The 2008 Economic Collapse
BRA Here’s an excerpt from Kunstler’s new book: “It was not a coincidence that the global financial system wobbled and crashed in mid-2008, the same […]
Economy
Prophets of Doom
History Channel Kunstler mentioned that he appeared on this program in the book. I haven’t seen this before. Watching now. Note: The water crisis is […]
Kunstler’s New Book
Africa Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation … I’ve been reading a Kindle sample, and this is some dark […]
Free Trade: Vox Day vs. Gary North
United States The best debate going on at the moment: “To address North’s conceptual problem, a man with a badge and a gun and a […]
Buchanan on South Korea Free Trade Agreement
United States H/T Vox We had several discussions about this last year when Obama signed into law three new trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia, […]
Scaling the Blue Wall
Blue Wall White working class voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania have it within their power to sink Obama: “For much of the presidential campaign, […]
California Perestroika
California In his latest Forbes column, Joel Kotkin takes a journey into the great progressive paradise on the West Coast: “California’s “progressive” approach has been […]
Tales From Detroit: The D Could Go Broke In a Week
Michigan Paul Kersey’s Escape From Detroit was written in anticipation of the financial collapse of Detroit which should have happened in April. The can was […]
Peak Oil and White Privilege
BRA H/T Kievsky This promises to be comedy gold: “KMO welcomes Jay Smith and Jeff Wilburn to the C-Realm to reflect upon the Age of […]
The Fatal Idiocy of California
California H/T Walter Russell Mead There are some days when I log on to the internet, browse the handful of sites that I follow, and […]
The Wormhole
New York James Howard Kunstler has a new column on The Great Unwind in Europe: “Now we get to the really fun part of the […]
Russia Today: Have We Reached “Peak Mexican”?
Russia Today I just want to go on record here and say that in my gonzo fictional essays about the apocalyptic post-Sunbelt future this was […]
Vermont Becomes First State to Ban Natural Gas Fracking
Vermont Vermont … the launching pad of great progressive ideas like the abolition of slavery, civil rights, women’s suffrage, feminism, and gay marriage has become […]
NBC Show: Revolution
Illinois 15 years after the collapse … new J.J. Abrams series might be worth checking out.
Jerry Brown: Support My Tax Hike
California H/T Walter Russell Mead In case you missed it, Gov. Jerry Brown has a special message for OD readers in California about the need […]
Caribbean Project: Poverty In Paradise
Bermuda Bermuda is the third richest country in the world. How has this small island of 67,837 people (54.8 percent of whom are of negro […]
Caribbean Project: Why Is Haiti, Haiti?
Haiti The collapse of Saint-Domingue, the richest colony in the entire world, into the Republic of Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Western […]
Greece’s Right Wing: A New Dawn?
Greece “We are a Christian nation and we are Europeans. We don’t need Asians, Muslim fanatics in our country, simple as that,” says Ilias Panagiotaros, […]
How Does Union History Mesh With White History?
Yankeedom Kevin Levin has asked a rhetorical question: How Does Confederate History Mesh With Black History? That question is easy enough to answer. There were […]
Hillary Country
Pennsylvania Here’s a roundup of the interesting stuff on the web this morning: (1) Medicaid spending on the Black Undertow is breaking the fiscal backs […]
American Airlines Files For Bankruptcy
Texas American Airlines has filed for bankruptcy after losing billions of dollars in the last 14 out of 16 quarters. It was one of the […]
Death of the Sunbelt
Sunbelt A few days ago, I said on this website that the Sunbelt was dead and that Dixie was entering a new phase of its […]
Pass These Free Trade Agreements!
Michigan Did you hear the news? President Obama and the Republican House got together to pass the jobs bill the other day. They passed the […]
Whiskey Rebellion – Tea Party Revolution 1.0
Pennsylvania This is endlessly fascinating … it is a story about the Scots-Irish frontiersmen in North America, who came here to be left alone, to […]
Put Your Marching Shoes On
Dixie It is a cool September morning here in Dixie. I’ve just returned from a brief run outside. There is a feeling in the air […]
Lost Generation
United States As the American economy continues to deteriorate beyond the point of no return, the Millennials are graduating from college to find themselves saddled […]
Labor Day Roundup
United States As always, I spend 95 percent of my time following our “national conservation” in the mainstream. I use my telescope (the internet and […]
America’s Worst Decade
United States Ronald Brownstein has penned a column for the National Journal which describes the 9/11 decade as one of the worst decades in American […]
KunstlerCast: The End of Growth
California James Howard Kunstler and Richard Heinberg discuss “The End of Growth.” The KunstlerCast has been the best podcast on the internet for a long […]