PILLOWTALK: How Hard Could It Be? (Deborah Goodwin)

"Our Simple Pumpkin, Halloween 2011" courtesy of Jackie Knoch Shitemi Nov. 1, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- I was missing good bread, bakery bread, chewy "artisan" bread, baguettes in particular. Like the k ...

The World After Industrial Civilization Goes (Jan Lundberg)

Usher in the "new" economics of local self-sufficiency and community cooperation Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man* - Imagine, John Lennon *L ...

Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 21, 2011 -- “When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.” Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions o ...

Dante’s Slope (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 17, 2011 -- I have been at loose ends now for two, could it be going on three years? Without a phone or an address to call my own, I have access to these thin ...

Why the revolution must start in America (Chris Hedges)

Tyler Hicks / Redux / The New York Times Audio version read by George Atherton – Right-click to download June 16, 2011 (AdBusters) -- The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, th ...

Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)

June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” --Stev ...

Inflation Hits Money and Lies (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Apr. 16, 2011 -- How do the powerful keep the U.S. population dumb and distracted? A key tactic has been using methodologies that produce totally misleading underestimates of key economic factors. Fi ...

Emotional Resilience In Traumatic Times (Carolyn Baker)

Apr. 15, 2011 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- While mainstream media have been encouraging collective dithering over a possible U.S. government shutdown, the chilling realities of off-the-chart levels o ...

Japan’s ‘BP Moment’ Troubles Global Economy (William Pesek)

Mar. 20, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- You never want to kick a nation when it’s down. It’s time, though, to consider the depth of Japan’s coming recession. A week ago, before radiation fears prompted a mass e ...

US Wholesale prices up 1.6 pct. on steep rise in food (AP)

Wholesale prices rise 1.6 pct. due to biggest jump in food costs in more than 36 years Mar. 16, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to hi ...

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)

Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - ...