Stan Goff

The deepest fear in suburbia, never spoken aloud, is that when this epoch unravels, Suburbia’s citizens quite simply will not know how to survive… The real choice that Suburbia will face is one between fascism or self-sufficiency, which is a choice – as well – between spiritual death or spiritual renewal.

Stan Goff of CounterPunch debates a Neocon and finds him a paper tiger. His leftist analysis of Iraq, oil, and US hegemony finds a surprisingly receptive audience.

“The US makes dollars; everyone else makes things to get dollars.” Stan Goff explores the role of the US dollar as the standard reserve currency in the context of capitalism’s intrinsic need to expand and the global peak in oil production.

If we want to know the logically simple but socially very difficult solution, it is conservation. Conservation is not conservative, but something that can only be accomplished through a revolutionary change in society. Whether we can accomplish the social transformation necessary is one issue, but the fact is that an energy soft-landing will require us to dramatically conserve dwindling fossil fuel stocks, by as much as 75%, and begin to think seriously about how to de-link from the growth economy… forever.

Some interesting realpolitik analysis and some philosophising against a peak oil back drop from ex-military man Stan Goff.

In this two-part analysis, Stan Goff exposes the underlying forces driving the current crisis in Haiti. The recent coup d’etat is only the latest in two centuries of violent transfers of power in that country – but today the regional balance of forces is refreshingly new.