Zeno’s Laughter | John Michael Greer

Zeno of EleaFeb. 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- We really are going to have to start a conversation about ethics, aren’t we? Last week’s post on the fallacy of claiming that there’s one and only one prop ...

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 Feb. 5 Date under the New START Treaty by which the United States and Russia are to comply with the treaty's central limits on strategic arms (700 deployed interc ...

Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Blog Jan. 5, 2018 This is the second in a two-part article on the debt burden America’s students face. Read Part 1 here. The lending business is heavily stacked against stu ...

The Dream of a Perfect Diet | John Michael Greer

Jan. 31, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to spend the last couple of days writing an essay about the astral plane, because this is the fifth Wednesday of the month, and we’ve established an informa ...

Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews | Nat Parry

Robert Parry, 1949-2018Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to indep ...

An Older Tradition | John Michael Greer

Thomas Taylor. Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830) - National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Public Domain.Jan. 17, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last few days I’ve been watching yet a ...

A Dangerous Year | John Michael Greer

Panel with striding lion. Period: Neo-Babylonian. Date: ca. 604–562 B.C. Geography: Mesopotamia, Babylon (modern Hillah) Culture: Babylonian. Medium: Ceramic, glaze. Dimensions: H. 38 1/4 in. (97.2 c ...

Systems That Suck Less | John Michael Greer

Dec. 27, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post on political economy attracted plenty of disagreement. Now, of course, this came as no surprise, and it was also not exactly surprising that most of ...

An Introduction to Political Economy | John Michael Greer

Adam Smith. By Unknown. Public Domain.Dec. 20, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last month, when I looked across the vast gray wasteland of the calendar page ahead and noted that there were five Wednesdays in ...

A Few Notes on Nature Spirits, Part Two: Into A Living World | John Michael Greer

Credit: Priya Saihgal, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Dec. 6, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- Last week’s post here on Ecosophia.net dealt with some of the reasons why so many people in today’s industrial societies ...

A Few Notes on Nature Spirits, Part One: Nature as 'It,' Nature as 'You' | John Michael Greer

Spirit of the Night. By John Atkinson GrimshawNov. 29, 2017 (EcoSophia.net) -- We seem to have established a nascent tradition here on Ecosophia.net around fifth Wednesdays, and I’m by no means distr ...