John Michael Greer: The Limits of Incantation

Since I started talking about the end of the industrial age in this blog, not quite five years ago, a fair number of my readers have had some difficulty imagining what industrial decline would look like in practice. That’s been a hard question to answer, not least because the notion that the only possible futures […]

Libya declares immediate cease-fire after U.N. resolution

Libyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa tells reporters that Libya will impose an immediate ceasefire and will abide by the U.N. Security Council resolution. He says Libya is stopping all military operations against rebel forces. Speaking to reporters in Tripoli, he says Libya will “try to deal positively” to the resolution, which calls for a no-fly […]

Peak Oil = Persistent, Unsolvable, Wrenching Stagflation

America is addicted to oil. We deem it a constitutional right to drive Hummers and have $4 a gallon gasoline. But there is an Achille’s heel to our lifestyle—oil is a finite resource, and one day we will run out of cheap oil. The story of peak oil Let’s say that you live in New […]

How Much Are You Willing to Pay to be Nuke-Free?

After the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, someone said to me “We have to stop all offshore drilling.” My response was that I could get behind that idea, but I wanted to know what sacrifices the person was willing to make. That turned out to be the end of the conversation, because […]

When the Lights Go Out

The first three articles in this series, Part I – The Math is Different at the Top, Part II – Financial Threats to Power, Part III – Will Water Set the World on Fire, discussed the impacts of financial deterioration and ecosystem degradation (specifically water-based) on the ability of financial elites to retain economic and […]

U.N. okays military action on Libya

The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing “no mercy, no pity.” “We will come, zenga, zenga. House by house, room by room,” he said in a radio address to the eastern city. Al Jazeera television […]

Japan Nuke Disaster Could Be Worse Than Chernobyl

A global nuclear disaster potentially worse than Chernobyl may be under way in Japan as hundreds of tonnes of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel are open to the sky, and may be on fire and emitting radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Many countries have advised their citizens in Japan to leave the country. “This is […]

BP: Libya National Oil Corporation Contract Still Valid

BP Plc said on Thursday it saw its contract with Libya’s National Oil Corporation as still valid, a day after Italy’s Eni became the first Western oil and gas firm to try to rebuild bridges with NOC. BP has no oil and gas production in Libya and in February was preparing for the start of […]

UN: Radiation Plume to hit US by Friday

A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday. Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, […]

Japan in frantic bid to cool reactors

Japanese military helicopters have dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant damaged by last week’s deadly earthquake. Cooling functions at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, about 220km north of Tokyo, have been damaged and workers are engaged in a desperate bid to avert a nuclear meltdown. On Thursday morning, helicopters dumped around 30 tonnes of water, all aimed […]

Maine Town Declares Food Sovereignty

Sedgwick, Maine has done what no other town in the United States has done. The town unanimously passed an ordinance giving its citizens the right “to produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing.” This includes raw milk, locally slaughtered meats, and just about anything else you can imagine. It’s also a […]

Nuclear Plant Operator: Water in Pool Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods May Be Boiling, an Ominous Sign for Release of Radioactivity

Kyodo News reports: A nuclear crisis at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant deepened Tuesday as fresh explosions occurred at the site and its operator said water in a pool storing spent nuclear fuel rods may be boiling, an ominous sign for the release of high-level radioactive materials from the fuel. Tokyo Electric Power […]

Upcoming ASPO conference in Brussels

The 9th International Peakoil & Gas Conference will take place during 27-29 April 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. In connection, special events in the Walloon parliament (26 April) and European Parliament (03 May) will also be arranged. Additional information and links can be found in the attached document. ASPO9.pdf

END:CIV – Resist or Die – documentary

END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the […]

How One Farm Plans to Survive Peak Oil

When film maker Rebecca Hosking and her partner Tim Green explored the implications of peak oil for her family farm, the resulting documentary called A Farm for the Future became a surprise hit on the BBC. Now they are following up with regular blog posts as they try to explore transitioning a traditional, working non-organic British farm […]

he Peak Oil Crisis: Protests, Tsunamis & Deficits

Events seem to be moving faster and faster these days. Perhaps it is due to the new ways of communicating that are now available. Or maybe it is the speed of travel or even that there are now nearly seven billion of us running around on the earth making more things happen.  Anyway it is […]

Michael C. Ruppert– A World in Trouble

Mike talks to the average citizen about where we stand in the energy crisis.

