Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If you want the freedom to be thirsty or to be hungry or to be hopelessly flooded out of your home near the ocean, you can join the freedom lobby and enjoy a few more years or perhaps even a decade or two of huffing and puffing at the imaginary enemies of freedom before the real basis of your freedom, an intact and functioning nation and community, starts to degrade inexorably.
UK advertising rules save us from the climate lobbying mess in the US
Green movement ‘hijacked’ by politics
Monbiot: Funding for academic research has been taken over by business
G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’
Green ‘Czar’ Pushes Jobs, Community-Building (audio & text)
Obama’s Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad
Buying Brand Obama
Kunstler: Decoupling From Reality
Getting America Off Oil: The Oil Solutions Initiative
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Heritage Oil strikes big in Kurdish Iraq
Oil groups set to end 40-year exile from Iraq
Iraq bloodshed rises as US allies defect
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– The Bankruptcies
Hi. My job is trying to save the world, and I’d like to tell you a little about my line of work.
Russia expels two diplomats as Nato begins military exercises in Georgia
The Battle for Control of Pakistan
Europe: The Right Rises
Review: Prosperity Without Growth? by Professor Tim Jackson
Will Workers Be Left Behind in a Green Transition?
Greener Companies “More Crunch-Proof”
After six years, one month and 11 days, Britain ends its military mission in Iraq
The rise and rise of Russian nationalism
The Geopolitics of Pandemics
As with nearly all of Mike’s writing over the years, some parts are resoundingly liberal and resemble FDR’s New Deal, and some parts echo a conservative Republican or Libertarian approach simply because Mike’s overarching concern has always been to “implement policies that will keep the nation functioning and that will protect the American people and the world as a whole.”
A weekly review from a UK perspective
