Deep Dives
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The Deep State Of Denial About…
The real story of Trump's oil-soaked, Kushner-catalyzed presidency is its “business-as-usual” continuity with the Empire of Oil and its fawning…
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We Are Not Alone
Space. They say it’s the final frontier. And they’ve probably been saying it for a long, long time. According to…
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Mother Nature’s Invisible Hand Strikes Back
Is the hydrocarbon economy too big to fail? If the woefully inadequate outcome of the Paris climate conference is any indication,…
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Sasha Baron Cohen & Free Speech In The Panopticon
As y’all know, I am a free speech absolutist by nature and I am more than a bit uneasy with “de-platforming” because it is not only applied unevenly, but it is easily weaponized to shut down all kinds of speech … not just hate speech or “yelling fire in a crowded theater.” The rub with…
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Our Global Gas Chamber
One of the great (mostly) untold stories of the Age Of Oil is the array of toxic chemicals in hydrocarbon exhaust and the accumulation of exhaust-borne particulates in the bloodstream and brain. We are largely indifferent to these byproducts of our industrial-grade obsession with hydrocarbons, but our willful ignorance cannot hide the facts the way…
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What the Hell is Up with the Saudi Arabia – Oil – Drone Attack Thingy?
I’m not saying it wasn’t Iran. There is a plausible case to be made that Iran senses the US is being led by a narcissism-addled nimrod who is desperate to avoid war because he needs to be reelected to avoid criminal prosecution. The argument would be that they took advantage of Trump’s striking weakness (see…
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Newsvandal Talks Climate, Empire & Military Keynesianism
On August 29, 2019, JP Sottile joined Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen to discuss the intersection of US Empire with the climate crisis and the ways defense spending is a self-perpetuating machine. Click Here to listen to the full hour. Tweet
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The Deep State Of Denial About Trump’s Oily Presidency
The real story of Trump’s oil-soaked, Kushner-catalyzed presidency is its “business-as-usual” continuity with the Empire of Oil and its fawning service of the Empire’s Military-Industrial clients in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.