Gaddafi prepares for final showdown

Muammar Gaddafi’s forces are pushing towards the rebel stronghold of Benghazi and predict they will suppress the rebel uprising within days. Meanwhile, world leaders continue to dither on imposing a no-fly zone over the country. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces pushed towards the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi on Wednesday and his government predicted victory within days […]

Japan’s real disaster

Atomic reactors are not particularly dangerous. They cannot cause a nuclear blast — this is a common misconception. They can leak radiation, but this has happened only a couple times, and except at Chernobyl, radiation leaks from power reactors have had only slight impact on public health. The sort of radiation you would experience standing […]

Suppliers of LNG, coal, oil look to replace nuclear in Japan

Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to accelerate development of the OAO Rosneft-led Sakhalin-3 oil and gas project to help meet projected demand coming from Japan. “It is obvious that this is a long-term loss of generation so we need to think how to speed up plans for developing hydrocarbon production including gas […]

The Psychology of Disaster

Fortunately, for most of us, we learn about disasters through movies or books and not direct experience. These renditions are dramatic snapshots of lives, events, and heroism, but rarely do they show us the long-term impact of disasters on wildlife, psychological, cultural, environment or finances. While much has been written in the field of psychology […]

Michael Ruppert Interview on Peak Oil 11th March 2011

Michael Ruppert Interview on Groundzero radio discussing Peak Oil

How Close Are We to Peak Water?

We’ve all heard that water availability is and will continue to be a major issue and unlike oil, where we can look at the price per barrel or the price at the gas pump, or global warming, where we can keep track of the ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere relative to a stated goal […]

Radioactive Winds Head Towards Tokyo As Some Flee Capital

With Japanese authorities confirming that the third blast at Fukushima’s stricken nuclear plant caused radioactive particles to be released directly into the atmosphere, localized winds are blowing the radiation towards Tokyo, causing many to flee the capital, but the longer term trajectory of upper atmosphere prevailing winds will still send any potential radiation cloud towards […]

IEA warns high oil prices could hit growth

The International Energy Agency warned Tuesday of a “marked slowdown” in the global economy unless oil prices fall from current high levels as post-recession demand picks up. “If prices remain at current levels or rise further, by September 2011, if not before, the global economy may feature a marked slowdown,” the IEA said in its […]

Blasts deepen Japan nuclear crisis

Explosions and fire have rocked quake-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan, pumping out dangerous radiation and sparking panic in nearby town and cities. Fearful citizens stripped supermarket shelves on Tuesday, prompting the government to warn against panic-buying, saying this could hurt the provision of relief supplies to quake-hit areas. But scared Tokyo residents filled […]

Why an abundant supermarket is not the same as food security

The near-daily toppling of governments in the Arab world is rendering moot all arguments about whether peak oil is 10, 30 or 50 years away. Gas prices are up and still rising, and there is no guarantee they will come back down. More certain is that the governments that supplant the regimes that the West […]

Peak Trees (Video)

What were the Easter Islanders thinking prior to cutting down the last palm tree? Maybe it went something like this.

UAE, Saudis, Egypt, Algeria Top ME arms buyers

Middle East accounted for 1/6 of the world’s arms imports while having just 1/15th of the world’s population in 2010, study finds. he governments of the Middle East and North Africa dug deep into their pockets last year to stock up on weapons, according to the annual study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute […]

Cover Up Of Fukushima Chain Reaction Underway

All the nuclear reactors at the earthquake stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are under threat of  melting down and exploding in a chain reaction that will signify the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster and send clouds of radioactive particles hurtling towards the United States – that’s the scale of the crisis facing Japan as officials admit […]

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