45 Articles

Sunday, March 22, 2009
WHEN GIANTS FALL, By Michael Panzner, A Review By Carolyn Baker
A review of "When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for The End of The American Era", by Michael Panzner

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
STATE REPRESENTATIVE PROMOTES NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS
As the various levels of American society continue to collapse in the wake of economic meltdown, most of the services to which people in need might turn in an emergency will not be there. It is very likely that the only lifeline for millions of people may be with caring neighbors or other community volunteers.

Sunday, October 26, 2008
STOLEN ELECTIONS AND MEDIA BLACKOUTS: An Exclusive Interview With Mark Crispin Miller
(1 comments) An interview with one of the foremost researchers of election fraud in the United States

Sunday, July 27, 2008
OF PATRIOTS AND PAWNS: Carolyn Baker Reviews Mary Tillman's "Boots On The Ground By Dusk"
(2 comments) A book review of Mary Tillman's expose of the death of her son and subsequent coverup by the U.S. government

Monday, June 16, 2008
REAL HUMAN CASUALTIES OF THE MORTGAGE MASSACRE, By Carolyn Baker & Melissa Taylor
(1 comments) An exclusive report from Northern California--one family's true saga of a bursting housing bubble, the corporate corruption that engendered it, and the painful reverberations through their lives

Friday, May 2, 2008
We Can Survive, But Can We Communicate?
(5 comments) The culture we live in is based on hierarchies of control and influence. Work relationships, kept in place largely by paychecks and ordered by project managers and bosses, are the most common experience most of us have of being part of an organized group. We have little experience outside of those hierarchies. Even more rare in our hyper-independent culture is to depend on others for mutual aid, support and comfort.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
RECESSION, DEPRESSION, COLLAPSE: WHAT'S FEAR GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Fear as an ally in the face of an unraveling milieu

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
WORLD MADE BY HAND: NOT JUST ANOTHER BOOK REVIEW
A review of "World Made By Hand" by James Howard Kunstler, (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008)

Thursday, March 13, 2008
FOOD, FUEL, AND FASCISM: Their Election Or Your Life?
(1 comments) In the light of a collapsing economy and ecosytem and candidates that refuse to deal with the realities of both, where do you choose to invest your energy in 2008?

Thursday, March 6, 2008
A GUIDE TO PERSONAL SURVIVAL IN A WORLD GONE MAD, A Book Review of The Path Through Infinity's Rainbow, By Mike Byron
(2 comments) Carolyn Baker reviews The Path Through Infinity's Rainbow: Your Guide To Personal Survival And Spiritual Transformation In A World Gone Mad, By Mike Byron, Ph.D. (2008: IUniverse, Inc.)

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
BOOK REVIEW: RE-INVENTING COLLAPSE, The Soviet Example And American Prospects, By Dmitry Orlov
(6 comments) Dmitry Orlov recounts his experiences of living through the collapse of the Soviet Union and illumines the collapse of the American empire

Thursday, February 14, 2008
CELEBRATING UN-PRESIDENTS DAY: WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR A PRESIDENT IN 2008
(7 comments) Voting in the U.S.: Examining the larger picture

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Review of William Kotke's "The Final Empire: The Seed Of The Future"
(6 comments) This review focuses on the collapse of empire and the vision of a new culture that may be emerge from its ashes.

Thursday, November 29, 2007
A DIARY OF THE ONSET OF THE GREATER DEPRESSION
A review of Danny Schechter's e-book "Squeezed"

Sunday, October 21, 2007
STOP CALLING ME A "DOOMER"
(2 comments) Clarifying what it means to embrace options rather than trying to remain "hopeful"

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
CELEBRATING AMERICAN TEARS: Responding To Naomi Wolf's Recent Missive
(2 comments)

Monday, October 8, 2007
AMERICAN LOCKDOWN: Law Enforcement Out Of Control And Beyond The Pale
(9 comments) Skyrocketing police brutality and repression in the U.S.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
THE END OF AMERICA: The Police State Is Right Here, Right Now
(17 comments) A review of Naomi Wolf's "End Of America" and commentary on current repression of American society

Sunday, September 2, 2007
BUSH'S BOGUS BAIL OUT: Introduction To Tony Soprano Economics 101
(4 comments) Why the so-called bail out saddles borrowers with more debt, subsidizes lenders, and heaps inflation taxes the working and middle classes

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Daddy, Where Does Money Come From?
(3 comments)

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Americans Are In Pain
Our physical, emotional, and spiritual pain in relation to world events and a prescription for relief

Thursday, August 16, 2007
The End Of The World As We Know It: Hope Vs. Mindset
(2 comments) The difference between hope and mindset and why it matters

Monday, August 13, 2007
In Praise Of "Sicko" But What Happens After The U.S. Healtcare System Dies?
Not only is U.S. healthcare devastating the lives of Americans who use it, but it is being manipulated to give the appearance of economic health in a code-blue economy now in collapse.

