Collapse 2.0 – What a 2005 Bestseller Tells Us About Climate Change and Human Survival

Collapse 2.0 – What a 2005 Bestseller Tells Us About Climate Change and Human Survival

In his 2005 bestseller Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating. Among those were the Puebloan culture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, the ancient Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica, and the Viking settlers…

Is the U.S. a Failed State? “Why Did the U.S. Decide to Deindustrialize?”

Is the U.S. a Failed State? “Why Did the U.S. Decide to Deindustrialize?”

Michael Hudson [Intro/Music]: America cannot re-industrialize without reversing this whole philosophy of post-industrial society as a class war against labor. You can’t have both. You can’t have a class war against labor and reindustrialization with the labor unionization that goes with it. Countries who let an oligarchy develop end up pushing their own economies into…

“Decoupling”: Washington’s Plan to Kneecap China’s Economy

“Decoupling”: Washington’s Plan to Kneecap China’s Economy

The United States has settled on a multi-pronged strategy to thwart China’s development and preserve America’s premier position in the global order. The economic part of the plan is called “decoupling”, which refers to the selective blocking of China’s access to critical technology (particularly advanced semiconductors). The strategy has garnered nearly-universal support among America’s foreign…

The Great Chessboard: China’s Economic Rise and the Collapse of America

The Great Chessboard: China’s Economic Rise and the Collapse of America

Look carefully at the chart below. What do you see? You see the development of a high-speed rail system that is unrivaled anywhere on earth. You see the actualization of plan to connect all parts of the country with modern-day infrastructure that reduces shipping costs, improves mobility and increases profitability. You see a vision of…