End Of The American Dream

George Orwell once said that “war against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it”, and he was right on target.  War is enormously profitable, but once the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan ended the military industrial complex needed a new cash cow.  So now we have the war in Ukraine, and we are being told that it could go on for years.  Life is good again for the big arms manufacturers, but it could be even better.  A war with China would cause military spending to soar to unprecedented heights that we have never been before, and we are getting closer to such a conflict with each passing day. (Read More...)

We like to think of ourselves as the pinnacle of human existence, but the truth is that humans have been getting smaller, slower and dumber for quite a while.  So why is this happening?  Over time, human DNA has accumulated an enormous amount of deleterious mutations, and each new generation adds even more.  Our DNA is essentially an “instruction manual”, and these deleterious mutations are essentially “spelling mistakes” in that manual.  Eventually there will be so many mistakes that our “instruction manual” is simply not functional any longer, and that is a major problem.  What this means is that the clock is running down on the human race, and that is a reality that most people don’t want to face. (Read More...)

Those that control our food supply wield an immense amount of power.  Small family farms have been integral to the success of the United States all throughout our history, but now such farms are being gobbled up at a staggering pace.  Corporate behemoths, foreign interests and eccentric billionaires are voraciously buying up farmland, and many consider this development to be extremely alarming.  The farming industry is being systematically consolidated, and a lot of people have pointed out that some of the new owners may not have our best interests at heart.  This needs to become a major political issue, because our national security is truly at risk. (Read More...)

Thanks to the horrific drought which is absolutely devastating ranching in the Southwest, ranchers are now in “panic mode” and are selling off their cattle at an unprecedented rate.  In fact, some are choosing to sell off their entire herds because they feel like they don’t have any other options.  In recent days, seemingly endless lines of trailers waiting to drop off cattle for auction have gone viral all over social media.  Everybody is talking about how they have never seen anything like this before, and if the drought in the Southwest persists the lines could soon get even longer.  In the short-term, this is going to help to stabilize meat prices.  But in the long-term the size of the U.S. cattle herd will steadily become much smaller, and that has very serious implications for our ability to feed ourselves in 2023 and beyond. (Read More...)

What do you think is going to happen when we get to a point where the world simply cannot produce any more oil than it is already producing?  It is often said that “energy is the economy”, and to a large degree that is true.  Very wealthy nations with large GDPs tend to use a great deal of energy, while very poor nations with small GDPs tend to use a lot less energy.  Just about every form of economic activity requires energy, and so those countries that have a high level of economic activity require more of it.  Of course we live at a time when the total population of the world has been steadily increasing and global demand for energy has soared to unprecedented heights.  Production has struggled to keep up with demand, and now it appears that we will soon reach a point where we are simply not able to produce enough for everyone. (Read More...)

History will look back on us as “the crazy plastic people”.  We produce approximately 400 million tons of plastic each year, and a great deal of that plastic ends up being discarded in various ways.  Over time, the discarded plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces.  Once they get small enough, the little bits of plastic become “microplastics”, and today our planet is being polluted by trillions upon trillions of these “microplastics” and the problem becomes worse every year.  Total global plastic production is rising at an exponential rate, and that means that the crisis that I am going to describe in this article will continue to get exponentially more severe. (Read More...)

We were warned that if we stayed on the path that we were on that we would eventually see mass extinctions all over the globe.  Unfortunately, nothing was done and now it is already happening.  The creatures that inhabit our oceans are dying off.  The insects are dying off.  The birds are dying off.  All around us there is death on a massive scale, but most people don’t understand what is taking place.  We all stay in our own little protected bubbles, and we all keep listening to the corporate media tell us that everything is going to be just fine.  But the truth is that everything is not going to be just fine, because we are literally destroying the Earth and everything in it. (Read More...)

A lot of people out there are downplaying this new monkeypox pandemic, and I believe that is a huge mistake.  If a smallpox outbreak had suddenly erupted, everyone would be totally freaking out.  But the general public doesn’t seem very alarmed about monkeypox even though it is very closely related to smallpox.  According to the official CDC website, monkeypox “is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox”.  In the past, monkeypox has not spread easily among humans, but something has changed that has now made that possible.  As I detailed last week, scientists are telling us that approximately 50 key mutations have turned this bug into something new that we haven’t seen before. (Read More...)