Is Saudi supression OK with US?

SUBHEAD: Saudis and Fifth Fleet want calm to return to Bahrain and both want to limit Iran's influence in the region.By David Usborne on 18 March 2011 for New Zealand Herald - (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10713281)Image above: US Fifth Fleet conducts maintenance and support of submarines and surface vessels in its area of responsibility from Manama, Bahrain

US ramps up Libyan Ops

SUBHEAD: In Libya, fighting continued yesterday between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces, with both sides focusing on vital oil-related facilities.By Mike Headon 8 March 2011 for World Socialist Web Site -(http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/liby-m08.shtml) Image above: Anti-Gadhafi anti-aircraft weapon on pickup truck guards oil refinery. From (http://www.salon.com/wires/techbiz/2011/03/08

Reality Option Nation

SUBHEAD: A drag race with Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sen. Jim DeMint to see who can get America to drive over a cliff fastest.By James Kunstler on 7 March 2011 for Kunstler.com - (http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/03/reality-optional-living.html)Image above: Still from "Rebel Without a Cause", 1955. Natalie Wood wishing luck to James Dean a moment before the "chucken race" to cliff over the sea

Wake Me Shake Me

SUBHEAD: It's coming on springtime and things are breaking loose all over the place. I give Saudi Arabia three weeks before it starts to blow up.By James Kunstler on 28 February 2011 for Kunstler.com - (http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/02/wake-me-shake-me.html)Image above: Family members mourn for protester killed in Bahrain demonstration. From (http://beta.toledoblade.com/World/2011/02/18/

Rebel army forming to face Gaddafi

SUBHEAD: With eastern Libya largely under opposition control, the struggle for the west remains paramount.By Leila Fadel, Liz Sly and Tony Faiola on 27 February 2011 for WashPo - (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/26/AR2011022602622.html)Image above: A Libyan defaces image of Gaddafi as protests continue in Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

Libya's Gadhafi to fall

SUBHEAD: Anti-government protests have erupted in capital of Tripoli, as thousands of people converged on the Green Square.By Jonathan Landay, Miret al-Nagger & Erika Bolstad on 20 February 2011 for McClatchy News - (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/20/109081/uprising-in-libya-against-gadhafi.html#ixzz1EbTjh77V)Image above: Protesters massing in Benghazi, Libya. From (http://

White is the new Black

SUBHEAD: Americans lost in the techno-rapture of Fashion Week have no idea how fragile we are.By Jame Kunstler on 21 February 2011 for Kunstler.com - (http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/02/white-is-the-new-black.html)Image above: Calvin Klein's presentation during Fashion Week of white styles for summer 2011. From (http://www.styleguru.com/tags/mercedes-benz-fashion-week-2011).Let it be remembered

Middle East Unrest and Turmoil

SUBHEAD: Arab world is boiling over. Tunesia, then Egypt - now Libya and Bahrain. More are simmering including Algeria and Iran.Libyan Protesters Killed by Security Force SnipersBy Salah Naswari on 17 February 2011 for AP/Huffington Post - (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/17/libya-protests-antigovern_0_n_824826.html)Image above: Protesters in Libya before killings. From original

Arab Turmoil & Petrocollapse

SUBHEAD: if the disruption is strong enough, severe effects can shut down much of the global economy and simultaneously stop much local activity.By Jan Lundberg on 30 January 2011 for Culture Change - (http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/702/1/)Image above: Women demonstrating in Arab street. From (http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/106412/20110128/

The Food Bomb

SUBHEAD: Our leaders are like deer transfixed by the lights of an onrushing truck—they’ve done precious little to avert catastrophe.By Barry Lando on 1 February 2011 in Truthdig - (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_food_bomb_20110131/)Image above: Food market in Kaski, Nepal. From (http://californiaagriculture.ucanr.org/landingpage.cfm?article=ca.v063n04p199&fulltext=yes).On the face of it,

Non-Peaking Energy Demand

SUBHEAD: The non-peaking of energy demand is part of our energy ponzi scheme.By Steve Ludlum on 27 January 2011 in Economic Undertow - (http://economic-undertow.blogspot.com/2011/01/looking-at-non-peaking-of-demand.html)Image above: "Modernity is stoking a hot furnace stranded on an ice flow." Mashup by Juan Wilson.Here are some 'first principles' of Economic Undertow:The 'First Law' of

What's Happening in Egypt?

