Mahathir warns of a dollar catastrophe
Sharp-tongued Mahathir Mohamad, scourge of currency traders worldwide, has said the US dollar is headed for a ‘catastrophe’ and will never regain its old strength.
Society
Sleepwalking to Disaster in Iran
Late last year … I was contacted by someone close to the Bush administration … The Bush administration was keen on achieving some semblance of stability in Iraq before June 2005, I was told … because that was when the Pentagon was told to be prepared to launch a massive aerial attack against Iran.
Activists and hipsters without territory or a plan
There exists today almost no social movement of a kind that leads human industrial society into a new, safe direction. This may be because (1) the anti-war movement, for example, offers little to the public in terms of a vision of sustainable living, and (2) the likely participants and leaders of a vanguard have no territory.
India Oil Chief Says U.S. Would Be ‘Stupid’ to Attack Iran
Subir Raha, the government-appointed head of India’s biggest oil company, said the U.S. would be “stupid” to attack Iran and risk imposing record oil prices on the global economy.
The Green Dream
The quest for a sustainable, ecologically sensible society in the Pacific Northwest. (Special edition, with several articles, including a long interview with Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia.)
U.S.Using Anti-Terror War to Gain World Oil Reserves — Soviet Intelligence Chief
On the pretext of fighting international terrorism the United States is trying to establish control over the world’s richest oil reserves, Leonid Shebarshin, ex-chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service, who heads the Russian National Economic Security Service consulting company.
Water – Reason for Conflict or Cooperation in the Middle East?
It has often been predicted that the next war in the Middle East would be fought not over land, not over oil, but over water.
Industrialization: Prelude to Collapse
Excerpt from William Catton’s classic 1980 book Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. Plus, a recent letter from William regarding his current book project.
Overshoot in a nutshell (Malthus was an optimist)
It is implicit in Malthus’s writings that uncontrolled population growth, failing “moral restraint”, would stall near the natural limits of the food supply. Like many who have commented on population growth, Malthus did not understand overshoot.
Asian banks offload their greenbacks
The US dollar’s status as the world’s main reserve currency is under threat as Asian banks back away from the superpower’s ballooning twin deficits.
Dependence on Phantom Carrying Capacity
Because the people of industrial nations did not recognize themselves as hunters and gatherers, they adhered to premises that were becoming more and more false. Franklin D Roosevelt spoke for all believers in those premises in the next-to-last sentence he ever wrote: “The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today”. [Chapter 3 from William Catton’s classic book Overshoot]
Peak Oil Council Forming in Western Massachusetts
A council of community leaders is forming to raise awareness of peak oil and its ramifications for Western Massachusetts and to support responses.
