Requiem for Syria

In this latest report, we take an in-depth look at the Syrian Revolution, in an attempt to sift through all the fear-mongering and disinformation that prevents people from giving Syrians the revolutionary solidarity they deserve.  Along the way, we take a closer look at what can sometimes be anarchists’ uncritical support for the Rojava Revolution […]

Kunstler: Slowly, Then All at Once

The staggering incoherence of the election campaign only mirrors the shocking incapacity of the American public, from top to bottom, to process the tendings of our time. The chief tending is permanent worldwide economic contraction. Having hit the resource wall, especially of affordable oil, the global techno-industrial economy has sucked a valve in its engine. […]

Alabama, Tennessee, & Georgia Declare States Of Emergency As Gas Shortages Loom After Pipeline Leak

As Native Americans protesters face arrest in North Dakota for blocking the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, TheAntiMedia’s Carey Wedler reports a gasoline pipeline spill is currently unfolding in the South. The leak has prompted Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to declare states of emergency. The Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston […]

Clinton Versus Trump: The Biggest Difference In Energy Policy

Hillary Clinton emphasizes the importance of increasing the share of renewable energy at the expense of fossil fuels and she acknowledges that climate change is a real issue; whereas, Donald Trump insists that he is “not a believer on climate change”, claiming that the extreme weather patterns that scientists attribute to man-made actions are simply […]

Naomi Klein & the Let­down of the Leap Manifesto: Energy Depletion Dismissal is Just as Bad as Climate Change Denial

Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Naomi Klein on a few different occasions; there was that first Prairie Festival at the Land Institute in Kansas that we both happened to attend in 2010, that second Prairie Festival which she spoke at in 2011, and the opening night talk she gave at […]

The New Geopolitics of Declining Oil Demand

Jason Bordoff (@JasonBordoff), a former energy adviser to President Obama, is a professor of professional practice in international and public affairs and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. For decades, the prospect of peak oil—that supply was running out—loomed as a doomsday scenario over the global economy, until the shale […]

America and the world

How should America use its influence in a world where being a superpower doesn’t get you what it once did? As instability and human tragedy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria have shown, the U.S. alone cannot impose solutions or force the surrender of adversaries like the Islamic State group, which cannot be deterred by […]

At least 21 civilians killed in Saudi-led air strikes

At least 21 civilians were killed in two separate air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen on Saturday, residents said on Sunday, as fighting intensified in the country before the Muslim Eid al-Adha feast. They said at least 15 civilians were killed when war planes targeted workers drilling for water in the Beit […]

Chinese Food Security and the Opportunities of Brexit

The old adage – “the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach” – has never been more pertinent to global security.  With the world’s population now exceeding 7.2 billion (an awful lot of stomachs to fill) we require a mind-boggling amount of food. In fact, farmers will need to grow as much food in […]

Wild Cards in Play During Run-Up to OPEC Freeze Meeting

Another day, another set of headlines about who’s on first – and indeed, who’s even a player – in the latest iteration of a potential OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) production freeze on crude. Deon Daugherty Senior Editor, Rigzone While the United States basked in an end-of-summer break, folks around the world appeared […]

Tribes Secure Limited Victory with Partial Halt on Dakota Pipeline

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday reportedly denied an emergency request for a restraining order filed by the Standing Rock Sioux, however, the hearing is being seen as a partial victory for the tribe. In a press conference, a representative for the tribe explained that an “agreement” was reached, however, under which the Dakota […]

China Aims For Superpower Status

China mobilises for a big event like nowhere else. Hangzhou on the eve of the G20 is a certain kind of awesome. A city rebuilt. Filled with brand new security kit and locked down manhole covers, it has been emptied of a third of its population. The switch was flicked to off in factories for […]

Oil-Pipeline Protest Turns Violent in North Dakota

Tribal officials say burial and cultural sites destroyed by Dakota Access Pipeline construction crews ENLARGE Native American protesters and their supporters confront security guards during a demonstration against work being done for the Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannonball, N.D., on Saturday. Photo: Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Associated Press Sept. 3, 2016 11:53 p.m. ET 0 […]

Revolution Rising: Colossal Protests Rock Socialist Venezuela

Anti-socialist protesters flooded Venezuela’s capital in one of the largest mass protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s rule in over a decade – and one of the largest protests in world history. Revolution Rising: Colossal Protests Rock Socialist Venezuela https://t.co/wUPWIZZBtW @DRUDGE #tcot #altright @mises pic.twitter.com/ALyNySnKEa — Kit Daniels (@KitDaniels1776) September 2, 2016 Chanting “this government will […]

Putin on the globalist destruction of the Middle East

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neo-conservative think tank that operated between 1997 and 2006. It openly advocated for the total global military domination by the United States. PNAC members held the highest-level positions in the George W. Bush administration, including Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland) , Dick Cheney, Donald […]

