Theosophy: The Dog and the Wolf | John Michael Greer

The dog and the wolf, from the Book of Lambspring Sept. 16, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last month’s discussion of America’s magical history, we explored the 19th-century transformations of alchemy in ...

BOOKS: Bitter Tales from the Massive White Underclass in Joe Bageant's "Redneck" Memoir

"Economic, political, and social culture in America is staggering under the sheer weight of its white underclass, which now numbers some sixty million." Sept. 20, 2010 (AlterNet) -- The following is ...

Some Conspiracies Are Real (part 2): Iraq, Kuwait, and Imaginary Incubators | Mickey Z.

Image from TrueActivist.com Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 29, 2020 So far, the year 2020 has been sort of a grand unified compilation of centuries worth of conspiracies and theories. But I’m n ...

The Secret of the Alchemists | John Michael Greer

Aug. 19, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Most of the figures we’ve discussed in our survey of America’s magical history came from very humble backgrounds, and there’s a reason for that. While social mobility ...

How to (still) Decode the Corporate-Owned Media | Mickey Z.

Photo by Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust August 14, 2020 For many, many years, it was a frequent focus of mine to write about the media. More specifically, I dissected the corporate media and ...

Lost in the American Undertow | Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant in Belize Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Apr. 18, 2011 -- The United States has always maintained a white underclass -- citizens whose role in the greater scheme of things has been to cu ...

Why Zuck is Betting on Social Collapse | umair haque

Image: Medium Why Facebook Helps Authoritarians Steal Elections and Sow Hatred July 27, 2020 (Eudaimonia & Co) -- In case you haven’t noticed, Facebook appears to give zero effs about preserving the ...

The Only Thing We Have to Fear is… Mask Wars, Deep Fakes, and a 'Smoothly Functioning Society' | Mickey Z.

Photo: the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.com Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 24, 2020 “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important eleme ...

Escape from the Zombie Food Court | Joe Bageant

Joe with BingoThe high technological imprisonment of our consciousness has been fairly recent. There are still those among us who remember when it was not so entrapped. A few of us still know what it ...

BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Aug. 14, 2006 “Well, good lordie, you really was writin' a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” That was my friend Fat Larr ...

Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball | Joe Bageant

Predator drone firing a hellfire missile. (Public domain)Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse Joe Bageant -- World News Trust July 6, 2010 -- AJIJIC, JALISCO, Mexico -- As an Anglo ...