Life Preservers for Mermaids | John Michael Greer

Sept. 18, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- The new religious sensibility I began to sketch out in last week’s Archdruid Report post is a subtle thing, and easy to misunderstand. It was thus inevitable that ...

A Sense of Homecoming | John Michael Greer

Sept. 11, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report was, as some of my readers grasped, more than an attempt to imagine the far future without reference to the contempo ...

Great Feelings of Love (for ALL earthlings) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 11, 2013 “At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” - Che Guevara On ...

Which Side Are You On? | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 16, 2013 "There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin How muc ...

The Quest for a Common Language | John Michael Greer

July 24, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- It was probably inevitable that my comment last week about the pseudoconservative crusade against Darwinian evolution in today’s America would attract more attenti ...

Role Reversal: How the US Became the USSR | Paul Craig Roberts

Cardinal Joseph MindszentyJuly 23, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- I spent the summer of 1961 behind the Iron Curtain. I was part of the U.S.-USSR student exchange program. It was the second year of the p ...

What Actually Happens | John Michael Greer

June 19, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- When you think about it, it’s really rather odd that so many people nowadays should be so hostile to the suggestion that history moves in circles. Central to the r ...

Sectarianism and the Irrational New Discourse: Why Arabs Must Worry | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 12, 2013 My friend Hanna is Syrian and also happens to be Christian. The latter fact was rarely of consequence, except whenever he wished to boast about the cont ...

A Question of Values | John Michael Greer

June 12, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Oswald Spengler, whose theory of historical cycles was discussed in last week’s post, was far from the first scholar to propose that the future of modern industria ...

The Politics of Time's Shape | John Michael Greer

May 22, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s discussion was a bit of a divagation from the main theme of the present sequence of posts on The Archdruid Report, but it was a divagation with a purpos ...

Angelina Jolie, Corporate Science, and “Prevention” | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Corporate science puts profit before the public interest. Corporate science is often secretive, not peer-reviewed, laden with lobbying power, an ...