In today’s world, sex has become commodified and industrialized. We see it all the time in print publications, television commercials, cable television shows, major motion pictures, and adult entertainment. Pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry that misuses and abuses sex and represents it in disturbing ways. Pornographers sell and produce films based on teen sex, […]

There is a spectre haunting the earth, and it is the spectre of environmental and social collapse.
Collapse and the Erosion of Denial
The news from this collapse has penetrated even the most powerful and sophisticated firewalls of the rich and powerful. An idefinite blowout of underground oil is turning the Gulf of Mexico into a […]

[Hat tip to Lou Proyect]
Amos Horev, the retired IDF general, former Technion president, and chief booster of the Israeli defense industry, has a rather sordid past that many might find akin to being a terrorist, Israel-style.
He is one of three panel members of the Gaza flotilla investigation and this incident, described by the inimitable Tom […]

WARNING. McChrystal, his cohort, and the author are macho shit-heads. This article - read too often - could cause brain damage.
‘How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It’s a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in […]

New law would call local food sales “smuggling.”
S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the […]

We live amidst multiple crises — economic and political, cultural and ecological — that pose a significant threat to human life as we understand it.
There is no way to be awake to the depth of these crises without an emotional reaction. There is no way to be aware of the pain caused by these […]

As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, just one of many manifestations of perilous ecological degradation across the planet, the need to challenge war and militarism—especially in terms of the United States—becomes ever-more pressing. The U.S. military is the world’s single biggest consumer of fossil fuels, and the single entity most responsible […]

Alf Hornborg lecture on The Power of the Machine.
Well worth the price of admission (which is free).

I had the great fortune of meeting Tom Turnipseed back in 1996, when I was a field organizer for a non-profit doing money-and-politics research and advocacy. He was in his law office in Colombia, where he’d fallen back to after a knowingly-quixotic run at the South Carolina Attorney General’s office. Within five minutes […]

As with the Bush administration, whose approval numbers went from the stratosphere after 9-11 into the shitter by the time it’s authority expired, the Obama administration has ridden the rhetorical wave of hope-and-change that secured the presidency and smashed into the reef of historical unpredictability. The administration has accomplished this descent largely through serial […]