The Free Trade Fallacy

By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report

One of the major currents underlying 2016’s political turmoil in Europe and the United States, in fact, has been a sharp disagreement about the value of free trade.

Five pathways to post-capitalist ‘renaissance’ by a former oil man

By Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian Earth Insight blog

In my first post on Leggett's new book, I focused on his analysis of our "risk blindness." But despite his trenchant and uncompromising stance on the potentially catastrophic consequences of business as usual, Leggett is no doomer.

Former oil man calls for renewable “Renaissance” to ward off shale dystopia

By Nafeez Ahmed, Guardian Environment Network

Despite its serious tone, The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance, published by the reputable academic publisher Routledge, makes a compelling and ultimately hopeful case for the prospects of transitioning to a clean energy system in tandem with a new form of sustainable prosperity.

The Stone that Brings Down Goliath? Richmond and Eminent Domain

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt blog

In a nearly $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department in November 2013, JPMorganChase admitted that it, along with every other large US bank, had engaged in mortgage fraud as a routine business practice, sowing the seeds of the mortgage meltdown.

David Holmgren: “I Haven’t Really Changed the Message”

By David MacLeod, Integral Permaculture

"I’m suggesting in my essay, the underlying thing is an appeal to those people to come and join us in the positive side where we’re going to create the world we do want, whether or not it leads to a larger scale positive change, or whether or not it contributes to a crash."