Category: CommUnity of Minds

When I have written about our present human crisis, I have often made the point that if we humans are to have a future, we must begin by facing the […]

Michael T. Klare The economic bubble that lifted the stock market to dizzying heights was sustained as much by cheap oil as by cheap (often fraudulent) mortgages. Likewise, the collapse […]

James Howard Kunstler The dark tunnel that the US economy has entered began to look more and more like a black hole last week, sucking in lives, fortunes, and prospects […]

The following is the Preface of a book titled Future Positive: International cooperation in the 21st century first published in 2004. Michael Edwards “True freedom is obtainable only through relations […]

This morning’s article is forwarded by reader Dexter Graphic. Paul Chefurka A common assumption among population analysts is that food availability is the main driver of population growth.  In fact, […]

Republished from ASPO-USA. Alan S. Drake Step One—Electrify US Freight Rail Lines and Shift Freight to Rail Japanese and most European railroads are electrified. The Russians recently finished electrifying the […]

This article appeared in The Green Cross Optimist Magazine on 5/2/2005. Mary E. Clark When I was first contacted about this issue’s topic “Is Another World Possible?” it was suggested […]

Reposted from the author’s website. James Howard Kunstler Wherever the environmentally-informed gather these days (i.e., the clusterfuck-aware), a nervous impatience often mounts, and ends up expressing itself as an outcry […]

Reposted from The International News. Noam Chomsky The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that […]

Al Gore Not long before our nation launched the invasion of Iraq, our longest-serving Senator, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, stood on the Senate floor and said: “This chamber is, […]