Yes, I’m re-posting it. It’s important. It has recently become fashionable to insist on an impending energy crisis. This euphemistic term conceals a contradiction and consecrates an illusion. It masks the contradiction implicit in the joint pursuit of equity and industrial growth. It safeguards the illusion that machine power can indefinitely take the place of [...]

Mercury was found in nearly 50 percent of tested samples of commercial high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), according to a new article published today in the scientific journal, Environmental Health. A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brandname food and beverage products [...]

We said this before the election. Obama has already painted himself into a corner; and that corner is named Cul-de-Sac LBJ. It all started with a fence-straddling, highly-gendered (I am a real warfighting man, too) campaign tactic that said, “Iraq is the wrong war.” Words take on force. On Friday, President Barack Obama ordered an [...]

Video of one of those sissy pacifists Huwaida Arraf (born 1976 in Detroit, Michigan) is a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian organization. The stated mission of the ISM is to resist the Israeli occupation using nonviolent tactics. Arraf is married to Adam Shapiro, another ISM co-founder, whom she met while both [...]

The word gene is a scientific term, but it is now also common currency, popping up all the time in everyday conversation and popular journalism. German scholars Barbara Duden and Silya Samerski have been investigating this “pop-gene.” They ask, what do pop-genes say to us about who and what we are. FULL AUDIO

Two years ago, those of us who saw the inevitability of a collapse in the structure of fictional value were dismissed. One year ago, the great unease began. Six months ago, we started seeing what happens when a house is built on the sand. Three months ago, people were still talking about the “bottom,” when [...]

Why I Am a Socialist By Chris Hedges The corporate forces that are looting the Treasury and have plunged us into a depression will not be contained by the two main political parties. The Democratic and Republican parties have become little more than squalid clubs of privilege and wealth, whores to money and corporate interests, [...]