By Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian
‘A politician is not a given. Each one is in part what we make them, by pushing, blocking, pressuring, encouraging, fighting, reframing, emphasizing, organizing.’
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
On the surface, things appear normal but beneath the lid, a pot of trends is coming to a boil.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
The latest round of political theater in Washington DC over the automatic budget cuts enacted in the 2011 debt ceiling compromise—the so-called “sequester”—couldn’t have been better timed, at least as far as this blog is concerned. It’s hard to imagine better evidence, after all, that the American political process has finally lost its last fingernail grip on reality.