often ask me, ‘How can you be so stupid and still proclaim yourself a communist?’” — Slavoj Žižek January 30, 2015
  • Toxoplasmosis: how feral cats kill wildlife without lifting a paw October 6, 2014

RSS Dispatches from the Underclass

  • Unauthorized Disclosure — Episode 21: People’s Movement Must Be More Outspoken On Wars June 21, 2017
  • Interview With Abby Martin And Michael Prysner On Venezuelan Opposition & Attacks On Journalism June 12, 2017
  • An Essential And Critical Conversation On Trump’s Hasty Decision To Attack Syria April 9, 2017
  • Interview With Mark Ames: The Unending Baffling Frenzy Over Trump, Putin, And Russia March 27, 2017
  • Interview With Patrick Cockburn: Islamic State And The Ongoing Wars In The Middle East March 23, 2017

RSS Dissent Magazine

  • The Class Politics of Teeth April 24, 2018
  • A Dismal Report Card on Global Inequality April 20, 2018
  • Belabored Podcast #149: Voices from the Labor Notes Conference 2018 April 20, 2018
  • Disembowel Enoch Powell April 18, 2018

RSS Dissident Voice

  • Diagnosing the West with Sadistic Personality Disorder (SPD) April 25, 2018
  • Douma: Deception In Plain Sight April 25, 2018
  • Plunder Down Under: The Rot in Australia’s Financial Services April 25, 2018
  • Heroes and Villains: The Daily Show in a Homeless Shelter April 25, 2018
  • The Ghost of Herut: Einstein on Israel, 70 Years Ago April 25, 2018
  • Winnie Mandela and Apartheid’s Hidden History April 24, 2018
  • How Yulia and Sergei Skripal (and their cat) Saved the World! April 24, 2018
  • Is the U.S. Government Evil? You Tell Me April 24, 2018

RSS Do the Math

  • Eclipsed, Lately September 11, 2017

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RSS Douglas Rushkoff

  • Cannabis: Stealth Goddess April 19, 2018
  • Team Human: A Sourdough, Solar-Powered Baker b/w An Artificial Intelligence Artist April 4, 2018
  • Team Human: Live at Gray Area Night Two: Erik Davis, Josette Melchor, and Lauren McCarthy March 23, 2018

RSS Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

  • The Real War Criminals Escape Justice April 25, 2018
  • US Military Officers: The Last Source of Decency in America April 25, 2018

RSS Dredd Blog

  • Questionable "Scientific" Papers - 18 April 25, 2018
  • The King of King Tides Approaches - 2 April 24, 2018
  • Ents & The Entities Become Nomadic - 3 April 23, 2018
  • Follow The Immunity - 4 April 20, 2018

RSS Ear to the Ground – Truth Dig

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RSS Early Warning

  • The Wake-Up Call from David Buckel April 16, 2018
  • US Carbon Emissions December 11, 2017
  • Are Winters Getting Warmer in Ithaca, NY? January 6, 2014

RSS Earth First

  • “UNC Dildo-Boy” accosts homophobic preacher, releases anti-technology declaration March 2, 2014
  • Subpoena caps bad week for fossil fuel March 2, 2014
  • Less Than 60 Hours Left to Support Indigenous Land Defenders! February 18, 2014

RSS Earth Observatory: Image of the Day, Natural Hazards, and News

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RSS Earth Observatory: Image of the Day

  • A Ring of Green Around Surgut April 25, 2018
  • Sun Sends an Early Earth Day Greeting April 24, 2018
  • A Clear View of Scottish Highlands April 23, 2018

RSS Earth Observatory: Natural Hazards

  • Late Spring Snow in the Upper Midwest April 20, 2018
  • NASA Mapping Hurricane Damage to Everglades April 19, 2018

RSS Earth Policy Institute Blog

  • Data Highlight - Wind Power Beats Nuclear Again in China
  • Data Highlight - Plastic Bag Bans or Fees Cover 49 Million Americans
  • Plan B Update - Fossil Fuel Development in the Arctic is a Bad Investment

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RSS Ecohuman World

  • Our mission November 23, 2016
  • Ecohumanist society and ecology November 23, 2016

RSS Eco-Shock News

  • 50 BLOG TOPICS AND PROMPTS FOR TEACHERS October 26, 2017

RSS Ecological Headstand

  • For the Abolition of the Wages System! June 18, 2015
  • The Incredible Shrinking Blog June 9, 2015
  • Keynes "hadn't got round to it" May 25, 2015
  • Napoleon Solow and the Phantom Mechanism May 20, 2015

