Americans Have Lost Their Country (Paul Craig Roberts)

In a few short years, the Bush-Cheney regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions and the remains of America's moral reputation, along with the infrastru ...

Magical Thinking (John Michael Greer)

Our society, like all others, picks and chooses among available technological options, implementing some and neglecting others.

Global Systemic Crisis -- April 2007: Inflexion Point Of The Phase Of Impact (Leap/E2020)

U.S. economy enters recession.

Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires (Matt Taibbi)

While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.

TIC Tock (Stephen S. Roach)

The U.S. Treasury’s latest report on international capital flows came as a shocker.

Homophobia & the war are not separate issues (lwfern)

White Capitalist Patriarchy + Power = Exploitation of everyone else

Red Kite, Global Alpha, Goldman Sachs: First systemic failures in the financial system (Leap/E2020)

Leap/E2020 -- Decoded News Feb. 6, 2007 -- In the past few days, international financial circles began to worry (quite rightly) about considerable losses suffered by Red Kite, one of the largest meta ...

The Criminalization of US Foreign Policy (Michel Chossudovsky)

From the Truman Doctrine to the Neo-Conservatives by Michel Chossudovsky -- Global Research -- Feb. 5, 2007 1. The contemporary context The World is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in mo ...

The Hesperotechnic Phase (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Jan. 24, 2007 -- Lewis Mumford’s 1934 opus Technics and Civilization was one of the first major efforts to take technology seriously as a defining factor in ...

Immanentizing the Eschaton (John Michael Greer)

John Michael Greer -- The Archdruid Report Jan. 17, 2007 -- “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.” With those words Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea kicked off their brilli ...

Strategic Errors of Monumental Proportions (Lt. Gen. William E. Odom)

By Lt. General WILLIAM E. ODOM (US Army Ret.) -- ICHBlog Text of testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jan. 18, 2007: The war has served primarily the interests of Iran and al Qaed ...