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Empires Then And Now | Paul Craig Roberts
Mar. 26, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands ...
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BOOKS: Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping -- The Truth May Hurt. By Yves Engler | Jim Miles
Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping -- The Truth May Hurt. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Vancouver/Winnipeg, 2012. Mar. 23, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- This short book, or elongated essay, ...
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America: Crossing the Line | John Michael Greer
Mar. 21, (Archdruid Report) -- The struggle between Northern and Southern models of human ecology in 19th-century America, the theme of last week’s post, determined more than the shape of American ...
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PILLOW TALK: Deborah Goes Shopping (Part 2) | Deborah Goodwin
Mar. 23, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- Last night I was shopping in my dream. I'm not certain where I was shopping or what I was shopping for, it was more a feeling of being in a store and looking for ...
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Talk to the Universe: Voices of #Occupy (part 1) | Mickey Z.
Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." --Lao Tzu Mar. 27, 2012 -- When I was first booked to give a talk called "#Occupy for All ...
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DeOccupy Animal Experimentation: Don't Put Descartes Before the Horse | Mickey Z.
Photo Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Atrocities are no less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research." --G. Bernard Shaw Mar. 22, 2012 -- If your ...
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Costly 'Freedom' in Afghanistan: On Morbid Wars and Logic | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 21, 2012 -- The Afghans are a proud people with a long and formidable history of resistance to foreign occupation. The fact that they have always prevailed, ...
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Both The Market And Government Are Irrational | Paul Craig Roberts
Mar. 14, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved scores of times, but the myth persists. For ...
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No Jobs For Americans | Paul Craig Roberts
Mar. 10, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced yesterday that 227,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were created by the economy during February. Is the government’s ...
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America: Modes of Expansion | John Michael Greer
This painting (circa 1872) by John Gast called American Progress, is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads ...
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PILLOWTALK: Deborah Goes Shopping (with a capital S) | Deborah Goodwin
Mar. 14, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- I needed to waste a little time before picking up the daughters after dance class and was in a town with some shopping. This is fairly unusual here in Vermont, both ...
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