Two on Mass Migration

John Seiler, Fourth Generation War and the Migrant Invasion of Europe
Refugee Flows: a Grand Strategic Weapon of Mass Destruction by Franklin Spinney (also published at Unz)

Apparently Martin van Creveld's essay in Riding the Red Horse talks about migration as a hostile action.

Contra the Neocons: A Sensible Grand Strategy

One Presidential Debate You Won’t Hear: Why It is Time to Adopt a Sensible Grand Strategy by Franklin Spinney

Chuck Spinney on the Ukraine Situation

More Blowback in the Offing?

Save the A-10

Chuck Spinney, Should the Air Force Retire the A-10?
Kelley Vlahos, Why the Warthog Matters

Taiwan: A Fukushima Disaster Waiting to Happen?

ADAM CHIMIENTI
The Radioactive Ghost Of Chiang Kai-Shek

Other articles at Counterpunch:
The Self-Delusions Of Empire by Joseph Richardson
The Sociocide Of Iraq By Bush/Cheney by Ralph Nader
America’s Willing Executioners by Rob Urie
The Madness Of King George Revisited by Franklin C. Spinney

Chuck Spinney on UAVs

How Drones Destroy Their Own OODA Loops by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY

Without explicitly saying so, Porter has provided us a case study on how the entire strategic decision process has folded inward on itself, and in so doing, has disconnected the flow of decisions from the unfolding reality. But there is more. Porter describes how that disconnect has flowed out of the White House, the CIA, and Pentagon into the Orientation of the think tanks and the mass media, and by implication, into the collective mind of the population at large.

More Items of Interest, 22 April 2012

As If Nothing Matters by James Howard Kunstler

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Reflections on "Small Wars" and Military Waste; Four Reasons.
The Joint Strike Fighter's Terrible Propaganda Videos

PJB, As France Goes, So Goes Europe?

Abbeville Institute’s July 2012 Summer School: “The Greatness of Southern Literature.”

Counterpunch:
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, In Camus’ Image
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, Unplugging Americans From The Matrix
FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Hardware Over People at the Pentagon (Again)
STEVE FRASER and JOSHUA B. FREEMAN, The Prison Labor Complex
CONN HALLINAN, The Afghan Train Wreck

KENT PATERSON, Fear, Loathing and Electoral Politics in Mexico

Tom Murphy, Easing Off the Gas
'Food Forward' PBS Series Debuts With 'Urban Agriculture Across America' Episode


Early Childhood Reeducation Camps

Feminism and the Breakdown of the Family:
Hawaiian Libertarian, Here Come Bastards
Dalrock, Slut!

Items of Interest, 27 February 2012

Judge Sides With Monsanto
Ridicules Farmers' Right to Grow Food Without Fear, Contamination and Economic Harm
NPR

California Farm Conference

Franklin Spinney, Lying for a Cause

Patrick Buchanan, For What? All These Wars

Peter Hitchens, The Myth of Margaret Thatcher

Daniel McCarthy, The Closing of the Cable Television Mind

Philip Giraldi, Afghanistan in the Rear View Mirror

Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson

Wealthier People More Likely To Lie or Cheat, Study Says

The Place Where I Write: Cecily Parks

Wes Jackson, Forever Planting (for Peak Oil & Climate Change) (mp3)

Relocalization:
Don’t Mock the Artisanal-Pickle Makers

Creating Healthy, Sustainable Neighborhoods - Even in the Suburbs

Presenting the Community Resilience Guides

100 Mile Houses Expands the Locavore Movement from Food to Architecture

Cold comfort. Review: The Winter Harvest Handbook

Dr. Vandana Shiva - Occupy Our Food Supply
Vandana Shiva - Teachers for a Living World

Diet and Health:
Dr. Robert Lustig - Almost Everyone Eats it, But it's a "Breeding Ground" for Disease


Chris Masterjohn: My Interview With "Ask Bryan" Davis on his "Doc Fermento Discovers the World" Podcast is Now Up! (mp3)

