U.S. Government Prepares for 'Crisis' (Jeff Nielson)

Aug. 30, 2010 (The Street) -- Most market reporters, commentators and politicians continue to rely upon nothing but the same short-term "snapshots" which have caused them to be "surprised" by everyth ...

Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100 million hydrogen bombs' (Peter Farquhar)

Aug. 25, 2010 (news.com.au) -- AFTER 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up -- and it's got astronomers on full alert. This week several U.S. media outlets reported that NASA was warni ...

BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)

Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...

Collapse of ancient Ellesmere ice shelf stuns scientists (Margaret Munro)

This NASA image shows the section of the Ward Hunt ice shelf which recently broke off. (IMAGE/NASA) "The ice seems to be fracturing all over the Arctic once again” Aug. 26, 2010 -- (Post Media News) ...

Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientists Say (Charles J. Hanley)

Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions Aug. 13, 2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat -- from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arcti ...

Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Years'; (Suzanne Goldenberg)

Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level Aug. 11, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Guardian) -- The entire ice mass of Greenland will ...

A critical examination of Matt Simmons’ claims on the Deepwater spill (Robert Rapier)

Matt Simmons July 29, 2010 (The Oil Drum) -- Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert, has long been one of the most famous and influential voices on the subject of peak oil. After the release ...

Understanding the BP Oil Tragedy: Time Blindness (Joel S. Hirschhorn)

Joel S. Hirshhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- A loss expected to happen next year looks smaller than that same loss happening next week. Worse yet, a loss or catastrophe th ...

Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case Scenario (Richard Heinberg)

June 20, 2010 -- (Post Carbon Institute) -- Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead just keep gushing (the l ...

After Haiti: A Conversation with John Perkins | Elizabeth Ferrari

Elizabeth Ferrari -- World News Trust Mar. 26, 2010 When the earthquake struck Haiti last January, the first person I wanted to hear from was John Perkins. Several years before Naomi Klein coined the ...

SACRED DEMISE: By Carolyn Baker: Book Foreword By Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D.

Feb. 26, 2009 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- Within the next three weeks, my forthcoming book, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse will be released and will ...