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Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. is author of U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You. Her forthcoming book is SACRED DEMISE: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse. She also manages the Speaking Truth to Power website at www.carolynbaker.net.
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.
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, 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?
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
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
Thursday, February 15, 2007 DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
How dysfunctional government and dysfunctional family systems mirror each other--the political is personal--and painful.
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.
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