Catholic:
Cornerstone Forum
The Ghent Altarpiece in 100 Billion Pixels

Music:
William Byrd - The sacred and the profound by Richard Fairman

The Infamous Stringdusters

Hollywood:
Meryl Streep - The Fresh Air Interview

SWCS:
SWCS Organization

Items of Interest, 31 January 2012

Patrick Buchanan, Obama Sandbags the Archbishop
Tom Piatak, The Evil Party Rides Again
Vox Populi: Selective and belated protest

Karen De Coster: Amy Alkon on Homo Barbarus and A Book About Flinching and Fear

Pillars of Agrarianism

Jeffersonian Exceptionalism by Paul Pillar

Brad Birzer's series of interviews with Catholic "conservatives," "Bearers of the Word," can be found here. His interview with Daniel McCarthy. (via Daniel McCarthy; Rod Dreher's post)

Fabius Maximus: Martin van Creveld explains the essence of Airpower Yesterday,Today, and Tomorrow and Some foes of the Republic revealed themselves by sponsoring the Enemy Expatriation Act

NDAA Taking You Back to the 19th Century

State Governments check Federal power

Daniel Larison, What Santorum Learned from Bush-era Foreign Policy Failures, Santorum Still Stuck in 2002: They Hate Us Because of Our Freedom, The Dangerous Idea of NATO Expansion Will Not Die

James Antle on the Republicans behind Obamacare: Now what the doctor ordered.

"The Conservative Believes..." by Russell Kirk

What is a Conservative?

Mark T. Mitchell, Monstanto vs. Family Farmers

Franklin C. Spinney, The On-going Scandal of the F-35

Iran:
The Ongoing War on Iran by PATRICK COCKBURN
Where to go for information about our conflict with Iran, and why you should understand what’s happening
Iranian aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Mexico
Israeli Officials: Attack on Iran Must Come ‘By Summer’
Daniel Larison, Nasr: Iran Sanctions Leading to War
Hormuz-Mania: Why closure of the Straits of Hormuz could ignite a war and a global depression by Michael Klare

Economics:
The Crisis of Civilization reviewed (EB)


Kevin Carson, Why the State Will Fail
Interview with Richard Heinberg on Occupy Educated
Beyond GDP: New Measures for a New Economy by Lew Daly, Stephen Posner (EB)
Capitalism only creates misery – we need a system that puts human wellbeing first
The Price of Growth by Gregor Macdonald
Where Did All the Workers Go? 60 Years of Economic Change in 1 Graph
More reasons why we are reaching limits to growth by Gail Tverberg (EB)
The fallacy of the tragedy of the commons by Marq de Villiers (EB)

Sustainability:
A guide for sustainability advocates by Niki Harré (EB)

Relocalization:
Education and the Way Home by Jeffrey Polet
For Farmers Everywhere, Small is (Still) Beautiful by Robin Broad, John Cavanagh
Meet the New Boss: You
5 Big Ideas For A New Economy
Sharing a Skilled Future (EB)
Is Valpo Ready for Citizen Finance?
My prices are not too high: A farmer fires back by Shannon Hayes (EB)
Brewing Better Local Economies with American Craft Beer

Peak Oil and Energy:
Peak Oil: Yes, Still a Serious Issue (EB)
The Hydrogen Dream (EB)
Oil prices, exhaustible resources, and economic growth: report extract
by James D. Hamilton (EB)

Items of Interest, 13 December 2011

Peter Hitchens, David Cameron’s Phoney War, or A Curse in Disguise
Kelley Vlahos, Iraq: No Comfort in Being Right

Rod Dreher, Russell Kirk, stranger and prophet


FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Why the US & Israel May Agree to Bombing Iran

Fabius Maximus, Why Americans should love Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – we live there

Distributism:
Some recent posts about "Distributism"
Christopher Ferrera, In Defense of Distributism
Why Socialism and Distributism are Wholly Antithetical

Relocalization:
John Robb, Contagion: The communication of disease from one person to another by close contact.