SUBHEAD: Egyptians citizens denounce President Hosni Mubarak, and clash with riot police.By Maggie Michael on 25 January 2011 for Yahoo News - (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_protest)Image above: Anti-Mubarak protesters in Egypt tearing down poster of Hosni Mubarak. From original article.An Egyptian Interior Ministry official says two protesters and one policeman have

Orbiting Planet Serious

SUBHEAD: For now, acting outside the common narrative in the US is simply too scary for the multitudes to rationally consider.By Steve Ludlum on 22 January 2011 in Economic Undertow - (http://economic-undertow.blogspot.com/2011/01/bits-and-pieces_22.html)Image above: The Middle east from 250 miles altitude over Saudi Arabia with the Red Sea on the horizon. From

Haiti protests of Monsanto GMOs

SOURCE: Diana Labedz (DianaLaBedz@aol.com)SUBHEAD: The Haitian government is using the earthquake to sell the country to the multinationals.By Ryan Stock on 20 January 2011 for Truthout.org -(http://www.truth-out.org/the-new-earthquake-manifest-haiti-monsantos-destiny66930)Image above: Haitians protest Monsanto seed "contribution". From (http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20100804_hope-for-haiti).

See South of the Border

SOURCE: Kenneth Taylor (taylork021@Hawaii.rr.com)SUBHEAD: A film to be shown on Kauai by Oliver Stone about the ongoing revolution in South America. Jan 21st.By Kauai Alliance for Peace on 3 January 2011 - Image above: Evo Morales, Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez at Film Society of Lincoln Center 2009 screening of "South of the Border". From (http://www.upi.com/enl-win/

The First WikiLeaks Revolution

SUBHEAD: 'First WikiLeaks Revolution': Tunisian revolution credited to cables which revealed despot's corruption.By Staff Reporter on 15 January 2011 for the Daily Mail - (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347336/Tunisia-riots-blamed-cables-revealed-countrys-corruption-dubbed-First-Wikileaks-Revolution.html)Image above: V is for Victory in Tunisia. From (http://

Tunisian Government Falls

SUBHEAD: Al Jezeera carried footage of defiant chanting, soldiers saluting and shaking hands with protesters.By Dan Murphy on 14 December 2011 in Christian Science Monitor - (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0114/Tunisia-under-state-of-emergency-after-government-falls)Image above: Street scene in Tunis as government falls. From (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/14/

Civil Unrest

SUBHEAD: The real economic situation continues to deteriorate in the midst of so little appreciation of why it is happening.By Tom Whipple on 12 January 2011 in Falls Church News-Press - (http://www.fcnp.com/commentary/national/8238-the-peak-oil-crisis-civil-unrest.html)Image above: Still from video game Grant Theft Auto IV, man against the system. From (http://game-server-hosting.net/

Jared Got a Gun

SUBHEAD: The shooting took place in a strip mall in a city of strip malls - many of them failing financially.By James Kunstler on 10 January 2011 for Kunstler.com - (http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/01/jared-got-a-gun.html)Image above: Tea Party rally during midterm campaign in spring 2010. From (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostroy/will-the-tea-partys-legac_b_558444.html).Did anyone else

What's Happening in Tunisia?

SUBHEAD: Inspiring story of Tunisian protests ignored by Washington and western media.By Rob Prince on 4 January 2011 for Alternet.org - (http://blogs.alternet.org/russwellen/2011/01/04/inspiring-story-of-tunisian-protests-ignored-by-washington)Image above: Recent street protests in Tunisia. From (http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama/398).They Just Don’t Stop ProtestingNot even