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Jan 31, 2013
by Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A midweekly update...Oil prices continued to move higher this week with NY crude closing at $97.94 on Wednesday and London at $114.90. Optimism about the US and Chinese economies coupled with an announcement by the Federal Reserve that it intends to keep buying $85 billion a month worth of …
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Oct 24, 2012
by John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
This fourth part of a five-part series uses the tools of narrative fiction to explore some of the ways in which America's global empire might come apart. As the multiple impacts of American defeat in the East African War come home to roost, a leadership vacuum made worse by partisan gridlock …
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Oct 18, 2012
by John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
This week’s post is the third of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As the war in Kenya reaches a climax, the action shifts to the United States—and to a president who has his back to the wall and very few options left.