morphizm

[Jim Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation]
Nations go crazy. It’s terrifying when it happens, especially to a major nation with the ability to project its craziness outward. We look back on the psychotic break of Germany in 1933 and still wonder how the then-best-educated population in Europe could fall under the sway of a sociopathic political program. We [...]

[Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press]
Dennis Hopper has come to be considered by many a legendary and legendarily-eccentric director and actor in the movie business. In the short attention spans of most moviegoers and critics, he is someone who has seemed to regularly rise out of the ashes of self-inflicted chaos, surprising us with his originality and [...]

Yes, the war on terra approaches. In cosmological time, which means we will probably miss it until it’s on top of us. Thank the Big Bang for that. But if we keep up our bullshit hyperconsumption, the enviropocalypse could come in many nasty flavors. I tasted them for AlterNet.

[Scott Thill, AlterNet]
Quick, check out this hot investment tip! For decades now, the Federal Reserve has been suppressing the true value of gold to keep its prodigious impact out of the market, which is currently dominated by fiat currencies like the dollar and light-speed binary code transactions like high-frequency trading. If you stripped away the [...]

[Greg Palast, BuzzFlash]
For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his knickers, which have captivated America’s peep-show media, but Massa’s file drawers where [...]

[Jim Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation]
It was amusing to see the Republican party inveigh against health insurance reform as if they were a synod of Presbyterian necromancers girding the nation for a takeover by the spawn of hell. This was the same gang, by the way, who championed the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act [...]

[Amy Bass, Morphizm]
If a baseline definition of contact is to make a connection with someone other than yourself, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin should have a lot of friends. The International Broadcast Centre in Vancouver last month was not the ideal location to be quietly rooting for Russia, but even my Canadian colleagues understood and [...]

I’ve been writing about Goldman Sucks — that is, rapacious economics star chamber Goldman Sachs — for years now. And I’m glad the rest of the world is finally paying attention. Literally. But don’t kid yourself: Just because Goldman helped sink Greece, and perhaps the euro, doesn’t mean they aren’t planning to do the same [...]