The Well Run Dry

  Image taken from The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches, Heinrich Hoffman, 1858. (I offer my apologies in advance to Warren Z...

Over the last few weeks, I have been describing how the machinery of looting built by the U.S. and Europe has worked to enrich Europe and Am...

"Then He said to them, 'Watch out, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does h...

In my last post I said that Europe and the United States are being helped to involuntarily give up their thievery of other peoples' reso...

2024 Note: Please forgive the pro-Russian bias in the 2016 version of this post.  It has turned out that Russia has proven itself to be a na...

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. – Proverbs 4:7, World English Bible In the...

I've been busy. That is why I haven't been blogging over the last six months. Ironically, my busy-ness has consisted of me scr...

This past week, the New York Times ran a front page piece titled, “Bleak Portrait of Poverty is Off the Mark, Experts Say.” It was ba...

As some long-time readers of mine may have noticed, my blogging has undergone a bit of a hiatus over the last year. This was due to my w...

Several thinkers and activists in the “post-Peak preparedness” camp have written about how local communities can become more resilient an...

As I promised in my post, “ Adjusting My Own Oxygen Mask ,” I want to write a bit about the steps I am taking to make my life and my neigh...

I've been “out-of-pocket” for the last several weeks. This has been mainly due to my part-time teaching position as an adjunct at a l...