RSS Ecological Sociology

  • Commons Enabling Infrastucture August 31, 2013
  • A Short History of Progress: Book Review August 26, 2013
  • Foucault, Power, Truth and Ecology August 14, 2013

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RSS Economic Undertow

  • Hit and Run … April 11, 2018
  • Another Year, Another Set of Last Year’s Problems January 21, 2018
  • Shades of 1928 December 7, 2017

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RSS Empire Burlesque

  • Pulling Strings But Losing the Thread: All Day Permanent Red April 23, 2018
  • Art News for an Age of Goonery April 15, 2018

RSS Empirical Magazine

  • From the Empirical Archives: Genius or Folly? August 30, 2013
  • From the Empirical Archives: Nights Such as These August 29, 2013
  • From the Empirical Archives: Second Time Foster Child August 28, 2013

RSS EmptyWheel

  • What Happened To The Cultural Elites: I Just Work Here
  • Mueller’s Entirely Redacted Three Bullets and a Theory of the Case
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RSS End of More

  • You won’t like downsizing February 17, 2016
  • Enough is enough November 11, 2014
  • New names for tropical storms August 28, 2013
  • The dominant species on Earth. March 25, 2013

RSS Energy Balance

  • Roman concrete, for durable, eco-friendly construction – applications for tidal power generation, and protection against sea level rise. April 21, 2018
  • Providing Good Nutrition on Home Soil - Back to the Future? April 1, 2018
  • Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels. Dieter Helm. February 11, 2018
  • US withdrawal from the COP21 Paris Climate Change Agreement, and its possible implications. February 8, 2018
  • Global Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Highest in 800,000 Years: World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Report. November 8, 2017
  • The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Awarded for: “The Design and Synthesis of Molecular Machines.” October 10, 2016

RSS Environment & Food Justice

  • Guest Earth Day Post | Linda Black Elk - Earth Day Message April 22, 2018
  • Monsanto in Mexico | Breaking News: Mexican Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Ban on Transgenic Corn May 12, 2017
  • Indigenous Agroecology and Foodways | Selected Clips from the Joint 2016 Meeting of the Agrarian Trust and Biodynamics Association May 1, 2017

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RSS Extraenvironmentalist Blog and Podcasts

  • [ Episode #95 // Economy of Things ] January 28, 2017
  • [ Episode #94 // Rocking the Google Bus ] October 25, 2016
  • [ Episode #93 // Climate Agreements ] September 5, 2016

RSS ExtraEnvironmentalist’s Videos

  • [ Rick Wolff // A Cure for Capitalism ]
    Professor Rick Wolff explains why growth has become a focus of our modern political system. He describes how inequality is created by the way our enterprises are organized. Because a significant portion of our lives are at work, how would our society look if democratic businesses became the new normal? What would be the environmental and social implications […]
  • [ Firefly Gathering ]
    The Firefly Gathering offers a wide range of classes for adults and children on primitive skills, permaculture, nature connection, and eco-homesteading that are designed to be able to be applied to enhance everyday life. The gathering gathers a bevy of inspiring, amazing people. Besides classes it offers evening entertainment, basic infrastructure, and on-si […]

RSS Facts for Working People

  • The value (price and profit) of everything April 25, 2018
  • Korean Peninsula in Historic Peace Talks April 23, 2018
  • Israeli Jew Talks to Young Palestinians in Gaza April 23, 2018

RSS Fair: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

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RSS Farooque Chowdhury’s Diary

  • The disinformation campaign on Venezuela September 1, 2017
  • Bangladesh Liberation War Exposed A Neocolonial State’s Failure December 16, 2015
  • DIGNITY OF TEACHERS AND AN ADMISSION TEST : THE EDUCATION MARKET EXHIBITS ………. September 23, 2015

RSS Feasta

  • Celebrating Feasta’s 20th anniversary April 17, 2018
  • Cursed to live in interesting times April 17, 2018
  • From Ivory Tower to global problem solver – aligning academia to the Sustainable Development Goals April 13, 2018

RSS FireDogLake

  • Daily Beast’s Jonathan Alter: Democrats Need Less Democracy To Win 2018 Midterm Elections April 25, 2018
  • Protest Song Of The Week: ‘YDTMHTL’ By War On Women April 25, 2018
  • Border Patrol Arrests, Targeting Of Immigrant Activists Rises Dramatically In Vermont April 24, 2018
  • Community Investment, Safety Without Cops: Good Kids Mad City Organizes Against Gun Violence April 23, 2018