Transition branching out? Land reform: losing and recovering the Commons
by Justin Kenrick (EB)

Economics:
Economics and the Pursuit of Happiness
Rod Dreher, More on the cult of Wall Street
The Journey Home-Wilhelm Röpke & the Humane Economy by Roger Scruton
Commentary: Oil, climate, agriculture and learning to love limits by Sharon Astyk (original)

OWS:
Kevin Carson, Revolution 2.0: Is Occupy Reaching a Takeoff Point?

Peak Oil:
Talkin’ peak oil blues: The new KunstlerCast book
Top 10 Peak Oil Books of 2011

Water:
As Global Population Grows, Water Matters More - interview

Wes Jackson:
Can We Restore the Prairie—And Still Support Ourselves?

The Atomic Bombings:
The Least Evil Option: A Defense of Harry Truman (via MoJ)

Diet and Health:
Karen De Coster, Austrian Economics Meets Primal Blueprint?

Feminism:
The reduction of masculinity
Decoding the Female Happiness Paradox

Catholic:
Msgr. Gherardini: Vatican II is not a super-dogma
The importance and the limits of the authentic Magisterium

Marshall McLuhan & Chesterton: New Touchstone

Items of Interest, 28 November 2011

Srjda Trifkovic, Multicultural vs. Stereotypical

Plato’s Euthyphro: Introduction by Thomas Fleming

Justin Raimondo, The Price of Empire

FBI Adds Preppers to Potential Terrorists List

Shannon Hayes, Toilet Paper: Preparedness or True Resilience

Sharon Astyk, How to Eat Cheap (EB)

Don't Panic! by Catriona Ross (EB)

Economics:
The new Story of Stuff: Can we consume less? by Fred Pearce (EB)

"Demand-Side Economics" and the Liberal Denial of Reality by Erik Lindberg (EB)

A mindful path to a steady state economy by Rick Heller (EB)
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Why is economic growth so popular? by Ugo Bardi (EB)

VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM: Land Tenure and Anarchic Common Law

Energy:
The Energy Return on Investment threshold by David Murphy (EB)

OWS:
Ralph Nader, Let Them In

On Black Friday: A Look at the Occupy Movement and Buy Nothing Day

Counterpunch:
Franklin Spinney, AF-Pak SITREP
Brian McKenna, Student Loan Fury in the Occupy Movement
Paul Craig Roberts, The Roads to War and Economic Collapse and Just Another Goldman Sachs Take-over

A pathetic piece by a pedestaller on a book written by another pedestaller: Women Are Better at Almost Everything

November 28 2011: Are we there yet?

Don't go back to school: An interview with author Kio Stark by Paul M. Davis (EB)

Diet and Health:
How to Eliminate Tooth Decay

History:
A Chivalrous Man is not a Gentleman: A Look at Chivalry in the Age of Chaucer
Childhood in Medieval England, c.500-1500

Items of Interest, 13 September 2011

The conversion story of Thomas Storck.

Thomas Fleming, Idling, Week 2

John Zmirak, College: How Not to Waste Your 4 Years

A guide for the perplexed energy policymaker by Kurt Cobb (EB)

This is the house Transition built by Charlotte Du Cann (EB)
The Mondragon bank – an old model for a new type of finance by Oscar Kjellberg (EB)


States quietly throwing wrenches into health care implementation

NPR: An Interrogator Writes the Inside Story of 9-11

Counterpunch:
FRANKLIN SPINNEY, It’s Budgetary War, Bloody and Terrible
IAN HARRIS, Drone Warfare
HARVEY WASSERMAN, Ten Thousand Fukushimas
SHELDON RICHMAN, 9/11 and the National Security Scam
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Enemy That Barely Exists

Terri, Should Christians Kiss Dating Goodbye?

Items of Interest, 10 August 2011

Angelina Stanford, What is Woman?: A Re-examination of Feminism & the Church

The First Conservative, by Donald W. Livingston (on Hume, of course)

Winslow T. Wheeler, Defense Budget Hysteria
Franklin Spinney, Americans Have the Clock, But the Taliban Have the Time

Paul Craig Roberts, The S&P Downgrade: What It Really Means

Hal Austin, London's Burning: Inside the Tottenham Uprising

Ralph Nader, Throwing America Overboard

Richard Heinberg, GDP is dead: Will the world be happier without it? (EB)

Doug French, The Higher-Education Bubble Has Popped

Check out the Chelsea Green's author blogs.

