Sacred Economics, Chapter 1, By Charles Eisenstein

Sacred Economics, Chapter 1, By Charles Eisenstein

My intention is that by identifying the core features of the economics of Separation, we may be empowered to envision an economics of Reunion, an economics that restores to wholeness our fractured communities, relationships, cultures, ecosystems, and planet. – The second installment from Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition.

The New 30-Years' War: Winners And Losers In The Great Global Energy Struggle To Come, By Michael Klare

The New 30-Years' War: Winners And Losers In The Great Global Energy Struggle To Come, By Michael Klare

Think of us today as embarking on a new Thirty Years’ War. It may not result in as much bloodshed as that of the 1600s, though bloodshed there will be, but it will prove no less momentous for the future of the planet. Over the coming decades, we will be embroiled at a global level in a succeed-or-perish contest among the major forms of energy, the corporations which supply them, and the countries that run on them. The question will be: Which will dominate the world’s energy supply in the second half of the twenty-first century? The winners will determine how — and how badly — we live, work, and play in those not-so-distant decades, and will profit enormously as a result. The losers will be cast aside and dismembered.

BREAKING: Flood Wall Fails At Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant

BREAKING: Flood Wall Fails At Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant

Floodwaters surrounded several buildings at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station early Sunday morning after a water-filled wall collapsed. The plant, about 19 miles north of Omaha, remains safe, Omaha Public Power District officials said Sunday afternoon. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is monitoring the Missouri River at the plant, which has been shut down since early April for refueling.

VIDEO: Mike Ruppert: The Arrival of The Post-Petroleum Human

VIDEO: Mike Ruppert: The Arrival of The Post-Petroleum Human

“Petroleum Man is dead. Infinite Growth Man is dead. Post Petroleum Human is alive,” announced Michael C. Ruppert on May 22, 2011. Members of this emerging “species” know they must live in balance with the Earth, while remembering the lessons of industrial civilization.

Michele Bachmann Is No Laughing Matter: Her Holy War, By Matt Taibbi

Michele Bachmann Is No Laughing Matter: Her Holy War, By Matt Taibbi

It could happen. Michele Bachmann has found the flaw in the American Death Star. She is a television camera’s dream, a threat to do or say something insane at any time, the ultimate reality-show protagonist. She has brilliantly piloted a media system that is incapable of averting its eyes from a story, riding that attention to an easy conquest of an overeducated cultural elite from both parties that is far too full of itself to understand the price of its contemptuous laughter. All of those people out there aren’t voting for Michele Bachmann. They’re voting against us. And to them, it turns out, we suck enough to make anyone a contender.

Solstice Approaches, Unnoticed, By James Carroll

Solstice Approaches, Unnoticed, By James Carroll

Intimate awareness of nature and its cycles, as we saw, was an ancient mode of survival. But survival is at issue again. Noticing the length of light now, reveling in the sun’s achievement, rejoicing in Earth’s perfect balance, honoring the summer solstice — loving it: This is how we became human, and it is how we stay human.

GEAB: Global Systemic Crisis–Last Warning Before Autumn, 2011

GEAB: Global Systemic Crisis–Last Warning Before Autumn, 2011

On December 15, 2010, in the GEAB N°50, LEAP/E2020 anticipated the explosion of Western government debt (1) in the second half of 2011. We were then describing a process that would start with the European government debt crisis and then set fire to the heart of the global financial system, namely US federal debt (2). And here we are with this issue at the start of the second half of 2011, with a global economy in complete disarray (3), an increasingly unstable global monetary system (4) and financial centres in desperate straits (5), all this despite the thousands of billions of public money invested to avoid precisely this type of situation. The insolvency of the global financial system, and of the Western financial system in the first place, returns again to the front of the stage after just over a year of political cosmetics aimed at burying this fundamental problem under truckloads of cash.

Is The Dramatic Increase In Baby Deaths In The U.S. A Result of Fukushima Fallout? By Janette Sherman, MD and Joseph Mangano

Is The Dramatic Increase In Baby Deaths In The U.S. A Result of Fukushima Fallout? By Janette Sherman, MD and Joseph Mangano

A 35% Spike in Infant Mortality in Northwest Cities Since Meltdown—U.S. babies are dying at an increased rate. While the United States spends billions on medical care, as of 2006, the US ranked 28th in the world in infant mortality, more than twice that of the lowest ranked countries. (DHHS, CDC, National Center for Health Statistics. Health United States 2010, Table 20, p. 131, February 2011.)