Understanding the BP Oil Tragedy: Time Blindness (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Joel S. Hirshhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- A loss expected to happen next year looks smaller than that same loss happening next week. Worse yet, a loss or catastrophe th ...

'Graduating' From Graduating From College: The Ivory Tower Crumbles (Carolyn Baker)

As concerns education, its purpose as presently envisaged is to enable persons to be "productive" within the context of industrial society. --Thomas Berry, The Great Work July 5, 2010 (CarolynBaker.n ...

BOOK REVIEW: Letters from Palestine, By Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah (Jim Miles)

Letters from Palestine - Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the power of Nonviolence. Kenneth Ring and Ghassan Abdullah. Wheatmark, Tucson, AZ, USA. 2010. July 6, 2010 (Pale ...

These Dreams (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust July 3, 2010 -- I woke up this morning after having nightmares all night. I slept later than usual because it was cooler than normal. The heat keeps me from sleepi ...

US Economy Stuck in Misery (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 2, 2010 -- The middle class is dead. The United States has produced a self-sustaining two-class society. Most Lower Class Americans are in bad or uncertain ...

The Journey From Anger To Anguish: Responding To Eco-cide (Carolyn Baker)

Messenger My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled san ...

Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)

June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...

Pimco’s Crescenzi Sees ‘Endpoint’ in Devaluations (Wes Goodman and Garfield Reynolds)

Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO Bill Gross speaks during a conference. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Nations have reached a “Keynesian endpoint” as exhausted balance sh ...

Warning: Crash dead ahead. Sell. Get liquid. Now. (Paul B. Farrell)

Commentary: 'Game's in the refrigerator.' Power's turning off. Dow sinking below 6,470 May 25, 2010 -- ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- "This game's in the refrigerator! The door's closed, the ...

After Haiti: A Conversation with John Perkins | Elizabeth Ferrari

Elizabeth Ferrari -- World News Trust Mar. 26, 2010 When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, the first person I wanted to hear from was John Perkins. Several years before Naomi Klein coined the ...

Editor & Publisher, Kirkus Reviews to be shut | Geraldine Baum

Nielsen Business Media will stop publishing the trade magazines. One covers the newspaper industry; the other reviews books. Dec. 11, 2009 (Los Angeles Times) -- The ever-shrinking world of print jou ...