United Kingdom – April 26
A Government still addicted to petrol
UK police caught on tape trying to recruit protester as spy
Politicising the policing of public expression in an era of economic change
Activism
Does Rick Perry see the future?
As it becomes impractical or impossible to provide massive federal aid to states on a continuous basis, the necessity to find local solutions to a persistent crisis may become more acute. For this reason an ongoing economic slump may end up feeding continued calls for secession as well as create receptivity to genuinely useful relocalization efforts.
Protest – April 18
British police arrest protesters before coal protest
How do environmentalists spot a mole?
Kettling: another special relationship
Rush builds a socialist revolution?
Some Advice for Distributists
Among the implications of the implosion of the global economy over the last year is that the great quarrel of the Cold War years between capitalism and socialism was a contest between two dysfunctional and failure-prone systems. As peak oil becomes a fact of life, is it time to start looking for other options?
The peak oil crisis: priorities
The world is entering a great paradigm shift and our place in it will be markedly different 10 or 20 years from now. The most alarming thing to remember is that 95 percent of us have not discovered that major changes are underway and are waiting for economic recovery and new jobs to open up.
Protest – Apr 7
In America, Labor Has an Unusually Long Fuse
European workers rebel as G-20 looms
Bageant: We’ve Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls — It’s Time to Do Something Meaningful
The killing-fields of inequality
Media & web – April 6
US believers going green, hold media fast for Lent
Crawling the web to foretell ecosystem collapse
Grist launches new website in honor of 10th anniversary
Collapse psychosis: navigating the madness
The psyches of empire’s citizens are ill-equipped to deal with variation from the system’s proscribed roles or functions. Empire, like a “good” parent, gives one everything one “needs” in return for production-until it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t, the citizen has no recourse emotionally because he/she has lived in psychological symbiosis with empire since birth.
Europe – March 29
G20 protesters go on the march in London
From Edinburgh to Paris to Kiev, Europe is revolting
G20 protesters produce spoof Financial Times
Wallace and Gromit tout energy efficiency
Anti-globalization group circulates faked German newspaper from 2010
Economics – March 22
U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar
Too big to fail? Think again
The economy is a real killer (health and recession)
Keynes, capitalism, and the crisis (John Bellamy Foster interview)
China’s big recycling market is sagging
Movement – Mar 19
The Climate/Peak Oil Divide
Interview with Asher Miller and Tom Stokes
De la dépendance au pétrole à la résilience des communautés
The (re)birth of Frucool
Leading climate scientist: ‘democratic process isn’t working’
Scientists – Mar 19
Anthropologists as journalists
Scientists on the streets
Plan B: scientists get radical in bid to halt global warming ‘catastrophe’