Items of Interest, 27 July 2011

Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster (via collapse.net)

Tomb of St. Philip the Apostle Discovered in Turkey

Rorate Caeli: Roberto de Mattei and "The Lefebvre affair"

Mere Comments: "The Church Impotent' Now On-Line, Plus Fireworks

The Great Tradition: Reading Ourselves Back to Cultural Sanity
by Robert M. Woods

John Robb, ON BECOMING A RESILIENT INDIVIDUAL

Franklin C. Spinney, Afghan Sitrep: We're Here Because We're Here Because We're Here...

Jeffrey St. Clair, The Politics of Make-Believe: Barack Obama, Changeling

Barnyard Irony
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

‘Totnes: what the past can teach us about the future’: a new film by Rob Hopkins

Why the War Machine Keeps on Running by Franklin C. Spinney

The Bush-Obama perpetual war on terror is now the longest and second most expensive war in US history, exceeded only in cost by WWII, even if one removes the effects of inflation from the comparison. And this war comes on top of the incessant warmongering during the 1990s, including the bombing of air defense sites in Iraq, the drive by shootings with cruise missiles in the Sudan and Afghanistan, and the bombing in Bosnia and Kosovo during the Wars of the Yugoslavian Succession. Anyone who opposes the meddling and warmongering is labeled an isolationist by the defenders of the status quo, like Senators McCain, Graham, and Lieberman. But this is absurd name calling, as Sheldon Richmand cogently explains in this essay. This absurdity of the isolationist label has a long lineage dating back to the misrepresentations by so-called 'internationalists -- ironically, liberal mostly democrats -- of the foreign policy views of Senator Robert A. Taft in the
1940s and 1950s.

Today, the United States is locked in a throes of perpetual war, and our politics are dominated by its political handmaiden, perpetual fear. If you doubt this, just think about the recent expansion of drone assaults to Libya and Somalia or your next invasive pat down in an airport or the continuation of the onerous Patriot Act. Some critics believe perpetual war is driven primarily by the lust for empire. No doubt, empire lusting is a factor, but for the reasons I explained in The Domestic Roots of Perpetual War, I believe perpetual war is primarily the issue of a deadly mutation of domestic politics, particularly the imperative to prop up a sclerotic Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) -- a political-economic faction that lost its raison d'être when the Cold War ended, and now needs the perpetual threat of war, to pump money through it, if it is to survive and flourish on its own terms, at the expense of others.

Items of Interest, 22 June 2011

What A waste! The scoop on poop and ecological wastewater management
Jill Cloutier, Sustainable World Radio

Praise be baling wire and binder twine

Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

Franklin C. Spinney, The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion

William Oddie, Chesterton’s prophetic voice, now increasingly being heard once more, is still relevant to the new age (via Ordinariate Portal)

Adrian Ayres Fisher reviews The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered. (EB)

Obama turns to drones for his Libyan kinetic military action

Pakistanizing the Libyan War By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY
Obama Takes the Cape

Franklin C. Spinney, Posturing Twits in the Howling Wilderness of the Pentagon's Budget Debate

A Question for "Conservatives"

Franklin Spinney, How Much Should We Spend on National Defense?

Items of Interest, 12 January 2011

EB:
The globe's limitations: How peak oil threatens economic growth
Richard Heinberg, The Nation



Tom Whipple talks about the possibility of civil unrest.

Thinking outside the box
Dave Cohen, Decline of the empire

Secrecy by complexity: Obfuscation in energy data, and the primacy of crude oil
Gregor Macdonald, The Oil Drum

Ecological civilization
Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review

CP:
Franklin Spinney, Surging Tit for Tat in Afghanistan
Alan Nasser /Kelly Norman, The Student Loan Debt Bubble
Mike Whitney, The Unreported War in Mexico
Paul Craig Roberts tilting towards the left? A Brief for Animals