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Peak oil notes - Jan 31

 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 …

How it could happen, part four: crossing the line

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 …

How It Could Happen, Part Three: To The Brink

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.

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