Combining the best and/or worst aspects of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth and Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food / Omnivore’s Dilemma, U.K. author, Felicity Lawrence has written a new book (Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health) detailing her investigation into the impact that

In order to alleviate any suggestion of concern trolling on Matt Zeitlin’s part, I’m going to take a shot at why this Naomi Klein piece on Obama’s economic advisers is such a mess. Klein’s continued obsession with Milton Friedman as a symbol of everything that is wrong with anything approaching a market solution causes

Stan Goff and the amazing De Clarke have presented an eye opening article on, among many other things, the fence built by the Money Culture around the food system and examines a few assumptions and possibilities. The full, highly recommended article, “The Politics of Food is Politics”can be found on Counterpunch. Unable myself to clearly see or articulate these

Something to think about: Why would Al Gore, who is notoriously guilty of a huge amount of personal energy consumption, be touting a “global solution” to a “global problem” unless he was firmly in favor of and promoting the NWO? Why would the mainstream media be advancing the notion of a “global warming” problem if this promotion

I went to the local gas station/market today, and gas was $5.00 per gallon. We live in a very rural community, so the price of gas in our one-pump town is generally 40-50 cents more per gallon than in the city 50 miles away. As I walked into the store, I heard some people talking

Forbes.com, the online service of Forbes magazine, has a very interesting article about America not really being the proverbial land of opportunity. It suggests that America is not as great a land of opportunity as Americans like to believe. It makes many interesting points, but I had a strong counterpoint that I wrote for Forbes.com

Here’s one of those little facts the free traders and globalizationist forgot to mention. Last week, Wal Mart said that its cost for shipping goods to the US had doubled and if oil goes to $200, it will double again. So last year, it cost about $3,000 to ship a container from China

The new Russian president is blaming the US for the financial melt down we are experiencing. I am not surprised by his rhetoric, after all, the Russians love claiming how bad the US is and how they have a great system (like the part about not allowing opposition voices). Although the Russian president

Something most people don’t focus on when it comes to our high gas prices, is the role of fuel subsidies. I’m not talking about in the US but in China and India. These countries, along with many oil producing countries, subsidies the price of oil. This creates an artificially higher demand than

What makes New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s op-ed posts interesting, to me, is that his global (flat) perspective allows us to glimpse a little bit of a bigger picture that many others simply cannot provide. Why is this important? Because life is a simultaneous tension between “individualness” and interconnectedness. Humanity, in order to be more human,