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 Farming in the Age of Expensive Oil
In this country farmers have to be over 80 years old to remember low-input, diversified farming systems. An organic farmer aks: who will have the knowledge to grow our food in the age of expensive oil, with no fertilizers and pesticides? more >>
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 How to be Fuel and Food Rich During Climate Change
Biofuels and incineration are bad ideas promoted by big governments. Solar power, anaerobic generation of energy from waste materials, and green algae for carbon capture and sustainable biofuels are good ideas that definitely will work. more >>
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 The Concept of Evil
The concept of evil is intellectually valid and spiritually important, and crucial to understanding the current state of political affairs in America and around the world. more >>
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 The Corporate Grip on Food Tightens
July 4, 2008
We have dismantled vital parts of our agriculture and with it, the livelihoods of millions. At a time when debates in India highlight the un-viability of corporate agriculture, giant corporations are betting the opposite. For them, at least, the current food crisis holds the promise of an undying source of super profit. more >>
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 Peering Into the Future: An Agenda for the 21st Century
February 8, 2008
It's 2008, but we are at the first dawning of the 21st century, and much of the world seems to be focused firmly on what can be seen in their rear view mirror. Our problems are global problems, and so are the solutions for a better world. more >>
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 Big Melt Meets Big Empty
November 14, 2007
Since fuel depletion alone will not result in sufficient emission cuts, and since carbon capture and storage is problematic, if nations are serious about climate protection the discussion must center on leaving coal and other low-grade fossil fuels (such as tar sands) in the ground. more >>
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 Pipeline Through Paradise: Big Oil's Plan to Tap the Arctic
October 20, 2007
One quarter of the world's untapped oil and gas reserves lie in the Arctic. Politicians, oil execs, and the media focus on the Middle East and West Africa but most know that the Arctic is the real prize in the ongoing international struggle to control dwindling energy resources. more >>
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 Climate Change: Opening the Window of Opportunity
August 1, 2007
If moving closer to the heart of things - moving from the symptom of rising temperature to its cause, CO2 pollution - produces the ability to solve multiple problems with a single solution, then what might be the power of reaching even deeper - into consumerism, into our sense that the Earth is ours to dominate, into the assumptions of the industrial age? more >>
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 Impeach Bush Now! Bypass the Corporate Media!
August 1, 2007
About half the American people favor the impeachment of Bush and of Cheney. Such public sentiment is unprecedented in American history, and such numbers demonstrate the potential for an unprecedentedly massive social movement. more >>
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 Mike Gravel: Still Principled After All These Years
July 28, 2007
Commenting that his fellow candidates “frightened” him because they refused to take the nuclear option off the table with regard to Iran, he confronted Obama with the question, “Tell me, Barack, who do you want to nuke?” more >>
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 The Bipartisan SynFuel Con Job
June 1, 2007
Global warming is well on its way to being a godsend for the coal industry.
Lobbyists are busily trying to turn dirty coal into a pleasing green alternative -- walking in the footsteps of Esso and IG Farben. more >>
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 Perestroika in the West
April 8, 2007
Western civilization, now arguably the most conservative and ossified force for the status quo on planet Earth, is impeding absolutely essential changes necessary to save the environment and promote social justice, and must be restructured root and branch. There is no alternative. more >>
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 Oceans in Distress
November 1, 2006
Save our oceans, save our planet. Pollution, destructive overfishing and increasing commercial exploitation are threatening the planet’s cradle of life. Learn how you can become an Ocean Defender. Take action now! more >>
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 Wanted: Fifty Million Farmers
November 1, 2006
The de-industrialization of agriculture in an era of expensive oil could be managed without catastrophes and could substantially benefit society and the environment in the long run. Here's how. more >>
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 What Can You Believe About Bird Flu?
May 31, 2006
Is a bird flue pandemic imminent? Evidence points to intensive poultry farming as the incubator for deadly bird flu viruses -- globalised trade in live birds and poultry products are the main routes of disease transmission. more >>
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 Global Food Trade & The New Slave Labour
February 24, 2006
South African farmers pay labourers in part or in full with alcohol. A steady stream of alcohol is given to the workers throughout the day. Not too much to make them drunk, but enough to make them dependent. more >>
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 Our Collapsing Food System -- And How to Fix It
February 24, 2006
The global agricultural-industrial complex is destroying the environment, exploiting farmers around the world, and delivering low-quality, high-cost food to unwary consumers. But a host of alternatives are springing up to provide nutritious food from sustainable farm communities. more >>
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 Drug Cartels, Managed Violence and the Russian 9/11, Part 1
January 11, 2006
Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main source of support for international terrorism today. Did an international drug cartel affiliated with a Saudi billionaire, Russian banks, and US and Russian intelligence services conspire in the Moscow bombings of 1999? more >>
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 Rescuing a Planet Under Stress
December 13, 2005
Environmental Guru Lester Brown offers a comprehensive vision for a new, sustainable global society -- but we must transform our throwaway economy of overconsumption before we are overtaken by war, economic collapse and environmental catastrophe. more >>
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 Bug Power
November 13, 2005
Waste-gobbling bacteria may be our dream ticket to clean renewable energy. Will the elusive hydrogen economy run on potato waste? more >>
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 The Road to 9/11
November 13, 2005
How covert US Asian operations financed by heroin trafficking empowered radical Islam. How big oil entangled America in unsavory alliances to control Asian pipelines. How it all led to 9/11. Discover the role of the CIA, Big Oil and the Shadow Government. more >>
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 Health, Human Rights, and GM crops
October 3, 2005
Adopting GM crops when oil and water are both rapidly depleting under global warming, and when industrial monoculture is showing all the signs of collapse is a crime against humanity and our planet. more >>
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 The Global Organic Foods Boom
October 3, 2005
Organic certification standards were initially developed by farmers and farmer organizations but new, third-party, market-driven and government mandated standards threaten to turn the organic food market over to corporate agribusiness. more >>
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 Toxic Gumbo: Hurricane Katrina and Environmental Justice
September 21, 2005
The Coast Guard estimates seven million gallons of oil got free from at least forty-four factories, tank farms, and other facilities to join the floodwaters of southeastern Louisiana. This is nearly two-thirds the amount of oil left in Alaskan waters by the Exxon Valdez. more >>
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 The London Bombings
August 31, 2005
The British people will not be terrorized. We do not seek war. There is a public recognition of the multicultural nature of our country, and we accept and include Muslims and all others as part of our society. more >>
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 How to Avoid Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse
August 30, 2005
In the near future insufficient oil supplies will lead to extreme price shocks, price volatility, acute shortages, geo-strategic conflicts and dislocations in the global economy. The Oil Depletion Protocol provides a global management tool to help the world community cope with earth-shaking changes. more >>
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 Is Social Security Broke?
May 9, 2005
The answer is a resounding NO, contrary to what the right-wing spin doctors say. Look at the system's birthchart. Social Security is more stable than the NY Stock Exchange. more >>
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 Global Warming: The Boiling Point
April 1, 2005
I believe that if the U.S. people knew the imminent danger, they would insist on change. This is exactly what the oil and coal industries fear, and so with their powerful crony, GW Bush, they are keeping this crucial information from the American public. more >>
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 Against Selfishness
February 10, 2005
Bush's ownership society melds a me-first 80s ethos with the crude Darwinism of Reality TV, celebrating the creation of a two-class society founded on power and privilege for the few. more >>
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 Follow the Money
February 10, 2005
Eliot Spitzer’s insurance probe promises to shake up business as usual in the $1 trillion industry -- and in Albany, where campaign finance reform may be the only solution to the problem. more >>
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