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Society | Article | Apr 11, 2013

The Five Stages Of Collapse, By Dmitry Orlov - Book Review

by Carolyn Baker, Speaking Truth to Power

Many of us who have been researching collapse for a decade or more repeatedly use the word in writing, speaking, and daily conversation, but few of us have the opportunity to define it with such precision or personal experience as one finds in Dmitry Orlov’s forthcoming book 'Five Stages …

Energy | Article | Mar 18, 2013

What Really Killed Soviet Union? Oil Shock?

by Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

Larry Hagman, the late U.S. actor that played the bombastic oilman JR Ewing, often quipped that the TV soap opera Dallas brought down the mighty Soviet Union. "The opulence, the consumerism, the food, the cars -- these things made them want more than their governments provided them," …

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