Where is your gratitude? Dante assigns the ungrateful to the ninth circle of hell, a fate fittingly severe. Throughout most of human history, infectious diseases have claimed millions of lives and led to the collapse of entire civilizations. Life expectancy barely exceeded 30 years for much of our past. However, ...

by MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER from Substack :- Climate change is causing devastating fires around the world, say top government officials, influential scientists, and the world’s largest newspapers. Greece’s civil protection minister said climate change was causing the fires in Greece, Hawaii, and Canada. Climate change is increasing average temperatures that dry out ...

By Caitlin Johnsone – from caitlinjohnsone.com.au Speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace. Homelessness and war are normal and opposing nuclear armageddon is treason. You’re a serious person if you believe our brains are being scrambled by Russian ray guns and a kooky conspiracy theorist if you’re skeptical about ...

  By Michael Hudson - excerpts. Many people think that debt and the payment of interest and the fact that all debtors have to pay their debts, it’s assumed that the rules of finance are universal, they’ve always been this way, and that there is no alternative. You could say ...

Holidays in Babel  "Come, let's build ourselves a city with a tower reaching the heavens, so that we can make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we'll be scattered over the face of the whole earth." Genesis I'm nestled under the shade of a beachfront veranda on Semanijak Beach, Bali. I'm ...