Category: CommUnity of Minds

Reposted from Thoughts from the Frontline. John Mauldin This week we look at the yen carry trade, delve deeper into the mortgage lending world, and see if we can find […]

Richard Heinberg A soon-to-be-released study by the Energy Watch Group in Germany on the future of global coal supplies has implications so surprising and far-reaching that energy policymakers may take […]

Reposted from Mother Jones. Thomas Palley Many Americans have rightly identified China, uncontrolled trade deficits, and Wal-Mart style competition as looming threats to the American economy. However, they remain hard-pressed […]

Maxed Out director James Scurlock explains how without credit cards, millions of apparently middle-class Americans would live at the poverty level. Reposted from the Alternet.org website. Joshua Holland America is […]

This original essay serves as introduction to an important new book. Bill McKibben I’ve spent the last twenty years of my adult life writing and thinking about global warming. I […]

The following address was made to the students of Kansas State University on March 02, 2007. Bill Clinton For all the students here especially here’s the deal. What we’re supposed […]

Continuing from this year’s Edge Question. … What Are You Optimistic About? and Why? Larry Sanger I am optimistic about humanity’s coming enlightenment. In particular, I am optimistic about humanity’s […]

Reposted from the New York Times. Robin Marantz Henig God has always been a puzzle for Scott Atran. When he was 10 years old, he scrawled a plaintive message on […]

Continuing from this year’s Edge Question. … What Are You Optimistic About? and Why? Daniel Goleman I live in a bowl-shaped valley on the edge of the Berkshire hills in […]

This article is reposted from India’s newspaper Frontline. C.E. Karunakaran If all the people of the world had the same living style as the average American, the holocaust would have […]