Thursday, August 9, 2007
THE JOYRIDE THAT WAS THE AMERICAN EMPIRE, A Book Review, By Carolyn Baker
(2 comments) A review of Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future From Four Impending Catastrophes, By Michael J. Panzner

Sunday, April 29, 2007
SUPER-IMPERIALISM: Shameful Legacy Of Liberal Democrats
(4 comments) The globalist super-imperialism engineered by liberal democrats is virtually indistinguishable from the blatant military imperialism of neocon Republicans. The endgame of both is geostrategic hegemony.

Friday, April 20, 2007
101 Ways To Masscre Students
(5 comments) The myriad ways that students, educators, and American society are being massacred by debt and dumbing-down

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Disturbing Questions About Choicepoint
(3 comments)

Sunday, March 18, 2007
GODFATHER GOVERNMENT: A Way Of Life Is Not A Scandal
(1 comments) Not only is "Scandal" an inappropriate word for describing the empire's systemic corruption, but it is now time to ask if government in the U.S. actually exists.

Thursday, March 8, 2007
IN DEBT WE TRUST AS THE ECONOMY GOES BUST
(2 comments) A review of Danny Schecter's documentary "In Debt We Trust": The collapsing economy and the debt industrial complex

Sunday, February 18, 2007
UN-PRESIDENT'S DAY:Until You Change The Way Money Works, You Change Nothing
(3 comments)

Thursday, February 15, 2007
DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
How dysfunctional government and dysfunctional family systems mirror each other--the political is personal--and painful.

Thursday, February 8, 2007
THE SCIENCE OF EVIL AND ITS USES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
(15 comments) A review of Andrew Lobaczewski's "Political Ponerology: A Science On the Nature Of Evil Adjusted For Political Purposes"

Sunday, February 4, 2007
REJECTING TAPEWORM ECONOMICS AND ITS WAR ON FAMILIES
(2 comments) How and why corporate capitalist economics destroys families, and what Chile is doing about it

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
CHRISTIAN FASCISM: The Jesus Gestapo Of St. Orwell
(6 comments) An analysis of indoctrination in fundamentalist Christian theocracy-- a symptom of an increasingly fascist and collapsing society.

Monday, January 29, 2007
JASON MILLER INTERVIEWED BY CAROLYN BAKER
Activist and author Jason Miller is interviewed by Carolyn Baker

Monday, January 22, 2007
9/11 And American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out, A Review
(21 comments) A review of one of the most important books on 9/11

Monday, January 15, 2007
CHILDREN OF MEN: Everything Your Denial Keeps You From Seeing
Commentary on futurist, dystopian film, "Children Of Men"

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK CONFRONT THE IMPERIAL BULLY: WHY I'M SMILING
(4 comments) In the bleakness of the current political and geopolitical realities, when we look southward, there is much to smile about.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
"THE GOOD SHEPHERD": WHEN PATRIOTISM MURDERS HUMANITY
(3 comments) Comment on the newly-released film, "The Good Shepherd", and its political and moral implications

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Credit or Debit, Paper or Plastic?
(1 comments) How can we protect our purchases and, at the same time, use them to transform our communities and our planet?

Sunday, November 19, 2006
When History Becomes Chopped Liver
(3 comments) The Bush administration's distortion of history to justify infinite war

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
ACTIVISTS AND ACCOUNTANTS: ABSOLUTE ALLIES
How do activists reconcile personal money issues with social, economic, and political justice?

Thursday, November 9, 2006
The Real Meaning of the Democratic Sweep
(2 comments) Neo-con or neo-liberal?

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
TED HAGGARD AND FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN SOUL-MURDER
(2 comments) Analysis of the fundamentalist Christian psyche and the distress fundamentalism creates for GLBT people.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You
(1 comments) The introduction of my just-published book which activists and alternative educators would like to know about.