Venezuela’s Oil Output Set To Collapse As 1 Million Take To The Streets

Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Caracas on September 1, demanding the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Estimates peg the number of protesters at about 1 million, clogging the capital’s streets amid the country’s worst economic crisis in its modern history. “We are going to defeat hunger, crime, inflation and […]

U.S. And Russia Emerging As Winners 2 Years Into The Oil War

Summary Each oil producers’ fortune differs depending on fundamentals. Demand is still extraordinarily high. Inventory remains very high, especially in the U.S. U.S. shale oil and to a lesser extent Russia are emerging as winners. “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” — Winston Churchill Everyone knows the story. Saudi Arabia […]

Iran granted exemptions to nuclear accord

The US and other members of the international community granted Iran exemptions to its requirements under the agreement that sought to curb its nuclear program, according to a new report by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. The alleged granting of “secret” exemptions to Iran by the Joint Commission, the deal’s implementing body, […]

Montreal’s Anti-Pipeline Resistance

A week of Anti-Pipeline resistance kicked off with a disruption of the meetings of the National Energy Board which seeks to approve the Energy East Pipeline, a project that aims to transport oil from Alberta’s Tar Sands to the East Coast. The disruption successfully shut down the meetings indefinitely. This was followed up by a […]

Kunstler: Trending

Would fate permit it, the election of Hillary Clinton will be the supreme and perhaps terminal act in an Anything-Goes-And-Nothing-Matters society. Yet, even with the fabulous luck of running against a consummate political oaf, she struggles to get the upper hand, and she may land in the White House with the lowest voter turnout in […]

The Broken Chessboard: Brzezinski Gives Up On Empire

The main architect of Washington’s plan to rule the world has abandoned the scheme and called for the forging of ties with Russia and China. While Zbigniew Brzezinski’s article in The American Interest titled “Towards a Global Realignment” has largely been ignored by the media, it shows that powerful members of the policymaking establishment no […]

A Kingdom In Turmoil: Saudi Societal Discontent Grows

Dr. Alyami is a native of Saudi Arabia and a citizen of the US for the past four decades. From an early age he has been advocating for political, economic and social reform in his native homeland. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Democracy & Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, […]

Iraq plans to sell oil through Iran

Iraq’s government would consider selling crude through Iran should talks with the autonomous Kurdish region on an oil revenue-sharing agreement fail, a senior oil ministry official in Baghdad told Reuters. Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO) plans to hold talks with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), possibly next week, about Iraqi oil exported through Turkey, […]

Saudi Aramco Says Operating as Normal After Yemeni Attack

Yemen’s Saba said missile caused extensive damage at Aramco Saudi says projectile caused fire at a power relay facility Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil company said all of its oil, gas and refining plants are operating as normal, after Yemeni rebels said they hit facilities with a missile. All installations in the kingdom are safe, Saudi […]

Learning from Failure: A Modest Introduction

The other day, one of the readers over at the other blog asked a question as sensible as it is timely: why do so many sane people start foaming at the mouth when the subject of this year’s US presidential election comes up? It’s a fair question. Even by the embarrassing standards of political discourse […]

5 Factors That Could Turn America Into Another Collapsed Empire

Nations are just as likely to unravel after periods of prosperity as afte periods of depression Have you ever met an Ottoman? Or a Habsburg? Neither have I. Like a chopped-up Magritte painting, all that is left of the Habsburgs is a homburg hat. Yet in the 1800s, the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires controlled a […]

China takes control of North Sea oil drilling

China has become the largest crude oil operator in the North Sea despite boasting that it uses deep-water oilrigs as strategic weapons. The scale of Chinese growth in the region meant that Britain handed about £2 billion in tax breaks to one state-run oil company last year, analysis by The Times has shown. China National […]

Burn Down the Plantation

In this sedition we bring you an exclusive interview with prison inmate Melvin Ray, secretly filmed inside Holman Prison in Alabama. Melvin is a member of the Free Alabama Movement, a national organization against mass Incarceration and prison slavery. They have teamed up with the IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, to organize the largest prison […]

Kunstler: Dark Dynamics

What the world is witnessing, without actually paying much attention, is the death of our debt-based economy — that is, borrowing the means to thrive in the now from a future that can’t really furnish it anymore. The illusion that the future would always provide was a legacy of the cheap energy era. That era […]

The Psychopolitics of Global Warming and Population Control

Despite the fact that man-made climate change continue to be proven false, the left drives on with its fear-driven insistence that human beings must dramatically change their behavior in order to save the planet. Everything revolves around the idea that man’s consumption of natural resources is creating an unsustainable environment, and if we don’t somehow curb our use of […]

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