Commentary

Forecast 2015 — Life in the Breakdown Lane

January 9, 2015 0

“Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you,” Satchel Paige famously warned. For connoisseurs of civilizational collapse, 2014 was merely annoying, a continued pile-up of over-investments in complexity with mounting diminishing returns, metastasizing […]

Commentary

We Are Entering An Era Of Shattered Illusions

January 8, 2015 0

By Brandon Smith The structure of history is held together by two essential and distinct kinds of links, two moments in time to which no one is immune: moments of epiphany, and moments of catastrophe. Sometimes, […]

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Endless Fog of Endless War

January 7, 2015 0

  Yesterday, NBC’s Chuck Todd opened a “Meet the Press” segment by calling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq “wars now without an end.” “The U.S. now seems to be in a semi-permanent state of war,” added […]

Commentary

2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age

December 30, 2014 0

By The Automatic Earth Dorothea Lange Drought hit OK farm family on way to CA Aug 1936  From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there […]

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