RSS Fish Out of Water

  • A Mexican Immigrant Saved the World March 1, 2018
  • Czech Snowboarder Ester Ledecka Borrows Skis for Super-G Has Best Reaction to Impossible Olympic Win February 18, 2018
  • Polar vortex splits, record high heat into polar stratosphere, record low arctic sea ice February 12, 2018
  • Dow Drops 1033 More After Trump/GOP Budget Revealed. Investors Fear High Inflation, Low Growth. February 8, 2018
  • Dow Down 1,175 points. Yellen-Obama Era of Stability Over. Markets fear inflation from tax cut. February 5, 2018
  • U.S. Plans More Options for Nuclear War January 10, 2018

RSS Foreign Confidential

  • Celebrating the Legacy of George F. Kennan, Containment's Father February 20, 2018
  • Was the Cold War Inevitable? February 20, 2018
  • Understanding the Realist View of International Relations February 20, 2018
  • Once Upon a Time in America, Incredibly, Foreign Policy Was a Serious TV Topic: Vintage Video of Politcal Realist Hans Morgenthau February 16, 2018

RSS FracTracker

  • New map available showing Upper Appalachian gas storage wells April 11, 2018
  • Can Californians Escape Oil and Gas Pollution? April 11, 2018
  • Shell Pipeline: Not Quite the “Good Neighbor” April 2, 2018

RSS George Monbiot (Alternet)

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RSS Get Real List: Chris Nelder

  • My new gig December 5, 2015
  • Announcing the Energy Transition Show October 14, 2015
  • Guest appearance on The Energy Gang podcast May 14, 2015

RSS Gil Smart

  • Gil Smart right on development February 8, 2015
  • With Gil Smart on guns, the NRA January 19, 2015
  • Gil Smart makes sense May 19, 2014
  • Right on, Gil Smart February 17, 2014

RSS Glen Ford – Black Agenda Report

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RSS Global Guerrillas

  • How the EU could change the world through Data Asylum April 19, 2018
  • Moral Warfare: Packetizing Shame April 17, 2018
  • A Clash of Three Decision Making Systems: Fascism, Communism, and Democracy April 16, 2018

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RSS Global Oneness Project

  • In Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. January 11, 2018

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RSS Green is the New Red

  • Trump Supporter Promises Legislation to Label Protest as “Economic Terrorism” November 22, 2016
  • Violence against environmentalists is now at an all-time high July 8, 2016
  • “To Build a Fire”: New Split EP With “Old Lines” and Will Potter June 13, 2016
  • “It changes who you are—forever. What you do with that change is what defines who you are.” April 28, 2016
  • Exclusive: New Virtual Reality Investigation Goes Inside Factory Farms April 13, 2016
  • New Sticker — Animal Rights Activists Must “Join or Die” February 22, 2016
  • “Truth and Power” TV series features Will Potter on “eco-terrorism,” ag-gag laws, and investigative journalism February 15, 2016
  • This woman rowed straight into a hurricane. And you should too. February 11, 2016
  • 6 Lessons From How the FBI and Media Treat Militia Groups January 12, 2016
  • Here’s How One Activist Convinced the FBI to Leave Him Alone December 7, 2015

RSS Green on Huffington Post

  • Scott Pruitt Is Either A Liar Or Grossly Incompetent April 25, 2018
  • Emmanuel Macron Takes Aim At Trump On Climate Change In Congressional Address April 25, 2018
  • Scott Pruitt Proposes ‘Transparency’ Rule To Limit The EPA’s Use Of Public Health Studies April 24, 2018
  • Andrew Cuomo Faces A Big Test On Climate Change. He’s Already Failed Twice. April 23, 2018
  • Man Who Survived Bear Attack Gets Bitten By A Shark April 23, 2018
  • Scott Pruitt's Public Service Mostly Involves Serving Himself April 23, 2018
  • How To Find Beauty Products That Aren’t Totally Killing The Planet April 23, 2018
  • Even In Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt Had Expensive Taste When It Came To Office Decor April 23, 2018

RSS Greenpeace Blogs

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RSS Greg Palast

  • KPFA Presents The Bay Area Premiere of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case Of The Stolen Election April 18, 2018
  • Palast with ACLU Kansas Announces Legal Attack on Trump Double-Voter Claims and Purges April 6, 2018

