French & US airstrikes ‘kill over 140 civilians’

Syria is demanding the UN take action after it says French war planes killed more than 120 civilians during airstrikes on Tuesday near the Turkish-Syrian border. The deaths came just a day after US air assaults killed a further 20 people in Manbij. TrendsIslamic State, Syria unrest The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to the […]

Israel’s blessing to the world

The Jewish nation is tiny yet its contribution to humanity is astounding; its footprints of blessing, innovation and aid etched into the areas of mankind’s greatest need. Dr. Yuval Levy, a member of an Israeli military medical team that treated earthquake victims in Haiti, holds hands with Woodley Elize, a six-year-old Haitian boy who would […]

Erdogan’s Historic Purge Claims 50,000, Turkey Set To Unveil “Emergency Measures”

Erdogan’s historic purge of dissidents and adversaries – many of which curiously are to be found in the country’s educational system – continues, and according to the latest count, a total of around 50,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers have been suspended or detained since the coup attempt, stirring tensions across the country […]

Russia arms its energy weapon

Russia finds itself once again in a row with one of its neighbors over gas prices — a constant theme since the early 2000s — triggering renewed fears that Moscow is again using energy as a weapon to put pressure on its customers. Back in the spotlight is Belarus, which has already been confronted with […]

My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land

The diary of a desperate mother trying to put food on the kitchen table. By Fabiola Zerpa | July 18, 2016 Photographs by Bloomberg Versión en español → Editor’s note: The looting, the blackouts, the mob lynchings, the hospitals with no supplies. Venezuela’s collapse into disarray is of a scale unseen in the Western Hemisphere […]

Kunstler: A Dark Prospect

I was in the streets of Chicago in 1968 during the Democratic Convention. It was only a few months after Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were shot to death. The “establishment,” as we called it back then, was all set to nominate Vice-president Hubert Humphrey who had started out in Washington as a Midwestern […]

When Eisenhower Took on Big Oil

Republicans weren’t always opposed to big government intervention, and one of the party’s icons wasn’t afraid to do it against the wishes of the oil industry. In a presidential campaign pivoting on the assumption that corporate America rules America, we should remember that the perceptions and reality of corporate control have fluctuated wildly over the […]

Coup In Turkey Fails

Defiant Turks prepare for a fresh uprising after 250 are killed: Brave civilians take to the streets again after seeing off a failed military coup, dragging cowering soldiers from their tanks and beating them in the streets Civilians reclaimed Turkey from their own military after helping to end coup to overthrow ruling President Erdogan Ordinary […]

The Dawn of a New Dark Age

By Ian Morris “The end of a world,” ABC News called Britain’s vote to leave the European Union on June 24. As if in agreement, the pound immediately racked up its biggest-ever one-day loss against the dollar. Over the next three days, the Dow Jones index fell 4.8 percent, London’s FTSE 100 lost 5.6 percent, […]

Hunting for the Exit

Review of How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot. Verso 342pp RRP £16.99 It’s a poor reflection on the state of our civic culture that George Monbiot stands almost alone among journalists in the mainstream British media as a voice for the radical green left. I doubt it’s easy […]

Europe’s Economic Crisis Has Spread from the Periphery to the Core

We’ve noted for more than 5 years that the European crisis would spread in the following order … more or less: Greece → Ireland → Portugal → Spain → Italy → UK We also warned that the EU’s approach to economic problems in the periphery would lead the cancer to spread to the core. For […]

Kremlin: Some oil privatization by year’s end

Privatization of Russian oil production and maritime shipping companies could be completed before the end of the year, a deputy minister said Monday. The Kremlin has been reviewing privatization options as the Russian economy risks lingering in recession because of the strains brought on by Western sanctions and low crude oil prices. Privatizing state oil […]

Kunstler: Lit and Sputtering

You can see where the trajectory of events is leading. The country will be distracted by racial strife this summer while the global banking system implodes, disabling trade relations and the super-long supply chains we depend on for all common goods from oil to fresh food. Unless the remnants of the Republican Party act responsibly […]

Why Oil Was a Prime Motivator For the Iraq War

Well before the US and UK led the invasion of Iraq, the two countries were under suspicion about their intentions for Iraq’s oil. When asked on February 6 2003 in a BBC Newsnight programme whether the war in Iraq was about oil, Tony Blair responded: Let me just deal with the oil thing … the […]

ISIL digging hundreds of small pits to store oil in lieu of destroyed refineries

Washington PostSatellite images provided to the Washington Post by Stratfor, a U.S. geospatial research firm, show tiny, makeshift refineries popping up in Mosul oil fields controlled by ISIL. With its refineries mostly destroyed and its tanker fleet under constant attack, ISIL is increasingly turning to low-tech alternatives for processing oil, a vital source of revenue […]

The Divided States of America

This report looks at the toxic brew of anger, disillusionment and insecurity fueling support for Donald Trump, and contributing to a resurgence of far-right white supremacist and neo-nazi groups in the United Snakes… setting the stage for what could be an epic showdown at the 2016 RNC in Cleveland.

