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Clusterfuck! Rehearsals For a Civil War

[Jim Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation]
Amid the general incoherence of the Tea Party rebels and the failure of progressives to recognize the structural changes underway in a peak oil world, lies a deadly swamp of paradox where all parties may drown in the quicksand of their own muddled intentions.

Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up

[Naomi Klein, The Nation]
The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s set to come out ten years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, the spark that ignited a [...]

Clusterfuck! Hunky Dory

[Jim Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation]
Whenever the herd mentality lines up along a compass point leading to “permanent prosperity,” or a yellow brick road lined with green shoots, or something like that, I tend to see the edge of a cliff up ahead. We are now completely in the grips of the deadly diminishing returns of information [...]

May Day! War On Terra: Terror and Terraformation in the 21st Century

One month from today, I’ll outline my first book on Morphizm. It will be written by the end of the year. I’ll add chapters online in mosaic form, so you can chart the progress and watch it all come together. Then I’ll bind and sell it. Might be cool.

The subject matter is far from cool. [...]

Sea Levels Rise, Survival Fails. Who Gets Saved, And Who Gets Left Behind?

While you’ve been flipping out on the econopocalypse and tripping on Obama or the batshit losers in the Republican Party, something terrible has been proceeding without fanfare. Ice shelves and glaciers are evaporating like Michael Jackson’s career, raising sea levels around the world and jacking up the climate.

The bad news? Coastal cities, which means [...]