Gareth Porter, Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim
Patrick Cockburn, Huge Stakes in Syria
Spanish Conservatives Win Majority
Richard Heinberg: Islands in an Expanding Sea
Economics:
Rupert Ederer, Oinkonomics
I think his objection to distributism is rather flimsy, and partly a strawman argument in so far as he identifies distributism solely with agrarianism.
Catholic neo-liberalism under the guise of "personalism"? The Need for Economic Personalism (archive) - the Acton Institute, of course.
The primary error of distributism lay in its understanding of the economy as a zero-sum game, where wealth was seen as a static, non-reproducible entity. Therefore the main problem was not the production of wealth but its distribution: How is the static pie of wealth most equitably sliced up? Distributism hindered the emergence of an adequate understanding of human capital and productivity. The distributivists saw economic development only in terms of the cultural dangers of industrialization and as a threat to the family unit. They did not agree that economic growth would generate wealth that would raise living conditions and be "redistributed" by market mechanisms and through charitable organizations. Such economic naivete blinded them to market realities and the basic laws of economics. By the end of the 1920s, however, distributism began to wane and was soon eclipsed by the New Deal Catholics of the Roosevelt era.What is the author missing? Is It Really Possible to Decouple GDP Growth from Energy Growth?
He could also read John Michael Greer on the primary economy. (In a similar vein to the above, The Economic Personalism of John Paul II: Neither Right Nor Left.)
Relocalization:
How to Make Multigenerational Homes Work
A rather provocative title: Transition plans and meetings a waste of time, says Greer
Michael Shuman, HOW BAMBI BEAT GODZILLA: A response to James Surowiecki
Guest Post: A Message To The SPLC From A Montana "Extremist"
From Liberty Fellowship’s relocation program, to James Rawles’ American Redoubt, Stewart Rhodes’ Operation Sleeping Giant, and my own Safe Haven Project through Alt-Market.com, the powers-that-be are noticeably perturbed at the very idea of Americans walking away from their computers, leaving their homes, talking to each other face-to-face, and forming mutual aid groups. God forbid…
OWS:
Thomas Fleming, Otherwise Occupied
Occupy Wall Street Occupy Your Street
Jack Random, The Austerity Regime
Education:
Classical Homeschooling
In Defense of Poetry
Coleridge: The Education of Children
Respect the Classical Tradition
Diet and Health:
Chris Masterjohn: At the Intersection of Price and Paleo: My Second Interview with Cary Nosler (mp3)
Misc:
Rorate Caeli: the new SSPX seminary
Orion Design Group (ODG) ODTDM-2 Arid-Environment/Multi-Environment/Multi-Terrain/Multispectral Military Combat Camo (Camouflage) Pattern/”Individual Signature Management” Technology Makes Cover of SureFire “Combat Tactics” Magazine Fall 2011 Issue (Photo!)