Zero Growth Can be Dynamic

Growth is considered the foremost driver of prosperity. The growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) gives an immediate measure of how well a national economy is functioning. Such economic growth drives business expansion and job creation. The relatively low US growth rates in recent years have coincided with low labor force participation rates, a much more […]

The money Jeremy Corbyn received from Iran demands an explanation

REUTERS/Toby Melville You can respect Jeremy Corbyn for being a man of principle. You can respect him for rebuilding the Labour party with a massive influx of new members who were previously unengaged with politics. And you can respect the fact that, daily, he has to deal with a hostile Conservative tabloid press that has […]

A Long List of Advances, a Short List of Setbacks – including Brexit

The list of main setbacks for the global energy transition in June includes a potentially big one: Brexit. But when you view that vote in the light of the month’s long list of main advances, and the other such long lists for January through May 2016, plus the three years before, dots join to tell […]

Deadly Bombing Strikes Baghdad

As celebrations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan stretched past midnight into Sunday in central Baghdad, where Iraqis had gathered to eat, shop and just be together, a minivan packed with explosives blew up and killed at least 143 people — the third mass slaughter across three countries in less than a week. The […]

Our Economic Freedom Isn’t Free

Our economic freedom is the foundation of all freedoms and there are forces in this country yet today who would deny it and enslave all of us if they could. Let’s celebrate our independence by thanking those who have sacrificed life, limb and the pursuit of happiness for it. Let’s thank our veterans who answered […]

The Great Brexit Clusterfuck: A Collapse Week in Review

    Discuss this article at the Geopolitic Table inside the Diner Collapse NOW and Beat the Rush!  There IS NO PLAN B! It is now the Monday After the Great Brexit Clusterfuck, and I am going to write this article across the rest of the week as events unfold.  So things may change along […]

Who are the Niger Delta Avengers?

IN THE early hours of June 16th a pipeline belonging to Nigeria’s state-owned oil company exploded. This was the latest in a string of attacks claimed by the Niger Delta Avengers, a new group taking out pipelines and oil platforms in the southern, oil-pumping part of the country. Since it started wreaking havoc in January […]

Iraq secures $2.7 billion US loan from for military equipment

Iraq secured a $2.7 billion loan from the United States on Wednesday to fund ammunition and maintenance of fighter jets, tanks and other military equipment for use in the war against Islamic State. Baghdad will have eight and a half years, including a one-year grace period, to repay the loan, which carries a 6.45 percent […]

Outside the Hall of Mirrors

The outcome of last week’s vote concerning Britain’s membership in the European Union has set off anguished cries and handwaving across much of the internet and the mass media. The unexpected defeat of the pro-EU camp, though, has important lessons to offer, and not just for those of my readers who live in Britain; the […]

EU response to Brexit: Totalitarian Super State

The Polish news channel TVP Info reports French and German foreign ministers are ready to reveal a super state “ultimatum” to EU countries in response to Brexit. European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled: EU nations ‘to be morphed into one’ post-Brexit https://t.co/3pmUi3V7x0 pic.twitter.com/rDOvKH95gh — Voice of Europe (@V_of_Europe) June 27, 2016 The totalitarian proposals will strip […]

Kunstler: Death to All Zombies!

Wait a minute. They’re already dead. Brexit just reveals that not everybody’s brains have been eaten. A viral contagion now threatens the zombified institutions of daily life, especially the workings of politics and finance. Just as zombies exist only in the collective imagination, so do these two principal activities of society operate mainly on trust, […]

Brexit and the energy equation

The fretting in the financial markets after Great Britain’s voters narrowly decided to leave the European Union (EU), a move dubbed Brexit, was less about immediate effects–there aren’t any since it would take Britain up to two years to withdraw–and more about a foreboding that other countries will want out, too. In addition, some think […]

UK Prime Minister David Cameron To Resign

Well that escalated quickly…Speaking from in front of 10 Downing Street, UK PM David Cameron just stated that he will step down as Prime Minister, explaining that “I think the country requires fresh leadership.” As The Wall Street Journal reports, “There are times when it is right to ask the people themselves, that is what […]

Degrowth by Designed Disaster?

The degrowth movement has been developed in response to neoliberal reality, neoliberalism’s comically reductive view of human nature, its ecological blindness and the rise in social inequality it has brought about. Austerity politics embodies one of the most aggressive manifestations of neoliberalism, but curiously, the degrowth movement has been exposed to criticism from the (both […]

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