RSS Gregor Macdonald

  • Oil Fall: Part One, California ICE January 21, 2018

RSS Grinning Planet

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RSS Grist

  • California’s next megaflood would be worse than eight Hurricane Katrinas April 25, 2018
  • Activists head to court after shutting down pipelines. Their defense? Climate change. April 24, 2018
  • France declares that ‘vegan bacon’ is not a thing. April 24, 2018
  • Meet the 20-year-old Republican with an environmental agenda April 24, 2018

RSS Growth Busters

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RSS Guernica Mag

  • Journey in Blue: Myths of the Mediterranean April 24, 2018
  • The “Real” DMZ April 24, 2018
  • What Sharp Teeth You Have April 23, 2018
  • Striving for Purpose April 19, 2018

RSS Guy McPherson’s Blog

  • Our Potential Legacy April 25, 2018
  • Tim Bob: Obscene Design April 24, 2018

RSS Health After Oil

  • Public Health’s Response to Decline: Loyalty to the 1% December 15, 2014

RSS Hot Topic: Global Warming and the Future of New Zealand

  • Anthropogenic climate change is real: pithy post-punk anthem for the Trump generation December 9, 2017
  • Why (and how) cheaper solar power, batteries, electric and autonomous vehicles are going to change our world over the next 5 years September 16, 2017
  • At last it can be revealed: climate change researcher describes challenge of pulling off worldwide global warming conspiracy September 10, 2017

RSS How to Save the World

  • Collapse Watch April 25, 2018
  • All The Things I Thought I Knew April 18, 2018
  • Links of the Quarter: March 2018 March 16, 2018

RSS I am Not a Number

  • Coercive Control In The Workplace January 17, 2018
  • Neoliberal identity politics has failed and has to be replaced with class politics January 6, 2018
  • Higher Ground? November 17, 2017

RSS I Cite

  • Kurt Andersen Can't Read September 7, 2017
  • the political problem of "and" April 25, 2017
  • Lenin: Capitalism and Female Labor (1913) March 25, 2017
  • Response to Luke Mergner March 24, 2017
  • Civil war and free speech March 4, 2017

RSS Iamronen

  • Allergic response reflected in Breath? April 23, 2018
  • Christopher Alexander – A Freedom Inducing World April 15, 2018
  • Christopher Alexander – The Stress Reservoir April 15, 2018
  • Christopher Alexander – Freedom of the Spirit April 14, 2018
  • Christopher Alexander – More of a Person April 11, 2018

RSS Ian Welsh

  • Centrist Elites: Please Save Democracy From Democracy April 24, 2018

RSS Idea Explorer

  • Timelines February 23, 2018
  • Failed Responsibility August 20, 2017
  • Avoiding Harm: A Primer August 15, 2017
  • Diminished Futures July 29, 2017
  • Declaration of War June 2, 2017

RSS Idea Explorer – Big Pic Explorer

  • Survival of the Realists May 9, 2015
  • Last Years May 3, 2015
  • Accelerating extinction risk from climate change May 1, 2015

RSS Idea Explorer: Land of Conscience

  • Beyond the Rabbit Hole November 5, 2017
  • No Winners August 14, 2017
  • Terms of Derision March 30, 2017

RSS If You Love This Planet – Helen Caldicott

  • Steven Starr, Bruce Gagnon and William Hartung at the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction symposium April 18, 2017
  • Dr. Helen Caldicott, Ted Postol, Max Tegmark and Alan Robock at The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction symposium June 23, 2016
  • Dr. Caldicott’s October 2014 speech: The Ukraine Crisis, Is Nuclear Conflict Likely? February 17, 2015
  • Dr. Helen Caldicott interviewed by Bob Herbert about her latest book, “Loving This Planet” December 28, 2012

RSS Indybay Features

  • Governor Brown, Please Step Up
  • Community Control Over Police Surveillance Spreads
  • Hunger Strike Underway at Santa Clara County Jails
  • U.S. Missile Strikes on Syria Ignite Bay Area Demonstrations

RSS Indybay Newswire

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  • The Hidden Hand of a Casino Company in Trump’s Contact with Vietnam — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast April 25, 2018

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  • How to get the new Gmail, if you can April 25, 2018
  • The internet’s core infrastructure was hacked to steal ethereum from a popular wallet service April 25, 2018
  • Mick Mulvaney’s full speech to bankers about “burning down” consumer protection April 25, 2018

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  • The Toronto attack brought out the worst dregs of the far right April 25, 2018
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  • In 2019 Trudeau Liberals plan to campaign like it's 2015 April 24, 2018

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