We humans have made some large mistakes in our history. Right now, we are facing a perfect storm of crises. The important consideration is not to waste a moment of […]
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James Howard Kunstler writes: Now that everybody in the USA, from the janitors in their man-caves to the president addressing congress, has declared the “recession” over, is exactly the moment […]
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Long time reader Dexter Graphic recommends this morning’s article. This is reposted from September 3, 2009 edition of Rolling Stone Magazine. Matt Taibbi How Washington is screwing up health care […]
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The Huffington Post—Ellen Brown writes: China is being called a “miracle economy.” It seems to have decoupled from the rest of the world, preserving an 8% growth rate while the […]
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This is an excerpt from an amazing book titled The Ascent of Humanity. Is it possible to be an optimistic realist? The author makes an impressive case for the affirmative. […]
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Timothy Wilken You may have noticed that the appearance of our website has changed. In the ten years that the SynEARTH Network has been online we have posted over 7500 […]
Continue readingDefinancialization, Deglobalizaton, and Relocalization
Dimitry Orlov The title of this talk is a bit of a mouthful, but what I want to say can be summed up in simpler words: we all have to […]
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Frank Kaminski Energy Bulletin Richard Heinberg’s new book Blackout tries to demolish current assumptions about the world’s remaining coal endowment: namely, that it is immense beyond belief, barely tapped and […]
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I am much impressed with the writings of Charles Eisenstein. He has written a very informative series on Money. Enjoy! This is reposted from The Reality Sandwich. Charles Eisenstein As […]
Continue readingToward a 21st Century Evolutionary Ethics
Dr. Peter Corning proposes a new political-economic system for humanity. Peter Corning, Ph.D. I would like to propose four basic propositions (core assumptions) that, I believe, are vitally important for […]
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