Climate-Change Summary And Update | Guy McPherson

Guy McPhersonEditor's Note: Here are a few links discussing Guy McPherson's ideas about the climate. John Michael Greer dismisses him as a crank. Judge for yourself. --Francis Goodwin https://worldne ...

School’s Out… Forever | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 9, 2013 “Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system.” - Frank Zappa The other day, a friend o ...

The Treason of the Intellectuals | Chris Hedges

March 31, 2013 (TruthDig) -- The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Some claimed they had opposed th ...

Skin In The Game | John Michael Greer

Feb. 13, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- The old-fashioned school districts that provided me with a convenient example in last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report represent a mode of politics that no ...

The Center Cannot Hold | John Michael Greer

Feb. 6, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- When William Butler Yeats put the phrase I’ve used as the title for this week’s post into the powerful and prescient verses of “The Second Coming,” he had deeper is ...

Top 50 Journalism Professors in 2012 | JournalismDegree.org

June 13, 2012 (JournalismDegree.org) -- To recognize the accomplishments of top-tier journalism and communications professors across the country, Journalism Degree.org has developed a list of the Top ...

Life After Debt: We Don't Need Your Education | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 30, 2012 “Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they a ...

Welcome To Happy Valley: Occupy Penn State,(Carolyn Baker)

Nov. 17, 2011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- State College, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University, is ensconsed in a somewhat bucolic region of the commonwealth called Happy Valley. The name exquisitely ...

UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)

Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and inspi ...

The Impermanence of Knowledge (Marcus Kracht)

Oct. 28, 2011 (domokos-kracht.eu) -- Abstract Knowledge is essential to our existence. Without knowledge life is almost impossible. So we need to care about what we know. In the recent past mankind h ...

SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record (Justin Pope)

Sept. 14, 2011 (AP) -- SAT reading scores for the high school class of 2011 were the lowest on record, and combined reading and math scores fell to their lowest point since 1995. The College Board, w ...