WASHINGTON -
Should private contractors like Blackwater be allowed to continue to
provide armed security for convoys, diplomatic and other personnel, and
military bases and other facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq? A
bipartisan U.S.

A flock of racists slowly approach us on the wing of Arizona’s future. They are prepared to land on occupied Akimel O’odham Pi-Posh land (Phoenix)....

“If we refuse to take into account the full cost of our fossil fuel addiction—if we don’t factor in the environmental costs and national security costs and true economic costs—we will have missed our best chance to seize a clean energy future.”

–President Barack Obama, Carnegie Mellon University, June 2, 2010

The most distinctive feature of the last years of the Soviet Union may have been the way it continued to pour money into its military -- and its military adventure in Afghanistan -- when it was already going bankrupt and the society it had built was beginning to collapse around it. Successive American administrations have blindly headed down the very path that had led the Soviets to ruin.

In 2006 when I first met Julian Darley, author of _High Noon for Natural Gas_ and the founder of the Post-Carbon Institute, the world was excited by then-famous "Jack" oil field find in the Gulf of Mexico.

<p>Belgrade/Serbia - Today Belgrade High Court acquitted a group of six anarchists from accusations that they caused a general danger with trewing ...

In the first post of this series, I mentioned my initial encounter with winemaking and wine drinking on an island in Lake Erie, after which I read anything and everything I could find about wine. One of the first books I read was Leon D. Adams' The Wines of America, a book long since out of print.