A Gesture from the Invisible Hand

(The Intelligence Daily) -- It’s been a long road, but we’ve finally reached the point in these essays at which it’s possible to start talking about some of the consequences of the primary economic fact of our time, the arrival of geological limits to increasing fossil fuel production.  That’s as challenging a topic to discuss as it will be to live through, because it cannot be understood effectively from within the presuppositions that structure most of today’s economic thinking.   It’s common,...

Secret State Demands News Organization's Web Logs, Gets Slapped Down

(The Intelligence Daily) -- When the Independent Media Center (IMC) received a formal notice on January 30 from the Department of Justice, demanding they provide an Indianapolis grand jury with...

How we got to Zero: General Eikenberry's Hail Mary

(The Intelligence Daily) -- U.S. Afghan Envoy Urges Caution on Troop Increase "WASHINGTON -- The United States ambassador to Afghanistan, who once served as the top American military commander...

Why Switzerland Is Still Free and America Is Not

Comment: Although I agree with most of the ideas contained in this article, I don't believe in secession.(The Intelligence Daily) -- The American Time magazine article headline asks, "Will...

Clinton Appoints Former Embassy Hostage

(The Intelligence Daily) -- When the Iranian Revolution exploded on the world scene three decades ago, John Limbert was a greenhorn diplomat assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. After that station...

Copenhagen Treaty: Premises and Motivations

(The Intelligence Daily) --  "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by...

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