By Rick Rozoff
(The Intelligence Daily) — Over 43 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in the past two days in fighting between Shabab (al-Shabaab) insurgent forces, who on March 10 advanced to within one mile of the nation’s presidential palace, and troops of the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government. The fighting has [...]
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Barbarism and Good Brandy
March 12, 2010
in Commentary, Peak Oil
By John Michael Greer
(The Intelligence Daily) — A taste for irony is a useful habit to cultivate if you happen to write about energy issues in the declining years of a civilization defined by its extravagant use of energy, on the one hand, and the dubious logic it uses to justify that extravagance on the [...]
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