Legitimacy Dwindles (James Kunstler)

Dec. 22, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Zounds! Public sentiment toward the accelerating economic fiasco has shifted, seemingly overnight, from a mood of nauseated amazement to one of panicked grievance ...

People Get Ready (James Kunstler)

Dec. 8, 2008 (World News Trust) -- In the twilight of the Bush days, in the twilight of the twilight season, a consensus has formed that we are headed into a long, dark passage leading we know not wh ...

Does Mr. O Know? (James Kunstler)

Dec. 1, 2008 (World News Trust) -- A lot of readers are twanging on me for refraining to castigate President-elect Obama for deeds yet undone. They're discouraged by the advisors and cabinet sectetar ...

VIDEO: Thanksgiving Prayer (William S. Burroughs)

This poem resonates today as exposing what has gone horribly wrong in the USA, or maybe what has always been wrong. This is a short film by Gus Van Sant of Mr. Burroughs reading his poem called Thank ...

Zombie Economics (James Kunstler)

Nov. 24, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Though Citicorp is deemed too big to fail, it's hardly reassuring to know that it's been allowed to sink its fangs into the Mother Zombie that the U.S. Treasury ha ...

In the Reality Lounge (James Kunstler)

Nov. 17, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The G-20 came to Washington for the weekend and sucked all the air out of the city before announcing that they were really serious about patching all the leaks in ...

Presto Change-o (James Kunstler)

Nov. 10, 2008 (World News Trust) -- As the election campaign ground on like a 3000-mile race between a greyhound and an armadillo, the media kept harping on Barack Obama's vague promises of "change." ...

A Nervous Nation (James Kunstler)

Nov. 3, 2008 (World News Trust) -- This is a nervous nation. Though I'm usually allergic to paranoia, something makes me think that there's a back office in the U.S. Treasury that is buying the entir ...

Easthampton Burning? (James Kunstler)

Oct. 27, 2008 (World News Trust) -- In the typhoon of commentary that's blown around the world a step behind the financial tsunami that's wrecking everything, two little words have been curiously abs ...

What Now? (James Kunstler)

Oct. 20, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It's fascinating to read the commentators in mainstream journals like The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal all strenuously pretending that "the worst is ...

The Nausea Express (James Kunstler)

Oct. 13, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The G-7 world, the club of "developed" western nations plus Japan, has commenced an ordeal of suddenly waking up much poorer.