I’ll be the skunk at this party, what the hell. I don’t know how to cheer-lead. The lefty-liberal-progressives of the US of A are pumped up by the show of defiance by public sector workers in Wisconsin; and other states are following suit with demonstrations and Democratic state legislators on the lam. Even the Egyptians [...]

Local organic food and farming are the gold standard. Organic farmers gladly adhere to a set of regulations, use non-toxic products, and accept the need to be scrutinized by an independent third party inspector. Why? Because, regulation of food safety is essential to guaranteeing consumers that the farmer has their health and well being at [...]

What I intend to talk to you about this afternoon is what I understand you are aware of — the positive goals and values that you seek as homeschoolers. But I want to talk about the specifics of what you’re fleeing, because what you’re fleeing is alive and well in the green state of Vermont. [...]

As North Africa and Southwest Asia erupt against their gerontocratic leadership, much of it part of the US satrapy there, we can see evidence of the loss of US global power. Bubble reinflated for now, the inevitable crash will now also be worse, so that’s looming. But there is another region to think of now [...]

The Nation just published a piece by David Rieff on ‘the Green Revolution,’ a recurring topic on FS. Over at Insurgent American, I did a little monograph on the same subject in 2007. An excerpt: The sheer scale of US chemical-industrial agriculture, along with subsidies for the transnationals who came to control that agriculture, gave [...]

Returning (albeit somewhat lazily) to our recurring theme of culture crit: Alternet offers an unusually acute feminist critique of the “crazy lady” theme in popular film. Julianne Escobedo Shepherd compares the mythology of female madness — as seen through the lens of male fantasy and wishful thinking — and contrasts it with actuarial statistics on [...]