The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...

An Astrological Interlude: Aries Ingress 2018 | John Michael Greer

March 28, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- This fourth Wednesday of the month would normally be an open post for readers’ questions, but I’ve been asked by quite a few people at this point to cast and delinea ...

The CIA takeover of the Democratic Party | Patrick Martin

March 13, 2018 (World Socialist Web Site) -- In a three-part series published last week, the World Socialist Web Site documented an unprecedented influx of intelligence and military operatives into t ...

The Twilight of Authority | John Michael Greer

Painting by German artist Juergen Puetz. Photo: The New Indian ExpressMarch 21, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the need for a rhetorical education -- that is, an educatio ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 21, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 21, 2018 March 21 9:00-10:00 a.m., Senator Robert Menendez (NJ), "Congressional Leadership in Foreign Policy," Center for Strategic ...

The War on the Post Office | Ellen Brown

Pearhead Ceramic Pink Piggy BankMarch 17, 2018 (EllenBrown.com) -- The U.S. Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding ...

A Rhetorical Education | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerMarch 7, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- Quite a bit of the discussion on this blog and its predecessors has focused on controversial issues, the kind of thing that causes rhetoric to fly f ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 7, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 7, 2018 March 7 10:00-11:30 a.m., Daniel Salisbury, Project on Managing the Atom, "Countering WMD-related Illicit Trade: Insights f ...

Funding Infrastructure: Why China Is Running Circles Around America | Ellen Brown

‘One Belt, One Road,’ a planned modern Silk Road with China at its heart Feb. 27, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking o ...

The Babbitt Fallacy, and Other Ways to Lose | John Michael Greer

Feb. 21, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’ve been thinking quite a bit about some of the habits of thought that form, or rather deform, the collective conversation of our time. Partly, of course, that’s bec ...

John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 | Cindy Cohn

John Perry Barlow Cindy Cohn -- EFF Feb. 7, 2018 With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep ...